What happened on January 18 ?

52 BC - Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered)

474 - Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)

1367 - King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)

1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)

1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)

1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)

1583 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (b. 1522)

1677 - Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)

1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)

1862 - John Tyler, President of the United States (b. 1790)

1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)

1878 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)

1896 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)

1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)

1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)

1952 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)

1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)

1963 - Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party (b. 1906)

1966 - Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)

1967 - Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)

1969 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)

1970 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)

1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)

1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)

1985 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)

1995 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

1995 - Ron Luciano, baseball umpire (b. 1937)

1997 - Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941)

2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)

2001 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)

2003 - Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)

2005 - Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)

2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)