On This Day — July 18
3943 noted people were born and 1839 died on July 18 in our archive, including Giacinto Morera, Hendrik Lorentz and Petr Vaníček.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on July 18
Giacinto Morera
1856 – 1909
Hendrik Lorentz
1853 – 1928
Petr Vaníček
b. 1935
Robert Christison
1797 – 1882
Robert Hooke
1635 – 1703
Aad Nuis
1933 – 2007
Aaron Beck
1921 – 2021
Archibald Alexander Hodge
1823 – 1886
Aristides Patrinos
b. 1947
Arthur H. Hayes Jr.
1933 – 2010
Artur Szklener
b. 1972
Charles Palache
1869 – 1954
David Nasaw
b. 1945
Edward Goschen
1847 – 1924
Emil Julius Gumbel
1891 – 1966
Geoffrey Harrison
1908 – 1990
Habib Abdullayev
1912 – 1962
Hamish Spencer
b. 1960
Hartmut Michel
b. 1948
Henriette Bie Lorentzen
1911 – 2001
Hermann Pauly
1870 – 1950
Isaäc Arend Diepenhorst
1916 – 2004
Jack Dongarra
b. 1950
Jack Layton
1950 – 2011
Johann Gustav Stickel
1805 – 1896
Johann-Dietrich Wörner
b. 1954
John Glenn
1921 – 2016
John Maynard
1604 – 1690
Judith Mackay
b. 1943
Louis de Geer the Elder
1818 – 1896
Michael Hyldgaard
b. 1964
Miriam Meckel
b. 1967
Odile Decq
b. 1955
Paul De Grauwe
b. 1946
Perch Zeytuntsyan
1938 – 2017
Roald Hoffmann
b. 1937
Sergey Zimov
b. 1955
Steve Forbes
b. 1947
Steve Webb
b. 1965
Vikram Nair
b. 1978
Vladimir Medinsky
b. 1970
Yury Gotsanyuk
b. 1966
Abram Chayes
1922 – 2000
Adolf Ogi
b. 1942
Alan Charles Kors
b. 1943
Alberto Barton
1870 – 1950
Alfred H. Brooks
1871 – 1924
Allan Zeman
b. 1949
Andra Veidemann
b. 1955
Andreas Hermes
1878 – 1964
Andrei Neguța
b. 1952
Andrew Lewer
b. 1971
Antoine-François Marmontel
1816 – 1898
Antonio García-Trevijano Forte
1927 – 2018
Arnold Wilson
1884 – 1940
Asun Balzola
1942 – 2006
Axel Honneth
b. 1949
Barbara Staggs
1940 – 2014
Basil Weedon
1923 – 2003
Bent Sørensen
b. 1958
Bjørn Kjos
b. 1946
Boris Nuraliyev
b. 1958
Brian Williams
b. 1946
Charles Baskerville
1870 – 1922
Charles Erwin Wilson
1890 – 1961
David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie
1893 – 1968
Edgar C. Erickson
1896 – 1989
Egils Leščinskis
b. 1967
Elio Di Rupo
b. 1951
Emil Młynarski
1870 – 1935
Eric Baer
b. 1932
Francis Pemberton
1624 – 1697
Frank Forde
1890 – 1983
Frank Trentmann
b. 1965
Friedrich Zimmermann
1925 – 2012
Fulgencio Coll Bucher
b. 1948
Félix du Temple de la Croix
1823 – 1890
Gabriel Jönsson
1892 – 1984
Gene Lockhart
1891 – 1957
George Murray Humphry
1820 – 1896
Georgios P. Chrousos
b. 1951
Gilbert White
1720 – 1793
Gladys Marín
1937 – 2005
Gustaf Cronhielm
1664 – 1737
Gustave Lefebvre
1879 – 1957
H. L. A. Hart
1907 – 1992
Helena Foulkes
b. 1964
Henri Piéron
1881 – 1964
Henry Leach
1870 – 1936
Herschel Whitfield Arant
1887 – 1941
Ilia Smirnov
1887 – 1964
James Graham Jenkins
1834 – 1921
James M. Burt
1917 – 2006
James Monroe
1821 – 1898
Jan Albin Goetz
1864 – 1931
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
1919 – 1974
Jean Yanne
1933 – 2003
Jean-Pierre Lecoq
b. 1954
Jerzy Marian Langer
b. 1947
Jo Cals
1914 – 1971
John Joseph Stewart
1923 – 2002
Joseph Ellis
b. 1943
Joseph M. Siegel
b. 1963
Josh Kun
b. 1971
Joshua Fishman
1926 – 2015
José Pedro Aguiar Branco
b. 1957
Juan Gómez Millas
1900 – 1987
Karl Ludwig von Littrow
1811 – 1877
Karl Rolvaag
1913 – 1990
Karl von Rotteck
1775 – 1840
Katrin Wendland
b. 1970
Konstantin Efetov
b. 1958
Kurt Masur
1927 – 2015
Kōichi Kido
1889 – 1977
Leon Tochowicz
1897 – 1965
Leszek Surawski
b. 1960
Lev Kamenev
1883 – 1936
Lillian Comas-Díaz
b. 1950
Lillian Faderman
b. 1940
Lorna Casselton
1938 – 2014
Lucien Simon
1861 – 1945
Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg
1815 – 1892
Ludwik Benoit
1920 – 1992
M.I.A.
