On This Day
Sunday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
February 18 1968
Born on This Day
Alois Purgathofer🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian Astronomer (1925–1984) · 1925–1984
Days lived
21,573
András Ecsédi🇭🇺
athlete · b. 1949
Days alive
6,939
Angéla Németh🇭🇺
deceasedathletics competitor · 1946–2014
Days lived
25,005
Angelika Niebler🇩🇪
German politician, MEP · b. 1963
Days alive
1,826
Artur Axmann🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1913–1996
Days lived
30,564
Augusto Daolio🇮🇹
deceasedItalian singer (1947-1992) · 1947–1992
Days lived
16,668
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Bidzina Ivanishvili
politician · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
Cameron Clapp🇺🇸
Canadian amputee sportsman · b. 1986
Christian Tiffert🇩🇪
German association football player and manager · b. 1982
Connor Smith🇮🇪
football player · b. 1993
Cybill Shepherd🇺🇸
singer · b. 1950
Days alive
6,574
David Vaughan🇬🇧
Welsh footballer (born 1983) · b. 1983
Det de Beus🇳🇱
deceasedDutch field hockey player (1958–2013) · 1958–2013
Days lived
20,242
Didier Monczuk🇫🇷
French association football player · b. 1961
Days alive
2,556
DK (Lee Seok-min)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (SEVENTEEN) · b. 1997
Dr. Dre
Notable Trials · b. 1965
Days alive
1,095
Efva Attling🇸🇪
jewelry designer · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Ernst Grissemann🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1934–2023
Days lived
32,464
Fabrizio De André🇮🇹
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1940–1999
Days lived
21,512
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Feng Fei🇨🇳
film director · b. 1983
Forest Evashevski🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player and coach (1918-2009) · 1918–2009
Days lived
33,492
Gerhard Klopfer🇩🇪
deceasedofficial of the Nazi Party and assistant to Martin Bormann in the Office of the Party Chancellery (1905-1987) · 1905–1987
Days lived
29,930
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Gerhard Marcks🇩🇪
deceasedartist · 1889–1981
Days lived
33,870
Graeme Garden🇬🇧
Actor · b. 1943
Days alive
9,131
Grahanandan Singh🇮🇳
deceasedfield hockey player (1926–2014) · 1926–2014
Days lived
32,434
Günther Schramm🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1929
Days alive
14,244
Gustav von Wangenheim🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1895-1975) · 1895–1975
Days lived
29,387
Hagen Liebing🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1961–2016
Days lived
20,308
Hans Woellke
deceasedGerman shot putter (1911-1943) · 1911–1943
Days lived
11,720
Hedwig Courths-Mahler🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer (1867–1950) · 1867–1950
Days lived
30,596
Heinrich Ewers🇩🇪
deceasedGerman judge, priest and theologian (1906-1992) · 1906–1992
Days lived
31,587
Heinz Kühn🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (SPD) (1912-1992) · 1912–1992
Days lived
29,243
Hermann Florstedt
deceasedmilitary person · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,302
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Ian Hacking🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian philosopher · 1936–2023
Days lived
31,858
István Szabó🇭🇺
Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director (born 1938) · b. 1938
Days alive
10,957
John Travolta🇺🇸
American actor (born 1954) · b. 1954
Days alive
5,113
Jung Hoseok (J-Hope)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (BTS) · b. 1994
Kathrin Wörle-Scheller🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1984
Kristina Reynolds🇩🇪
Olympic field hockey player · b. 1984
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Krisztián Pars🇭🇺
Hungarian hammer thrower · b. 1982
Lorenz Müller🇩🇪
deceasedGerman zoologist (1868–1953) · 1868–1953
Days lived
31,029
Ludwig Woltmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman anthropologist, zoologist, philosopher (1871–1907) · 1871–1907
Days lived
13,129
Margaret H. Wright🇺🇸
American computer scientist and academic · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
Miloš Forman🇺🇸
deceasedCzech American director, screenwriter, and professor (1932–2018) · 1932–2018
Days lived
31,466
Oliver Pocher🇩🇪
German comedian and entertainer · b. 1978
Otto Rahn
deceasedGerman SS officer and writer (1904–1939) · 1904–1939
Days lived
12,807
Paco Rabanne🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish-French fashion designer (1934-2023) · 1934–2023
Days lived
32,492
Paul Eltzbacher🇩🇪
deceasedGerman lawyer (1868-1928) · 1868–1928
Days lived
22,164
Randy Crawford🇺🇸
American jazz and R&B singer · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
René Tinner🇨🇭
Swiss recording engineer · b. 1953
Days alive
5,478
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Roberta Vinci🇮🇹
Italian female tennis player · b. 1983
Rolf Wilhelm Brednich🇩🇪
deceasedGerman folklorist, ethnologist, music arranger, editor and university teacher (1935-2023) · 1935–2023
Days lived
32,427
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Samantha Crawford🇺🇸
American tennis player · b. 1995
Toni Morrison🇺🇸
deceasedAfrican American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019) · 1931–2019
Days lived
32,310
Valery Zorkin🇷🇺
scientist · b. 1943
Days alive
9,131
Vernon (Chwe Hansol)🇺🇸
K-pop Idol (SEVENTEEN) · b. 1998
Vika Jigulina
Moldovan-Romanian singer, record producer and DJ · b. 1986
Walter Andrae🇩🇪
deceasedGerman archeologist and architect (1875-1956) · 1875–1956
Days lived
29,745
Wilhelm Külz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1875-1948) · 1875–1948
Days lived
26,714
Yoko Ono🇯🇵
Peace activist · b. 1933
Days alive
12,783
Died on This Day
Alain Robbe-Grillet🇫🇷
deceasedFrench author and film director (1922–2008) · 1922–2008
Days lived
31,230
Andy Marefos🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1917-1996) · 1917–1996
Days lived
28,706
Carl Wilhelm Wirtz
deceasedGerman astronomer (1876–1939) · 1876–1939
Days lived
22,822
Claus Roxin🇩🇪
deceasedGerman jurist (1931–2025) · 1931–2025
Days lived
34,248
Franz Marischka🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1918–2009
Days lived
33,104
Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe🇩🇪
deceasedGerman tennis player (1888–1949) · 1888–1949
Days lived
22,222
Gene Hackman🇨🇭
deceasedOscar Winners · 1930–2025
Days lived
34,718
Günter Blobel🇺🇸
deceasedGerman American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize) · 1936–2018
Days lived
29,858
Leopoldo Lugones🇦🇷
deceasedArgentine poet · 1874–1938
Days lived
23,260
Martin Jole
deceasedDutch baseball player (1930–2004) · 1930–2004
Days lived
27,076
Max Mack🇩🇪
deceasedGerman film personality (1884-1973) · 1884–1973
Days lived
32,261
Miles Jackson-Lipkin🇬🇧
deceasedHong Kong judge and criminal (1924–2012) · 1924–2012
Days lived
32,046
Otto Beisheim🇨🇭
deceasedentrepreneur · 1924–2013
Days lived
32,554
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Richard Bright
deceasedActor · 1937–2006
Days lived
25,072
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Robert Oppenheimer🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1904–1967
Days lived
22,947
Werner von Melle🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1853-1937) · 1853–1937
Days lived
30,438
Zareh I
deceasedCatholicos of Cilicia (1915-1963) · 1915–1963
Days lived
17,536
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,050
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,721
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,894
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,591
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,164
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,606
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,572
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,206
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,650
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,302
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,101
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,615
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,633
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,302
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,654
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,197
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,107
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,084
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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