On This Day — January 18
4217 noted people were born and 2208 died on January 18 in our archive, including Jacob Bronowski, Luigi Bianchi and Yiannis N. Moschovakis.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 18
Jacob Bronowski
1908 – 1974
Luigi Bianchi
1856 – 1928
Yiannis N. Moschovakis
b. 1938
Alexander Belskiy
1921 – 1977
Alexander Van der Bellen
b. 1944
Andreas Hillgruber
1925 – 1989
Andris Ambainis
b. 1975
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens
b. 1938
Bruno Reichart
b. 1943
Danny Kaye
1913 – 1987
Edward Frankland
1825 – 1899
Franz-Olivier Giesbert
b. 1949
George Bellas Greenough
1778 – 1855
Gerard Moll
1785 – 1838
Gudmund Sundby
1878 – 1973
Hannie van Leeuwen
1926 – 2018
Herman Scheel
1859 – 1956
Ivan Bubnov
1872 – 1919
Jacob Clay
1882 – 1955
Jeffrey Williams
b. 1958
Jorge Guillén
1893 – 1984
Joseph Deiss
b. 1946
L. David Mech
b. 1937
Lawrence Hunter
b. 1961
Luzius Wildhaber
1937 – 2020
Mahadev Govind Ranade
1842 – 1901
María Isabel Allende
b. 1945
Paul Dupuy
1856 – 1948
Paul Ehrenfest
1880 – 1933
Paul Keating
b. 1944
Peter Mark Roget
1779 – 1869
Pierre Jacquinot
1910 – 2002
Richard Friend
b. 1953
Shoichi Sakata
1911 – 1970
Simon Peyton Jones
b. 1958
Stanisław Stomma
1908 – 2005
Sōichi Kakeya
1886 – 1947
Teresa Lago
b. 1947
Vitaly Savelyev
b. 1954
Yoichiro Nambu
1921 – 2015
Ado Anderkopp
1894 – 1941
Afanasy Beloborodov
1903 – 1990
Albino González y Menéndez Reigada
1881 – 1958
Alexander Haddow
1907 – 1976
Alexey Gribov
1902 – 1977
Alfred C. Richmond
1902 – 1984
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
1880 – 1954
Anatoly Lokot
b. 1959
Armin Falk
b. 1968
Arnold B. Scheibel
1923 – 2017
Arturo Maschke
1902 – 2001
Asher A. Friesem
b. 1936
Astley Cooper Key
1821 – 1888
Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère
1852 – 1924
Basant Kumar Misra
b. 1953
Ben Jealous
b. 1973
Bill Bogaard
b. 1938
Bill Keller
b. 1949
Bjarne Bogen
b. 1951
Boris Nevzorov
1950 – 2022
Caspar Friedrich Wolff
1734 – 1794
Charles de Brouckère
1796 – 1860
Chen Wangdao
1891 – 1977
Christen Christensen
1806 – 1845
Christopher J. Date
b. 1941
Chun Doo-hwan
1931 – 2021
Clarence Hugo Linder
1903 – 1994
Constantin von Tischendorf
1815 – 1874
César Cui
1835 – 1918
Daniel H. Janzen
b. 1939
Daniel Hale Williams
1858 – 1931
Daniel T. McCarty
1912 – 1953
Daniel Webster
1782 – 1852
David Bellamy
1933 – 2019
David Lucas
1968 – 2026
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
b. 1971
Denise Bombardier
1941 – 2023
Dionýz Ilkovič
1907 – 1980
DougDoug
b. 1991
Eddie Durie
b. 1940
Edmund Barton
1849 – 1920
Edward L. Greenstein
b. 1949
Elis Håstad
1900 – 1959
Emeka Anyaoku
b. 1933
Erik Solheim
b. 1955
Ernst Peter Fischer
b. 1947
Eugène Fichot
1867 – 1939
Eugène Gley
1857 – 1930
Fernando Trueba
b. 1955
Foil A. Miller
1916 – 2016
Francis Grant
1803 – 1878
Francisco Rezek
b. 1944
Franciszek Pieczka
1928 – 2022
Frank Johnson Goodnow
1859 – 1939
Frederick O. Prince
1818 – 1899
Fukuzawa Ichiro
1898 – 1992
Félix Ynduráin Muñoz
b. 1946
Gad Yaacobi
1935 – 2007
Geoffrey Okamoto
b. 1985
Goff Letts
1928 – 2023
Gustave Chancel
1822 – 1890
Gustave Gingras
1918 – 1996
Hans Frangenheim
1920 – 2001
Henri Giraud
1879 – 1949
Henry Wigram
1857 – 1934
Ihor Markov
b. 1973
Ismail Sabri Yaakob
b. 1960
Jagdish Sharan Verma
1933 – 2013
James M. Bobbitt
1930 – 2021
Jan Lityński
1946 – 2021
Jani Golob
b. 1948
Jeremy Stuart-Smith
b. 1955
John Dixon Hunt
b. 1936
John Hume
1937 – 2020
