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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 18th of November 0326 | EVENT | The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. |
| 18th of November 1105 | EVENT | Maginulfo is elected the Antipope as Sylvester IV. |
| 18th of November 1210 | EVENT | Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV |
| 18th of November 1302 | EVENT | Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith). |
| 18th of November 1307 | EVENT | William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head. |
| 18th of November 1421 | EVENT | A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people. This event will be known as Sint-Elisabethsvloed. |
| 18th of November 1493 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico. |
| 18th of November 1494 | EVENT | French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy. |
| 18th of November 1601 | EVENT | Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, provincial governor of Ottoman Empire, utterly defeats Habsburg forces, commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa. |
| 18th of November 1626 | EVENT | St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. |
| 18th of November 1686 | EVENT | Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants. |
| 18th of November 1730 | EVENT | Frederick II (known as Frederick the Great), King of Prussia, is granted a royal pardon and released from confinement. |
| 18th of November 1803 | EVENT | The Battle of Vertieres, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere. |
| 18th of November 1809 | EVENT | In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal. |
| 18th of November 1863 | EVENT | King Christian IX of Denmark decides to sign the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German : Danish war of 1864. |
| 18th of November 1865 | EVENT | Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press. |
| 18th of November 1883 | EVENT | American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times. |
| 18th of November 1903 | EVENT | The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone. |
| 18th of November 1904 | EVENT | General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup. |
| 18th of November 1905 | EVENT | Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway. |
| 18th of November 1909 | EVENT | Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of Jose Santos Zelaya. |
| 18th of November 1916 | EVENT | World War I: First Battle of the Somme : in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916. |
| 18th of November 1918 | EVENT | Latvia declares its independence from Russia. |
| 18th of November 1926 | EVENT | George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize". |
| 18th of November 1928 | EVENT | Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday. |
| 18th of November 1929 | EVENT | 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula. |
| 18th of November 1930 | EVENT | Soka Kyoiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda. |
| 18th of November 1938 | EVENT | Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. |
| 18th of November 1940 | EVENT | World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece. |
| 18th of November 1940 | EVENT | New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. |
| 18th of November 1943 | EVENT | World War II : Battle of Berlin: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew. |
| 18th of November 1947 | EVENT | The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand. |
| 18th of November 1949 | EVENT | The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria. |
| 18th of November 1961 | EVENT | United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam. |
| 18th of November 1963 | EVENT | The first push-button telephone goes into service. |
| 18th of November 1970 | EVENT | U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million USD in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government. |
| 18th of November 1978 | EVENT | In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier. |
| 18th of November 1987 | EVENT | Iran-Contra Affair: the U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra Affair. |
| 18th of November 1987 | EVENT | King's Cross fire: in London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras. |
| 18th of November 1988 | EVENT | War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers. |
| 18th of November 1991 | EVENT | Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland. |
| 18th of November 1991 | EVENT | After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces. |
| 18th of November 1993 | EVENT | In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is ratified by the House of Representatives. |
| 18th of November 1993 | EVENT | In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution. |
| 18th of November 1999 | EVENT | In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when the 59-foot-tall (18 m) Aggie Bonfire, under construction for the annual football game against the University of Texas, collapses at 2:42am. |
| 18th of November 2002 | EVENT | Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq. |
| 18th of November 2003 | EVENT | The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state may not "deny the protections, benefits and obligations conferred by civil marriage to two individuals of the same sex who wish to marry." |
| 18th of November 2003 | EVENT | In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective. |
| 18th of November 1522 | BIRTHDAY | Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568) |
| 18th of November 1630 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Eleanor Gonzaga of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686) |
| 18th of November 1647 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706) |
| 18th of November 1727 | BIRTHDAY | Philibert Commercon, French naturalist (d. 1773) |
| 18th of November 1756 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher and religious figure (d. 1837) |
| 18th of November 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (d. 1806) |
| 18th of November 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837) |
| 18th of November 1785 | BIRTHDAY | Sir David Wilkie, Scottish painter (d. 1841) |
| 18th of November 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826) |
| 18th of November 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851) |
| 18th of November 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878) |
| 18th of November 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Asa Gray, American botanist (d. 1888) |
| 18th of November 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf Erik Nordenskiold, Finnish-born Swedish explorer (d. 1901) |
| 18th of November 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Sir W. S. Gilbert, British dramatist (d. 1911) |
| 18th of November 1839 | BIRTHDAY | August Kundt, German physicist (d. 1894) |
| 18th of November 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1929) |
| 18th of November 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Dix, American journalist (d. 1951) |
| 18th of November 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Day, American writer (d. 1935) |
| 18th of November 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (d. 1963) |
| 18th of November 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (d. 1973) |
| 18th of November 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Vinson, American politician (d. 1981) |
| 18th of November 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Ferenc Munnich, Hungarian Communist politician (d. 1967) |
| 18th of November 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Stanislav Kosior, Polish-born Soviet politician (d. 1939) |
| 18th of November 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Blackett, British physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1974) |
| 18th of November 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1989) |
| 18th of November 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-born American violinist and conductor (d. 1985) |
| 18th of November 1901 | BIRTHDAY | George Gallup, American statistician and pollster (d. 1984) |
| 18th of November 1901 | BIRTHDAY | V. Shantaram, Indian filmmaker and actor (d. 1984) |
| 18th of November 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (d. 1990) |
| 18th of November 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949) |
| 18th of November 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Alec Issigonis, Greek-born British car designer (d. 1988) |
| 18th of November 1906 | BIRTHDAY | George Wald, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997) |
| 18th of November 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (d. 1998) |
| 18th of November 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Compay Segundo, Cuban guitarist, singer and composer (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003) |
| 18th of November 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian (d. 2001) |
| 18th of November 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Mercer, American lyricist (d. 1976) |
| 18th of November 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000) |
| 18th of November 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Endre Rozsda, French surrealist painter (d. 1999) |
| 18th of November 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (d. 1969) |
| 18th of November 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004) |
| 18th of November 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957) |
| 18th of November 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Tasker Watkins, Welsh Victoria Cross recipient and rugby administrator (d. 2007) |
| 18th of November 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Jocelyn Brando, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 18th of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Mustafa Khalil, 77th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008) |
| 18th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Somoza Debayle, 70th President of Nicaragua (d. 1967) |
| 18th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998) |
| 18th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Sargent, American actress |
| 18th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Stevens, American politician (d. 2010) |
| 18th of November 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Les Lye, Canadian actor (d. 2009) |
| 18th of November 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Scottish jurist (d. 2000) |
| 18th of November 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Mauch, American baseball manager (d. 2005) |
| 18th of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Ballard, American rhythm'n'blues singer and songwriter (d. 2003) |
| 18th of November 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Salvador Laurel, Filipino politician (d. 2004) |
| 18th of November 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer (d. 1994) |
| 18th of November 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila Jordan, American jazz singer |
| 18th of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Gianna D'Angelo, American soprano |
| 18th of November 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Nasif Estefano, Argentine racing driver (d. 1973) |
| 18th of November 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (d. 2010) |
| 18th of November 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and ambassador |
| 18th of November 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997) |
| 18th of November 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Hall, Australian author |
| 18th of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ennio Antonelli, Italian cardinal |
| 18th of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995) |
| 18th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, critic and essayist |
| 18th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Lear, Hong Kong-born French singer, TV presenter and model |
| 18th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Brenda Vaccaro, American actress |
| 18th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan of Oman |
| 18th of November 1941 | BIRTHDAY | David Hemmings, British actor (d. 2003) |
| 18th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Evans, American actress |
| 18th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Sullivan, American actress |
