Anniversaries 18 December
Birth
![Charles Wesley photo]()
English Methodist and hymn writer
1707–1788
![George D. Prentice photo]()
American newspaper editor
1802–1870
![William Frederick Yeames photo]()
british painter
1835–1918
![Stanley Lane-Poole photo]()
British orientalist
1854–1931
![J. J. Thomson photo]()
British physicist
1856–1940
![Ulrich Wilcken photo]()
German historian
1862–1944
![Paul Klee photo]()
German Swiss painter
1879–1940
![Ty Cobb photo]()
American baseball player
1886–1961
![Robert Moses photo]()
American urban planner
1888–1981
![Martti Siirala photo]()
Finnish philosopher
1889–1948
![Edwin Howard Armstrong photo]()
American electrical engineer and inventor
1890–1954
![Peter Wessel Zapffe photo]()
Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author
1899–1990
![Willy Brandt photo]()
German social-democratic politician; Chancellor of the Fede…
1913–1992
![Alfred Bester photo]()
American science fiction author
1913–1987
![Peter Laslett photo]()
English historian
1915–2001
![Douglas Fraser photo]()
American labor leader
1916–2008
![Ossie Davis photo]()
American actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and soc…
1917–2005
![T S Satyan photo]()
Indian photojournalist
1923–2009
![John Szarkowski photo]()
American curator
1925–2007
![Helmut Koester photo]()
biblical scholar
1926–2016
![Ramsey Clark photo]()
United States Marine
1927
![Romeo LeBlanc photo]()
Canadian politician
1927–2009
![Mirza Tahir Ahmad photo]()
caliph of the Ahmadiyya
1928–2003
![Joachim Kaiser photo]()
German music critic
1928–2017
![Peter Checkland photo]()
British management scientist
1930
![Karen DeCrow photo]()
American lawyer
1937–2014
![Michael Moorcock photo]()
English writer, editor, critic
1939
![Keith Richards photo]()
British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
1943
![Stewart Leggett photo]()
Australian politician
1944
![Nasser Khalili photo]()
British-Iranian scholar, collector and philanthropist
1945
![Steve Biko photo]()
anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
1946–1977
![Steven Spielberg photo]()
American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game …
1946
![A. M. Homes photo]()
novelist and memoirst from the United States
1961
![Danny Tarkanian photo]()
American businessman, attorney, and perennial candidate
1961
![Dmitry Pietrman photo]()
Businessman/football chairman
1963
![Brad Pitt photo]()
American actor and filmmaker
1963
![DMX (rapper) photo]()
American rapper and actor from New York
1970
![Rob Van Dam photo]()
American professional wrestler
1970
![Lee Yen-hsiu photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1971
![Benjamin Watson photo]()
gridiron football player
1980
![Lizzie Deignan photo]()
English track and road racing cyclist
1988
![Billie Eilish photo]()
American singer-songwriter
2001
Death
![Nur Jahan photo]()
Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
1577–1645
![Jean-Étienne Montucla photo]()
French mathematician
1725–1799
![Johann Gottfried Herder photo]()
German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
1744–1803
![Jean-Baptiste Lamarck photo]()
French naturalist
1744–1829
![Philip Freneau photo]()
American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and new…
1752–1832
![Richard Owen photo]()
English biologist
1804–1892
![Thomas Holley Chivers photo]()
19th century American poet
1809–1858
![Eagle Woman photo]()
American peace activist (born 1820, near Big Bend of the Mi…
1820–1888
![Christian Heinrich von Dillmann photo]()
German educationist
1829–1899
![Eduard Bernstein photo]()
German politician
1850–1932
![Mary Parker Follett photo]()
American academic
1868–1933
![Ben Travers photo]()
English writer of plays, screenplays, novels, and three mem…
1886–1980
![Heywood Broun photo]()
American sportswriter
1888–1939
![Marriner Stoddard Eccles photo]()
American economist and banker
1890–1977
![Irving Caesar photo]()
American composer and lyricist
1895–1996
![Theodosius Dobzhansky photo]()
geneticist and evolutionary biologist
1900–1975
![Robert Bresson photo]()
French film director
1901–1999
![Marion L. Starkey photo]()
American historian & writer
1901–1991
![Konrad Zuse photo]()
German computer scientist and engineer
1910–1995
![W. Mark Felt photo]()
Whistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal
1913–2008
![Xuân Diệu photo]()
Vietnamese poet
1916–1985
![Conor Cruise O'Brien photo]()
Irish politician
1917–2008
![Zsa Zsa Gabor photo]()
Hungarian-American socialite and actress
1917–2016
![Harold M. Schulweis photo]()
American rabbi and theologian
1925–2014
![Anthony Sampson photo]()
British writer and journalist
1926–2004
![Dennis Sciama photo]()
British physicist
1926–1999
![Ross Thomas photo]()
1926-1995 American writer
1926–1995
![Václav Havel photo]()
playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of …
1936–2011
![Paul Weyrich photo]()
American political activist
1942–2008
![Mandy Rice-Davies photo]()
British actress
1944–2014
![Slobodan Casule photo]()
Macedonian politician
1945–2015
