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In 1822, her family moved to the Big Spring Reservation in Wyandot County, where elders relayed oral tradition to her
Notable Deaths on August 18
102 people
353 – 2024
August 18 has seen 102 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 353 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1890 — Mother Solomon
Wyandot activist (born 1816)
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Solomon married David Young, a Wyandot man, in 1833 and had several children with him, some of whom died before 1843
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Solomon had more children in Kansas, though by 1860, her husband and remaining children had died.
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Margaret Grey Eyes Solomon, better known as Mother Solomon, was a Wyandot nanny and cultural activist
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Solomon was born along Owl Creek in Marion County, Ohio, to a Wyandot chief father
353
Pope Sixtus III, also called Pope Xystus III, was the bishop of Rome from 31 July 432 to his death on 18 August 440. His ascension to the papacy is associated with a period of increased construction in the city of Rome.…
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440
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670
general of Silla (born 595)
Kim Yu-sin was a Korean military general and politician in 7th-century Silla. He led the unification of the Korean Peninsula by Silla under the reign of King Muyeol and King Munmu. He is said to have been the…
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673
German monk and theologian (born 808)
Walafrid, alternatively spelt Walahfrid, nicknamed Strabo, was an Alemannic Benedictine monk and theological writer who lived on Reichenau Island in southern Germany.
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849
first Zaydi Imam of Yemen (born 859)
911 (CMXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
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911
Olaf I, nicknamed Olaf Hunger, was king of Denmark from 1086 to 1095, following the death of his brother Canute IV the Holy. He was a son of king Sweyn II Estridsson, and the third of Sweyn's sons to rule. He married…
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1095
king of Burma (born 1150)
Narapati Sithu was king of Pagan dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1174 to 1211. He is considered the last important king of the Pagans. His peaceful and prosperous reign gave rise to Burmese culture which finally emerged…
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1211
emperor of Nicea (Byzantine emperor in exile)
Theodore II Doukas Laskaris or Ducas Lascaris was Emperor of Nicaea from 1254 to 1258. He was the only child of Emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes and Empress Irene Laskarina. His mother was the eldest daughter of…
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1258
Pope Adrian V, born Ottobuono de' Fieschi, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 July 1276 to his death on 18 August 1276. He was an envoy of Pope Clement IV sent to England in May…
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1276
Italian nun and saint (born 1268)
Clare of Montefalco, OSA, in religion Saint Clare of the Cross, was an Augustinian nun and abbess. She was formerly a member of the Third Order of St. Francis. She was canonized by Pope Leo XIII on December 8, 1881.
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1318
8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (born 1406)
Thomas Ros or Roos, 8th Baron Ros of Helmsley was an English peer.
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1430
Spanish prince (born 1481)
Alfonso of Aragon, Duke of Bisceglie and Prince of Salerno of the House of Trastámara, was the illegitimate son of Alfonso II King of Naples and his mistress Trogia Gazzella. His father, cousin of King Ferdinand II of…
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1500
Norwegian nobleman and politician (born 1455)
Knut Alvsson was a Norwegian nobleman and landowner. He was the country's foremost Norwegian-born noble in his time and served as fief-holder in southern-central Norway.
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1502
Pope Alexander VI was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 11 August 1492 until his death in 1503.
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1503
Italian architect and military engineer
Antonio Ferramolino was a 16th-century Italian architect and military engineer. He is also known as Sferrandino da Bergamo, and is called Hernan Molin in Spanish sources. He is mostly known for his work in Sicily, but…
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1550
Pope Paul IV, born Gian Pietro Carafa, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 May 1555 to his death, in August 1559. While serving as papal nuncio in Spain, he developed an anti-Spanish…
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1559
French judge and philosopher (born 1530)
Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on…
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1563
Italian businessman (born 1516)
Sebastiano Montelupi, was an Italian-born merchant and banker in Kraków, Poland, and Postmaster General of the Polish royal postal service under Sigismund II Augustus, Henry III of Poland, Anna Jagiellon, Stephen…
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1600
Italian composer and theorist (born 1540)
Giovanni Maria Artusi was an Italian music theorist, composer, and writer.
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1613
The Wanli Emperor, personal name Zhu Yijun, was the 14th emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1572 to 1620. He succeeded his father, the Longqing Emperor. His reign of 48 years was the longest of the Ming dynasty.
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1620
11th Baron Zouche, English diplomat (born 1556)
Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche was an English diplomat. He is remembered chiefly for his lone vote against the condemnation of Mary, Queen of Scots, and for organising the stag hunt where his guest, the Archbishop…
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1625
French priest (born 1590)
Urbain Grandier was a French Catholic priest who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft, following the events of the so-called "Loudun possessions". Most modern commentators have concluded that…
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1634
Italian painter and educator (born 1575)
Guido Reni was an Italian Baroque painter, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious works, but also mythological…
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1642
Ibrahim was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1640 until 1648.
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1648
1683
1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (born 1640)
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1661 until 1684 when he inherited his father's peerage as Earl of Devonshire and took his seat in…
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1707
4th Earl Rivers, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (born 1660)
General Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers PC was an English nobleman and soldier who was a senior Army officer in the English and then British Army. The second son of Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers and his first wife…
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1712
1765
American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (born 1759)
Chauncey Goodrich was an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who represented that state in the United States Congress as both a senator and a representative.
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1815
French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (born 1769)
André-Jacques Garnerin was a French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. He was appointed Official Aeronaut of France.
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1823
French explorer and navigator (born 1779)
Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet was a French Navy officer. He circumnavigated the Earth, and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia.
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1842
French novelist and playwright (born 1799)
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
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1850
Scottish Quaker (born 1772)
James Finlayson was a Scottish Quaker who, in effect, brought the Industrial Revolution to Tampere, Finland, founding in 1820 the Finlayson company.
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1852
American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (born 1795)
Eli Whitney Blake, Sr. was an American inventor, best known for his mortise lock and stone-crushing machine, the latter of which earned him a place into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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1886
Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (born 1841)
Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canadian distillery founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.
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1919
American businessman, founded Chrysler (born 1875)
Walter Percy Chrysler was an American industrial pioneer in the automotive industry, automotive industry executive, and the founder and namesake of American Chrysler Corporation.
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1940
Austro-Czech composer and pianist (born 1894)
Erwin Schulhoff was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany…
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1942
Azerbaijani general (born 1865)
Ali Agha Ismail Agha oghlu Shikhlinski ; 3 March [O.S. 15 March] 1863 – 18 August 1943) was an Azerbaijani lieutenant-general of the Imperial Russian Army, Deputy Minister of Defense and General of the Artillery of…
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1943
German soldier and politician (born 1886)
Ernst Johannes Fritz Thälmann was a German communist politician, revolutionary, and leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933.
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1944
Indian activist and politician (born 1897)
Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist. Bose's defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan left a…
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1945
Chinese communist (born 1894)
Che Yaoxian was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and an officer in the Sichuan army. In 1921, after meeting a local preacher in Jianyang, he converted to Christianity. In 1927, he represented Sichuan at the East…
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1946
Chinese communist (born 1904)
Luo Shiwen was a Chinese communist. Born in Weiyuan County, Sichuan, he became interested in communism during the May Fourth Movement before joining the Chinese Socialist Youth League in 1923 and the Chinese Communist…
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1946
American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1900)
Paul Mares, was an American early dixieland jazz cornet and trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
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1949
Belgian soldier and politician (born 1884)
Julien-Victor Lahaut was a Belgian politician and communist activist who served as president of the Communist Party of Belgium from 1945 to 1950. An important figure during the German occupation of 1940–44, he became a…
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1950
Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (born 1901)
Alberto Hurtado, SJ, popularly known as Padre Hurtado, was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker, and writer of Basque ancestry. He founded the Hogar de Cristo foundation in 1944.
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1952
American lawyer, jurist, and philosopher (born 1872)
Billings Learned Hand was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1909 to 1924 and as a federal…
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1961
Berlin Wall victim (born 1927)
Hildegard Johanna Maria Trabant was an East German woman who became the fiftieth known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Trabant was shot and killed by East German border guards during a crossing attempt, one of only…
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1964
American pianist and composer (born 1881)
Arthur Owen Marshall was an American composer and performer of ragtime music from Missouri. He was a protege of famed ragtime composer Scott Joplin.
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1968
Norwegian Army general and war historian (born 1897)
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen was a Norwegian military officer and war historian. He participated in the Norwegian Campaign in Northern Norway during the Second World War as the chief-of-staff, under general Fleischer. He spent…
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1975
Indian politician (born 1913)
Vasantrao Phulsingh Naik was an Indian politician, social reformer and Pioneer of Green, White Revolution and Guarantee Employment Scheme. He served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1963 until 1975.
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1979
American author and screenwriter (born 1889)
Corinne Anita Loos was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 1912, she became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood, when D. W. Griffith put her on the payroll at Triangle Film…
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1981
German-English historian and scholar (born 1902)
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German-British historian who specialised in the art and architecture genres. He is best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of…
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1983
Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist (born 1902)
Harun Babunagari was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, Sufi, and an exegete of the Quran. He was the founder and first Principal of Al-Jamiatul Islamiah Azizul Uloom Babunagar, one of the oldest Qawmi madrasas in…
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1986
American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (born 1904)
Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1948 until his retirement in 1974.
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1990
American bishop (born 1913)
Francis Raymond Shea was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the third bishop of the Diocese of Evansville in Indiana from 1969 to 1989.
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1994
Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (born 1948)
Persis Khambatta was an Indian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder best remembered for playing Lieutenant Ilia in the feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
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1998
English chemist and toxicologist (born 1931)
David Beaumont Peakall was an internationally recognised toxicologist. His research into the effects of DDE and DDT on eggshells contributed to the ban on DDT in the United States. He proved that the chemicals caused…
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2001
American actor and screenwriter (born 1918)
Dean Riesner was an American film and television writer.
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2002
English singer and bassist (born 1938)
Anthony Paul Jackson was a British musician. He was known for being a member of the Merseybeat band The Searchers.
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2003
American composer and conductor (born 1922)
Elmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film…
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2004
American soldier and politician (born 1906)
Hiram Leong Fong was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician from Hawaii. Born to a Cantonese immigrant sugar plantation worker, Fong was one of the first two senators for Hawaii after it became the 50th US…
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2004
American wrestler (born 1982)
Christopher Jonathan Bauman Jr. was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chri$ Ca$h. Bauman wrestled in many independent promotions, but is known for his time in Combat Zone Wrestling, where…
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2005
French Canadian singer and actor (born 1934).
Fernand Gignac was a French Canadian singer and actor.
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2006
Australian rugby player (born 1924)
Kenneth Howard "Killer" Kearney was an Australian rugby footballer – a dual-code international player – and a rugby league coach. He represented the Wallabies in seven Tests, and the Kangaroos in thirty-one Test matches…
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2006
American soldier and politician, White House Deputy Chief of Staff (born 1938)
Michael Keith Deaver was a member of President Ronald Reagan's White House staff who served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff under James Baker III and Donald Regan from January 1981 to May 1985.
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2007
English author (born 1947)
Magdalen Nabb was a British author, best known for the Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels.
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2007
South Korean lieutenant and politician, 15th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)
Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician, activist and statesman who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.
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2009
Ukrainian-American economist and author (born 1910)
Rose Director Friedman ; born Rose Director was a free-market economist and co-founder of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation.
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2009
American journalist and author (born 1931)
Robert David Sanders Novak was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving in the U.S. Army…
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2009
American hammer thrower and coach (born 1931)
Harold Vincent "Hal" Connolly was an American athlete and hammer thrower from Somerville, Massachusetts. He won a gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Connolly became the first…
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2010
American scholar and jurist (born 1911)
Benjamin Kaplan was an American copyright and procedure scholar and jurist. He was also notable as "one of the principal architects" of the Nuremberg trials. And as Reporter to the U.S. Judicial Conference Advisory…
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2010
American painter (born 1917)
Harrison Begay, also known as Haashké yah Níyá was a renowned Diné (Navajo) painter, printmaker, and illustrator. Begay specialized in watercolors, gouache, and silkscreen prints. At the time of his death in 2012, he…
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2012
American football player (born 1920)
John George Kovatch Jr. was an American professional football end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and the Green Bay Packers. He was born in South Bend, Indiana. He played college…
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2012
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)
Scott McKenzie was an American singer and songwriter who recorded the 1967 hit single "San Francisco ".