| 18th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Leonardo Sandri, Argentine Catholic Cardinal |
| 18th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Joop, German artist and fashion designer |
| 18th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka |
| 18th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Wilma Mankiller, American tribal chief (d. 2010) |
| 18th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Dean Foster, American writer |
| 18th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jameson Parker, American actor |
| 18th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Marcovicci, American singer and actress |
| 18th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Tatum, American football player (d. 2010) |
| 18th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmad Zaki, Egyptian actor (d. 2005) |
| 18th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Sarzo, Cuban-born American bassist (Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne's band, Whitesnake, Dio, Blue Oyster Cult) |
| 18th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Haskins, American actor |
| 18th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Pierpoint, American actor |
| 18th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Parker, English singer and songwriter (The Rumour) |
| 18th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Raimondo, American author |
| 18th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Delroy Lindo, British actor |
| 18th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Capone, Italian-born Scottish voice actor (d. 2008) |
| 18th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Beattie, Australian politician |
| 18th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Nealon, American comedian and actor |
| 18th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist |
| 18th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Gray, New Zealand cricketer |
| 18th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Parr, British pop singer |
| 18th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Carter Burwell, American composer |
| 18th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Zimmer, German footballer |
| 18th of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1995) |
| 18th of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Moon, American football player |
| 18th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Mac Falls, Irish poet |
| 18th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Plamen Krastev, Bulgarian hurdler |
| 18th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Nunez, Cuban-born American actor |
| 18th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Brailovsky, Argentine football manager |
| 18th of November 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and football manager |
| 18th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Wilde, British singer |
| 18th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Perkins, American actress |
| 18th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Moffat, Scottish television writer and producer |
| 18th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Hammett, American guitarist (Metallica) |
| 18th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Moyer, American baseball player |
| 18th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Len Bias, American basketball player (d. 1986) |
| 18th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer |
| 18th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dante Bichette, American baseball player |
| 18th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Cosby, American journalist |
| 18th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tim DeLaughter, American singer and songwriter (Tripping Daisy, The Polyphonic Spree) |
| 18th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jocelyn Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 18th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and manager |
| 18th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Romany Malco, American actor and music producer |
| 18th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Sheffield, American baseball player |
| 18th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Owen Wilson, American actor and film-writer |
| 18th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Sheik, American singer and songwriter |
| 18th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Cassell, American basketball player |
| 18th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmed Helmi, Egyptian actor |
| 18th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Epps, American comedian |
| 18th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Megyn Kelly, American television news anchor |
| 18th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Liiva, Swedish vocalist (Arch Enemy) |
| 18th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Anne Allen, American actress |
| 18th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Peta Wilson, Australian actress |
| 18th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jessi Alexander, American country music singer and songwriter |
| 18th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nic Pothas, South African cricket wicket-keeper |
| 18th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chloe Sevigny, American actress |
| 18th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Williams, American basketball player |
| 18th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony McPartlin, British actor, television presenter |
| 18th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | David Ortiz, Dominican baseball player |
| 18th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Dirk Muller, German race car driver |
| 18th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Pastor Troy, American rapper |
| 18th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Camp, American baseball player |
| 18th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Shagrath, Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir) |
| 18th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mona Zaki, Egyptian actress |
