Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 18
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[edit] Births
- 1856 - Sir J.J. Thomson, British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
- 1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914)
- 1878 - Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1953) (pictured)
- 1886 - Ty Cobb, American baseball player (d. 1961)
- 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
- 1946 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1977)
- 1963 - Brad Pitt, American actor
[edit] Deaths
- 1737 - Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (b. 1644)
- 1787 - Francis William Drake, British Admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1724)
- 1848 - Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781)
- 1997 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
