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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 18th of December 1271 | EVENT | Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (? yuan), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of Mongolia and China. |
| 18th of December 1642 | EVENT | Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand. |
| 18th of December 1777 | EVENT | The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October. |
| 18th of December 1787 | EVENT | New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. |
| 18th of December 1793 | EVENT | Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck. |
| 18th of December 1878 | EVENT | The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar |
| 18th of December 1878 | EVENT | John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania. |
| 18th of December 1888 | EVENT | Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde. |
| 18th of December 1898 | EVENT | Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car. |
| 18th of December 1900 | EVENT | The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic. |
| 18th of December 1912 | EVENT | The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson. |
| 18th of December 1915 | EVENT | U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson while president of the United States. |
| 18th of December 1916 | EVENT | World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French and British, and suffer 337,000 casualties. |
| 18th of December 1918 | EVENT | The United States House of Representatives approves the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition. |
| 18th of December 1932 | EVENT | The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game is moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards (73 m) long. |
| 18th of December 1935 | EVENT | The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon. |
| 18th of December 1944 | EVENT | World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base. |
| 18th of December 1956 | EVENT | Japan joins the United Nations. |
| 18th of December 1958 | EVENT | Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched. |
| 18th of December 1966 | EVENT | Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker. |
| 18th of December 1969 | EVENT | Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years. |
| 18th of December 1971 | EVENT | Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah. |
| 18th of December 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th. |
| 18th of December 1973 | EVENT | Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union. |
| 18th of December 1978 | EVENT | Dominica joins the United Nations. |
| 18th of December 1987 | EVENT | Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language. |
| 18th of December 1989 | EVENT | The European Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation. |
| 18th of December 1996 | EVENT | The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect. |
| 18th of December 1997 | EVENT | HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium. |
| 18th of December 1999 | EVENT | NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT. |
| 18th of December 2002 | EVENT | 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier. |
| 18th of December 2006 | EVENT | The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced. |
| 18th of December 2010 | EVENT | Governmental protests begin in Tunisia, beginning the 2010-2011 Middle East and North Africa protests |
| 18th of December 1507 | BIRTHDAY | Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551) |
| 18th of December 1602 | BIRTHDAY | Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650) |
| 18th of December 1610 | BIRTHDAY | Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (d. 1688) |
| 18th of December 1620 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668) |
| 18th of December 1661 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751) |
| 18th of December 1662 | BIRTHDAY | James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (d. 1711) |
| 18th of December 1707 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (d. 1788) |
| 18th of December 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (d. 1791) |
| 18th of December 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Grimaldi, English clown (d. 1837) |
| 18th of December 1825 | BIRTHDAY | John S. Harris, American politician (d. 1906) |
| 18th of December 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Griffin, American general (d. 1876) |
| 18th of December 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Lyman Abbott, American author (d. 1922) |
| 18th of December 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Augusta Holmes, French composer (d. 1903) |
| 18th of December 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Henrietta Edwards, Canadian women's rights activist (d. 1931) |
| 18th of December 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Graciano Lopez Jaena, Filipino orator and satirist (d. 1896) |
| 18th of December 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Sir J. J. Thomson, English physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 1940) |
| 18th of December 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Edward MacDowell, American composer and pianist (d. 1908) |
| 18th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Monckton, English composer for the musical theatre (d. 1924) |
| 18th of December 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914) |
| 18th of December 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Saki, English writer (d. 1916) |
| 18th of December 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (d. 1957) |
| 18th of December 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1953) |
| 18th of December 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Klee, Swiss-born painter (d. 1940) |
| 18th of December 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Ty Cobb, American baseball player (d. 1961) |
| 18th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Gladys Cooper, English actress (d. 1971) |
| 18th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Moses, American public works official (d. 1981) |
| 18th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Armstrong, American inventor (d. 1954) |
| 18th of December 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Fletcher Henderson, American arranger and composer (d. 1952) |
| 18th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian author and philosopher (d. 1990) |
| 18th of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | George Stevens, American film director (d. 1975) |
| 18th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Lucie, American jazz guitarist (d. 2009) |
| 18th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Holland, American auto racer (d. 1984) |
| 18th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Siple, American Antarctic explorer (d. 1969) |
| 18th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Celia Johnson, English actress (d. 1982) |
| 18th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby and cricket international player and referee/umpire (d. 2010) |
| 18th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Abe Burrows, American playwright (d. 1985) |
| 18th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Dassin, American film director (d. 2008) |
| 18th of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American General (d. 2002) |
| 18th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1992) |
| 18th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Bester, American author (d. 1987) |
| 18th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (d. 2006) |
| 18th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Fraser, Scottish-born American trade unionist (d. 2008) |
| 18th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Grable, American actress (d. 1973) |
| 18th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (d. 2005) |
| 18th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Leckie, American marine and author (d. 2001) |
| 18th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ramsey Clark, 66th U.S. Attorney General |
| 18th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Romeo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009) |
| 18th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 2003) |
| 18th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Gino Cimoli, American baseball player |
| 18th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Cardinal-Archbishop Emeritus of Warsaw |
| 18th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Moose Skowron, American baseball player |
| 18th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Plowden, English historian (d. 2007) |
| 18th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Klein, American rock and roll business manager (d. 2009) |
| 18th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Smith, American actor |
| 18th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected serial killer (d. 1992) |
| 18th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Lonnie Brooks, American blues musician |
| 18th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Volynov, Soviet cosmonaut |
| 18th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Pepin, French chef |
| 18th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Kirk, English professional wrestler (d. 1987) |
| 18th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Chas Chandler, English musician (The Animals) (d. 1996) |
| 18th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter and composer (d. 2005) |
| 18th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Roger E. Mosley, American actor |
| 18th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Harold E. Varmus, American scientist and Nobel laureate |
| 18th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Moorcock, English author |
| 18th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bramwell Morrison, member of Sharon, Lois & Bram |
| 18th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpeter and composer |
| 18th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Atkin, Canadian actor |
| 18th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Richards, English guitarist (The Rolling Stones) |
| 18th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Rudolph, American film director and screenwriter |
| 18th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 18th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1977) |
| 18th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Spielberg, American film director |
| 18th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian crime fiction writer |
| 18th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent Voulzy, French singer and composer |
| 18th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Kemper, American serial killer |
| 18th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Nelson, English musician (Be-Bop Deluxe) |
| 18th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (d. 1980) |
| 18th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Hertzler, American poet |
| 18th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Gillian Armstrong, Australian film director |
| 18th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne) (d. 2002) |
| 18th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz-Josef Kehr, German footballer |
| 18th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Sarath Fonseka, former commander of the Sri Lanka Army and a former Chief of Defence of Sri Lanka. |
| 18th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Maltin, American film critic |
| 18th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov, Chechen singer-songwriter |
| 18th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Elliot Easton, American guitarist (The Cars) |
| 18th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Booth, British racing driver, founder of Manor Motorsport |
| 18th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Liotta, American actor |
| 18th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ron White, American comedian |
| 18th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Cainer, English astrologer |
| 18th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Geordie Walker, English rock musician and lead guitarist for post-punk band Killing Joke |
| 18th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Wolfe, American composer |
| 18th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist |
| 18th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater |
| 18th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Renaldo Lapuz, Filipino-born American singer |
| 18th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Greg D'Angelo, American musician (White Lion) |
| 18th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Pauline Ester, French singer |
| 18th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Dorrell, American football coach |
| 18th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Kayser, American actor |
| 18th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Brown, smooth jazz musician |
| 18th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Oakley, American basketball player |
