Deaths on 18 April
2000s
Dickey Betts
2024
American guitarist (1943–2024)
Mandisa
2024
American singer (1976–2024)
Harrison Birtwistle
2022
English composer (1934–2022)
Lyra McKee
2019
Northern Ireland journalist (1990–2019)
Guru Dhanapal
2014
Indian film director
Sanford Jay Frank
2014
American screenwriter
Brian Priestman
2014
British conductor
Goran Švob
2013
Croatian philosopher (1947–2013)
Anne Williams (activist)
2013
Hillsborough disaster activist (1951–2013)
Dick Clark
2012
American radio and television personality (1929–2012)
René Lépine
2012
Canadian businessman (1929–2012)
Robert O. Ragland
2012
Musical artist
K. D. Wentworth
2012
American writer (1951–2012)
Germaine Tillion
2008
French anthropologist, member of the French Resistance in World War II (1907–2008)
Kamisese Mara
2004
Fijian former prime minister and president
Thor Heyerdahl
2002
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914–2002)
1900s
Arturo Frondizi
1995
32nd President of Argentina (1958–62)
Oktay Rıfat Horozcu
1988
Turkish writer and playwright
Marcel Pagnol
1974
Novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France
Guillermo González Camarena
1965
Mexican electrical engineer and inventor
Ben Hecht
1964
American writer, director, and producer (1894–1964)
Meyer Jacobstein
1963
American politician
Maurice Gamelin
1958
French general (1872–1958)
Albert Einstein
1955
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
Óscar Carmona
1951
President of Portugal from 1926 to 1951
Jozef Tiso
1947
President of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945
John Ambrose Fleming
1945
British electrical engineer and physicist (1849–1945)
Ernie Pyle
1945
American war correspondent and writer
Isoroku Yamamoto
1943
Japanese admiral (1884–1943)
Aleksander Mitt
1942
Estonian speed skater
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
1942
American sculptor, art patron and collector (1875–1942)
Phil Bryant (archer)
1938
American archer (1878–1938)
Milton Brown
1936
American band leader, singer and founder of Western swing (1903–1936)
Ottorino Respighi
1936
Italian composer and musicologist (1879–1936)
Savina Petrilli
1923
Religious figure (1851–1923)
Vladimir Serbsky
1917
Russian psychiatrist (1858–1917)
Martha Ripley
1912
American physician
Luis Martín
1906
Spanish Jesuit
1800s
Gustave Moreau
1898
French Symbolist painter (1826–1898)
Paweł Bryliński
1890
Justus von Liebig
1873
German chemist (1803–1873)
Juris Alunāns
1864
Latvian writer and philologist (1832-1864)
Tatya Tope
1859
Leader of the Indian War of Independence in 1857
Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet
1832
French artist (died 1832)
Erasmus Darwin
1802
English physician (1731–1802)
Before 1800
Johan Wilcke
1796
Swedish physicist (1732–1796)
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
1794
English lawyer, judge, and politician (1714–1794)
Marie-Josephte Corriveau
1763
Woman from New France who murdered her second husband (1733–1763)
Arvid Horn
1742
Swedish politician, general, and diplomat (1664–1742)
Louis Feuillée
1732
French explorer, astronomer, geographer and botanist
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
1689
Welsh judge and politician (1645–1689)
John Graunt
1674
British demographer
Simonds d'Ewes
1650
English politician
Julius Caesar (judge)
1636
English judge and statesman
John Foxe
1587
English historian and martyrologist (died 1587)
Wilhelm von Grumbach
1567
German adventurer (1503–1567)
Luigi Alamanni
1556
Italian poet and statesman
Polydore Vergil
1555
Italian-English scholar (c. 1470–1555)
John Leland (antiquary)
1552
English Tudor poet and antiquary
John III, Count of Nassau-Siegen
1430
German count (d. 1430)
Saint Galdino
1176
Roman Catholic saint
Theobald of Bec
1161
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1139 to 1161
Stephen Lekapenos
963
Byzantine emperor from 924 to 945
Fujiwara no Atsutada
943
Dionysius II of Antioch
909
58th Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (896 - 908)
Perfectus
850
Martyr and Catholic Saint
AD 727
727
Calendar year