Anniversaries 18 October

Birth

Pope Pius II2

pope 1405–1464

Matthew Henry38

Theologician from Wales 1662–1714

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos16

French novelist, official and army general 1741–1803

Heinrich Von Kleist1

German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer 1777–1811

Thomas Love Peacock10

English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Comp… 1785–1866

Henry Taylor33

English playwright and poet 1800–1886

Thomas Holley Chivers5

19th century American poet 1809–1858

Thomas Brackett Reed1

U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the House 1839–1902

Henri Bergson18

French philosopher 1859–1941

Logan Pearsall Smith37

British American-born writer 1865–1946

D.T. Suzuki4

Japanese author and philosopher 1870–1966

James Truslow Adams5

American writer and historian 1878–1949

Fannie Hurst9

novelist 1889–1968

George Ohsawa6

twentieth century Japanese philosopher 1893–1966

Nadezhda Mandelstam1

Russian writer and educator 1899–1980

Pascual Jordan1

German physicist and politician 1902–1980

A. J. Liebling8

American journalist 1904–1963

Norberto Bobbio2

Italian legal scholar 1909–2004

Bobby Troup3

American actor and musician 1918–1999

Grady Louis McMurtry1

United States Army officer 1918–1985

Pierre Trudeau53

15th Prime Minister of Canada 1919–2000

George E. P. Box14

British statistician 1919–2013

Jesse Helms11

American politician 1921–2008

Jopie Huisman14

Dutch painter 1922–2000

Klaus Kinski37

German actor 1926–1991

Chuck Berry47

American rock-and-roll musician 1926–2017

Ernest Simoni1

Albanian Roman Catholic cardinal 1928

Чарльз Свиндолл1

1934

Harvey Flaumenhaft2

American writer 1938

Gianfranco Ravasi3

Catholic cardinal 1942

Chris Shays1

American politician 1945

Barry Gifford1

Novelist, poet, screenwriter, biographer, editor 1946

Laura Nyro14

American musician and songwriter 1947–1997

Ntozake Shange5

Contemporary African American writer and performance artist 1948–2018

Wendy Wasserstein4

American playwright 1950–2006

Terry McMillan8

American author 1951

Chuck Lorre1

American screenwriter 1952

Pamela Aidan1

American writer 1953

Richard D’Aveni5

American economist 1953

Hiroshi Kajiyama1

Japanese politician 1955

Rita Verdonk2

Dutch politician 1955

Martina Navrátilová5

American-Czech tennis player 1956

Thomas Hearns1

American boxer 1958

Jean-Claude Van Damme1

Belgian actor, martial artist, director 1960

Wynton Marsalis6

American jazz musician 1961

Charles Stross211

British science fiction writer and blogger 1964

Zakir Naik14

Islamic televangelist 1965

Kristen Britain5

American writer 1965

Eric Stuart1

American voice actor, voice director, singer, songwriter, a… 1967

Karl Nehammer1

Austrian politician (1972-) 1972

Jeremy Scahill4

American journalist 1974

Томми Джо Рэтлифф1

1981

Graham Moore (writer)7

screenwriter 1981

Esperanza Spalding4

American jazz bassist and singer 1984

Milo Yiannopoulos10

British journalist 1984

Lindsey Vonn2

American alpine skier 1984

Death

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston72

British politician 1784–1865

Charles Babbage40

mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical enginee… 1791–1871

Thomas Edison57

American inventor and businessman 1847–1931

Suze Robertson18

Dutch painter 1855–1922

Alfred Binet21

French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intell… 1857–1911

Walther von Brauchitsch5

German field marshal 1881–1948

José Ortega Y Gasset85

Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist 1883–1955

John Wesley Hardrick1

painter 1891–1968

Leo Strauss78

Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservati… 1899–1973

Pierre Mendès-France1

French politician 1907–1982

Walt Kelly23

American cartoonist 1913–1973

Alvin M. Weinberg3

American nuclear physicist 1915–2006

William J. Crowe1

United States admiral 1925–2007

Simon Soloveychik8

Russia writer and philosopher 1930–1996

Robert Goizueta1

1931–1997

David Fontana1

British psychologist 1934–2010

Charles Schwab1

Businessperson 1937–1939

Alan Coren11

humorist and writer from the United Kingdom 1938–2007

Gudrun Ensslin11

German terrorist 1940–1977

Mark Hurd7

American businessman, philanthropist and CEO of Oracle 1957–2019

Ayub Bachchu3

Musician, singer, songwriter 1962–2018