May 18 Deaths |
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| May 18th, 2008 (May 18 2008) | Death | Joseph Pevney, American television director | |
| May 18th, 2007 (May 18 2007) | Death | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (born in 1932) | |
| May 18th, 2007 (May 18 2007) | Death | Yoyoy Villame, Philippine novelty singer and movie actor (born in 1932) | |
| May 18th, 2006 (May 18 2006) | Death | Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley s "Naked Guy" (born in 1972) | |
| May 18th, 2004 (May 18 2004) | Death | Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (born in 1927) | |
| May 18th, 2004 (May 18 2004) | Death | Serge Turgeon, Quebec actor and union leader (born in 1946) | |
| May 18th, 2003 (May 18 2003) | Death | Anna Santisteban, Puerto Rican beauty contest organizer (born in 1914) | |
| May 18th, 2003 (May 18 2003) | Death | Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking crusader (born in 1961) | |
| May 18th, 2002 (May 18 2002) | Death | Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (born in 1962) | |
| May 18th, 2000 (May 18 2000) | Death | Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (born in 1946) | |
| May 18th, 2000 (May 18 2000) | Death | Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi, Muslim scholar | |
| May 18th, 1999 (May 18 1999) | Death | Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (born in 1954) | |
| May 18th, 1999 (May 18 1999) | Death | Betty Robinson, American runner (born in 1911) | |
| May 18th, 1997 (May 18 1997) | Death | Bridgette Andersen, American actress (born in 1975) | |
| May 18th, 1995 (May 18 1995) | Death | Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (born in 1903) | |
| May 18th, 1995 (May 18 1995) | Death | Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (born in 1949) | |
| May 18th, 1995 (May 18 1995) | Death | Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (born in 1933) | |
| May 18th, 1992 (May 18 1992) | Death | Skip Stephenson, American TV personality (born in 1940) | |
| May 18th, 1992 (May 18 1992) | Death | Marshall Thompson, American actor (born in 1925) | |
| May 18th, 1990 (May 18 1990) | Death | Jill Ireland, English actress (born in 1936) | |
| May 18th, 1988 (May 18 1988) | Death | Daws Butler, American voice actor (born in 1916) | |
| May 18th, 1981 (May 18 1981) | Death | Arthur O Connell, American actor (born in 1908) | |
| May 18th, 1981 (May 18 1981) | Death | William Saroyan, American author (born in 1908) | William Saroyan Quotes |
| May 18th, 1980 (May 18 1980) | Death | Ian Curtis, English musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (born in 1956) | |
| May 18th, 1980 (May 18 1980) | Death | Harry Truman, victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (born in 1896) | |
| May 18th, 1980 (May 18 1980) | Death | David A. Johnston, a U.S. Volcanoligist was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (born in 1949) | |
| May 18th, 1980 (May 18 1980) | Death | Reid Blackburn, a photojournalist for National Geographic was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (born in 1952) | |
| May 18th, 1975 (May 18 1975) | Death | Leroy Anderson, American composer (born in 1908) | |
| May 18th, 1973 (May 18 1973) | Death | Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (born in 1880) | |
| May 18th, 1971 (May 18 1971) | Death | Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (born in 1908) | |
| May 18th, 1967 (May 18 1967) | Death | Andy Clyde, American actor (born in 1892) | |
| May 18th, 1963 (May 18 1963) | Death | Ernie Davis, American football player (born in 1939) | |
| May 18th, 1956 (May 18 1956) | Death | Maurice Tate, English cricketer (born in 1895) | |
| May 18th, 1955 (May 18 1955) | Death | Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (born in 1875) | |
| May 18th, 1941 (May 18 1941) | Death | Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (born in 1863) | |
| May 18th, 1927 (May 18 1927) | Death | Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (born in 1872) | |
| May 18th, 1922 (May 18 1922) | Death | Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1845) | |
| May 18th, 1911 (May 18 1911) | Death | Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (born in 1860) | |
| May 18th, 1910 (May 18 1910) | Death | Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (born in 1821) | |
| May 18th, 1910 (May 18 1910) | Death | Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b.1841) | |
| May 18th, 1909 (May 18 1909) | Death | George Meredith, English novelist and poet (born in 1828) | George Meredith Quotes |
| May 18th, 1909 (May 18 1909) | Death | Isaac Albeniz, Spanish pianist and composer (born in 1860) | |
| May 18th, 1900 (May 18 1900) | Death | Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (born in 1813) | Philo Quotes |
| May 18th, 1889 (May 18 1889) | Death | Isabella Glyn Dallas, Scottish Shakepearean actress (born in 1823) | |
| May 18th, 1844 (May 18 1844) | Death | Richard McCarty, American politician (born in 1780) | |
| May 18th, 1829 (May 18 1829) | Death | Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (born in 1803) | |
| May 18th, 1808 (May 18 1808) | Death | Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor (born in 1738?) | |
| May 18th, 1807 (May 18 1807) | Death | John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (born in 1721) | John Scott Quotes |
| May 18th, 1800 (May 18 1800) | Death | Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (born in 1729) | Alexander Suvorov Quotes |
| May 18th, 1799 (May 18 1799) | Death | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (born in 1732) | |
| May 18th, 1781 (May 18 1781) | Death | Tupac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Tupac Amaru (born in 1742) | |
| May 18th, 1780 (May 18 1780) | Death | Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland | |
| May 18th, 1733 (May 18 1733) | Death | Georg Bohm, German organist (born in 1761) | |
| May 18th, 1692 (May 18 1692) | Death | Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (born in 1617) | |
| May 18th, 1675 (May 18 1675) | Death | Stanislaw Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (born in 1623) | |
| May 18th, 1675 (May 18 1675) | Death | Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (born in 1637) | |
| May 18th, 1584 (May 18 1584) | Death | Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (born in 1559) | |
| May 18th, 1551 (May 18 1551) | Death | Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (died in 1486) | |
| May 18th, 1550 (May 18 1550) | Death | John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (born in 1498) | |
| May 18th, 1450 (May 18 1450) | Death | Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (born in 1397) | |
| May 18th, 1401 (May 18 1401) | Death | Wladyslaw Opolczyk (German: Ladislaus von Oppel, count palatine of Hungary 1367-1372, governor of Halych-Volhynia 1378, count palatine of Poland | |
