Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 18

Births

• 1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558) (pictured)
• 1745 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)
• 1892 - Wendell Willkie, American politician (d. 1944)
• 1896 - Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
• 1931 - Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2019)
• 1954 - John Travolta, American actor

Deaths

• 1294 - Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215)
• 1546 - Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
• 1564 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist (b. 1475)
• 1967 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
• 2001 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)