Le '''18 octobre''' est le 291 année (292 en cas d'année bissextile) du calendrier grégorien. Il reste 74 jours avant la fin de l'année.

== Événements ==
=== 1 à 1900 ===

* &thinsp;&nbsp;&thinsp;&nbsp;31 : Arrestation de Séjan, préfet du Prétoire de l'empereur romain Tibère.
* &thinsp;&nbsp;614 : Édit de Clotaire II sur l’administration publique (tous les hauts fonctionnaires doivent être originaires du territoire administré) et la liberté des élections épiscopales. Clotaire tente de rétablir l’ordre et l’équité dans son royaume. La charte précise qu’en l’absence du roi, l’évêque peut condamner un juge coupable.
* Chrétiens dans l'empire Caire.
* byzantine d'Alexis Ier Comnène est vaincue par les Normands, qui s'emparent de Dyrrachium (Durazzo), en Dalmatie (actuellement en Albanie).
* 1356 : Bâle ainsi qu'environ 80 châteaux aux alentours sont détruits.
* François I.
* Hernando de Soto aux Indiens, dans le sud de l'Alabama.
* 1622 : La paix de Montpellier met fin à un soulèvement des Huguenots, qui ne conservent que deux places-fortes : La Rochelle et Montauban.
* Louis XIV signe l'édit de Fontainebleau, révoquant ainsi l'Édit de Nantes.
* traité d'Aix-la-Chapelle met fin à la guerre de Succession d'Autriche.
* 1752 : Création à Fontainebleau du petit opéra de Jean-Jacques Rousseau ''Le Devin du village''.
* 1799 : Le duc d'York capitule devant l'armée française à Alkmaar, en Hollande.
* Napoléon ordonne que les marchandises anglaises soient brûlées dans les ports de l'Empire.
* 1854 : Signature à Aix-la-Chapelle (Allemagne) du ''manifeste d'Ostende'' proposant au gouvernement des États-Unis de faire rapidement des propositions à l'Espagne pour l'achat de Cuba.
* françaises du Mexique.
* dollars a été effectué et signé le 30 mars 1867.
* martiniquais, le Syndicat agricole du Lorrain.

===  ===

* 1907 : Acte final de la deuxième conférence de la paix de la Haye.
* traité de Lausanne.
* BBC).
* française .
* 1940 : Hans Vollenweider, dernier condamné à mort suisse, est exécuté
* soviétiques après l'avoir libérée du joug nazi.
* Assemblée générale des Nations unies de condamner la politique sud-africaine de ségrégation raciale.
* sonde soviétique "Vénus: ses appareils scientifiques, destinés à mesurer la pression et la température de l'atmosphère, cessent rapidement d'émettre après avoir signalé que la température est suffisamment élevée pour faire fondre le métal.
* État palestinien.
* 1977 : Trois terroristes ouest-allemands, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin et Jan-Carl Raspe, se suicident dans leurs cellules, à la prison de Stuttgart.
* américain, autorise la production de la bombe à neutrons, mais réserve sa décision quant à son utilisation.
* Parti ouvrier unifié (communiste) polonais par le président du conseil, le général Wojciech Jaruzelski, alors que l'agitation ouvrière se poursuit.
* prix Nobel d'économie pour ses travaux sur la théorie des marchés.
* Atlantis'' largue la sonde Galileo en direction de Jupiter qu'elle atteindra en 1995.
* URSS rétablit ses relations diplomatiques avec Israël, rompues en 1967.
* 1996 : (à 23h) Passage à la numérotation téléphonique à 10 chiffres en France

===  ===

* 2002 :
** 14 attentats à l'explosif, revendiqués par le FLNC, sont perpétrés en Corse.
** De violents incidents entre 80 jeunes encagoulés et des membres des forces de l'ordre ont lieu dans le quartier de Hautepierre à BAC) de Strasbourg: trois pompiers sont blessés par des jets de pierres et 25 véhicules sont incendiés.
* Al-Jazira.
* 2005 :
** Chine : communiste, selon Reporters sans frontières.
** Le tribunal correctionnel de HLM des Hauts-de-Seine à cinq ans d'emprisonnement, dont deux ferme et cinq ans d'inéligibilité, et relaxé Patrick Balkany, le député-maire de Levallois-Perret.
* 2007 :
** Double attentat à pakistanais Benazir Bhutto, à son retour d'un exil de 8 ans. Il fait plus de 139 morts et près de 400 blessés, mais Bhutto en sort indèmne.

== Naissances ==
* 1127 : Empereur Go-Shirakawa du Japon († 1192).

* Église catholique, de 1458 à 1464 († 14 août 1464).

