Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 18

Births

 * 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

 * 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)