Did you know
Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor.
Notable Deaths on September 18
2020 — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
United States Supreme Court justice (born 1933)
September 18 has 102 recorded notable deaths across history, from 96 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
102 source records
96 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on September 18
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- 1981 The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France. Source
- 1810 First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only during the Peninsular War in Spain, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such. Source
- 1944 World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs. Source
- 324 Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire. Source
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Leonhard Euler spent most of his adult life in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, then the capital of Prussia.
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi was the first base-born person in history to become a Kampaku.
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Franchot Tone was a leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s, and at the height of his career was known for his gentlemanly sophisticate roles, with supporting roles by the 1950s.
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Hayes is the only athlete to win both an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring.
More major people who died on September 18
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1783
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician and physicist (born 1707)
Leonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer.
1598
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Japanese daimyō (born 1536)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi , otherwise known as Kinoshita Tōkichirō and Hashiba Hideyoshi , was a Japanese samurai and daimyō of the late Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods, regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.
1968
Franchot Tone
American actor, singer, and producer (born 1905)
Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television.
2002
Bob Hayes
American sprinter and football player (born 1942)
Robert Lee Hayes, nicknamed "Bullet Bob", was an American sprinter and professional football player.
2008
Ron Lancaster
American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1938)
Ronald Lancaster was an American-Canadian professional football player and coach in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
1890
Dion Boucicault
Irish-American actor and playwright (born 1820)
Dionysius Lardner "Dion" Boucicault was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.
1974
Amanat Ali Khan
Pakistani classical singer (born 1922)
Ustad Amanat Ali Khan was a Pakistani classical vocalist from the Patiala gharana tradition of music and is widely regarded as one of the finest classical and ghazal singers of all time.
1915
Susan La Flesche Picotte
doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree (born 1865)
Susan La Flesche Picotte was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe.
1951
Gelett Burgess
American author and poet (born 1866)
Frank Gelett Burgess was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist.
2013
Lindsay Cooper
English composer, bassoon and oboe player (born 1951)
Lindsay Cooper was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians.
2013
Veliyam Bharghavan
Indian politician (born 1928)
Veliyam Bharghavan was a Communist leader from Kerala, India. He was the state Secretary of Communist Party of India (CPI) from 1998 to 2010. In 2010 he retired from that position due to his health issues.
1137
Eric II
king of Denmark
Eric II the Memorable was king of Denmark between 1134 and 1137. He was an illegitimate son of Eric I of Denmark, who ruled the kingdom from 1095 to 1103.
1830
William Hazlitt
English philosopher, painter, and critic (born 1778)
William Hazlitt was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher.
1961
Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.
2005
Michael Park
English racing driver (born 1966)
Michael Steven Park was a rally co-driver from Newent in Gloucestershire.
1872
Charles XV of Sweden (born 1826)
Charles XV and IV was King of Sweden and King of Norway, there often referred to as Charles IV, from 8 July 1859 until his death in 1872. Charles was the third Swedish monarch from the House of Bernadotte.
2012
Jack Kralick
American baseball player (born 1935)
John Francis Kralick was an American professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1959 to 1967.
1944
Robert G. Cole
American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1915)
Robert George Cole was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Normandy in World War II.
1949
Frank Morgan
American actor (born 1890)
Francis Phillip Wuppermann, known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor.