Anniversaries 18 October
Birth
![Matthew Henry photo]()
Theologician from Wales
1662–1714
![Pierre Choderlos de Laclos photo]()
French novelist, official and army general
1741–1803
![Heinrich Von Kleist photo]()
German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer
1777–1811
![Thomas Love Peacock photo]()
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Comp…
1785–1866
![Henry Taylor photo]()
English playwright and poet
1800–1886
![Thomas Holley Chivers photo]()
19th century American poet
1809–1858
![Thomas Brackett Reed photo]()
U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the House
1839–1902
![Henri Bergson photo]()
French philosopher
1859–1941
![Logan Pearsall Smith photo]()
British American-born writer
1865–1946
![D.T. Suzuki photo]()
Japanese author and philosopher
1870–1966
![James Truslow Adams photo]()
American writer and historian
1878–1949
![George Ohsawa photo]()
twentieth century Japanese philosopher
1893–1966
![Nadezhda Mandelstam photo]()
Russian writer and educator
1899–1980
![Pascual Jordan photo]()
German physicist and politician
1902–1980
![A. J. Liebling photo]()
American journalist
1904–1963
![Norberto Bobbio photo]()
Italian legal scholar
1909–2004
![Bobby Troup photo]()
American actor and musician
1918–1999
![Grady Louis McMurtry photo]()
United States Army officer
1918–1985
![Pierre Trudeau photo]()
15th Prime Minister of Canada
1919–2000
![George E. P. Box photo]()
British statistician
1919–2013
![Jesse Helms photo]()
American politician
1921–2008
![Chuck Berry photo]()
American rock-and-roll musician
1926–2017
![Ernest Simoni photo]()
Albanian Roman Catholic cardinal
1928
![Barry Gifford photo]()
Novelist, poet, screenwriter, biographer, editor
1946
![Laura Nyro photo]()
American musician and songwriter
1947–1997
![Ntozake Shange photo]()
Contemporary African American writer and performance artist
1948–2018
![Wendy Wasserstein photo]()
American playwright
1950–2006
![Chuck Lorre photo]()
American screenwriter
1952
![Martina Navrátilová photo]()
American-Czech tennis player
1956
![Jean-Claude Van Damme photo]()
Belgian actor, martial artist, director
1960
![Wynton Marsalis photo]()
American jazz musician
1961
![Charles Stross photo]()
British science fiction writer and blogger
1964
![Zakir Naik photo]()
Islamic televangelist
1965
![Eric Stuart photo]()
American voice actor, voice director, singer, songwriter, a…
1967
![Karl Nehammer photo]()
Austrian politician (1972-)
1972
![Esperanza Spalding photo]()
American jazz bassist and singer
1984
![Lindsey Vonn photo]()
American alpine skier
1984
Death
![Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston photo]()
British politician
1784–1865
![Charles Babbage photo]()
mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical enginee…
1791–1871
![Thomas Edison photo]()
American inventor and businessman
1847–1931
![Alfred Binet photo]()
French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intell…
1857–1911
![Walther von Brauchitsch photo]()
German field marshal
1881–1948
![José Ortega Y Gasset photo]()
Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
1883–1955
![Leo Strauss photo]()
Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservati…
1899–1973
![Pierre Mendès-France photo]()
French politician
1907–1982
![Walt Kelly photo]()
American cartoonist
1913–1973
![Alvin M. Weinberg photo]()
American nuclear physicist
1915–2006
![William J. Crowe photo]()
United States admiral
1925–2007
![Simon Soloveychik photo]()
Russia writer and philosopher
1930–1996
![David Fontana photo]()
British psychologist
1934–2010
![Alan Coren photo]()
humorist and writer from the United Kingdom
1938–2007
![Gudrun Ensslin photo]()
German terrorist
1940–1977
![Mark Hurd photo]()
American businessman, philanthropist and CEO of Oracle
1957–2019
![Ayub Bachchu photo]()
Musician, singer, songwriter
1962–2018
