Who Was Born Today – February 18 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on February 18 | ||
1516 | Queen Mary I, also known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants. | |
1795 | George Peabody, U.S. merchant and philanthropist. | |
1848 | Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassware artist and designer. | |
1859 | Shalom Aleichem, Yiddish author. | |
1862 | Charles M. Schwab, “Boy Wonder” of the steel industry. President of both U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel. | |
1892 | Wendell Wilke, Presidential candidate against President Franklin Roosevelt. | |
1909 | Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Angle of Repose). | |
1922 | Helen Gurley Brown, editor of Cosmopolitan magazine. | |
1929 | Len Deighton, English spy writer (The Ipcress File). | |
1931 | Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author (The Bluest Eye, Beloved). | |
1934 | Audre Lord, poet. |