On This Day — October 18
3904 noted people were born and 1962 died on October 18 in our archive, including Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Harvey Washington Wiley and Pascual Jordan.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 18
Christian Friedrich Schönbein
1799 – 1868
Harvey Washington Wiley
1844 – 1930
Pascual Jordan
1902 – 1980
Adalberto Rodríguez Giavarini
b. 1944
Akin Mabogunje
1931 – 2022
Anna Popova
b. 1960
Antonio Domínguez Ortiz
1909 – 2003
Antonio Maria Lorgna
1735 – 1796
Avetik Isahakyan
1875 – 1957
Axelle Lemaire
b. 1974
Craig Mello
b. 1960
Crispin Gardiner
b. 1942
David Fialkow
b. 1958
Dmitry Makhonin
b. 1982
Eugenio Elia Levi
1883 – 1917
Frank Carlucci
1930 – 2018
François Ruffin
b. 1975
George E. P. Box
1919 – 2013
Henri Bergson
1859 – 1941
Irwin M. Jacobs
b. 1933
Isabelle Autissier
b. 1956
Jean-Pierre Fourcade
b. 1929
Jesse Helms
1921 – 2008
Job Cohen
b. 1947
John Ruggie
1944 – 2021
Jovan Žujović
1856 – 1936
Karl Ove Moene
b. 1949
Kevin Tebbit
b. 1946
Kim Nasmyth
b. 1952
Leopold Rutowicz
1932 – 2025
Lluís Puig i Gordi
b. 1959
Lucas Mallada
1841 – 1921
Maria Jastrzębska
1924 – 1988
Mathias Fink
b. 1945
Nir Shavit
b. 1959
Norberto Bobbio
1909 – 2004
Orley Ashenfelter
b. 1942
Patricia Bouyer-Decitre
b. 1976
Paul Moon
b. 1968
Phillip Griffiths
b. 1938
Pierre Trudeau
1919 – 2000
Seth Berkley
b. 1956
Stephan Winkelmann
b. 1964
Svatopluk Karásek
1942 – 2020
Valery Falkov
b. 1978
Viktor Nazarov
b. 1962
Vytautas Landsbergis
b. 1932
Víctor Manuel Toledo Manzur
b. 1945
Z. W. Birnbaum
1903 – 2000
Zdzisław Raczyński
b. 1959
Alan McPherson
b. 1970
Alan R. Bishop
b. 1947
Albert Wesley Johnson
1923 – 2010
Aldo Cavalli
b. 1946
Alexander Levintal
b. 1957
Alexander Yafimaw
b. 1983
Alvydas Nikžentaitis
b. 1961
Amal Al Qubaisi
b. 1969
Anna Cabré
b. 1943
Annita Demetriou
b. 1985
Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
1865 – 1946
Ashif Shaikh
b. 1982
Auguste Longnon
1844 – 1911
Augustus Keppel Stephenson
1827 – 1904
Bo Holmström
1938 – 2017
Bob Timberlake
b. 1943
Camilla Williams
1919 – 2012
Candice Hopkins
b. 1977
Carl E. Vuono
b. 1934
Carlos Artemio Coello Coello
b. 1967
Carlos Vasallo
b. 1950
Charles Eugene Denney
1879 – 1965
Charles Le Beau
1701 – 1778
Claudio Saunt
b. 1967
D. T. Suzuki
1870 – 1965
David Normington
b. 1951
David Sharp
1840 – 1922
Dusa McDuff
b. 1945
Dzmitry Matusievich
b. 1978
Earle L. Reynolds
1910 – 1998
Ebrahim Alkazi
1925 – 2020
Eduardo Fernández
b. 1940
Edward Lipiński
1888 – 1986
Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer
1923 – 2009
Emilie Chalas
b. 1977
Ernst von Plener
1841 – 1923
Erwin Sellering
b. 1949
Esperanza Spalding
b. 1984
Eugen Johannessen
1892 – 1975
Eugene of Savoy
1663 – 1736
Evelyn Venable
1913 – 1993
Fanny Rubio
b. 1949
Ferran Latorre i Torres
b. 1970
Francisco Cerro Chaves
b. 1957
Frank Kowalski
1907 – 1974
François-Philippe Brais
1894 – 1972
Frederic Harrison
1831 – 1923
Frederick III, German Emperor
1831 – 1888
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
1905 – 1993
Gary Gensler
b. 1957
Georg Meiring
1939 – 2024
Gerhard von Rantzau
1558 – 1627
Gianfranco Ravasi
b. 1942
Grzegorz Fitelberg
1879 – 1953
Grzegorz Małecki
b. 1967
Guy Roux
b. 1938
Harriet Hageman
b. 1962
Henry Wrixon
1839 – 1913
Hiroshi Kajiyama
b. 1955
Howard Sanderford
1935 – 2026
Hunor Kelemen
b. 1967
Ien Dales
1931 – 1994
Ivan Shabanov
b. 1939
Ivan Vekić
1938 – 2014
Ivan Velho
1830 – 1899
Ivanoe Bonomi
1873 – 1951
