February 18
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February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 316 days remaining until the end of the year (317 in leap years).
Events
Up to 1900
- 814 - Anglibert, Frankish monk and diplomat (b. 760)
- 901 - Thabit ibn Qurra, Iraqi physician, astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)
- 999 – Pope Gregory V (b. 972)
- 1139 - Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)
- 1294 – Kublai Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1215)
- 1379 - Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)
- 1405 – Tamerlane, Mongol ruler (b. 1336)
- 1455 – Fra Angelico, Italian artist (b. 1395)
- 1478 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1449)
- 1535 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer and theologian (b. 1486)
- 1546 – Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
- 1564 – Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (b. 1475)
- 1712 - Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the French throne (b. 1682)
- 1743 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)
- 1772 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count of Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)
- 1780 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714)
- 1834 - William Wirt, United States Attorney General (b. 1772)
- 1851 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804)
- 1873 – Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1837)
- 1890 – Gyula Andrassy, Hungarian politician and statesman (b. 1823)
- 1891 - Henry Hastings Sibley, American politician (b. 1811)
- 1893 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)
- 1895 - Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (b. 1817)
- 1899 – Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1842)
- 1900 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
1901 – 2000
- 1902 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Co. (b. 1812)
- 1906 - John Batterson Stetson, American businessman (b. 1830)
- 1910 - Lucy Stanton, American abolitionist (b. 1831)
- 1911 - Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
- 1915 - Harry Ward Leonard, American engineer and inventor (b. 1861)
- 1931 - Frank C. Emerson, Governor of Wyoming (b. 1882)
- 1932 - Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (b. 1865)
- 1933 - James J. Corbett, American boxer (b. 1866)
- 1937 - Lamartine Griffin Hardman, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1856)
- 1937 - Grigory Ordzhonikidze, Soviet politician (b. 1886)
- 1945 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906)
- 1949 - Nicolas Alcala-Zamora, Spanish politician (b. 1877)
- 1956 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
- 1957 – Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
- 1957 - Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877)
- 1964 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and industrialist (b. 1907)
- 1966 - Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, movie director and producer (b. 1908)
- 1967 – Dragisa Cvetkovic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
- 1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
- 1969 - Dragisa Cvetkovic, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
- 1973 - Frank Costello, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1891)
- 1977 - Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1978 - Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928)
- 1981 – John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1895)
- 1982 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)
- 1993 - Jacqueline Hill, British actress (b. 1929)
- 1995 - Bob Stinson, American guitarist (b. 1959)
From 2001
- 2001 – Dale Earnhardt, American racing driver (b. 1951)
- 2001 – Balthus, Polish-French painter (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912)
- 2004 – Jean Rouch, French movie maker and ethnologist (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and movie maker (b. 1922)
- 2009 – Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (b. 1982)
- 2009 – At-Tayyib Salih, Sudanese writer (b. 1929)
- 2010 – John Babcock, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1900)
- 2010 – Ariel Ramirez, Argentine composer (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Roald Aas, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (b. 1928)
- 2012 – George Brizan, Grenadian politician (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Jerry Buss, American businessman and owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Elspet Gray, Scottish actress (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Otfried Preussler, German writer (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Nelson Frazier, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
- 2014 – Nikhil Baran Sengupta, Indian art director, producer, designer and actor (b. 1943)
- 2014 – Malcolm Tierney, British actor (b. 1938)
- 2014 – Al Greene, American baseball player (b. 1954)
- 2014 – Kristof Goddaert, Belgian cyclist (b. 1986)
