May 18th, 1783

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Born on May 18th, 1783 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on May 18th, 1783?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on May 18th
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Calendar (May 1783)

Born on May 18th, 1783

Weekday

Sunday

May 18th, 1783 was a Sunday.

Age

240

People born on May 18th, 1783 will turn 241 this year (2024), in exactly 19 days .

Zodiac

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Taurus (The Bull)

April 21st, 1783 - May 21st, 1783

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 88,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 995 days, exactly on January 19th, 2027, people who were born on May 18th, 1783 will be 89,000 days old!

88,005 Days

12,572 Weeks

2,891 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on May 18th, 1783?

May 18th, 1783

First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist

What else 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.

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

Born on May 18th, 1783

Jabbo Oltmanns

German Astronomer (1783-1833)

*May 18th, 1783, Wittmund †November 27th, 1833, Berlin

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Who's birthday is on May 18th?

Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow

Prussian lieutenant-general

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

Massimo Girotti

Italian actor (1918-2003)

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

Hermann Diels

German classical scholar (1848–1922)

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

John Paul II

264th pope of the Catholic Church

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

Megumi Taruno

Badminton player

*May 18th, 1988, Fukuoka Prefecture

Heinz-Harald Frentzen

German racing driver

*May 18th, 1967, Mönchengladbach

Bertrand Russell

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

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

Rigobert Günther

German historian of classical antiquity (1928-2000)

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

Luke Black

Serbian singer-songwriter (born 1992)

*May 18th, 1992, Čačak

John Wilson

Scottish advocate, literary critic and author (1785-1854)

*May 18th, 1785, Paisley †April 3rd, 1854, Edinburgh

Peter Grünberg

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

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

Ben Feringa

Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry

*May 18th, 1951, Barger-Compascuum

Robert Morse

American actor

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

Walter Gropius

German-American architect (1883–1969)

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

Nathaniel Parker

British actor

*May 18th, 1962, London

Francesco Maria Piave

Italian librettist

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

Frank Capra

Italian-born American film director (1897–1991)

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

Alexandria Villaseñor

American climate activist

*May 18th, 2005, Davis

Chow Yun-fat

Hong Kong actor

*May 18th, 1955, Hong Kong

David Hazzard

American politician (1781-1864)

*May 18th, 1781, Milton †July 8th, 1864, Milton

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Born in 1783

Simón Bolívar

South American military and political leader, protagonist of the Spanish-American emancipation against the Spanish Empire (1783-1830)

*July 24th, 1783, Birthplace of Simón Bolívar †December 17th, 1830, Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino

Stendhal

19th century French writer

*January 23rd, 1783, Grenoble †March 23rd, 1842, Paris

Washington Irving

American writer, historian and diplomat (1783-1859)

*April 3rd, 1783, New York City †November 28th, 1859, Tarrytown

Wilhelm Pfeil

German forestry scientist

*March 28th, 1783, Friesdorf †September 4th, 1859, Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Danish painter (1783–1853)

*January 2nd, 1783, Blåkrog †July 22nd, 1853, Copenhagen

Pedro José Ramón Gual Escandón

President of Venezuela

*January 17th, 1783, Caracas †May 6th, 1862, Guayaquil

Hortense de Beauharnais

Queen consort of the Netherlands

*April 10th, 1783, Paris †October 5th, 1837, Arenenberg

Caroline Tischbein

German drawer

*November 5th, 1783, Bad Arolsen †April 29th, 1843, Berlin

Vasily Zhukovsky

Russian poet (1783-1852)

*February 9th, 1783, Mishenskoye (Belevsky district) †April 24th, 1852, Baden-Baden

Johann Heinrich von Thünen

German economist

*June 24th, 1783, Waddewarden †September 22nd, 1850, Warnkenhagen

Domingo Caycedo

President of Colombia (1783-1843)

*August 4th, 1783, Bogotá †July 1st, 1843, Bogotá

Eugen von Maucler

German politician (1783-1859)

*May 30th, 1783, Étupes †January 28th, 1859, Ludwigsburg

Johann Gottfried Scheibel

German theologian

*September 16th, 1783, Wrocław †March 21st, 1843, Nuremberg

Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu calsonsin wachin

Liberator, Father of the Fatherland, Generalisimo and Admiral of the Mexican army and politician, Regent of the Empire, and First Constitutional Emperor of Mexico (1783-1824)

*September 27th, 1783, Morelia †July 19th, 1824, Padilla Municipality