What happened on February 18 ?

1486 - Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer

1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)

1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)

1559 - Isaac Casaubon, French classical scholar (d. 1614)

1602 - Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1680)

1609 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (d. 1674)

1635 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)

1642 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)

1658 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743)

1745 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)

1835 - César Cui, Lithuanian composer (d. 1918)

1838 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)

1846 - Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (d. 1904)

1848 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933)

1849 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (d. 1906)

1859 - Sholom Aleichem, Russian Yiddish humorist and author (d. 1916)

1871 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)

1883 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (d. 1957)

1884 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)

1890 - Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956)

1890 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)

1892 - Wendell Willkie, U.S. Presidential candidate (d. 1944)

1896 - Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966)

1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and manufacturer (d. 1988)

1898 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (d. 1980)

1901 - Reginald Sheffield, British actor (d. 1957)

1903 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the Soviet Union (d. 1983)

1905 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (d. 1993)

1906 - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)

1909 - Wallace Stegner, American writer (d. 1993)

1915 - Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002)

1919 - Jack Palance, American actor

1920 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)

1920 - Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician (d. 1997)

1922 - Helen Gurley Brown, American editor and publisher

1922 - Allan Melvin, American actor

1924 - Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist, inventor of diamond scalpel (d. 1999)

1925 - George Kennedy, American actor

1927 - John Warner, U.S. Senator

1929 - Len Deighton, British author

1930 - Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist

1931 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist

1931 - Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate

1931 - Bob St. Clair, American football player

1932 - Milo? Forman, Czech film director

1933 - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer, artist, and wife of John Lennon

1933 - Bobby Robson, English football manager

1933 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975)

1936 - Jean Auel, American writer

1938 - István Szabó, Hungarian film director

1943 - Graeme Garden, Scottish writer, comedian, and actor

1944 - Pat Bowlen, owner of the Denver Broncos

1945 - Judy Rankin, American golfer

1947 - Dennis DeYoung, vocalist pianist/keyboardist of STYX

1947 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands

1947 - Carlos Lopes, Portuguese Olympic athlete

1948 - Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress

1949 - Gary Ridgway, American serial killer

1950 - John Hughes, American director, producer, and writer

1950 - Cybill Shepherd, American actress

1951 - Isabel Preysler, Spanish former model, journalist and a fashion designer

1952 - Maurice Lucas, American basketball player

1952 - Juice Newton, American country singer

1953 - Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)

1954 - John Travolta, American actor

1956 - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (d. 1997)

1957 - Marita Koch, German athlete

1957 - Vanna White, American game show presenter

1960 - Greta Scacchi, Australian actress

1962 - Julie Strain, American actress

1964 - Matt Dillon, American actor

1965 - Dr. Dre, American rapper and record producer

1967 - Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer

1968 - Molly Ringwald, American actress

1969 - Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player

1970 - Raine Maida, Canadian rock musician (Our Lady Peace)

1970 - Susan Egan, American musical actress

1973 - Claude Makelele, French footballer

1974 - Jamey Carroll, baseball player

1975 - Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish footballer

1975 - Gary Neville, English footballer (Manchester United)

1978 - Josip Simunic, Croatian footballer

1980 - Regina Spektor, Russian-born American singer-songwriter

1981 - Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player

1981 - Geoff Cook, future WSOP champion

1981 - Buddy Nielsen, American singer (Senses Fail)

1981 - Ivan Sproule, Northern Irish footballer

1982 - Juelz Santana, American rapper

1983 - Jermaine Jenas, English footballer

1985 - Lee Boyd Malvo, American serial killer

1985 - Anton Ferdinand, English footballer