What happened on November 18 ?

1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)

1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)

1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)

1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)

1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)

1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)

1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)

1814 - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)

1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)

1889 - William Allingham, Irish author

1922 - Marcel Proust, French novelist (b. 1871)

1941 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)

1941 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)

1952 - Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)

1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)

1965 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)

1967 - Luis Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan president (b. 1922)

1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (b. 1888)

1976 - Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890)

1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader suicide (b. 1931)

1978 - Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman (b. 1905)

1980 - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)

1982 - Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (b. 1959)

1984 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and eidtor in chief Bride & Home (b. 1907)

1986 - Gia Carangi, American model AIDS (b. 1960)

1987 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist cancer (b. 1934)

1991 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913)

1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (b. 1907)

1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)

2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)

2003 - Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)