José Antonio Kast
b. 1966
José Manuel Romay Beccaría
b. 1934
Kanji Ishiwara
1889 – 1949
Kantarō Suzuki
1868 – 1948
Karin Kneissl
b. 1965
Karl-Gösta Lundmark
1919 – 1995
Katayama Tōkuma
1854 – 1917
Kay Granger
1943 – 2026
Kenneth E. Boulding
1910 – 1993
Kiki Smith
b. 1954
Kirill Orlovsky
1895 – 1968
Kjersti Ericsson
b. 1944
Kumaraswamy Pulavar
1854 – 1922
Lambert Schaus
1908 – 1976
Lazare Lévy
1882 – 1964
Leo Varadkar
b. 1979
Lester S. Hill
1891 – 1961
Lionel Barber
b. 1955
Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
1688 – 1765
Lola Prusac
1895 – 1985
Lucien Georges Bazor
1889 – 1974
M. P. Parameswaran
1935 – 2026
Marcin Hycnar
b. 1983
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
1930 – 2004
Maryann Mahaffey
1925 – 2006
Max Sering
1857 – 1939
Maxime Bernier
b. 1963
Mian Saqib Nisar
b. 1954
Michael Behe
b. 1952
Mike Michaud
b. 1955
Mudar Badran
1934 – 2023
Muhammad Loutfi Goumah
1886 – 1953
Najeeb Jung
b. 1951
Nia Künzer
b. 1980
Nikola Kovačević
1890 – 1967
Nikolai Vladimirov
b. 1979
Oleg Ivanovsky
1922 – 2014
Patriarch Benjamin I of Constantinople
1871 – 1946
Paul Albert Laurens
1870 – 1934
Paul Deighton, Baron Deighton
b. 1956
Perreault Casgrain
1898 – 1981
Peter Stein
b. 1968
Philippe Marie Victor Jacobs
1838 – 1891
Pierre Singaravélou
b. 1977
Ragni Piene
b. 1947
Ray Dolby
1933 – 2013
Regina Silveira
b. 1939
Reino Kuuskoski
1907 – 1965
René Bidal
b. 1960
Robert Scoble
b. 1965
Robert W. RisCassi
b. 1936
Roberta Metsola
b. 1979
Samad Seyidov
b. 1964
Sergey Sitnikov
b. 1963
Shim Jae-chul
b. 1958
Silviu Brucan
1916 – 2006
Syed Manzoorul Islam
1951 – 2025
Syl Apps
1915 – 1998
T. N. Chaturvedi
1929 – 2020
Takeshi Kitano
b. 1947
Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins
1928 – 2025
Thibaut Vallette
b. 1974
Thyrsus González de Santalla
1624 – 1705
Volodymyr Nechyporuk
b. 1949
Walter Horn
1908 – 1995
Warren De la Rue
1815 – 1889
Weng Hsiao-ling
b. 1969
William Weaver Austin
1920 – 2000
Yordan Sokolov
1933 – 2016
Yukio Endō
1937 – 2009
Yury Petrov
1939 – 2013
Yvonne Hirdman
b. 1943
Zenon E. Kohut
b. 1944
deLesseps Story Morrison
1912 – 1964
Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye
1811 – 1883
A. A. Ames
1842 – 1911
Aaron H. Grout
1879 – 1966
Abraham Buford II
1820 – 1884
Agostino Gemelli
1878 – 1959
Aitana Bonmatí
b. 1998
Albert Freeman Africanus King
1841 – 1914
Albert Henry Vestal
1875 – 1932
Albert Kivikas
1898 – 1978
Albert Millaire
1935 – 2018
Aleksander Kosiba
1901 – 1981
Aleksander Świętochowski
1849 – 1938
… and 4,017 more
Died on January 18
Antoine César Becquerel
1788 – 1878
David Cox
1924 – 2022
Amnon Rubinstein
1931 – 2024
Beda Dudík
1815 – 1890
Bernard Parker Haigh
1884 – 1941
Charles Dupin
1784 – 1873
Emanuele Paternò
1847 – 1935
Hermann Snellen
1834 – 1908
Huang Xianfan
1899 – 1982
Hugh Gaitskell
1906 – 1963
Ishfaq Ahmad
1930 – 2018
Jan Zaanen
1957 – 2024
John Pringle
1707 – 1782
John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden
1906 – 1985
Józef Dietl
1804 – 1878
Marie Phisalix
1861 – 1946
Paavo Heininen
1938 – 2022
Petr Pokorný
1933 – 2020
Rolf Singer
1906 – 1994
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
1845 – 1937
Stansfield Turner
1923 – 2018
Volodymyr Cherniak
1941 – 2021
Yasuo Tanaka
1931 – 2018
Adolf Butenandt
1903 – 1995
Adolf von Hildebrand
1847 – 1921
Aleksey Greig
1775 – 1845
André Leon Talley
1948 – 2022
André Sainte-Laguë
1882 – 1950
António de Almeida Santos
1926 – 2016