| 18th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Welsh, Australian swimmer |
| 18th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Charles A. Lee, American athlete |
| 18th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Fabolous, American rapper |
| 18th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 18th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer |
| 18th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Junichi Okada, Japanese singer (V6) |
| 18th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Denny Hamlin, American race car driver |
| 18th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Duval, Belgian rally driver |
| 18th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Chadwick, English footballer |
| 18th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dustin Kensrue, American singer (Thrice) |
| 18th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Minori Chihara, Japanese voice actress and singer |
| 18th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Vidal, American actress |
| 18th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gian Magdangal, Filipino singer and actor |
| 18th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nasim Pedrad, Iranian-born American comedienne |
| 18th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shin Ji, Korean singer |
| 18th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Estandia, American football player |
| 18th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Buck, American baseball player |
| 18th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer |
| 18th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer (W-inds) |
| 18th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Christ, American bassist (Avenged Sevenfold) |
| 18th of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Siriano, American fashion designer |
| 18th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Nic Sampson, New Zealand actor |
| 18th of November 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Montanna Thompson, English actress |
| 18th of November 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Noppawan Lertcheewakarn, Thai tennis player |
| 18th of November 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Kress, American actor |
| 18th of November 1154 | DEATH | Adelaide de Maurienne, queen consort of King Louis VI of France (Born 1092) |
| 18th of November 1305 | DEATH | John II, Duke of Brittany (Born 1239) |
| 18th of November 1559 | DEATH | Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (Born 1474) |
| 18th of November 1590 | DEATH | George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (Born 1528) |
| 18th of November 1724 | DEATH | Bartolomeu de Gusmao, Portuguese naturalist (Born 1685) |
| 18th of November 1785 | DEATH | Louis Philip I, Duke of Orleans, French soldier and writer (Born 1725) |
| 18th of November 1797 | DEATH | Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (Born 1719) |
| 18th of November 1814 | DEATH | William Jessop, British civil engineer (Born 1745) |
| 18th of November 1852 | DEATH | Rose Philippine Duchesne French Catholic nun and saint (Born 1769) |
| 18th of November 1886 | DEATH | Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (Born 1829) |
| 18th of November 1889 | DEATH | William Allingham, Irish poet (Born 1824 or 1828) |
| 18th of November 1909 | DEATH | Renee Vivien, English-born French poet (Born 1877) |
| 18th of November 1922 | DEATH | Marcel Proust, French novelist (Born 1871) |
| 18th of November 1941 | DEATH | Emile Nelligan, Quebec poet (Born 1879) |
| 18th of November 1941 | DEATH | Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1864) |
| 18th of November 1941 | DEATH | Chris Watson, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1867) |
| 18th of November 1952 | DEATH | Paul Eluard, French poet (Born 1895) |
| 18th of November 1962 | DEATH | Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1885) |
| 18th of November 1965 | DEATH | Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (Born 1888) |
| 18th of November 1969 | DEATH | Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American businessman (Born 1888) |
| 18th of November 1969 | DEATH | Ted Heath, British trombonist, and bandleader (Born 1902) |
| 18th of November 1972 | DEATH | Danny Whitten, American musician (Crazy Horse) (Born 1943) |
| 18th of November 1976 | DEATH | Man Ray, American-born French photographer and painter (Born 1890) |
| 18th of November 1977 | DEATH | Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (Born 1897) |
| 18th of November 1977 | DEATH | Victor Francen, Belgian actor (Born 1888) |
| 18th of November 1978 | DEATH | Jim Jones, American cult figure (Peoples Temple) (Born 1931) |
| 18th of November 1978 | DEATH | Leo Ryan, American politician (Born 1925) |
| 18th of November 1979 | DEATH | Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (Born 1901) |
| 18th of November 1980 | DEATH | Conn Smythe, Canadian ice hockey administrator and racing horse owner (Born 1895) |
| 18th of November 1984 | DEATH | Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (Born 1907) |
| 18th of November 1986 | DEATH | Gia Carangi, American model (Born 1960) |
| 18th of November 1987 | DEATH | Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (Born 1934) |
| 18th of November 1991 | DEATH | Gustav Husak, Slovak-born Czech politician (Born 1913) |
| 18th of November 1994 | DEATH | Peter Ledger, Australian illustrator (Born 1945) |
| 18th of November 1994 | DEATH | Cab Calloway, American bandleader (Born 1907) |
| 18th of November 1999 | DEATH | Doug Sahm, American musician (Sir Douglas Quintet, Flaco Jimenez) (Born 1941) |
| 18th of November 1999 | DEATH | Paul Bowles, American novelist (Born 1910) |
| 18th of November 2002 | DEATH | James Coburn, American actor (Born 1928) |
| 18th of November 2003 | DEATH | Michael Kamen, American composer (Born 1948) |
| 18th of November 2004 | DEATH | Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (Born 1929) |
| 18th of November 2005 | DEATH | Harold J. Stone, American actor (Born 1911) |
| 18th of November 2009 | DEATH | Red Robbins, American basketball player (Born 1944) |
| 18th of November 2010 | DEATH | Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (Born 1937) |