Jacques Van Offelen
1916 – 2006
James Brooks
1906 – 1992
James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey
1875 – 1927
James Foley
1973 – 2014
James Musgrove
1862 – 1935
Jan Fryderyk Sapieha
1680 – 1751
Janet Vaughan
1899 – 1993
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès
1753 – 1824
Jens Carsten Jantzen
b. 1948
Jeremy Scahill
b. 1974
Jim Ratcliffe
b. 1952
Joe Abbott
1891 – 1965
Johann Böhm
b. 1937
John Moorfield
1943 – 2018
Joseph A. Wolf
1936 – 2023
Josh Sawyer
b. 1975
Judith Mayhew
b. 1948
Juergen Hahn
b. 1971
Justus Lipsius
1547 – 1606
Józef Wróbel
b. 1952
Karl Ludwig von Bruck
1798 – 1860
Ken Sim
b. 1970
Kevin C. Kiley
b. 1950
Kir Bulychev
1934 – 2003
Konstantinos Mitsotakis
1918 – 2017
Krzysztof Szczucki
b. 1986
Ksawery Liske
1838 – 1891
Károly Simonyi
1916 – 2001
Larisa Tutova
b. 1969
Lars Lindberg Christensen
b. 1970
Lasse Thoresen
b. 1949
Letitia James
b. 1958
Lim Boon Keng
1869 – 1957
Louis-Joseph Seutin
1793 – 1862
Loye Holmes Miller
1874 – 1970
Lucas Bacmeister
1530 – 1608
Lucas Bersamin
b. 1949
Mahmud Kərimov
1948 – 2013
Manny Shinwell
1884 – 1986
Manuel da Nóbrega
1517 – 1570
Marek Kondrat
b. 1950
Marianne Elisabeth Lloyd-Dolbey
1919 – 1994
Martin Pickford
b. 1943
Mauricio Funes
1959 – 2025
Melchior de Vogüé
1829 – 1916
Melina Mercouri
1920 – 1994
Milcho Manchevski
b. 1959
Nick Houghton
b. 1954
Nikolai Kamanin
1908 – 1982
Nikolay Bondar
b. 1950
Ntozake Shange
1948 – 2018
Olufemi Vaughan
b. 1957
Paolo Orsi
1859 – 1935
Park Duk-hyum
b. 1953
Penelope Wensley
b. 1946
Philippe Jordan
b. 1974
Philippe Minard
1961 – 2024
Pierre Sebileau
1860 – 1953
Pius II
1405 – 1464
Pyotar Miklashevich
b. 1954
Robert Pelikán
b. 1979
Roman Romanyuk
b. 1961
Rudolf Wegscheider
1859 – 1935
Rut Bryk
1916 – 1999
Ryhor Azaronak
b. 1995
Sergey Dorenko
1959 – 2019
Serhiy Ionushas
b. 1979
Stepan Krasheninnikov
1711 – 1755
Tadeusz Kwinta
b. 1938
Takashi Sakai
1887 – 1946
Tao Xingzhi
1891 – 1946
Terry McMillan
b. 1951
Terry Plank
b. 1963
Tricia Rose
b. 1962
Uzi Even
b. 1940
Valery Kokov
1941 – 2005
Vasvi Abduraimov
b. 1954
Viktor Lisitsky
1939 – 2023
Violeta Chamorro
1929 – 2025
Vladimir Govorov
1924 – 2006
William J. Cook
b. 1957
Wu Chi-wai
b. 1962
Wynton Marsalis
b. 1961
Zakir Naik
b. 1965
… and 3,704 more
Died on October 18
Charles Babbage
1791 – 1871
Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev
1923 – 2005
Barbara Karinska
1886 – 1983
Carl Peter Parelius Essendrop
1818 – 1893
Chen-ning Yang
1922 – 2025
Colin Powell
1937 – 2021
Franz Magnus Böhme
1827 – 1898
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
1838 – 1906
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
1784 – 1865
Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini
1748 – 1845
Jenő Szép
1920 – 2004
José Ortega y Gasset
1883 – 1955
Leo Strauss
1899 – 1973
Medhat Haroun
1951 – 2012
Meir Shamgar
1925 – 2019
Paul Helbronner
1871 – 1938
Paulius Galaunė
1890 – 1988
Sidney Shapiro
1915 – 2014
Thomas Edison
1847 – 1931
Tom Foley
1929 – 2013
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab
1934 – 2018
Alan Collins
1928 – 2016
Albert Boime
1933 – 2008
Aleksander Paulus
1872 – 1953
Alfred Binet
1857 – 1911
Alfred Hillebrandt
1853 – 1927
Alfred-Auguste Cuvillier-Fleury
1802 – 1887
Alvin M. Weinberg
1915 – 2006
Anthea Bell
1936 – 2018
August von Brandis
1859 – 1947
Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen
1884 – 1962
Bill Young
1930 – 2013
Carl Reinhold Sahlberg
1779 – 1860
Charles Duncan, Jr.
