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May 18th
154 Notable deaths
Ernie Davis
American football player.
Born December 14th, 1939 in New Salem-Buffington.
Died May 18th, 1963 at 23 years old in Cleveland (leukemia).
Gustav Mahler
Austrian late-romantic composer.
Born July 7th, 1860 in Kaliště. [ref]
Died May 18th, 1911 at 50 years old in Vienna (endocarditis, sepsis). [ref]
Alexander Godunov
Russian-american ballet dancer and film actor.
Born November 28th, 1949 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. [ref]
Died May 18th, 1995 at 45 years old in West Hollywood (hepatitis).
Steve Forrest
American actor (1925-2013).
Born September 29th, 1925 in Huntsville.
Died May 18th, 2013 at 87 years old in Thousand Oaks.
Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator and civil rights leader (1875-1955).
Born July 10th, 1875 in Mayesville.
Died May 18th, 1955 at 79 years old in Daytona Beach (myocardial infarction).
Patrick Joseph Kennedy
American businessman and massachusetts politician (1858-1929).
Born January 14th, 1858 in Boston.
Died May 18th, 1929 at 71 years old in Boston.
Jacque Fresco
American futurist and self-described social engineer.
Born March 13th, 1916 in Brooklyn.
Died May 18th, 2017 at 101 years old in Sebring (Parkinson's disease). [ref]
Jeannette Rankin
American congresswoman for montana (1880-1973).
Born June 11th, 1880 in Missoula. [ref]
Died May 18th, 1973 at 92 years old in Carmel-by-the-Sea. [ref]
David A. Johnston
American volcanologist.
Born December 18th, 1949 in Chicago.
Died May 18th, 1980 at 30 years old in Mount St. Helens (1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens).
Aruna Shanbaug
Pvs patient.
Born June 1st, 1948 in Haldipur.
Died May 18th, 2015 at 66 years old in Mumbai (pneumonia).
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot