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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 18th of May 0332 | EVENT | Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. |
| 18th of May 1152 | EVENT | Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. |
| 18th of May 1268 | EVENT | The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch. |
| 18th of May 1302 | EVENT | Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia. |
| 18th of May 1498 | EVENT | Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India. |
| 18th of May 1593 | EVENT | Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. |
| 18th of May 1631 | EVENT | In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts. |
| 18th of May 1652 | EVENT | Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal. |
| 18th of May 1756 | EVENT | The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France. |
| 18th of May 1763 | EVENT | Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec. |
| 18th of May 1783 | EVENT | First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John), New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States. |
| 18th of May 1803 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France. |
| 18th of May 1804 | EVENT | Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate. |
| 18th of May 1811 | EVENT | Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Rio de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas. |
| 18th of May 1812 | EVENT | John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. |
| 18th of May 1843 | EVENT | The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland. |
| 18th of May 1848 | EVENT | Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany. |
| 18th of May 1860 | EVENT | Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State. |
| 18th of May 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins. |
| 18th of May 1896 | EVENT | The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional. |
| 18th of May 1896 | EVENT | Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people. |
| 18th of May 1900 | EVENT | The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga. |
| 18th of May 1910 | EVENT | The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley. |
| 18th of May 1917 | EVENT | World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription. |
| 18th of May 1926 | EVENT | Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach. |
| 18th of May 1927 | EVENT | The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan. |
| 18th of May 1933 | EVENT | New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority. |
| 18th of May 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino : Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers ("Fallschirmjager") evacuate Monte Cassino. |
| 18th of May 1944 | EVENT | Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government. |
| 18th of May 1948 | EVENT | The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking. |
| 18th of May 1953 | EVENT | Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. |
| 18th of May 1955 | EVENT | Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends. |
| 18th of May 1956 | EVENT | First ascent of Lhotse 8,516 meters, by a Swiss team. |
| 18th of May 1958 | EVENT | An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h). |
| 18th of May 1959 | EVENT | Launch of the National Liberation Committee of Cote d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea. |
| 18th of May 1969 | EVENT | Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched. |
| 18th of May 1974 | EVENT | Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991. |
| 18th of May 1974 | EVENT | Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so. |
| 18th of May 1980 | EVENT | 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage. |
| 18th of May 1980 | EVENT | Gwangju Massacre: students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms. |
| 18th of May 1983 | EVENT | In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air. |
| 18th of May 1990 | EVENT | In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3km/h (320.2 mph). |
| 18th of May 1991 | EVENT | Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community. |
| 18th of May 1992 | EVENT | The Archivist of the United States officially announces the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| 18th of May 1993 | EVENT | EU - riots in N?rrebro, Copenhagen caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police opened fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injured 11 demonstrators. In total 113 bullets are fired. |
| 18th of May 2006 | EVENT | The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country. |
| 18th of May 2009 | EVENT | Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides. |
| 30th of November -0001 | BIRTHDAY | George Smalridge, English bishop of Bristol (d. 1719) |
| 30th of November -0001 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (d. 1752) |
| 18th of May 1048 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher (d. 1131) |
| 18th of May 1186 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218) |
| 18th of May 1474 | BIRTHDAY | Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539) |
| 18th of May 1610 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664) |
| 18th of May 1616 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667) |
| 18th of May 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Ru?er Josip Boskovic, Croatian atomic theorist (d. 1787) |
| 18th of May 1777 | BIRTHDAY | John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (d. 1852) |
| 18th of May 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854) |
| 18th of May 1785 | BIRTHDAY | John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854) |
| 18th of May 1797 | BIRTHDAY | King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (d. 1854) |
| 18th of May 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Mathew Brady, American photographer (d. 1896) |
| 18th of May 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Heaviside, English physicist (d. 1925) |
| 18th of May 1851 | BIRTHDAY | James Budd, Governor of California (d. 1908) |
| 18th of May 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Gertrude Kasebier, American photographer (d. 1934) |
| 18th of May 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and music teacher (d. 1924) |
| 18th of May 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918) |
| 18th of May 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, British mathematician, writer and philosopher, Nobel laureate (d. 1970) |
| 18th of May 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Muller, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931) |
| 18th of May 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Babe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1968) |
| 18th of May 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (d. 1974) |
| 18th of May 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Gropius, German architect (d. 1969) |
| 18th of May 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1946) |
| 18th of May 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor (d. 1944) |
| 18th of May 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970) |
| 18th of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Ezio Pinza, Italian-born bass (d. 1957) |
| 18th of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Augusto Nicolas Calderon Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary (d. 1934) |
| 18th of May 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Capra, American film producer, director, and writer (d. 1991) |
| 18th of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978) |
| 18th of May 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984) |
| 18th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob K. Javits, American politician (d. 1986) |
| 18th of May 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Hedley Verity, English cricketer (d. 1943) |
| 18th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Mydans, American photographer (d. 2004) |
| 18th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Perry, British former tennis player (d. 1995) |
| 18th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (d. 1985) |
| 18th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Brooks, American film director, writer and producer (d. 1992) |
| 18th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Perry Como, American singer (d. 2001) |
| 18th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003) |
| 18th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Birdwood, Canadian-born British far right activist (d. 2000) |
| 18th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Trenet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2001) |
| 18th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician (d. 1996) |
| 18th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Howard de Liagre, American actress (d. 2009) |
| 18th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Robert J. Wilke, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 18th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d. 1982) |
| 18th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (d. 2003) |
| 18th of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991) |
| 18th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Pope John Paul II (born Karol Jozef Wojty?a) (d. 2005) |
| 18th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) |
| 18th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Kai Winding, Danish-born jazz trombonist and composer (d. 1983) |
| 18th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005) |
| 18th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Macy, American actor |
| 18th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004) |
| 18th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Louis Roux, French Canadian actor and artistic director |
| 18th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Priscilla Pointer, American actress |
| 18th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster |
| 18th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980) |
| 18th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Pernell Roberts, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 18th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Sanford, American baseball player (d. 2000) |
| 18th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Rudman, American politician |
| 18th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Morse, American actor |
| 18th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Don Martin, American cartoonist (d. 2000) |
| 18th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Bernadette Chirac, French politician |
| 18th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Don Whillans, English mountaineer (d. 1985) |
| 18th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Dwayne Hickman, American actor and television executive |
| 18th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Brooks Robinson, American baseball player |
| 18th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Santer, Luxembourg statesman |
| 18th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Falcone, Italian magistrate and Mafia victim (d. 1992) |
| 18th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon O'Connor, Canadian politician |
| 18th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Miriam Margolyes, British actress |
| 18th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (d. 2007) |
| 18th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Hammond, British/Gibraltarian musician and composer |
| 18th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Nobby Stiles, English footballer |
| 18th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Snuka, American professional wrestler |
| 18th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | W. G. Sebald, German-born writer (d. 2001) |
| 18th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Gilbert, English guitarist (Wire) |
| 18th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Hsieh, Premier of Taiwan |
| 18th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Jackson, American baseball player |
| 18th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Katsulas, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 18th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Bruton, ninth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland |
| 18th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Udall, American politician |
| 18th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Yi Munyol, South Korean writer |
| 18th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Wallace, Canadian bassist (The Guess Who) |
| 18th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Wakeman, English composer and musician (Yes) |
| 18th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Gottschalk, German television show host |
| 18th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Mothersbaugh, American composer, musician, and singer (Devo) |
| 18th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Sundberg, American baseball player |
| 18th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Duane, American writer |