Arturo Umberto Illia
1900 – 1983
Ashwini Kumar Chopra
1956 – 2020
Boleslav Mlodzeevskii
1858 – 1923
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus
1835 – 1899
Cecilia Ogwal
1946 – 2024
Charles A. Doswell III
1945 – 2025
Charles Burlureaux
1851 – 1927
Charles Eugene Denney
1879 – 1965
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond
1845 – 1928
Ciril Cvetko
1920 – 1999
Denys Monastyrskyi
1980 – 2023
Donald Adamson
1939 – 2024
Džemal Bijedić
1917 – 1977
Edith Morley
1875 – 1964
Edouard Izac
1891 – 1990
Eduard Hendrik von Baumhauer
1820 – 1885
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803 – 1873
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
1899 – 1963
Eliška Wagnerová
1948 – 2025
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
1849 – 1902
Etienne Vermeersch
1934 – 2019
Frank Kolb
1945 – 2026
Frederick Martin
1882 – 1950
Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus
1846 – 1921
Georges Picquart
1854 – 1914
Gilbert Thomas Carter
1848 – 1927
Gilles Paquet
1936 – 2019
Giuliano Gozi
1894 – 1955
Giuseppe Vedovato
1912 – 2012
Gwen Fleming
1916 – 2011
Hamilton Fish III
1888 – 1991
Hans Freyer
1887 – 1969
Harald von Hirschfeld
1912 – 1945
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
1907 – 2003
Heinrich Gleißner
1893 – 1984
Henry Liddell
1811 – 1898
Henry Vane, 2nd Duke of Cleveland
1788 – 1864
Herbert John Webber
1865 – 1946
Hilja Riipinen
1883 – 1966
Jaan Ross
1957 – 2026
Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari
1682 – 1766
James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn
1762 – 1837
Jan Pieter van Suchtelen
1751 – 1836
Jan Stanisław Olbrycht
1886 – 1968
Jester Hairston
1901 – 2000
Johann Rudolf Engau
1708 – 1755
Johannes Fried
1942 – 2026
John Macmillan Brown
1845 – 1935
Joseph Lovering
1813 – 1892
Julius Lester
1939 – 2018
Konstantin Päts
1874 – 1956
Lars Roar Langslet
1936 – 2016
Lee Hsiu-fen
1910 – 1985
Liu Thai Ker
1938 – 2026
Lothar Rendulic
1887 – 1971
Léonce Détroyat
1829 – 1898
N. T. Rama Rao
1923 – 1996
Nikolai Samokysh
1860 – 1944
Otto Mencke
1644 – 1707
Panteleimon Ponomarenko
1902 – 1984
Peter Abrahams
1919 – 2017
Piri Sciascia
1946 – 2020
Renato Guttuso
1911 – 1987
Robert B. Parker
1932 – 2010
Robert Regout
1863 – 1913
Ron Nachman
1942 – 2013
Russell Marshall
1936 – 2025
Sargent Shriver
1915 – 2011
Shi Jiuyong
1926 – 2022
Theodore McMillian
1919 – 2006
Tomitaro Makino
1862 – 1957
Tyko Reinikka
1887 – 1964
Vernon Bartlett
1894 – 1983
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
1849 – 1917
Vladimir Karpov
1922 – 2010
Vladimir Vitkovski
1885 – 1978
Václav Vacek
1877 – 1960
Wilhelm Julius Foerster
1832 – 1921
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire
1790 – 1858
William Lee-Warner
1846 – 1914
Yakov Lobanov-Rostovsky
1760 – 1831
Abram Stevens Hewitt
1822 – 1903
Adam Fischer
1888 – 1968
Adolfo Jiménez Castellanos
1844 – 1929
Adriana Caselotti
1916 – 1997
Aime Forand
1895 – 1972
Al Waxman
1935 – 2001
Albert Tschautsch
1843 – 1922
Alex Hannum
1923 – 2002
Alexander Götz
1928 – 2018
Alfred N. Phillips
1894 – 1970
Allan MacDonald
1892 – 1978
Amadeo I of Spain
1845 – 1890
Amalie Materna
1844 – 1918
Anatoly Stessel
1848 – 1915
Andrew Murray
1828 – 1917
Angelo Buizza
1885 – 1971
Antonio Vallisneri
1661 – 1730
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria
1842 – 1919
Arnaldo Vianna
1947 – 2026
Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr.
