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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 18th of February 1229 | EVENT | The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. |
| 18th of February 1268 | EVENT | The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere. |
| 18th of February 1332 | EVENT | Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces. |
| 18th of February 1478 | EVENT | George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London. |
| 18th of February 1637 | EVENT | Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them. |
| 18th of February 1745 | EVENT | The city of Surakarta, Central Java is founded on the banks of Bengawan Solo River, and becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Surakarta. |
| 18th of February 1781 | EVENT | Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opened his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana). |
| 18th of February 1797 | EVENT | French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad. |
| 18th of February 1814 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau. |
| 18th of February 1846 | EVENT | Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt. |
| 18th of February 1861 | EVENT | With the Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy. |
| 18th of February 1861 | EVENT | In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America. |
| 18th of February 1865 | EVENT | Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia. |
| 18th of February 1873 | EVENT | Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities. |
| 18th of February 1878 | EVENT | John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico. |
| 18th of February 1900 | EVENT | Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg. |
| 18th of February 1906 | EVENT | Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels. |
| 18th of February 1911 | EVENT | The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away. |
| 18th of February 1913 | EVENT | Pedro Lascurain becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country. |
| 18th of February 1930 | EVENT | While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. |
| 18th of February 1930 | EVENT | Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft. |
| 18th of February 1932 | EVENT | The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China. |
| 18th of February 1943 | EVENT | Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech. |
| 18th of February 1943 | EVENT | The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement. |
| 18th of February 1946 | EVENT | Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutinied in Mumbai harbour, from where it would spread throughout British India and involve 78 ships, 20 shore establishments and 20,000 sailors |
| 18th of February 1954 | EVENT | The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California. |
| 18th of February 1955 | EVENT | Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots of the Teapot series. |
| 18th of February 1957 | EVENT | Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government. |
| 18th of February 1957 | EVENT | Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand. |
| 18th of February 1965 | EVENT | The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
| 18th of February 1969 | EVENT | Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board. |
| 18th of February 1970 | EVENT | The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. |
| 18th of February 1972 | EVENT | The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, 6 Cal.3d 628 invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment. |
| 18th of February 1977 | EVENT | The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747. |
| 18th of February 1978 | EVENT | The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu, won by Gordon Haller. |
| 18th of February 1979 | EVENT | Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history. |
| 18th of February 1983 | EVENT | Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle, Washington. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history. |
| 18th of February 1991 | EVENT | The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London. |
| 18th of February 2001 | EVENT | FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| 18th of February 2001 | EVENT | Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500. |
| 18th of February 2001 | EVENT | Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Indonesia, that will ultimately result in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes. |
| 18th of February 2003 | EVENT | Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea. |
| 18th of February 2004 | EVENT | Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes. |
| 18th of February 2007 | EVENT | Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people. |
| 18th of February 2010 | EVENT | Nigerien rebels attacked the presidential palace in Niamey and replaced President Mamadou Tandja with a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy. |
| 18th of February 1374 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (d. 1399) |
| 18th of February 1404 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472) |
| 18th of February 1486 | BIRTHDAY | Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali yogi (d. 1534) |
| 18th of February 1516 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558) |
| 18th of February 1530 | BIRTHDAY | Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578) |
| 18th of February 1543 | BIRTHDAY | Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608) |
| 18th of February 1559 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Casaubon, French classical scholar (d. 1614) |
| 18th of February 1602 | BIRTHDAY | Per Brahe, Swedish soldier (d. 1680) |
| 18th of February 1609 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian (d. 1674) |
| 18th of February 1635 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Goransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680) |
| 18th of February 1642 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Champmesle, French actress (d. 1698) |
| 18th of February 1658 | BIRTHDAY | Charles-Irenee Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743) |
| 18th of February 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827) |
| 18th of February 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Fenton Cary, American-born U. S. Congressman (d. 1900) |
| 18th of February 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis A. Armistead, American Confederate general (d. 1863) |
| 18th of February 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, revolutionary (d. 1870) |
| 18th of February 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Sri Ramakrishna, Indian Bengali guru of Swami Vivekananda (d. 1886) |
| 18th of February 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916) |
| 18th of February 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904) |
| 18th of February 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933) |
| 18th of February 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (d. 1906) |
| 18th of February 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Sholom Aleichem, Russian Yiddish humorist (d. 1916) |
| 18th of February 1870 | BIRTHDAY | William Laurel Harris, American mural painter and writer (d. 1924) |
| 18th of February 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948) |
| 18th of February 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian Revolutionary (d. 1909) |
| 18th of February 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author (d. 1957) |
| 18th of February 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970) |
| 18th of February 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956) |
| 18th of February 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963) |
| 18th of February 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Wendell Willkie, American politician (d. 1944) |
| 18th of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Kuentz, German-born French WW1 veteran and centenarian (d. 2005) |
| 18th of February 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Munoz Marin, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1980) |
| 18th of February 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari (d. 1988) |
| 18th of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Reginald Sheffield, British actor (d. 1957) |
| 18th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Herbert, German-born conductor and impresario (d. 1975) |
| 18th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (d. 1983) |
| 18th of February 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Queenie Leonard, American actress (d. 2002) |
| 18th of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980) |
| 18th of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (d. 2008) |
| 18th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer and English rugby union player (d. 1990) |
| 18th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Wallace Stegner, American writer (d. 1993) |
| 18th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (d. 2000) |
| 18th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002) |
| 18th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Drapeau, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1999) |
| 18th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Loevinger, American psychologist (d. 2008) |
| 18th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 18th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990) |
| 18th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician (d. 1997) |
| 18th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (d. 1971) |
| 18th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Tipton, American baseball player (d. 1994) |
| 18th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Melvin, American actor (d. 2008) |
| 18th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (d. 1995) |
| 18th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Gurley Brown, American editor |
| 18th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Humberto Fernandez Moran, Venezuelan scientist (d. 1999) |
| 18th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Laberge, Canadian labour union leader (d. 2002) |
| 18th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure (d. 2010) |
| 18th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | George Kennedy, American actor |
| 18th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Barbeau, Canadian artist |
| 18th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Wallace Berman, American artist |
| 18th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Nalini Jaywant, Indian actress (d. 2010) |
| 18th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | John Warner, American politician, 61st United States Secretary of the Navy and former United States Senator from Virginia |
| 18th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 18th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Fryer English Marxist writer and journalist (d. 2006) |
| 18th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007) |
| 18th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Len Deighton, British author |
| 18th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Mathieu, Canadian composer (d. 1968) |
| 18th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist |
| 18th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007) |
| 18th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Bob St. Clair, American football player |
| 18th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel laureate |
| 18th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Milos Forman, Czech film director |
| 18th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Yoko Ono, Japanese-born American singer and performance artist |
| 18th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Bobby Robson, English football player and manager (d. 2009) |
| 18th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975) |
| 18th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Audre Lorde, Caribbean poet and activist (d. 1992) |
| 18th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Aoun, Lebanese prime minister |
| 18th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Auel, American writer |
| 18th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Duff, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 18th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Istvan Szabo, Hungarian film director |
| 18th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Manny Mota, Dominican baseball player |
| 18th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Sadanoyama Shinmatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 50th Yokozuna |
| 18th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Dal Maxvill, American baseball player |
| 18th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist |
| 18th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Marek Janowski, Polish-born conductor |
| 18th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Fabrizio De Andre, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1999) |
| 18th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Irma Thomas, American singer |
| 18th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Garden, Scottish writer |
| 18th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Bowlen, American sports team owner (Denver Broncos) |
| 18th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Rankin, American golfer |
| 18th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Buerk, British newsreader |
| 18th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor |
| 18th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis DeYoung, American musician (Styx) |
| 18th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Lopes, Portuguese athlete |
| 18th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Christina of the Netherlands |
| 18th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Eliot Lance Engel, American politician |
| 18th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Brunnhuber, German politician |
| 18th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Knudsen, American drummer and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (d. 2005) |
| 18th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Sinead Cusack, Irish actress |
| 18th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Ridgway, American convicted serial killer |
| 18th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | John Hughes, American film director (d. 2009) |
| 18th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Cybill Shepherd, American actress |
| 18th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Gauthier, Canadian politician |
| 18th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Isabel Preysler, Philippines-born Spanish socialite |
| 18th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Lucas, American basketball player (d. 2010) |
