November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years), with 43 remaining.
Events:
Births:
- 1757 - William Blake, poet
- 1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, composer (+ 1826)
- 1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, inventor, photographer (+ 1851)
- 1836 - Sir William S. Gilbert, dramatist (+ 1911)
- 1836 - Cesare Lombroso, professor of psychiatry, founder of criminology
- 1856 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov[?], Grand Duke of Russia (+ 1929)
- 1860 - Ignacy Paderewski[?], pianist, composer
- 1861 - Dorothy Dix[?], journalist, activist (+ 1951)
- 1898 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker
- 1899 - Eugene Ormandy[?], conductor (+ 1985)
- 1901 - George Gallup, statistician, opinion pollster
- 1906 - Klaus Mann, publicist, dramatist and narrator (+ 1949)
- 1908 - Imogene Coca[?], actress, comedienne (+ 2001)
- 1909 - Johnny Mercer, lyricist (+ 1976)
- 1916 - Amelita Galli-Curci[?], opera soprano
- 1923 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (+ 1998)
- 1935 - Alain Barri�re[?]
- 1935 - Rudolf Bahro[?], dissident (+ 1997)
- 1936 - Hank Ballard, musician
- 1939 - Brenda Vaccaro[?], actress
- 1939 - Margaret Atwood, writer
- 1941 - Gary Bettenhausen[?], automobile racer
- 1942 - Linda Evans[?], actress
- 1944 - Susan Sullivan[?], actress
- 1948 - Andrea Marcovicci[?], singer, actress
- 1948 - Jack Tatum[?], American football star
- 1950 - Jameson Parker[?], cator
- 1958 - Warren Moon, Canadian football and American football star
- 1960 - Kim Wilde[?], singer
- 1968 - Owen Wilson[?], actor
Deaths:
- 1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States
- 1962 - Niels Bohr, physicist
- 1965 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States
- 1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.[?], patriarch of the Kennedy family
- 1976 - Man Ray, artist
- 1978 - Jim Jones, cult leader (suicide)
- 1982 - Duk Koo Kim, boxer
- 1987 - Jacques Anquetil[?]
- 1994 - Cab Calloway, band leader
- 1999 - Paul Bowles, novelist
- 2002 - James Coburn, actor
Holidays and Observances:
See Also:
November 17 - November 19 - October 18 - December 18 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December
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