March 18
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Art and culture
- 1931 Tabu by F. W. Murnau premieres
- 1990 - In largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 2005 - Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on euthanasia.
Births
- 1634 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (d. 1693)
- 1842 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
- 1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908)
- 1915 - Richard Condon, American novelist (d. 1996)
- 1932 - John Updike, American author
- 1950 - Brad Dourif, American actor
- 1959 - Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director
- 1970 - Queen Latifah, American singer and actress
Deaths
- 1768 - Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)
- 1978 - Leigh Brackett, American author (b. 1915)
- 1980 - Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
Notes
- 1980 - Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898, Warsaw, Poland - March 18, 1980 Cuernavaca, Mexico) , noted Art Deco painter, (b. 1898)
- 1871 - Paris Commune The term "Paris Commune" (French: La Commune de Paris) was the socialist government that briefly ruled Paris from 18 March (more formally from 26 March) to 28 May 1871. It
- 1924 - Giulio Questi (March 18 1924) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer, best-known for his film Death Laid an Egg.
- 1941 - Stefan JarlMarch 18 1941 is a Swedish film director.
- 1928 - Paul van Ostaijen (Antwerp, February 22 1896 - Miavoye-Anthée, March 18 1928) was a Flemish poet and writer. (b. 1896)
- 1634 - Madame de La Fayette (baptized March 18, 1634 - May 25, 1693) was a French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature. (d. 1693)
- 1915 - Richard Condon (born March 18, 1915 in New York, New York; died April 9, 1996 in Dallas, Texas), was a satirical and thriller novelist best known for conspiratorial books such as The Manchurian Candidate. (d. 1996)
- 1841 - Félix Alcan in Metz on March 18 1841, died in Paris on February 18 1925, was a French publisher. (d. 1925)
- 1950 - Brad Dourif, American actor
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