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18th of September 0096 EVENT Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
18th of September 0324 EVENT Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
18th of September 1180 EVENT Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
18th of September 1454 EVENT In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
18th of September 1502 EVENT Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
18th of September 1635 EVENT Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
18th of September 1679 EVENT New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
18th of September 1739 EVENT The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
18th of September 1759 EVENT The British capture Quebec City.
18th of September 1793 EVENT The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
18th of September 1809 EVENT The Royal Opera House in London opens.
18th of September 1810 EVENT First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
18th of September 1812 EVENT The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
18th of September 1837 EVENT Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
18th of September 1838 EVENT The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
18th of September 1850 EVENT The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
18th of September 1851 EVENT First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
18th of September 1870 EVENT Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
18th of September 1872 EVENT King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
18th of September 1873 EVENT The Panic of 1873 begins.
18th of September 1879 EVENT The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
18th of September 1882 EVENT The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
18th of September 1885 EVENT Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
18th of September 1895 EVENT Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
18th of September 1895 EVENT Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" address.
18th of September 1898 EVENT Fashoda Incident : Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
18th of September 1906 EVENT A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
18th of September 1910 EVENT In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
18th of September 1911 EVENT Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
18th of September 1914 EVENT The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
18th of September 1914 EVENT World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
18th of September 1919 EVENT The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
18th of September 1919 EVENT Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
18th of September 1922 EVENT Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
18th of September 1927 EVENT The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
18th of September 1928 EVENT Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
18th of September 1931 EVENT The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
18th of September 1932 EVENT Ibn Saud unites several kingdoms of the Arabian Peninsula, creating a new nation that he calls Saudi Arabia.
18th of September 1932 EVENT Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign.
18th of September 1934 EVENT The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
18th of September 1939 EVENT World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Moscicki flees to Romania.
18th of September 1939 EVENT William Joyce makes his first Nazi propaganda broadcast.
18th of September 1940 EVENT World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
18th of September 1942 EVENT The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is authorized.
18th of September 1943 EVENT World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
18th of September 1943 EVENT World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibor.
18th of September 1944 EVENT World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru, 5,600 killed.
18th of September 1945 EVENT General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
18th of September 1947 EVENT The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
18th of September 1947 EVENT The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency were established in the United States under the National Security Act.
18th of September 1948 EVENT Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
18th of September 1948 EVENT Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
18th of September 1959 EVENT Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
18th of September 1960 EVENT Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
18th of September 1961 EVENT U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
18th of September 1962 EVENT Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
18th of September 1964 EVENT North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
18th of September 1964 EVENT Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
18th of September 1973 EVENT The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
18th of September 1974 EVENT Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
18th of September 1975 EVENT Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
18th of September 1977 EVENT Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
18th of September 1978 EVENT Leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David.
18th of September 1980 EVENT Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
18th of September 1981 EVENT Assemblee Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
18th of September 1982 EVENT Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
18th of September 1984 EVENT Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
18th of September 1988 EVENT End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) are killed by the Tatmadaw.
18th of September 1990 EVENT Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
18th of September 1991 EVENT Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
18th of September 1992 EVENT An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
18th of September 1997 EVENT United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.
18th of September 1998 EVENT ICANN is formed.
18th of September 2001 EVENT First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
18th of September 2006 EVENT Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape is made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
18th of September 2007 EVENT Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
18th of September 2007 EVENT Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