b. 1975
Marcelo Knobel
b. 1968
Marek Plura
1970 – 2023
Margo Martindale
b. 1951
Maria de Maeztu Whitney
1881 – 1948
Mark Noll
b. 1946
Martin Stephen
b. 1949
Martín Torrijos
b. 1963
Mary Sears
1905 – 1997
Melina Furman
1975 – 2024
Michael Czerny
b. 1946
Michio Morishima
1923 – 2004
Michita Sakata
1916 – 2004
Miguel Angel Cárcano
1889 – 1978
Mikhail Nikolaevich Strikhanov
b. 1952
Min Gu
b. 1960
Nelson Mandela
1918 – 2013
Nicolas Dufourcq
b. 1963
Nikolai Wagner
1829 – 1907
Owen Woodhouse
1916 – 2014
Patrice Brun
b. 1953
Patrick O'Boyle
1896 – 1987
Paul Dubois
1829 – 1905
Paul Streeten
1917 – 2019
Peter Mutharika
b. 1940
Peter P. von Weymarn
1879 – 1935
Pradeep Kumar Sinha
b. 1955
Priyanka Chopra
b. 1982
Qanat Sawdabaev
b. 1946
R. Murray Schafer
1933 – 2021
Rachel Robinson
b. 1922
Richard Leacock
1921 – 2011
Rigoberto González
b. 1970
Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
b. 1946
Roger Reynolds
b. 1934
Roman Zabzalyuk
1960 – 2018
S. I. Hayakawa
1906 – 1992
Samson Kutateladze
1914 – 1986
Samuel Wesley Stratton
1861 – 1931
Serhii Bukovskyi
b. 1960
Shahid Khan
b. 1950
Sholban Kara-ool
b. 1966
Shozaburo Nakamura
1934 – 2023
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
1726 – 1784
Sir Harry Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet
1911 – 1999
Stanislas-Étienne Meunier
1843 – 1925
Stepan Nechayev
1792 – 1860
Syd Mead
1933 – 2019
Tadeusz Łomnicki
1927 – 1992
Tania Bruguera
b. 1968
Tenley Albright
b. 1935
Teresa Patrício Gouveia
b. 1946
Thomas Kuhn
1922 – 1996
Thomas L. Saaty
1926 – 2017
Vasilii Șova
b. 1959
Vera Maretskaya
1906 – 1978
Victor Pușcaș
1943 – 2023
Vidkun Quisling
1887 – 1945
Virginia Raggi
b. 1978
Vivian Dering Majendie
1836 – 1898
Víctor Manuel Fernández
b. 1962
Wei Zhang
b. 1981
Yehude Simon
b. 1947
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
1932 – 2017
Yulia Mykytenko
b. 1995
Yvonne Desportes
1907 – 1993
Édouard Kirmisson
1848 – 1927
A. R. D. Prasad
b. 1954
Abe Murdock
1893 – 1979
Adolfo Pérez Muñoz
1864 – 1945
Agustín Cejas
b. 1964
Albert Camille Vital
b. 1952
Albert O. Brown
1853 – 1937
Aleksandr Kurynov
1934 – 1973
Alexander Buturlin
1694 – 1767
Alexander Shubin
b. 1965
Alexandre Vincent Jandel
1810 – 1872
… and 3,743 more
Died on July 18
Annie Smith Peck
1850 – 1935
Antonio Mario La Pergola
1931 – 2007
Armas Otto Väisänen
1890 – 1969
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
1815 – 1881
Burton Richter
1931 – 2018
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
1813 – 1890
Edoardo Porro
1842 – 1902
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
1928 – 1997
Gilberto Freyre
1900 – 1987
Grigore T. Popa
1892 – 1948
Herman Gummerus
1877 – 1948
Jean Théodore Lacordaire
1801 – 1870
Otto Ribbeck
1827 – 1898
Philarète Chasles
1798 – 1873
Raffaele Piria
1814 – 1865
Roman Jakobson
1896 – 1982
