Anniversaries 18 February

Birth

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani1

Egyptian scholar 1372–1449

Mary I of England7

Queen of England and Ireland 1516–1558

Uesugi Kenshin1

Japanese daimyo 1530–1578

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon1

English politician 1609–1674

Johannes Bosboom9

Dutch painter 1817–1891

Ramakrishna142

Indian mystic and religious preacher 1836–1886

Ernst Mach12

Austrian physicist and university educator 1838–1916

Wayland Hoyt4

American Baptist Minister 1838–1910

Willem Maris7

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

Louis Comfort Tiffany3

American stained glass and jewelry designer 1848–1933

Sholem Aleichem2

Yiddish author and playwright 1859–1916

Charles M. Schwab1

American capitalist and public official 1862–1939

Nikos Kazantzakis222

Greek writer 1883–1957

James D. Mooney36

American businessman 1884–1957

Wendell Willkie1

American businessman 1892–1944

Luis Muñoz Marín2

American politician 1898–1980

Wallace Stegner29

American historian, writer, and environmentalist 1909–1993

Jean Drapeau3

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

David Berg35

Children of God founder 1919–1994

Helen Gurley Brown4

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

A.R. Ammons17

American poet 1926–2001

Len Deighton7

English writer 1929

Johnny Hart1

American cartoonist 1931–2007

Toni Morrison184

American writer 1931–2019

Miloš Forman9

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

Bobby Robson8

English association football player and manager 1933–2009

Yoko Ono39

Japanese artist, author, and peace activist 1933

Audre Lorde72

writer and activist 1934–1992

Janette Oke11

Canadian writer 1935

Ian Hacking16

Canadian philosopher 1936

Jean M. Auel3

Novelist 1936

Bernard E. Rollin1

American philosopher 1943

Anand Patwardhan7

Indian film director 1950

John Hughes1

1950–2009

James Mace3

American historian of the Ukraine 1952–2004

John Travolta9

American actor, dancer and singer 1954

Lisa See22

American writer and novelist 1955

Bidzina Ivanishvili1

Georgian businessman and exprime minister 1956

Vanna White2

American model and game show hostess 1957

Douglas Rushkoff2

writer, American media theorist 1961

Rob Riemen1

Dutch philosopher 1962

Matt Dillon15

American actor 1964

Андре Ромелль Янг (Dr. Dre)2

1965

Dr. Dre1

American rapper, entrepreneur, actor, and record producer 1965

Roberto Baggio7

Italian association football player 1967

Molly Ringwald1

American actress, singer, dancer, and author 1968

Fabian Picardo13

Gibraltarian politician and barrister 1972

Julia Butterfly Hill6

American activist 1974

Regina Spektor32

American singer-songwriter and pianist 1980

Brandon Flowers (American football)2

American football player 1986

Death

Michelangelo Buonarroti27

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet 1475–1564

Martin Luther214

seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483–1546

Cornelius Agrippa2

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

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac8

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

Robert Atkyns (judge)8

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

Anne Conway2

British philosopher 1631–1679

Nakayama Miki19

Founder of Tenrikyo 1798–1887

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi4

German mathematician 1804–1851

John Bartholomew Gough7

Anglo-American temperance orator 1817–1886

Vasil Levski5

Bulgarian revolutionary 1837–1873

F. E. Pargiter6

British civil servant and orientalist 1852–1927

Albert Payson Terhune1

American writer 1872–1942

Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze5

Soviet politician 1886–1937

Ngaio Marsh2

New Zealand writer 1895–1982

Enrique Jardiel Poncela1

Spanish dramatist 1902–1952

Robert Oppenheimer25

American theoretical physicist and professor of physics 1904–1967

Emily Hahn5

American writer 1905–1997

Ralph Brazelton Peck4

American civil engineer 1912–2008

Alain Robbe-Grillet2

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

Roger A. Caras6

American photographer 1928–2001

Gilbert Morris1

American writer 1929–2016