18th of September 2009 EVENT The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
18th of September 0053 BIRTHDAY Trajan, Roman Emperor (d. 117)
18th of September 1344 BIRTHDAY Marie Valois, Princess of France (d. 1404)
18th of September 1434 BIRTHDAY Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
18th of September 1587 BIRTHDAY Francesca Caccini, Italian composer (d. c. 1640)
18th of September 1643 BIRTHDAY Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
18th of September 1676 BIRTHDAY Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Wurttemberg (d. 1733)
18th of September 1684 BIRTHDAY Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer (d. 1748)
18th of September 1709 BIRTHDAY Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (d. 1784)
18th of September 1718 BIRTHDAY Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
18th of September 1733 BIRTHDAY George Read, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
18th of September 1750 BIRTHDAY Tomas de Iriarte, Spanish writer (d. 1791)
18th of September 1752 BIRTHDAY Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (d. 1833)
18th of September 1765 BIRTHDAY Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
18th of September 1779 BIRTHDAY Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1845)
18th of September 1786 BIRTHDAY Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (d. 1848)
18th of September 1786 BIRTHDAY Justinus Kerner, German poet (d. 1862)
18th of September 1812 BIRTHDAY Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d. 1880)
18th of September 1819 BIRTHDAY Leon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868)
18th of September 1837 BIRTHDAY Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
18th of September 1838 BIRTHDAY Anton Mauve, Dutch artist (d. 1888)
18th of September 1846 BIRTHDAY Richard With, Norwegian businessman, politician and captain, founder of Hurtigruten (d. 1930)
18th of September 1857 BIRTHDAY John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1945)
18th of September 1858 BIRTHDAY Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1955)
18th of September 1859 BIRTHDAY John L. Bates, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
18th of September 1859 BIRTHDAY Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (d. 1940)
18th of September 1863 BIRTHDAY Hermann Kutter, Swiss theologian (d. 1931)
18th of September 1870 BIRTHDAY Clark Wissler, American anthropologist (d. 1947)
18th of September 1875 BIRTHDAY Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d. 1945)
18th of September 1876 BIRTHDAY James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
18th of September 1883 BIRTHDAY Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, British composer (d. 1950)
18th of September 1885 BIRTHDAY Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer, conductor, publicist, playwright (d. 1948)
18th of September 1888 BIRTHDAY Toni Wolff, Swiss student and lover of Carl Jung (d. 1953)
18th of September 1889 BIRTHDAY Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
18th of September 1893 BIRTHDAY Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer (d. 1960)
18th of September 1893 BIRTHDAY William March, American writer (d. 1954)
18th of September 1895 BIRTHDAY John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)
18th of September 1895 BIRTHDAY Tomoji Tanabe, the oldest man in the world from January 2007 until his death (d. 2009)
18th of September 1900 BIRTHDAY Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (d. 1985)
18th of September 1901 BIRTHDAY Harold Clurman, American film producer (d. 1980)
18th of September 1904 BIRTHDAY Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
18th of September 1904 BIRTHDAY David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, British politician and peer (d. 1999)
18th of September 1905 BIRTHDAY Eddie Anderson, American actor (d. 1977)
18th of September 1905 BIRTHDAY Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
18th of September 1905 BIRTHDAY Agnes de Mille, American choreographer (d. 1993)
18th of September 1907 BIRTHDAY Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
18th of September 1907 BIRTHDAY Edwin McMillan, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
18th of September 1911 BIRTHDAY Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
18th of September 1912 BIRTHDAY Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (d. 2005)
18th of September 1914 BIRTHDAY Jack Cardiff, British film director (d. 2009)
18th of September 1916 BIRTHDAY John Jacob Rhodes, Jr., American politician and lawyer (d. 2003)
18th of September 1916 BIRTHDAY Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
18th of September 1916 BIRTHDAY Rossano Brazzi, Italian singer and actor (d. 1994)
18th of September 1917 BIRTHDAY June Foray, American voice actress
18th of September 1917 BIRTHDAY Francis Parker Yockey, American author (d. 1960)
18th of September 1918 BIRTHDAY John Berger, English politician
18th of September 1920 BIRTHDAY Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
18th of September 1922 BIRTHDAY Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
18th of September 1922 BIRTHDAY Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer
18th of September 1923 BIRTHDAY Peter Smithson, English architect (d. 2003)
18th of September 1923 BIRTHDAY Queen Anne of Romania
18th of September 1923 BIRTHDAY Bertha Wilson, Canadian jurist (d. 2007)
18th of September 1925 BIRTHDAY Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (d. 1994)
18th of September 1926 BIRTHDAY Bud Greenspan, American film producer
18th of September 1926 BIRTHDAY Bob Toski, American golfer
18th of September 1927 BIRTHDAY Phyllis Kirk, American actress (d. 2006)
18th of September 1929 BIRTHDAY Nancy Littlefield, American film producer (d. 2007)
18th of September 1932 BIRTHDAY Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2002)
18th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Robert Blake, American actor
18th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer
18th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Robert Foster Bennett, American senator (Utah)
18th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach
18th of September 1935 BIRTHDAY John Spencer, English snooker player (d. 2006)
18th of September 1936 BIRTHDAY Big Tom, Irish country singer
18th of September 1937 BIRTHDAY Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player
18th of September 1939 BIRTHDAY Jorge Sampaio, President of Portugal
18th of September 1939 BIRTHDAY Fred Willard, American comedian
18th of September 1939 BIRTHDAY Frankie Avalon, American musician
18th of September 1942 BIRTHDAY Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer.
