In the year 1918
212 Notable deaths
Anna Held
Stage performer and singer (1872-1918).
Born March 19th, 1872 in Warsaw.
Died August 12th, 1918 at 46 years old in New York City (multiple myeloma).
John Bauer
Swedish painter and illustrator (1882-1918).
Born June 4th, 1882 in Jönköpings Kristina församling. [ref]
Died November 20th, 1918 at 36 years old in Vättern, Sankt Matteus (shipwrecking). [ref]
Lili Boulanger
French composer (1893-1918).
Born August 21st, 1893 in Paris. [ref]
Died March 15th, 1918 at 24 years old in Mézy-sur-Seine (tuberculosis). [ref]
Georgi Plekhanov
Russian philosopher (1856–1918).
Born December 11th, 1856 in Gudalovka. [ref]
Died May 30th, 1918 at 61 years old in Zelenogorsk (tuberculosis). [ref]
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
British occultist (1854-1918).
Born January 8th, 1854 in London.
Died November 5th, 1918 at 64 years old in Paris (influenza, 1918-1920 flu pandemic).
Eugene Botkin
Court physician for tsar nicholas ii.
Born June 8th, 1865 in Pushkin.
Died July 17th, 1918 at 53 years old in Yekaterinburg (ballistic trauma).
William Hope Hodgson
British writer.
Born November 15th, 1877 in Blackmore End. [ref]
Died April 19th, 1918 at 40 years old in Ypres (killed in action). [ref]
Ferdinand Braun
German inventor and physicist (1909 nobel prize).
Born June 6th, 1850 in Fulda. [ref]
Died April 20th, 1918 at 67 years old in New York City. [ref]
John Redmond
Irish politician (1856-1918).
Born September 1st, 1856 in County Wexford.
Died March 6th, 1918 at 61 years old in Dublin.
Emil Jellinek
German automotive pioneer.
Born April 6th, 1853 in Leipzig.
Died January 21st, 1918 at 64 years old in Geneva.
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Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs