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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 18th of January 0350 | EVENT | Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor. |
| 18th of January 0474 | EVENT | Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor. |
| 18th of January 0532 | EVENT | Nika riots in Constantinople fail. |
| 18th of January 1126 | EVENT | Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. |
| 18th of January 1486 | EVENT | King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV. |
| 18th of January 1520 | EVENT | King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunden. |
| 18th of January 1535 | EVENT | Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru. |
| 18th of January 1562 | EVENT | Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session. |
| 18th of January 1591 | EVENT | King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day. |
| 18th of January 1670 | EVENT | Henry Morgan captures Panama. |
| 18th of January 1701 | EVENT | Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. |
| 18th of January 1778 | EVENT | James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". |
| 18th of January 1788 | EVENT | The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay. |
| 18th of January 1866 | EVENT | Wesley College, Melbourne is established. |
| 18th of January 1871 | EVENT | Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles ( France ) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans. |
| 18th of January 1884 | EVENT | Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom. |
| 18th of January 1886 | EVENT | Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. |
| 18th of January 1896 | EVENT | The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. |
| 18th of January 1903 | EVENT | President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States. |
| 18th of January 1911 | EVENT | Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. |
| 18th of January 1913 | EVENT | A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece. |
| 18th of January 1915 | EVENT | Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. |
| 18th of January 1916 | EVENT | A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri. |
| 18th of January 1919 | EVENT | World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. |
| 18th of January 1919 | EVENT | Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland. |
| 18th of January 1919 | EVENT | Bentley Motors Limited is founded. |
| 18th of January 1941 | EVENT | World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa. |
| 18th of January 1943 | EVENT | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. |
| 18th of January 1944 | EVENT | Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad. |
| 18th of January 1944 | EVENT | The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden. |
| 18th of January 1945 | EVENT | Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army. |
| 18th of January 1955 | EVENT | Battle of Yijiangshan is fought. |
| 18th of January 1958 | EVENT | Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut. |
| 18th of January 1960 | EVENT | Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years. |
| 18th of January 1967 | EVENT | Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| 18th of January 1969 | EVENT | United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members. |
| 18th of January 1974 | EVENT | A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War. |
| 18th of January 1976 | EVENT | Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000. |
| 18th of January 1977 | EVENT | Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. |
| 18th of January 1977 | EVENT | Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83. |
| 18th of January 1978 | EVENT | The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. |
| 18th of January 1978 | EVENT | The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall. |
| 18th of January 1981 | EVENT | Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs). |
| 18th of January 1983 | EVENT | The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family. |
| 18th of January 1990 | EVENT | Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting. |
| 18th of January 1993 | EVENT | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states. |
| 18th of January 1994 | EVENT | The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute. |
| 18th of January 1997 | EVENT | In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other. |
| 18th of January 1997 | EVENT | Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided. |
| 18th of January 2000 | EVENT | The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth. |
| 18th of January 2002 | EVENT | Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over. |
| 18th of January 2003 | EVENT | A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia. |
| 18th of January 2005 | EVENT | The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France |
| 18th of January 2007 | EVENT | The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. |
| 18th of January 2009 | EVENT | Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault. |
| 18th of January 0885 | BIRTHDAY | Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930) |
| 18th of January 1519 | BIRTHDAY | Isabella Jagie??o, queen of Hungary (d. 1559) |
| 18th of January 1543 | BIRTHDAY | (baptised) Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (d. 1588) |
| 18th of January 1641 | BIRTHDAY | Francois-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691) |
| 18th of January 1659 | BIRTHDAY | Damaris Cudworth Masham, English philosopher (d. 1708) |
| 18th of January 1672 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731) |
| 18th of January 1688 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765) |
| 18th of January 1689 | BIRTHDAY | Montesquieu, French satirist and philosopher (d. 1755) |
| 18th of January 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Claude de Saint-Martin French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu. (d. 1803) |
| 18th of January 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869) |
| 18th of January 1782 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852) |
| 18th of January 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Pavlovna of Russia, queen of The Netherlands (d. 1865) |
| 18th of January 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (d. 1906) |
| 18th of January 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874) |
| 18th of January 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921) |
| 18th of January 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (d. 1894) |
| 18th of January 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911) |
| 18th of January 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925) |
| 18th of January 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920) |
| 18th of January 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916) |
| 18th of January 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (d. 1900) |
| 18th of January 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Watson, American telephone pioneer (d. 1934) |
| 18th of January 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon (d. 1931) |
| 18th of January 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Dario, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916) |
| 18th of January 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d. 1961) |
| 18th of January 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949) |
| 18th of January 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian physicist (d. 1933) |
| 18th of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1975) |
| 18th of January 1882 | BIRTHDAY | A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956) |
| 18th of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Clara Nordstrom, German writer and translator (d. 1962) |
| 18th of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989) |
| 18th of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957) |
| 18th of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956) |
| 18th of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967) |
| 18th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973) |
| 18th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006) |
