Famous Deaths for 18th April 2019

1679 – Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies
1855 – Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies
1974 – Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79
1984 – Francis De Wolff, British character actor (A Christmas Carol, From Russia With Love), dies at 71
1989 – Julia Smith, American composer, pianist, and author on musicology (Aaron Copland), dies at 84
1993 – Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76
1996 – Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80
1996 – Robert William Paine, architect, dies at 88
2005 – Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
2013 – Storm Thorgerson, British graphic designer and music video director (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, The Cranberries), dies of cancer at 69

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