November 18
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[edit] Births
- 9 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (d. 79)
- 1647 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
- 1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
- 1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor, photographer
- 1836 - Sir William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (d. 1911)
- 1836 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian professor of psychiatry, founder of criminology (d. 1909)
- 1856 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)
- 1860 - Ignacy Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer (d. 1941)
- 1861 - Dorothea Dix, journalist, activist (d. 1951)
- 1874 - Clarence Day, American author (d. 1935)
- 1882 - Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (d. 1973)
- 1883 - Carl Vinson, United States Congressman (d. 1981)
- 1891 - Gio Ponti, Italian architect (d. 1979)
- 1897 - Patrick Blackett, English physicist, 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1974)
- 1898 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker (d. 1989)
- 1899 - Eugene Ormandy, conductor (d. 1985)
- 1901 - George Gallup, statistician, opinion pollster (d. 1984)
- 1906 - Klaus Mann, publicist, dramatist and narrator (d. 1949)
- 1906 - George Wald, American chemist, 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)
- 1908 - Imogene Coca, actress, comedienne (d. 2001)
- 1909 - Johnny Mercer, lyricist (d. 1976)
- 1916 - Amelita Galli-Curci, opera soprano (d. 1963)
- 1923 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (d. 1998)
- 1930 - J. G. Ballard, British author
- 1935 - Alain Barrière
- 1935 - Rudolf Bahro, dissident (d. 1997)
- 1936 - Hank Ballard, musician (d. 2003)
- 1939 - Brenda Vaccaro, actress
- 1939 - Margaret Atwood, writer
- 1941 - Gary Bettenhausen, automobile racer
- 1941 - David Hemmings, British actor (d. 2003)
- 1942 - Linda Evans, actress
- 1944 - Susan Sullivan, actress
- 1946 - Alan Dean Foster, author
- 1948 - Andrea Marcovicci, singer, actress
- 1948 - Jack Tatum, American football star
- 1950 - Eric Pierpoint, actor
- 1950 - Jameson Parker, actor
- 1953 - Alan Moore, cartoonist
- 1956 - Warren Moon, Canadian football and American football star
- 1958 - Laura Miller, mayor of Dallas, Texas
- 1960 - Kim Wilde, singer
- 1962 - Kirk Hammett, Musician
- 1963 - Dante Bichette, baseball player
- 1966 - Jorge Camacho, poet in Spanish and Esperanto
- 1967 - Ronald L. L'Esperance
- 1968 - Owen Wilson, actor
- 1969 - Sam Cassell, NBA basketball player
- 1970 - Peta Wilson, Australian Model and Actress
- 1975 - David Ortiz, Major League Baseball All-Star
- 1983 - Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer
[edit] Deaths
- 1814 - William Jessop, canal and railway engineer
- 1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States
- 1922 - Marcel Proust, French novelist
- 1941 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
- 1941 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia
- 1952 - Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
- 1953 - Frank Olson, American scientist (suicide)
- 1962 - Niels Bohr, physicist
- 1965 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States
- 1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician
- 1976 - Man Ray, artist
- 1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (suicide)
- 1978 - Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman
- 1982 - Duk Koo Kim, boxer
- 1987 - Jacques Anquetil, cyclist (cancer)
- 1994 - Cab Calloway, band leader
- 1998 - Kenneth H. Erdody, civic leader
- 1999 - Paul Bowles, novelist
- 2002 - James Coburn, American actor
- 2003 - Michael Kamen, composer