| 18th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986) |
| 18th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002) |
| 18th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (d. 1974) |
| 18th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972) |
| 18th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (d. 1993) |
| 18th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Maria Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist (d. 1969). |
| 18th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987) |
| 18th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Giannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and musician (d. 1972) |
| 18th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979) |
| 18th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian writer (d. 1987) |
| 18th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984) |
| 18th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2008) |
| 18th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996) |
| 18th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
| 18th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997) |
| 18th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995) |
| 18th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990) |
| 18th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea |
| 18th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007) |
| 18th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Dolby, American inventor (Dolby noise reduction system) |
| 18th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | John Boorman, Irish film director |
| 18th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator |
| 18th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Millaire, Quebec actor and theatre director |
| 18th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007) |
| 18th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Stallworthy, English poet |
| 18th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 |
| 18th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Giddens, British sociologist |
| 18th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997) |
| 18th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971) |
| 18th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Goldsboro, American country/pop singer |
| 18th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Denise Bombardier, Quebec journalist, television host and novelist |
| 18th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991) |
| 18th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Kay Granger, American politician |
| 18th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Freeman, British actor |
| 18th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia |
| 18th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983) |
| 18th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Luis Perales, Spanish singer |
| 18th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor |
| 18th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player |
| 18th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director |
| 18th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Starck, French designer |
| 18th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Keller, American newspaper editor |
| 18th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982) |
| 18th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982) |
| 18th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Latchford, English footballer |
| 18th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Behe, American advocate of Intelligent Design |
| 18th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Angelis, British actor |
| 18th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer |
| 18th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Hudson, American musician |
| 18th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ted DiBiase, Retired Professional Wrestler |
| 18th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Costner, American actor |
| 18th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Fergus Martin, Irish artist |
| 18th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Mitchell, American porn actress |
| 18th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Beardsley, English footballer |
| 18th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Hansen, American basketball player |
| 18th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Yagher, American actor |
| 18th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 18th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Arngrim, American actress |
| 18th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | David O'Connor, American equestrian rider |
| 18th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland |
| 18th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Maxime Bernier, French Canadian politician |
| 18th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Yury Zakharevich, Soviet weightlifter |
| 18th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Leand, American tennis player |
| 18th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Brady Anderson, American baseball player |
| 18th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Horrocks, British actress |
| 18th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Enrico Lo Verso, Italian actor |
| 18th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Attell, American writer and comedian |
| 18th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver |
| 18th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player |
| 18th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999) |
| 18th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Zamorano, Chilean footballer |
| 18th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist |
| 18th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jim O'Rourke, American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco) |
| 18th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Bautista, American professional wrestler |
| 18th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer |
| 18th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | John Eder, American politician |
| 18th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist |
| 18th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Quik, American rapper |
| 18th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Davis, American singer (Ko?n) |
| 18th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver |
| 18th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Seamus O'Regan, Canadian broadcast journalist |
| 18th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Fabian Ribauw, Nauruan politician |
| 18th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer |
| 18th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player |
| 18th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Vinod Kambli, Indian cricket player |
| 18th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Jealous, African-American leader, president of the NAACP |
| 18th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker) |
| 18th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Koutoufides, Australian rules footballer and Gladiator |
| 18th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Claire of Belgium |
| 18th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak) |
| 18th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Devon Odessa, American actress |
| 18th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Maulik Pancholy, American actor |
| 18th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Tunn, Australian television presenter and radio announcer |
| 18th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Damien Leith, Irish-born Australian singer, winner of Australian Idol 2006 |
| 18th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence Courtois, Belgian tennis player |
| 18th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Subhrajit Mitra, Indian filmmaker |
| 18th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Archer, British singer (lead singer of Hard-Fi) |
| 18th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Cregan, American actor |
| 18th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player |
| 18th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Wall, Irish actor |
