Did you know
John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841.
Notable Deaths on January 18
1862 — John Tyler
American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (born 1790)
January 18 has 114 recorded notable deaths across history, from 52 BC to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
114 source records
52 BC – 2025
Today in history
Major events on January 18
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 2005 The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France Source
- 1919 World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. Source
- 1913 First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece. Source
- 1778 James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". Source
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In 1982, he founded the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the first regional party of Andhra Pradesh.
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While he did not begin his career in films until the age of 61, he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career lasting through the 1940s.
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Claire Louise van Kampen, Lady Rylance was an English director, composer, and playwright.
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Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963.
More major people who died on January 18
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1996
N. T. Rama Rao
Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (born 1923)
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, often referred to by his initials NTR, was an Indian actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, film editor, philanthropist, and politician who served as the chief minister of Andhra…
1954
Sydney Greenstreet
English-American actor (born 1879)
Sydney Hughes Greenstreet was a British and American character actor.
2025
Claire van Kampen
English director and composer (born 1953)
Claire Louise van Kampen, Lady Rylance was an English director, composer, and playwright.
1963
Hugh Gaitskell
English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1906)
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963.
1425
Edmund Mortimer
5th Earl of March, English politician (born 1391)
Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, 7th Earl of Ulster, was an English nobleman and a potential claimant to the throne of England.
2015
Alberto Nisman
Argentinian lawyer and prosecutor (born 1963)
Natalio Alberto Nisman was an Argentine lawyer who worked as a federal prosecutor, noted for being the chief investigator of the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people, the deadliest…
1547
Pietro Bembo
Italian cardinal and scholar (born 1470)
Pietro Bembo, O.S.I.H. was a Venetian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
2016
T. S. Sinnathuray
Judge of the High Court of Singapore (born 1930)
Thirugnana Sampanthar Sinnathuray, known professionally as T. S. Sinnathuray and to his friends as Sam Sinnathuray, was a judge of the High Court of Singapore.
896
Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun
ruler of the Tulunids, murdered (born 864)
Abu 'l-Jaysh Khumārawayh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn was Emir of Egypt. He is the son of the founder of the Tulunid dynasty, Ahmad ibn Tulun. His father, the autonomous ruler of Egypt and Syria, designated him as his successor.
1966
Kathleen Norris
American journalist and author (born 1880)
Kathleen Thompson Norris was an American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959.
1971
Virgil Finlay
American illustrator (born 1914)
Virgil Finlay was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called "part of the pulp magazine history ...
2010
Robert B. Parker
American author and academic (born 1932)
Robert Brown Parker was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works include the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser.
1980
Cecil Beaton
English fashion designer and photographer (born 1904)
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton was a British photographer, designer, and diarist. Renowned for his elegant and often theatrical style, Beaton's work appeared in leading publications such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
1929
Harry Coulby
American businessman (born 1865)
Harry Coulby was an American businessman known as the "Czar of the Great Lakes" for his expertise in managing the Great Lakes shipping fleet of Pickands Mather & Company and the Pittsburgh Steamship Company.
2017
Rachael Heyhoe Flint
Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1939)
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, was an English cricketer, businesswoman, and philanthropist.
1956
Konstantin Päts
Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Estonia (born 1874)
Konstantin Päts was an Estonian statesman and the country's president from 1938 to 1940.
2022
André Leon Talley
American fashion journalist (born 1948)
André Leon Talley was an American fashion journalist, stylist, creative director, author, and editor-at-large of Vogue magazine.
2004
Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova
Russian-born Soviet test pilot and aerobatics champion (born 1935)
Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova was a Soviet test pilot and aerobatics champion.
2016
Michel Tournier
French journalist and author (born 1924)
Michel Tournier was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970.