Anniversaries 18 February

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Birth

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani photo

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani 1

Egyptian scholar 1372–1449

Mary I of England photo

Mary I of England 7

Queen of England and Ireland 1516–1558

Uesugi Kenshin photo

Uesugi Kenshin 1

Japanese daimyo 1530–1578

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon photo

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon 1

English politician 1609–1674

Johannes Bosboom photo

Johannes Bosboom 9

Dutch painter 1817–1891

Ramakrishna photo

Ramakrishna 142

Indian mystic and religious preacher 1836–1886

Ernst Mach photo

Ernst Mach 12

Austrian physicist and university educator 1838–1916

Wayland Hoyt photo

Wayland Hoyt 4

American Baptist Minister 1838–1910

Willem Maris photo

Willem Maris 7

Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School (1844-1910) 1844–1910

Louis Comfort Tiffany photo

Louis Comfort Tiffany 3

American stained glass and jewelry designer 1848–1933

Sholem Aleichem photo

Sholem Aleichem 2

Yiddish author and playwright 1859–1916

Charles M. Schwab photo

Charles M. Schwab 1

American capitalist and public official 1862–1939

Nikos Kazantzakis photo

Nikos Kazantzakis 222

Greek writer 1883–1957

James D. Mooney photo

James D. Mooney 36

American businessman 1884–1957

Wendell Willkie photo

Wendell Willkie 1

American businessman 1892–1944

Luis Muñoz Marín photo

Luis Muñoz Marín 2

American politician 1898–1980

Wallace Stegner photo

Wallace Stegner 29

American historian, writer, and environmentalist 1909–1993

Jean Drapeau photo

Jean Drapeau 3

former mayor of Montreal, Quebec (1954-1957,1960-1986) 1916–1999

David Berg photo

David Berg 35

Children of God founder 1919–1994

Helen Gurley Brown photo

Helen Gurley Brown 4

American author, editor, publisher, and businesswoman 1922–2012

A.R. Ammons photo

A.R. Ammons 17

American poet 1926–2001

Len Deighton photo

Len Deighton 7

English writer 1929

Johnny Hart photo

Johnny Hart 1

American cartoonist 1931–2007

Toni Morrison photo

Toni Morrison 184

American writer 1931–2019

Miloš Forman photo

Miloš Forman 9

czech-American director, screenwriter, and professor 1932–2018

Bobby Robson photo

Bobby Robson 8

English association football player and manager 1933–2009

Yoko Ono 39

Japanese artist, author, and peace activist 1933

Audre Lorde photo

Audre Lorde 72

writer and activist 1934–1992

Janette Oke photo

Janette Oke 11

Canadian writer 1935

Ian Hacking photo

Ian Hacking 16

Canadian philosopher 1936

Jean M. Auel photo

Jean M. Auel 3

Novelist 1936

Bernard E. Rollin photo

Bernard E. Rollin 1

American philosopher 1943

Anand Patwardhan photo

Anand Patwardhan 7

Indian film director 1950

John Hughes photo

John Hughes 1

1950–2009

James Mace photo

James Mace 3

American historian of the Ukraine 1952–2004

John Travolta photo

John Travolta 9

American actor, dancer and singer 1954

Lisa See 22

American writer and novelist 1955

Bidzina Ivanishvili photo

Bidzina Ivanishvili 1

Georgian businessman and exprime minister 1956

Vanna White photo

Vanna White 2

American model and game show hostess 1957

Douglas Rushkoff photo

Douglas Rushkoff 2

writer, American media theorist 1961

Rob Riemen photo

Rob Riemen 1

Dutch philosopher 1962

Matt Dillon photo

Matt Dillon 15

American actor 1964

Андре Ромелль Янг (Dr. Dre) photo

Андре Ромелль Янг (Dr. Dre) 2

1965

Dr. Dre 1

American rapper, entrepreneur, actor, and record producer 1965

Roberto Baggio photo

Roberto Baggio 7

Italian association football player 1967

Molly Ringwald photo

Molly Ringwald 1

American actress, singer, dancer, and author 1968

Fabian Picardo photo

Fabian Picardo 13

Gibraltarian politician and barrister 1972

Julia Butterfly Hill photo

Julia Butterfly Hill 6

American activist 1974

Regina Spektor photo

Regina Spektor 32

American singer-songwriter and pianist 1980

Brandon Flowers (American football) photo

Brandon Flowers (American football) 2

American football player 1986

Death

Michelangelo Buonarroti photo

Michelangelo Buonarroti 27

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet 1475–1564

Martin Luther photo

Martin Luther 214

seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483–1546

Cornelius Agrippa photo

Cornelius Agrippa 2

Magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer, alchemist 1486–1535

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac photo

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac 8

French author, best known for his epistolary essays 1597–1654

Robert Atkyns (judge) photo

Robert Atkyns (judge) 8

Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House … 1621–1710

Anne Conway photo

Anne Conway 2

British philosopher 1631–1679

Nakayama Miki photo

Nakayama Miki 19

Founder of Tenrikyo 1798–1887

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi photo

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi 4

German mathematician 1804–1851

John Bartholomew Gough photo

John Bartholomew Gough 7

Anglo-American temperance orator 1817–1886

Vasil Levski photo

Vasil Levski 5

Bulgarian revolutionary 1837–1873

F. E. Pargiter photo

F. E. Pargiter 6

British civil servant and orientalist 1852–1927

Albert Payson Terhune photo

Albert Payson Terhune 1

American writer 1872–1942

Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze photo

Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze 5

Soviet politician 1886–1937

Ngaio Marsh photo

Ngaio Marsh 2

New Zealand writer 1895–1982

Enrique Jardiel Poncela photo

Enrique Jardiel Poncela 1

Spanish dramatist 1902–1952

Robert Oppenheimer photo

Robert Oppenheimer 25

American theoretical physicist and professor of physics 1904–1967

Emily Hahn photo

Emily Hahn 5

American writer 1905–1997

Ralph Brazelton Peck photo

Ralph Brazelton Peck 4

American civil engineer 1912–2008

Alain Robbe-Grillet photo

Alain Robbe-Grillet 2

1922-2008 French agricultural engineer, filmmaker and writer 1922–2008

Roger A. Caras photo

Roger A. Caras 6

American photographer 1928–2001

Gilbert Morris photo

Gilbert Morris 1

American writer 1929–2016