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Albert Einstein's mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation".
Notable Deaths on April 18
1955 — Albert Einstein
German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1879)
April 18 has 67 recorded notable deaths across history, from 727 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
67 source records
727 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on April 18
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1783 Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three-fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution. Source
- 1797 War of the First Coalition: The Peace of Leoben is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Maximilian, Count of Merveldt, creating an armistice between France and Austria, setting the stage for the Treaty of Campo Formio and ending the War of the First Coalition.[citation needed] Source
- 1939 Robert Menzies, who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. Source
- 1864 Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement. Source
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The Allman Brothers Band broke up and re-formed twice, always with Betts in the lineup, until he was forced out of the group in 2000.
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Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of "dogface" infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective.
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Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century.
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Arturo Frondizi was elected president of Argentina and governed from May 1, 1958, to March 29, 1962, when he was overthrown in a military coup.
More major people who died on April 18
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2024
Dickey Betts
American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer (born 1943)
Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts was an American rock guitarist and vocalist, best known as a longtime member of the Allman Brothers Band.
1945
Ernie Pyle
American journalist and soldier (born 1900)
Ernest Taylor Pyle was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II.
1936
Ottorino Respighi
Italian composer and conductor (born 1879)
Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century.
1995
Arturo Frondizi
Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (born 1908)
Arturo Frondizi Ércoli was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, teacher, statesman, and politician.
1873
Justus von Liebig
German chemist and academic (born 1803)
Justus Freiherr von Liebig was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biological chemistry; he is considered one of the…
1898
Gustave Moreau
French painter and academic (born 1826)
Gustave Moreau was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".
2012
K. D. Wentworth
American author (born 1951)
Kathy Diane Wentworth, known as K. D. Wentworth, was an American science fiction author.
2022
Harrison Birtwistle
British composer (born 1934)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects.
1161
Theobald of Bec
French-English archbishop (born 1090)
Theobald of Bec was a Norman archbishop of Canterbury from 1139 to 1161. His exact birth date is unknown.
1176
Galdino della Sala
Italian archdeacon and saint
Galdino della Sala, Galdinus or Galdimus, was a Roman Catholic saint from Milan in northern Italy. He was a cardinal elevated in 1165 and he also served as Archbishop of Milan from 1166 to his death in 1176.
1936
Milton Brown
American singer and bandleader (born 1903)
Milton Brown was an American bandleader and vocalist who is considered an early adopter of Western swing music.
1555
Polydore Vergil
English historian (born 1470)
Polydore Vergil or Virgil, widely known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino, was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent much of his life in England.
1938
George Bryant
American archer (born 1878)
George Philip "Phil" Bryant was an American archer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He won two gold medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in the double York and American rounds.
963
Stephen Lekapenos
co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire
Stephen Lekapenos or Lecapenus was the second son of the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, and co-emperor from 924 to 945.
1958
Maurice Gamelin
Belgian-French general (born 1872)
Maurice Gustave Gamelin was a French general who served as head of the French Army from 1935 and as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in France from the outbreak of the Second World War to his dismissal during the…
1587
John Foxe
English historian and author (born 1516)
John Foxe was an English clergyman, theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology Foxe's Book of Martyrs, telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but particularly the sufferings of English…
1763
Marie-Josephte Corriveau
Canadian murderer (born 1733)
Marie-Josephte Corriveau, better known as "la Corriveau", was a New French woman who was sentenced to death in 1763 by a British court martial for the murder of her second husband.
1943
Isoroku Yamamoto
Japanese admiral (born 1884)
Isoroku Yamamoto was an admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
1430
John III
Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count
Count John III the Younger of Nassau-Siegen, German: Johann III. der Jüngere Graf von Nassau-Siegen, succeeded, with his brothers, his father in 1416 as Count of Nassau-Siegen.