Notable Deaths on November 18

Q: Who died on November 18?

Notable people who died on November 18 include: Odo of Cluny, Liutgard of Saxony, Thomas of Bayeux, Adelaide of Maurienne, Albert the Bear.

Q: What is Malcolm Young known for?

Malcolm Young, Scottish-Australian hard rock guitarist (born 1953)

2017 — Malcolm Young

Scottish-Australian hard rock guitarist (born 1953)

November 18 has seen 89 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 942 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 89 people 942 – 2024

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Except for a brief absence in 1988, Young was a member of AC/DC from its formation in 1973 until his retirement in 2014

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As a member of AC/DC, Young was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003

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In 2023, Rolling Stone named Young and his younger brother and fellow AC/DC member Angus Young the 38th-best guitarists of all time.

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Malcolm Mitchell Young was an Australian musician who was a founding member of the hard rock band AC/DC

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Young was a rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and backing vocalist in the band

Odo of Cluny

Frankish abbot and saint (born c. 878)

Odo of Cluny was the second abbot of Cluny.

942

Liutgard of Saxony

duchess of Lorraine (born 931)

Liutgarde of Saxony, a member of the Ottonian dynasty, was Duchess of Lorraine from 947 until her death by her marriage with Duke Conrad the Red. She and Conrad became progenitors of the Salian dynasty.

953

Thomas of Bayeux

archbishop of York

Thomas of Bayeux was Archbishop of York from 1070 until 1100. He was educated at Liège and became a royal chaplain to Duke William of Normandy, who later became King William I of England. After the Norman Conquest, the…

1100

Adelaide of Maurienne

French queen consort (born 1092)

Adelaide de Maurienne, also called Adelaide de Savoye, Alix, or Adele, was Queen of France as the second wife of King Louis VI (1115–1137).

1154

Albert the Bear

margrave of Brandenburg (born c. 1100)

Albert the Bear was the first margrave of Brandenburg from 1157 to his death and was briefly duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142.

1170

Adam Marsh

English scholar and theologian

Adam Marsh was an English Franciscan, scholar and theologian. Marsh became, after Robert Grosseteste, "...the most eminent master of England."

1259

John II

duke of Brittany (born 1239)

John II reigned as Duke of Brittany from 1286 until his death, and was also Earl of Richmond in the Peerage of England. He took part in two crusades prior to his accession to the ducal throne. As a duke, John was…

1305

Constance of Portugal

Portuguese infanta (born 1290)

Constance of Portugal, was Queen of Castile by her marriage to Ferdinand IV.

1313

Frederick II

Margrave of Meissen (born 1310)

Frederick II was the margrave of Meissen from 1323 until his death.

1349

Roger Bolingbroke

English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer

Roger Bolingbroke was a 15th-century English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer. He flourished in the first half of the 15th century. He was tried, convicted and executed for treasonable…

1441

Basilius Bessarion

titular patriarch of Constantinople (born c. 1403)

Bessarion was a Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic cardinal and one of the famed Greek scholars who contributed to the revival of letters in the 15th century. He was educated by Gemistus Pletho…

1472

Gedik Ahmed Pasha

Ottoman politician, 17th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

Gedik Ahmed Pasha was an Ottoman statesman and admiral who served as grand vizier and kapudan pasha during the reigns of sultans Mehmed II and Bayezid II.

1482

Cuthbert Tunstall

English bishop (born 1474)

Cuthbert Tunstall was an English humanist, bishop, diplomat, administrator and royal adviser. He served as Bishop of Durham during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. He has been described as…

1559

Yun Wŏnhyŏng

Korean writer and politician (born 1509)

Yun Wŏnhyŏng was a Korean political figure of the Joseon period. He was the younger brother of Queen Munjeong, the 3rd wife of the 11th King Jungjong of Joseon and was the maternal uncle of the 13th King Myeongjong.

