On This Day — May 18
3967 noted people were born and 1883 died on May 18 in our archive, including Peter Grünberg, Ruđer Josip Bošković and Thomas Midgley.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 18
Peter Grünberg
1939 – 2018
Ruđer Josip Bošković
1711 – 1787
Thomas Midgley
1889 – 1944
Veeravalli S. Varadarajan
1937 – 2019
Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau
1795 – 1867
Andry-Farcy
1882 – 1950
Batyrkhan Shukenov
1962 – 2015
Ben Bowen Thomas
1899 – 1977
Ben Feringa
b. 1951
Bertrand Russell
1872 – 1970
Bogdan Zdrojewski
b. 1957
Brock Chisholm
1896 – 1971
Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
1778 – 1854
David Deutsch
b. 1953
Donald Nutbeam
b. 1955
Doris Mable Cochran
1898 – 1968
Emília Vášáryová
b. 1942
Enrique López López
b. 1963
François Héran
b. 1953
Helmut Haussmann
b. 1943
Hermann Diels
1848 – 1922
Igor Panchenko
1963 – 2023
Isabella Gordon
1901 – 1988
John George Children
1777 – 1852
John Paul II
1920 – 2005
Malcolm Longair
b. 1941
Margot Fonteyn
1919 – 1991
Martin Barstow
b. 1958
Mateusz Piskorski
b. 1977
Michelle Perrot
b. 1928
Ralph R. Shaw
1907 – 1972
Simone Mayer
1920 – 2006
Vincent du Vigneaud
1901 – 1978
Ada Mary à Beckett
1872 – 1948
Aileen Campbell
b. 1980
Alan Bundy
b. 1947
Alexander (Mogilyov)
b. 1957
Alexander Aigner
1909 – 1988
Alfred Henry Garrod
1846 – 1879
Anang Iskandar
b. 1958
Andreas Essenius
1618 – 1677
Andrew Ure
1778 – 1857
Anthony Epstein
1921 – 2024
Bernadette Chirac
1933 – 2026
Bernard Chambaz
b. 1949
Birgitte Bonnesen
b. 1956
C. Randy Gallistel
b. 1941
Carl Bergmann
1814 – 1865
Cecilia Schelin Seidegård
b. 1954
Celia Hoyles
b. 1946
Charles Arthur Banks
1885 – 1961
Charles N. Sims
1835 – 1908
Chris Wickham
b. 1950
Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn
1813 – 1896
Cynthia Wu
b. 1978
Cèlia Amorós Puente
b. 1944
David Leakey
b. 1952
David Mattingly
b. 1958
Delcy Rodriguez
b. 1969
Denis Favier
b. 1959
Don L. Lind
1930 – 2022
Doron Almog
b. 1951
Edmund Johnston Garwood
1864 – 1949
Edward Chamberlin
1899 – 1967
Edwin Erickson
1938 – 2019
Eero Erkko
1860 – 1927
Erkki Toivanen
1938 – 2011
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
1883 – 1974
Francesco Carpino
1905 – 1993
Frank Elderson
b. 1970
Franz Ludwig Fick
1813 – 1858
Fred Perry
1909 – 1995
G. A. Gripenberg
1890 – 1975
Georg von Tiesenhausen
1914 – 2018
George Findlay
1829 – 1893
Gerd Langguth
1946 – 2013
Giovanni Falcone
1939 – 1992
Gordon O'Connor
b. 1939
Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois
1852 – 1923
Hans von Ramsay
1862 – 1938
Henrietta Moore
b. 1957
Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo
1788 – 1845
Hugh Shearer
1923 – 2004
Ignasi Guardans
b. 1964
Ingvild Kjerkol
b. 1975
Irakli Menagarishvili
b. 1951
Isaac Henry Burkill
1870 – 1965
Jacob Javits
1904 – 1986
Jacob L. Moreno
1889 – 1974
Jacques Santer
b. 1937
Jean Daubigny
1948 – 2024
Jean Troisier
1881 – 1945
Jean-Martial Bineau
1805 – 1855
Jessica Watson
b. 1993
Jo Ann Harris
1933 – 2014
Johan Bäckman
b. 1971
John Bruton
1947 – 2024
John D. Price
1892 – 1957
