Famous Deaths In December - 18

1897  Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1899  On December - 18 john William Glover, composer, dies at 84   

1911  On December - 18 alberto Randegger, composer, dies at 79   

1918  Henryk Jarecki, composer, dies at 72 on December - 18.   

1919  Horatio William Parker, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1928  Lucien Capet, composer, dies at 55 on December - 18.   

1931  Death of John T "Legs" Diamond, US gangster, murdered at 35 on December - 18.   

1932  Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist/revisionist, dies at 82 on December - 18.   

1935  On December - 18 juan V Gomez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies   

1936  On December - 18 death of andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857)   

1937  S S Schultz, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies on December - 18.   

1939  On this day in history matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51   

1942  Charlie Walker, cricketer (Aust tourist to England 1930, 1938), dies on this day in history.   

1948  On this day in history death of janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers   

1959  On this day in history dorothy L Sayers, writer, dies at 66   

1963  Winifried P I Zillig, German composer/conductor (Opfer), dies at 58 on December - 18.   

1966  Gene Gauntier, dies in Cuernavaca Mexico on this day in history.   

1971  On this day in history aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russ editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61   

1973  Giulio Cesare Brero, composer, dies at 64 on December - 18.   

1974  On December - 18 death of harry Hooper, American baseball player (b. 1887)   

1975  On December - 18 death of theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist (b. 1900)   

1976  George Emmett, cricketer (Engld opener v Aust Old Trafford 1948), dies on December - 18.   

1977  On this day in history cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan), dies at 80   

1980  On December - 18 death of alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76   

1981  On December - 18 death of mehmet Shehu, PM Albania (1954-81)/"US-Russ spy", commits suicide   

1982  Raymond Emery, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v WI 1952, 46 runs, 2 wkts), dies on this day in history.   

1985  On this day in history death of xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)   

1986  On December - 18 mamo Clark, actor (1 Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies   

1987  Death of Conny Plank, German record producer and musician (b. 1940) on December - 18.   

1990  Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87 on December - 18.   

1991  On this day in history june Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73   

1992  On this day in history dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83   

1993  On December - 18 sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74   

1994  On this day in history heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor/director, dies at 71   

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1507  On December - 18 birth of ÅŒuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)   

1562  Philipp Dulichius, composer was born on December - 18.   

1569  On this day in history birth of jakob Hassler, composer   

1602  On December - 18 birth of simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650)   

1610  On this day in history birth of charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist   

1620  On this day in history birth of heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)   

1633  Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, baptised was born on December - 18.   

1633  Willem van de Velde the Young, Dutch seascape painter, baptised was born on this day in history.