On this day: 18 February
Events, births and deaths on 18 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Gene Hackman
- Deaths · Claus Roxin
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1931 · Births · Toni Morrison
- 1933 · Births · Yoko Ono
- 1932 · Births · Miloš Forman
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 20
- 1229(Julian date)Treaty of Jaffa (1229) — Truce ending the Sixth Crusade
- 1637Battle off Lizard Point — 1637 naval battle
- 1814Battle of Montereau — 1814 battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition
- 1861President of the Confederate States — head of state and of government of the Confederate States
- 1878Lincoln County War — 1878–1881 conflict in the Old West of the US
- 1900Bloody Sunday — February 18, 1900; a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War
- 1942Sook Ching — systematic purge
- 1943Sportpalast speech — speech by Joseph Goebbels announcing a policy of total war
- 1945Operation Encore — 1945 Allied offensive in World War II
- 1946Royal Indian Navy mutiny — February 1946 mutiny against British Raj
- 1977Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire — serious fire causing 694 deaths
- 19791979 Daytona 500 — auto race run in Florida in 1979
- 1983Nellie massacre — Series of extremely violent massacres and pogroms against Muslims in Assam state
- 1983Wah Mee massacre — mass murder that occurred in the Wah Mee gambling club in 1983
- 2001Sampit conflict — 2001 ethnic conflict in Indonesia
- 2003Daegu subway fire — train wreck
- 2004Nishapur train disaster — train wreck
- 20102010 Nigerien coup d'état — coup d'état
- 2013Brussels Airport diamond heist — diamond heist
- 2018Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 — aircraft crash on 18 February 2018
Births · 60
- 1201(Julian date)Nasir al-Din al-Tusi — Persian astronomer (1201–1274)
- 1372Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani — Egyptian Islamic scholar (1372–1449)
- 1516(Julian date)Mary I — Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 to 1558 (1516-1558)
- 1530(Julian date)Uesugi Kenshin — Japanese daimyo
- 1626Francesco Redi — Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet (1626–1697)
- 1745Alessandro Volta — Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
- 1836Ramakrishna — Indian mystic and religious preacher (1836–1886)
- 1838Ernst Mach — Austrian physicist (1838–1916)
- 1848Louis Comfort Tiffany — American stained glass and jewelry designer (1848-1933)
- 1849Alexander Kielland — Norwegian writer
- 1860Anders Zorn — Swedish painter and engraver (1860-1920)
- 1883(Julian date)Nikos Kazantzakis — Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
- 1890Adolphe Menjou — American actor (1890–1963)
- 1892Wendell Willkie — American lawyer and corporate executive (1892–1944)
- 1898Enzo Ferrari — Italian racing driver and entrepreneur (1898–1988)
- 1906Hans Asperger — Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and medical professor (1906-1980)
- 1909Wallace Stegner — American historian, writer, and environmentalist (1909-1993)
- 1919Jack Palance — American actor (1919–2006)
- 1925George Kennedy — American actor (1925–2016)
- 1929Len Deighton — English writer (1929–2026)
- 1931Toni Morrison — African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)
- 1932Miloš Forman — Czech American director, screenwriter, and professor (1932–2018)
- 1933Yoko Ono — Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
- 1933Bobby Robson — English association football player and manager (1933-2009)
- 1934Audre Lorde — American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)
Deaths · 50
- 675(Julian date)Colmán of Lindisfarne — Bishop of Lindisfarne; Saint
- 814(Julian date)Angilbert — Frank/served Charlemagne as diplomat/abbot/poet/semi-son-in-law
- 1139(Julian date)Yaropolk II of Kiev — grand prince of Kiev (1082-1139)
- 1218Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen — Duke of Zähringen
- 1225(Julian date)Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk — 3rd Earl of Norfolk
- 1294(Julian date)Kublai Khan — founding emperor of the Yuan dynasty, grandson of Genghis Khan (1215–1294)
- 1379(Julian date)Duke Albrecht II, Duke of Mecklenburg — Duke of Mecklenburg
- 1405(Julian date)Timur — the founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405)
- 1455(Julian date)Fra Angelico — Italian Early Renaissance painter
- 1478(Julian date)George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence — Third son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English Kings Edward IV and Richard III (1449-1478)
- 1502(Julian date)Hedwig Jagiellon, Duchess of Bavaria — Polish princess (1457-1502)
- 1535(Julian date)Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa — German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486–1535)
- 1546(Julian date)Martin Luther — German priest and theologian (1483–1546)
- 1564(Julian date)Michelangelo — Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
- 1654Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac — French author, best known for his epistolary essays
- 1683Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem — Dutch painter (1622–1683)
- 1695William Phips — First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1651-1695)
- 1712Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy — French duke (1682-1712)
- 1743Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici — Wife of Johann Wilhelm Palatine Elector (1667-1743)
- 1748Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun — Austrian general and marshall
- 1772Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff — Danish politician (1712-1772)
- 1778Joseph Marie Terray — French politician (1715-1778)
- 1780Kristijonas Donelaitis — Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor (1714–1780)
- 1788John Whitehurst — British clockmaker (1713-1788)
- 1803Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim — German poet (1719–1803)
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