Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 18

Births

• 1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
• 1774 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
• 1904 - Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
• 1920 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
• 1933 - Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor
• 1943 - Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer
• 1952 - Patrick Swayze, American actor
• 1957 - Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
• 1978 - Andy Samberg, American comedian

Deaths

• 1227 - Genghis Khan, (pictured) Mongol leader
• 1503 - Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
• 1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
• 1990 - Burrhus Frederic Skinner, American psychologist (b. 1904)
• 1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)