May 18th, 1552

Born on May 18th, 1552

Age in days, weeks and months
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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

35

Megumi Taruno

Badminton player

*May 18th, 1988, Fukuoka Prefecture

56

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

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

31

Luke Black

Serbian singer-songwriter (born 1992)

*May 18th, 1992, Čačak

72

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

52

Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow

Prussian lieutenant-general

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

90

Robert Morse

American actor

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

61

Nathaniel Parker

British actor

*May 18th, 1962, London

86

Walter Gropius

German-American architect (1883–1969)

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

18

Alexandria Villaseñor

American climate activist

*May 18th, 2005, Davis

94

Frank Capra

Italian-born American film director (1897–1991)

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

68

Chow Yun-fat

Hong Kong actor

*May 18th, 1955, Hong Kong

68

Pierre Balmain

French fashion designer (1914–1982)

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

49

Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

English patron of cricket (1701-1750)

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

83

Omar Khayyám

Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)

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

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68

Paul V

Pope from 1605 to 1621

*September 17th, 1552, Rome †January 28th, 1621, Rome

59

Emperor Rudolf II

Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria (1552-1612)

*July 18th, 1552, Vienna †January 20th, 1612, Prague

57

Matteo Ricci

Italian Catholic missionary (1552–1610)

*October 6th, 1552, Macerata †May 11th, 1610, Beijing

79

Jost Bürgi

Swiss clockmaker, maker of astronomical instruments and mathematician

*February 28th, 1552, Lichtensteig †January 31st, 1632, Kassel

62

Sengoku Hidehisa

Daimyo

*February 20th, 1552, Kuroiwa †June 13th, 1614, Kōnosu-shuku

35

Henri, Prince of Condé

French prince du Sang; Huguenot general, lived (1553-1588)

*December 29th, 1552, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre †March 5th, 1588, Saint-Jean-d'Angély

82

Edward Coke

English lawyer and judge

*February 1st, 1552, Mileham †September 3rd, 1634, Godwick

61

Lavinia Fontana

Italian painter (1552-1614)

*August 24th, 1552, Bologna †August 11th, 1614, Rome

37

Elisabeth of Saxony

Countess Palatine of Simmern (1552-1590)

*October 18th, 1552, Schloss Wolkenstein †April 2nd, 1590, Heidelberg

58

Simon Forman

English astrologer, occultist and herbalist

*December 31st, 1552, Quidhampton †September 12th, 1611, River Thames

78

Agrippa d'Aubigné

French military officer, historian, writer and poet (1552-1630)

*February 8th, 1552, Pons †May 9th, 1630, Jussy

65

Eleonore of Württemberg

(1552-1618)

*March 22nd, 1552, Tübingen †January 12th, 1618, Schloss Lichtenberg

47

Miklós Pálffy

(1552–1600) Hungarian soldier

*September 10th, 1552, Čabradský Vrbovok †April 23rd, 1600, Červený Kameň Castle

56

Alberico Gentili

Italian jurist (1552-1608)

*January 14th, 1552, San Ginesio †June 19th, 1608, London

80

Anna of Cleves

Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by birth and by marriage Countess Palatine of Neuburg

*March 1st, 1552, Kleve †October 6th, 1632, Höchstädt an der Donau

64

Ernestus Hettenbach

German physicist (1552-1616)

*February 2nd, 1552, Bad Mergentheim †October 2nd, 1616, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

63

Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi

Moroccan writer

*December 18th, 1552, Meknes †August 19th, 1616, Fez

35

Magdalene of Lippe

Countess of Lippe by birth, and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt

*February 25th, 1552, Detmold †February 26th, 1587, Darmstadt

101

Muhammad Qadiri

Founder of the Naushahia branch of the Qadri order

*August 22nd, 1552, Mandi Bahauddin †January 26th, 1654, Phalia

40

Christopher, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch

Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (1552-1592)

*March 20th, 1552, Haigerloch †April 21st, 1592, Haigerloch

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Leap year

Yes: 1552 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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