- 2015 – Cass Ballenger, American politician (b. 1926)
- 2015 – Claude Criquielion, Belgian cyclist (b. 1957)
- 2015 – Mark Fischer, American lawyer (b. 1950)
- 2015 – Jerome Kersey, American basketball player (b. 1962)
- 2016 – Abdul Rashid Khan, Indian musician (b. 1907)
- 2016 – Pantelis Pantelidis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
- 2016 – John Reinhardt, American diplomat (b. 1920)
- 2017 – Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian terrorist (b. 1938)
- 2017 – Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1942)
- 2017 – Lawrence F. Snowden, American military officer (b. 1921)
- 2017 – Pasquale Squitieri, Italian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1938)
- 2017 – Clive Stubblefield, American drummer (b. 1942)
- 2017 – Michael Ogio, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1942)
- 2017 – Norma McCorvey, American activist (b. 1947)
- 2017 – Dan Vickerman, Australian rugby player (b. 1979)
- 2017 – Richard Schickel, American writer, filmmaker and critic (b. 1933)
- 2020 – Sreten Stefanović, Serbian Olympic gymnast (b. 1916)
- 2020 – José Bonaparte, Argentine paleontologist (b. 1928)
Births
Up to 1800
- 1372 - Iban Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (d. 1448)
- 1374 – Saint Jadwiga of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1399)
- 1404 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)
- 1486 - Chaitanya Mahaprabha, Indian saint (d. 1534)
- 1516 – Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
- 1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyo (d. 1578)
- 1543 - Charles III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1608)
- 1609 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (d. 1674)
- 1632 - Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1692)
- 1635 - Johan Goransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
- 1642 - Marie Champnesle, French actress (d. 1698)
- 1677 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
- 1732 – Johann Christian Kittel, German organist, composer and teacher (d. 1809)
- 1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)
1801 – 1900
- 1814 - Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (d. 1900)
- 1817 – Lewis A. Armistead, American Confederate General (d. 1863)
- 1818 – Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician and revolutionary (d. 1870)
- 1832 - Octave Chanute, French-American civil engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1910)
- 1836 - Sri Ramakrishna, Indian Bengali Guru (d. 1886)
- 1838 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)
- 1846 – Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904)
- 1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933)
- 1849 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian writer (d. 1906)
- 1850 - George Henschel, German-British baritone, conductor and composer (d. 1934)
- 1854 - Herbert Gladstone, British politician (d. 1930)
- 1855 - Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat (d. 1932)
- 1857 - Max Klinger, German sculptor and painter (d. 1920)
- 1858 – Princess Louise Marie of Belgium (d. 1924)
- 1860 – Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (d. 1920)
- 1875 - Wilhelm Külz, German politician (d. 1948)
- 1878 - Harriet Bosse, Swedish-Norwegian actress (d. 1961)
- 1883 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (d. 1957)
- 1885 - Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1954)
- 1890 - Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956)
- 1890 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)
- 1892 – Wendell Wilkie, American politician (d. 1944)
- 1896 - André Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
- 1897 – Charles Kuentz, German-born French World War I veteran (d. 2005)
- 1898 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian founder of Ferrari (d. 1988)
- 1898 – Luis Muñoz Marin, 1st Governor of Puerto Rico (d. 1980)
- 1899 - Arthur Bryant, British historian (d. 1985)
1901 – 1950
- 1901 - Reginald Sheffield, British actor (d. 1957)
- 1902 - Walter Herbert, German-born conductor and impresario (d. 1975)
- 1903 – Nikolai Podgorny, Soviet politician (d. 1983)
- 1906 – Hans Asperger, Austrian physician, after whom Asperger syndrome is named (d. 1980)
- 1912 - Heinz Kühn, German politician (d. 1992)
- 1914 - Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
- 1915 - Phyllis Calvert, English actress (d. 2002)
- 1916 - Jean Drapeau, 37th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1999)
- 1919 - Amir Abbas Hoveyda, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1979)
- 1919 – Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1920 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
- 1920 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier (d. 1945)
- 1922 - Helen Gurley Brown, American publisher (d. 2012)
- 1922 - Joe Tipton, American baseball player (d. 1994)
- 1922 - Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1997)
- 1925 - Marcel Barbeau, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2016)
