Famous Deaths In November - 18

0942  On this day in history odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies  

1154  On this day in history death of adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)  

1170  Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70 on November - 18.  

1305  Death of John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239) on November - 18.  

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

1590  On this day in history death of george Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)  

1603  Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61 on November - 18.  

1630  On November - 18 death of esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried  

1678  Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36 on November - 18.  

1724  Death of Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685) on November - 18.  

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1771  Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73 on November - 18.  

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

1796  On November - 18 catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67  

1797  Death of Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719) on this day in history.  

1814  Death of William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745) on November - 18.  

1822  On this day in history anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66  

1827  Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24 on November - 18.  

1841  Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77 on November - 18.  

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

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

1883  Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies on this day in history.  

1886  Chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85), dies in NY at 56 on November - 18.  

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

1889  William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68 on this day in history.  

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

1911  Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies on this day in history.  

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

1918  Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies on this day in history.  

1919  On November - 18 ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies  

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  On November - 18 walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77  

1946  Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86 on November - 18.  

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

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1522  On this day in history birth of lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)  

1527  Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor was born on November - 18.  

1630  On this day in history birth of eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)  

1680  On November - 18 birth of jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer  

1727  On this day in history birth of philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)  

1736  Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer was born on November - 18.  

1742  Felix Maximo Lopez, composer was born on this day in history.  

1772  Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer was born on this day in history.