August 18
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August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 135 days remaining until the end of the year.
Births [change]
- 1587 – Virginia Dare, first child of English parents to be born in the present-day US (d. before 1591)
- 1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731)
- 1750 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
- 1774 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
- 1792 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
- 1830 – Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (d. 1916)
- 1859 – Anna Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1935)
- 1875 – King Prithvi of Nepal (d. 1911)
- 1890 – Walther Funk, Nazi politician (d. 1960)
- 1904 – Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
- 1912 – Ertugrul Osman, head of the Ottoman dynasty (d. 2009)
- 1917 – Caspar Weinberger, American politician (d. 2006)
- 1919 – Wally Hickel, American politician, second Governor of Alaska (d. 2010)
- 1920 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Brian Aldiss, British science-fiction writer
- 1927 – Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States
- 1933 – Just Fontaine, French footballer
- 1933 – Roman Polanski, film director
- 1935 – Hifikepunye Pohamba, President of Namibia
- 1936 – Robert Redford, American actor
- 1939 – Johnny Preston, American singer (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Mohamed Ghannouci, former Prime Minister of Tunisia
- 1943 – Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
- 1943 – Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (d. 2010)
- 1952 – Patrick Swayze, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1957 – Denis Leary, American actor
- 1958 – Madeleine Stowe, American actress
- 1961 - Timothy Geithner, 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1962 – Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico
- 1969 – Edward Norton, American actor
- 1969 – Christian Slater, American actor
- 1971 – Aphex Twin, Irish-born musician
- 1980 – Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
- 1981 – Dimitris Salpigidis, Greek footballer
- 1981 – Jan Frodeno, German triathlete
- 1982 – Florian Kringe, German footballer
- 1983 – Kris Boyd, Scottish footballer
- 1983 – Mika, Lebanese-English singer
- 1984 – Robert Huth, German footballer
- 1986 – Ross McCormack, Scottish footballer
- 1992 – Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
Deaths [change]
- 1095 – Olaf I of Denmark (b. 1050)
- 1227 – Genghis Khan, Mongol ruler (b. around 1160)
- 1503 – Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
- 1559 – Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
- 1620 – Wanli, Chinese emperor (b. 1563)
- 1642 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1775)
- 1765 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
- 1842 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
- 1850 – Honore de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
- 1940 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
- 1945 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (b. 1897)
- 1990 – B. F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904)
- 1992 – John Sturges, American director (b. 1910)
- 1994 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British chemist (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Hiram Fong, United States Senator for Hawaii (b. 1906)
- 2009 – Kim Dae Jung, President of South Korea (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1930)
Events [change]
- 1201 – The city of Riga in present-day Latvia is founded.
- 1572 – Henry IV of France and Margaret of Valois marry.
- 1877 – Mars' moon Phobos is discovered.
- 1891 – A major hurricane strikes Martinique, killing around 700 people.
- 1917 – The city of Thessaloniki in present-day Greece is largely destroyed by fire.
- 1959 – The Mini automobile goes on sale.
- 1977 – Steve Biko is arrested. His death a few weeks later, at the hands of the police, makes him a symbol of the brutality of South Africa's apartheid system.
- 1983 – Hurricane Alicia hits Texas, killing 22 people.
- 1988 – George H. W. Bush makes his campaign promise Read my lips, no new taxes.
- 1991 – The August Coup against Mikhail Gorbachev begins.
- 2005 – A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting around 100 million people.
- 2008 – Pervez Musharraf announces his resignation as President of Pakistan.
