Did you know
Mark Messier's playing career in the National Hockey League (NHL) lasted 25 seasons (1979–2004) with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers and Vancouver Canucks.
Famous Birthdays on January 18
1961 — Mark Messier
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
January 18 has 256 recorded notable births across history, from 1404 to 2010. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on January 18
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- 2005 The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France Source
- 1919 World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. Source
- 1913 First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece. Source
- 1778 James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". Source
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Webster was one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, arguing over 200 cases before the United States Supreme Court in his career.
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In 2017 the band celebrated the 20th anniversary of their album K with the release of the new record K 2.
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In ROH, he is a former ROH World Champion, a former ROH World Tag Team Champion with his brother Jay a record 13 times, and was one third of the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions with Jay and Bully Ray.
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In their 1998 citation, the Norwegian Nobel Committee recognised Hume as an architect of the Good Friday Agreement.
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Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1782
Daniel Webster
American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (died 1852)
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1973
Crispian Mills
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director
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1985
Mark Briscoe
American wrestler
Mark Pugh, better known by his ring name Mark Briscoe, is an American professional wrestler.
1937
John Hume
Northern Irish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
John Hume was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
1969
Jim O'Rourke
American guitarist and producer
James O'Rourke is an American musician, instrumentalist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer.
1994
Kang Ji-young
South Korean singer
Kang Ji-young, also known mononymously as Jiyoung or under the stage name JY, is a South Korean singer, songwriter and actress.
1964
Brady Anderson
American baseball player
Brady Kevin Anderson is an American former baseball outfielder and executive who currently serves as the hitting coach for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB).
1988
Ashleigh Murray
American actress and singer
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1933
Jean Vuarnet
French ski racer (died 2017)
Jean Raoul Célina André Vuarnet was an alpine ski racer from France. An Olympic gold medalist, he is known for inventing the "Tuck" skiing position, and was the first Olympian to win a gold medal using metal skis.
1936
David Howell
Baron Howell of Guildford, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, is a British Conservative Party politician, journalist, and economic consultant.
1983
Samantha Mumba
Irish singer-songwriter and actress
Samantha Tamania Anne Cecilia Mumba is an Irish-Zambian R&B singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, fashion model and TV presenter.
1964
Virgil Hill
American boxer
Virgil Eugene Hill is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2015.
1984
Seung-Hui Cho
South Korean mass murderer (died 2007)
Seung-Hui Cho was a South Korean spree killer and mass murderer who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007.
1923
Gerrit Voorting
Dutch cyclist (died 2015)
Gerardus "Gerrit" Petrus Voorting was a Dutch road cyclist who was active between 1947 and 1960. As an amateur he won the silver medal in the individual road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
1842
A. A. Ames
American physician and politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (died 1911)
Albert Alonzo "Doc" Ames was an American physician and politician who held four non-consecutive terms as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1943
Paul Freeman
English actor
Paul Freeman is an English actor who has appeared in theatre, television and film.
1932
Robert Anton Wilson
American psychologist, author, poet, and playwright (died 2007)
Robert Anton Wilson was an American writer, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic.
1970
DJ Quik
American rapper and producer
David Marvin Blake, better known by his stage names DJ Quik or Da Quiksta, is an American rapper and record producer from Compton, California, known for his production in the G-funk style of West Coast hip-hop.
1914
Vitomil Zupan
Slovene author, poet, and playwright (died 1987)
Vitomil Zupan was a post-World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor.