Deaths in History on September 18

31 Sejanus, Roman head of praetorian guard, executed

Domitian (51-96 AD)

Roman Emperor (81-96), assassinated by court officials at 44

887 Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
993 Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle
1137 Erik II Eimune [Onvergetelijke], King of Denmark (1134-37), murdered
1180 Louis VII, King of France (1137-1180), dies at 59 or 60
1261 Conrad van Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1426 Hubert [Huybrecht] van Eyck, Flemish painter, brother of Jan van Eyck (The Ghent Altarpiece), dies
1524 Charlotte of Valois, Princess of France as second daughter of King Francis I and his wife Claude, dies at 7
1598 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
1630 Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
1663 Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint, dies at 60
1675 Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1624-75), dies at 71
1684 Joannes Antonides van der Goes, Dutch poet (Ystroom), dies at 37
1721 Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat, dies at 57
1722 André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
1735 Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51
1775 Andrew Foulis, Scottish bookseller and printer, dies at about 63
1783 Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar, dies at 65

Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)

Swiss mathematician (Euler's Constant), dies of a at 76

1792 Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies
1797 Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies
1818 Olof Swartz, Swedish botanist (work on pteridophytes), dies at 57
1827 Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (The Course of Time), dies of TB at 28
1830 William Hazlitt, English critic and essayist, dies at 52
1860 Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Meus oito anos), novelist and playwright (Camoes e o jau), dies at 21
1860 Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer, dies at 55
1872 Charles XV, King of Sweden and Norway (1859-72), dies at 46
1891 William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
1896 Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, French physicist, dies at 75
1904 Herbert von Bismarck, German politician, son of Otto, dies at 54
1905 George MacDonald, Scottish poet and sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
1911 Peter Stolypin, 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged 49
1924 Francis H. Bradley, British idealist philosopher (Appearance and Reality), dies at 78
1931 Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
1939 Gwen John, Welsh painter, dies at 63
1939 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1944 Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch army officer and Anti-Revolution Party (ARP) politician (Prime Minister, 1925-26 & 1933-39), dies at 75
1944 Robert Cole, US army Lt, Colonel shot by a sniper in battle at Best, Netherlands at 29
1952 Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Dreamy), dies
1956 Adélard Godbout, Canadian politician (15th Premier of Quebec), dies at 63
1959 Harvey Glatman, American rapist and serial killer, executed in the gas chamber of San Quentin State Prison, in Marin County, California at 31

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961)

Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), dies in a plane crash in Africa at 56

1962 Therese Neumann, German stigma, dies at 64
1964 Clive Bell, English art critic, dies at 83
1964 J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist, dies at 75
1964 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (The Plough and the Stars), dies at 84
1967 John Cockcroft, English physicist (development of Radar, Nobel Prize 1951 for 1st particle accelerator, Director of Atomic Energy Research Establishment), dies at 70
1968 Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist and church historian, dies at 65
1975 Fairfield Porter, American painter, dies at 68
1977 Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
1980 Katherine Anne Porter, American writer (Ship of Fools), dies at 90
1982 Pei Wenzhong, Chinese anthropologist and archaeologist (Peking Man), dies at 78
1985 Gerald Holtom, British artist and graphic designer (Nuclear Disarmament (ND) logo, which later became an international peace symbol), dies at 71
1987 Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician (13th President of Portugal 1958-74), dies at 92
1994 Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies from AIDS complications at 44
1995 Donald Davie, English poet and critic, dies at 73
1995 Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64
1997 Harry Boyne, British parliamentary journalist, dies at 87
2001 Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian children's entertainer (Mr. Dressup), dies at 73
2002 Andres Burnier [Catharina Irma Dessaur], Dutch criminologist and author (Jongensuur), dies at 71
2003 Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
2003 Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
2004 Marvin Mitchelson, American celebrity attorney, dies at 76
2004 Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
2006 Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
2018 Judith Kazantzis, English poet and feminist, dies at 78