142621 | December 18 | Death | 1977 – Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1921) |
142622 | December 18 | Death | 1980 – Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902) |
142623 | December 18 | Death | 1980 – Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904) |
142624 | December 18 | Death | 1980 – Gabrielle Robinne, French actress (b. 1886) |
142625 | December 18 | Death | 1982 – Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916) |
142626 | December 18 | Death | 1984 – Aris Maliagros, Greek actor and tenor (b. 1895) |
142627 | December 18 | Death | 1985 – Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1916) |
142628 | December 18 | Death | 1987 – Conny Plank, German keyboard player and producer (Moebius & Plank and Cluster) (b. 1940) |
142629 | December 18 | Death | 1988 – Niyazi Berkes, Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (b. 1908) |
142630 | December 18 | Death | 1990 – Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903) |
142631 | December 18 | Death | 1990 – Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (b. 1914) |
142632 | December 18 | Death | 1990 – Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (b. 1900) |
142633 | December 18 | Death | 1991 – George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913) |
142634 | December 18 | Death | 1992 – Mark Goodson, American game show producer, created Family Feud and The Price Is Right (b. 1915) |
142635 | December 18 | Death | 1993 – Helm Glöckler, German racing driver (b. 1909) |
142636 | December 18 | Death | 1993 – Sam Wanamaker, American-English actor, director, and producer (b. 1919) |
142637 | December 18 | Death | 1994 – Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1916) |
142638 | December 18 | Death | 1995 – Brian Brockless, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1926) |
142639 | December 18 | Death | 1995 – Ross Thomas, American author (b. 1926) |
142640 | December 18 | Death | 1995 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer, designed the Z3 computer (b. 1910) |
142641 | December 18 | Death | 1996 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904) |
142642 | December 18 | Death | 1997 – Chris Farley, American comedian and actor (b. 1964) |
142643 | December 18 | Death | 1998 – Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1926) |
142644 | December 18 | Death | 1999 – Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901) |
142645 | December 18 | Death | 2000 – Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952) |
142646 | December 18 | Death | 2000 – Randolph Apperson Hearst, American businessman (b. 1915) |
142647 | December 18 | Death | 2000 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer-songwriter (b. 1959) |
142648 | December 18 | Death | 2001 – Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1927) |
142649 | December 18 | Death | 2001 – Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek violinist and composer (b. 1914) |
142650 | December 18 | Death | 2001 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist and educator (b. 1901) |