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February 18 in recent years

February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 316 days remain until the end of the year (317 in leap years).

Events

Pre-1600

1601–1900

1901–present

Births

Pre-1600

1601–1900

  • 1602 – Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (d. 1680)
  • 1602 – Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Italian painter (d. 1660)
  • 1609Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1674)
  • 1626Francesco Redi, Italian physician (d. 1697)
  • 1632 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1692)
  • 1642 – Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
  • 1658 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French philosopher and author (d. 1743)
  • 1732 – Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer (d. 1809)
  • 1745Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827)
  • 1754 – Emanuel Granberg, Finnish church painter (d. 1797)
  • 1814 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (d. 1900)
  • 1817 – Lewis Armistead, American general (d. 1863)
  • 1818John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (d. 1883)
  • 1818 – Konstanty Schmidt-Ciążyński, Polish collector and art connoisseur who donated a large collection to the National Museum in Kraków (d. 1889)
  • 1836 – Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi (d. 1886)
  • 1838Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
  • 1846 – Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager (d. 1904)
  • 1848Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (d. 1933)
  • 1849Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician (d. 1906)
  • 1850 – George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (d. 1934)
  • 1855 – Jean Jules Jusserand, French historian, author, and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (d. 1932)
  • 1860Anders Zorn, Swedish artist (d. 1920)
  • 1862 – Charles M. Schwab, American businessman, co-founded Bethlehem Steel (d. 1939)
  • 1867 – Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer (d. 1950)
  • 1870 – William Laurel Harris, American painter and author (d. 1924)
  • 1871Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
  • 1883Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright (d. 1957)
  • 1885Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1954)
  • 1893 – Maksim Haretski, Belarusian prose writer, journalist and activist (d. 1938)
  • 1890 – Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956)
  • 1890 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)
  • 1892Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1944)
  • 1896 – Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (d. 1970)
  • 1898Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet and politician, 1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (d. 1980)
  • 1899 – Arthur Bryant, English historian and journalist (d. 1985)

