Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 18

Births

 * 1785 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866) (pictured)
 * 1926 - Chuck Berry, American musician (d. 2017)
 * 1935 - Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
 * 1939 - Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and commentator
 * 1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, purported American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
 * 1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
 * 1961 - Wynton Marsalis, American musician

Deaths

 * 1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
 * 1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)
 * 1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
 * 1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
 * 1982 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)