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2008-08-18
Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-08-20
Births
1414-08-18 - Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
1450-08-18 - Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (d. 1524)
1587-08-18 - Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America (d. 1588)
1596-08-18 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
1605-08-18 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
1657-08-18 - Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1743)
1685-08-18 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731)
1692-08-18 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)
1720-08-18 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
1750-08-18 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
1754-08-18 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
1774-08-18 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
1792-08-18 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
1822-08-18 - Isaac P. Rodman, American Union general (d. 1862)
1830-08-18 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916)
1841-08-18 - William Halford, American naval officer (d. 1919)
1855-08-18 - Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942)
1857-08-18 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (d. 1926)
1870-08-18 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (d. 1918)
1879-08-18 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970)
1890-08-18 - Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960)
1893-08-18 - Ernest MacMillan, Canadian musician (d. 1973)
1893-08-18 - Burleigh Grimes, baseball player (d. 1985)
1896-08-18 - Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (d. 1933)
1900-08-18 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
1902-08-18 - Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (d. 1968)
1904-08-18 - Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1913-08-18 - Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1983)
1915-08-18 - Max Lanier, baseball player
1917-08-18 - Caspar Weinberger, American politician (d. 2006)
1918-08-18 - Walter Joseph Hickel, Governor of Alaska (twice)
1920-08-18 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player (d. 2005)
1920-08-18 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
1922-08-18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer
1925-08-18 - Brian Aldiss, English writer
1927-08-18 - Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States
1928-08-18 - Marge Schott, baseball team owner (d. 2004)
1929-08-18 - Hugues Aufray, French singer
1931-08-18 - Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian Salvation Army general
1932-08-18 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
1933-08-18 - Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor
1933-08-18 - Just Fontaine, French footballer
1934-08-18 - Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney
1934-08-18 - Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 1972)
1934-08-18 - Ronnie Carroll, British singer
1935-08-18 - Rafer Johnson, American athlete
1935-08-18 - Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer
1936-08-18 - Robert Redford, American actor
1939-08-18 - Robert Horton, British businessman
1943-08-18 - Martin Mull, American comedian
1943-08-18 - Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer
1943-08-18 - Carl Wayne, English singer (d. 2004)
1945-08-18 - Barbara Harris, American singer (Toys)
1952-08-18 - Elayne Boosler, American comedian
1952-08-18 - Patrick Swayze, American actor
1953-08-18 - Louie Gohmert, American politician
1955-08-18 - Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist
1956-08-18 - Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, American musician
1957-08-18 - Carole Bouquet, French actress
1957-08-18 - Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
1958-08-18 - Madeleine Stowe, American actress
1959-08-18 - Tom Prichard, American wreslter
1960-08-18 - Fat Lever, American basketball player
1960-08-18 - Mike LaValliere, baseball player
1962-08-18 - Felipe Calderón, President-elect of Mexico
1966-08-18 - Gustavo Charif, Argentine artist
1965-08-18 - Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
1966-08-18 - Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress
1967-08-18 - Brian Michael Bendis, American comic book writer
1968-08-18 - Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress
1969-08-18 - Masta Killa, American rapper
1969-08-18 - Everlast, American musician
1969-08-18 - Edward Norton, American actor
1969-08-18 - Christian Slater, American actor
1970-08-18 - Jessica Hsuan, Hong Kong actress
1970-08-18 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
1971-08-18 - Richard D James, Irish-born musician
1972-08-18 - Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
1972-08-18 - Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer
1974-08-18 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul, West Indian cricketer
1976-08-18 - Daphnee Duplaix Samuel, American actress, Playboy Playmate
1978-08-18 - Andy Samberg, American comedian
1980-08-18 - Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
1980-08-18 - Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress
1980-08-18 - Rob Nguyen, Australian racing driver
1981-08-18 - Jonathan Schneck, American musician (Relient K)
1983-08-18 - Mica Penniman, Lebanese-born musician
1984-08-18 - Robert Huth, German footballer
1987-08-18 - Mika Boorem, American actress
1992-08-18 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and singer/actress Courtney Love
1994-08-18 - Jessie Flower, American actress and voice actress
1995-08-18 - Parker McKenna Posey, American actress
Bizarre
2006-08-18 - Bad Poetry Day
2007-08-18 - Bad Poetry Day
Deaths
1227-08-18 - Genghis Khan, Mongol leader
1258-08-18 - Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea
1276-08-18 - Pope Adrian V
1318-08-18 - Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268).
1430-08-18 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)
1503-08-18 - Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
1559-08-18 - Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
1563-08-18 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
1613-08-18 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
1620-08-18 - Wanli, Emperor of China (b. 1563)
1634-08-18 - Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
1642-08-18 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
1645-08-18 - Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
1683-08-18 - Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
1707-08-18 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640)
1712-08-18 - Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
1765-08-18 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
1809-08-18 - Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)
1815-08-18 - Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
1842-08-18 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
1850-08-18 - Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
1940-08-18 - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
1943-08-18 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
1949-08-18 - Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
1963-08-18 - Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
1981-08-18 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
1983-08-18 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
1990-08-18 - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
1990-08-18 - B.F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904)
1998-08-18 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
2004-08-18 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
2005-08-18 - Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
Events
2005-08-18 - Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
1201-08-18 - The city of Riga is founded.
1541-08-18 - A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)
1572-08-18 - Wedding in Paris of the Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
1587-08-18 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Gov. John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
1590-08-18 - John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
1634-08-18 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France.
1775-08-18 - The Spanish established a presidio (fort) and the town came to be called Tucson, Arizona.
1848-08-18 - Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez executed on orders by Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1864-08-18 - American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern - Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Weldon Railroad.
1868-08-18 - French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
1870-08-18 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
1877-08-18 - Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
1903-08-18 - German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
1904-08-18 - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
1909-08-18 - Tokyo mayor Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1920-08-18 - Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1938-08-18 - The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1941-08-18 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests.
1946-08-18 - Around 70 people died in the Vergarolla explosion.
1950-08-18 - Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
1958-08-18 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1965-08-18 - Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins - United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1966-08-18 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong.
1969-08-18 - Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.
1971-08-18 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1976-08-18 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
1982-08-18 - Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
1983-08-18 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1989-08-18 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
1992-08-18 - Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
1992-08-18 - NBA basketball player Larry Bird announces his retirement after winning an Olympic gold medal as a member of the U.S. Dream Team.
2004-08-18 - In Dublin, Ireland the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works are completed.
2005-08-18 - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
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