In the year 1918
215 Notable deaths
Thérèse Schwartze
Dutch painter (1851-1918).
Born December 20th, 1851 in Amsterdam. [ref]
Died December 23rd, 1918 at 67 years old in Amsterdam. [ref]
Friedrich II
Duke of anhalt from 1904 until 1918.
Born August 19th, 1856 in Dessau.
Died April 22nd, 1918 at 61 years old in Ballenstedt.
V. Volodarsky
Russian politician (1891-1918).
Born December 11th, 1891 in Ostropol.
Died June 20th, 1918 at 26 years old in Saint Petersburg (attempted murder).
Rudolf Tobias
Estonian composer (1873-1918).
Died October 29th, 1918 at 45 years old in Berlin (pneumonia).
True Boardman
Actor.
Born April 21st, 1882 in Oakland.
Died September 28th, 1918 at 36 years old in Los Angeles (1918-1920 flu pandemic, influenza).
Helene von Druskowitz
Austrian writer and philosopher.
Born May 2nd, 1858 in Hietzing.
Died May 31st, 1918 at 60 years old (dysentery).
Alexander Taneyev
Russian composer.
Born January 17th, 1850 in Saint Petersburg.
Died January 25th, 1918 at 68 years old in Saint Petersburg.
Bohumil Kubišta
Czech graphic, painter and art reviewer (1884-1918).
Born August 21st, 1884 in Praskačka. [ref]
Died November 27th, 1918 at 34 years old in Prague (influenza, 1918-1920 flu pandemic). [ref]
Samuel Wendell Williston
American paleontologist (1851-1918).
Born July 10th, 1851 in Boston. [ref]
Died August 30th, 1918 at 67 years old in Chicago. [ref]
Ester Ellqvist
Swedish painter (1880-1918).
Born October 4th, 1880 in Ausås.
Died November 20th, 1918 at 38 years old in Vättern.
Deaths 131 to 140 of 215
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. Rumi