| 18th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Pitt, American actor |
| 18th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Stone Cold Steve Austin, American professional wrestler |
| 18th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Robson Green, English actor and singer |
| 18th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Don Beebe, American football player |
| 18th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Collins, American musician (The Gories, The Dirtbombs) |
| 18th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Fawna MacLaren, American model and actress |
| 18th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Makiko Esumi, Japanese actress |
| 18th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mille Petrozza, German singer (Kreator) |
| 18th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist |
| 18th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress |
| 18th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Casper Van Dien, American actor |
| 18th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Cooper, Manager of Peterborough F.C |
| 18th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer |
| 18th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Wadia, British actress/comedian |
| 18th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Edinburgh, English footballer |
| 18th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Akira Iida, Japanese racing driver |
| 18th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Santiago Canizares, Spanish footballer |
| 18th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | DMX, American rapper and actor |
| 18th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Catanzaro, American fitness model |
| 18th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Miles Marshall Lewis, American author |
| 18th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lucious Harris, American basketball player |
| 18th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Pratt, Canadian actress and fitness model |
| 18th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Solabarrieta, Chilean journalist |
| 18th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Cowboy Troy, American rapper |
| 18th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Yeo, English artist |
| 18th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Van Dam, American professional wrestler |
| 18th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist |
| 18th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Noriko Matsueda, Japanese composer |
| 18th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player |
| 18th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Chowning, American painter |
| 18th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Lethal, Latvian-born American DJ (House of Pain, Limp Bizkit) |
| 18th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rah Digga, American rapper |
| 18th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Herrera, American drummer (Fear Factory) and businessman |
| 18th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Leila Arcieri, American actress and model |
| 18th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Boulware, American football player |
| 18th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Duggan, American television actor and host |
| 18th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Euroboy, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro) |
| 18th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 18th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Masaki Sumitani, Japanese comedian |
| 18th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent van der Voort, Dutch dart player |
| 18th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sia Furler. Australian singer |
| 18th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | David O'Doherty, Irish comedian |
| 18th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Lambert. American IT professional |
| 18th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Koyuki, Japanese actress and model |
| 18th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Acevedo, Dominican baseball player |
| 18th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay Armaou, Irish singer |
| 18th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Scott Ottney, American journalist and comic book writer |
| 18th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 18th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Curtis, American soccer player |
| 18th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Holmes, American actress |
| 18th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mamady Sidibe Malian footballer |
| 18th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Escobar, Puerto Rican professional wrestler |
| 18th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos, Portuguese footballer |
| 18th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Watson, American football player |
| 18th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Aguilera, American singer |
| 18th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz Inniger, Swiss snowboarder |
| 18th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Accardo, American baseball player |
| 18th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Schmidt, German rugby player |
| 18th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Luetkenhoelter, American bassist (Kutless) |
| 18th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Fantuz, Canadian football player |
| 18th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Carter, English footballer |
| 18th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tara Conner, American beauty contestant (Miss USA) |
| 18th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Hana Soukupova, Czech supermodel |
| 18th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Usman Khawaja, Australian cricketer |
| 18th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Hamelin, Canadian short track speed skater |
| 18th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater |
| 18th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sneha Ullal, Bollywood Actress |
| 18th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Jara, Panamanian jockey |
| 18th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ayaka, Japanese singer |
| 18th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Benson, American actress |
| 18th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | James Lawrie, Northern Irish footballer |
