Anniversaries 18 July
Birth
![Robert Hooke photo]()
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath
1635–1703
![Archibald Alexander Hodge photo]()
American Presbyterian leader
1823–1886
![Vasil Levski photo]()
Bulgarian revolutionary
1837–1873
![Paul Carus photo]()
American philosopher
1852–1919
![Hendrik Lorentz photo]()
Dutch physicist
1853–1928
![Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden photo]()
British politician
1864–1937
![Elizabeth of the Trinity photo]()
French Carmelite nun and mystic
1880–1906
![Henri Piéron photo]()
French psychologist
1881–1964
![Charles Erwin Wilson photo]()
American secretary of Defence
1890–1961
![S.L.A. Marshall photo]()
United States Army general and Military historian
1900–1977
![Jessamyn West photo]()
American author
1902–1984
![S. I. Hayakawa photo]()
American politician
1906–1992
![Clifford Odets photo]()
Playwright, screenwriter, director, actor
1906–1963
![H. L. A. Hart photo]()
1907–1992; British legal philosopher
1907–1992
![Peace Pilgrim photo]()
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
1908–1981
![Red Skelton photo]()
American comedian
1913–1997
![Louis Le Bailly photo]()
Royal Navy admiral
1915–2010
![Nelson Mandela photo]()
President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1918–2013
![John Glenn photo]()
American astronaut and politician
1921–2016
![Aaron T. Beck photo]()
American Psychiatrist
1921
![Thomas Kuhn photo]()
American historian, physicist and philosopher
1922–1996
![Yevgeny Yevtushenko photo]()
Russian poet, film director, teacher
1932–2017
![Syd Mead photo]()
American concept artist
1933–2019
![Edward Bond photo]()
English writer best known as a dramatist
1934
![Hunter S. Thompson photo]()
American journalist and author
1937–2005
![Michael Witzel photo]()
German-American philologist
1943
![Paul Glover photo]()
Community organizer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; American…
1947
![Jack Layton photo]()
Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
1950–2011
![Richard Branson photo]()
English business magnate, investor and philanthropist
1950
![Hanna Rahmé photo]()
Roman Catholic bishop
1960
![William A. Dembski photo]()
American intelligent design advocate
1960
![Wendy Williams photo]()
American television personality and radio host
1964
![Vin Diesel photo]()
American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter
1967
![M.I.A. photo]()
British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director
1975
Death
![Bartolomé de las Casas photo]()
Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer
1474–1566
![John Paul Jones photo]()
American naval officer
1747–1792
![Jane Austen photo]()
English novelist
1775–1817
![Laurent Clerc photo]()
French-American deaf educator
1785–1869
![Benito Juárez photo]()
President of Mexico during XIX century
1806–1872
![Samuel I. Prime photo]()
American clergyman, traveler, and writer
1812–1885
![Arthur Penrhyn Stanley photo]()
English churchman, Dean of Westminster
1815–1881
![Hermann Adler photo]()
Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911
1839–1911
![Otto Pfleiderer photo]()
German Protestant theologian
1839–1908
![George Sutherland photo]()
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States …
1862–1942
![Thomas Sturge Moore photo]()
British playwright, poet and artist
1870–1944
![Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania photo]()
last Queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand…
1875–1938
![Carl Van Doren photo]()
American biographer
1885–1950
![Karl Menninger photo]()
American psychiatrist
1893–1990
![William Westmoreland photo]()
United States Army general
1914–2005
![Weldon Kees photo]()
American artist
1914–1955
![James Goldsmith photo]()
Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon
1933–1997
![Rein Vihalemm photo]()
Estonian philosopher of chemistry
1938–2015
![Nico photo]()
German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superst…
1938–1988
![Jeffrey Montgomery photo]()
American LGBT rights activist and public relations executive
1953–2016
