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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 18th of August 1201 | EVENT | The city of Riga is founded. |
| 18th of August 1572 | EVENT | Marriage in Paris of the future Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre to Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics. |
| 18th of August 1587 | EVENT | Virginia Dare, granddaughter of governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas. |
| 18th of August 1590 | EVENT | John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted. |
| 18th of August 1634 | EVENT | Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. |
| 18th of August 1636 | EVENT | The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts is first signed. |
| 18th of August 1783 | EVENT | A huge fireball meteor is seen across the United Kingdom as it passes over the east coast. |
| 18th of August 1838 | EVENT | The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838 |
| 18th of August 1848 | EVENT | Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas. |
| 18th of August 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern : Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. |
| 18th of August 1868 | EVENT | French astronomer Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen discovers helium. |
| 18th of August 1870 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought. |
| 18th of August 1877 | EVENT | Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos. |
| 18th of August 1891 | EVENT | Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead. |
| 18th of August 1903 | EVENT | German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers. |
| 18th of August 1909 | EVENT | Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River. |
| 18th of August 1917 | EVENT | A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless. |
| 18th of August 1920 | EVENT | The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage. |
| 18th of August 1938 | EVENT | The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| 18th of August 1941 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests. |
| 18th of August 1948 | EVENT | The Australian cricket team completed a 4 : 0 Ashes series win over England during their undefeated Invincibles tour. |
| 18th of August 1950 | EVENT | Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements. |
| 18th of August 1958 | EVENT | Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States. |
| 18th of August 1963 | EVENT | American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi. |
| 18th of August 1965 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins : United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war. |
| 18th of August 1966 | EVENT | Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong. |
| 18th of August 1971 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam. |
| 18th of August 1976 | EVENT | In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers. |
| 18th of August 1977 | EVENT | Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies. |
| 18th of August 1982 | EVENT | Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation. |
| 18th of August 1983 | EVENT | Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars). |
| 18th of August 1989 | EVENT | Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan is assassinated near Bogota in Colombia. |
| 18th of August 1992 | EVENT | Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy. |
| 18th of August 2000 | EVENT | A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act. |
| 18th of August 2005 | EVENT | Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings. |
| 18th of August 2005 | EVENT | Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people. |
| 18th of August 2008 | EVENT | President Of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigns due to pressure from opposition. |
| 18th of August 1414 | BIRTHDAY | Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492) |
| 18th of August 1450 | BIRTHDAY | Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (d. 1524) |
| 18th of August 1579 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau, Roman Catholic nun (d. 1640) |
| 18th of August 1587 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America |
| 18th of August 1596 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665) |
| 18th of August 1605 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660) |
| 18th of August 1606 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Anna of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary (d. 1646) |
| 18th of August 1611 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwika Maria Gonzaga, queen of Poland (d. 1650) |
| 18th of August 1657 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1743) |
| 18th of August 1685 | BIRTHDAY | Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731) |
| 18th of August 1692 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740) |
| 18th of August 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760) |
| 18th of August 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825) |
| 18th of August 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Francois, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833) |
| 18th of August 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809) |
| 18th of August 1792 | BIRTHDAY | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878) |
| 18th of August 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1881) |
| 18th of August 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876) |
| 18th of August 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac P. Rodman, American Union general (d. 1862) |
| 18th of August 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916) |
| 18th of August 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Marshall Field, American retailer(d. 1906) |
| 18th of August 1841 | BIRTHDAY | William Halford, American naval officer (d. 1919) |
| 18th of August 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942) |
| 18th of August 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (d. 1926) |
| 18th of August 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Bromley-Davenport, England cricketer (d. 1954) |
| 18th of August 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (d. 1918) |
| 18th of August 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970) |
| 18th of August 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (d. 1964) |
| 18th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960) |
| 18th of August 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (d. 1985) |
| 18th of August 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest MacMillan, Canadian musician (d. 1973) |
| 18th of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (d. 1933) |
| 18th of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964) |
| 18th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Murie, American conservationist, naturalist, and author (d. 2003) |
| 18th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (d. 1968) |
| 18th of August 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983) |
| 18th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996) |
| 18th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Carne, French film director (d. 1996) |
| 18th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Faure, French politician and historian (d. 1988) |
| 18th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1977) |
| 18th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Filion, French Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005) |
| 18th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Berlinski, Polish American composer (d. 2001) |
| 18th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Amelia Boynton Robinson, American leader in the Schiller Institute |
| 18th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1983) |
| 18th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Max Lanier, baseball player (d. 2007) |
| 18th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Neagu Djuvara, Romanian diplomat |
| 18th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (d. 2005) |
| 18th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Don Keefer, American actor |
| 18th of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Caspar Weinberger, American politician (d. 2006) |
| 18th of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Cisco Houston, American folk singer (d. 1961) |
| 18th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Joseph Hickel, 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska (d. 2010) |
| 18th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Godfrey Evans, England cricketer (d. 1999) |
| 18th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Godfrey Evans, English cricket keeper |
| 18th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006) |
| 18th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Kennedy, baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 18th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Lydia Litvyak, Soviet pilot, one of only two female flying aces (d. 1943) |
| 18th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Zdzis?aw Zygulski, Jr., Polish art historian |
| 18th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer (d. 2008) |
| 18th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jenni Irani, Indian cricketer (d. 1982) |
| 18th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Sadashiv Shinde, Indian cricketer (d. 1955) |
| 18th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (d. 2006) |
| 18th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Aldiss, English writer |
| 18th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States |
| 18th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Marge Schott, baseball team owner (d. 2004) |
| 18th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Hugues Aufray, French singer |
| 18th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre (d. 2007) |
| 18th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Hi Pak, Korean church leader |
| 18th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Dick White, English footballer |
| 18th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (d. 2010) |
| 18th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian Salvation Army general |
| 18th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Luc Montagnier, French Nobel prized microbiologist |
| 18th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia |
| 18th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Just Fontaine, French footballer |
| 18th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Polanski, Polish-born director and actor |
| 18th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian (d. 1972) |
| 18th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney |
| 18th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Carroll, British singer |
| 18th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer |
| 18th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Rafer Johnson, American athlete |
| 18th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Redford, American actor |
| 18th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Frank, American radio personality |
| 18th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor and comedian (d. 2008) |
| 18th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Preston, American singer |
| 18th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Horton, British businessman |
| 18th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Keppel, first British winner of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? |
| 18th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician |
| 18th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Mull, American comedian |
| 18th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Wayne, English singer (d. 2004) |
| 18th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hitchcock, Australian Sculptor |
| 18th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Harris, American singer (Toys) |
| 18th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Marcell, British actor |
| 18th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Hartono, Indonesian badminton player |
| 18th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Elayne Boosler, American comedian |
| 18th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Swayze, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 18th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Villa, Argentine former footballer |
| 18th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Louie Gohmert, American politician |
| 18th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Dimitriou, Greek singer |
| 18th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Umberto Guidoni, Italian NASA astronaut |
| 18th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist |
| 18th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | John Debney, American composer |
| 18th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, American musician |
| 18th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Sandeep Patil, Indian cricketer |
| 18th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Carole Bouquet, French actress |
| 18th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Leary, American comedian and actor |
| 18th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Madeleine Stowe, American actress |
| 18th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Prichard, American wrestler |
| 18th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mike LaValliere, baseball player |
| 18th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Fat Lever, American basketball player |
| 18th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Geithner, 75th and current US Secretary of Treasury |
| 18th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Woodruff, American journalist, anchor |
| 18th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Birol Unel, German-Turkish actor |
| 18th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico |
| 18th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 18th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Bierko, American actor |
| 18th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Edith Frost, American singer/songwriter |
| 18th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Walker, American basketball player |
| 18th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer |
| 18th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Florentine, American comedian |
| 18th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavo Charif, Argentine artist |
| 18th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress |
| 18th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Daler Mehndi, Indian bhangra/pop singer |
| 18th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Peters, American musician |
| 18th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Michael Bendis, American comic-book writer |
| 18th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress |
| 18th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Austin, American basketball player |
| 18th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Everlast, American musician |
| 18th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Kuhlmann, German rugby player |
| 18th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Slater, American actor |
| 18th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Norton, American actor |
| 18th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Masta Killa, American rapper |
| 18th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Hsuan, Hong Kong actress |
| 18th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor |
| 18th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Dean Schmitz, American film journalist |
| 18th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Richard D James, Irish musician (Aphex Twin) |
| 18th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Vargas, American actor |
| 18th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Middleton, British musician |
| 18th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer |
| 18th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer |
| 18th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Masahiro Nakai, Japanese singer |
| 18th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Wilson, Australian artist |
| 18th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Coren, British writer, presenter and poker player |
| 18th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kaitlin Olson, American actress |
| 18th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Paraskevas Antzas, Greek footballer |
| 18th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Daphnee Duplaix Samuel, American actress and glamor model |
| 18th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Volpenhein, American rower |
| 18th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Regine Chassagne, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire) |
| 18th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mizuo Peck American Actress |
| 18th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Samberg, American comedian |
| 18th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Williams, Welsh musician (Quinoline Yellow) |
| 18th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Dew, Australian rules footballer |
| 18th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mohib Mirza, Pakistani actor |
| 18th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer |
| 18th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kieron Davies, Welsh-born German rugby player |
| 18th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress |
| 18th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Athina Papayianni, Greek race walker |
| 18th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Nguyen, Australian racing driver |
| 18th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bart Scott, American football player |
| 18th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Shockey, American football player |
| 18th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Delgado, Argentine footballer |
| 18th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Salpigidis, Greek footballer |
| 18th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Carla Khan, Pakistani Squash Player |
| 18th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Schneck, American musician (Relient K) |
| 18th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron White, Australian cricketer |
| 18th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kris Boyd, Scottish footballer |
| 18th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Danny!, American record producer/hip-hop artist |
| 18th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mika, Lebanese/British musician |
| 18th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Montgomery, American football player |
| 18th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Huth, German footballer |
| 18th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish Basque cyclist (d. 2006) |
| 18th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Inge Dekker, Dutch swimmer |
| 18th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ross McCormack, Scottish footballer |
| 18th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Mika Boorem, American actress |
| 18th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | G-Dragon, South Korean musician (Big Bang) |
| 18th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Eggert Jonsson, Icelandic footballer |
| 18th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Hobbs, English footballer |
| 18th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Beisel, American swimmer |
| 18th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Riko Narumi, Japanese actress |
| 18th of August 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Jessie Flower, American voice actress |
| 18th of August 0353 | DEATH | Decentius, Roman usurper |
| 18th of August 0472 | DEATH | Ricimer, Roman general |
| 18th of August 0849 | DEATH | Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian |
| 18th of August 1227 | DEATH | Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire |
| 18th of August 1258 | DEATH | Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea |
| 18th of August 1276 | DEATH | Pope Adrian V |
| 18th of August 1318 | DEATH | Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (Born c. 1268) |
| 18th of August 1430 | DEATH | Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (Born 1406) |
| 18th of August 1503 | DEATH | Pope Alexander VI (Born 1431) |
| 18th of August 1559 | DEATH | Pope Paul IV (Born 1476) |
| 18th of August 1563 | DEATH | Etienne de La Boetie, French judge and writer (Born 1530) |
| 18th of August 1613 | DEATH | Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer |
| 18th of August 1620 | DEATH | Wanli, Emperor of China (Born 1563) |
| 18th of August 1634 | DEATH | Urbain Grandier, French priest (Born 1590) |
| 18th of August 1642 | DEATH | Guido Reni, Italian painter (Born 1575) |
| 18th of August 1645 | DEATH | Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (Born 1608) |
| 18th of August 1683 | DEATH | Charles Hart, English actor (Born 1625) |
| 18th of August 1707 | DEATH | William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (Born 1640) |
| 18th of August 1712 | DEATH | Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier |
| 18th of August 1765 | DEATH | Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1708) |
| 18th of August 1809 | DEATH | Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (Born 1728) |
| 18th of August 1815 | DEATH | Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (Born 1759) |
| 18th of August 1842 | DEATH | Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (Born 1779) |
| 18th of August 1850 | DEATH | Honore de Balzac, French writer (Born 1799) |
| 18th of August 1919 | DEATH | Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (Born 1841) |
| 18th of August 1940 | DEATH | Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (Born 1875) |
| 18th of August 1942 | DEATH | Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (Born 1888) |
| 18th of August 1943 | DEATH | Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (Born 1865) |
| 18th of August 1945 | DEATH | Subhas Chandra Bose popularly known as Netaji, Indian independence movement leader (Born 1897) |
| 18th of August 1949 | DEATH | Paul Mares, American musician (Born 1900) |
| 18th of August 1952 | DEATH | Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit saint (Born 1901) |
| 18th of August 1963 | DEATH | Clifford Odets, American playwright (Born 1906) |
| 18th of August 1981 | DEATH | Anita Loos, American screenwriter (Born 1889) |
| 18th of August 1983 | DEATH | Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (Born 1902) |
| 18th of August 1990 | DEATH | Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (Born 1938) |
| 18th of August 1990 | DEATH | B.F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (Born 1904) |
| 18th of August 1992 | DEATH | Christopher McCandless, subject of the book Into the Wild (Born 1968) |
| 18th of August 1994 | DEATH | Martin Cahill, The General, infamous Dublin criminal (Born 1949) |
| 18th of August 1998 | DEATH | Nelly's, Greek photographer (Born 1899) |
| 18th of August 1998 | DEATH | Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Born 1950) |
| 18th of August 2001 | DEATH | David Peakall, British scientist (Born 1931) |
| 18th of August 2002 | DEATH | Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (Born 1918) |
| 18th of August 2003 | DEATH | Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (Born 1938) |
| 18th of August 2004 | DEATH | Hiram Fong, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii (Born 1906) |
| 18th of August 2004 | DEATH | Elmer Bernstein, American composer (Born 1922) |
| 18th of August 2005 | DEATH | Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (Born 1982) |
| 18th of August 2005 | DEATH | Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (Born 1959) |
| 18th of August 2006 | DEATH | Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (Born 1934) |
| 18th of August 2006 | DEATH | Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (Born 1946) |
| 18th of August 2007 | DEATH | Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff (Born 1938) |
| 18th of August 2009 | DEATH | Kim Dae-jung,15th President of South Korea (Born 1925) |
| 18th of August 2009 | DEATH | Robert Novak, American journalist and commentator (Born 1931) |
| 18th of August 2010 | DEATH | Hal Connolly, American Athlete and hammer thrower (Born1931) |
| 18th of August 2010 | DEATH | Scott Davis, American Announcer of Track and Field (Born1943) |
| 18th of August 2010 | DEATH | Benjamin Kaplan, copyright scholar |