Famous Deaths In November - 18

0942  On November - 18 odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies  

1154  Death of Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092) on November - 18.  

1170  On November - 18 albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70  

1305  On this day in history death of john II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)  

1559  On this day in history death of cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)  

1590  Death of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528) on this day in history.  

1603  On this day in history elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61  

1630  Death of Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried on November - 18.  

1678  On this day in history giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36  

1724  On this day in history death of bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)  

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1771  Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1785  On November - 18 death of louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)  

1796  Catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1797  Death of Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719) on November - 18.  

1814  On November - 18 death of william Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)  

1822  Anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66 on November - 18.  

1827  On November - 18 wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24  

1841  On this day in history georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77  

1851  Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80 on this day in history.  

1852  Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60 on November - 18.  

1883  On November - 18 wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies  

1886  On this day in history chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85), dies in NY at 56  

1887  Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

1889  William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68 on November - 18.  

1904  On this day in history justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies  

1911  On this day in history alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies  

1917  On this day in history henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43  

1918  On this day in history reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies  

1919  Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies on November - 18.  

1922  On November - 18 marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51  

1929  Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78 on this day in history.  

1941  Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77 on November - 18.  

1946  On this day in history donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86  

1950  On November - 18 gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60  

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1522  Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568) was born on this day in history.  

1527  On this day in history birth of luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor  

1630  Eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686) was born on November - 18.  

1680  On this day in history birth of jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer  

1727  Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773) was born on this day in history.  

1736  On November - 18 birth of carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer  

1742  Felix Maximo Lopez, composer was born on November - 18.  

1772  On November - 18 birth of louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer