Notable Deaths on February 18

Q: Who died on February 18?

Notable people who died on February 18 include: Colmán, Angilbert, Thābit ibn Qurra, Gregory V, Yaropolk II.

Q: What is Dragiša Cvetković known for?

Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1893)

56 people 675 – 2026

February 18 has seen 56 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 675 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1969 — Dragiša Cvetković

Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1893)

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He served as the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1939 to 1941

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He signed the Yugoslav accession to the Tripartite Pact on 25 March 1941

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Two days later, on 27 March, a group of officers carried out a military coup, and arrested Dragiša Cvetković and other ministers

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Dragiša Cvetković was a Yugoslav politician active in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

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German authorities arrested him on two occasions and took him to Banjica concentration camp

Colmán

bishop of Lindisfarne

Colmán of Lindisfarne also known as Saint Colmán was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 661 until 664.

675

Angilbert

Frankish monk and diplomat (born 760)

Angilbert, Count of Ponthieu was a noble Frankish poet who was educated under Alcuin and served Charlemagne as a secretary, diplomat, and son-in-law. He is venerated as a pre-Congregation saint and is still honored on…

814

Thābit ibn Qurra

Arab astronomer and physician (born 826)

Thābit ibn Qurra, was a scholar known for his work in mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and translation. He lived in Baghdad in the second half of the ninth century during the time of the Abbasid Caliphate.

901

Gregory V

pope of the Catholic Church (born 972)

Year 999 (CMXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

999

Yaropolk II

Grand Prince of Kiev (born 1082)

Yaropolk II Vladimirovich was Prince of Pereyaslavl (1114–1132) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1132–1139). He was a son of Vladimir II Monomakh and Gytha of Wessex. He fought in several campaigns against the Cumans, once in…

1139

Berthold V

duke of Zähringen (born 1160)

Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen, also known as Bertold V or Berchtold V, was Duke of Zähringen from 1186 until his death. He was the son of Berthold IV and Heilwig of Frohburg.

1218

Hugh Bigod

3rd Earl of Norfolk, Norman nobleman

Hugh Bigod was a member of the powerful early Norman Bigod family and was for a short time the 3rd Earl of Norfolk.

1225

Kublai Khan

Mongol emperor (born 1215)

Kublai Khan, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China. He proclaimed the dynastic name "Great…

1294

Albert II

duke of Mecklenburg (born 1318)

Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg was a feudal lord in Northern Germany on the shores of the Baltic Sea. He reigned as the head of the House of Mecklenburg. His princely seat was located in Schwerin beginning in the 1350s.

1379

Enguerrand VII

French nobleman (born 1340)

Enguerrand VII de Coucy,, also known as Ingelram de Coucy and Ingelram de Couci, was a medieval French nobleman and the last Lord of Coucy. He became a son-in-law of King Edward III of England following his marriage to…

1397

Fra Angelico

Italian priest and painter (born 1395)

Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, known posthumously as Fra Angelico, was an Italian Dominican friar and painter active during the early Florentine Renaissance.

1455

George Plantagenet

1st Duke of Clarence, English nobleman (born 1449; executed)

George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, was the sixth child and third surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English kings Edward IV and Richard III. He played an…

1478

Hedwig Jagiellon

duchess of Bavaria (born 1457)

Hedwig Jagiellon, baptized as Hedwigis, was a princess of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and member of the Jagiellonian dynasty. She was Duchess of Bavaria by marriage to George, Duke of…

1502

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

German magician, astrologer, and theologian (born 1486)

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer.

1535

Martin Luther

German priest and theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation (born 1483)

Martin Luther was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of…

1546

Michelangelo

Italian sculptor and painter (born 1475)

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly…

1564

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

French author (born 1594)

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author in Baroque Précieuses style, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. He was one of the founding members of the Académie…

1654

John Villiers

Viscount Purbeck, English courtier (born c. 1591)

John Villiers was an English courtier from the Villiers family. The eldest son of Sir George Villiers and Mary Beaumont, later Countess of Buckingham, he was the brother of King James I's favourite, George Villiers, 1st…

1658

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem

Dutch painter (born 1620)

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.

1683

William Phips

governor of Massachusetts (born 1650)

Major-General Sir William Phips was a treasure hunter, military officer, and colonial administrator from the New England Colonies. He was the first royally appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and…

1695

Louis

Dauphin of France, (born 1682)

Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy, was the eldest son of Louis, Grand Dauphin, and Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria and grandson of the reigning French king, Louis XIV. He is commonly known as le Petit Dauphin to…

1712

Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici

Italian noble (born 1667)

Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici was an Italian noblewoman who was the last lineal descendant of the main branch of the House of Medici. A patron of the arts, she bequeathed the Medicis' large art collection, including the…

1743

Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun

Austrian field marshal (born 1677)

Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun, was an Austrian Generalfeldmarschall. The current spelling of the name, and the spelling used in his time, is mostly Abensperg.

1748

Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff

Danish politician (born 1712)

Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff was a German-Danish statesman and a member of the Bernstorff noble family of Mecklenburg. He was the son of Joachim Engelke Freiherr von Bernstorff, chamberlain to the Elector…

1772

Joseph Marie Terray

French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (born 1715)

Abbot Joseph Marie Terray was a Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XV, an agent of fiscal reform.

1778

Kristijonas Donelaitis

Lithuanian pastor and poet (born 1714)

Kristijonas Donelaitis was a Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor. He lived and worked in Lithuania Minor, a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia, that had a sizable Lithuanian-speaking minority. He wrote the…

1780

John Whitehurst

English geologist and clockmaker (born 1713)

John Whitehurst FRS, born in Cheshire, England, was a clockmaker and scientist, and made significant early contributions to geology. He was an influential member of the Lunar Society.

1788

Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim

German poet and educator (born 1719)

Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim was a German poet, commonly associated with the Enlightenment and Rococo movements.

1803

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

German mathematician and academic (born 1804)

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants and number theory.

1851

Vasil Levski

Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (born 1837)

Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary who is, today, a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate…

1873

Nikolay Zinin

Russian organic chemist (born 1812)

Nikolay Nikolaevich Zinin was a Russian organic chemist.

1880

Serranus Clinton Hastings

American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (born 1814)

Serranus Clinton Hastings was an American politician, rancher, and lawyer in California. Born in Watertown, New York, he studied law as a young man and moved to the Iowa District in 1837 to open a law office. Iowa…

1893

Charles Lewis Tiffany

American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (born 1812)

Charles Lewis Tiffany was an American businessman and jeweler who founded New York City's Tiffany & Co. in 1837. Known for his jewelry expertise, Tiffany created the country's first retail catalog and introduced the…

1902

Lucy Stanton

American activist (born 1831)

Lucy Stanton Day Sessions was an American abolitionist and feminist figure, notable for being the first African-American woman to complete a four-year course of a study at a college or university. She completed a Ladies…

1910

Frank James

American soldier and criminal (born 1843)

Alexander Franklin James was a Confederate soldier and guerrilla; who became an outlaw in the post-Civil War period. The older brother of outlaw Jesse James, Frank was also part of the James–Younger Gang.

1915

James J. Corbett

American boxer and actor (born 1866)

James John Corbett was an American professional boxer and a World Heavyweight Champion, best known as the only man who ever defeated John L. Sullivan. Despite a career spanning only 20 bouts, Corbett faced the best…

1933

David King Udall

American missionary and politician (born 1851)

David King Udall, Sr. was an American politician who was a representative to the Arizona Territorial Legislature and the founder of the Udall political family.

1938

Gustave Charpentier

French composer (born 1860)

Gustave Charpentier was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise.

1956

Gertrude Vanderbilt

American stage actress (born c. 1885)

Gertrude Vanderbilt, also known as Gertie Vanderbilt, was an American stage actress and Vaudeville performer.

1960

Grigory Nelyubov

Soviet pilot and military officer (born 1934)

Grigory Grigoryevich Nelyubov was one of the original 20 Soviet cosmonauts, who was dismissed from the Soviet space program in 1963 for drunk and disorderly conduct. His existence in the program was kept secret until…

1966

J. Robert Oppenheimer

American physicist and academic (born 1904)

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his…

1967

Andy Devine

American actor (born 1905)

Andrew Vabre Devine was an American character actor known for his distinctive raspy, crackly voice and roles in Western films, including his role as Cookie, the sidekick of Roy Rogers in 10 feature films. He also…

1977

Jack Northrop

American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (born 1895)

John Knudsen Northrop was an American aircraft industrialist and designer who founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939.

1981

Ngaio Marsh

New Zealand author (born 1895)

Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh was a New Zealand writer.

1982

Balthus

Polish-Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1908)

Balthasar Klossowski, also known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of young girls, and the dreamlike quality of his imagery.

2001

Dale Earnhardt

American racer and seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion (born 1951)

Ralph Dale Earnhardt was an American professional stock car driver and racing team owner, who raced from 1975 to 2001 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup Series, most notably driving the No. 3 Chevrolet for Richard…

2001

Mavis Gallant

Canadian-French author and playwright (born 1922)

Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant,, was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays.

2014

Maria Franziska von Trapp

Austrian-American singer (born 1914)

Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina 'Mitzi' von Trapp was the second-oldest daughter of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives inspired the…

2014

Elchanan Heilprin

Slovak-born English rabbi (born 1920 or 1922)

Elchanan Halpern was a Rabbi in the Golders Green neighbourhood of London and President of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations. He was also known as the Av Beit Din of Radomishl after the town of his maternal…

2015

Alessandro Mendini

Italian designer and architect (born 1931)

Alessandro Mendini was an Italian designer and architect. He played an important part in the development of Italian, Postmodern, and Radical design. He also worked, aside from his artistic career, for Casabella, Modo…

2019

Flavio Bucci

Italian actor and voice actor (born 1947)

Flavio Bucci was an Italian actor, voice actor and film producer.

2020

Gene Hackman

award-winning American actor (born 1930)

Eugene Allen Hackman was an American actor. Considered one of the greatest actors of his generation and a paragon of the New Hollywood movement, Hackman's mainstream acting career spanned over four decades. He received…

2025

Gerald Ridsdale

Australian laicised Catholic priest and sex offender (born 1934)

Gerald Francis Ridsdale was an Australian laicised Catholic priest and prolific sex offender.

2025

Hurricane

American secret service canine (born 2009)

Hurricane was a Special Operations canine of the United States Secret Service. He was a black Belgian Malinois recognized for his valor and bravery in 2014. He is considered the most decorated dog in American history.

2025

Borislav Paravac

Bosnian Serb politician, 8th Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (born 1943)

Borislav Paravac was a Bosnian Serb politician who served as the 4th Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2003 to 2006.

2026

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Dragiša Cvetković — Yugoslav politician

FeaturedDragiša Cvetković

Death year1969

Known forHe served as the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1939 to 1941

Deaths on this date56 (675 – 2026)

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