General Events and Observations of July 18

1100: Godfrey of Bouillon, Protector of the Holy Sepulcher, de facto King of Jerusalem
1488: Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
1591: Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)
1608: Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
1610: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (b. 1573)
1639: Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)
1695: Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
1698: Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
1721: Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
1730: François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
1792: John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
1817: Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
1863: Robert Gould Shaw, American military officer (b. 1837)
1872: Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
1884: Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
1892: Thomas Cook, English travel agent (b. 1808)
1899: Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer (b. 1832)
1916: Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
1918: Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
1925: Louis Nazaire Bégin, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1840)
1937: Julian Bell, British poet, killed in the Spanish Civil War (b. 1908)
1944: Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author and artist (b. 1870)
1948: Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
1949: Vítezslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1952: Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
1953: Lucy Booth, Daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
1954: George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
1966: Bobby Fuller, American rock singer and guitarist (b. 1942)
1968: Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1969: Mary Jo Kopechne, American Robert F. Kennedy campaign worker (b. 1940)
1973: Jack Hawkins, English film actor (b. 1910)
1982: Lionel Daunais, French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
1985: Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
1988: Nico, German-born model and singer (b. 1938)
1989: Donnie Moore, baseball player (suicide) (b. 1954)
1990: Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer (b. 1946)
1990: Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (b. 1918)
1990: Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (b. 1896)
1990: Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
1995: Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
1997: Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
2001: Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
2001: James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
2002: Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)
2004: Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (b. 1912)
2004: Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
2005: Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2005: William Westmoreland, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)
2007: George Caiazzo, American professional wrestler
2007: Jerry Hadley, American opera singer, (b. 1952)
2007: Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese communist politician (b. 1908)

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