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October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap
years). There are 74 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1405 - Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
- 1706 - Baldassare
Galuppi, composer (d. 1785)
- 1741 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
- 1859 - Henri Bergson,
writer
- 1898 - Lotte Lenya, singer, actress
(d. 1981)
- 1898 - Shin'ichi
Suzuki, violin player and teacher, creator of the Suzuki method (d.
1998)
- 1902 - Mirian Hopkins, actress (d. 1972)
- 1903 - Lina Radke, German
athlete
- 1911 - Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi, guru
- 1913 - Evelyn Venable Mohr, actress (d. 1993)
- 1918 - Bobby Troup, musician (d. 1999)
- 1919 - Anita O'Day, jazz singer
- 1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
- 1920 - Melina Mercouri,
actress (d. 1994)
- 1921 - Jesse Helms, Senator from North Carolina
- 1926 - Chuck Berry, musician
- 1926 - Klaus Kinski, actor (d.
1991)
- 1927 - George C. Scott,
actor (d. 1999)
- 1928 - Keith Jackson, American football
commentator
- 1929 - Violeta Chamorro,
President of Nicaragua
- 1934 - Inger Stevens, actress
(d. 1970)
- 1935 - Peter Boyle, actor
- 1939 - Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, commentator
- 1939 - Lee Harvey
Oswald, assassin (d. 1963)
- 1947 - Joe Morton, actor
- 1947 - Laura Nyro, singer, songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1948 - Ntozake Shange, author
- 1950 - Om Puri, actor
- 1950 - Wendy
Wasserstein, playwright
- 1951 - Terry McMillan, author
- 1956 - Martina
Navratilova, tennis player
- 1960 - Jean-Claude
Van Damme
- 1961 - Wynton Marsalis,
musician
- 1962 - Vincent Spano, actor
Deaths
- 707 - Pope John VII
- 1417 - Pope Gregory
XII
- 1503 - Pope Pius III
- 1545 - John Taverner,
composer
- 1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, composer
- 1871 - Charles Babbage,
mathematician and inventor of computing machines
- 1893 - Charles Gounod,
composer
- 1921 - King Ludwig
III of Bavaria
- 1931 - Thomas Edison,
inventor
- 1959 - Boughera El
Ouafi, Algerian athlete
- 1984 - Jon-Erix Hexum, actor, model
- 2000 - Julie London, singer, actress
- 2000 - Gwen Verdon, dancer, actress
- 2001 - Micheline
Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician
- 2002 - Nikolai
Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut
- 2003 - Preston
Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
Holidays
October 17 - October 19 -
September 18 - November
18 - more historical anniversaries
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