1565

George Talbot

6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English commander and politician, Lord High Steward of Ireland (born 1528)

George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, 6th Earl of Waterford, 12th Baron Talbot, KG, Earl Marshal (c. 1522/1528 – 18 November 1590) was an English magnate and military commander. He also held the subsidiary titles of…

1590

Miklós Zrínyi

Croatian and Hungarian military leader and statesman (born 1620)

Miklós Zrínyi was a Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet. He was a member of the House of Zrinski, a Croatian-Hungarian noble family. He is the author of the first epic poem, The Peril of Sziget,…

1664

Bartolomeu de Gusmão

Portuguese priest (born 1685)

Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão was a Portuguese Catholic priest and naturalist born in colonial Brazil, who was a pioneer of lighter-than-air aerostat design, being among the first scholars at that time to understand the…

1724

Louis Philippe I

Duke of Orléans (born 1725)

Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, known as le Gros, was a French royal of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon. The First Prince of the Blood after 1752, he was the most senior male at the French court after the…

1785

Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat

French shipbuilder and merchant (born 1719)

Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat was a prominent shipbuilder and merchant of the port of Bordeaux in the late 18th century. His son, André-Daniel Laffon de Ladebat, succeeded him, and later became involved in…

1797

Philip Schuyler

American general and senator (born 1733)

Philip John Schuyler was an American military officer and politician who fought in the American Revolutionary War and served as a United States Senator from New York. He is usually known as Philip Schuyler, while his…

1804

William Jessop

English engineer (born 1745)

William Jessop was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

1814

Adam Weishaupt

German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (born 1748)

Johann Adam Weishaupt was a German philosopher, professor of civil law and later canon law, and founder of the Bavarian Illuminati.

1830

Wilhelmine von Wrochem

German flutist, singer and actress (born 1798)

Wilhelmine von Wrochem was a German flutist, soprano opera singer and stage actress.

1839

Agustín Gamarra

Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (born 1785)

Agustín Gamarra Messia was a Peruvian soldier and politician, who served twice as President of Peru, first from 1829-1833, and then again from 1838 until his death in 1841.

1841

Rose Philippine Duchesne

French-American nun and saint (born 1769)

Rose Philippine Duchesne, RSCJ, was a French religious sister and educator whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1988. A native of France, she immigrated as a missionary to America, and is recognized for her care and…

1852

Chester A. Arthur

American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (born 1829)

Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. A Republican from New York, he served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield in 1881, assuming the…

1886

William Allingham

Irish-English poet and scholar (born 1824)

William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised. But he is better known for his posthumously published Diary, in which…

1889

Renée Vivien

English-French poet (born 1877)

Renée Vivien was a British poet who wrote in the French language. A high-profile lesbian writer in Paris during the Belle Époque era, she is widely considered to be one of the first noteworthy lesbian poets of the…

1909

Marcel Proust

French author and critic (born 1871)

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is…

1922

Scipione Borghese

10th Prince of Sulmona Italian race car driver, explorer, and politician (born 1871)

Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, commonly known as Scipione Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat, industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and racing driver belonging to the…

1927

V. O. Chidambaram Pillai

Indian lawyer and politician (born 1872)

Valliappan Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, businessman, Tamil scholar, and politician. He founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 to compete against the monopoly of…

1936

Ivane Javakhishvili

Georgian historian and academic (born 1876)

Ivane Alexandres dze Javakhishvili was a Georgian historian and linguist whose works heavily influenced the modern scholarship of the history and culture of Georgia. He was one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi…

1940

Émile Nelligan

Canadian poet and author (born 1879)

Émile Nelligan was a French Canadian Symbolist poet influenced by Romanticism. Although he almost entirely ceased writing poetry after being institutionalized at the age of nineteen, Nelligan remains an iconic figure in…

1941

Walther Nernst

German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)

Walther Hermann Nernst was a German physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way…

1941

Chris Watson

Chilean-Australian journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (born 1867)

John Christian Watson was an Australian politician who served as the third prime minister of Australia from April to August 1904. He held office as the inaugural federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from…

1941

Paul Éluard

French poet and author (born 1895)

Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.

1952

Niels Bohr

Danish footballer, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)

Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. He was also…

1962

Henry A. Wallace

American agronomist and bureaucrat, 33rd Vice President of the United States, 11th US Secretary of Agriculture (born 1888)

Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served as the 11th U.S. secretary of agriculture and the 10th U.S. secretary of…

1965

Ted Heath

English trombonist and bandleader (born 1902)

George Edward Heath was a British musician and big band leader.

1969

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

American businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (born 1888)

Joseph Patrick Kennedy was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. Known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children, he was the patriarch of the Kennedy family.

