Deaths on 18 February
2000s
Borislav Paravac
2026
Bosnian Serb politician (1943–2026)
Gene Hackman
2025
American actor (1930–2025)
Gerald Ridsdale
2025
Australian laicised Catholic priest and sex offender (1934–2025)
Hurricane (dog)
2025
American Secret Service canine (2009–2025)
Flavio Bucci
2020
Italian actor (1947–2020)
Alessandro Mendini
2019
Italian designer and architect (1931–2019)
Elchanan Heilprin
2015
Slovak-born English rabbi (1921–2015)
Mavis Gallant
2014
Canadian writer (1922–2014)
Maria Franziska von Trapp
2014
Member of Trapp Family Singers (1914–2014)
Balthus
2001
French artist (1908–2001)
Dale Earnhardt
2001
American racing driver (1951–2001)
1900s
Ngaio Marsh
1982
New Zealand crime writer and theatre director (1895–1982)
Jack Northrop
1981
Aircraft industrialist and designer, founder of Northrop Corporation
Andy Devine
1977
American actor (1905–1977)
Dragiša Cvetković
1969
Yugoslav politician
J. Robert Oppenheimer
1967
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
Grigory Nelyubov
1966
Soviet cosmonaut
Gertrude Vanderbilt (actress)
1960
American stage actress (1885-1960)
Gustave Charpentier
1956
French composer (1860–1956)
David King Udall
1938
American politician (1851–1938)
James J. Corbett
1933
American boxer (1866–1933)
Frank James
1915
American outlaw, Confederate guerrilla, and train robber
Lucy Stanton (abolitionist)
1910
African-American activist (1831–1910)
Charles Lewis Tiffany
1902
American businessman and jeweller (1812–1902)
1800s
Serranus Clinton Hastings
1893
American judge and politician (1814-1893)
Nikolay Zinin
1880
Russian chemist (1812–1880)
Vasil Levski
1873
Bulgarian revolutionary (1837–1873)
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
1851
German mathematician (1804–1851)
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
1803
German Enlightenment poet (1719–1803)
Before 1800
John Whitehurst
1788
English clockmaker and scientist (1713–1788)
Kristijonas Donelaitis
1780
Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor (1714–1780)
Joseph Marie Terray
1778
Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff
1772
German-Danish statesman (1712–1772)
Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun
1748
Austrian Generalfeldmarschall
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici
1743
Last lineal descendant of the House of Medici
Louis, Duke of Burgundy
1712
Heir apparent to the French throne (1682–1712)
William Phips
1695
Royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1651–1695)
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem
1683
Dutch painter (1620–1683)
John Villiers, Viscount Purbeck
1658
English courtier (1591–1658)
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
1654
French writer of epistolary essays
Michelangelo
1564
Italian artist and architect (1475–1564)
Martin Luther
1546
German priest, theologian and author (1483–1546)
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
1535
German occult writer (1486–1535)
Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria
1502
Duchess consort of Bavaria-Landshut
George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence
1478
English magnate (1449–1478)
Fra Angelico
1455
Early Italian Renaissance painter (c. 1395–1455)
Enguerrand VII de Coucy
1397
14th-century French nobleman
Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg
1379
Duke of Mecklenburg from 1347 to 1379
Kublai Khan
1294
Emperor of Yuan China from 1271 to 1294
Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk
1225
Norman noble (c. 1183–1225)
Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen
1218
Duke of Zähringen
Yaropolk II of Kiev
1139
Grand Prince of Kiev from 1132 to 1139
AD 999
999
Calendar year
Thābit ibn Qurra
901
Medieval Arab scholar (c. 830–901)
Angilbert
814
8th- and 9th-century Frankish poet, diplomat and saint
Colmán of Lindisfarne
675
7th-century Bishop of Lindisfarne and saint