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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 18th of October 0320 | EVENT | Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest). |
| 18th of October 1009 | EVENT | The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock. |
| 18th of October 1016 | EVENT | The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon. |
| 18th of October 1081 | EVENT | The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium. |
| 18th of October 1210 | EVENT | Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV. |
| 18th of October 1356 | EVENT | Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyes the town of Basel, Switzerland. |
| 18th of October 1386 | EVENT | Opening of the University of Heidelberg |
| 18th of October 1561 | EVENT | Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima : Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts. |
| 18th of October 1599 | EVENT | Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Bathory in the Battle of Selimbar, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people. |
| 18th of October 1648 | EVENT | Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization. |
| 18th of October 1748 | EVENT | Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession. |
| 18th of October 1767 | EVENT | Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed. |
| 18th of October 1775 | EVENT | African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. |
| 18th of October 1851 | EVENT | Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London. |
| 18th of October 1860 | EVENT | The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty. |
| 18th of October 1867 | EVENT | United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day. |
| 18th of October 1898 | EVENT | United States takes possession of Puerto Rico. |
| 18th of October 1912 | EVENT | The First Balkan War begins. |
| 18th of October 1914 | EVENT | The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany. |
| 18th of October 1921 | EVENT | The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR. |
| 18th of October 1922 | EVENT | The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service. |
| 18th of October 1925 | EVENT | The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 18th of October 1929 | EVENT | Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law. |
| 18th of October 1936 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler announces the Four Year Economic Plan to the German people. The plan details the rebuilding of the German military from 1936 to 1940. |
| 18th of October 1944 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia. |
| 18th of October 1944 | EVENT | Soviet Union begins liberation of Czechoslovakia. |
| 18th of October 1945 | EVENT | The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
| 18th of October 1945 | EVENT | A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Perez Jimenez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'etat against then president Isaias Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day. |
| 18th of October 1954 | EVENT | Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio. |
| 18th of October 1964 | EVENT | The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run. |
| 18th of October 1967 | EVENT | The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet. |
| 18th of October 1968 | EVENT | The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games. |
| 18th of October 1977 | EVENT | German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide. |
| 18th of October 1991 | EVENT | Azerbaijan declares independence from USSR. |
| 18th of October 2003 | EVENT | Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia. |
| 18th of October 2007 | EVENT | Karachi bombings: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is not injured. |
| 18th of October 1127 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192) |
| 18th of October 1405 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Pius II (d. 1464) |
| 18th of October 1517 | BIRTHDAY | Manoel da Nobrega, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (d. 1570) |
| 18th of October 1547 | BIRTHDAY | Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606) |
| 18th of October 1569 | BIRTHDAY | Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625) |
| 18th of October 1595 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655) |
| 18th of October 1634 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705) |
| 18th of October 1653 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham van Riebeeck, Dutch territorial governor of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713) |
| 18th of October 1662 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Henry, English minister (d. 1714) |
| 18th of October 1668 | BIRTHDAY | John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694) |
| 18th of October 1679 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1716) |
| 18th of October 1701 | BIRTHDAY | Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778) |
| 18th of October 1706 | BIRTHDAY | Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785) |
| 18th of October 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803) |
| 18th of October 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811) |
| 18th of October 1785 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866) |
| 18th of October 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Mongkut, King of Siam(now Thailand) (d. 1868) |
| 18th of October 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (d. 1888) |
| 18th of October 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American entrepreneur (d. 1911) |
| 18th of October 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d. 1911) |
| 18th of October 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941) |
| 18th of October 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (d. 1957) |
| 18th of October 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946) |
| 18th of October 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931) |
| 18th of October 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese scholar (d. 1966) |
| 18th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician (d. 1951) |
| 18th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-born French cyclist (d. 1917) |
| 18th of October 1893 | BIRTHDAY | George Ohsawa, Japanese philosopher (d. 1966) |
| 18th of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Tibor Dery, Hungarian author (d. 1977) |
| 18th of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960) |
| 18th of October 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980) |
| 18th of October 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981) |
| 18th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972) |
| 18th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980) |
| 18th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983) |
| 18th of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963) |
| 18th of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Haim Shirman, Russian-born Israeli academic (d. 1981) |
| 18th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Cote d'Ivoire politician (d. 1993) |
| 18th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (d. 1993) |
| 18th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | James Brooks, American painter (d. 1992) |
| 18th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004) |
| 18th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997) |
| 18th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980) |
| 18th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Troup, American musician (d. 1999) |
| 18th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Constantine Mitsotakis, Greek politician |
| 18th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996) |
| 18th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Anita O'Day, American singer (d. 2006) |
| 18th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canadian politician (d. 2000) |
| 18th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and cultural minister (d. 1994) |
| 18th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Helms, American politician (d. 2008) |
| 18th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy MacMaster, Canadian musician |
| 18th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician |
| 18th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Berry, American musician |
| 18th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991) |
| 18th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 18th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Jackson, American football commentator |
| 18th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Hillard Elkins, American theatre and film producer (d. 2010) |
| 18th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan politician |
| 18th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Albertson, American jazz historian |
| 18th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician |
| 18th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Forrest Gregg, American football player |
| 18th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970) |
| 18th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist |
| 18th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (d. 2007) |
| 18th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 18th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Dawn Wells, American actress |
| 18th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Flavio Cotti, Swiss jurist |
| 18th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and commentator |
| 18th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Harvey Oswald, American alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963) |
| 18th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Cynthia Weil, American songwriter |
| 18th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist |
| 18th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Birthe R?nn Hornbech, Danish politician |
| 18th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Shays, American politician |
| 18th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Huell Howser, American television personality |
| 18th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Y?ldo, Turkish footballer |
| 18th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Beamer, American college football coach |
| 18th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter |
| 18th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Shore, Canadian film composer |
| 18th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Chuckle, British comedian |
| 18th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Job Cohen, Dutch politician |
| 18th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Morton, American actor |
| 18th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997) |
| 18th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Kochler, Austrian philosopher |
| 18th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ntozake Shange, American author |
| 18th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | George Hendrick, American baseball player |
| 18th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Richrath, American musician (REO Speedwagon) |
| 18th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel) |
| 18th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Om Puri, Indian actor |
| 18th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila White, English actress |
| 18th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006) |
| 18th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Pam Dawber, American actress |
| 18th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and executive |
| 18th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Terry McMillan, American author |
| 18th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer |
| 18th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bao Ninh, Vietnamese novelist |
| 18th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Lorre, American T.V. producer (two and a half men, the big bang theory...) |
| 18th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Royster, American baseball player |
| 18th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Liz Burch, Australian actress |
| 18th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Arliss Howard, American actor |
| 18th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Timmy Mallett, British TV presenter |
| 18th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | David Twohy, American movie director and screenwriter |
