Anniversaries 18 November

Birth

Pierre Bayle3

French philosopher and writer 1647–1706

William Shenstone20

English gardener 1714–1763

Carl Maria von Weber1

German composer 1786–1826

Charles Buxton11

English brewer, philanthropist, writer and politician 1823–1871

W. S. Gilbert67

English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836–1911

August Kundt1

German physicist 1839–1894

Clarence Day6

American writer 1874–1935

Arthur Cecil Pigou8

British economist 1877–1959

Wyndham Lewis15

writer and painter 1882–1957

Jacques Maritain37

French philosopher 1882–1973

Howard Thurman20

American writer 1899–1981

George Gallup1

American statistician 1901–1984

Alec Issigonis1

British car designer 1906–1988

Klaus Mann2

German writer 1906–1949

Johnny Mercer12

American lyricist, songwriter, singer and music professional 1909–1976

Alan Shepard24

American astronaut 1923–1998

Dennis Sciama2

British physicist 1926–1999

Robert Goizueta1

1931–1997

Fred Jelinek2

Czech linguist 1932–2010

Amanda Lear8

singer, lyricist, composer, painter, television presenter, … 1939

Margaret Atwood348

Canadian writer 1939

Unni Wikan2

Norwegian anthropologist 1944

Mahinda Rajapaksa14

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka 1945

Alan Dean Foster5

American fiction writer 1946

Jack Tatum4

All-American college football player, professional football… 1948–2010

Vijay Govindarajan7

American academic 1949

Michael Swanwick96

American science fiction author 1950

Peter Beattie1

36th Premier of Queensland 1952

Alan Moore274

English writer primarily known for his work in comic books 1953

J. C. Watts3

American politician 1957

Arulselvam Rayappan1

Indian prelate 1960

Kim Wilde16

English pop singer 1960

Jiang Yi-huah10

Taiwanese politician 1960

Steven Moffat8

Scottish television writer and producer 1961

Kirk Hammett5

American musician 1962

Thokozani Khuphe7

Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe 1963

Theodore Gray5

American science writer 1964

Greg Hunt1

Australian politician 1965

Brené Brown101

US writer and professor 1965

Owen Wilson2

American actor and screenwriter 1968

Megyn Kelly7

American reporter 1970

Peter Dutton6

Australian politician 1970

Terrance Hayes4

American poet 1971

Milan Lach1

Slovak Jesuit and Greek Catholic priest 1973

Chloë Sevigny1

American film actress 1974

David Ortiz3

Dominican-American professional baseball player, designated… 1975

Keariene Muizz7

American artist 1977

Muma Gee5

Nigerian singer and songwriter 1978

Daniel Chong (animator)1

American artist 1978

Reza Tajbakhsh1

Musical artist 1981

Maggie Stiefvater27

American writer 1981

Death

Adam Weishaupt8

German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati 1748–1830

James Tod5

1782-1835, English officer of the British East India Compan… 1782–1835

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz6

French painter 1807–1876

William Allingham10

Irish man of letters and poet 1824–1889

Chester A. Arthur10

American politician, 21st President of the United States (i… 1829–1886

Shibli Nomani2

Indian scholar 1857–1914

Marcel Proust41

French novelist, critic, and essayist 1871–1922

Renée Vivien8

British poet who wrote in the French language 1877–1909

Frank B. Jewett1

American physicist 1879–1949

Niels Bohr37

Danish physicist 1885–1962

Henry A. Wallace3

Vice President of the United States 1888–1965

Man Ray18

American artist and photographer 1890–1976

Alois Hába1

Czech music educator and composer 1893–1973

Paul Éluard4

French poet 1895–1952

Kurt Schuschnigg9

Chancellor of Austria 1897–1977

Paul Bowles22

American composer, writer, translator 1910–1999

Ned Rorem4

American composer 1923–2022

Leo Ryan4

American teacher and politician 1925–1978

Mark Blaug3

British economist 1927–2011

Jim Jones8

founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple 1931–1978

Sidney Coleman3

American physicist 1937–2007

Brian G. Marsden6

British astronomer 1937–2010

Джиа Мари Каранджи1

1960–1986