History Deaths on August 18

Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)

#Pope_Alexander_VI

Bruce Forsyth, English television presenter and entertainer (b. 1928)

#Bruce_Forsyth

Pope Adrian V (b. 1220)

#Pope_Adrian_V

Dean Riesner, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1918)

#Dean_Riesner

Jesse Robredo, Filipino public servant and politician, 23rd Filipino Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (b. 1958)

#Jesse_Robredo

Guido Reni, Italian painter and educator (b. 1575)

#Guido_Reni

Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)

#Urbain_Grandier

Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)

#Walter_Chrysler

Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1615)

#Ibrahim_of_the_Ottoman_Empire

Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)

#Chauncey_Goodrich

Rose Friedman, Ukrainian-American economist and author (b. 1910)

#Rose_Friedman

Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)

#Paul_Mares

Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1922)

#Elmer_Bernstein

André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)

#André-Jacques_Garnerin

Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, English diplomat (b. 1556)

#Edward_la_Zouche,_11th_Baron_Zouche

Sebastiano Montelupi, Italian businessman (b. 1516)

#Sebastiano_Montelupi

Michael Deaver, American soldier and politician, White House Deputy Chief of Staff (b. 1938)

#Michael_Deaver

Ricimer, Roman general and politician (b. 405)

#Ricimer

Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (b. 1918)

#Don_Pardo

Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)

#Alberto_Hurtado

Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)

#Subhas_Chandra_Bose

Genghis Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1162)

#Genghis_Khan

Kim Dae-jung, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 15th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)

#Kim_Dae-jung

Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)

#Ali-Agha_Shikhlinski

Wanli Emperor of China (b. 1563)

#Wanli_Emperor

Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower and coach (b. 1931)

#Hal_Connolly

Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902)

#Nikolaus_Pevsner

Louis Stokes, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)

#Louis_Stokes

King Olaf I of Denmark

#Olaf_I_of_Denmark

Fiacre, Irish hermit

#Saint_Fiacre

Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)

#Louis_de_Freycinet

Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)

#Hildegard_Trabant

Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)

#Francis_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (b. 1906)

#Hiram_Fong

Jean Kahn, French lawyer and activist (b. 1929)

#Jean_Kahn

Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1660)

#Richard_Savage,_4th_Earl_Rivers

Robert Novak, American journalist and author (b. 1931)

#Robert_Novak

Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1934)

#Jim_Jeffords

Levente Lengyel, Hungarian chess player (b. 1933)

#Levente_Lengyel

Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)

#Honoré_de_Balzac

Alfonso of Aragon, Spanish prince (b. 1481)

#Alfonso_of_Aragon_(1481-1500)

Gordon Faber, American soldier and politician, 39th Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon (b. 1930)

#Gordon_Faber

Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1540)

#Giovanni_Artusi

Anita Loos, American author and screenwriter (b. 1889)

#Anita_Loos

Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)

#Eli_Whitney_Blake

Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)

#Ernst_Thälmann

Antonio Ferramolino, Italian architect and military engineer

#Antonio_Ferramolino

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1640)

#William_Cavendish,_1st_Duke_of_Devonshire

Suvra Mukherjee, Wife of former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee. (b. 1940)

#Suvra_Mukherjee

Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)

#Pope_Paul_IV

Clare of Montefalco, Italian nun and saint (b. 1268)

#Clare_of_Montefalco

Theodore II Laskaris, emperor of Nicea (Byzantine emperor in exile)

#Theodore_II_Laskaris

Narapatisithu, king of Burma (b. 1150)

#Narapatisithu

Ken Kearney, Australian rugby player (b. 1924)

#Ken_Kearney

B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)

#B._F._Skinner

Zoe Laskari, Greek actress and beauty pageant winner (b. 1944)

Ernst Nolte, German historian (b. 1923)

Bud Yorkin, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)

Roger Smalley, English-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1943)

Khaled al-Asaad, Syrian archaeologist and author (b. 1932)

Albert Murray, American author and critic (b. 1916)

Josephine D'Angelo, American baseball player (b. 1924)

Ra. Ki. Rangarajan, Indian journalist and author (b. 1927)

Scott McKenzie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)

John Kovatch, American football player (b. 1920)

Harrison Begay, American painter (b. 1917)

Benjamin Kaplan, American scholar and jurist (b. 1911)

Magdalen Nabb, English author (b. 1947)

Chri$ Ca$h, American wrestler (b. 1982)

Tony Jackson, English singer and bass player (b. 1938)

David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931)

Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (b. 1948)

Francis Raymond Shea, American bishop (b. 1913)

Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (b. 1913)

Arthur Marshall, American pianist and composer (b. 1881)

Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)

Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)

Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)

Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and philosopher (b. 1530)

Knut Alvsson, Norwegian nobleman and politician (b. 1455)

Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (b. 1406)

Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian (b. 808)

Kim Yu-shin, general of Silla (b. 595)

Pope Sixtus III

Decentius, Roman usurper