| 18th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | George Strait, American country musician |
| 18th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jeana Yeager, American aviator |
| 18th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Wreckless Eric, New Wave singer/songwriter |
| 18th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhold Heil, German composer |
| 18th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Chow Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor |
| 18th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Lena T. Hansson, Swedish actor |
| 18th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cretu, Romanian-born German musician (Enigma) |
| 18th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Toyah Willcox, English actor and singer |
| 18th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Wells, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 18th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Yannick Noah, French tennis player |
| 18th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jari Kurri, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 18th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Bowden, American baseball executive |
| 18th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Whitmarsh, American volleyball player (d. 2009) |
| 18th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Nanne Gronvall, Swedish singer |
| 18th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra, German singer |
| 18th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Darnell, American television executive |
| 18th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Marty McSorley, Canadian hockey player |
| 18th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Vincent, American basketball player |
| 18th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (Helloween) (d. 1995) |
| 18th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Tait, American musician (dc Talk, Tait) |
| 18th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz-Harald Frentzen, German Formula One racing driver |
| 18th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Base, American rapper |
| 18th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Bjork, Swedish feminist and author |
| 18th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Juvonen, American film producer |
| 18th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Martika, Cuban-American singer |
| 18th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tina Fey, American writer/actress |
| 18th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Horan, Australian rugby union player |
| 18th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Howerdel, American guitarist (A Perfect Circle) |
| 18th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Friedel, American soccer player |
| 18th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Desiree Horton, American helicopter pilot/television reporter |
| 18th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Nobuteru Taniguchi, Japanese racing driver |
| 18th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Turner Stevenson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 18th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Donyell Marshall, American basketball player |
| 18th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Heffron, American professional wrestler ("The Blue Meanie") |
| 18th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Figueroa, American baseball player |
| 18th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | John Higgins, Scottish snooker player |
| 18th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Johnson, American musician |
| 18th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Tverdovsky, Ukrainian ice hockey player |
| 18th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Mercer, American basketball player |
| 18th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Hendrie, English footballer |
| 18th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Mills, English footballer |
| 18th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer |
| 18th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Giles, American baseball player |
| 18th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer |
| 18th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Chatziathanassiou, Greek figure skater |
| 18th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Nail, American country singer |
| 18th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michal Martikan, Slovak slalom canoeist |
| 18th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Speroni, Argentine footballer |
| 18th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Milivoje Novakovic, Slovenian footballer |
| 18th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Roehl, American football player |
| 18th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Long, American actor |
| 18th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Evans, American basketball player |
| 18th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Aileen Campbell, Scottish politician |
| 18th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Zafar, Pakistani singer and model |
| 18th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Felicia Pearson, Actress |
| 18th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mahamadou Diarra, Malian footballer |
| 18th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Brown, English footballer |
| 18th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Terrero, Dominican baseball player |
| 18th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gary O'Neil, English footballer |
| 18th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Young, American football player |
| 18th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Niki Terpstra, Dutch cyclist |
| 18th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Joakim Soria, Mexican baseball player |
| 18th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dalma Kovacs, Romanian singer and actress |
| 18th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Francesca Battistelli, American singer |
| 18th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Lamb, English rugby union player |
| 18th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmed Hamada, Egyptian racer |
| 18th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Luisana Lopilato, Argentine actress and model |
| 18th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Cooley, Canadian actor |
| 18th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Taeyang, South Korean singer (Big Bang) |
