February 18

## Events
### Up to 1900 
* 1229 &ndash; Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten–year truce with al–Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth and Bethlehem, with neither military engagement nor support from the Pope.
* 1268 &ndash; The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.
* 1332 &ndash; Amda Seyon I of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
* 1478 &ndash; George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence is executed in the Tower of London after being convicted of treason against his older brother, King Edward IV of England.
* 1637 &ndash; Eighty Years' War: Off Cornwall, a Spanish fleet intercepts a very important Anglo–Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
* 1745 &ndash; Surakarta, Central Java, is founded.
* 1766 &ndash; A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship *Meermin*, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present–day South Africa and recapture of the instigators.
* 1791 &ndash; United States Congress passes a law making Vermont a state from March 4.
* 1814 &ndash; Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Montereau.
* 1861 &ndash; Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy assumes the title of King of Italy.
* 1861 &ndash; In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
* 1865 &ndash; American Civil War: Union forces under General William Tecumseh Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia, South Carolina.
* 1873 &ndash; Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
* 1885 &ndash; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is published.
* 1900 &ndash; Second Boer War: British forces suffer their worst single–day loss of life of the war on the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1906 &ndash; Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee.
* 1910 &ndash; The future–World Governing body for the sport of Skiing is founded in Kristiania, present–day Oslo, in Norway.
* 1911 &ndash; The first airmail flight takes place in what is then British India.
* 1913 &ndash; Pedro Lascurain becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes. This is the shortest time that a President has ever served in office.
* 1930 &ndash; From photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers the dwarf planet Pluto.
* 1932 &ndash; The Empire of Japan declares Manzhougou (Manchuria) independent of the Republic of China.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of people in the Chinese community in Singapore that it sees as hostile to its regime.
* 1943 &ndash; Members of the White Rose Resistance Movement are arrested by the Nazis.
* 1946 &ndash; Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay. This action later spreads throughout India.
* 1947 &ndash; First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to the mountains.
* 1952 &ndash; Greece and Turkey join NATO.
* 1954 &ndash; The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
* 1957 &ndash; Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
* 1960 &ndash; The Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, begin.
* 1963 &ndash; The eruption of the Agung volcano on Bali kills around 1,500 people.
* 1965 &ndash; The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1969 &ndash; Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney, California, killing all on board.
* 1977 &ndash; The Space Shuttle *Enterprise* makes its first flight, on a Boeing 747.
* 1978 &ndash; The first Ironman triathlon takes place on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is won by Gordon Haller.
* 1979 &ndash; Snow falls in the Sahara desert of southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
* 1983 &ndash; 13 people die in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is believed to be the worst robbery–motivated killing in US history.
* 1985 &ndash; NBA player Larry Bird barely misses a quadruple–double in a game against the Utah Jazz.  He sits out the entire fourth quarter.
* 1988 &ndash; Anthony Kennedy becomes a member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
* 1991 &ndash; The IRA detonates bombs at London's Paddington and Victoria Stations.
* 2000 &ndash; Stjepan Mesic becomes President of Croatia.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Inter–ethnic violence begins in Sampit, Indonesia, between Dayaks and Madurese.
* 2001 &ndash; Dale Earnhardt dies in a crash on the last lap of the last turn on the Daytona 500.
* 2001 &ndash; FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union.
* 2003 &ndash; Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
* 2004 &ndash; Up to 295 people, including around 200 rescue workers, are killed in Iran, when a freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertiliser catches fire and explodes.
* 2005 &ndash; A ban on Fox Hunting in the United Kingdom enters effect.
* 2007 &ndash; Terrorist bombings occur on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.
* 2010 &ndash; A coup takes place in Niamey, Niger. President Mamadou Tandja is replaced by a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy.
* 2014 &ndash; At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kyiv, Ukraine, during the Euromaidan protests.

