History Deaths on July 18

Zhu Wen, Chinese emperor (b. 852)

#Zhu_Wen

Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (b. 1837)

#Robert_Gould_Shaw

Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)

#Jacobus_Gallus

John Paul Jones, Scottish-American admiral and diplomat (b. 1747)

#John_Paul_Jones

Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and theorist (b. 1896)

#Roman_Jakobson

Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)

#Joachim_Frederick,_Elector_of_Brandenburg

Emperor Monmu of Japan (b. 683)

#Emperor_Monmu

William Westmoreland, American general (b. 1914)

#William_Westmoreland

Henry Allingham, English soldier (b. 1896)

#Henry_Allingham

Julian Bell, English poet and academic (b. 1908)

#Julian_Bell

Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)

#Louis-Nazaire_Bégin

Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)

#Horatio_Alger

Andreas Biermann, German footballer (b. 1980)

#Andreas_Biermann

Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (b.1905)

#Francisco_Javier_Arana

Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)

#Jean_Jules_Jusserand

João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazilian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1941)

#João_Ubaldo_Ribeiro

Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (b. 1877)

#Herman_Gummerus

Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish bishop and historian (b. 1484)

#Bartolomé_de_las_Casas

Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury

#Boniface_of_Savoy_(bishop)

Stephen II, patriarch of Constantinople

#Stephen_II_of_Constantinople

Pieter Langendijk, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1683)

#Pieter_Langendijk

Francis I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1414)

#Francis_I,_Duke_of_Brittany

Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer (b. 1890)

#Sonja_Branting-Westerståhl

Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)

#Jane_Austen

Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)

#Mimi_Fariña

Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala (b. before 1143)

#Stefan_(Archbishop_of_Uppsala)

Adrian Cronauer, American Radio personality (b. 1938)

#Adrian_Cronauer

Johannes Camphuys, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)

#Johannes_Camphuys

Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (b. 1633)

#Johann_Heinrich_Heidegger

Caravaggio, Italian painter (b. 1571)

#Caravaggio

Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Lithuanian-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1910)

#Yosef_Shalom_Eliashiv

Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)

#Ferdinand_von_Hochstetter

Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)

#Dorothea_Dix

Assef Shawkat, Syrian general and politician (b. 1950)

#Assef_Shawkat

Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)

#Kenji_Miyamoto_(politician)

Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

#Corneille_Heymans

Thomas Sturge Moore, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1870)

#Thomas_Sturge_Moore

Vít?zslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (b. 1870)

#Vít?zslav_Novák

Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907)

#Gilberto_Freyre

Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)

#Thomas_Cook

Yun Posun, South Korean politician, 2nd President of South Korea (b. 1897)

#Yun_Posun

Hasan Turkmani, Syrian general and politician, Syrian Minister of Defense (b. 1935)

#Hasan_Turkmani

John de Braose, Marcher Lord of Bramber and Gower

#John_de_Braose

Alex Rocco, American actor (b. 1936)

#Alex_Rocco

Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1896)

#Karl_Menninger

Marie of Romania (b. 1875)

#Marie_of_Romania

Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)

#Machine_Gun_Kelly

Godfrey of Bouillon, Frankish knight (b. 1016)

#Godfrey_of_Bouillon

Rebecca Schaeffer, American model and actress (b.1967)

#Rebecca_Schaeffer

Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)

#Dietmar_Schönherr

François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, French general (b. 1644)

#François_de_Neufville,_duc_de_Villeroy

Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)

#Bernard_of_Saxe-Weimar

Muhammad bin Qasim, Umayyad general (b. 695)

#Muhammad_bin_Qasim

Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (b. 1942)

#Rajesh_Khanna

Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader (b. 1777)

#Vincenzo_Borg

Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910)

#Jack_Hawkins

Jean François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1928)

#Jean_François-Poncet

Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)

#Lydia_Becker

Jonathan Gold, American food critic (b. 1960)

#Jonathan_Gold

Nico, German singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actress (b. 1938)

#Nico

Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (b. 1806)

#Benito_Juárez

Olivier Ameisen, French-American cardiologist and academic (b. 1953)

Vaali, Indian poet, songwriter, and actor (b. 1931)

Dawoud Rajiha, Syrian general and politician, Syrian Minister of Defense (b. 1947)

Jill Balcon, English actress (b. 1925)

Jerry Hadley, American tenor (b. 1952)

Amy Gillett, Australian cyclist and rower (b. 1976)

Émile Peynaud, French wine maker (b. 1912)

André Castelot, Belgian-French historian and author (b. 1911)

Metin Toker, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1924)

Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)

Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1924)

Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)

Lally Bowers, English actress (b. 1914)

Vaughn Bod?, American illustrator (b. 1941)

Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (b. 1940)

Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)

Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect and historian (b. 1862)

Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (b. 1885)

Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1906)

Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)

Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)

Robert Levinz, English Royalist, hanged in London by Parliamentary forces as a spy (b. 1615)

Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)

Gerard Segarelli, Italian religious leader, founded the Apostolic Brethren (b. 1240)

Guy of Lusignan, king consort of Jerusalem (b. c. 1150)

Dietrich I, bishop of Metz

Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat, Abbasid vizier (b. 855)