John Godber
b. 1956
John Wilson
1785 – 1854
John-Paul Himka
b. 1949
Joseph J. Kohn
1932 – 2023
Joseph LaPalombara
1925 – 2026
Juan Mendez
b. 1985
Justus Dahinden
1925 – 2020
Jérôme Tharaud
1874 – 1953
Jörg Guido Hülsmann
b. 1966
Kalmukhanbet Kassymov
b. 1957
Kenneth Keating
1900 – 1975
Konrad Martin
1812 – 1879
Konstantin Ostrovityanov
1892 – 1969
Kris Peeters
b. 1962
Lars Brising
1915 – 1995
Ludwik Birkenmajer
1855 – 1929
Marcin Król
1944 – 2020
Mark Davis
b. 1955
Martina Bunge
1951 – 2022
Maximos V Hakim
1908 – 2001
Michael Szonyi
b. 1967
Michael W. McConnell
b. 1955
Michel Pinçon
1942 – 2022
Mikalay Aksamit
1954 – 2024
Mykhaylo Melnyk
b. 1957
Nanna Bonde
b. 1993
Natalia Osipova
b. 1986
Nicolás Dujovne
b. 1967
Nikolai Katanov
1862 – 1922
Nikolay Shulginov
b. 1951
Nina Björk
b. 1967
Oliver Heaviside
1850 – 1925
Oljas Süleimenov
b. 1936
Ove Ljung
1918 – 1997
Patrick Cormack, Baron Cormack
1939 – 2024
Pavel Yudin
1902 – 1956
Peter Juel-Jensen
b. 1966
Peter Littlewood
1955 – 2026
Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente
b. 1964
Rachelle Yarros
1869 – 1946
Ranga Yogeshwar
b. 1959
Renée Schroeder
b. 1953
Richard Clarida
b. 1957
Robert Todd Carroll
1945 – 2016
Rodolfo Acuña
1932 – 2026
Rudolf Carnap
1891 – 1970
Ruslan Kazakbayev
b. 1967
Russell A. Poldrack
b. 1967
Samuel Hoar
1778 – 1856
Sheila Bird
b. 1952
Slomó Köves
b. 1979
Stepan Kirichuk
b. 1949
Susan Alberti
b. 1947
Syed Mohammad Inaamullah
1937 – 2018
Tertius Zongo
b. 1957
Thomas Gottschalk
b. 1950
Tom Udall
b. 1948
Victor Schnirelmann
b. 1949
Warren Rudman
1930 – 2012
Wilhelm Hofmeister
1824 – 1877
William H. Simpson
1888 – 1980
William Magennis
1867 – 1946
William Pulteney
1861 – 1941
Wolfgang Rindler
1924 – 2019
Yi Mun-yol
b. 1948
Yukiko Kada
b. 1950
Émile Cheysson
1836 – 1910
Česlovas Juršėnas
b. 1938
Aaron Lukas
b. 1971
Aaron Ness
b. 1990
Abir Al-Sahlani
b. 1976
Adam Bałdych
b. 1986
Adolph Eduard Grube
1812 – 1880
Adwoa Aboah
b. 1992
Agnieszka Smoczyńska
b. 1978
Aina Rafenomanantsoa
b. 1984
Alejandro Ferreiro
b. 1966
Alekseev
b. 1993
Aleksej Jurjevič Gamen
1773 – 1829
Alexander Bernhuber
b. 1992
Alexander Carl Otto Westphal
1863 – 1941
Alexander von Petrino
1824 – 1899
Alfred Frauenfeld
1898 – 1977
Alfred Woltmann
1841 – 1880
Ali Zafar
b. 1980
Anant Bajaj
1977 – 2018
Andrew Jackson Barchfeld
1863 – 1922
Aniela Gruszecka
1884 – 1976
Anil Chauhan
b. 1961
Annie Trumbull Slosson
1838 – 1926
António Couto dos Santos
1949 – 2025
Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton
1726 – 1796
Arnon Afek
b. 1963
Art O'Connor
1888 – 1950
Artem Zdunov
b. 1978
Arthur Dillon
1834 – 1922
Arthur Mayo
1840 – 1920
August Breithaupt
1791 – 1873
Auguste III Blanchard
1819 – 1898
Augustus Albert Hardenbergh
1830 – 1889
Barbara Goldsmith
1937 – 2016
Barry Trapnell
1924 – 2012
… and 3,767 more
Died on May 18
Albert Bregman
1936 – 2023
Alexander Binnie
1839 – 1917
Carlos Jiménez Díaz
1898 – 1967
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
1845 – 1922
Chukwuedu Nwokolo
1921 – 2014
Denis Wright
1911 – 2005
Edoardo Sanguineti
1930 – 2010
