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December 18 Deaths in History - December 18 Birthdays - December 18 Events
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December 18, 2000 Barney McNulty, production assistant, invented cue cards, dies at 77 December 18, 2000 Kirsty MacColl, singer/songwriter, Tropical Brainstorm, dies at 41 December 18, 1999 Robert Bresson, French Director December 18, 1997 Chris Farley, comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy), dies at 33 December 18, 1996 Arthur Jacobs, musicologist, dies at 74 December 18, 1995 Chaim Pearl, rabbi, dies at 76 December 18, 1995 Georgio Fini, restaurateur, dies at 70 December 18, 1995 Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69 December 18, 1994 Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director, dies at 71 December 18, 1994 Lilia Skala, Austrian/US actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at 98 December 18, 1994 Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64 December 18, 1993 Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74 December 18, 1992 Dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83 December 18, 1992 Mark Goodson, TV game show producer (Goodson-Toddman), dies at 77 December 18, 1992 Mother Clare Hale, cared for New York City AIDS babies (Hale House), dies at 87 December 18, 1992 Richard H Ichord, U.S. leader of House Un-American Act Comm, dies December 18, 1991 June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73 December 18, 1990 Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87 December 18, 1990 Paul Tortelier, composer, dies at 76 December 18, 1986 Mamo Clark, actor (1 Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies December 18, 1982 Tibor de Machula, Hungary/Neth cellist, dies at 70 December 18, 1981 Mehmet Shehu, PM Albania (1954-81)/"US-Russ spy", commits suicide December 18, 1980 Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76 December 18, 1977 Cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan), dies at 80 December 18, 1977 Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92 December 18, 1973 Giulio Cesare Brero, composer, dies at 64 December 18, 1971 Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russ editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61 December 18, 1971 Bobby Jones Jr, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930), dies at 69 December 18, 1971 Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at 45 December 18, 1966 Gene Gauntier, dies in Cuernavaca Mexico December 18, 1963 Winifried P I Zillig, German composer and conductor (Opfer), dies at 58 December 18, 1959 Dorothy L Sayers, writer, dies at 66 December 18, 1948 Janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers December 18, 1939 Matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51 December 18, 1935 Juan V Gomez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies December 18, 1932 Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist/revisionist, dies at 82 December 18, 1931 John T "Legs" Diamond, U.S. gangster, murdered at 35 December 18, 1928 Lucien Capet, composer, dies at 55 December 18, 1919 Horatio William Parker, composer, dies at 56 December 18, 1919 John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27 December 18, 1918 Henryk Jarecki, composer, dies at 72 December 18, 1915 Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard, dies at 75 December 18, 1911 Alberto Randegger, composer, dies at 79 December 18, 1899 John William Glover, composer, dies at 84 December 18, 1897 Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70 December 18, 1892 Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88 December 18, 1869 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40 December 18, 1865 Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer, dies at 70 December 18, 1862 Johnson Kelly Duncan, architect/Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 35 December 18, 1858 Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer, dies at 81 December 18, 1841 Felice Blangini, composer, dies at 60 December 18, 1839 Charles-Henri Plantade, composer, dies at 75 December 18, 1835 Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer, dies at 82 December 18, 1831 Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75 December 18, 1829 Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85 December 18, 1803 Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59 December 18, 1779 Jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68 December 18, 1751 Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies at 62 December 18, 1737 Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker, dies in Cremona Italy at 93 December 18, 1732 Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer, dies at 59 December 18, 1710 Peter Codde, apostile vicar (1688-1704), dies at 62 December 18, 1651 Francisco the Melo, Portuguese/Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at 54 December 18, 1638 Le Pere Joseph, French mystic, dies December 18, 1633 Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, buried at 62 December 18, 1597 Barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67 December 18, 1577 Anna, duchess of Saxon/wife of prince Willem of Orange, dies at 32 December 18, 1565 Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62 December 18, 1505 John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed December 18, 1290 Magnus I Ladulas, [Barn Bolt], king of Sweden (1277-90), dies December 18, 468 Huna Mari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita |