On this day: 18 November
Events, births and deaths on 18 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Randy Jones
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Sharon Jones
- Deaths · Denton Cooley
100 years ago1926
- Births · Roy Sievers
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 942 · Deaths · Odo of Cluny
- 953 · Deaths · Liutgarde
Events · 18
- 1421(Julian date)St. Elizabeth's flood — flooding of the Grote Hollandse Waard, an area in what is now the Netherlands
- 1583Siege of Godesberg — 1583 siege during the Cologne War
- 1803Battle of Vertières — 1803 major battle of the Second War of Haitian Independence
- 1901Hay–Pauncefote Treaty — 1901 treaty between the United States and Great Britain
- 1903Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty — 1903 treaty between U.S. and Panama establishing the Panama Canal Zone
- 1910Black Friday — women's suffrage event on 18 November 1910
- 1918Latvia — sovereign state in northeastern Europe
- 1928Mickey Mouse — American cartoon character and mascot of The Walt Disney Company
- 19291929 Grand Banks earthquake — November 1929 earthquake of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland
- 1943Air battle of Berlin — bomber attacks, 1943-44, WWII
- 1947Ballantyne's fire — 1947 fire in Christchurch, New Zealand
- 1977flag of the Solomon Islands — national flag of the Solomon Islands
- 1978Jonestown — former community established by the Peoples Temple, known for a mass death event on November 18, 1978
- 1983Aeroflot Flight 6833 — hijacking
- 1985Calvin and Hobbes — comic strip by Bill Watterson
- 1987King's Cross fire — fire in London on 18 November 1987
- 1991flag of Uzbekistan — national flag of the Republic of Uzbekistan
- 20142014 Jerusalem synagogue attack — incident in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Births · 60
- 709(Julian date)Kōnin — 49th emperor of Japan
- 1630Eleonora Gonzaga — Austrian queen
- 1647Pierre Bayle — French philosopher and writer (1647–1706)
- 1774Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands — queen consort of the Netherlands from 1815 to 1837 (1774–1837)
- 1786Carl Maria von Weber — German Romantic composer (1786–1826)
- 1787Louis Daguerre — French scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)
- 1804Alfonso La Marmora — Italian general and statesman (1804-1878)
- 1810Asa Gray — American botanist (1810–1888)
- 1832Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld — Finland Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer (1832–1901)
- 1836W. S. Gilbert — English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836–1911)
- 1839August Kundt — German physicist (1839–1894)
- 1860Ignacy Jan Paderewski — Polish pianist, composer, supporter of Poland's independence movements, politician, Prime Minister of reborn Poland (1860–1941)
- 1882Jacques Maritain — French philosopher (1882–1973)
- 1888Frances Marion — American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter (1888-1973)
- 1897Patrick Blackett — British physicist (1897-1974)
- 1898Joris Ivens — Dutch filmmaker (1898-1989)
- 1901George Gallup — American statistician (1901–1984)
- 1906Klaus Mann — German writer (1906–1949)
- 1906George Wald — American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (1906–1997)
- 1907Compay Segundo — Cuban musician (1907-2003)
- 1909Johnny Mercer — American lyricist, songwriter, singer and record executive (1909–1976)
- 1923Alan Shepard — American astronaut, first American in space, lunar explorer (1923–1998)
- 1923Ted Stevens — American politician (1923–2010)
- 1936Ennio Antonelli — Catholic cardinal
- 1936Don Cherry — American jazz trumpeter (1936–1995)
Deaths · 60
- 942(Julian date)Odo of Cluny — benedictine monk, second abbott of Cluny
- 953(Julian date)Liutgarde — Duchess consort of Lotharingia
- 1154(Julian date)Adelaide of Maurienne — second spouse but first Queen consort of Louis VI of France
- 1170(Julian date)Albert the Bear — 1st Margrave of Brandenburg (1157-70)
- 1305(Julian date)John II, Duke of Brittany — Duke of Brittany
- 1313(Julian date)Constance of Portugal — Queen of Castile
- 1349(Julian date)Frederick II — Margrave of Meissen from 1323
- 1472(Julian date)Basilios Bessarion — Greek theologian, cardinal bishop and Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1403-1472)
- 1559(Julian date)Cuthbert Tunstall — English bishop, administrator and royal advisor
- 1664Nikola VII Zrinski — Croatian military commander (1620-1664)
- 1785Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans — French royal (1725–1785)
- 1804Philip Schuyler — American politician and general (1733–1804)
- 1830Adam Weishaupt — German philosopher and founder of the Illuminati (1748–1830)
- 1841Agustín Gamarra — President of Peru (1785-1841)
- 1852Rose Philippine Duchesne — French Catholic Religious Sister and missionary in the United States
- 1865Lovell Augustus Reeve — British biologist and publisher (1814–1865)
- 1886Chester A. Arthur — president of the United States from 1881 to 1885
- 1889William Allingham — Irish man of letters and poet (1824-1889)
- 1909Renée Vivien — British poet who wrote in French
- 1919Adolf Hurwitz — German mathematician (1859–1919)
- 1922Marcel Proust — French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
- 1936V. O. Chidambaram Pillai — Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, entrepreneur and writer (1872–1936)
- 1940Ivane Javakhishvili — Georgian historian and linguist (1876-1940)
- 1941Walther Hermann Nernst — German physical chemist and physicist (1864–1941)
- 1941Chris Watson — Australian politician, third Prime Minister of Australia (1867-1941)
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