December 18th
205 Notable deaths
Jimmy Bannister
English footballer (1880-1953).
Born September 20th, 1880 in Lancashire.
Died December 18th, 1953 at 73 years old in Lancashire.
Greta Stevenson
New zealand mycologist (1911-1990).
Born June 10th, 1911 in Auckland.
Died December 18th, 1990 at 79 years old in London.
Virpi Niemelä
Finnish-argentine astronomer.
Born December 26th, 1936 in Helsinki.
Died December 18th, 2006 at 69 years old in Argentina (breast cancer).
Nelly Roussel
French activist (1878–1922).
Born January 5th, 1878 in Paris.
Died December 18th, 1922 at 44 years old in Paris (tuberculosis).
Marron Curtis Fort
German linguist (1938–2019).
Born October 24th, 1938 in Boston.
Died December 18th, 2019 at 81 years old [ref]
Sata Isobe
Japanese volleyball player (1944–2016).
Born December 19th, 1944 in Chiba.
Died December 18th, 2016 at 71 years old in Osaka. [ref]
Slobodan Čašule
Macedonian politician (1945–2015).
Born September 27th, 1945 in Skopje.
Died December 18th, 2015 at 70 years old in Madrid. [ref]
Branko Kralj
Croatian footballer (1924-2012).
Born March 10th, 1924 in Zagreb.
Died December 18th, 2012 at 88 years old in Zagreb. [ref]
Stanislav Moskvin
Russian cyclist.
Born January 19th, 1939 in Lomonosov.
Died December 18th, 2025 at 86 years old in Saint Petersburg. [ref]
Ilya Trauberg
Soviet film director (1905–1948).
Born December 3rd, 1905 in Odesa.
Died December 18th, 1948 at 43 years old in Berlin.
Deaths 171 to 180 of 205
You needn’t die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end. Stephen King