History Deaths on May 18

Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)

#Gustav_Mahler

Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)

#Louis-Napoléon_Casault

Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714)

#Charles_Hardy

Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)

#Hal_Chase

Frank Walsh, Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (b. 1897)

#Frank_Walsh

Eric Jedvardsson (King Eric IX) of Sweden (since 1156); (b. circa 1120)

#Eric_IX_of_Sweden

Vladislaus II of Opole (b. 1332)

#Vladislaus_II_of_Opole

Chukwuedu Nwokolo, Nigerian physician and academic (b. 1921)

#Chukwuedu_Nwokolo

Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875)

#Mary_McLeod_Bethune

Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)

#Betty_Robinson

Steve Forrest, American actor (b. 1925)

#Steve_Forrest_(actor)

Jacques Marquette, French-American missionary and explorer (b. 1637)

#Jacques_Marquette

Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1954)

#Augustus_Pablo

Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)

#Jill_Ireland

Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and critic (b. 1881)

#Jacob_Fichman

John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (b. 1721)

#John_Douglas_(bishop_of_Salisbury)

Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (b. 1926)

#Raymond_Gosling

Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian-Indian rebel leader (b. 1742)

#Túpac_Amaru_II

George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)

#George_Meredith

Obaidullah Aleem, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1939)

#Obaidullah_Aleem

Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)

#Elizabeth_Montgomery

Lionel Kieseritzky, Estonian-French chess player (b. 1806)

#Lionel_Kieseritzky

Stephen I of Constantinople (b. 867)

#Stephen_I_of_Constantinople

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)

#Pierre-Gilles_de_Gennes

Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and publisher (b. 1732)

#Pierre_Beaumarchais

Dobrica ?osi?, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)

#Dobrica_?osi?

Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)

#Pauline_Viardot

Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (b. 1617)

#Elias_Ashmole

Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist and academic (b. 1929)

#Hans-Peter_Dürr

Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)

#Alexander_Suvorov

Aleksei Balabanov, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)

#Aleksei_Balabanov

Stanis?aw Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian (b. 1623)

#Stanis?aw_Lubieniecki

Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)

#Werner_Sombart

Halldór Ásgrímsson, Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947)

#Halldór_Ásgrímsson

Lothar Schmid, German chess player (b. 1928)

#Lothar_Schmid

Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (b. 1498)

#Jean,_Cardinal_of_Lorraine

Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (b. 1946)

#Wubbo_Ockels

Chris Cornell, American singer (b. 1964)

#Chris_Cornell

William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)

#William_Saroyan

Roger Ailes, American businessman (b. 1940)

#Roger_Ailes

Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)

#Maurice_Tate

Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (b. 1738)

#Elijah_Craig

Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927)

#Elvin_Jones

Jaan Eilart, Estonian geographer, ecologist, and historian (b. 1933)

#Jaan_Eilart

Jacque Fresco, American engineer and academic (b. 1916)

#Jacque_Fresco

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)

#Charles_Louis_Alphonse_Laveran

Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)

#Harry_Ricardo

Clarkson Stanfield, English painter (b. 1793)

#Clarkson_Frederick_Stanfield

Jo Benkow, Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1924)

#Jo_Benkow

Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880)

#Jeannette_Rankin

Kaiketsu Masateru, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1948)

#Kaiketsu_Masateru

Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)

#Isabella_Glyn

Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)

#Félix_Ravaisson-Mollien

Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)

#Arthur_O'Connell

Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)

#Isaac_Albéniz

Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)

#Eliza_Orzeszkowa

Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption: Reid Blackburn, American photographer and journalist (b. 1952) David A. Johnston, American volcanologist and geologist (b. 1949)

#1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Helens

?nishiki Daigor?, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883)

#?nishiki_Daigor?

Jean-François Théodore, French businessman (b. 1946)

T. J. Moran, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1930)

David McMillan, American football player (b. 1981)

Alan Oakley, English bicycle designer, designed the Raleigh Chopper (b. 1927)

Peter Jones, English-Australian drummer and songwriter (b. 1967)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German opera singer and conductor (b. 1925)

Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)

Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (b. 1942)

Joseph Pevney, American actor and director (b. 1911)

Irene Hunt, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)

Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian-American composer and musicologist (b. 1946)

Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and historian (b. 1911)

Alexander Godunov, Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)

Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903)

Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder and author (b. 1921)

Mahdi Amel, Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (b. 1936)

Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (b. 1956)

Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)

Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)

Ernie Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1939)

Richard McCarty, American lawyer and politician (b. 1780)

Robert Rogers, English colonel (b. 1731)

Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)

Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (b. 1761)

Maria Barbara Carillo, victim of the Spanish Inquisition (b.1625)

Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter (b. 1486)

Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1352)

Nicholas Longespee, Bishop of Salisbury

Minna of Worms, Jewish martyr killed during the Worms massacre (1096)

Frederick, Duke of Lower Lorraine (b. c. 1003)

Frederick I, duke of Upper Lorraine

Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty

Ma Shaohong, general of Later Tang

Pope John I (b. 470)