Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 18

Births

 * 1707 – Charles Wesley, English hymn composer (d. 1788)
 * 1870 – Saki, Burmese-English author and playwright (d. 1916)
 * 1863 – Franz Ferdinand, Austro-Hungarian Archduke (d. 1914)
 * 1878 – Joseph Stalin, Soviet marshal and 4th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
 * 1886 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player (d. 1961)
 * 1890 – Edwin Armstrong, American inventor of FM radio (d. 1954)

Deaths

 * 1495 – Alfonso of Aragon, King of Naples (b. 1448)
 * 1737 – Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (b. 1644)
 * 1829 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier and biologist (b. 1744)
 * 1936 – Andrija Mohorovičić, Hungarian-Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
 * 1985 – Xuan Dieu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)
 * 1995 – Konrad Zuse, German designer of the Z3 computer (b. 1910)