| 18th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Seto, Japanese actor and singer |
| 18th of May 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Breslin, American actor |
| 18th of May 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Watson, Solo sailor |
| 18th of May 1401 | DEATH | W?adys?aw Opolczyk (German: Ladislaus von Oppel), count palatine of Hungary 1367-1372, governor of Halych-Volhynia 1372 : 1378, count palatine of Poland |
| 18th of May 1450 | DEATH | Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (Born 1397) |
| 18th of May 1550 | DEATH | John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (Born 1498) |
| 18th of May 1551 | DEATH | Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1486) |
| 18th of May 1584 | DEATH | Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (Born 1559) |
| 18th of May 1675 | DEATH | Stanis?aw Lubieniecki, Polish Socinian theologist (Born 1623) |
| 18th of May 1675 | DEATH | Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (Born 1637) |
| 18th of May 1692 | DEATH | Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (Born 1617) |
| 18th of May 1733 | DEATH | Georg Bohm, German organist (Born 1761) |
| 18th of May 1780 | DEATH | Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland |
| 18th of May 1781 | DEATH | Tupac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Tupac Amaru (Born 1742) |
| 18th of May 1795 | DEATH | Robert Rogers, hero of the French and Indian War. |
| 18th of May 1799 | DEATH | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (Born 1732) |
| 18th of May 1800 | DEATH | Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (Born 1729) |
| 18th of May 1807 | DEATH | John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (Born 1721) |
| 18th of May 1808 | DEATH | Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor |
| 18th of May 1829 | DEATH | Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (Born 1803) |
| 18th of May 1844 | DEATH | Richard McCarty, American politician (Born 1780) |
| 18th of May 1889 | DEATH | Isabella Glyn Dallas, Scottish Shakepearean actress (Born 1823) |
| 18th of May 1900 | DEATH | Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (Born 1813) |
| 18th of May 1909 | DEATH | George Meredith, English novelist and poet (Born 1828) |
| 18th of May 1909 | DEATH | Isaac Albeniz, Spanish pianist and composer (Born 1860) |
| 18th of May 1910 | DEATH | Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (Born 1821) |
| 18th of May 1910 | DEATH | Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (Born 1841) |
| 18th of May 1911 | DEATH | Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (Born 1860) |
| 18th of May 1922 | DEATH | Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1845) |
| 18th of May 1927 | DEATH | Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (Born 1872) |
| 18th of May 1941 | DEATH | Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (Born 1863) |
| 18th of May 1943 | DEATH | Onishiki Daigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (Born 1883) |
| 18th of May 1955 | DEATH | Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (Born 1875) |
| 18th of May 1956 | DEATH | Maurice Tate, English cricketer (Born 1895) |
| 18th of May 1958 | DEATH | Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and essayist (Born 1881) |
| 18th of May 1963 | DEATH | Ernie Davis, American football player (Born 1939) |
| 18th of May 1967 | DEATH | Andy Clyde, American actor (Born 1892) |
| 18th of May 1971 | DEATH | Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (Born 1908) |
| 18th of May 1973 | DEATH | Jeannette Rankin, American politician and first U.S. Congresswoman (Born 1880) |
| 18th of May 1975 | DEATH | Leroy Anderson, American composer (Born 1908) |
| 18th of May 1980 | DEATH | Ian Curtis, English musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (Born 1956) |
| 18th of May 1980 | DEATH | Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption: Harry Randall Truman (Born 1896) David A. Johnston, U.S. volcanologist (b. 1949) Reid Blackburn, photojournalist for National Geographic (b. 1952) |
| 18th of May 1981 | DEATH | William Saroyan, American author (Born 1908) |
| 18th of May 1981 | DEATH | Arthur O'Connell, American actor (Born 1908) |
| 18th of May 1988 | DEATH | Daws Butler, American voice actor (Born 1916) |
| 18th of May 1989 | DEATH | Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder; adopted daughter of Babe Ruth (Born 1921) |
| 18th of May 1990 | DEATH | Jill Ireland, English actress (Born 1936) |
| 18th of May 1992 | DEATH | Skip Stephenson, American TV personality (Born 1940) |
| 18th of May 1992 | DEATH | Marshall Thompson, American actor (Born 1925) |
| 18th of May 1995 | DEATH | Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (Born 1949) |
| 18th of May 1995 | DEATH | Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (Born 1903) |
| 18th of May 1995 | DEATH | Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (Born 1933) |
| 18th of May 1997 | DEATH | Bridgette Andersen, American actress (Born 1975) |
| 18th of May 1999 | DEATH | Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (Born 1954) |
| 18th of May 1999 | DEATH | Betty Robinson, American runner (Born 1911) |
| 18th of May 2000 | DEATH | Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (Born 1946) |
| 18th of May 2000 | DEATH | Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi, Indian Muslim scholar (Born 1932) |
| 18th of May 2002 | DEATH | Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (Born 1962) |
| 18th of May 2003 | DEATH | Anna Santisteban, Puerto Rican beauty contest organizer (Born 1914) |
| 18th of May 2003 | DEATH | Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking crusader (Born 1961) |
| 18th of May 2004 | DEATH | Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (Born 1927) |
| 18th of May 2004 | DEATH | Vladislav Terzyul, Ukrainian mountaineer (Born 1953) |
| 18th of May 2004 | DEATH | Serge Turgeon, Quebec actor and union leader (Born 1946) |
| 18th of May 2006 | DEATH | Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley's "Naked Guy" and American nudism advocate(Born 1972) |
| 18th of May 2007 | DEATH | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (Born 1932) |
| 18th of May 2007 | DEATH | Yoyoy Villame, Philippine novelty singer and movie actor (Born 1932) |
| 18th of May 2008 | DEATH | Joseph Pevney, American television director (Born 1911) |
| 18th of May 2009 | DEATH | Roderick Anthony Burton II a.k.a. Dolla, American Rapper (Born 1987) |
| 18th of May 2009 | DEATH | Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (Born1947) |