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April 18, 2004 Kamisese Mara, Fijian Statesman April 18, 2002 Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist/adventurer, Kon-Tiki, dies at 87 April 18, 1998 Terry Sanford, poltician, senator from North Carolina, dies at 80 April 18, 1997 Edward Barker, cartoonist, dies at 46 April 18, 1996 Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner, dies at 62 April 18, 1996 Michael Leander Farr, record producer, dies at 55 April 18, 1996 Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80 April 18, 1996 Robert William Paine, architect, dies at 88 April 18, 1995 Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies April 18, 1994 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32 April 18, 1993 Arthur P Smith, U.S. founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76 April 18, 1992 Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer April 18, 1990 Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87 April 18, 1986 Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder, dies at 94 April 18, 1984 John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81 April 18, 1976 Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78 April 18, 1975 Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet), chansonnier/director, dies at 38 April 18, 1974 Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77 April 18, 1974 Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79 April 18, 1971 Masao Oki, composer, dies at 69 April 18, 1969 Piotr F Scharoff, Russ/Italian actor and director (Chechov), dies at 82 April 18, 1964 Albe Vidakovic, composer, dies at 49 April 18, 1964 Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71 April 18, 1963 Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death April 18, 1960 Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66 April 18, 1959 Irving Cummings Sr, actor and director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70 April 18, 1958 Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French generalissmo (WW I, WW II), dies at 85 April 18, 1958 Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies April 18, 1955 Albert Einstein, German/US physicist (E=MC), dies April 18, 1955 Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70 April 18, 1949 Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies April 18, 1947 Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51 April 18, 1945 Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44 April 18, 1945 John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies April 18, 1944 Cecile Chamindale, composer, dies April 18, 1943 I Yamamoto, Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies April 18, 1941 ... Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide April 18, 1940 Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies April 18, 1940 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies April 18, 1939 Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88 April 18, 1938 Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, dies April 18, 1936 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56 April 18, 1936 Seaborn M Denson, composer, dies at 82 April 18, 1935 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90 April 18, 1928 Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer, dies at 58 April 18, 1925 Charles Ebbets, President (Dodgers), dies April 18, 1921 Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70 April 18, 1919 Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress, drowns at 35 April 18, 1917 Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, Governor-General of Belg (1914-17), dies at 73 April 18, 1905 Juan Valera bon Alcala Galiano, Sp author (Pepita Jimenez), dies at 80 April 18, 1898 Gustave Moureau, painter, dies April 18, 1883 Agnes Tyrrell, composer, dies at 36 April 18, 1879 Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies April 18, 1874 David Livingstone, buried in Westminster Abbey April 18, 1873 Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69 April 18, 1871 Omar Pasha, [Michael Lats], Croatian governor, dies at 64 April 18, 1867 Robert Smirke, architect, dies April 18, 1861 Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67 April 18, 1860 Count Istvan Szechenyi, statesman, commits suicide April 18, 1855 Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies April 18, 1854 Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84 April 18, 1853 William King, U.S. VP, dies a month after his inauguration April 18, 1845 Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77 April 18, 1830 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer, dies at 62 April 18, 1824 Edward Jones, composer, dies at 72 April 18, 1818 Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch lawyer, dies at 59 April 18, 1807 Erasmus Darwin, physician/writer (Influence), dies April 18, 1800 John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84 April 18, 1800 Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies April 18, 1710 Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 75 April 18, 1690 Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian fieldmarshal, dies April 18, 1689 George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies April 18, 1684 Gonzales Cocx, [Coques], painter, dies April 18, 1679 Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies April 18, 1612 Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies April 18, 1610 Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63 April 18, 1587 John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies April 18, 1567 Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 April 18, 1556 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61 April 18, 1552 John Leland, antiquary, dies April 18, 1530 Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43 April 18, 1504 Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52 April 18, 680 Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies |