Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1918
Egon Schiele
Egon Leo Adolf Schiele, más conocido como Egon Schiele, fue un pintor y grabador austriaco contemporáneo y discípulo de Gustav Klimt. Fue, junto a Oskar Kokoschka, el mayor representante del expresionismo austriaco. En su corta pero agitada vida produjo 340 pinturas y alrededor de 2.800 dibujos.
William Frederick Yeames
William Frederick Yeames was a British painter best known for his oil-on-canvas "And When Did You Last See Your Father?", which depicts the son of a Royalist being questioned by Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.
Abdul Hamid II
Abdul Hamid II fue el 34.º sultán del Imperio otomano, depuesto por la sublevación militar de los Jóvenes Turcos para ser sustituido por su hermano, Mehmed V. Fue el último sultán capaz de imponer su autocracia.
Augustin Trébuchon
Augustin-Joseph Victorin Trébuchon was the last French soldier killed during World War I. He was shot 15 minutes before the Armistice came into effect, at 10.45am on 11 November 1918. The French Army, embarrassed to have sent men into battle after the armistice with the Germans had been signed, recorded the date of his death as earlier by one day.
Lucretia Garfield
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield fue la Primera dama de los Estados Unidos de marzo a septiembre de 1881, como esposa de James A. Garfield, el 20.º Presidente de los Estados Unidos.
Alexei Trupp
Aloise (Alexei) Yegorovich Trupp, was the Head Footman in the household of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Trupp was born in Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire. He was killed with the Romanov family at Ekaterinburg following the Russian Revolution of 1917.
John Williams Overton
John Williams Overton, also known as Johnny Overton, was an American middle-distance runner and soldier who was killed in action in World War I. He was a national champion track and cross country runner at Yale University and joined the United States Marine Corps after his graduation in 1917. In track, he set the world records for the indoor mile run and indoor 1,000-yard distance in 1917. He was also the college cross country champion in 1915 and 1916.
John McCrae
El teniente coronel John McCrae Alexander, MD fue un poeta canadiense, médico, autor, artista y soldado durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, y cirujano durante la Segunda Batalla de Ypres, en Bélgica. Es conocido especialmente por escribir el famoso poema "In Flanders Fields" como homenaje a los caídos. McCrae murió de neumonía.
Gaki Sherocho
Gaki Sherocho was the last king of the Kingdom of Kaffa in what is now Ethiopia. He is usually called by the Kaffa "Chinito", the diminutive of Taten Chini.
Walter Tull
Walter Daniel John Tull was an English professional footballer and British Army officer of Afro-Caribbean descent. He played as an inside forward and half back for Clapton, Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town and was the third person of mixed heritage to play in the top division of the Football League after Arthur Wharton and Willie Clarke. He was also the first black player to be signed for Rangers F.C. in 1917 while stationed in Scotland.