Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 18
Births
[edit]- 1707 – Charles Wesley, English hymn composer (d. 1788)
- 1870 – Saki, Burmese-English author and playwright (d. 1916)
- 1863 – Franz Ferdinand, Austro-Hungarian Archduke (d. 1914)
- 1878 – Joseph Stalin, Soviet marshal and 4th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
- 1886 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player (d. 1961)
- 1890 – Edwin Armstrong, American inventor of FM radio (d. 1954)
Deaths
[edit]- 1495 – Alfonso of Aragon, King of Naples (b. 1448)
- 1737 – Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (b. 1644)
- 1829 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier and biologist (b. 1744)
- 1936 – Andrija Mohorovičić, Hungarian-Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
- 1985 – Xuan Dieu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)
- 1995 – Konrad Zuse, German designer of the Z3 computer (b. 1910)