| 18th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Juice Newton, American singer |
| 18th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer (Bachman : Turner Overdrive) |
| 18th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Fowler, American mountaineer (d. 2006) |
| 18th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Travolta, American actor |
| 18th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Miles Tredinnick, English playwright |
| 18th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Rougeau, Canadian wrestler |
| 18th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Reed Smith, American luthier |
| 18th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Gardestad, Swedish singer (d. 1997) |
| 18th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Marita Koch, German athlete |
| 18th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Vanna White, American game show presenter |
| 18th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Lavaggi, Italian racing driver |
| 18th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Gar Samuelson, American drummer (d. 1999) |
| 18th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lucie Visser, Dutch actress and model |
| 18th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Carol McGiffin, British TV and radio presenter |
| 18th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Greta Scacchi, Australian actress |
| 18th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Moog, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 18th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Hironobu Kageyama, Japanese singer |
| 18th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Cosmo Wilson, American concert lighting designer |
| 18th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Moe Lemay, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 18th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Strain, American actress |
| 18th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Winter, English football journalist |
| 18th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Dillon, American actor |
| 18th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hanley, British musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers) |
| 18th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (d. 2005) |
| 18th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Dre, American record producer and rapper |
| 18th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Ferland, American television director |
| 18th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Anselmo, American animator |
| 18th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Aurelio, Brazilian footballer |
| 18th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer |
| 18th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Thai film director and producer |
| 18th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tracey Edmonds, American film and television producer |
| 18th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Van Barneveld, Belgian judoka |
| 18th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Molly Ringwald, American actress |
| 18th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tomaz Humar, Slovenian mountaineer (d. 2009) |
| 18th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player |
| 18th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Sutter, American drummer (Smash Mouth, American Hi-Fi) |
| 18th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Egan, American actress |
| 18th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Raine Maida, Canadian musician (Our Lady Peace) |
| 18th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jez Williams, British musician (Doves) |
| 18th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Williams, British musician (Doves) |
| 18th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Merritt Gant, American thrash metal guitarist |
| 18th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Constantin Popa, Romanian-born Israeli basketball player |
| 18th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Makelele, French footballer |
| 18th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmental activist |
| 18th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jamey Carroll, American baseball player |
| 18th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player |
| 18th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ruby Dhalla, Canadian politician |
| 18th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jillian Michaels, American fitness trainer |
| 18th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Brown, American actress |
| 18th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Neville, English footballer |
| 18th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Gillespie, Irish footballer |
| 18th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Kvamm, Danish singer and comedian |
| 18th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Chanda Rubin, American tennis player |
| 18th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Leilani Munter, American race car driver |
| 18th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ike Barinholtz, American actor |
| 18th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Chrissie Wellington, British triathlete |
| 18th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Katia, Brazilian footballer |
| 18th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Watkins, American guitarist and songwriter |
| 18th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Pocher, German comedian |
| 18th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Josip Simunic, Croatian footballer |
| 18th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Regina Spektor, Russian/American singer and songwriter |
| 18th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Antropov, Kazakh ice hockey player |
| 18th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player |
| 18th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Rios, American baseball player |
| 18th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Sproule, Irish footballer |
| 18th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Sweeney, American professional wrestler |
| 18th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Jae Won, South Korean actor |
| 18th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Juelz Santana, American rapper |
| 18th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jermaine Jenas, English footballer |
| 18th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Maxiell, American basketball player |
| 18th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Bienemann, American football player |
| 18th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kathrin Worle, German tennis player |
| 18th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Ferdinand, English footballer |
| 18th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican spree killer |
| 18th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Chelsea Hobbs, American actress |
| 18th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Torrejon, Spanish footballer |
| 18th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Lyons, American actor and chef |
| 18th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Maiara Walsh, American actress |
| 18th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Max, South Korean singer (TVXQ) |
| 18th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Vicente, Brazilian footballer |
| 18th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Cody Hodgson, Canadian hockey player |
