Anniversaries 18 November
Birth
![Pierre Bayle photo]()
French philosopher and writer
1647–1706
![William Shenstone photo]()
English gardener
1714–1763
![Carl Maria von Weber photo]()
German composer
1786–1826
![Charles Buxton photo]()
English brewer, philanthropist, writer and politician
1823–1871
![W. S. Gilbert photo]()
English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
1836–1911
![August Kundt photo]()
German physicist
1839–1894
![Clarence Day photo]()
American writer
1874–1935
![Arthur Cecil Pigou photo]()
British economist
1877–1959
![Wyndham Lewis photo]()
writer and painter
1882–1957
![Jacques Maritain photo]()
French philosopher
1882–1973
![Howard Thurman photo]()
American writer
1899–1981
![George Gallup photo]()
American statistician
1901–1984
![Alec Issigonis photo]()
British car designer
1906–1988
![Johnny Mercer photo]()
American lyricist, songwriter, singer and music professional
1909–1976
![Alan Shepard photo]()
American astronaut
1923–1998
![Dennis Sciama photo]()
British physicist
1926–1999
![Amanda Lear photo]()
singer, lyricist, composer, painter, television presenter, …
1939
![Unni Wikan photo]()
Norwegian anthropologist
1944
![Mahinda Rajapaksa photo]()
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
1945
![Alan Dean Foster photo]()
American fiction writer
1946
![Jack Tatum photo]()
All-American college football player, professional football…
1948–2010
![Michael Swanwick photo]()
American science fiction author
1950
![Peter Beattie photo]()
36th Premier of Queensland
1952
![Alan Moore photo]()
English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
1953
![Jiang Yi-huah photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1960
![Steven Moffat photo]()
Scottish television writer and producer
1961
![Thokozani Khuphe photo]()
Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
1963
![Theodore Gray photo]()
American science writer
1964
![Greg Hunt photo]()
Australian politician
1965
![Brené Brown photo]()
US writer and professor
1965
![Owen Wilson photo]()
American actor and screenwriter
1968
![Peter Dutton photo]()
Australian politician
1970
![Milan Lach photo]()
Slovak Jesuit and Greek Catholic priest
1973
![Chloë Sevigny photo]()
American film actress
1974
![David Ortiz photo]()
Dominican-American professional baseball player, designated…
1975
![Muma Gee photo]()
Nigerian singer and songwriter
1978
Death
![Adam Weishaupt photo]()
German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati
1748–1830
![James Tod photo]()
1782-1835, English officer of the British East India Compan…
1782–1835
![William Allingham photo]()
Irish man of letters and poet
1824–1889
![Chester A. Arthur photo]()
American politician, 21st President of the United States (i…
1829–1886
![Marcel Proust photo]()
French novelist, critic, and essayist
1871–1922
![Renée Vivien photo]()
British poet who wrote in the French language
1877–1909
![Frank B. Jewett photo]()
American physicist
1879–1949
![Niels Bohr photo]()
Danish physicist
1885–1962
![Henry A. Wallace photo]()
Vice President of the United States
1888–1965
![Man Ray photo]()
American artist and photographer
1890–1976
![Alois Hába photo]()
Czech music educator and composer
1893–1973
![Kurt Schuschnigg photo]()
Chancellor of Austria
1897–1977
![Paul Bowles photo]()
American composer, writer, translator
1910–1999
![Ned Rorem photo]()
American composer
1923–2022
![Leo Ryan photo]()
American teacher and politician
1925–1978
![Mark Blaug photo]()
British economist
1927–2011
![Jim Jones photo]()
founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple
1931–1978
![Sidney Coleman photo]()
American physicist
1937–2007
![Brian G. Marsden photo]()
British astronomer
1937–2010
