On This Day — August 18
4074 noted people were born and 1786 died on August 18 in our archive, including Brook Taylor, Edmund Załęski and Josephine Barnes.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 18
Brook Taylor
1685 – 1731
Edmund Załęski
1863 – 1932
Josephine Barnes
1912 – 1999
Luc Montagnier
1932 – 2022
Alain Robbe-Grillet
1922 – 2008
Andreas Pinkwart
b. 1960
Austan Goolsbee
b. 1969
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
1807 – 1886
Dmitry Mezentsev
b. 1959
Donald Kennedy
1931 – 2020
Fred Moten
b. 1962
Hakuo Yanagisawa
b. 1935
Hans Tietmeyer
1931 – 2016
Hans van Mierlo
1931 – 2010
Henry John Carter
1813 – 1895
Herman Witte
1909 – 1973
Hugh Sinclair
1873 – 1939
Huw Edwards
b. 1961
Jaime Alfonsín
b. 1956
James Tour
b. 1959
Jean-Michel Leniaud
b. 1951
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
1792 – 1878
John Scarlett
b. 1948
Joseph Rambaud
1849 – 1919
Karl Gustaf Westman
1876 – 1944
Krzysztof Kozłowski
1931 – 2013
Leona Baumgartner
1902 – 1991
Natalia Cruz
b. 1976
Nora Lilian Alcock
1874 – 1972
Petr Macinka
b. 1978
Philip Barton
b. 1963
Pierre Corvol
b. 1941
Pál Turán
1910 – 1976
Richard B. Alley
b. 1957
Seitarō Gotō
1867 – 1935
Steve Chen
b. 1978
Taher Elgamal
b. 1955
Timothy Snyder
b. 1969
Umberto Guidoni
b. 1954
Viktor Abramov
b. 1956
Walther Funk
1890 – 1960
Wang Canfa
b. 1958
Warren Tucker
b. 1950
Zbigniew Ziobro
b. 1970
Adamson-Eric
1902 – 1968
Akhmed Dogaev
b. 1965
Aleksander Orlov
1873 – 1948
Aleksandr Mishchenko
b. 1941
Alexander Dutov
1864 – 1921
Alexander Shelepin
1918 – 1994
Alicia M. Soderberg
1977 – 2025
Almir Gabriel
1932 – 2013
Andrew Gault
1882 – 1958
Andrzej Januszajtis
1928 – 2026
André Flahaut
b. 1955
Andy Haldane
b. 1967
Antonio Salieri
1750 – 1825
Arnold Suppan
b. 1945
Arnon Nampa
b. 1984
Auguste Joseph Herlin
1815 – 1900
Batal Kobakhia
b. 1955
Beatriz Paredes Rangel
b. 1953
Belle Monappa Hegde
b. 1938
Bill McDermott
b. 1961
Brian Aldiss
1925 – 2017
Brian Michael Bendis
b. 1967
Carlo Cottarelli
b. 1954
Carolin Emcke
b. 1967
Caspar Weinberger
1917 – 2006
Cristiana Lôbo
1957 – 2021
David Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
1928 – 2020
Denis Leary
b. 1957
Dmitri Kitayenko
b. 1940
Edgar Faure
1908 – 1988
Edward Boyden
b. 1979
Edward C. Aldridge, Jr.