* 1517 : Manoel da Nóbrega, jésuite portugais  au Brésil († 1570).
* 1547 : Justus Lipsius, humaniste († 1606).
* '''1569''' :
** Jacobus Arminius, théologien protestant hollandais.
** Giambattista Marini, poète italien († 1625).
** Edward Winslow, fondateur de la colonie de Plymouth († 1655).

* 1619 : Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé, duc de Brézé, duc de Fronsac, pair de France, grand-maître de la navigation, tué par un boulet à la bataille d'Orbitello († 14 juin 1646).
* 1634 : Luca Giordano, artiste italien († 1705).
* 1653 : Abraham van Riebeeck, gouverneur-général des Indes néerlandaises († 1713).
* 1662 : Matthew Henry, ministre anglais non-conformiste († 1714).
* 1668 : John George IV († 1694).
* 1679 : Ann Putnam, témoin important du procès des sorcières de Salem. († 1716).
* 1682 : Louis-François Delisle de la Drevetière, dramaturge français.

* 1701 : Charles Le Beau, historien français († 1778).
* 1706 : Baldassare Galuppi, compositeur italien († 1785).
* 1741 : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, général et auteur français († 1803).
* 1777 : Heinrich von Kleist, écrivain allemand († 1811).
* 1785 : Thomas Love Peacock, satyre anglais († 1866).

* 1816 : Friedrich Wilhelm Adami, écrivain, dramaturge et critique de théâtre allemand († 5 août 1893).
* 1854 : Billy Murdoch, joueur de cricket australien († 1911).
* 1859 : Henri Bergson, philosophe français, prix Nobel de littérature († 4 janvier 1941) .
* 1868 : Ernst Didring, auteur suédois († 1931).
* 1873 : Ivanoe Bonomi, premier ministre italien († 1951).
* 1880 : Vladimir Jabotinsky, leader de l'aile droite du mouvement sioniste et fondateur de la Légion juive († 4 août 1940).
* 1893 : Georges Ohsawa, japonais fondateur de la macrobiotique († 1966).
* 1898 : Lotte Lenya, actrice et chanteuse autrichienne († 28 novembre 1981).

* 1902 : Miriam Hopkins, actrice et danseuse américaine († 9 octobre 1972).
* 1903 : Lina Radke, athlète allemand († 1983).
* 1905 : Félix Houphouët-Boigny, homme politique français puis ivoirien († 7 décembre 1993), président de la Côte d'Ivoire (1960-1993).
* 1906 : James Brooks, peintre américain († 1992).
* 1909 : Norberto Bobbio, philosophe italien († 2004).
* 1911 : Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, gourou indien.
* 1913 : Robert Gilruth, pionnier de l'aviation et espace américain († 2000).
* 1918 : Bobby Troup, musicien américain († 1999).
* '''1919''' :
** Pierre Elliott Trudeau, homme politique canadien († 2000), premier ministre du Canada (1968-1979, puis 1980-1984).
** Suzanne Bachelard, philosophe française († 3 novembre 2007).
** Anita O'Day, chanteuse américain.
* 1920 : Melina Mercouri, actrice grecque et ministre de la culture en Grèce. († 1994).
* 1921 : Jesse Helms, sénateur de Caroline du Nord .
* '''1926''' :
** Chuck Berry, guitariste de rock.
** Klaus Kinski, acteur polonais.
* '''1930''' :
** Papeete.
** Michel Drach, cinéaste français.
** Frank Carlucci, homme politique américain.
* 1932 : René Bliard, footballeur français.
* 1934 : Sylvie Joly, humoriste française, spécialisée dans le « one woman show ».
* 1936 : Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, cardinal cubain, archevêque de San Cristobal de la Havane.
* 1938 : Guy Roux, entraîneur de football français.
* 1939 : Lee Harvey Oswald, meurtrier présumé de John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
* 1940 : Jacques Higelin, auteur-compositeur-interprète français.
* 1945 : Yıldo, showmen célèbre turc et joueur de football.
* 1946 : Howard Shore, compositeur canadien de musique de films.
* '''1956''' :
** Isabelle Autissier, navigatrice française.
** Martina Navrátilová, championne de tennis américaine d'origine tchèque.
* Rita Mitsouko.
* 1960 : Jean-Claude Van Damme, acteur belge.
* 1962 : Vincent Spano, acteur américain.
* 1977 : Christelle Jacquaz, actrice suisse.
* 1982 : Thierry Amiel, chanteur français.
* 1984 : Lindsey Vonn, skieuse alpine américaine.
* 1987 : Zac Efron, acteur américain.

== Décès ==
* &thinsp;&nbsp;&thinsp;&nbsp;31 : Exécution de Séjan, préfet du Prétoire de l'empereur romain Tibère.

* &thinsp;&nbsp;629 : Clotaire II, roi des Francs.

* Léopold I / IV, duc de margrave d'Autriche.
* Prussiens.

* roi d'angleterre (°1166).

