Deaths in History on April 18

1690 Charles V, Duke of Lorraine & Austrian field marshal, dies at 47
1732 Louis Feuillée, French explorer, dies at 72
1794 Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, dies at 80
1796 Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist, dies at 63
1800 Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies at 71
1802 Erasmus Darwin, English physician writer & botanist (grandfather of Charles Darwin), dies at 70
1803 Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (Du calcul des derivations), dies at 43
1818 Quint Ondaatje, Dutch jurist & politician, dies at 59
1845 Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Swiss chemist, dies at 77
1853 William R. King, American politician (Vice President 1853), dies at 67 one month after his inauguration
1855 Jean-Baptiste Isabey, French painter, dies at 88
1867 Robert Smirke, English architect, dies at 86
1871 Omar Pasha [Mihajlo Latas], Serbian-Ottoman field marshal (Crimean War) and Governor (Bosnia, Iraq), dies at 64
1873 Justus von Liebig, German agricultural & biological chemist who is considered the founder of organic chemistry, dies at 69
1879 Anthony Pannizi, Italian-born British librarian (British Museum), dies at 81
1882 Henry Cole, English inventor & civil servant, 1st director of the V&A Museum, promoter of 1851 Great Exhibition, dies at 73
1888 Roscoe Conkling, American politician (U.S. Senator from New York 1867-81), dies at 58
1898 Gustave Moureau, French illustrator, dies at 72
1906 Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus, dies at 59
1917 Moritz von Bissing, Prussian general, dies at 73

1917 Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist, dies at 59
1935 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist & archaeologist, dies at 90
1935 Panait Istrati, Romanian writer, dies at 50
1940 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, English historian & politician, dies after being hit by a car during London blackout at 75
1941 Alexandros Koryzis, Prime Minister of Greece in 1941, commits suicide at about 65 as German troops closed in on Athens
1942 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor & art patron (founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art NYC), dies at 67

Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943)

Japanese World War II Marshall Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese fleet who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, killed in action at 59 by a US ambush after the "Magic" code-breaking team intercepted and decoded his flight plan

1945 Ernie Pyle, American journalist and war correspondent during WW II (Pulitzer Prize, 1944), killed by enemy fire in the South Pacific during Battle of Okinawa at 44
1945 John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer & physicist (right-hand and left-hand rules), dies at 95
1947 Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (President of the First Slovak Republic), dies at 59
1949 Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist, dies at 62
1951 António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal & 11th President of Portugal, dies at 81

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

German-born theoretical physicist & Nobel laureate (theory of relativity), dies of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at 76

1955 Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher & scholar, dies in Germany at 70
1958 Maurice Gamelin, French general (unable to stop the German assault on France, May 1940), dies at 85
1958 Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French general (WW1; WW2), dies at 85
1958 Richard B. Goldschmidt, German-American zoologist (butterflies), dies at 80
1963 Meyer Jacobstein, American politician, dies at 83
1965 Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor, dies at 48
1976 Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization engineer, dies at 65
1981 James H. Schmitz, American sci-fi author (Lion Game), dies at 69
1984 Arvi Kivimaa, Finnish writer (Groenende Cross), dies at 79
1986 Marcel Dassault [Bloch], French airplane engineer and manufacturer, dies at 94
1993 Dame Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor & printmaker, dies of cancer aged 62
1994 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
1995 Arturo Frondizi, 35th President of Argentina (1958-62), dies at 86
1996 Kalim Siddiqui, Pakistani-British writer & Islamic activist, dies at 62
1996 Piet Hein, Danish poet and inventor, dies at 80
1997 Edward Barker, English cartoonist, dies at 46
1998 Terry Sanford, American politician, dies at 80
1999 Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born American mathematician & philosopher, dies at 66

Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)

Norwegian anthropologist and explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku), dies of a brain tumor at 87

2003 Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist who contributed to the theory and practice of database management systems, dies at 79 [1]
2004 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Fijian tribal chief, first Prime Minister of Fiji (1970-92) President of Fiji (1994-2000), dies at 83
2007 Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki, dies at 61
2011 William Donald Schaefer, American politician (Gov-D-Md), dies at 89
2015 Joseph Lechleider, American electrical engineer (invented DSL/high speed internet technology), dies at 82

Lorraine Warren (1927-2019)

American paranormal investigator (Amityville haunting), dies in her sleep at 92

2019 Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist, shot by the New IRA in a terrorist attack at 29
2020 Takuo Aoyagi, Japanese engineer who invented the pulse oximeter, dies at 84
2021 Iain Watson Gallaway, New Zealand sports broadcaster (Radio Sport; Halberg Award) and author ("Not a Cloud in the Sky"), dies at 98
2022 Sid Mark [Fliegelman], American disc jockey and 'Frank-ophile' (The Sounds of Sinatra, 1960-2022), dies at 88