1969

Danny Whitten

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crazy Horse) (born 1943)

Danny Ray Whitten was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse, and for the song "I Don't Want to Talk About It", a hit for Rod Stewart and Everything but…

1972

Man Ray

American-French photographer and painter (born 1890)

Man Ray was an American-born, French-naturalized visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He…

1976

Kurt Schuschnigg

Italian-Austrian lawyer and politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (born 1897)

Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the 1938 Anschluss with…

1977

Jim Jones

American cult leader, founded Peoples Temple (born 1931)

James Warren Jones was an American cult leader, preacher, and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass…

1978

Leo Ryan

American soldier, educator, and politician (born 1925)

Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. was an American politician and teacher. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented California's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 until his…

1978

Freddie Fitzsimmons

American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1901)

Frederick Landis Fitzsimmons was an American professional baseball right-handed pitcher, manager, and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1925 to 1943 with the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers.…

1979

Conn Smythe

Canadian soldier, ice hockey player, and businessman (born 1895)

Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and executive in ice hockey and horse racing. He was best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League…

1980

Mary Hamman

American journalist and author (born 1907)

Mary Hamman was an American writer and editor. She was an editor for Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping, Mademoiselle, as well as the modern living editor for LIFE and editor-in-chief for Bride & Home.

1984

Gia Carangi

American model (born 1960)

Gia Marie Carangi was an American supermodel, considered by some to be the first supermodel. In 2023, Harper's Bazaar ranked her 15th among the greatest supermodels in the 1980s. She was featured on the cover of…

1986

Jacques Anquetil

French cyclist (born 1934)

Jacques Anquetil was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964.

1987

Gustáv Husák

Slovak lawyer and politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1913)

Gustáv Husák was a Slovak politician who served as the long-time First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to 1987 and the President of Czechoslovakia from 1975 to 1989.

1991

Cab Calloway

American singer-songwriter and bandleader (The Cab Calloway Orchestra) (born 1907)

Cabell Calloway III was an American jazz singer, songwriter, bandleader, and actor. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era. His niche of mixing jazz…

1994

Anselm Franz

Austrian jet engine pioneer (born 1900)

Anselm Franz was a pioneering Austrian jet engine engineer known for the development of the Jumo 004, the world's first mass-produced turbojet engine by Nazi Germany during World War II, and his work on turboshaft…

1994

Peter Ledger

Australian painter and illustrator (born 1945)

Peter Ledger was an Australian cartoonist, comic book artist, commercial airbrush artist, and illustrator.

1994

Miron Grindea

Romanian-English journalist (born 1909)

Miron Grindea was a Romanian-British literary journalist and the editor of ADAM International Review, a literary magazine published for more than 50 years. In 1984, ADAM was said to be "the world's longest surviving…

1995

Tara Singh Hayer

Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (born 1936)

Tara Singh Hayer was an Indian-Canadian newspaper publisher and editor who was murdered after his outspoken criticism of fundamentalist violence and terrorism. In particular, he was a key witness in the trial of the Air…

1998

Paul Bowles

American composer and author (born 1910)

Paul Frederic Bowles was an American composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.

1999

Doug Sahm

American singer and guitarist (born 1941)

Douglas Wayne Sahm was an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from San Antonio, Texas. He is regarded as a key Tex-Mex music and Texan Music performer. San Antonio's conjunto and blues and…

1999

Walter Matuszczak

Polish-American football player 1939 All-America, 1941 New York Giants draft (born 1918)

Walter John Matuszczak later changed the spelling of his last name to Matuszak was an American football player and veterinarian. Founder of DeWitt Animal Hospital in New York, he practiced there until 1971. Dr. Matuszak…

2001

James Coburn

American actor (born 1928)

James Harrison Coburn III was an American actor who featured in more than 70 films, largely action roles, and made 100 television appearances during a 45-year career.

2002

Michael Kamen

American composer and conductor (born 1948)

Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer, arranger, conductor, songwriter, and musician. He began his work as a pop and rock music arranger, notably for Pink Floyd, and was a member of the New York Rock & Roll…

2003

Robert Bacher

American physicist and academic (born 1905)

Robert Fox Bacher was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Born in Loudonville, Ohio, Bacher obtained his undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan,…

2004

Cy Coleman

American pianist and composer (born 1929)

Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.

2004

Harold J. Stone

American actor (born 1911)

Harold J. Stone was an American stage, radio, film, and television character actor.

2005

Red Robbins

American basketball player (born 1944)

Austin "Red" Robbins was an American basketball player.

2009

Freddy Beras-Goico

Dominican comedian and television host (born 1940)

Freddy Reinaldo Antonio Beras-Goico, popularly known as "Freddy Beras" or just "Beras-Goico", was a Dominican comedian, TV presenter, writer and media personality for over 30 years. He hosted the TV show El Gordo de La…

2010

Brian G. Marsden

English-American astronomer and academic (born 1937)

Brian Geoffrey Marsden was a British astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

2010

Emilio Aragón Bermúdez

Spanish clown, singer, and accordion player (born 1929)

Emilio Alberto Aragón Bermúdez, better known as Miliki, was a Spanish clown, accordionist and singer, he was a member of the artist family Aragón. He was declared Son of the City of Carmona and received the Silver Medal…

2012

Phoebe Hearst Cooke

American businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1927)

Phoebe Millicent Hearst Cooke was an American businesswoman, philanthropist and heiress of the wealthy Hearst family. She served on the board of directors of the Hearst Corporation from 1962 to 1998. She was a…

2012

Thomas Howard

American football player (born 1983)

Thomas Arquis Howard was an American professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 2006 NFL draft. He also played for the…

2013

S. R. D. Vaidyanathan

Indian nadaswaram player and composer (born 1929)

SRD Vaidyanathan was an Indian musician who played the Nadaswaram.

2013

Ljubomir Vračarević

Serbian martial artist, founded Real Aikido (born 1947)

Ljubomir Vračarević, was a Serbian martial artist and founder of Real Aikido.

2013

Peter Wintonick

Canadian director and producer (born 1953)

Peter Kenneth Wintonick was a Canadian independent documentary filmmaker based in Montreal. A winner of the 2006 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, former Thinker in Residence for the Premier of South…

2013

Dave Appell

American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1922)

David Appell was an American musician, arranger and record producer born in Philadelphia.

2014

Pepe Eliaschev

Argentinian journalist and author (born 1945)

José Ricardo Eliaschev, better known as Pepe Eliaschev, was an Argentine journalist and writer.

2014

Ahmad Lozi

Jordanian educator and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Jordan (born 1925)

Ahmad Lozi was a Jordanian politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Jordan from 29 November 1971 to 26 May 1973. He succeeded Wasfi al-Tal who had been assassinated by the Black September Organization. In the…

2014

C. Rudhraiya

Indian director and producer (born 1947)

Rudraiah Chockalingam was an Indian film director most known for directing the film, Aval Appadithan (1978) which starred Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Sripriya.

2014

Abdelhamid Abaaoud

Belgian-Moroccan terrorist (born 1987)

Abdelhamid Abaaoud was a Belgian-born French Islamic terrorist who had spent time in Syria and was suspected of having organized multiple terror attacks in Belgium and France, and is known to have masterminded and…

2015

Dan Halldorson

Canadian-American golfer (born 1952)

Daniel Albert Halldorson was a Canadian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Canadian Tour.

2015

Jonah Lomu

New Zealand rugby player (born 1975)

Jonah Tali Lomu was a New Zealand professional rugby union player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players in the history of the sport, and as one of the most talented sportsmen of all…

2015

Sharon Jones

American soul and funk singer (born 1956)

Sharon Lafaye Jones was an American soul and funk singer. She was the lead singer of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, a soul and funk band based in Brooklyn, New York. Jones experienced breakthrough success relatively late…

2016

Denton Cooley

American surgeon and scientist (born 1920)

Denton Arthur Cooley was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, chief…

2016

Kirby Morrow

Canadian actor, comedian and writer (born 1973)

Kirby Robert Morrow was a Canadian actor, comedian and writer. In animation, he was known as the voice of Miroku from InuYasha, its four movies, and Inuyasha: The Final Act, Van Fanel from the Ocean dub of Escaflowne,…

2020

Tabassum

Indian actress and talk show host (born 1944)

Tabassum, was an Indian actress, talk show host and YouTuber, who started her career as child actor Baby Tabassum in 1947. She later had a television career as the host of first TV talk show of Indian television, Phool…

2022

Charles Dumont

French singer and composer (born 1929)

Charles Gaston Dumont was a French singer and composer. Dumont is best remembered for writing or co-writing more than 30 of the most well-known songs recorded by singer Édith Piaf, including "Non, je ne regrette rien".

2024

Arthur Frommer

American travel writer (born 1929)

Arthur Bernard Frommer was an American travel writer known for founding the Frommer's brand of travel guides.

2024

Bob Love

American basketball player (born 1942)

Robert Earl Love was an American professional basketball player who spent the prime of his career with the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls. A versatile forward who could shoot with either his left or…

2024

Colin Petersen

Australian drummer, record producer and actor (born 1946)

Frederick Colin Petersen was an Australian musician and actor. He played as a member of the bands Steve and the Board, the Bee Gees and Humpy Bong. In August 1969, he left the Bee Gees and he was replaced by Pentangle…

2024

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Malcolm Young — Australian guitarist (1953–2017)

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