January 18
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January 18 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 347 days remaining after January 18 until the end of the year (348 in leap years).
[change] Births
- 885 – Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
- 1543 – Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (d. 1588)
- 1641 – François-Michel le Telleir, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691)
- 1672 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
- 1688 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
- 1689 – Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
- 1779 – Peter Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
- 1782 – Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
- 1813 – Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906)
- 1840 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
- 1842 – Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
- 1848 – Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
- 1849 – Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
- 1850 – Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916)
- 1854 – Thomas Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934)
- 1882 – A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
- 1888 – Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989)
- 1892 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)
- 1892 – Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
- 1898 – George Dawson (author)
- 1904 – Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
- 1905 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
- 1908 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974)
- 1913 – Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1914 – Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)
- 1914 – William Stafford, American poet (d. 1993)
- 1922 – Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
- 1931 – Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
- 1932 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author
- 1933 – John Boorman, Irish film director
- 1934 – Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator
- 1937 – John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
- 1938 – Curt Flood, baseball player (d. 1997)
- 1941 – David Ruffin, American singer (d. 1991)
- 1943 – Kay Granger, American politician
- 1944 – Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
- 1946 – Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1947 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
- 1949 – Philippe Starck, French designer
- 1950 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
- 1952 – R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
- 1953 – Brett Hudson, American actor
- 1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor
- 1956 – Sharon Mitchell, American actress
- 1956 – Tom Bailey, British singer (Thompson Twins)
- 1961 – Mark Messier, Canadian hockey player
- 1961 – Carole Paulson American Author, humor columnist [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_M._Paulson]
- 1962 – Jeff Yagher, American actor
- 1963 – Otto Mann, fictional bus driver from The Simpsons
- 1964 – Jane Horrocks, British actress
- 1965 – Dave Attell, American writer and comedian
- 1966 – David Bautista, American professional wrestler
- 1967 – Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999)
- 1969 – Jesse L. Martin, American actor
- 1970 – DJ Quik, American rapper
- 1971 – Jonathan Davis, American musician (KoЯn)
- 1971 – Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
- 1972 – Mike Lieberthal, baseball player
- 1973 – Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
- 1974 – Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio
- 1979 – Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
- 1979 – Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
- 1980 – Julius Peppers, American football player
- 1980 – Robert Green, English footballer
- 1982 – Quinn Allman, American musician (The Used)
- 1983 – Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress*
[change] Deaths
- 52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered) (b. 93 BC)
- 474 – Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
- 1213 – Queen Regnant Tamar of Georgia (b. c. 1160)
- 1367 – King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
- 1425 – Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
- 1471 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
- 1586 – Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
- 1664 – Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
- 1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)
- 1803 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
- 1862 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
- 1873 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
- 1878 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
- 1886 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
- 1892 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
- 1896 – Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
- 1923 – Wallace Reid, Actor (b. 1891)
- 1936 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
- 1940 – Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)
- 1951 – Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (b. 1867)
- 1952 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
- 1954 – Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
- 1963 – Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party (b. 1906)
- 1966 – Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
- 1967 – Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
- 1969 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
- 1970 – David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
- 1971 – Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (b. 1914)
- 1975 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1978 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
- 1978 – Carl Betz, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
- 1978 – Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
- 1980 – Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
- 1984 – Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
- 1985 – Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
- 1989 – Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
- 1990 – Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
- 1993 – Eleanor Hibbert, English writer (d. 1993)
- 1995 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
- 1995 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
- 1996 – Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor (b. 1923)
- 1997 – Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941)
- 2000 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
- 2001 – Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
- 2003 – Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
- 2006 – Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
- 2008 – Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
- 2008 – Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
- 2008 – John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929)
- 2009 – Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)
- 2009 – Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
[change] Events
- 1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany become the first German emperor.