18th of September 1942 BIRTHDAY Alex Stepney, English football goalkeeper
18th of September 1944 BIRTHDAY Michael Franks, American musician
18th of September 1944 BIRTHDAY Charles L. Veach, American astronaut (d. 1995)
18th of September 1944 BIRTHDAY Rocio Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
18th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Nicholas Clay, English actor (d. 2000)
18th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Otis Sistrunk, American football player
18th of September 1947 BIRTHDAY Giancarlo Minardi, Italian motor racing team boss
18th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Rodger Beckman, American baseball player
18th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Ken Brett, American baseball player (d. 2003)
18th of September 1949 BIRTHDAY Mo Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
18th of September 1949 BIRTHDAY Jim McCrery, American politician
18th of September 1949 BIRTHDAY Peter Shilton, English footballer
18th of September 1949 BIRTHDAY Kerry Livgren, American singer (Kansas)
18th of September 1949 BIRTHDAY Billy Drago, American actor
18th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Shabana Azmi, Indian actress
18th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
18th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright
18th of September 1951 BIRTHDAY Tony Scott, American baseball player
18th of September 1951 BIRTHDAY Darryl Stingley, American football player (d. 2007)
18th of September 1951 BIRTHDAY Benjamin Carson, American neurosurgeon
18th of September 1951 BIRTHDAY Marc Surer, Swiss motor racing driver
18th of September 1952 BIRTHDAY Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (d. 2002)
18th of September 1952 BIRTHDAY Rick Pitino, American basketball coach
18th of September 1952 BIRTHDAY Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Greek politician
18th of September 1953 BIRTHDAY Betsy Boze nee: Vogel, American academic
18th of September 1954 BIRTHDAY Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1996)
18th of September 1954 BIRTHDAY Tommy Tuberville, American football coach
18th of September 1954 BIRTHDAY Takao Doi, Japanese astronaut
18th of September 1954 BIRTHDAY Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (d. 2007)
18th of September 1954 BIRTHDAY Steven Pinker, Canadian-American scientist
18th of September 1955 BIRTHDAY Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (d. 2006)
18th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Peter Stastny, Slovak ice hockey player
18th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
18th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Tim McInnerny, English actor
18th of September 1957 BIRTHDAY Emily Remler, American Jazz Guitarist (d. 1990)
18th of September 1958 BIRTHDAY John Aldridge, Irish footballer
18th of September 1958 BIRTHDAY Joan Walsh, American writer
18th of September 1958 BIRTHDAY Don Geronimo, American radio personality
18th of September 1958 BIRTHDAY Linda Lusardi, English actress and model
18th of September 1959 BIRTHDAY Ryne Sandberg, American baseball player
18th of September 1959 BIRTHDAY Ian Arkwright, English footballer
18th of September 1959 BIRTHDAY Mark Romanek, American filmmaker
18th of September 1960 BIRTHDAY Karim Rashid, Egyptian/English industrial designer
18th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY James Gandolfini, American actor
18th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Boris Said, American race car driver
18th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY John Fashanu, English footballer
18th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Joanne Catherall, English singer
18th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY John Powell, British composer
18th of September 1963 BIRTHDAY Jim Pocklington, British racing driver
18th of September 1964 BIRTHDAY Jens Henschel, German footballer
18th of September 1964 BIRTHDAY Marco Masini, Italian singer-songwriter
18th of September 1964 BIRTHDAY Holly Robinson Peete, American actress
18th of September 1966 BIRTHDAY Tom Chorske, American ice hockey player
18th of September 1967 BIRTHDAY Ricky Bell, American singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe)
18th of September 1967 BIRTHDAY Tara FitzGerald, English actress
18th of September 1968 BIRTHDAY Toni Kukoc, Croatian basketball player
18th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Cappadonna, American rapper
18th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Mike Compton, American football player
18th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Aisha Tyler, American actress and comedian
18th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (d. 1993)
18th of September 1970 BIRTHDAY Darren Gough, English cricketer
18th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Anna Netrebko, Russian opera singer
18th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
18th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Jada Pinkett Smith, American model and actress
18th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Michael Patrick Walker, American composer and lyricist
18th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY Brigitte Becue, Belgian swimmer
18th of September 1972 BIRTHDAY David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
18th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
18th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY James Marsden, American actor
18th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Ami Onuki, Japanese singer (Puffy AmiYumi)
18th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
18th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Travis Schuldt, Actor
18th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Sol Campbell, English footballer
18th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Andrew Hansen, Australian comedian and musician
18th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese basketball player
18th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY Xzibit, American rapper
18th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian pistol shooter
18th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY "Habacuc" Guillermo Vargas, Costa Rican artist
18th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY Jason Sudeikis, American actor and comedian
18th of September 1976 BIRTHDAY Kikki Daire, American pornographic actress
18th of September 1976 BIRTHDAY Gabriel Gervais, Canadian football player
