Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/October/October 18
- 1777 – Birth of poet Heinrich von Kleist
- 1902 – Birth of physicist Pascual Jordan
- 1926 – Birth of actor Klaus Kinski
- 1977 – The GSG 9 frees hostages on board of the Lufthansa airplane Landshut, ending the most dramatic part of the German Autumn
- 1989 – Erich Honecker resigns as leader of the German Democratic Republic