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Richard Christopher Wakeman is an English keyboardist and composer best known for his multiple tenures in the progressive rock band Yes and for his prolific solo career, which has spanned six decades.
Famous Birthdays on May 18
1949 — Rick Wakeman
English progressive rock keyboardist and songwriter
May 18 has 218 recorded notable births across history, from 1048 to 2009. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on May 18
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- 1652 Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced. Source
- 1955 Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends. Source
- 1993 Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators. Source
- 1927 After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among its first national universities. Source
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Jessica Rose Watson is an Australian sailor who attempted a solo circumnavigation at the age of 16 from 18 October 2009 to 15 May 2010.
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Following the release of several albums and extended plays with his group, Taeyang pursued a solo career in 2008, releasing his first extended play, Hot.
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Noah won the French Open in singles in 1983 and in doubles in 1984, and is a former captain of both France's Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup teams.
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In 1959, he won the AIA Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in architecture.
More major people born on May 18
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1993
Jessica Watson
Australian sailor
Jessica Rose Watson is an Australian sailor who attempted a solo circumnavigation at the age of 16 from 18 October 2009 to 15 May 2010.
1988
Taeyang
South Korean singer
Dong Young-bae, better known by his stage name Taeyang or SOL, is a South Korean singer and songwriter. He made his debut in 2006 as a member of the South Korean boy band BigBang.
1960
Yannick Noah
French tennis player
Yannick Noah is a French former professional tennis player and singer, who was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2005.
1883
Walter Gropius
German-American architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building (died 1969)
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
1904
Jacob K. Javits
American colonel and politician, 58th New York Attorney General (died 1986)
Jacob Koppel Javits was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of New York.
1850
Oliver Heaviside
English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (died 1925)
Oliver Heaviside was a British mathematician and physicist who invented a new technique for solving differential equations, independently developed vector calculus, and rewrote Maxwell's equations in the form commonly…
1948
Tom Udall
American lawyer and politician, 28th New Mexico Attorney General, United States Senator from New Mexico
Thomas Stewart Udall is an American diplomat, attorney, and politician who served as a United States senator for New Mexico from 2009 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the U.S.
1951
Jim Sundberg
American baseball player and sportscaster
James Howard Sundberg is an American former professional baseball player, television sports analyst, and executive.
1921
Joan Eardley
British artist (died 1963)
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley was a British artist noted for her portraiture of street children in Glasgow and for her landscapes of the fishing village of Catterline and surroundings on the North-East coast of…
1777
John George Children
English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (died 1852)
John George Children FRS FRSE FLS PRES DL was a British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist. Children established a chemical laboratory at his father's home Ferox Hall and conducted experiments into galvanic cells.
1984
Ivet Lalova
Bulgarian sprinter
Ivet Miroslavova Lalova-Collio, née Lalova, is a retired Bulgarian athlete who specialised in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the 13th-fastest woman in the history of the 100 metres.
1912
Walter Sisulu
South African politician (died 2003)
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC).
1975
John Higgins
Scottish snooker player
John Higgins is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.
1882
Babe Adams
American baseball player, manager, and journalist (died 1968)
Charles Benjamin "Babe" Adams was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1906 to 1926 who spent nearly his entire career with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1895
Augusto César Sandino
Nicaraguan rebel leader (died 1934)
Augusto César Sandino was a Nicaraguan revolutionary, founder of the militant group EDSN, and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the United States occupation of Nicaragua.
1960
Jari Kurri
Finnish ice hockey player, coach, and manager
Jari Pekka Kurri is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player.
1984
Simon Pagenaud
French race car driver
Simon Pierre Michel Pagenaud is a French former professional racing driver, who last drove the No. 60 Honda for Meyer Shank Racing in the NTT IndyCar Series.
1927
Ray Nagel
American football player and coach (died 2015)
Raymond Robert Nagel was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
1937
Jacques Santer
Luxembourger jurist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Luxembourg
Jacques Louis Santer is a Luxembourgish politician who served as president of the European Commission from 1995 to 1999 before resigning amidst allegations of corruption.