| 18th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Park Shin-hye, South Korean actress |
| 18th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Malese Jow, American actress and singer |
| 18th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Neumann, German footballer |
| 18th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Surtees, English racing driver (d. 2009) |
| 18th of February 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Logan Miller, American actor |
| 18th of February 0806 | DEATH | Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (Born 730) |
| 18th of February 0814 | DEATH | Angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne |
| 18th of February 0901 | DEATH | Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (Born 826) |
| 18th of February 0999 | DEATH | Pope Gregory V (Born 972) |
| 18th of February 1139 | DEATH | Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (Born 1082) |
| 18th of February 1294 | DEATH | Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (Born 1215) |
| 18th of February 1379 | DEATH | Albert II of Mecklenburg (Born 1318) |
| 18th of February 1405 | DEATH | Tamerlane, Mongol Emperor (Born 1336) |
| 18th of February 1455 | DEATH | Fra Angelico, Italian artist (Born 1395) |
| 18th of February 1478 | DEATH | George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (Born 1449) |
| 18th of February 1535 | DEATH | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, astrologer and alchemist (Born 1486) |
| 18th of February 1546 | DEATH | Martin Luther, German religious reformer (Born 1483) |
| 18th of February 1564 | DEATH | Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (Born 1475) |
| 18th of February 1583 | DEATH | Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (Born 1503) |
| 18th of February 1654 | DEATH | Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (Born 1594) |
| 18th of February 1683 | DEATH | Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (Born 1620) |
| 18th of February 1712 | DEATH | Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (Born 1682) |
| 18th of February 1718 | DEATH | Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (Born 1663) |
| 18th of February 1743 | DEATH | Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (Born 1667) |
| 18th of February 1748 | DEATH | Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (Born 1677) |
| 18th of February 1772 | DEATH | Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (Born 1712) |
| 18th of February 1778 | DEATH | Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (Born 1715) |
| 18th of February 1780 | DEATH | Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (Born 1714) |
| 18th of February 1788 | DEATH | John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (Born 1713) |
| 18th of February 1803 | DEATH | Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (Born 1719) |
| 18th of February 1842 | DEATH | Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (Born 1779) |
| 18th of February 1851 | DEATH | Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (Born 1804) |
| 18th of February 1873 | DEATH | Vasil Levski, Bulgarian Revolutionist (Born 1837) |
| 18th of February 1893 | DEATH | Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (Born 1814) |
| 18th of February 1895 | DEATH | Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (Born 1851) |
| 18th of February 1900 | DEATH | Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (Born 1824) |
| 18th of February 1902 | DEATH | Charles Lewis Tiffany, American founder of Tiffany & Co. (Born 1812) |
| 18th of February 1906 | DEATH | John Batterson Stetson, American manufacturer (Born 1830) |
| 18th of February 1911 | DEATH | Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (Born 1854) |
| 18th of February 1923 | DEATH | Alois Rasin, Czechoslovak politician, Minister of Finance (Born 1867) |
| 18th of February 1931 | DEATH | Milan Sufflay, Croatian politician (Born 1879) |
| 18th of February 1933 | DEATH | James J. Corbett, American boxer (Born 1866) |
| 18th of February 1938 | DEATH | David King Udall, American politician (Born 1851) |
| 18th of February 1942 | DEATH | Albert Payson Terhune, American author (Born 1872) |
| 18th of February 1945 | DEATH | Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (Born 1906) |
| 18th of February 1956 | DEATH | Gustave Charpentier, French composer (Born 1860) |
| 18th of February 1957 | DEATH | Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (Born 1920) |
| 18th of February 1957 | DEATH | Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (Born 1877) |
| 18th of February 1964 | DEATH | Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and industrialist (Born 1907) |
| 18th of February 1966 | DEATH | Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and director (Born 1908) |
| 18th of February 1967 | DEATH | Dragisa Cvetkovic, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister (Born 1893) |
| 18th of February 1967 | DEATH | J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (Born 1904) |
| 18th of February 1973 | DEATH | Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (Born 1891) |
| 18th of February 1976 | DEATH | Wallace Berman, American Artist |
| 18th of February 1977 | DEATH | Andy Devine, American actor (Born 1905) |
| 18th of February 1978 | DEATH | Maggie McNamara, American actress (Born 1928) |
| 18th of February 1981 | DEATH | John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft manufacturer (Born 1895) |
| 18th of February 1982 | DEATH | Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (Born 1895) |
| 18th of February 1993 | DEATH | Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (Born 1960) |
| 18th of February 1993 | DEATH | Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (Born 1908) |
| 18th of February 1993 | DEATH | Jacqueline Hill, British actress (Born 1929) |
| 18th of February 1995 | DEATH | Bob Stinson, American guitarist (Born 1959) |
| 18th of February 1997 | DEATH | Emily Hahn, American writer (Born 1905) |
| 18th of February 1998 | DEATH | Robbie James, Welsh footballer (Born 1957) |
| 18th of February 1998 | DEATH | Harry Caray, American baseball broadcaster (Born 1914) |
| 18th of February 1999 | DEATH | Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (Born 1932) |
| 18th of February 2000 | DEATH | Willy Maltaite, Belgian comics creator (Born 1927) |
| 18th of February 2001 | DEATH | Balthus, Polish-born painter (Born 1908) |
| 18th of February 2001 | DEATH | Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (Born 1951) |
| 18th of February 2001 | DEATH | Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (Born 1931) |
| 18th of February 2003 | DEATH | Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (Born 1912) |
| 18th of February 2004 | DEATH | Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and ethnologist (Born 1917) |
| 18th of February 2006 | DEATH | Richard Bright, American actor (Born 1937) |
| 18th of February 2008 | DEATH | Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress, (Born 1955) |
| 18th of February 2008 | DEATH | Sir Richard Knowles, British politician (Born 1917) |
| 18th of February 2008 | DEATH | Mickey Renaud, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Born 1988) |
| 18th of February 2009 | DEATH | Miika Tenkula, Finnish guitarist (Born 1974) |
| 18th of February 2009 | DEATH | Al-Tayyib Salih, Sudanese novelist and columnist (Born 1929) |
| 18th of February 2010 | DEATH | John Babcock, Last known Canadian veteran of World War I (Born 1900) |