b. 1938
Emőke Bagdy
b. 1941
Eric Smaling
b. 1957
Eugène Rouché
1832 – 1910
Even Skatrud
b. 1977
Evgeny Zinichev
1966 – 2021
Frank Grosveld
b. 1948
Frol Kozlov
1908 – 1965
Gennady Voronov
1910 – 1994
George Stuart Fullerton
1859 – 1925
Georgy Pyatakov
1890 – 1937
Gerhard Wagner
1888 – 1939
Giulio Tremonti
b. 1947
Gottfried Schatz
1936 – 2015
Guglielmo Cavallo
b. 1938
Gustav Natvig-Pedersen
1893 – 1965
Harald Schmidt
b. 1957
Harbhajan Singh
1920 – 2002
Heinrich Hellwege
1908 – 1991
Henry Pratt Fairchild
1880 – 1956
Hifikepunye Pohamba
b. 1935
Jan Oostenbrink
1936 – 2025
Jane H. Rider
1889 – 1981
Jean Raynal
1929 – 2015
Jean-Daniel Lafond
b. 1944
Jillian Banfield
b. 1959
John Duncan
1839 – 1899
John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
1748 – 1830
Kastriot Islami
b. 1952
Kirsten van den Hul
b. 1976
Louis Jaurès
1860 – 1937
Luis Carlos Croissier
b. 1950
Luis Rodolfo Tailhade
b. 1970
M. Radhakrishna Pillai
b. 1960
Marcel Samuel-Rousseau
1882 – 1955
Marcus Pløen Ingstad
1837 – 1918
Maria Ulfah Santoso
1911 – 1988
Marvin Harris
1927 – 2001
Matteo Perego di Cremnago
b. 1982
Mauno Vannas
1891 – 1964
Mervyn Lee
1920 – 2009
Michel Kafando
b. 1942
Mihai Ciucă
1883 – 1969
Mitsujirō Ishii
1889 – 1981
Mohamed Ghannouchi
b. 1941
Moni Moshonov
b. 1951
Naomi Seibt
b. 2000
Norman Ian MacKenzie
1921 – 2013
Ole Tobias Olsen
1830 – 1924
Olivier Faure
b. 1968
Patryk Jaskulski
b. 1990
Paulin Talabot
1799 – 1885
Pierre Claude François Daunou
1761 – 1840
Purita Campos
1937 – 2019
Rainer Woelki
b. 1956
Raymond Jeanloz
b. 1952
Reynold A. Nicholson
1868 – 1945
Richard Shore
b. 1946
Rik Daems
b. 1959
Robert Lindsay
1905 – 2000
Robert Redford
1936 – 2025
Roberto Pazzi
1946 – 2023
Roger J. Kreuz
b. 1961
Roland Carl Backhouse
b. 1948
Roman Polanski
b. 1933
Ronald D. Schrimpf
b. 1959
Rosalynn Carter
1927 – 2023
Rustem Khamitov
b. 1954
Rômulo Almeida
1914 – 1988
Saburō Shiroyama
1927 – 2007
Samuel Klingenstierna
1698 – 1765
Selim Al Deen
1949 – 2008
Seymour Chwast
b. 1931
Shamim Alam Khan
1937 – 2021
Sigrid Metz-Göckel
1940 – 2025
Sim Kui Hian
b. 1965
Simon Sutour
b. 1952
Stanisław Stroński
1882 – 1955
Stanley Johnson
b. 1940
Streltsov Yevgeny
b. 1949
Sándor Tóth
1939 – 2019
Tan Dun
b. 1957
Theodore Millon
1928 – 2014
Thomas G. Clines
1928 – 2013
Timothy Geithner
b. 1961
Timothy Holroyde
b. 1955
Verne J. McCaul
1903 – 1968
Veysel Eroğlu
b. 1948
Victor Basch
1863 – 1944
Vince Dizon
b. 1974
Vincent Bugliosi
1934 – 2015
Vladimir Burmatov
b. 1981
Vladimir Cantarean
b. 1952
Věra Jourová
b. 1964
Walter Stosch
b. 1936
William John Greenstreet
1861 – 1930
William O'Malley
1931 – 2023
Winona LaDuke
b. 1959
Wolfgang Ullmann
1929 – 2004
Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr.
1921 – 2015
Óscar Catacora
1987 – 2021
A. E. J. Collins
1885 – 1914
Abbas Amir-Entezam
1932 – 2018
Abdellatif Maazouz
b. 1954
Abebe Aregai
1903 – 1960
Achille Petrocelli
1861 – 1929
Achille Starace
1889 – 1945
Adam Makowicz
b. 1940
Adolfo Omodeo
1889 – 1946
Agustín Argüelles
1776 – 1844
Agustín Aznar
1911 – 1984
Ai Aoki
b. 1965
Alan Mowbray
1896 – 1969
Aleksandr Rodzyanko
1879 – 1970
Alexa Leary
b. 2001
Alexander Bulygin
1851 – 1919
Alexandre Rockwell
b. 1956
Alexej Čepička
1910 – 1990
Alfred Leroy
1837 – 1901
Alfred Morpurgo
1899 – 1973
Alvin M. Johnston
1914 – 1998
Amelia Boynton Robinson
1911 – 2015
Anantanand Rambachan
b. 1951
Andy Samberg
b. 1978
Anis Mansour
1924 – 2011
… and 3,874 more
Died on August 18
Kazys Škirpa
1895 – 1979
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
1903 – 1994
Achille Dauphin-Meunier
1906 – 1984
B.F. Skinner
1904 – 1990
Baron Karl Ludwig von der Pfordten
1811 – 1880
Beppo Levi
1875 – 1961
Dmitri Shepilov
1905 – 1995
Eduard Carbonell i Esteller
1946 – 2025
Ernest Lavisse
1842 – 1922
Friedrich Stromeyer
1776 – 1835
Henk Wesseling
1937 – 2018
Julio Caro
1914 – 1995
Kim Dae-jung
1924 – 2009
Kofi Annan
1938 – 2018
Louis Madelin
1871 – 1956
Otto Wichterle
1913 – 1998
Richard Laurence Millington Synge
1914 – 1994
Tamisuke Watanuki
1927 – 2026
Walter Percy Chrysler Sr.