| 18th of December 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Bridgit Mendler, American actress and singer |
| 18th of December 0821 | DEATH | Theodulf, Bishop of Orleans |
| 18th of December 1133 | DEATH | Hildebert, French writer (Born 1055) |
| 18th of December 1290 | DEATH | King Magnus I of Sweden (Born 1240) |
| 18th of December 1442 | DEATH | Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (Born 1371) |
| 18th of December 1476 | DEATH | Vlad III the Impaler (Born 1431) |
| 18th of December 1495 | DEATH | King Alphonso II of Naples (Born 1448) |
| 18th of December 1591 | DEATH | Marigje Arriens, Dutch suspected witch (Born ca. 1520) |
| 18th of December 1692 | DEATH | Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (Born 1626) |
| 18th of December 1737 | DEATH | Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (Born 1644) |
| 18th of December 1787 | DEATH | Soame Jenyns, English writer (Born 1704) |
| 18th of December 1787 | DEATH | Francis William Drake, British Admiral and territorial governor (Born 1724) |
| 18th of December 1799 | DEATH | Jean-Etienne Montucla, French mathematician (Born 1725) |
| 18th of December 1803 | DEATH | Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (Born 1744) |
| 18th of December 1829 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (Born 1744) |
| 18th of December 1843 | DEATH | Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British statesman (Born 1748) |
| 18th of December 1848 | DEATH | Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and priest (Born 1781) |
| 18th of December 1869 | DEATH | Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (Born 1829) |
| 18th of December 1880 | DEATH | Michel Chasles, French mathematician (Born 1793) |
| 18th of December 1892 | DEATH | Richard Owen, English biologist (Born 1804) |
| 18th of December 1922 | DEATH | Carl Meyer, British banker and mining magnate (Born 1851) |
| 18th of December 1927 | DEATH | Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian Revolutionary (Born 1897) |
| 18th of December 1936 | DEATH | Andrija Mohorovicic, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian seismologist (Born 1857) |
| 18th of December 1950 | DEATH | Johnny Hyde, Russian-born American talent agent (Born 1895) |
| 18th of December 1968 | DEATH | Joan Tabor, American film and television actress (Born 1932) |
| 18th of December 1971 | DEATH | Bobby Jones, American golfer (Born 1902) |
| 18th of December 1971 | DEATH | Diana Lynn, American actress (Born 1926) |
| 18th of December 1973 | DEATH | Allama Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani orator and philosopher (Born 1908) |
| 18th of December 1974 | DEATH | Harry Hooper, American baseball player (Born 1887) |
| 18th of December 1975 | DEATH | Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist (Born 1900) |
| 18th of December 1977 | DEATH | Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player (Born 1921) |
| 18th of December 1980 | DEATH | Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politician and Premier (Born 1904) |
| 18th of December 1982 | DEATH | Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (Born 1916) |
| 18th of December 1985 | DEATH | Xuan Dieu, Vietnamese poet (Born 1916) |
| 18th of December 1987 | DEATH | Conny Plank, German record producer and musician (Born 1940) |
| 18th of December 1990 | DEATH | Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (Born 1914) |
| 18th of December 1990 | DEATH | Anne Revere, American actress (Born 1903) |
| 18th of December 1991 | DEATH | George Abecassis, English Formula 1 driver (Born 1913) |
| 18th of December 1992 | DEATH | Mark Goodson, American game show producer (Born 1915) |
| 18th of December 1993 | DEATH | Charizma, American rapper (Born 1973) |
| 18th of December 1993 | DEATH | Sam Wanamaker, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 18th of December 1994 | DEATH | Roger Apery, Greek-French mathematician (Born 1916) |
| 18th of December 1995 | DEATH | Brian Brockless, English organist (Born 1926) |
| 18th of December 1995 | DEATH | Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (Born 1910) |
| 18th of December 1996 | DEATH | Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (Born 1904) |
| 18th of December 1997 | DEATH | Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (Born 1964) |
| 18th of December 1998 | DEATH | Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (Born 1926) |
| 18th of December 1999 | DEATH | Robert Bresson, French film director (Born 1907) |
| 18th of December 2000 | DEATH | Randolph Apperson Hearst, son of William Randolph Hearst; father of Patricia Hearst (Born 1915) |
| 18th of December 2000 | DEATH | Stan Fox, American race car driver (Born 1952) |
| 18th of December 2000 | DEATH | Kirsty MacColl, English singer and songwriter (Born 1959) |
| 18th of December 2001 | DEATH | Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (Born 1914) |
| 18th of December 2001 | DEATH | Gilbert Becaud, French singer (Born 1927) |
| 18th of December 2002 | DEATH | Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian politician (Born 1934) |
| 18th of December 2002 | DEATH | Wayne Owens, American politician (Born 1937) |
| 18th of December 2004 | DEATH | Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (Born 1926) |
| 18th of December 2005 | DEATH | Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (Born 1922) |
| 18th of December 2006 | DEATH | Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (Born 1911) |
| 18th of December 2006 | DEATH | Mike Dickin, British radio broadcaster (Born 1943) |
| 18th of December 2006 | DEATH | Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author and political activist (Born 1923) |
| 18th of December 2006 | DEATH | Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (Born 1905) |
| 18th of December 2007 | DEATH | Gerald Le Dain, Canadian Supreme Court Justice (Born 1924) |
| 18th of December 2007 | DEATH | Bill Strauss, American writer (Born 1947) |
| 18th of December 2007 | DEATH | Jack Linkletter, American television host; son of Art Linkletter (Born 1937) |
| 18th of December 2008 | DEATH | W. Mark Felt, American Watergate figure (Born 1913) |
| 18th of December 2008 | DEATH | Majel Barrett, American actress; widow of Gene Roddenberry (Born 1932) |
| 18th of December 2010 | DEATH | Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (Born 1940) |
| 18th of December 2010 | DEATH | Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player (Born 1916) |
| 18th of December 2010 | DEATH | James Pickles, English jurist and columnist (Born 1925) |
| 18th of December 2010 | DEATH | Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist and classical scholar (Born 1913) |