| 18th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer and songwriter (Pylon (band), Supercluster) |
| 18th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Verdonk, Dutch politician |
| 18th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Bartlett, American animator |
| 18th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Martina Navratilova, Czech-born American tennis player |
| 18th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Talent, American politician |
| 18th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Lindstrom, American actor |
| 18th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Ringer, French singer and songwriter (Les Rita Mitsouko) |
| 18th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Corinne Bohrer, American actress |
| 18th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kjell Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 18th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hearns, American boxer |
| 18th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kirby Chambliss, American aerobatic pilot |
| 18th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Milco Mancevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter |
| 18th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Russo, American sports talk show host |
| 18th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | John Nord, American pro wrestler |
| 18th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Swayne, American academic |
| 18th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor |
| 18th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Erin Moran, American actress |
| 18th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Moody, American author |
| 18th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Wynton Marsalis, American jazz musician |
| 18th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Spano, American actor |
| 18th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Lilker, American musician Anthrax, S.O.D., Nuclear Assault, and Brutal Truth |
| 18th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Stross, British author |
| 18th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Zakir Naik, Indian Islamic speaker and doctor |
| 18th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist |
| 18th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Slavi Trifonov, Bulgarian showman |
| 18th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Stuart, American voice actor and singer |
| 18th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Vivas, Argentine footballer |
| 18th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Volker Neumuller, German music talent manager |
| 18th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player |
| 18th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Padilla, American suspected terrorist |
| 18th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Tagliani, Quebec racing driver |
| 18th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer |
| 18th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer |
| 18th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Candy Lo, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress |
| 18th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans) |
| 18th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 18th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer |
| 18th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer |
| 18th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | David Vuillemin, pro motocross rider |
| 18th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Farrow, American actor |
| 18th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Wesley Jonathan, American actor |
| 18th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Tindall, English rugby union player |
| 18th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Priyanka Trivedi, Indian actress |
| 18th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kenji Wu, Taiwanese singer and actor |
| 18th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jothika, Indian actress |
| 18th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Gracin, American singer |
| 18th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Warren, American football player |
| 18th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Joe Ratliff , American Bassist/Guitarist/Keyboardist |
| 18th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Thierry Amiel, French singer |
| 18th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ne-Yo, American R&B singer |
| 18th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model |
| 18th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier |
| 18th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Derrick Tribbett, American musician (Twisted Method) |
| 18th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Wilma Elles, German actress |
| 18th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Zac Efron, American actor |
| 18th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model |
| 18th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Joy Lauren, American actress |
| 18th of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Bristol Palin, American daughter of Sarah Palin and Todd Palin |
| 18th of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Carly Schroeder, American actress |
| 18th of October 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Posey, American actor |
| 18th of October 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Wroblewska, Polish actress |
| 18th of October 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Annelise Manojlovic, English actress |
| 18th of October 0325 | DEATH | Jin Mingdi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (Born 299) |
| 18th of October 1035 | DEATH | Sancho III of Navarre, King of Navarre |
| 18th of October 1101 | DEATH | Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (Born 1053) |
| 18th of October 1141 | DEATH | Leopold IV of Austria, Duke of Bavaria |
| 18th of October 1382 | DEATH | James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (Born 1331) |
| 18th of October 1417 | DEATH | Pope Gregory XII |
| 18th of October 1503 | DEATH | Pope Pius III (Born 1439) |
| 18th of October 1541 | DEATH | Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (Born 1489) |
