Anniversaries 18 September

Birth

Samuel Johnson362

English writer 1709–1784

Martin Joseph Routh4

Classical scholar and college head 1755–1854

Joseph Story10

US Supreme Court justice 1779–1845

Léon Foucault5

French physicist 1819–1868

John Townsend Trowbridge11

American author 1827–1916

Anton Mauve29

Dutch painter (1838–1888) 1838–1888

Francesco Filippini2

Italian impressionist painter 1853–1895

Owen Seaman1

Editor of Punch 1861–1936

Madan Lal Dhingra1

Indian revolutionary 1883–1909

William March12

United States Marine, novelist, short story writer 1893–1954

Aleksandr Vasilevsky5

Soviet military commander 1895–1977

John Diefenbaker9

13th Prime Minister of Canada 1895–1979

Vladimir Horowitz6

American classical pianist and composer 1903–1989

Greta Garbo9

Swedish-American actress 1905–1990

Agnes de Mille3

American dancer and choreographer 1905–1993

Francis Parker Yockey13

American writer 1917–1960

John Gall13

American physician 1925–2014

Julio César Strassera1

Argentine lawyer and jurist 1933–2015

Fred Willard2

American actor and comedian 1939

Henry Giroux14

American academic 1943

John McAfee13

American computer programmer and businessman 1945

Anna Deavere Smith3

American actress, playwright and professor 1950

Ben Carson191

17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urb… 1951

Dee Dee Ramone4

German-American songwriter and musician 1951–2002

Kris Radish1

American novelist 1953

Steven Pinker33

psychologist, linguist, author 1954

Chris Hedges81

American journalist 1956

Peter Rhee3

American surgeon 1961

Dan Povenmire1

American television director, writer, producer, storyboard … 1963

João Magueijo11

Portuguese scientist 1967

Dan Eldon1

Kenyan photojournalist, artist and activist 1970–1993

Lance Armstrong39

professional cyclist from the USA 1971

Kevin D. Williamson11

American writer 1972

Mark Shuttleworth5

South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to t… 1973

Sabine Hossenfelder2

German theoretical physicist 1976

Brendon Burchard2

author 1977

Alison Lohman6

American actress 1979

Lucy Aharish3

Arab-Israeli journalist 1981

Jennifer Tisdale1

American actress 1981

Peter Wilfahrt1

German author and entrepreneur 1986

Luísa Sobral1

Portuguese singer and songwriter 1987

Death

Louis VII of France1

King of France 1120–1180

Matthew Prior23

British diplomat, poet 1664–1721

Leonhard Euler11

Swiss mathematician 1707–1783

William Hazlitt186

English writer 1778–1830

James Finlay Weir Johnston1

Scottish agricultural chemist 1796–1855

Alexander Bain7

Scottish philosopher and educationalist 1818–1903

John Campbell Shairp14

British writer 1819–1885

Dion Boucicault2

Irish actor and dramatist 1820–1890

George MacDonald127

Scottish journalist, novelist 1824–1905

F. H. Bradley19

British philosopher 1846–1924

Pyotr Stolypin2

Russian politician 1862–1911

Gelett Burgess5

artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist 1866–1951

Bhagwan Das3

Indian Theosophist 1869–1958

Gwen John2

Welsh painter 1876–1939

Sean O`Casey13

Irish writer 1880–1964

J. Frank Dobie2

American writer 1888–1964

Paul Bernays4

Swiss mathematician 1888–1977

Henry D. Moyle4

Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles 1889–1963

Katherine Anne Porter43

American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist… 1890–1980

Adélard Godbout2

Canadian politician 1892–1956

Fritz Glarner1

Swiss artist 1899–1972

Dag Hammarskjöld58

Swedish diplomat, economist, and author 1905–1961

Mohammad Hidayatullah36

11th Chief Justice of India 1905–1992

Irving Kristol35

American columnist, journalist, and writer 1920–2009

Louis Simpson6

Jamaican poet 1923–2012

Robert Venturi12

American architect 1925–2018

Jill Johnston2

American activist 1929–2010

Jimi Hendrix52

American musician, singer and songwriter 1942–1970

Nathan Larson (politician)1

American perennial candidate, pedophile and white supremaci… 1980–2022