Deaths on 18 August
2000s
Ruth Johnson Colvin
2024
American literacy advocate (1916–2024)
Alain Delon
2024
French actor (1935–2024)
Phil Donahue
2024
American talk show host (1935–2024)
Lolita (orca)
2023
Captive female orca (c. 1966 – 2023)
Al Quie
2023
American politician (1923–2023)
Ben Cross
2020
British actor (1947–2020)
Denis Edozie
2018
Nigerian judge
Kofi Annan
2018
UN Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006
Bruce Forsyth
2017
British entertainer and presenter (1928–2017)
Zoe Laskari
2017
Greek actress (1942–2017)
Ernst Nolte
2016
German historian (1923–2016)
Khaled al-Asaad
2015
Syrian archaeologist (1932–2015)
Roger Smalley
2015
Australian musician (1943–2015)
Suvra Mukherjee
2015
Indian politician
Louis Stokes
2015
American politician (1925–2015)
Bud Yorkin
2015
American producer, director, and screenwriter (1926–2015)
Gordon Faber
2014
American mayor (1931–2014)
Jim Jeffords
2014
American politician (1934–2014)
Levente Lengyel
2014
Hungarian chess grandmaster (1933–2014)
Don Pardo
2014
American announcer (1918–2014)
Josephine D'Angelo
2013
Baseball player
Jean Kahn
2013
French Jewish community leader
Albert Murray (writer)
2013
American writer
Harrison Begay
2012
American painter (1914/17–2012)
John Kovatch
2012
American football player (1920–2012)
Scott McKenzie
2012
American singer-songwriter (1939–2012)
Ra. Ki. Rangarajan
2012
Writer
Jesse Robredo
2012
Filipino statesman and politician (1958–2012)
Hal Connolly
2010
American athlete
Benjamin Kaplan
2010
American copyright and procedure scholar and jurist (1911–2010)
Kim Dae-jung
2009
President of South Korea from 1998 to 2003
Rose Friedman
2009
American economist (1910–2009)
Robert Novak
2009
American journalist and columnist (1931–2009)
Michael Deaver
2007
American political consultant (1938–2007)
Magdalen Nabb
2007
British author (1947–2007)
Fernand Gignac
2006
Canadian actor
Ken Kearney
2006
Australia dual-code rugby international footballer and coach
Chri$ Ca$h
2005
American professional wrestler
Elmer Bernstein
2004
American composer and conductor (1922–2004)
Hiram Fong
2004
American politician (1906–2004)
Tony Jackson (singer)
2003
Musical artist
Dean Riesner
2002
American screenwriter
David Peakall
2001
1900s
Persis Khambatta
1998
Indian model and actress (1948–1998)
Francis Raymond Shea
1994
American prelate
B. F. Skinner
1990
American psychologist and social philosopher (1904–1990)
Harun Babunagari
1986
Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (1902 – 1986)
Nikolaus Pevsner
1983
German-British historian (1902–1983)
Anita Loos
1981
American screenwriter, playwright, author, actress, and television producer
Vasantrao Naik
1979
Indian politician (1913–1979)
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen
1975
Norwegian military officer and war historian
Arthur Marshall (composer)
1968
American composer and performer
Hildegard Trabant
1964
East German woman killed at the Berlin Wall in 1964
Learned Hand
1961
American jurist and philosopher (1872–1961)
Alberto Hurtado
1952
20th-century Chilean Jesuit priest and social worker, later a saint
Julien Lahaut
1950
Belgian politician (1884–1950)
Paul Mares
1949
American jazz cornet and trumpet player (1900-1949)
Che Yaoxian
1946
Chinese army officer and communist
Luo Shiwen
1946
Chinese Communist (1904–1946)
Subhas Chandra Bose
1945
Indian nationalist leader and politician (1897–1945)
Ernst Thälmann
1944
German communist politician (1886–1944)
Aliagha Shikhlinski
1943
Azerbaijani lieutenant-general
Erwin Schulhoff
1942
Czech composer and pianist
Walter Chrysler
1940
American automotive industry executive
Joseph E. Seagram
1919
Canadian politician, businessman and philanthropist
1800s
Mother Solomon
1890
Wyandot nanny (1816–1890)
Eli Whitney Blake
1886
American inventor
James Finlayson (industrialist)
1852
British business magnate (1772-1852)
Honoré de Balzac
1850
French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)
Louis de Freycinet
1842
French Navy officer (1779–1841)
André-Jacques Garnerin
1823
French balloonist and inventor of the frameless parachute (1769–1823)
Chauncey Goodrich
1815
American politician
Before 1800
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
1765
Holy Roman Emperor from 1745 to 1765
Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers
1712
English nobleman and soldier
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire
1707
English politician (1640–1707)
Charles Hart (actor)
1683
17th-century English actor
Ibrahim (Ottoman sultan)
1648
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1640 to 1648
Guido Reni
1642
Italian Baroque painter (1575–1642)
Urbain Grandier
1634
French Catholic priest convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake in 1634
Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche
1625
English diplomat (1556–1625)
Wanli Emperor
1620
Emperor of China from 1572 to 1620
Giovanni Artusi
1613
Italian composer
Sebastiano Montelupi
1600
Étienne de La Boétie
1563
French judge, writer and philosopher (1530–1563)
Pope Paul IV
1559
Head of the Catholic Church from 1555 to 1559
Antonio Ferramolino
1550
Italian architect and military engineer
Pope Alexander VI
1503
Head of the Catholic Church from 1492 to 1503
Knut Alvsson
1502
Norwegian nobleman and landowner (1455–1502)
Alfonso of Aragon (1481–1500)
1500
Duke of Bisceglie, Prince of Salerno
Thomas Ros, 8th Baron Ros
1430
English noble
Clare of Montefalco
1318
Italian Roman Catholic saint
Pope Adrian V
1276
Head of the Catholic Church in 1276
Theodore II Laskaris
1258
Emperor of Nicaea from 1254 to 1258
Narapatisithu
1211
King of Pagan Dynasty, Myanmar
Olaf I of Denmark
1095
King of Denmark from 1086 to 1095
AD 911
911
Calendar year
Walafrid Strabo
849
Alemannic Benedictine monk and theological writer
Kim Yu-sin
673
Silla-era Korean general (595–673)
Saint Fiacre
670
Name of three different Irish saints
Ricimer
472
General and ruler of the Western Roman Empire (c. 418–472)
Pope Sixtus III
440
Head of the Catholic Church from 432 to 440
Decentius
353
Roman emperor from 350 to 353