Anniversaries 18 January

Birth

Montesquieu34

French social commentator and political thinker 1689–1755

Daniel Webster62

Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – … 1782–1852

Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye8

British songwriter, composer, poet and author 1807–1867

Henry Austin Dobson2

English poet and essayist 1840–1921

Alfred Percy Sinnett5

English writer and Theosophist 1840–1921

Mahadev Govind Ranade15

Indian scholar, social reformer and author 1842–1901

Frank Johnson Goodnow4

American historian 1859–1939

Rubén Darío6

Nicaraguan poet and writer 1867–1916

William Trufant Foster13

American economist 1879–1950

Paul Ehrenfest2

Dutch physicist 1880–1933

A.A. Milne169

British author 1882–1956

Arthur Ransome11

English author and journalist 1884–1967

Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne5

British rower, agriculturalist and translater 1896–1982

Cary Grant22

British-American film and stage actor 1904–1986

Jacob Bronowski79

Polish-born British mathematician 1908–1974

Kenneth E. Boulding163

British-American economist 1910–1993

Danny Kaye4

American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian 1913–1987

Yoichiro Nambu2

American physicist 1921–2015

Gilles Deleuze35

French philosopher 1925–1995

Betty Berzon1

American psychotherapist 1928–2006

Robert Anton Wilson110

American author and polymath 1932–2007

L. David Mech10

American Biologist , Ecologist 1937

Anthony Giddens13

British sociologist 1938

Curt Flood4

baseball player 1938–1997

Paul Keating33

Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia 1944

Paul Donoghue3

Roman Catholic bishop 1949

Philippe Starck20

French architect and industrial designer 1949

Gilles Villeneuve9

Canadian racecar driver 1950–1982

Elijah Cummings2

U.S. Representative from Maryland 1951–2019

Michael J. Behe10

American biochemist, author, and intelligent design advocate 1952

Jesús Sanz Montes1

Spanish archbishop 1955

Kevin Costner1

American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and b… 1955

Maxime Bernier12

Canadian politician 1963

Janice McGeachin1

American congresswoman in Idaho 1963

Dave Attell28

comedian 1965

Dave Bautista7

American actor and professional wrestler 1969

Carolyn Parkhurst1

American writer 1971

Jonathan Davis12

Heavy metal singer, frontman for Korn 1971

Joe Kehoskie7

American baseball agent 1973

Joanna Newsom61

American musician 1982

Death

Jan van Riebeeck4

Dutch colonial governor 1619–1677

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon7

Irish poet 1637–1685

Samuel Garth6

British writer 1661–1719

Hakuin Ekaku4

Japanese Zen Buddhist master 1686–1769

Charles Dupin7

French mathematician 1784–1873

John Tyler8

American politician, 10th President of the United States (i… 1790–1862

Edward Bulwer-Lytton31

English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician 1803–1873

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo10

Californian military commander, politician, and rancher 1807–1890

Henry George Liddell4

Headmaster, lexicographer, classical scholar, and dean 1811–1898

Christian Nestell Bovee21

American writer 1820–1904

Edmund Clarence Stedman13

American poet, critic, and essayist 1833–1908

George Wade Robinson1

Irish poet 1838–1877

Rudyard Kipling200

English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

J. M. E. McTaggart3

British philosopher 1866–1925

Amy Carmichael2

Missionary in India 1867–1951

David O. McKay10

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1873–1970

Kathleen Norris11

American writer 1880–1966

Carl Zuckmayer4

German writer and playwright 1896–1977

K. L. Saigal7

Indian actor 1904–1947

Eleanor Hibbert4

English novelist 1906–1993

Hugh Gaitskell11

British politician 1906–1963

Bill Finger6

American comic strip and comic book writer 1914–1974

Eugenio Cruz Vargas2

Chilean poet and painter 1923–2014

Stansfield Turner3

former United States Navy admiral and former Director of Ce… 1923–2018

N. T. Rama Rao4

Indian actor and Andhra Pradesh former chief minister 1923–1996

Thomas Anthony Dooley III2

American physician 1927–1961

Robert B. Parker2

American crime writer 1932–2010

Peter Mayle2

British writer 1939–2018

Julius Lester3

American author 1939–2018

Bruce Chatwin6

English novelist 1940–1989

Paul Tsongas3

American politician 1941–1997

Jim Horning2

computer scientist 1942–2013

André Leon Talley2

American journalist 1948–2022