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2012
Indian journalist and author (born 1927)
Ra. Ki. Rangarajan, popularly known as Ra Ki, was a Tamil journalist and prolific author of novels, short stories, essays, translations and other works. Rangarajan wrote under 10 pen names including: Mohini for…
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2012
Filipino public servant and politician, 23rd Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (born 1958)
Jesus "Jesse" Manalastas Robredo was a Filipino politician who served as 23rd Secretary of the Interior and Local Government in the administration of President Benigno Aquino III from 2010 until his death in 2012.…
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2012
American baseball player (born 1924)
Josephine "Jo Jo" D'Angelo was an American baseball left fielder who played from 1943 through 1944 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 0 in (152 cm), 135 lb, she batted and…
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2013
2013
American author and critic (born 1916)
Albert L. Murray was an American literary and music critic, novelist, essayist, and biographer. His books include The Omni-Americans, South to a Very Old Place, and Stomping the Blues.
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2013
American soldier and politician, 39th Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon (born 1930)
Gordon C. Faber was an American politician and businessman in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he grew up in Hillsboro, Oregon. He joined the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and was a small…
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2014
American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1934)
James Merrill Jeffords was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. Originally a Republican, he served as a member of the Vermont Senate from 1967 to 1969 and Vermont Attorney General 1969 to 1973. He lost the…
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2014
Hungarian chess player (born 1933)
Levente Lengyel was a Hungarian chess player, who gained the Grandmaster title in 1964.
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2014
2014
Syrian archaeologist and author (born 1932)
Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad was a Syrian archaeologist who was head of antiquities in the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He held this position for over forty years. Al-Asaad was publicly beheaded by…
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2015
English-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1943)
John Roger Smalley was an Anglo-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley was a senior honorary research fellow at the School of Music, University of Western Australia in Perth and honorary…
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2015
wife of Indian president Pranab Mukherjee (born 1940)
Suvra Mukherjee was the First Lady of India serving from the year 2012 until her death in 2015.
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2015
American lawyer and politician (born 1925)
Louis Stokes was an American attorney, civil rights pioneer and politician. He served 15 terms in the United States House of Representatives – representing the east side of Cleveland – and was the first African American…
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2015
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1926)
Alan David "Bud" Yorkin was an American film and television producer, director, screenwriter, and actor.
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2015
German historian (born 1923)
Ernst Nolte was a German historian and philosopher. Nolte's major interest was the comparative studies of fascism and communism. Originally trained in philosophy, he was professor emeritus of modern history at the Free…
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2016
English television presenter and entertainer (born 1928)
Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson, also known as Brucie, was a British entertainer and television personality whose career spanned over 75 years. His appeal stemmed from his showmanship, quick wit, and ability to connect…
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2017
Greek actress and beauty pageant winner (born 1944)
Zoe Laskari was a Greek actress and beauty pageant titleholder. After being crowned Star Hellas 1959 and representing Greece at Miss Universe 1959, where she was placed in the top-15, she switched to acting, where she…
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2017
Nigerian Supreme Court judge (born 1935)
Dennis Edozie was a Nigerian jurist who was Judge of the Supreme Court of Nigeria from 2003 until his retirement in 2005.
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2018
Ghanaian diplomat and seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (born 1938)
Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat and statesman who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was…
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2018
2020
2023
2023
American author and educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide (born 1916)
Ruth Johnson Colvin was an American philanthropist who was the founder of the non-profit organization Literacy Volunteers of America, now called ProLiteracy Worldwide in Syracuse, New York, in 1962. She was awarded the…
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2024
French-Swiss actor (born 1935)
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon was a French actor, film producer, screenwriter, singer, and businessman. Acknowledged as a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century, Delon emerged as one of the foremost…
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2024
American talk show host and producer (born 1935)
Phillip John Donahue was an American media personality, writer, film producer, and the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, later known simply as Donahue, was the first popular talk show to…
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2024
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Who died on August 18?
Mother Solomon — Wyandot nanny (1816–1890)
FeaturedMother Solomon
Death year1890
Known forSolomon was born along Owl Creek in Marion County, Ohio, to a Wyandot chief father
Deaths on this date102 (353 – 2024)
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