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Deaths on November 18

1170 : Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70
1603 : Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61
1630 : Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried
1664 : Mikl¢s Zr¡nyi, Hungarian general/poet, killed by wild boar at 44
1678 : Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
1771 : Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73
1796 : Catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67
1822 : Anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66
1822 : George Knowil Jackson, composer, dies at 65
1827 : Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24
1841 : Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77
1851 : Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80
1852 : Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60
1883 : Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
1886 : Chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85), dies in NY at 56
1887 : Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81
1887 : Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86
1887 : Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80
1889 : William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68
1904 : Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies
1911 : Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies
1917 : Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43
1918 : J¢n Trausti, [Gudmundur Magn£sson], Iceland author (G¢dir), dies
1918 : Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies
1919 : Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies
1922 : Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
1929 : Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
1941 : Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77
1946 : Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86
1946 : John King, cricketer (scored 60 & 4 in only Test Eng v Aus 1909), dies
1950 : Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
1951 : John H Van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice, dies at 57
1951 : Vaclav Kalik, composer, dies at 60
1951 : William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer, dies at 66
1952 : Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56
1958 : Sivert Samuelson, cricketer (one Test S Africa v England 1910), dies
1962 : Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63
1962 : Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77
1965 : Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77
1966 : Bela Tardos, composer, dies at 56
1966 : Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies
1968 : Walter Wanger, US producer (Cleopatria), dies at 74
1969 : Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Mass, at 81
1969 : Leon Jongen, composer, dies at 85
1970 : Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56
1971 : Junior Parker, rocker, dies during brain operation at 44
1972 : Danny Whitten, rocker, dies of a drug overdose
1972 : Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer, dies at 90
1973 : Alois H ba, Czech (opera)composer (Neuland), dies at 80
1976 : Man Ray, US artist (dada), dies at 86
1977 : Victor Francen, actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio), dies at 89
1978 : Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide
1978 : Leo J Ryan, (Rep-Cal) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of
1978 : Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 member
1982 : Donald Dillaway, actor (Min & Bill, Platinum Blonde), dies at 78
1982 : H Kipphardt, writer, dies at 60
1987 : Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (5x Tour de France), dies at 53
1989 : Henry de Vries, painter/poet (Toovertuin), dies
1990 : Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies
1991 : Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78
1992 : Dorothy Kirsten, US soprano, dies from stroke at 82
1992 : Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/co-founder (NVSH), dies
1992 : Superman, fictional character, killed by Doomsday at 54
1993 : Fritz Feld, actor (Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93
1994 : Cab[ell] Calloway, US band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86
1994 : Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51
1994 : Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77
1995 : Miron Grindea, literary editor, dies at 86
1995 : Ted Sannella, square dance caller, dies of cancer
1996 : David Herbert, publisher, dies at 69
1996 : John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72

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