Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 18

Births

 * 1049 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet (d. 1131)
 * 1868 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov, Nicholas II, Last Emperor of Russia (d. 1918) (pictured)
 * 1872 - Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1970)
 * 1876 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)
 * 1919 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991)
 * 1920 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)

Deaths

 * 1911 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
 * 1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875)
 * 1973 - Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1880)