1926 – 2022
Charles Gounod
1818 – 1893
Christopher Pitchford
1947 – 2017
Corry Tendeloo
1897 – 1956
Edward Hanson
1889 – 1959
Edward Onslow
1758 – 1829
Efua Dorkenoo
1949 – 2014
Eugen Simion
1933 – 2022
Franc-Nohain
1872 – 1934
Frederick J. Horne
1880 – 1959
Ginés González García
1945 – 2024
Hans Ehard
1887 – 1980
Henry Halcro Johnston
1856 – 1939
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle
1811 – 1864
Jacobus Wittichius
1677 – 1739
Jacques François Gallay
1795 – 1864
Jean-Christophe Parisot
1967 – 2020
Johan Quirijn van Regteren Altena
1899 – 1980
John Price Durbin
1800 – 1876
John Robarts
1917 – 1982
John Spencer Login
1809 – 1863
John Wilson
1741 – 1793
Johnny Roosval
1879 – 1965
Josef Maria Eder
1855 – 1944
Joseph Oleskiw
1860 – 1903
Joseph Rykwert
1926 – 2024
Joseph-Mathias Tellier
1861 – 1952
Juda Lion Palache
1886 – 1944
Julian Aleksandrowicz
1908 – 1988
János Kornai
1928 – 2021
Kenneth Adam
1908 – 1978
Kálmán Vánky
1930 – 2021
Lawrence William Cramer
1897 – 1978
Lilian Helen Alexander
1861 – 1934
Lisbet Palme
1931 – 2018
Ludwig III of Bavaria
1845 – 1921
Manuel Neri
1930 – 2021
Manuel Teixeira Gomes
1860 – 1941
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
1939 – 2003
Manuel da Nóbrega
1517 – 1570
Martin Gusinde
1886 – 1969
Mary Cecil Tenison Woods
1893 – 1971
Metropolitan Michael of Austria
1946 – 2011
Michael O'Connor
1810 – 1872
Mikhail Innokentyevich Semyonov
1938 – 2019
Otto Volger
1822 – 1897
Patrick d'Arcy
1725 – 1779
Paul West
1930 – 2015
Philipp Franz von Siebold
1796 – 1866
Pierre Mendès France
1907 – 1982
Pierre-Évariste Leblanc
1853 – 1918
Prince Zeid bin Hussein
1898 – 1970
Rachel Makinson
1917 – 2014
Rafael Sánchez Mazas
1894 – 1966
Riccardo Sineo
1805 – 1876
Rudolf Lindau
1888 – 1977
S. S. Kresge
1867 – 1966
Samuel Wesley Stratton
1861 – 1931
Thomas Machen
1541 – 1614
Valentin Tsvetkov
1948 – 2002
Walther von Brauchitsch
1881 – 1948
Warren M. Washington
1936 – 2024
William Canniff
1830 – 1910
William H. Zeliff Jr.