1907 – 1968
August Duesenberg
1879 – 1955
Badri Nath Prasad
1899 – 1966
Bernard John McQuaid
1823 – 1909
Bernardino José de Campos Júnior
1841 – 1915
Berthold Hatschek
1854 – 1941
Bill Finger
1914 – 1974
Blasco Núñez Vela
1490 – 1546
Brian Stowell
1936 – 2019
Bruce Chatwin
1940 – 1989
C. A. Trypanis
1909 – 1993
Carl Betz
1921 – 1978
Carl Rogers Darnall
1867 – 1941
Cecil Beaton
1904 – 1980
Charles Cazalet
1858 – 1933
Charles Floquet
1828 – 1896
Charles Henry Tompkins
1830 – 1915
Charles Lanrezac
1852 – 1925
Charles Nisbet
1736 – 1804
Chauncey Eskridge
1917 – 1988
Clark Maxwell Jr.
1934 – 2011
Cornelis Johannes Marinkelle
1925 – 2012
Cyril Mar Baselios
1935 – 2007
Danai Stratigopoulou
1913 – 2009
David Crosby
1941 – 2023
David O. McKay
1873 – 1970
David P. Buckson
1920 – 2017
Dmitry Shcherbachev
1857 – 1932
Don Cupitt
1934 – 2025
Donato Maria dell’Olio
1847 – 1902
Eartha M. M. White
1876 – 1974
Egil Krogh
1939 – 2020
Egon Hilbert
1899 – 1968
Elke Mackenzie
1911 – 1990
Emilio Servadio
1904 – 1995
Emily Ray Gregory
1863 – 1946
Ernest E. Irons
1877 – 1959
Ernest Evans
1885 – 1965
Feodor Rostopchin
1763 – 1826
Filippo Camassei
1848 – 1921
Ford C. Quillen
1938 – 2026
Francis William Howard
1867 – 1944
František Maxián
1907 – 1971
Franz Georg von Schönborn
1682 – 1756
Frederick D. Sulcer
1926 – 2004
Frederick Mason
1913 – 2008
Friedrich von Adelung
1768 – 1843
Gatot Sudjito
1960 – 2021
George C. Butte
1877 – 1940
George Evan Howell
1905 – 1980
George Hayter
1792 – 1871
Georges Jules Piquet
1839 – 1923
Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir
1899 – 1976
Gideon Frank Rothwell
1836 – 1894
Glenn Frey
1948 – 2016
Godfrey Wentworth
1704 – 1789
Gordon Douglas Yntema
1945 – 1968
Gottlob Christian Storr
1746 – 1805
Grigore Vieru
1935 – 2009
Grigory Eliseev
1821 – 1891
Grigory Gagarin
1810 – 1893
Hamidul Huq Choudhury
1901 – 1992
Harry Abend
1937 – 2021
Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz
1723 – 1797
Helena Tynell
1918 – 2016
Hendrik Goeman Borgesius
1847 – 1917
Henri Konow
1862 – 1939
Hermann Müller
1850 – 1927
Hnat Yura
1887 – 1966
Hook Dillon
1924 – 2004
Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley
1662 – 1725
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