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir
1961 – 2020
Vítězslav Novák
1870 – 1949
Yukiya Amano
1947 – 2019
Adrian Cronauer
1938 – 2018
Alexander Bunge
1803 – 1890
Alexander Macleay
1767 – 1848
Alexandre Adler
1950 – 2023
Aloyzas Sakalas
1931 – 2022
André Lafargue
1917 – 2017
André Vingt-Trois
1942 – 2025
Anne Gorsuch Burford
1942 – 2004
Bertha Elias
1889 – 1933
Bror Munck
1857 – 1935
Carl Van Doren
1885 – 1950
Charles Hubbard Judd
1873 – 1946
Chris Sherwin
1962 – 2017
Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion
1843 – 1899
Corneille Heymans
1892 – 1968
Douglas Gordon Cunningham
1908 – 1992
E. A. J. Honigmann
1927 – 2011
Edward P. Cliff
1909 – 1987
Edwin Feulner
1941 – 2025
Enn Tarto
1938 – 2021
Ephraim Moses Lilien
1874 – 1925
Eugene Houdry
1892 – 1962
Ferdinand von Hochstetter
1829 – 1884
Frances Spence
1922 – 2012
Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
1834 – 1905
François-Xavier Lemieux
1851 – 1933
Frederich Christopher Trampe, Count of Trampe
1779 – 1832
Geoffrey Blake
1882 – 1968
George Leveson-Gower
1858 – 1951
Graham Lusk
1866 – 1932
Günther Maleuda
1931 – 2012
Henning Matzen
1840 – 1910
Henry Edward Fox
1755 – 1811
Herbert L. Needleman
1927 – 2017
Homer E. Newell, Jr.
1915 – 1983
Howard Ensign Evans
1919 – 2002
Hugh Cairns
1896 – 1952
Humberto Castelo Branco
1900 – 1967
Huseyn Hasanov
1932 – 1995
Jean Jules Jusserand
1855 – 1932
Johan Kjeldahl
1849 – 1900
John D. Kraus
1910 – 2004
José Luis Munárriz
1762 – 1830
José Miguel Gallardo
1897 – 1976
José Ángel Valente
1929 – 2000
Karl Joseph Simrock
1802 – 1876
Karl Seebach
1912 – 2007
Kurt Julius Isselbacher
1925 – 2019
Louis Bouilhet
1821 – 1869
Louis Napoléon Lannes
1801 – 1874
Louis-Nazaire Bégin
1840 – 1925
Margaret Boden
1936 – 2025
Max Gallo
1932 – 2017
Max Wirth
1822 – 1900
Miklós Szentkuthy
1908 – 1988
Miron Constantinescu
1917 – 1974
Moses Ali
1939 – 2026
Olga Sirotinina
1923 – 2025
Otto Pfleiderer
1839 – 1908
Owsei Temkin
1902 – 2002
Percy Barnevik
1941 – 2025
Petrus Munck
1732 – 1803
Pierce Brodkorb
1908 – 1992
Rajesh Khanna
1942 – 2012
René Milan
1882 – 1939
Richard Verney, 11th Baron Willoughby de Broke
1622 – 1711
Ronald H. Griffith
1936 – 2018
Ryōichi Sasakawa
1899 – 1995
Shigeaki Hinohara
1911 – 2017
Stanley Rous
1895 – 1986
Stefan Stambolov
1854 – 1895
Susan Hauptman
1947 – 2015
Thomas Maurice Rice
1939 – 2024
Théodore Beck
1839 – 1936
Toshio Irie
1901 – 1972
Vasily Polenov
1844 – 1927
Verle A. Pope
1903 – 1973
Väinö Hakkila
1882 – 1958
Walther Davisson
1885 – 1973
Willa Brown
1906 – 1992
William R. Schmidt
1889 – 1966
William Westmoreland
1914 – 2005
Witold Maliszewski
1873 – 1939
Xiruo Zhang
1889 – 1973
Aaron Vanderpoel
1799 – 1870
Abraham Sharp
1653 – 1742
Adolf Fredrik Munck
1749 – 1831
Alfred-Amédée Dodds
1842 – 1922
André Cools
1927 – 1991
Anghel Demetriescu
1847 – 1903
Arthur Samuel Kendall