- 1925 - George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016)
- 1927 - Richard A. Snelling, two-time Governor of Vermont (d. 1991)
- 1927 - John Warner, American politician (d. 2021)
- 1929 - Len Deighton, English author
- 1929 - Ertem Egilmez, Turkish movie director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1989)
- 1931 – Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1931 - Bob St. Clair, American football player (d. 2015)
- 1932 – Miloš Forman, Czech movie director
- 1933 – Yoko Ono, Japanese singer and performance artist
- 1933 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (d. 2009)
- 1933 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975)
- 1934 - Paco Rabanne, Spanish fashion designer
- 1936 - Ab McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1938 – Sadanoyama Shinmatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1938 – Istvan Szabo, Hungarian movie director
- 1939 - Marek Janowski, Polish-born conductor
- 1940 - Prue Leith, South African-English chef and author
- 1943 - Graeme Garden, Scottish writer, actor and comedian
- 1944 - Pat Bowlen, American owner of the Denver Broncos football team
- 1945 - Judy Rankin, American golfer
- 1946 – Michael Buerk, British newsreader
- 1946 – Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor
- 1947 – Princess Christina of the Netherlands
- 1947 - Dennis DeYoung, American musician
- 1947 - Carlos Lopes, Portuguese athlete
- 1948 – Sinead Cusack, Irish actress
- 1949 – Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
- 1950 - Cristina Ferrare, American model, actress, author and host
- 1950 - Cybill Shepherd, American actress
- 1950 – John Hughes, American movie director (d. 2009)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Komal, last Queen of Nepal
- 1951 - Isabel Preysler, Filipino-Spanish journalist
- 1952 - Randy Crawford, American singer
- 1954 – John Travolta, American actor
- 1956 – Rüdiger Abramczik, German footballer and manager
- 1956 - Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgian politician and businessman
- 1957
- Marita Koch, German athlete
- Bruce Rauner, American politician, 42nd Governor of Illinois
- Christiane Torloni, Brazilian actress
- Vanna White, American actress/game show model (Wheel of Fortune)
- 1958 - Lucie Visser, Dutch actress and model
- 1958 - Gar Samuelson, American drummer (d. 1999)
- 1959 – Hallgrimur Helgason, Icelandic artist and writer
- 1960 - Greta Scacchi, Australian actress
- 1960 - Tony Anselmo, American animator
- 1961 - Hironobu Kageyama, Japanese singer
- 1961 - Alison Owen, British movie producer
- 1963 – Anders Frisk, Swedish football referee
- 1964 – Matt Dillon, American actor
- 1964 - Paul Hanley, British musician
- 1965 – Dr. Dre, American record producer and rapper
- 1967 – Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
- 1967 – Colin Jackson, Welsh athlete
- 1968 - Molly Ringwald, American actress
- 1969 - Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player
- 1969 - Jason Sutter, American drummer
- 1970 - Susan Egan, American actress
- 1970 - Raine Maida, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1971 - Merritt Gant, American guitarist
- 1971 - Constnatin Popa, Romanian-Israeli basketball player
- 1971 - Thomas Bjorn, Danish golfer
- 1972 - Fabian Picardo, 7th Chief Minister of Gibraltar
- 1973 – Claude Makélélé, French footballer
- 1973 - Shawn Estes, American baseball player
- 1974 – Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player
- 1975 – Keith Gillespie, Irish footballer
- 1975 – Gary Neville, English footballer
- 1975 - Thora Arnorsdottir, Icelandic television presenter and former Presidential candidate
From 1976
- 1977 – Chrissie Wellington, English tri-athlete
- 1978 – Josip Simunic, Croatian footballer
- 1980 - Nikolai Antropov, Kazakhstani ice hockey player
- 1981 - Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player
- 1981 - Ivan Sproule, Irish footballer
- 1982 - Courtney Act, Australian drag queen, singer and entertainer
- 1982 - Kaspars Cipruss, Latvian basketball player
- 1983 - Roberta Vinci, Italian tennis player
- 1983 – Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
- 1984 - Laurent Vidal, French triathlete (d. 2015)
- 1985 – Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
- 1985 - Jos van der Emden, Dutch cyclist
- 1985 - Song Jae-rim, South Korean actor and model
- 1985 – Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican-American spree killer
- 1986 - Vika Jigulina, Romanian singer
- 1986 - Marc Torrejon, Spanish footballer
- 1988 - Changmin, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer and actor
- 1988 – Maiara Walsh, Brazilian-American actress
- 1990 - Park Shin-hye, South Korean actress, dancer, model and singer
- 1990 - Kang So-ra, South Korean actress
- 1991 - Malese Jow, American actress and singer-songwriter
- 1991 – Henry Surtees, English racing driver (d. 2009)
- 1992 - Logan Miller, American actor
- 1995 - Samantha Crawford, American tennis player
Deaths
Observances
- Independence Day (the Gambia)
- International Asperger's Day