| 18th of October 1545 | DEATH | John Taverner, English composer |
| 18th of October 1558 | DEATH | Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (Born 1505) |
| 18th of October 1564 | DEATH | Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (Born 1520) |
| 18th of October 1570 | DEATH | Manoel da Nobrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (Born 1517) |
| 18th of October 1604 | DEATH | Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (Born 1528) |
| 18th of October 1646 | DEATH | Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (Born 1607) |
| 18th of October 1667 | DEATH | Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia (Born 1603) |
| 18th of October 1678 | DEATH | Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (Born 1593) |
| 18th of October 1739 | DEATH | Antonio Jose da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (Born 1705) |
| 18th of October 1744 | DEATH | Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (Born 1660) |
| 18th of October 1770 | DEATH | John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (Born 1721) |
| 18th of October 1775 | DEATH | Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (Born 1715) |
| 18th of October 1817 | DEATH | Etienne-Nicolas Mehul, French composer (Born 1763) |
| 18th of October 1865 | DEATH | Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1784) |
| 18th of October 1871 | DEATH | Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (Born 1791) |
| 18th of October 1886 | DEATH | Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (Born 1796) |
| 18th of October 1889 | DEATH | Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (Born 1808) |
| 18th of October 1892 | DEATH | William W. Chapman, American politician (Born 1808) |
| 18th of October 1893 | DEATH | Charles Gounod, French composer (Born 1818) |
| 18th of October 1911 | DEATH | Alfred Binet, French psychologist (Born 1857) |
| 18th of October 1921 | DEATH | King Ludwig III of Bavaria (Born 1845) |
| 18th of October 1931 | DEATH | Thomas Edison, American inventor (Born 1847) |
| 18th of October 1932 | DEATH | Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (Born 1873) |
| 18th of October 1941 | DEATH | Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (Born 1860) |
| 18th of October 1942 | DEATH | Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (Born 1862) |
| 18th of October 1948 | DEATH | Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (Born 1881) |
| 18th of October 1959 | DEATH | Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (Born 1898) |
| 18th of October 1961 | DEATH | Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (Born 1892) |
| 18th of October 1965 | DEATH | Henry Travers, British actor (Born 1874) |
| 18th of October 1965 | DEATH | Larry Thorne, US soldier (Born 1919) |
| 18th of October 1966 | DEATH | Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (Born 1867) |
| 18th of October 1966 | DEATH | Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (Born 1878) |
| 18th of October 1973 | DEATH | Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (Born 1886) |
| 18th of October 1973 | DEATH | Walt Kelly, American cartoonist, (Pogo) (Born 1913) |
| 18th of October 1973 | DEATH | Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (Born 1899) |
| 18th of October 1975 | DEATH | Al Lettieri, American actor (Born 1928) |
| 18th of October 1976 | DEATH | Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (Born 1895) |
| 18th of October 1977 | DEATH | Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides |
| 18th of October 1977 | DEATH | Andreas Baader (Born 1943) |
| 18th of October 1977 | DEATH | Gudrun Ensslin (Born 1940) |
| 18th of October 1977 | DEATH | Jan-Carl Raspe (Born 1944) |
| 18th of October 1978 | DEATH | Ramon Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (Born 1914) |
| 18th of October 1982 | DEATH | Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (Born 1885) |
| 18th of October 1982 | DEATH | Dwain Esper, American film director (Born 1892) |
| 18th of October 1982 | DEATH | John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (Born 1917) |
| 18th of October 1982 | DEATH | Pierre Mendes-France, French politician (Born 1907) |
| 18th of October 1983 | DEATH | Diego Abad de Santillan, Spanish anarchist (Born 1897) |
| 18th of October 1983 | DEATH | Willie Jones, baseball player (Born 1925) |
| 18th of October 1984 | DEATH | Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (Born 1957) |
| 18th of October 1984 | DEATH | Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (Born 1899) |
| 18th of October 2000 | DEATH | Julie London, American singer and actress (Born 1926) |
| 18th of October 2000 | DEATH | Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (Born 1925) |
| 18th of October 2001 | DEATH | Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (Born 1922) |
| 18th of October 2002 | DEATH | Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (Born 1950) |
| 18th of October 2002 | DEATH | Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (Born 1932) |
| 18th of October 2003 | DEATH | Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (Born 1912) |
| 18th of October 2003 | DEATH | Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Spanish writer (Born 1939) |
| 18th of October 2004 | DEATH | Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (Born 1945) |
| 18th of October 2005 | DEATH | Johnny Haynes, English footballer (Born 1934) |
| 18th of October 2005 | DEATH | Bill King, American sports broadcaster (Born 1927) |
| 18th of October 2005 | DEATH | John Hollis, British actor (Born 1931) |
| 18th of October 2006 | DEATH | Anna Russell, English music satirist (Born 1911) |
| 18th of October 2006 | DEATH | Mario Francesco Pompedda, cardinal (Born 1929) |
| 18th of October 2007 | DEATH | Alan Coren, English writer and satirist (Born 1938) |
| 18th of October 2007 | DEATH | William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (Born 1925) |
| 18th of October 2007 | DEATH | Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (Born 1915) |
| 18th of October 2007 | DEATH | Lucky Dube, South African musician (Born 1964) |
| 18th of October 2008 | DEATH | Dee Dee Warwick, American soul singer (Born 1945) |
| 18th of October 2010 | DEATH | Marion Brown, American jazz musician (Born 1931) |