December 18th
173 Notable deaths
Òscar Ribas Reig
Prime minister of andorra.
Born October 26th, 1936 in Sant Julià de Lòria.
Died December 18th, 2020 at 84 years old in Sant Julià de Lòria. [ref]
Aleksandr Tvardovsky
Soviet poet.
Born June 21st, 1910 in Zagorye. [ref]
Died December 18th, 1971 at 61 years old in Vatutinki (lung cancer). [ref]
Roger Apéry
Greek-french mathematician.
Born November 14th, 1916 in Rouen. [ref]
Died December 18th, 1994 at 78 years old in Caen (Parkinson's disease). [ref]
Peter M. Neumann
Mathematician.
Born December 28th, 1940 in Oxford.
Died December 18th, 2020 at 79 years old in Oxford (COVID-19). [ref]
Vilhelm Buhl
Danish politician (1881–1954).
Born October 16th, 1881 in Fredericia.
Died December 18th, 1954 at 73 years old in Copenhagen.
Jacqueline de Romilly
French hellenist and philologist.
Born March 26th, 1913 in Chartres. [ref]
Died December 18th, 2010 at 97 years old in Boulogne-Billancourt. [ref]
George Abecassis
Racecar driver.
Born March 21st, 1913 in Walton-on-Thames.
Died December 18th, 1991 at 78 years old in Ibstone.
Giovanni Anselmo
Italian sculptor.
Born August 5th, 1934 in Borgofranco d'Ivrea. [ref]
Died December 18th, 2023 at 89 years old in Turin. [ref]
Dobriša Cesarić
Croatian poet and translator (1902-1980).
Born January 10th, 1902 in Požega. [ref]
Died December 18th, 1980 at 78 years old in Zagreb. [ref]
Deaths 91 to 100 of 173
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Jr.