1901–present

  • 1903Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (d. 1983)
  • 1906Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician and academic (d. 1980)
  • 1909Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1993)
  • 1914 – Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2000)
  • 1915 – Phyllis Calvert, English actress (d. 2002)
  • 1915 – Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1978)
  • 1918 – Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)
  • 1919Jack Palance, American boxer and actor (d. 2006)
  • 1920Rolande Falcinelli, French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue (d. 2006)
  • 1921 – Mary Amdur, American toxicologist and public health researcher (d. 1998)
  • 1921 – Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian pianist and composer (d. 2013)
  • 1922Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1997)
  • 1922 – Helen Gurley Brown, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
  • 1922 – Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (d. 1995)
  • 1925George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016)
  • 1926 – Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (d. 1976)
  • 1927 – Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2005)
  • 1929Len Deighton, English historian and author
  • 1929 – André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1968)
  • 1931 – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist, co-created The Wizard of Id (d. 2007)
  • 1931 – Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019).
  • 1932Miloš Forman, Czech-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
  • 1933Yoko Ono, Japanese-American multimedia artist and musician
  • 1933 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (d. 2009)
  • 1933 – Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (d. 1975)
  • 1934Audre Lorde, American writer and activist (d. 1992)
  • 1936 – Jean M. Auel, American author
  • 1939 – Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist and academic (d. 1996)
  • 1940 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
  • 1941Irma Thomas, American singer-songwriter
  • 1946Michael Buerk, English journalist
  • 1946 – Jess Walton, American actress
  • 1947 – Dennis DeYoung, American musician, singer, and songwriter
  • 1950 – Nana Amba Eyiaba I, Ghanaian queen mother and advocate
  • 1950 – John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
  • 1950 – Cybill Shepherd, American actress
  • 1951 – Queen Komal of Nepal
  • 1951 – Isabel Preysler, Filipino-Spanish journalist
  • 1952Randy Crawford, American jazz and R&B singer
  • 1952 – Maurice Lucas, American basketball player (d. 2010)
  • 1952 – Juice Newton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1954John Travolta, American actor, singer and producer
  • 1955 – Lisa See, American writer and novelist
  • 1957 – Marita Koch, German sprinter
  • 1957 – Vanna White, American television personality
  • 1959 – Jayne Atkinson, English-American actress
  • 1960 – Andy Moog, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1960 – Greta Scacchi, Italian-Australian actress
  • 1964Matt Dillon, American actor
  • 1965Dr. Dre, American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur
  • 1966 – Phillip DeFreitas, Dominican-English cricketer
  • 1967Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
  • 1967 – Colin Jackson, Welsh sprinter and hurdler
  • 1968Molly Ringwald, American actress
  • 1969Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player
  • 1971 – Thomas Bjørn, Danish golfer
  • 1974Carrie Ann Baade, American painter and academic
  • 1974 – Radek Černý, Czech footballer
  • 1974 – Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmentalist and author
  • 1974 – Jillian Michaels, American personal trainer and television personality
  • 1975Gary Neville, English footballer
  • 1977 – Ike Barinholtz, American actor and comedian
  • 1977 – Kristoffer Polaha, American actor
  • 1980Nik Antropov, Kazakhstani-Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1980 – Regina Spektor, Russian-American musician and songwriter
  • 1981Andrei Kirilenko, Russian-American basketball player
  • 1981 – Alex Ríos, American baseball player
  • 1982 – Christian Tiffert, German footballer
  • 1983 – Kara Braxton, American basketball player
  • 1983 – Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
  • 1983 – Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
  • 1984Carlos Kameni, Cameroonian footballer
  • 1986Kyle Weaver, American basketball player
  • 1988Roman Neustädter, German-Russian footballer
  • 1988 – Sarah Sutherland, American actress
  • 1988 – Maiara Walsh, American-Brazilian actress
  • 1989 – Sonja Vasić, Serbian basketball player
  • 1990Monica Aksamit, American saber fencer
  • 1990 – Didi Gregorius, Dutch baseball player
  • 1990 – Cody Hodgson, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1990 – Bryan Oviedo, Costa Rican footballer
  • 1991 – Sebastian Neumann, German footballer
  • 1992Le'Veon Bell, American football player
  • 1992 – Martin Marinčin, Slovak ice hockey player
  • 1992 – Logan Miller, American actor
  • 1993Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, American basketball player
  • 1994J-Hope, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, and record producer
  • 1994 – Paul Zipser, German basketball player
  • 1995Nathan Aké, Dutch footballer
  • 1996 – Tyler Dorsey, American-Greek basketball player
  • 2000 – Zakaria Aboukhlal, Moroccan footballer
  • 2000 – Giacomo Raspadori, Italian footballer
  • 2001 – Tanguy Coulibaly, French footballer
  • 2001 – Jaime Jaquez Jr., American basketball player

Deaths

Pre-1600

1601–1900

  • 1654 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French author (b. 1594)
  • 1658 – John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, English courtier (b. c. 1591)
  • 1683 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
  • 1695William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (b. 1650)
  • 1712Louis, Dauphin of France, (b. 1682)
  • 1743Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1667)
  • 1748 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
  • 1772 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (b. 1712)
  • 1778Joseph Marie Terray, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
  • 1780 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (b. 1714)
  • 1788John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713)
  • 1803 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (b. 1719)
  • 1851Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804)
  • 1873Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (b. 1837)
  • 1880 – Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)
  • 1893 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (b. 1814)

1901–present

  • 1902Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
  • 1910Lucy Stanton, American activist (b. 1831)
  • 1915Frank James, American soldier and criminal (b. 1843)
  • 1933 – James J. Corbett, American boxer and actor (b. 1866)
  • 1938 – David King Udall, American missionary and politician (b. 1851)
  • 1956Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
  • 1960 – Gertrude Vanderbilt, American stage actress (b. c. 1885)
  • 1966 – Grigory Nelyubov, Soviet pilot and military officer (b. 1934)
  • 1967J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1904)
  • 1969 – Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
  • 1977Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)
  • 1981 – Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (b. 1895)
  • 1982 – Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)
  • 2001Balthus, Polish-Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1908)
  • 2001 – Dale Earnhardt, American racer and seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion (b. 1951)
  • 2014 – Mavis Gallant, Canadian-French author and playwright (b. 1922)
  • 2014 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (b. 1914)
  • 2015 – Elchanan Heilprin, Czechoslovakian-born English rabbi (b. 1920 or 1922)
  • 2019 – Alessandro Mendini, Italian designer and architect (b. 1931)
  • 2020Flavio Bucci, Italian actor and voice actor (b. 1947)

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