Anniversaries 18 August

Birth

Brook Taylor9

English mathematician 1685–1731

Pierre Sonnerat2

French botanist (1748-1814) 1748–1814

Antonio Salieri1

Italian classical composer and conductor 1750–1825

Meriwether Lewis1

American explorer 1774–1809

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell14

leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Min… 1792–1878

Charles Francis Adams3

American historical editor, politician and diplomat (1807-1… 1807–1886

Johannes Warnardus Bilders10

painter from the Northern Netherlands 1811–1890

Thomas William Parsons4

American writer 1819–1892

Robert Williams Buchanan18

Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist 1841–1901

Ahad Ha'am16

Hebrew essayist and thinker 1856–1927

Isaac Levitan1

Russian artist 1860–1900

Leo Slezak1

Austrian opera tenor 1873–1946

Shushanik Kurghinian2

Armenian poet 1876–1927

Achille Starace3

Italian Fascist general 1889–1945

Walther Funk12

German economist and politician 1890–1960

Georgy Pyatakov1

Bolshevik revolutionary leader 1890–1937

Shelley Winters4

actress 1920–2006

Alain Robbe-Grillet2

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

Basil John Mason1

British meteorologist 1923–2015

Brian W. Aldiss116

British science fiction author 1925–2017

Rosalynn Carter2

Wife of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Cart… 1927

Marvin Harris2

American anthropologist 1927–2001

Luciano De Crescenzo1

Italian writer 1928–2019

Bo Hi Pak3

South Korean member of the Unification Church 1930–2019

Barry Unsworth1

English novelist 1930–2012

Roman Polanski29

Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and r… 1933

Roberto Clemente170

Puerto Rican baseball player 1934–1972

Robert Redford1

actor and film director from the United States 1936

Gottfried Schatz3

biochemist 1936–2015

Martin Mull1

American actor 1943

Paula Danziger3

American children's writer 1945–2004

Massoud Rajavi1

Iranian politician 1948–2003

Anantanand Rambachan18

Hindu studies scholar 1951

Elayne Boosler1

American comedian 1952

Louie Gohmert4

American politician 1953

Ma Jian1

Chinese writer 1953

Bruce Hawker1

Australian political strategist 1955

Barbara J. King1

American anthropologist and primatologist 1956

Denis Leary12

American actor and comedian 1957

Madeleine Stowe20

American actress 1958

Winona LaDuke1

author and activist 1959

Timothy Geithner5

American central banker and politician 1961

Věra Jourová1

Czech politician 1964

Bob Harper (personal trainer)3

American personal trainer 1965

Paula Morris1

New Zealand writer 1965

Brian Michael Bendis1

American comic book writer and artist 1967

Masta Killa1

American rapper and member of the Wu-Tang Clan 1969

Edward Norton2

american actor 1969

Timothy D. Snyder1

American author and historian 1969

Everlast2

American singer and songwriter 1969

Victoria Coren2

British writer, presenter and poker player 1972

Nicole Krauss65

American novelist 1974

Andy Samberg1

American comedian 1978

Danny!9

American rapper 1983

Joanna Jędrzejczyk6

Polish mixed martial artist 1987

Frances Bean Cobain43

American artist 1992

Maia Mitchell8

Australian actress 1993

Isaac Mashman50

businessman, speaker 2000

Death

Pope Alexander VI6

pope of the Catholic Church 1492-1503 1431–1503

Étienne de La Boétie12

French judge, writer and philosopher 1530–1563

James Beattie18

Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher 1735–1803

Gardiner Spring12

American clergyman 1785–1873

Honoré de Balzac157

French writer 1799–1850

Learned Hand56

American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge 1872–1961

Eric Rücker Eddison11

British writer 1882–1945

Ernst Thälmann2

leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much … 1886–1944

Anita Loos3

Actress, novelist, screenwriter, TV producer 1889–1981

Subhas Chandra Bose10

Indian nationalist leader and politician 1897–1945

Federico García Lorca32

Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director 1898–1936

Nikolaus Pevsner6

German-born British scholar 1902–1983

Yeshayahu Leibowitz15

israeli intellectual 1903–1994

B.F. Skinner30

American behaviorist 1904–1990

Ernst Nolte8

German historian and philosopher 1923–2016

Kim Dae-jung2

South Korean politician 1924–2009

Philip B. Crosby11

Quality guru 1926–2001

Kofi Annan60

7th Secretary-General of the United Nations 1938–2018

Protima Bedi21

Indian model and dancer 1948–1998

Кристофер Джонсон МакКэндлесс1

1968–1992