| 18th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist |
| 18th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Bogdan Lobont, Romanian football player |
| 18th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player |
| 18th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer, producer, actor and director |
| 18th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian ice hockey player |
| 18th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player |
| 18th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer |
| 18th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kenyatta Jones, American football player |
| 18th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Green, English footballer |
| 18th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Peppers, American football player |
| 18th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Estelle Swaray, English singer |
| 18th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Segel, American actor |
| 18th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kang Dong-won, South Korean model and actor |
| 18th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player |
| 18th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer |
| 18th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna Newsom, American harpist |
| 18th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Quinn Allman, American Guitarist, The Used |
| 18th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress |
| 18th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kristy Lee Cook, American singer |
| 18th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Makoto Hasebe, Japanese footballer |
| 18th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Seung-Hui Cho, American spree killer (d. 2007) |
| 18th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ioannis Drymonakos, Greek swimmer |
| 18th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Kearney, American child prodigy |
| 18th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Benji Schwimmer, American dancer |
| 18th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Begg-Smith, Australian freestyle skier |
| 18th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Minissha Lamba, Indian actress and model |
| 18th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer |
| 18th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Grigoris Makos, Greek footballer |
| 18th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Marya Roxx, Estonian singer |
| 18th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Liebig, German rugby player |
| 18th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer |
| 18th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Day, American singer-songwriter |
| 18th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Anastasios Kissas, Greek footballer |
| 18th of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Simoes, Brazilian footballer |
| 18th of January 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan York, American actress |
| 18th of January 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Gong Min-ji, South Korean pop singer, rapper, and dancer of 2NE1 |
| 18th of January 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer |
| 18th of January 0474 | DEATH | Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (Born 401) |
| 18th of January 1213 | DEATH | Queen Regnant Tamar of Georgia (Born c. 1160) |
| 18th of January 1367 | DEATH | King Peter I of Portugal (Born 1320) |
| 18th of January 1425 | DEATH | Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (Born 1391) |
| 18th of January 1471 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (Born 1419) |
| 18th of January 1586 | DEATH | Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (Born 1522) |
| 18th of January 1664 | DEATH | Moses Amyraut, French theologian (Born 1596) |
| 18th of January 1677 | DEATH | Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (Born 1619) |
| 18th of January 1803 | DEATH | Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (Born 1743) |
| 18th of January 1862 | DEATH | John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (Born 1790) |
| 18th of January 1873 | DEATH | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (Born 1803) |
| 18th of January 1878 | DEATH | Antoine Cesar Becquerel, French physicist (Born 1788) |
| 18th of January 1886 | DEATH | Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (Born 1819) |
| 18th of January 1892 | DEATH | Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious figure (Born 1819) |
| 18th of January 1896 | DEATH | Charles Floquet, French statesman (Born 1828) |
| 18th of January 1923 | DEATH | Wallace Reid, American actor (Born 1891) |
| 18th of January 1936 | DEATH | Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1865) |
| 18th of January 1940 | DEATH | Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (Born 1865) |
| 18th of January 1951 | DEATH | Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (Born 1867) |
| 18th of January 1952 | DEATH | Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (Born 1903) |
| 18th of January 1954 | DEATH | Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (Born 1879) |
| 18th of January 1963 | DEATH | Hugh Gaitskell, English politician (Born 1906) |
| 18th of January 1966 | DEATH | Kathleen Norris, American writer (Born 1880) |
| 18th of January 1967 | DEATH | Goose Tatum, American basketball player (Born 1921) |
| 18th of January 1969 | DEATH | Hans Freyer, German sociologist (Born 1887) |
| 18th of January 1970 | DEATH | David O. McKay, American religious figure (Born 1873) |
| 18th of January 1971 | DEATH | Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (Born 1914) |
| 18th of January 1975 | DEATH | Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (Born 1897) |
| 18th of January 1978 | DEATH | Carl Betz, American film and television actor (Born 1921) |
| 18th of January 1978 | DEATH | Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher and writer (Born 1919) |
| 18th of January 1978 | DEATH | Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective (Born 1890) |
| 18th of January 1980 | DEATH | Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (Born 1904) |
| 18th of January 1984 | DEATH | Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (Born 1915) |
| 18th of January 1985 | DEATH | Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (Born 1912) |
| 18th of January 1989 | DEATH | Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (Born 1940) |
| 18th of January 1990 | DEATH | Rusty Hamer, American actor (Born 1947) |
| 18th of January 1993 | DEATH | Eleanor Hibbert, English writer (Born 1906) |
| 18th of January 1995 | DEATH | Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1903) |
| 18th of January 1995 | DEATH | Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (Born 1937) |
| 18th of January 1996 | DEATH | Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (Born 1923) |
| 18th of January 1997 | DEATH | Paul Tsongas, American politician (Born 1941) |
| 18th of January 2000 | DEATH | Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (Born 1897) |
| 18th of January 2001 | DEATH | Al Waxman, Canadian actor (Born 1935) |
| 18th of January 2003 | DEATH | Edward Farhat, American professional wrestler (Born 1926) |
| 18th of January 2005 | DEATH | Lamont Bentley, American actor (Born 1973) |
| 18th of January 2006 | DEATH | Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (Born 1915) |
| 18th of January 2007 | DEATH | Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (Born 1963) |
| 18th of January 2008 | DEATH | Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (Born 1927) |
| 18th of January 2008 | DEATH | Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (Born 1925) |
| 18th of January 2008 | DEATH | John Stroger, American politician (Born 1929) |
| 18th of January 2009 | DEATH | Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (Born 1925) |
| 18th of January 2009 | DEATH | Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (Born 1935) |
| 18th of January 2009 | DEATH | Bob May, American actor (Born 1939) |
| 18th of January 2009 | DEATH | Nora Kovach, Hungarian-born American ballerina (Born 1931) |
| 18th of January 2011 | DEATH | Sargent Shriver, American politician (Born 1915) |