Famous Deaths Happened In November - 18
Friday, 24 October 2025
0942 Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies on this day in history. 

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

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

1305 On November - 18 death of john II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239) 

1559 Death of Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474) on this day in history. 

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

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

1630 Death of Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried on this day in history. 

1678 On November - 18 giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36 

1724 Death of Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685) on this day in history. 

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 On November - 18 death of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719) 

1814 On this day in history death of william Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745) 

1822 On November - 18 anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66 

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

1841 On November - 18 georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77 

1851 Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80 on November - 18. 

1852 On this day in history anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60 

1883 Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies on November - 18. 

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 November - 18. 

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

1904 Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies on November - 18. 

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

1917 On November - 18 henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43 

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

1919 On this day in history ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies 

1922 Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51 on this day in history. 

1929 On this day in history henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78 

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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