18 January Deaths

January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days remaining until the end of the year (348 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

    52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (b. 93 BC)
    474 – Leo I, Byzantine emperor (b. 401)
    748 – Odilo, duke of Bavaria
    896 – Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun, ruler of the Tulunids, murdered (b. 864)
    1213 – Tamar of Georgia (b. 1160)
    1253 – King Henry I of Cyprus (b. 1217)
    1271 – Saint Margaret of Hungary (b. 1242)
    1367 – Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
    1425 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
    1471 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
    1586 – Margaret of Parma (b. 1522)
    1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch politician, founded Cape Town (b. 1619)
    1803 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet and academic (b. 1743)
    1849 – Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (b. 1752)
    1862 – John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
    1873 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1803)
    1878 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1788)
    1886 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
    1892 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
    1896 – Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
    1923 – Wallace Reid, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)
    1936 – Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
    1936 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
    1940 – Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865)
    1951 – Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian (b. 1867)
    1952 – Curly Howard, American actor (b. 1903)
    1954 – Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor (b. 1879)
    1955 – Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
    1956 – Makbule Atadan, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1885)
    1956 – Konstantin Päts, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)
    1963 – Hugh Gaitskell, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1906)
    1966 – Kathleen Norris, American journalist and author (b. 1880)
    1967 – Goose Tatum, American basketball player and soldier (b. 1921)
    1969 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1887)
    1969 – Dada Lekhraj, Indian guru (b. 1884)
    1970 – David O. McKay, American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
    1971 – Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (b. 1914)
    1975 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
    1978 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher and author (b. 1919)
    1978 – Walter H. Thompson, English police officer and bodyguard (b. 1890)
    1980 – Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer and photographer (b. 1904)
    1984 – Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Belarusian general and politician (b. 1902)
    1984 – Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1915)
    1989 – Bruce Chatwin, English-French author (b. 1940)
    1990 – Melanie Appleby, English singer (b. 1966)
    1993 – Dionysios Zakythinos, Greek historian, academic, and politician (b. 1905)
    1995 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
    1995 – Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937)
    1996 – N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923)
    1997 – Paul Tsongas, American lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
    1997 – Adriana Caselotti, American voice actress and singer (b. 1916)
    1998 – Dan Georgiadis, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1922)
    2000 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
    2003 – Ed Farhat, American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)
    2003 – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet and author (b. 1907)
    2005 – Lamont Bentley, American actor and rapper (b. 1973)
    2006 – Jan Twardowski, Polish priest and poet (b. 1915)
    2007 – Brent Liles, American bass player (b. 1963)
    2008 – Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1927)
    2008 – Frank Lewin, American composer and theorist (b. 1925)
    2008 – Lois Nettleton, American actress (b. 1927)
    2008 – John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)
    2009 – Tony Hart, English painter and television host (b. 1925)
    2009 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (b. 1931)
    2009 – Danai Stratigopoulou, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1913)
    2009 – Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet and author (b. 1935)
    2010 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
    2010 – Robert B. Parker, American author and academic (b. 1932)
    2011 – Sargent Shriver, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to France (b. 1915)
    2012 – Anthony Gonsalves, Indian composer and educator (b. 1927)
    2012 – Georg Lassen, German captain (b. 1915)
    2012 – Yuri Rasovsky, American playwright and producer, founded The National Radio Theater of Chicago (b. 1944)
    2013 – Sean Fallon, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
    2013 – Jim Horning, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1942)
    2013 – Jon Mannah, Australian rugby player (b. 1989)
    2013 – Lewis Marnell, Australian skateboarder (b. 1982)
    2013 – Ron Nachman, Israeli lawyer and politician (b. 1942)
    2014 – Kathryn Abbe, American photographer and author (b. 1919)
    2014 – Michael Botmang, Nigerian politician, 17th Governor of Plateau State (b. 1938)
    2014 – Komla Dumor, Ghanaian-English journalist (b. 1972)
    2014 – Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
    2014 – Andy Graver, English footballer (b. 1927)
    2014 – Sarah Marshall, English actress (b. 1933)
    2014 – Eugenio Cruz Vargas, Chilean poet and painter (b. 1923)
    2015 – Cynthia Layne, American singer-songwriter (b. 1963)
    2015 – Dallas Taylor, American drummer (b. 1948)
    2015 – Christine Valmy, Romanian cosmetologist and author (b. 1926)
    2015 – Piet van der Sanden, Dutch journalist and politician (b. 1924)
    2015 – Tony Verna, American director and producer, invented instant replay (b. 1933)
    2016 – Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
    2016 – Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1948)
    2016 – Else Marie Pade, Danish composer (b. 1924)
    2016 – T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (b. 1930)
    2016 – Michel Tournier, French journalist and author (b. 1924)

Source: Wikipedia