* Henri VII et mère, par son premier mariage, du roi Jacques V d'Écosse.
* cardinal écrivain de la Renaissance (° 12 juillet 1477).

* député du tiers état aux États généraux de 1789 (°  1743).
* français, virtuose du cor (° 8 décembre 1795).
* mathématicien britannique.
* français.

* 1924 : Franz Schrader, géographe, alpiniste, cartographe et peintre paysager français (° 1844.
* américain (° 1847).
* français, dans un hôpital de Camaret (° 1861).
* 1950 : Giuseppe Borgatti, 79 ans, ténor italien (° 17 mars 1871).
* Francfort (Allemagne).
* français, président du Conseil pendant sept mois en 1954, il a mis fin à la guerre d'Indochine et il a négocié le traité menant à l'indépendance de la Tunisie.
* '''1985''' :
** polonais (° 10 juillet 1896).
** français.
* 1994 : Cleews Vellay, ancien président d'Act Up-Paris (° 3 février 1964).

* '''2003''' :
** Jean Panzani, le fondateur de la société Panzani.
** espagnol
* 2004 : Michel Gillibert, 59 ans, ancien secrétaire d'État français aux handicapés.
* '''2005''' :
** William Evan Allan, 106 ans, dernier vétéran australien ayant servi pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.
** Alexandre Iakovlev, 81 ans, considéré comme l'un des principaux architectes de la perestroïka.
* 2006 : Mario Francesco Pompedda, cardinal italien,  préfet émérite du Tribunal suprême de la Signature apostolique (° 18 avril 1929).
* 2007 : Lucky Dube, chanteur sud africain.

== Célébrations ==
* Azerbaïdjan : Fête de l'indépendance.

=== Saints catholiques et orthodoxes du jour ===
* Luc (évangéliste)
* Amable de Riom ().
* Guénolé.

== Voir aussi ==

Catégorie:Jour d'octobre

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== Events ==
*church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock. 
*Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
*Battle of Dyrrhachium.
*1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV .
*1356 - Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.
*1386 - Opening of the University of Heidelberg
*Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
*1648 - Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
*1685 - Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, which has protected French Protestants.
*Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
*1767 - Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
*1775 - African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. 
*published as ''The Whale'' by Richard Bentley of London. 
*unequal treaty. 
*takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
*1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
*1908 - Belgium annexes the Congo Free State.
*First Balkan War begins.
*Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
*British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) <!-- Not 'Corporation' yet ! --> is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
*1925 - The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee.
*1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
*1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
*  1944   - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
*plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
*  1945   - A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, staged a coup d'etát against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who was overthrown by the end of the day.
*1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
*1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
*1967 - The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet. 
*Mexico City games.
*  1968   - Mexico City games. This becomes the longest unbroken track and field record in history, standing for 23 years, and is later named by ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine as one of the five greatest sporting moments of the 20th century.
*Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a West German government states that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.
*1985 - The Nintendo Entertainment System is released
*East German leader Erich Honecker resigns.
*1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from USSR.
*President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
*blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.

