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January 18

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107

Paris Peace Conference

107 years ago

Born this day

1689

Montesquieu

Died aged 66

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659th

Peter I of Portugal

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1689 · 337 yrs

Montesquieu

Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French jurist, historian, and political philosopher.

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PhilosophyDied aged 66

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1849 · 177 yrs

Edmund Barton

Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920) was the first prime minister of Australia, serving from 1901 to 1903. He held office as the leader of the Protectionist Party, before resigning in 1903 to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia, on which he served until his death in 1920.

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PoliticsDied aged 70

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1867 · 159 yrs

Rubén Darío

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío (US: dah-REE-oh, Spanish:), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century.

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LiteratureDied aged 49

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1882 · 144 yrs

A. A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed his previous work.

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1892 · 134 yrs

Oliver Hardy

Oliver Norvell Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1926 to 1957.

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1904 · 122 yrs

Cary Grant

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; 18 January 1904 – 29 November 1986) was a British-American actor. Known for his blended British and American accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.

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1911 · 115 yrs

Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, singer and comedian. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs.

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1921 · 105 yrs

Yoichiro Nambu

Yoichiro Nambu (南部陽一郎, Nanbu Yōichirō; 18 January 1921 – 5 July 2015) was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.

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ScienceWould be 105

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1925 · 101 yrs

Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death, wrote on a variety of subjects including ontology, social critique, film theory, and fine art.

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PhilosophyWould be 101

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1931 · 95 yrs

Chun Doo-hwan

Chun Doo-hwan (Korean: 전두환; pronounced; 18 January 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean army general and politician who served as the fifth president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.

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PoliticsWould be 95

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1937 · 89 yrs

John Hume

John Hume (18 January 1937 – 3 August 2020) was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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PoliticsWould be 89

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1938 · 88 yrs

Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens

Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is the author of more than 34 books and was listed, in 2007, as the fifth most cited author in the humanities.

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PoliticsAge 88

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Famous deaths10

1367 · 659 yrs

Peter I of Portugal

Peter I (Portuguese: Pedro Afonso;; 8 April 1320 – 18 January 1367), known as Peter the Justicier (Pedro o Justiceiro), was King of Portugal from 1357 until his death in 1367.

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RoyaltyDied aged 46

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1862 · 164 yrs

John Tyler

John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841.

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PoliticsDied aged 71

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1873 · 153 yrs

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866.

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LiteratureDied aged 69

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1890 · 136 yrs

Amadeo I of Spain

Amadeo I (Italian: Amedeo Ferdinando Maria di Savoia; 30 May 1845 – 18 January 1890), also known as Amadeus, was an Italian prince who reigned as King of Spain from 1870 to 1873.

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MilitaryDied aged 44

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1936 · 90 yrs

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

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LiteratureDied aged 70

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1982 · 44 yrs

Huang Xianfan

Huang Xianfan (Zhuang: Vangz Yenfanh; simplified Chinese: 黄现璠; traditional Chinese: 黄現璠; pinyin: Huáng Xiànfán; Wade–Giles: Huáng Hsiènfán; November 13, 1899 – January 18, 1982) was a Zhuang Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator.

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1995 · 31 yrs

Adolf Butenandt

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (German pronunciation:; 24 March 1903, Lehe near Bremerhaven – 18 January 1995, Munich) was a German biochemist.

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ScienceWould be 123

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2016 · 10 yrs

Glenn Frey

Glenn Lewis Frey (November 6, 1948 – January 18, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter. He was a founding member of the rock band Eagles, for whom he was the co-lead singer and frontman, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley, with whom he wrote most of Eagles' material.

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2022 · 4 yrs

Paco Gento

Francisco "Paco" Gento López (21 October 1933 – 18 January 2022) was a Spanish footballer who played as an outside left. A fast runner, Gento was referred to as the "Gale of the Cantabrian Sea" (Spanish: La Galerna del Cantábrico) in reference to his speed down the wing.

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SportsWould be 93

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2023 · 3 yrs

David Crosby

David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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MusicWould be 85

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Events5

1919 · 107 yrs

Paris Peace Conference

The Paris Peace Conference was a set of formal and informal diplomatic meetings in 1919 and 1920 after the end of World War I, in which the victorious Allies set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.

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History

2012 · 14 yrs

Protests against SOPA and PIPA

On January 18, 2012, a series of coordinated protests occurred against two proposed laws in the United States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). These followed smaller protests in late 2011.

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Politics

2017 · 9 yrs

2017-2019 Romanian protests

There were numerous protests against the Romanian Government between 2017 and 2019.

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Politics

2023 · 3 yrs

2023 Brovary helicopter crash

On 18 January 2023, a Ukrainian Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma carrying ten people, including Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrsky, his deputy Yevhen Yenin, and State Secretary Yurii Lubkovych, crashed into a kindergarten in Brovary, a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Disaster

2026 · 0 yrs

2026 Adamuz train derailments

On 18 January 2026, a high-speed passenger train derailed in the municipality of Adamuz, in the province of Córdoba, Spain. The derailment occurred on a straight section of the Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line that was last refurbished in May 2025.

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