1875 – 1940
William Fairbairn
1789 – 1874
Abbott Lawrence
1792 – 1855
Agathe Luise Lasch
1879 – 1942
Albert Edelfelt
1854 – 1905
Albertus Antonie Nijland
1868 – 1936
Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky
1824 – 1896
Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton
1767 – 1852
Ali-Agha Shikhlinski
1865 – 1943
Archduke Wilhelm of Austria
1895 – 1948
Arthur Vivian
1834 – 1926
August von Bulmerincq
1822 – 1890
Austin Mitchell
1934 – 2021
Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough
1888 – 1973
Carl Andrée
1880 – 1959
Charles Arbuthnot
1767 – 1850
Charles Read
1958 – 2015
Christofer Rutger Ludvig Manderström
1806 – 1873
Edward Joseph Flynn
1891 – 1953
Elmer Bernstein
1922 – 2004
Ernst Lemmer
1898 – 1970
Federico García Lorca
1898 – 1936
Felix Novikov
1927 – 2022
Francis Hincks
1807 – 1885
Frederick Heiden
1821 – 1900
Friedrich Hartogs
1874 – 1943
Gaetano Gifuni
1932 – 2018
George Lockhart Rives
1849 – 1917
Giacomo Barzellotti
1844 – 1917
Giuseppe Mussi
1836 – 1904
Gordon F. Henderson
1912 – 1993
Grigol Giorgadze
1879 – 1937
Heinrich Laehr
1820 – 1905
Heinrich von Cocceji
1644 – 1719
Henry Andrade Harben
1849 – 1910
Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford
1828 – 1911
Hermann Hahn
1868 – 1945
Hisui Sugiura
1876 – 1965
Honoré de Balzac
1799 – 1850
Hugo Loetscher
1929 – 2009
Humayun Kabir
1906 – 1969
Igor Akhba
1949 – 2026
Isabel Morgan
1911 – 1996
James L. Buckley
1923 – 2023
Jan Zachwatowicz
1900 – 1983
Jean Kahn
1929 – 2013
Jean-Louis Brunaux
1953 – 2026
Jean-Louis Georgelin
1948 – 2023
Jesse Robredo
1958 – 2012
Jim Jeffords
1934 – 2014
Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten
1792 – 1860
John Sulman
1849 – 1934
John Treadwell
1745 – 1823
John William Vessey
1922 – 2016
Jérôme Monod
1930 – 2016
Kuki Ryūichi
1850 – 1931
Kurt Pätzold
1930 – 2016
Kurt Schütte
1909 – 1998
Learned Hand
1872 – 1961
Louis Stokes
1925 – 2015
Luigi Pernier
1874 – 1937
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento
1943 – 1989
Max Fabiani
1865 – 1962
Michael Perrin
1905 – 1988
Mirfatıyx Zäkief
1928 – 2023
Morton Shulman
1925 – 2000
Nikolaus Pevsner
1902 – 1983
Nishimura Shigeki
1828 – 1902
Ola Rotimi
1938 – 2000
Peter Tapsell
1930 – 2018
Praphas Charusathien
1912 – 1997
Raymond Hugh Burke
1881 – 1954
Robert Auty
1914 – 1978
Ruth Johnson Colvin
1916 – 2024
Samuel Cleland Davidson
1846 – 1921
Sasson Somekh
1933 – 2019
Shintaro Uda
1896 – 1976
Shūji Masutani
1888 – 1973
Silvia Victoria Araya González
1930 – 2021
Subhas Chandra Bose
1897 – 1945
Thomas Edward Scrutton
1856 – 1934
Vazgen I
1908 – 1994
Viktor Prokopenko
1944 – 2007
William Magee
1766 – 1831
Wojciech Karpiński
1943 – 2020
Al Quie
1923 – 2023
Alain Delon
1935 – 2024
Alberto Hurtado
1901 – 1952
Alexander Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun
1785 – 1853
Alexander VI
1431 – 1503
Alfred Boucher
1850 – 1934
Allen F. Moore
