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October 18
October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). There are 74 days remaining.
Events
Births
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1405 - Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
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1706 - Baldassare Galuppi, composer (d. 1785)
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1741 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
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1785 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866)
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1859 - Henri Bergson, French writer (d. 1941)
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1873 - Ivanoe Bonomi, former Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
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1898 - Lotte Lenya, Austiran singer, actress (d. 1981)
- 1898 - Shin'ichi Suzuki, violin player and teacher, creator of the Suzuki method (d. 1998)
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1902 - Miriam Hopkins, actress (d. 1972)
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1903 - Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
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1911 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru
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1913 - Evelyn Venable Mohr , actress (d. 1993)
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1918 - Bobby Troup, musician (d. 1999)
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1919 - Anita O'Day, jazz singer
- 1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
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1920 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (d. 1994)
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1921 - Jesse Helms, Senator from North Carolina
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1926 - Chuck Berry, musician
- 1926 - Klaus Kinski, actor (d. 1991)
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1927 - George C. Scott, actor (d. 1999)
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1928 - Keith Jackson, American football commentator
- 1928 - Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, musician
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1929 - Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
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1934 - Inger Stevens, actress (d. 1970)
- 1934 - Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
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1935 - Peter Boyle, actor
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1939 - Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, commentator
- 1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
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1947 - Joe Morton, actor
- 1947 - Laura Nyro, singer, songwriter (d. 1997)
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1948 - Ntozake Shange , author
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1950 - Om Puri, actor
- 1950 - Wendy Wasserstein, playwright
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1951 - Terry McMillan, author
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1956 - Martina Navratilova, tennis player
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1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
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1961 - Wynton Marsalis, American jazz musician
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1962 - Vincent Spano , actor
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1976 - Azlea Antistia, erotic actress
Deaths
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707 - Pope John VII
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1141 - Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria and Duke of Bavaria
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1216 - John of England (or October 19)
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1417 - Pope Gregory XII
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1503 - Pope Pius III
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1545 - John Taverner, English composer
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1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
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1871 - Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor of computing machines
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1893 - Charles Gounod, French composer
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1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria
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1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor
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1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete
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1982 - Bess Truman, wife of U. S. President Harry S. Truman (b. 1885)
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1983 - Willie Jones, Major League Baseball player (b. 1925)
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2000:
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2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician
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2002:
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2003:
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2004 - Veerappan, Indian forest bandit and sandalwood smuggler (b. 1945)
Holidays and obervances
External links
October 17 - October 19 - September 18 - November 18 - more historical anniversaries
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