Erich Correns
1896 – 1981
Fernando González Ollé
1929 – 2025
Guy Gaunt
1869 – 1953
Halldór Ásgrímsson
1947 – 2015
Hans Bentzien
1927 – 2015
Heinrich Göppert
1800 – 1884
Henri Laborit
1914 – 1995
Henryk Jordan
1842 – 1907
Louis-Napoléon Casault
1823 – 1908
Lucien Herr
1864 – 1926
Nikolai Semashko
1874 – 1949
Peter van de Kamp
1901 – 1995
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1932 – 2007
Roger Ailes
1940 – 2017
Victor Mallet
1893 – 1969
Adolphe Guillaumat
1863 – 1940
Albert Auguste Gicquel des Touches
1818 – 1901
Alfred Józef Potocki
1822 – 1889
Alfred Vulpian
1826 – 1887
Alfred Welby
1849 – 1937
Andreas Essenius
1618 – 1677
Andriy Matviyevych Bobyr
1915 – 1994
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1886 – 1959
Arnold Beckman
1900 – 2004
Austin Eubanks
1981 – 2019
Avraham Shlonsky
1900 – 1973
Bernard Pyne Grenfell
1869 – 1926
Bill O'Brien
1929 – 2025
Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm
1790 – 1858
Carlos Iván Degregori
1945 – 2011
Charles Depéret
1854 – 1929
Charles Townshend
1861 – 1924
Claude Pujade-Renaud
1932 – 2024
Corrado Segre
1863 – 1924
Czesław Bobrowski
1904 – 1996
D'Arcy Power
1855 – 1941
Daniel R. Fitzpatrick
1891 – 1969
Eberhard Zacharias Munck af Rosenschöld
1775 – 1840
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis
1892 – 1965
Eduard Strasburger
1844 – 1912
Elizabeth Montgomery
1933 – 1995
Ernst af Klercker
1881 – 1955
Ernst von Bodelschwingh-Velmede
1794 – 1854
Francisco García Tortosa
1937 – 2024
Francisque Xavier Michel
1809 – 1887
Franklin Knight Lane
1864 – 1921
Friedrich Spanheim the Younger
1632 – 1701
Fritz Stern
1926 – 2016
Félix Ravaisson-Mollien
1813 – 1900
Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano
1682 – 1766
Grace Annie Lockhart
1855 – 1916
Gulielma Lister
1860 – 1949
Hans-Peter Dürr
1929 – 2014
Harry Ricardo
1885 – 1974
Hazel Stiebeling
1896 – 1989
Heinrich Albertz
1915 – 1993
Helen Davis
1926 – 2015
Henri Cihoski
1872 – 1950
Hermann Höcherl
1912 – 1989
Huguette Bouchardeau
1935 – 2026
Jaan Eilart
1933 – 2006
James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde
1777 – 1838
James Till
1931 – 2025
Jaroslav Krejčí
1892 – 1956
Jeannette Rankin
1880 – 1973
John Carrick
1918 – 2018
John Douglas
1721 – 1807
John Maxwell Cowley
1923 – 2004
John Richardson
1754 – 1831
John Simpson
1925 – 2025
José Babini
1897 – 1984
June Werner
1924 – 2015
Karl Vossler
1872 – 1949
Kasturi Lal Chopra
1933 – 2021
Kazimierz Fajans
1887 – 1975
Kégham Atmadjian
1910 – 1940
Louise Grandjean
1870 – 1934
Luis H. Álvarez
1919 – 2016
Lykourgos Angelopoulos
1941 – 2014
Manuel Manahan
1916 – 1994
Margaret Leischner
1907 – 1970
Mary McLeod Bethune
1875 – 1955
Meryl Broussard
1950 – 2019
Mikhail Babushkin
1893 – 1938
Nil Ratan Sircar
1861 – 1943
Otto von Camphausen
1812 – 1896
Paul Althaus
1888 – 1966
Pavel Chobanyan
1948 – 2017
Peter Gow
1958 – 2021
Peter Maitlis
1933 – 2022
Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
1859 – 1940
Pierre Kaan
1903 – 1945
Radu R. Florescu
1925 – 2014
Raymond Gosling
1926 – 2015
Rómulo O'Farrill
