Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 18

Births

• 1689 - Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755) (pictured)
• 1782 - Daniel Webster, American statesman (d. 1852)
• 1849 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
• 1882 - A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
• 1904 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
• 1911 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
• 1955 - Kevin Costner, American actor

Deaths

• 1862 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
• 1873 - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
• 1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)