Famous Deaths for 18th December 2025

1787 – Soame Jenyns, British writer (View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion) and Member of Parliament (1741-80), dies at 83
1892 – Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosauria), dies at 88
1901 – William F. Perry, American Brigadier General in the Confederate Army (Civil War), dies at 78
1915 – Henry Enfield Roscoe, English chemist (vanadium and photochemistry), dies at 82
1937 – Robert W. Bingham, American newspaper proprietor, attorney and ambassador to the UK (1933-37), dies of cancer at 66
1977 – Cyril Ritchard, Australian actor (Peter Pan; Hans Brinker), dies at 80
1977 – Walter Breedveld, Dutch writer (Een schip vergaat), dies at 76
2004 – Vijay Hazare, Indian cricket batsman and captain (30 Tests, 7 x 100, HS 164no; Maharashtra, Central India, Baroda, Holkar), dies at 89
2007 – Jack Linkletter, American TV host (Haggis Baggis, Hootenanny), dies at 70
2022 – Count Desmond [Edward Benjamin], American sword swallower, dies at 81

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