1936 – 2021
William J. Crowe
1925 – 2007
William Milliken
1922 – 2019
Wilson Jameson
1885 – 1962
Xie Jin
1923 – 2008
Yehuda Bauer
1926 – 2024
Åke Ortmark
1929 – 2018
Émile Maupas
1842 – 1916
Adam Zertal
1936 – 2015
Alan Stephenson Boyd
1922 – 2020
Albert Charles Saunders
1874 – 1943
Alberto Jerez Horta
1927 – 2023
Alessandro Antonelli
1798 – 1888
Alexander Buzgalin
1954 – 2023
Alexander Zarchin
1897 – 1988
Alexei Korzukhin
1835 – 1894
Amos Myers
1824 – 1893
Anders Lange
1904 – 1974
Andrea Zanzotto
1921 – 2011
Andrey Kravchenko
1899 – 1963
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak
1908 – 1969
Antonina Latinik-Rieger
1906 – 1989
Arlie Franklin Culp Jr.
1926 – 2017
Asa Keyes
1877 – 1934
August Malmström
1829 – 1901
Augustine Lonergan
1874 – 1947
Bartolomeo Cesi
1566 – 1621
Bernard Darwin
1876 – 1961
Bess Truman
1885 – 1982
Betsy Graves Reyneau
1889 – 1964
Bogdan Theophil von Meyendorff
1838 – 1919
Carl Gustaf Ottelin
1792 – 1864
Cecil Blacker
1916 – 2002
Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton
1737 – 1763
Charles Henry Lyell
1875 – 1918
Charles John Bowen Cooke
1859 – 1920
Charles Magnette
1863 – 1937
Charles Medhurst
1896 – 1954
Choi Soon-dal
1931 – 2014
Christian August Crusius
1715 – 1775
Christian Reineccius
1668 – 1752
Christine Murrell
1874 – 1933
Claude Dejoux
1732 – 1816
Daniel Adam z Veleslavína
1546 – 1599
David Bunnell
1947 – 2016
David Seath
1914 – 1997
Diego Abad de Santillán
1897 – 1983
Ebenezer Vining Bodwell
1827 – 1889
Edita Gruberová
1946 – 2021
Eduardo Ermita
1935 – 2025
Edward Combes
1830 – 1895
Edward Regan
1930 – 2014
Edwin Arthur Hall
1909 – 2004
Einar Jónsson
1874 – 1954
Eliseo Arredondo
1870 – 1923
Ellie G. Schuler Jr.
1936 – 2024
Elpidio González
1875 – 1951
Emiliano González Navero
1861 – 1934
Erich Jaschke
1890 – 1961
Ernest Brudenell-Bruce, 3rd Marquess of Ailesbury
1811 – 1886
Ernest Robinson Ackerman
1863 – 1931
Eugen Jahnke
1863 – 1921
Eulogio Despujol
1834 – 1907
Eva Ryynänen
1915 – 2001
Federico Ferrari-Orsi
1886 – 1942
Francis P. Matthews
1887 – 1952
Francis Preston Blair
1791 – 1876
François Cacault
1743 – 1805
François Kinson
1771 – 1839
Frederick Ashton
1904 – 1988
Frederick Hovey
1868 – 1945
Friedrich Kittler
1943 – 2011
Fuat Keyman
1958 – 2024
Gabriela Basařová
1934 – 2019
George B. Cooper
1916 – 1995
George Edgar
1837 – 1913
Giacomo Lercaro
1891 – 1976
Gisi Fleischmann
1894 – 1944
Gonzalo Figueroa y Torres
1861 – 1921
Gregory Baum
1923 – 2017
Gregory XII
1335 – 1417
Gronow Davis
1828 – 1891
Grosvenor Atterbury
1869 – 1956
Gus Craig
1920 – 2008
Gwen Verdon
1925 – 2000
Hanns Martin Schleyer
1915 – 1977
Hans Ferdinand Mayer
1895 – 1980
Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg
1568 – 1634
Harvey Wollman
1935 – 2022
Heinz Oskar Vetter
1917 – 1990
Henri Pinta
1856 – 1944
Henry Kandrup
1955 – 2003
Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln
1750 – 1778
Honoré Vial
1766 – 1813
Hyacinthe de Bougainville
1781 – 1846
Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın
1875 – 1957
Irwin Untermyer
1886 – 1973
Ivan Titov
1879 – 1948
Ivan Yanzhul
1846 – 1914
Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen
1851 – 1933
Jacob D. Leighty
1839 – 1912
Jacopo Sadoleto
1477 – 1547
James A. Noe
1890 – 1976
James Carroll
1857 – 1926
… and 1,762 more