1917 – 2006
Salaria Kea
1913 – 1991
Samuel Sambursky
1900 – 1990
Selig Brodetsky
1888 – 1954
Selwyn Lloyd
1904 – 1978
Stepan Kubiv
1962 – 2026
Timothy Bigelow
1767 – 1821
Tony O'Reilly
1936 – 2024
Werner Sombart
1863 – 1941
Wolfgang Schneiderhan
1915 – 2002
Wubbo Ockels
1946 – 2014
Yael Dayan
1939 – 2024
Yrsa Stenius
1945 – 2018
Émile Bollaert
1890 – 1978
Étienne Davignon, 1st Count Davignon
1932 – 2026
Albert Hilger
1839 – 1905
Albert de Grossouvre
1849 – 1932
Aleksandr Sheremetev
1859 – 1931
Aleksei Balabanov
1959 – 2013
Aleksey Pavlovich Panfilov
1898 – 1966
Alexey Maresyev
1916 – 2001
Amédée-David de Pastoret
1791 – 1857
Arthur Mayo
1840 – 1920
Asahel Peck
1803 – 1879
Axel Gustaf Gyllenkrok
1783 – 1865
Bela Lyon Pratt
1867 – 1917
Boris Schnaiderman
1917 – 2016
Boyd Winchester
1836 – 1923
Bram van Heel
1899 – 1966
Briscoe Baldwin
1789 – 1852
Bruce Alan Grandstaff
1934 – 1967
C. Lockhart Robertson
1825 – 1897
Carl Frederick Holden
1895 – 1953
Caroline Bonaparte
1782 – 1839
Chang Fu-hsing
1942 – 2003
Charles G. Wilson
1843 – 1906
Charles Grodin
1935 – 2021
Charles Hardy
1714 – 1780
Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke
1836 – 1897
Chris Cornell
1964 – 2017
Chrissy Sharp
1947 – 2021
Christlieb Ehregott Gellert
1713 – 1795
Christopher Strachey
1916 – 1975
Claude Champion de Crespigny
1873 – 1910
Colin P. Campbell
1877 – 1956
Count Nikolaus Szécsen von Temerin
1857 – 1926
Daniele Piombi
1933 – 2017
David A. Johnston
1949 – 1980
David Hay
1916 – 2009
Dawee Chullasapya
1914 – 1996
Daws Butler
1916 – 1988
Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda
1746 – 1803
Dieudonné Costes
1963 – 1973
Dobrica Ćosić
1921 – 2014
Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent
1855 – 1947
Eduard Weber
1806 – 1871
Edward Albert Ostermann
1882 – 1969
Edward R. Ayrton
1882 – 1914
Edwin Hurd Conger
1843 – 1907
Edwin Scharff
1887 – 1955
Effie Boggess
1927 – 2021
Eje Thelin
1938 – 1990
Elias Ashmole
1617 – 1692
Elinor Hallé
1856 – 1926
Elmer Davis
1890 – 1958
Elsie Alvarado de Ricord
1928 – 2005
Enzo Tortora
1928 – 1988
Eric McLuhan
1941 – 2018
Erik Bredal
1607 – 1672
Frances Marshall Eagleson
1898 – 1987
Francis Clarke
1857 – 1939
Francis Judd Cooke
1910 – 1995
Francisco Villagrán de León
1954 – 2024
Frank Aiken
1898 – 1983
Frank Pierpoint Appleby
1913 – 2015
Frank Walsh
1897 – 1968
Franz Skarbina
1849 – 1910
Fred Roos
1934 – 2024
Fred Waller
1886 – 1954
Frederic M. Sackett
1868 – 1941
Friedrich August Ukert
1780 – 1851
Friedrich August von Ammon
1799 – 1861
Gabriel Daza
1896 – 1994
George FitzGeorge Hamilton
1898 – 1918
George Morris
1892 – 1967
Grover L. Broadfoot
1892 – 1962
Gustav Siehr
1837 – 1896
Gustavus A. Finkelnburg
1837 – 1908
Gustavus Hamilton Blenkinsopp Coulson
1879 – 1901
Hans Hermann
1870 – 1931
Harry Barker
1898 – 1994
Hasanudin Murad
1957 – 2023
Heinrich Wolf
1924 – 2020
Helmut Berger
1944 – 2023
Henrik Jørgen Huitfeldt-Kaas
1834 – 1905
Henry Nicholas Greenwell
1826 – 1891
Hilda Gardner
1890 – 1953
Hilding Rosenberg
1892 – 1985
Idrus
1921 – 1979
… and 1,683 more