Died on This Day (18-Jan)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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John Coughlin | John Patrick Coughlin was an American pair skater. | American figure skater | 33 | 1 |
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Roberta Peters | Roberta Peters was an American coloratura soprano. | American coloratura soprano | 86 | 3 |
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Sarah Marshall | Sarah Lynne Marshall was a British actress. She received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Goodbye Charlie. | British actor | 80 | 6 |
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Keshav Sathe | Keshav Sathe was an Indian tabla player, best known for his contributions to the Indo-jazz fusion genre. | Indian musician | 83 | 8 |
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Robert B. Parker | Robert Brown Parker was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. | Crime novelist | 77 | 10 |
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Jester Hairston | Jester Joseph Hairston was an American composer, songwriter, arranger, choral conductor and actor. | American composer, songwriter, arranger | 98 | 20 |
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Rusty Hamer | Russell Craig "Rusty" Hamer was an American stage, film and television actor. | American stage, film and television actor | 42 | 30 |
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Cecil Beaton | Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, CBE was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. | British photographer | 76 | 40 |
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Dennis Donnini | Fusilier Dennis Donnini VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | 19 | 75 |
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Henry Bradford Nason | Henry Bradford Nason was a United States chemist. | American chemist | 63 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Peter Mayle | Peter Mayle was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. | British travel author | 78 | 2 | |
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Glenn Frey | Glenn Lewis Frey was an American singer, guitarist and a founding member of the rock band Eagles. | American singer, songwriter, producer and actor | 67 | 4 |
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Jon Mannah | Jonathan Mannah was an Australian professional rugby league footballer. | Australian rugby league player | 23 | 7 |
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Sargent Shriver | Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. was an American diplomat, politician, and activist. | US Statesman | 95 | 9 |
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Howard S. McGee | Major General Howard Samuel McGee , was a US Army general. | United States general | 89 | 15 |
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Adolf Butenandt | Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt was a German biochemist. | German biochemist | 91 | 25 |
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Wilfrid Brambell | Henry Wilfrid Brambell was an Irish television and film actor and comedian, best remembered for playing the grubby rag-and-bone man Albert Steptoe alongside Harry H. | Steptoe actor | 72 | 35 |
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David O. McKay | David Oman McKay was an American religious leader and educator who served as the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970. | President of The Church of Jesus Christ | 96 | 50 |
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Paul Güssfeldt | Dr Paul Güssfeldt was a German geologist, mountaineer and explorer. | German geologist, mountaineer and explorer | 79 | 100 |
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Samuel Bailey | Samuel Bailey was a British philosopher, economist and writer. | British philosopher | 78 | 150 |