1861 – 1944
August Winding
1835 – 1898
Axel Gudbrand Blytt
1843 – 1898
Bird J. Vincent
1880 – 1931
Birger Kaipiainen
1915 – 1988
Bob Newhart
1929 – 2024
Bruno
1100 – 1123
Carel Herman Aart van der Wijck
1840 – 1914
Carlo Renaldini
1615 – 1698
Carlos Aldunate Lyon
1916 – 2018
Cesare Cremonini
1550 – 1631
Charles Creighton
1847 – 1927
Charles Gould Morton
1861 – 1933
Charles Gresford Edmondes
1838 – 1893
Chen Gang
1935 – 2026
Chester Alan Arthur II
1864 – 1937
Christian Joerges
1943 – 2025
Claes Oldenburg
1929 – 2022
David Hedison
1927 – 2019
Denjirō Ōkōchi
1898 – 1962
Domingo Santa María
1825 – 1889
Edward Armour Peck
1858 – 1947
Edward Stourton
1957 – 2026
Elizabeth Banks
1865 – 1938
Emanuel Hegenbarth
1868 – 1923
Emanuel von der Pahlen
1882 – 1952
Emil Hartmann
1836 – 1898
Emilio Lorenzini
1924 – 1979
Emmet O'Neal
1887 – 1967
Fidelia Fielding
1827 – 1908
Filippo I, Duke of Parma
1720 – 1765
Francisco Antonio Pinto
1785 – 1858
Francisco Huneeus Gana
1876 – 1958
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza
1918 – 2000
Franz Anton von Harrach
1665 – 1727
Franz Weissmann
1911 – 2005
Fyodor Keller
1850 – 1904
Geofroy Tory
1912 – 2012
George Ainslie
1868 – 1931
George Beeby
1869 – 1942
George Clift King
1848 – 1935
George Henry Jenkins
1843 – 1911
George Sutherland
1862 – 1942
George Washington Ball
1847 – 1915
Gheorghe Grigorovici
1871 – 1950
Giuseppe Paupini
1907 – 1992
Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia
1869 – 1918
Guo Songtao
1818 – 1891
Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes
1839 – 1900
Gustavo Alessandri Valdés
1929 – 2017
Guy Pène du Bois
1884 – 1958
Hans Katzer
1919 – 1996
Hans Mackowsky
1871 – 1938
Haruma Miura
1990 – 2020
Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel
1921 – 2007
Heneage Gibbes
1837 – 1912
Henrique Soares da Costa
1963 – 2020
Henry Allingham
1896 – 2009
Hermann Adler
1839 – 1911
Hjalmar Carl Nygaard
1906 – 1963
Isaac Shelby
1750 – 1826
Jack Hawkins
1910 – 1973
Jack Matthews
1920 – 2012
James W. Davidson
1872 – 1933
Jan ten Brink
1834 – 1901
Jean François-Poncet
1928 – 2012
Jean Negulesco
1900 – 1993
Jean-Bernard Restout
1732 – 1797
Jeffrey Montgomery
1953 – 2016
Jim Parker
1934 – 2005
Joab N. Patterson
1835 – 1923
Johann Ludwig Choulant
1791 – 1861
Johann Nikuradse
1894 – 1979
Johann Ulrich von Cramer
1706 – 1772
Johannes Camphuys
1634 – 1695
John Archie MacKenzie
1934 – 2017
John Galen Howard
1864 – 1931
John R. Deane, Jr.
1919 – 2013
John Woodcock
1926 – 2021
Johnny Wayne
1918 – 1990
Josef Korbel
1909 – 1977
Joseph Howell
1857 – 1918
José Diéguez Reboredo
1934 – 2022
João Ubaldo Ribeiro
1941 – 2014
Julian Bell
1908 – 1937
Julián Trujillo Largacha
1828 – 1883
János Komlós
1922 – 1980
Karl Bremer
1885 – 1953
Karl Eggers
1826 – 1900
Karl Menninger
1893 – 1990
Karl Schenk
1823 – 1895
… and 1,639 more