Deaths on 18 May
2000s
Bruce Nordstrom
2024
American businessman (1933–2024)
Tony O'Reilly
2024
Irish businessman and rugby union player (1936–2024)
Alice Stewart (commentator)
2024
American political commentator (1966–2024)
Jim Brown
2023
American football player and actor (1936–2023)
Charles Grodin
2021
American actor (1935–2021)
Yolanda Tortolero
2021
Venezuelan politician (died 2021)
Ken Osmond
2020
American actor and police officer (1943–2020)
Austin Eubanks
2019
American shooting survivor and activist
Roger Ailes
2017
American TV executive and consultant (1940–2017)
Chris Cornell
2017
American musician (1964–2017)
Jacque Fresco
2017
American futurist (1916–2017)
Halldór Ásgrímsson
2015
Icelandic politician
Raymond Gosling
2015
British physicist (1926–2015)
Jean-François Théodore
2015
French businessman and economist
Dobrica Ćosić
2014
Serbian writer and politician
Hans-Peter Dürr
2014
German physicist
Kaiketsu Masateru
2014
Japanese sumo wrestler
Chukwuedu Nwokolo
2014
Nigerian medical doctor
Wubbo Ockels
2014
Dutch astronaut (1946–2014)
Aleksei Balabanov
2013
Russian filmmaker (1959–2013)
Jo Benkow
2013
Norwegian politician and writer
Steve Forrest (actor)
2013
American actor (1925–2013)
David McMillan (American football)
2013
American football player (1981–2013)
Lothar Schmid
2013
German chess grandmaster (1928–2013)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
2012
German lyric baritone and conductor (1925–2012)
Peter Jones (drummer)
2012
Australian musician (1963–2012)
Alan Oakley (designer)
2012
British bicycle designer (1927–2012)
Dolla (rapper)
2009
American rapper (1987–2009)
Wayne Allwine
2009
American voice actor and sound effects editor (1947–2009)
Velupillai Prabhakaran
2009
Leader of militant Tamil organisation in Sri Lanka (1954–2009)
Joseph Pevney
2008
American actor and director (1911–2008)
Roberto García-Calvo Montiel
2008
Spanish judge
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
2007
Nobel-laureate physicist
Jaan Eilart
2006
Estonian botanist and conservationist
Elvin Jones
2004
American jazz drummer (1927–2004)
Davey Boy Smith
2002
English professional wrestler (1962–2002)
Irene Hunt
2001
American children's writer
Stephen M. Wolownik
2000
1900s
Augustus Pablo
1999
Musical artist
Betty Robinson
1999
American Olympic champion
Obaidullah Aleem
1998
Pakistani poet (1939–1998)
Elisha Cook Jr.
1995
American actor (1903–1995)
Alexander Godunov
1995
Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor (1949–1995)
Brinsley Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty
1995
Dutch noble (1911–1995)
Elizabeth Montgomery
1995
American actress (1933–1995)
Jill Ireland
1990
British actress (1936–1990)
Dorothy Ruth Pirone
1989
American biographer; daughter of Babe Ruth
Mahdi Amel
1987
Lebanese poet and activist
Arthur O'Connell
1981
American actor (1908–1981)
William Saroyan
1981
American writer (1908–1981)
Reid Blackburn
1980
American photographer (1952–1980)
David A. Johnston
1980
American volcanologist (1949–1980)
Ian Curtis
1980
English singer-songwriter (1956–1980)
Leroy Anderson
1975
American composer (1908–1975)
Harry Ricardo
1974
British engineer (1885-1974)
Jeannette Rankin
1973
First woman elected to U.S. Congress (1880–1973)
Aleksandr Kurosh
1971
Soviet mathematician (1908–1971)
Frank Walsh
1968
Australian politician (1897–1968)
Ernie Davis
1963
American football player (1939–1963)
Jacob Fichman
1958
Israeli poet (1881–1958)
Maurice Tate
1956
English cricketer (1895–1956)
Mary McLeod Bethune
1955
American educator and civil rights leader (1875–1955)
Hal Chase
1947
American baseball player and manager (1883–1947)
Ōnishiki Daigorō
1943
Japanese sumo wrestler
Werner Sombart
1941
German economist, sociologist, and historian
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
1922
French physician (1845–1922)
Chen Qimei
1916
Chinese politician (1878–1916)
Gustav Mahler
1911
Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor (1860–1911)
Eliza Orzeszkowa
1910
Polish novelist (1841–1910)
Pauline Viardot
1910
French mezzo-soprano (1821–1910)
Isaac Albéniz
1909
Spanish composer (1860–1909)
George Meredith
1909
British novelist and poet (1828–1909)
Louis-Napoléon Casault
1908
Canadian politician
Félix Ravaisson-Mollien
1900
French academic (1813–1900)
1800s
Isabella Glyn
1889
Shakespearean actress
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
1867
English painter (1793–1867)
Lionel Kieseritzky
1853
Baltic German chess master (1805–1853)
Richard McCarty (politician)
1844
American politician
Elijah Craig
1808
American Baptist preacher (1738–1808)
John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury)
1807
Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop (1721–1807)
Alexander Suvorov
1800
Russian military commander (1729/30–1800)
Before 1800
Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
1799
French playwright and diplomat (1732–1799)
Robert Rogers (British Army officer)
1795
British Army officer and frontiersman (1731–1795)
Levy Solomons
1792
Túpac Amaru II
1781
Leader of an uprising in Peru
Charles Hardy
1780
Royal Navy officer, politician and colonial administrator (1714–1780)
Georg Böhm
1733
German composer and organist
Maria Barbara Carillo
1721
Spanish stake burning victim
Elias Ashmole
1692
English antiquarian, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and alchemist
Stanisław Lubieniecki
1675
Jacques Marquette
1675
17th-century French Jesuit missionary and explorer in North America
Domenico Beccafumi
1551
Italian painter (1486–1551)
Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine
1550
French cardinal (1498–1550)
Rupert, King of the Romans
1410
King of Germany from 1400 to 1410
Vladislaus II of Opole
1401
14th-century Hungarian and Polish nobleman
Nicholas Longespee
1297
13th-century Bishop of Salisbury
Saint Erik
1160
King of Sweden from c. 1156 to 1160
Minna of Worms
1096
Frederick, Duke of Lower Lorraine
1065
Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine
978
Lotharingian nobleman (c. 912–978)
Emperor Taizong of Liao
947
Liao dynasty emperor of China from 927 to 947
Ma Shaohong
932
Stephen I of Constantinople
893
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 886 to 893
Pope John I
526
Head of the Catholic Church from 523 to 526