May 18th, 1240

Born on May 18th, 1240

Age in days, weeks and months
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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on May 18th?

May 18th, 2005

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion publicly debuted at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

May 18th, 2009

The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to the 26-year Sri Lankan Civil War.

May 18th, 2006

The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers.

May 18th, 1996

Ireland won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time, the highest number of wins for any country before Sweden tied it in 2023.

May 18th, 1974

India conducted its first nuclear test explosion at Pokhran, the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

May 18th, 1965

Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence used by Israel during the Six-Day War, was publicly hanged in Syria.

May 18th, 1955

Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ended.

May 18th, 1952

First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors.

May 18th, 1944

The Soviet Union forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country.

May 18th, 1936

In a crime that captivated Japan, Sada Abe (pictured) strangled her lover, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.

May 18th, 1933

U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority to stimulate the economic development of the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression.

May 18th, 1927

Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing the Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history.

May 18th, 1863

American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant led his Army of the Tennessee across the Big Black River in preparation for the Siege of Vicksburg.

May 18th, 1695

An earthquake measuring .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths.

May 18th, 1302

Armed insurrectionists massacred the occupying French garrison in Bruges, Flanders, killing approximately 2,000 people.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 18th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on May 18th?

84

Massimo Girotti

Italian actor (1918-2003)

*May 18th, 1918, Mogliano †January 5th, 2003, Rome

84

John Paul II

264th pope of the Catholic Church

*May 18th, 1920, Wadowice †April 2nd, 2005, Apostolic Palace

36

Megumi Taruno

Badminton player

*May 18th, 1988, Fukuoka Prefecture

57

Heinz-Harald Frentzen

German racing driver

*May 18th, 1967, Mönchengladbach

74

Hermann Diels

German classical scholar (1848–1922)

*May 18th, 1848, Biebrich †June 4th, 1922, Dahlem

32

Luke Black

Serbian singer-songwriter (born 1992)

*May 18th, 1992, Čačak

71

Rigobert Günther

German historian of classical antiquity (1928-2000)

*May 18th, 1928, Magdeburg †April 2nd, 2000, Leipzig

97

Bertrand Russell

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

*May 18th, 1872, Trellech †February 2nd, 1970, Plas Penrhyn

73

Ben Feringa

Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry

*May 18th, 1951, Barger-Compascuum

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

83

Omar Khayyám

Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)

*May 18th, 1048, Nishapur †December 4th, 1131, Nishapur

90

Robert Morse

American actor

*May 18th, 1931, Newton †April 20th, 2022, Los Angeles

52

Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow

Prussian lieutenant-general

*May 18th, 1782, Berlin †December 6th, 1834, Berlin

62

Nathaniel Parker

British actor

*May 18th, 1962, London

92

Toulo de Graffenried

Racecar driver (1914-2007)

*May 18th, 1914, Paris †January 22nd, 2007, Lonay

26

Polina Edmunds

American figure skater

*May 18th, 1998, Santa Clara

86

Walter Gropius

German-American architect (1883–1969)

*May 18th, 1883, Berlin †July 5th, 1969, Boston

19

Alexandria Villaseñor

American climate activist

*May 18th, 2005, Davis

69

Chow Yun-fat

Hong Kong actor

*May 18th, 1955, Hong Kong

94

Frank Capra

Italian-born American film director (1897–1991)

*May 18th, 1897, Bisacquino †September 3rd, 1991, La Quinta

68

Pierre Balmain

French fashion designer (1914–1982)

*May 18th, 1914, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne †June 29th, 1982, Neuilly-sur-Seine

64

Tyka Nelson

American singer

*May 18th, 1960, Minneapolis

74

Oliver Heaviside

Electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (*1850 – †1925)

*May 18th, 1850, London †February 3rd, 1925, Torquay

40

Niki Terpstra

Dutch cyclist

*May 18th, 1984, Beverwijk

39

Vincent Jay

French biathlete

*May 18th, 1985, Albertville

91

Gérard Corboud

Swiss art collector and philanthropist (1925-2017)

*May 18th, 1925, Fribourg †March 5th, 2017

44

Michaël Llodra

French tennis player (1980-)

*May 18th, 1980, Paris

38

Kevin Anderson

South African tennis player

*May 18th, 1986, Johannesburg

82

Meredith Willson

American composer, conductor, musical arranger, flautist, bandleader and playwright (1902-1984)

*May 18th, 1902, Iowa †June 15th, 1984, Santa Monica

88

Perry Como

American singer, actor, television personality (1912-2001)

*May 18th, 1912, Canonsburg †May 12th, 2001, Jupiter Inlet Colony

65

Francesco Maria Piave

Italian librettist

*May 18th, 1810, Murano †March 5th, 1876, Milan

36

Kévin Réza

French racing cyclist

*May 18th, 1988, Versailles

90

Don Bachardy

American artist

*May 18th, 1934, Los Angeles

83

Miriam Margolyes

British-Australian actress

*May 18th, 1941, Oxford

49

Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

English patron of cricket (1701-1750)

*May 18th, 1701, Chichester †August 8th, 1750, Godalming

65

Anka Georgieva

Bulgarian rower

*May 18th, 1959, Varna

38

Hedley Verity

English cricketer (1905-1943)

*May 18th, 1905, Headingley †July 31st, 1943, Caserta

53

Brad Friedel

American association soccer player

*May 18th, 1971, Lakewood

64

Ezio Pinza

Italian opera singer (1892-1957)

*May 18th, 1892, Rome †May 9th, 1957, Stamford

88

Henri Sauguet

French composer

*May 18th, 1901, Bordeaux †June 22nd, 1989, Paris

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Leap year

Yes: 1240 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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