On this day: 18 July
Events, births and deaths on 18 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths ·
- Deaths · Roger Norrington
- Deaths · Edwin Feulner
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Elizabeth Jennings
- Births · Margaret Laurence
- Births · Bernard Pons
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1100 · Deaths · Godfrey of Bouillon
- 1013 · Births · Hermann of Reichenau
- 927 · Deaths · Stephen II of Constantinople
Events · 21
- 452(Julian date)Sack of Aquileia — Attila's siege, plunder, and razing of Aquileia
- 1290(Julian date)Edict of Expulsion — edict issued by King Edward I in 1290 expelling all Jews from England
- 1863Second Battle of Fort Wagner — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1914Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps — United States Army unit
- 1936Spanish Civil War — war between the Republicans and the Nationalists in Spain from 1936 to 1939
- 1942Beisfjord massacre — prison camp massacre in Norway, 1942
- 1968Intel — American multinational technology company
- 19701970 Atlantic Ocean Antonov An-22 crash — 1970 aviation accident
- 1976gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – women's uneven bars — women's uneven bars events at the Olympics
- 19811981 Armenia mid-air collision — mid-air collision
- 1982Plan de Sánchez massacre — Massacre
- 1984San Ysidro McDonald's massacre — 1984 mass shooting
- 1988Transmac — bus operator in Macau, China
- 1994AMIA bombing — attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA)
- 1996Battle of Mullaitivu — occurred between July 18 and July 25, 1996
- 20022002 airtanker crashes — 2002 aviation accidents in California and Colorado
- 2009Lin family murders — 2009 mass murder in Sydney, Australia
- 20122012 Burgas bus bombing — suicide attack
- 201218 July 2012 Damascus bombing — bombing in Damascus, Syria
- 2013Detroit bankruptcy — 2013 Detroit bankruptcy
- 2019Kyoto Animation arson attack — arson attack in Kyoto, Japan on 18 July 2019
Births · 60
- 1013(Julian date)Hermann of Reichenau — German 11th-century Benedictine monk
- 1501(Julian date)Isabella of Austria — Queen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden; (1501-1526)
- 1504(Julian date)Heinrich Bullinger — Swiss reformer (1504–1575)
- 1552(Julian date)Emperor Rudolf II — Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria (1552-1612)
- 1635(Julian date)Robert Hooke — English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
- 1659Hyacinthe Rigaud — Catalan-French baroque painter (1659–1743)
- 1811William Makepeace Thackeray — British novelist (1811–1863)
- 1818Louis de Geer the Elder — Swedish 19th century prime minister (1818–1896)
- 1821Pauline Viardot — French mezzo-soprano and composer
- 1837Vasil Levski — Bulgarian revolutionary (1837–1873)
- 1845Tristan Corbière — French poet
- 1848W. G. Grace — English amateur cricketer (1848-1915)
- 1853Hendrik Lorentz — Dutch physicist (1853–1928)
- 1862Kadambini Ganguly — Indian physician (1862–1923)
- 1867Margaret Brown — survivor of the sinking of the Titanic (1867–1932), women's rights activist, philanthropist
- 1871Giacomo Balla — Italian artist (1871-1958)
- 1887Vidkun Quisling — Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)
- 1890Frank Forde — Australian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (1890-1983)
- 1892Arthur Friedenreich — Brazilian footballer (1892–1969)
- 1900Nathalie Sarraute — French lawyer and writer (1900–1999)
- 1908
- 1909Mohammed Daoud Khan — politician, first President of Afghanistan (1973-1978)
- 1914Gino Bartali — Italian road cyclist (1914–2000)
- 1917Henri Salvador — French Caribbean recording artist; singer, songwriter (1917–2008)
- 1918Nelson Mandela — President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
Deaths · 60
- 707(Julian date)Monmu — Emperor of Japan
- 715(Julian date)Muhammad bin Qasim — Umayyad Hijazi general and governor (695–715)
- 912(Julian date)Emperor Taizu of Later Liang — Chinese warlord and Later Liang emperor from 907 to 912
- 927(Julian date)Stephen II of Constantinople — Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1100(Julian date)Godfrey of Bouillon — Medieval Frankish knight
- 1194(Julian date)Guy of Lusignan — French Poitevin knight and King of Jerusalem by right of marriage (c.1150–1194) (r. 1186–1192)
- 1300Gerard Segarelli — founder of the Apostolic Brethren
- 1591Jacobus Gallus — Slovenian Renaissance composer (1550–1591)
- 1608Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg — Elector of Brandenburg
- 1610Caravaggio — Italian painter (1571–1610)
- 1639Bernard of Saxe-Weimar — German general
- 1721Jean-Antoine Watteau — French painter (1684-1721)
- 1730François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi — French duke (1644-1730)
- 1792John Paul Jones — American naval officer (1747–1792)
- 1817Jane Austen — author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
- 1863Robert Gould Shaw — Union United States Army officer (1837-1863)
- 1872
- 1884Ferdinand von Hochstetter — German geologist (1829–1884)
- 1890Lydia Becker — British activist, botanist and astronomist (1827-1890)
- 1892Thomas Cook — English founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son (1808–1892)
- 1899Horatio Alger — American novelist (1832–1899)
- 1902Saigō Tsugumichi — Japanese politician and admiral (1843-1902)
- 1925Louis-Nazaire Bégin — Canadian Catholic cardinal (1840–1925)
- 1932Jean Jules Jusserand — French historian (1855–1932)
- 1938Marie of Romania — last Queen consort of Romania (1875-1938; r. 1914-1927)
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