Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 18
Births
[edit]- 1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
- 1774 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
- 1904 - Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
- 1920 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1933 - Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor
- 1943 - Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer
- 1952 - Patrick Swayze, American actor
- 1957 - Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
- 1978 - Andy Samberg, American comedian
Deaths
[edit]- 1227 - Genghis Khan, (pictured) Mongol leader
- 1503 - Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
- 1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
- 1990 - Burrhus Frederic Skinner, American psychologist (b. 1904)
- 1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)