18th of September 1976 BIRTHDAY Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
18th of September 1977 BIRTHDAY Kieran West, British oarsman
18th of September 1977 BIRTHDAY Li Tie, Chinese footballer
18th of September 1978 BIRTHDAY Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Spanish actress
18th of September 1978 BIRTHDAY Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
18th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Vinay Rai, Indian actor
18th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Alison Lohman, American actress
18th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer
18th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Avi Strool, Israeli footballer
18th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Chris Tarrant, Australian footballer
18th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Mickey Higham, English rugby league player
18th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Jennifer Tisdale, American actress and model
18th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Alessandro Cibocchi, Italian footballer
18th of September 1983 BIRTHDAY Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
18th of September 1984 BIRTHDAY Jack Carpenter, American actor
18th of September 1984 BIRTHDAY Anthony Gonzalez, American football player
18th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Keeley Hazell, British model
18th of September 1988 BIRTHDAY Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player
18th of September 1990 BIRTHDAY Lewis Holtby, German footballer
18th of September 0096 DEATH Domitian, Roman Emperor (Born 51)
18th of September 0887 DEATH Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
18th of September 1180 DEATH King Louis VII of France (Born 1120)
18th of September 1598 DEATH Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (Born 1536)
18th of September 1630 DEATH Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (Born 1552)
18th of September 1663 DEATH St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (Born 1603)
18th of September 1675 DEATH Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (Born 1604)
18th of September 1721 DEATH Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (Born 1664)
18th of September 1722 DEATH Andre Dacier, French classical scholar (Born 1651)
18th of September 1783 DEATH Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (Born 1718)
18th of September 1783 DEATH Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (Born 1707)
18th of September 1792 DEATH August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (Born 1704)
18th of September 1806 DEATH Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (Born 1760)
18th of September 1827 DEATH Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (Born 1789)
18th of September 1830 DEATH William Hazlitt, English essayist (Born 1778)
18th of September 1860 DEATH Joseph Locke, English railway builder and civil engineer (Born 1805)
18th of September 1872 DEATH King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (Born 1826)
18th of September 1891 DEATH William Ferrel, American mathematician (Born 1817)
18th of September 1896 DEATH Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (Born 1819)
18th of September 1905 DEATH George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister (Born 1824)
18th of September 1909 DEATH Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist (Born 1850)
18th of September 1911 DEATH Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician (Born 1862)
18th of September 1924 DEATH Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (Born 1846)
18th of September 1931 DEATH Geli Raubal, Adolf Hitler's niece (Born 1908)
18th of September 1931 DEATH Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (Born c.1806)
18th of September 1939 DEATH Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (Born 1885)
18th of September 1944 DEATH Robert G. Cole American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (Born 1915)
18th of September 1949 DEATH Frank Morgan, American actor (Born 1890)
18th of September 1953 DEATH Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (Born 1927)
18th of September 1956 DEATH Adelard Godbout, premier of Quebec (Born 1892)
18th of September 1959 DEATH Benjamin Peret, French surrealist author (Born 1899)
18th of September 1961 DEATH Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1905)
18th of September 1964 DEATH Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (Born 1880)
18th of September 1964 DEATH Clive Bell, English art critic (Born 1881)
18th of September 1967 DEATH John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1897)
18th of September 1970 DEATH Jimi Hendrix, American musician (Born 1942)
18th of September 1977 DEATH Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (Born 1888)
18th of September 1980 DEATH Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist (Born 1890)
18th of September 1986 DEATH Pat Phoenix, English actress (Born 1923)
18th of September 1987 DEATH Americo Tomas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (Born 1894)
18th of September 1994 DEATH Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (Born 1954)
18th of September 1995 DEATH Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (Born 1969)
18th of September 1997 DEATH Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer (Born 1920)
18th of September 1998 DEATH Charlie Foxx, American singer (Born 1939)
18th of September 2001 DEATH Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (Born 1927)
18th of September 2002 DEATH Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (Born 1930)
18th of September 2002 DEATH Bob Hayes, American athlete (Born 1942)
18th of September 2002 DEATH Margita Stefanovic, Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as a keyboardist for the Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika. (Born 1959)
18th of September 2003 DEATH Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (Born 1916)
18th of September 2003 DEATH Bob Mitchell, British politician (Born 1927)
18th of September 2004 DEATH Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (Born 1929)
18th of September 2004 DEATH Russ Meyer, American film director (Born 1922)
18th of September 2005 DEATH Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (Born 1966)
18th of September 2006 DEATH Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (Born 1925)
18th of September 2007 DEATH Pepsi Tate Welsh bassist (tigertailz) (Born 1965)
18th of September 2008 DEATH Ron Lancaster, American-born football player (Born 1938)