Notable Deaths on March 18

John Phillips

2001 — John Phillips

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1935)

March 18 has 87 recorded notable deaths across history, from 978 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.

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Notable Deaths 87 source records 978 – 2025

Major events on March 18

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  1. 1994 Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Source
  2. 1899 Phoebe, a satellite of Saturn, becomes the first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by William Henry Pickering. Source
  3. 1848 The premiere of William Henry Fry's Leonora in Philadelphia is the first known performance of a grand opera by an American composer. Source
  4. 1942 The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody. Source

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In addition to writing the majority of the group's songs, he wrote "San Francisco " in 1967 for former Journeymen bandmate Scott McKenzie, and the oft-covered "Me and My Uncle", which was a favorite in the repertoire of the Grateful Dead.

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Charles Edward Anderson Berry was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was one of the pioneers of rock and roll.

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Johnny Appleseed became an American icon while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance that he attributed to apples.

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Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig statesman who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain, serving from 1721 to 1742.

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Edward the Martyr was King of the English from 8 July 975 until he was killed in 978.

More major people who died on March 18

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2017 Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
American guitarist, singer and songwriter (born 1926)
Charles Edward Anderson Berry was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was one of the pioneers of rock and roll.
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1845 Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Appleseed
American gardener and missionary (born 1774)
John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the Canadian province of…
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1745 Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1676)
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig statesman who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain, serving from 1721 to…
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978 Edward the Martyr
Edward the Martyr
English king (born 962)
Edward the Martyr was King of the English from 8 July 975 until he was killed in 978. He was the eldest son of King Edgar.
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1978 Peggy Wood
Peggy Wood
American actress (born 1892)
Mary Margaret Wood was an American actress of stage, film, and television.
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1978 Leigh Brackett
Leigh Brackett
American author and screenwriter (born 1915)
Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American author and screenwriter. Nicknamed "the Queen of Space Opera", she was one of the most prominent female writers during the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
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1227 Pope Honorius III (born 1148)
Pope Honorius III (born 1148)
Pope Honorius III, born Cencio Savelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 18 July 1216 to his death.
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1907 Marcellin Berthelot
Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1827)
Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot was a French chemist and Republican politician noted for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle of thermochemistry.
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1984 Charley Lau
Charley Lau
American baseball player and coach (born 1933)
Charles Richard Lau was an American professional baseball player and a highly influential hitting coach.
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1321 Matthew III Csák
Matthew III Csák
Hungarian oligarch (born c. 1260/5)
Máté Csák or Matthew III Csák, also Máté Csák of Trencsén, was a Hungarian oligarch who ruled de facto independently the north-western counties of Medieval Hungary.
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1918 Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (born 1847)
Henry Janeway Hardenbergh was an American architect, best known for his hotels and apartment buildings, and as a "master of a new building form — the skyscraper." He worked three times with Edward Clark, the wealthy…
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1986 Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud
American novelist and short story writer (born 1914)
Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer.
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1956 Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield
American environmentalist and author (born 1896)
Louis Bromfield was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic…
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2016 Guido Westerwelle
Guido Westerwelle
German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (born 1961)
Guido Westerwelle was a German politician who served as foreign minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any…
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1086 Anselm of Lucca
Anselm of Lucca
Italian bishop (born 1036)
Anselm of Lucca, born Anselm of Baggio, was a medieval bishop of Lucca in Italy and a prominent figure in the Investiture Controversy amid the fighting in central Italy between Matilda, countess of Tuscany, and Emperor…
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2007 Bob Woolmer
Bob Woolmer
Indian-English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (born 1948)
Robert Andrew Woolmer was an English cricket coach, cricketer, and a commentator.
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2025 Jessie Hoffman Jr.
Jessie Hoffman Jr.
American convicted murderer (born 1978)
Jessie Dean Hoffman Jr. was an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death in Louisiana for the 1996 rape and murder of Molly Elliott.
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1898 Matilda Joslyn Gage
Matilda Joslyn Gage
American author and activist (born 1826)
Matilda Joslyn Gage was an American writer and activist. She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States, but also campaigned for Native American rights, abolitionism, and freethought.
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1871 Augustus De Morgan
Augustus De Morgan
Indian-English mathematician and academic (born 1806)
Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. He is best known for De Morgan's laws relating logical conjunction, disjunction, and negation, and for coining the term "mathematical induction", the…
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