What happened on March 18 ?

978 - King Edward the Martyr of England

1227 - Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)

1583 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)

1584 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530)

1675 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)

1689 - John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)

1696 - Robert Charnock, English conspirator

1745 - Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)

1746 - Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)

1768 - Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)

1823 - Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (b. 1753)

1835 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)

1871 - Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)

1898 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)

1907 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)

1913 - King George I of Greece (b. 1845)

1936 - Eleutherios Venizelos, Former Prime minister of Greece

1939 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859)

1947 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)

1962 - Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)

1963 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)

1964 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870)

1965 - King Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1920)

1977 - Marien Ngouabi, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)

1978 - Leigh Brackett, American author (b. 1915)

1986 - Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914)

1990 - Robin Harris, American actor and comedian (b. 1953)

1996 - Odysseus Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

2001 - John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1935)

2002 - R.A. Lafferty, American science fiction writer (b. 1914)

2003 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)

2003 - Adam Osborne, British computer pioneer (b. 1939)

2004 - Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)

2006 - Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)

2006 - Dan Gibson, musician (b. 1922)