1869 – 1945
Alphonse de Gisors
1796 – 1866
Andrew Wood Wilkinson
1914 – 1995
Antoine de Mitry
1857 – 1924
Ben Stom
1886 – 1965
Bertha C. Boschulte
1906 – 2004
Bob Brinker
1941 – 2024
Bruce Forsyth
1928 – 2017
Béla Szende
1823 – 1882
Bénigne Gagneraux
1756 – 1795
Carl Strehl
1886 – 1971
Carlo Emilio Bonferroni
1892 – 1960
Charles Branch Wilson
1861 – 1941
Charles Defrémery
1822 – 1883
Charles Greeley Loring
1828 – 1902
Charles L. Mader
1930 – 2018
Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu
1738 – 1810
Chauncey Goodrich
1759 – 1815
Constant von Wurzbach
1818 – 1893
Debabrata Biswas
1911 – 1980
Dezső Gyarmati
1927 – 2013
Diego de Muros III
1450 – 1525
Don Shepherd
1927 – 2017
Donald Eugene O'Brien
1923 – 2015
Draper Kauffman
1911 – 1979
E. R. Eddison
1882 – 1945
E. Wallace Chadwick
1884 – 1969
Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche
1556 – 1625
Elgin Ralston Lovell Gould
1860 – 1915
Eli Whitney Blake
1795 – 1886
Ellen Margaret Leonard
1933 – 2022
Enrique Creel
1854 – 1931
Eric Gascoigne Robinson
1882 – 1965
Ermanno Giglio-Tos
1865 – 1926
Ernst Nolte
1923 – 2016
Ernst Thälmann
1886 – 1944
Eugeniusz Horbaczewski
1917 – 1944
Fernanda Pivano
1917 – 2009
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
1708 – 1765
Franciszek Gruszka
1910 – 1940
Frank Soos
1950 – 2021
François Gaspard Adam
1710 – 1761
Frederick Brown Harris
1883 – 1970
Fulvio Lucisano
1928 – 2026
Gardiner Spring
1785 – 1873
Gaston van de Werve et de Schilde
1867 – 1923
Georg Heinrich Mettenius
1823 – 1866
Georg Voigt
1827 – 1891
George Erroll Prior-Palmer
1903 – 1977
George Frederick Stout
1860 – 1944
George H. Prouty
1862 – 1918
George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester
1799 – 1855
Glória Menezes
1934 – 2026
Guy de Rougemont
1935 – 2021
Gylfi Þorsteinsson Gíslason
1917 – 2004
Hadrawi
1943 – 2022
Hanoch Levin
1943 – 1999
Harry Bruce
1934 – 2024
Harry R. Wellman
1899 – 1997
Henry Hopkins
1837 – 1908
Herma Albertson Baggley
1896 – 1981
Hildegard Behrens
1937 – 2009
Hillel Kook
1915 – 2001
Hiram Fong
1906 – 2004
Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon
1942 – 2015
Igino Cocchi
1827 – 1913
Ignacio Balbontín
1940 – 2015
Imre Németh
1917 – 1989
Ivan Marinov
1896 – 1979
James Beattie
1735 – 1803
James Guthrie
1872 – 1958
James Horner Haslett
1832 – 1905
James Tufts
1829 – 1884
Jan Damel
1780 – 1840
Jean Tabary
1930 – 2011
Jerzy Rudlicki
1893 – 1977
Jill Murphy
1949 – 2021
John A. Rice
1832 – 1906
John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton
1731 – 1783
John L. Horn
1928 – 2006
John McCarthy
1858 – 1950
John P. Kennedy
1795 – 1870
John Sherwood-Kelly
1880 – 1931
John W. Gulick
1874 – 1939
Johnson
1953 – 2011
Jonathan Friedrich Bahnmaier
1774 – 1841
Joseph E. Seagram
1841 – 1919
Joseph L. Galloway
1941 – 2021
Joseph Octave Delepierre
1804 – 1879
Joseph-René Bellot
1826 – 1853
José V. Abueva
1928 – 2021
… and 1,586 more