Anniversaries 18 August
Birth
![Brook Taylor photo]()
English mathematician
1685–1731
![Pierre Sonnerat photo]()
French botanist (1748-1814)
1748–1814
![Antonio Salieri photo]()
Italian classical composer and conductor
1750–1825
![Meriwether Lewis photo]()
American explorer
1774–1809
![John Russell, 1st Earl Russell photo]()
leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Min…
1792–1878
![Charles Francis Adams photo]()
American historical editor, politician and diplomat (1807-1…
1807–1886
![Johannes Warnardus Bilders photo]()
painter from the Northern Netherlands
1811–1890
![Thomas William Parsons photo]()
American writer
1819–1892
![Robert Williams Buchanan photo]()
Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
1841–1901
![Ahad Ha'am photo]()
Hebrew essayist and thinker
1856–1927
![Leo Slezak photo]()
Austrian opera tenor
1873–1946
![Achille Starace photo]()
Italian Fascist general
1889–1945
![Walther Funk photo]()
German economist and politician
1890–1960
![Georgy Pyatakov photo]()
Bolshevik revolutionary leader
1890–1937
![Alain Robbe-Grillet photo]()
1922-2008 French agricultural engineer, filmmaker and writer
1922–2008
![Basil John Mason photo]()
British meteorologist
1923–2015
![Brian W. Aldiss photo]()
British science fiction author
1925–2017
![Rosalynn Carter photo]()
Wife of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Cart…
1927
![Marvin Harris photo]()
American anthropologist
1927–2001
![Bo Hi Pak photo]()
South Korean member of the Unification Church
1930–2019
![Barry Unsworth photo]()
English novelist
1930–2012
![Roman Polanski photo]()
Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and r…
1933
![Roberto Clemente photo]()
Puerto Rican baseball player
1934–1972
![Robert Redford photo]()
actor and film director from the United States
1936
![Paula Danziger photo]()
American children's writer
1945–2004
![Massoud Rajavi photo]()
Iranian politician
1948–2003
![Anantanand Rambachan photo]()
Hindu studies scholar
1951
![Bruce Hawker photo]()
Australian political strategist
1955
![Barbara J. King photo]()
American anthropologist and primatologist
1956
![Denis Leary photo]()
American actor and comedian
1957
![Timothy Geithner photo]()
American central banker and politician
1961
![Bob Harper (personal trainer) photo]()
American personal trainer
1965
![Brian Michael Bendis photo]()
American comic book writer and artist
1967
![Masta Killa photo]()
American rapper and member of the Wu-Tang Clan
1969
![Timothy D. Snyder photo]()
American author and historian
1969
![Everlast photo]()
American singer and songwriter
1969
![Victoria Coren photo]()
British writer, presenter and poker player
1972
![Joanna Jędrzejczyk photo]()
Polish mixed martial artist
1987
![Isaac Mashman photo]()
businessman, speaker
2000
Death
![Pope Alexander VI photo]()
pope of the Catholic Church 1492-1503
1431–1503
![Étienne de La Boétie photo]()
French judge, writer and philosopher
1530–1563
![James Beattie photo]()
Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher
1735–1803
![Gardiner Spring photo]()
American clergyman
1785–1873
![Learned Hand photo]()
American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge
1872–1961
![Ernst Thälmann photo]()
leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much …
1886–1944
![Anita Loos photo]()
Actress, novelist, screenwriter, TV producer
1889–1981
![Subhas Chandra Bose photo]()
Indian nationalist leader and politician
1897–1945
![Federico García Lorca photo]()
Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
1898–1936
![Nikolaus Pevsner photo]()
German-born British scholar
1902–1983
![Yeshayahu Leibowitz photo]()
israeli intellectual
1903–1994
![B.F. Skinner photo]()
American behaviorist
1904–1990
![Ernst Nolte photo]()
German historian and philosopher
1923–2016
![Kim Dae-jung photo]()
South Korean politician
1924–2009
![Kofi Annan photo]()
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
1938–2018
![Protima Bedi photo]()
Indian model and dancer
1948–1998
