Anniversaries 18 March

Birth

Madame de La Fayette1

French writer 1634–1693

John C. Calhoun15

7th Vice President of the United States 1782–1850

Charlotte Elliott3

English poet, hymn writer, editor 1789–1871

George Washington Bethune1

American hymnwriter 1805–1862

Christian Friedrich Hebbel1

German poet and dramatist 1813–1863

Grover Cleveland31

22nd and 24th president of the United States 1837–1908

Richard Maurice Bucke9

prominent Canadian psychiatrist in the late 19th century 1837–1902

Stéphane Mallarmé36

French Symbolist poet 1842–1898

Wilhelm Stekel17

Austrian physician and psychologist 1868–1940

Neville Chamberlain58

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1869–1940

Helen Diner4

Austrian writer and historian 1874–1948

Edgar Cayce17

Purported clairvoyant healer and psychic 1877–1945

Kurt Koffka12

German psychologist 1886–1941

Walter A. Shewhart10

American statistician 1891–1967

Wilfred Owen23

English poet and soldier (1893-1918) 1893–1918

Bai Chongxi2

Chinese general 1893–1966

Manly P. Hall13

Canadian writer and mystic 1901–1990

Galeazzo Ciano1

Italian politician 1903–1944

K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera4

Sri Lankan Buddhist monk 1919–2006

G. E. M. Anscombe10

British analytic philosopher 1919–2001

George Plimpton4

journalist, writer, editor, actor 1927–2003

Christa Wolf1

German literary critic, novelist, and essayist 1929–2011

Jack B. Sowards1

American screenwriter 1929–2007

John Updike240

American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009

F. W. de Klerk22

South African politician 1936

Tibor R. Machan13

Hungarian-American philosopher 1939–2016

Joy Fielding1

Canadian actor and writer 1945

Hal Varian3

American economist 1947

Brad Dourif2

British actor 1950

Salome Zourabichvili1

Georgian politician and former French diplomat 1952

Franz Wright2

American poet 1953–2015

Sarah Weeks3

American children's writer 1955

Marita Sturken2

American academic 1957

David Deida3

American writer 1958

Luc Besson6

French film director, writer, and producer 1959

James Nicoll69

Canadian fiction reviewer 1961

Vanessa L. Williams3

American actress, singer and former Miss America 1963

Robin S. Sharma52

Canadian self help writer 1965

Jerry Cantrell9

American musician and songwriter 1966

Eric Edmeades3

Canadian businessman 1970

Queen Latifah6

American musician and actress 1970

Reince Priebus5

American attorney and politician; White House Chief of Staf… 1972

Dane Cook7

American actor and comedian 1972

Max Barry34

Australian writer 1973

Ian Caldwell1

novelist 1976

Adam Levine8

singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer from the Uni… 1979

Natalia Poklonskaya3

Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea 1980

Scarlet Jei Saoirse6

American singer and actress 1984

Yusof Mutahar1

Australian doctor and actor 1990

Madeline Carroll5

American actress 1996

Death

Jacques de Molay3

Grand Master of the Knights Templar 1243–1314

Robert Walpole8

British statesman 1676–1745

Laurence Sterne50

Irish/English writer 1713–1768

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot12

French economist 1727–1781

Augustus De Morgan41

British mathematician, philosopher and university teacher (… 1806–1871

Matilda Joslyn Gage11

American abolitionist, writer 1826–1898

Marcellin Berthelot2

French chemist and politician 1827–1907

Anna Brackett1

American philosopher 1836–1911

Philip Wicksteed10

English economist 1844–1927

Eleftherios Venizelos11

Greek politician 1864–1936

Nikolaj Velimirović2

Serbian bishop and saint 1880–1956

Robert Clarkson Clothier1

American academic administrator 1885–1970

W. C. Allee2

American zoologist and ecologist 1885–1955

Norbert Wiener36

American mathematician 1894–1964

Louis Bromfield6

American author and conservationist 1896–1956

Vasily Chuikov8

Soviet military commander 1900–1982

Erich Fromm119

German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980

Kenneth E. Boulding163

British-American economist 1910–1993

Odysseas Elytis1

Greek poet and art critic 1911–1996

R. A. Lafferty109

American writer 1914–2002

Bernard Malamud19

American author 1914–1986

Leigh Brackett21

American novelist and screenwriter 1915–1978

Chuck Berry47

American rock-and-roll musician 1926–2017

Barry Hines8

British author 1939–2016

Lucius Shepard17

writer 1947–2014