==Births==
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*1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
*1405 - Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
*1517 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)
*1547 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)
*1569 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)
*1595 - Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)
*1634 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
*1653 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
*1662 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)
*1668 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
*1679 - Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
*1701 - Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
*1706 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785)
*1741 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
*1777 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811)
*1785 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866)
*1854 - Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
*1859 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941)
*1865 - Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (d. 1957)
*  1865   - Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)
*1868 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
*1870 - Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese scholar (d. 1966)
*1873 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
*1882 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (d. 1917)
*1893 - Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
*1894 - H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
*1897 - Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
*1900 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
*1902 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
*  1902   - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
*1903 - Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
*1904 - A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963)
*1905 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (d. 1993)
*James Brooks, American painter (d. 1992)
*1909 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004)
*1913 - Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (d. 2000)
*1915 - Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)
*1918 - Bobby Troup, American musician (d. 1999)
*1919 - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
*  1919   - Anita O'Day, American singer (d. 2006)
*  1919   - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
*1920 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and political activist (d. 1994)
*1921 - Jesse Helms, American politician (d. 2008)
*Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician
*1925 - Ramiz Alia, political leader of Albania
*1926 - Chuck Berry, American musician
*  1926   - Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
*1927 - George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
*1928 - Keith Jackson, American football commentator
*1929 - Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
*1931 - Chris Albertson, American jazz historian
*1932 - Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
*1933 - Forrest Gregg, American football player
*1934 - Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (d. 2007)
*  1934   - Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)
*  1934   - Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
*1935 - Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
*1937 - Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
*1938 - Dawn Wells, American actress
*1939 - Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and commentator
*  1939   - Lee Harvey Oswald, purported American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
*1939 - Flavio Cotti, member of the Swiss Federal Council
*1942 - Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist
*1943 - Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish politician
*1945 - Chris Shays, Member of the United States Congress from Connecticut
*1945 - Huell Howser, American TV host
*  1945   - Yıldo, Turkish famous showman and football player
*1946 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
*  1946   - Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
*1947 - Job Cohen, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam
*  1947   - Joe Morton, American actor
*  1947   - Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997)
*  1947   - Paul Chuckle, British comedian
*1948 - Ntozake Shange, American author
*1949 - Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel)
*  1949   - George Hendrick, baseball player
*  1949   - Gary Richrath, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
*1950 - Om Puri, Indian actor
*  1950   - Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
*  1950   - Sheila White, English actress
*Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and executive
*  1951   - Terry McMillan, American author
*  1951   - Pam Dawber, American actress
*Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese novelist
*  1952   - Jerry Royster, American baseball player
*1954 - Liz Burch, Australian actress
*1955 - Timmy Mallett, British TV presenter
*  1955   - David Twohy, American movie director and screenwriter
*  1955   - Rita Verdonk, Dutch politician
*1955 - Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer and songwriter (Pylon (band) & Supercluster (band))
*1956 - Martina Navrátilová, Czech-born tennis player
*  1956   - Craig Bartlett, American animator
*  1956   - Jim Talent, American politician
*1957 - Doug Isaacson, Alaskan politician
*  1957   - Catherine Ringer, French singer and songwriter (Les Rita Mitsouko)
*1958 - Corinne Bohrer, American actress
*  1958   - Thomas Hearns, American boxer
*  1958   - Kjell Samuelsson, National Hockey League defenseman
*1959 - Kirby Chambliss, Aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer
*1959 - Milčo Mančevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter
*  1959   - John Nord, former American pro wrestler
*  1959   - Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, American sports talk show host
*  1959   - Steve Swayne, Dartmouth Professor
*1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
*1960 - Erin Moran, American actress
*1961 - Wynton Marsalis, American musician
*  1961   - Rick Moody, American author
*1962 - Vincent Spano, American actor
*Anthrax, S.O.D., Nuclear Assault, and Brutal Truth
*1965 - Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist
*1969 - Nelson Vivas, Argentine former footballer
*José Padilla, American former gang member and alleged supporter of terrorism
*  1970   - Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player
*1972 - Alex Tagliani, Quebec racing driver
*  1972   - Jake Farrow, actor
*1973 - Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
*1974 - Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer
*  1974   - Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
*  1974   - Candy Lo, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
*1975 - Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player
*1976 - Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
*1977 - Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
*1978 - Wesley Jonathan, American actor
*  1978   - Mike Tindall, English rugby union player
*1982 - Ne-Yo, an R&B singer
*1984 - Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier
*1987 - Zac Efron, American actor
*  1987   - Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
*1990 - Carly Schroeder, American actress
*1991 - Tyler Posey, American actor
*1998 - Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
*2001 - Annelise Manojlovic, English actress
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==Deaths==
*1035 - Sancho III of Navarre
*1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)
*Leopold IV of Austria
*1417 - Pope Gregory XII
*1503 - Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
*1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
*1545 - John Taverner, English composer
*Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505)
*1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
*1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
*1604 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
*1646 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
*Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
*1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
*1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
*Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1660)
*1770 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
*1775 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
*1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
*1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)
*1865 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
*1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
*1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
*1893 - Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
*1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
*1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
*1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
*1932 - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
*1941 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7<sup>th</sup> President of Portugal (b. 1860)
*1942 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
*1948 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
*1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
*1961 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
*1965 - Henry Travers, British actor (b. 1874)
*1966 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (b. 1878)
*  1966   - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
*1973 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
*  1973   - Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899)
*1975 - Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
*Telugu writer (b. 1895)
*1977 - Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides
*  1977   - Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
*  1977   - Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
*  1977   - Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
*1978 - Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
*1982 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
*  1982   - Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892)
*  1982   - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (b. 1907) 
*  1982   - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
*Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
*  1983   - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (b. 1897)
*1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
*  1984   - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
*2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
*  2000   - Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
*2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
*2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
*  2002   - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
*Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912) 
*  2003   -  Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
*2004 - Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945)
*2005 - John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)
*  2005   - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
*  2005   - Bill King, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
*2006 - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
*  2006   - Anna Russell, English music satirist  (b. 1911)
*2007 - Alan Coren, English writer and satirist (b. 1938)
*  2007   - William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (b. 1925)
*  2007   - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (b. 1915)
*  2007   - Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964) 
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==Holidays and observances==
* R.C. Church, Anglican communion, ''et alii'' - Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist
* Also see October 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*Saint Justus of Beauvais
*USA : Alaska: Alaska Day
*Piment (Chili Pepper) Day, twenty-seventh day in the Month of Vendémiaire

==External links==
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/18 BBC: On This Day]
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* [http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Oct&day=18 On This Day in Canada]
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