Anniversaries 18 July

Birth

Robert Hooke11

English natural philosopher, architect and polymath 1635–1703

William Makepeace Thackeray69

novelist 1811–1863

Archibald Alexander Hodge1

American Presbyterian leader 1823–1886

Vasil Levski5

Bulgarian revolutionary 1837–1873

Tristan Corbière2

French poet 1845–1875

Rose Hartwick Thorpe1

American poet 1850–1939

Paul Carus8

American philosopher 1852–1919

Hendrik Lorentz5

Dutch physicist 1853–1928

Gu Hongming6

Chinese writer 1857–1928

Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden5

British politician 1864–1937

Giacomo Balla15

Italian artist 1871–1958

Elizabeth of the Trinity4

French Carmelite nun and mystic 1880–1906

Henri Piéron1

French psychologist 1881–1964

Charles Erwin Wilson6

American secretary of Defence 1890–1961

S.L.A. Marshall13

United States Army general and Military historian 1900–1977

Jessamyn West6

American author 1902–1984

S. I. Hayakawa27

American politician 1906–1992

Clifford Odets6

Playwright, screenwriter, director, actor 1906–1963

H. L. A. Hart1

1907–1992; British legal philosopher 1907–1992

Peace Pilgrim23

American non-denominational spiritual teacher 1908–1981

Red Skelton3

American comedian 1913–1997

Louis Le Bailly1

Royal Navy admiral 1915–2010

Nelson Mandela143

President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist 1918–2013

Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar29

Indian writer 1919–1974

John Glenn6

American astronaut and politician 1921–2016

Aaron T. Beck1

American Psychiatrist 1921

Thomas Kuhn27

American historian, physicist and philosopher 1922–1996

Yevgeny Yevtushenko17

Russian poet, film director, teacher 1932–2017

Syd Mead1

American concept artist 1933–2019

Edward Bond5

English writer best known as a dramatist 1934

Hunter S. Thompson268

American journalist and author 1937–2005

Peter Mutharika2

President of Malawi 1940

Alan Charles Kors46

American academic 1943

Michael Witzel13

German-American philologist 1943

Paul Glover23

Community organizer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; American… 1947

Jack Layton22

Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada 1950–2011

Richard Branson25

English business magnate, investor and philanthropist 1950

Hanna Rahmé1

Roman Catholic bishop 1960

William A. Dembski27

American intelligent design advocate 1960

Lee Arenberg1

American actor 1962

Shaun Micallef6

Australian actor 1962

Wendy Williams2

American television personality and radio host 1964

Vin Diesel2

American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter 1967

Elizabeth Gilbert232

American writer 1969

Rigoberto González10

American writer 1970

Michael Dante DiMartino1

American animator 1974

M.I.A.38

British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director 1975

Kristen Bell3

American actress 1980

Death

Muhammad bin Qasim27

Umayyad general 695–715

Bartolomé de las Casas21

Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer 1474–1566

John Paul Jones7

American naval officer 1747–1792

Jane Austen477

English novelist 1775–1817

Laurent Clerc3

French-American deaf educator 1785–1869

Benito Juárez8

President of Mexico during XIX century 1806–1872

Samuel I. Prime9

American clergyman, traveler, and writer 1812–1885

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley22

English churchman, Dean of Westminster 1815–1881

Hermann Adler3

Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911 1839–1911

Otto Pfleiderer10

German Protestant theologian 1839–1908

George Sutherland10

Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States … 1862–1942

Thomas Sturge Moore6

British playwright, poet and artist 1870–1944

Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania5

last Queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand… 1875–1938

Carl Van Doren14

American biographer 1885–1950

Karl Menninger4

American psychiatrist 1893–1990

Hans Ji Maharaj4

Indian guru 1900–1966

William Westmoreland32

United States Army general 1914–2005

Weldon Kees1

American artist 1914–1955

Luciano De Crescenzo1

Italian writer 1928–2019

James Goldsmith1

Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon 1933–1997

Rein Vihalemm3

Estonian philosopher of chemistry 1938–2015

Nico15

German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superst… 1938–1988

Jeffrey Montgomery25

American LGBT rights activist and public relations executive 1953–2016