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Deaths on December 18

xxxx : HuMari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita
1290 : Magnus I Ladulås, [Barn Bolt], king of Sweden (1277-90), dies
1505 : John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed
1565 : Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62
1577 : Anna, duchess of Saxon/wife of prince Willem of Orange, dies at 32
1597 : Barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67
1633 : Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, buried at 62
1638 : Le Père Joseph, French mystic, dies
1651 : Francisco the Melo, Portuguese/Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at 54
1710 : Peter Codde, apostile vicar (1688-1704), dies at 62
1732 : Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer, dies at 59
1737 : Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker, dies in Cremona Italy at 93
1751 : Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies at 62
1779 : Jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68
1803 : Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59
1829 : Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85
1831 : Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75
1835 : Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer, dies at 82
1839 : Charles-Henri Plantade, composer, dies at 75
1841 : Felice Blangini, composer, dies at 60
1858 : Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer, dies at 81
1862 : Johnson Kelly Duncan, architect/Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 35
1865 : Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer, dies at 70
1869 : Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40
1892 : Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88
1897 : Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70
1899 : John William Glover, composer, dies at 84
1911 : Alberto Randegger, composer, dies at 79
1915 : Édouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard, dies at 75
1918 : Henryk Jarecki, composer, dies at 72
1919 : Horatio William Parker, composer, dies at 56
1919 : John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27
1928 : Lucien Capet, composer, dies at 55
1931 : John T "Legs" Diamond, US gangster, murdered at 35
1932 : Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist/revisionist, dies at 82
1935 : Juan V Gómez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies
1937 : S S Schultz, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
1939 : Matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51
1942 : Charlie Walker, cricketer (Aust tourist to England 1930, 1938), dies
1948 : Janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers
1959 : Dorothy L Sayers, writer, dies at 66
1963 : Winifried P I Zillig, German composer/conductor (Opfer), dies at 58
1966 : Gene Gauntier, dies in Cuernavaca Mexico
1971 : Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russ editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61
1971 : Bobby Jones Jr, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930), dies at 69
1971 : Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at 45
1973 : Giulio Cesare Brero, composer, dies at 64
1976 : George Emmett, cricketer (Engld opener v Aust Old Trafford 1948), dies
1977 : Cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan), dies at 80
1977 : Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92
1980 : Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76
1981 : Mehmet Shehu, PM Albania (1954-81)/"US-Russ spy", commits suicide
1982 : Raymond Emery, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v WI 1952, 46 runs, 2 wkts), dies
1982 : Tibor de Machula, Hungary/Neth cellist, dies at 70
1986 : Mamo Clark, actor (1 Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies
1990 : Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87
1990 : Paul Tortelier, composer, dies at 76
1991 : June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73
1992 : Dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83
1992 : Mark Goodson, TV game show producer (Goodson-Toddman), dies at 77
1992 : Mother Clare Hale, cared for NYC AIDS babies (Hale House), dies at 87
1992 : Richard H Ichord, US leader of House Un-American Act Comm, dies
1993 : Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74
1994 : Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor/director, dies at 71
1994 : Lilia Skala, Austrian/US actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at 98
1994 : Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64
1995 : Chaim Pearl, rabbi, dies at 76
1995 : Georgio Fini, restaurateur, dies at 70
1995 : Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69
1996 : Arthur Jacobs, musicologist, dies at 74
1997 : Chris Farley, comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy), dies at 33

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