## Births
### Up to 1800 
* 1372 &ndash; Iban Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (d. 1448) 
* 1374 &ndash; Saint Jadwiga of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1399)
* 1404 &ndash; Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)
* 1486 &ndash; Chaitanya Mahaprabha, Indian saint (d. 1534)
* 1516 &ndash; Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
* 1530 &ndash; Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyo (d. 1578)
* 1543 &ndash; Charles III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1608)
* 1609 &ndash; Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (d. 1674)
* 1632 &ndash; Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1692)
* 1635 &ndash; Johan Goransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
* 1642 &ndash; Marie Champnesle, French actress (d. 1698)
* 1677 &ndash; Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
* 1732 &ndash; Johann Christian Kittel, German organist, composer and teacher (d. 1809)
* 1745 &ndash; Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1814 &ndash; Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (d. 1900)
* 1817 &ndash; Lewis A. Armistead, American Confederate General (d. 1863)
* 1818 &ndash; Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician and revolutionary (d. 1870)
* 1832 &ndash; Octave Chanute, French–American civil engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1910)
* 1836 &ndash; Sri Ramakrishna, Indian Bengali Guru (d. 1886)
* 1838 &ndash; Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)
* 1846 &ndash; Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904)
* 1848 &ndash; Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933)
* 1849 &ndash; Alexander Kielland, Norwegian writer (d. 1906)
* 1850 &ndash; George Henschel, German–British baritone, conductor and composer (d. 1934)
* 1854 &ndash; Herbert Gladstone, British politician (d. 1930)
* 1855 &ndash; Jean Jules Jusserand, French writer and diplomat (d. 1932)
* 1857 &ndash; Max Klinger, German sculptor and painter (d. 1920)
* 1858 &ndash; Princess Louise Marie of Belgium (d. 1924)
* 1860 &ndash; Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (d. 1920)
* 1875 &ndash; Wilhelm Külz, German politician (d. 1948)
* 1878 &ndash; Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress (d. 1961)
* 1883 &ndash; Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (d. 1957)
* 1885 &ndash; Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1954)
* 1890 &ndash; Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956)
* 1890 &ndash; Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)
* 1892 &ndash; Wendell Wilkie, American politician (d. 1944)
* 1896 &ndash; André Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
* 1897 &ndash; Charles Kuentz, German–born French World War I veteran (d. 2005)
* 1898 &ndash; Enzo Ferrari, Italian founder of Ferrari (d. 1988)
* 1898 &ndash; Luis Muñoz Marin, 1st Governor of Puerto Rico (d. 1980)
* 1899 &ndash; Arthur Bryant, British historian (d. 1985)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Reginald Sheffield, British actor (d. 1957)
* 1902 &ndash; Walter Herbert, German–born conductor and impresario (d. 1975)
* 1903 &ndash; Nikolai Podgorny, Soviet politician (d. 1983)
* 1906 &ndash; Hans Asperger, Austrian physician, after whom Asperger syndrome is named (d. 1980)
* 1912 &ndash; Heinz Kühn, German politician (d. 1992)
* 1914 &ndash; Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
* 1915 &ndash; Phyllis Calvert, English actress (d. 2002)
* 1916 &ndash; Jean Drapeau, 37th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1999)
* 1919 &ndash; Amir Abbas Hoveyda, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1979)
* 1919 &ndash; Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
* 1920 &ndash; Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
* 1920 &ndash; Eddie Slovik, American soldier (d. 1945)
* 1922 &ndash; Helen Gurley Brown, American publisher (d. 2012)
* 1922 &ndash; Joe Tipton, American baseball player (d. 1994)
* 1922 &ndash; Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1997)
* 1925 &ndash; Marcel Barbeau, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2016)
* 1925 &ndash; George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016)
* 1927 &ndash; Richard A. Snelling, two–time Governor of Vermont (d. 1991)
* 1927 &ndash; John Warner, American politician (d. 2021)
* 1929 &ndash; Len Deighton, English writer
* 1929 &ndash; Ertem Egilmez, Turkish movie director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1989)
* 1931 &ndash; Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel Prize winner
* 1931 &ndash; Bob St. Clair, American football player (d. 2015)
* 1932 &ndash; Miloš Forman, Czech movie director
* 1933 &ndash; Yoko Ono, Japanese singer and performance artist
* 1933 &ndash; Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (d. 2009)
* 1933 &ndash; Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975)
* 1934 &ndash; Paco Rabanne, Spanish fashion designer
* 1936 &ndash; Ab McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1938 &ndash; Sadanoyama Shinmatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler
* 1938 &ndash; Istvan Szabo, Hungarian movie director
* 1939 &ndash; Marek Janowski, Polish–born conductor
* 1940 &ndash; Prue Leith, South African–English chef and writer
* 1943 &ndash; Graeme Garden, Scottish writer, actor and comedian
* 1944 &ndash; Pat Bowlen, American owner of the Denver Broncos football team
* 1945 &ndash; Judy Rankin, American golfer
* 1946 &ndash; Michael Buerk, British newsreader
* 1946 &ndash; Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor
* 1947 &ndash; Princess Christina of the Netherlands
* 1947 &ndash; Dennis DeYoung, American musician
* 1947 &ndash; Carlos Lopes, Portuguese athlete
* 1948 &ndash; Sinead Cusack, Irish actress
* 1949 &ndash; Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
* 1950 &ndash; Cristina Ferrare, American model, actress, writer and host
* 1950 &ndash; Cybill Shepherd, American actress
* 1950 &ndash; John Hughes, American movie director (d. 2009)

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Komal, last Queen of Nepal
* 1951 &ndash; Isabel Preysler, Filipino–Spanish journalist
* 1952 &ndash; Randy Crawford, American singer
* 1954 &ndash; John Travolta, American actor
* 1956 &ndash; Rüdiger Abramczik, German footballer and manager
* 1956 &ndash; Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgian politician and businessman
* 1957 &ndash; Marita Koch, German athlete
* 1957 &ndash; Bruce Rauner, American politician, 42nd Governor of Illinois
* 1957 &ndash; Christiane Torloni, Brazilian actress
* 1957 &ndash; Vanna White, American actress/game show model (*Wheel of Fortune*)
* 1958 &ndash; Lucie Visser, Dutch actress and model
* 1958 &ndash; Gar Samuelson, American drummer (d. 1999)
* 1959 &ndash; Hallgrimur Helgason, Icelandic artist and writer
* 1960 &ndash; Greta Scacchi, Australian actress
* 1960 &ndash; Tony Anselmo, American animator
* 1961 &ndash; Hironobu Kageyama, Japanese singer
* 1961 &ndash; Alison Owen, British movie producer
* 1963 &ndash; Anders Frisk, Swedish football referee
* 1964 &ndash; Matt Dillon, American actor
* 1964 &ndash; Paul Hanley, British musician
* 1965 &ndash; Dr. Dre, American record producer and rapper
* 1967 &ndash; Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
* 1967 &ndash; Colin Jackson, Welsh athlete
* 1968 &ndash; Molly Ringwald, American actress
* 1969 &ndash; Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player
* 1969 &ndash; Jason Sutter, American drummer
* 1970 &ndash; Susan Egan, American actress
* 1970 &ndash; Raine Maida, Canadian singer-songwriter
* 1971 &ndash; Merritt Gant, American guitarist
* 1971 &ndash; Constnatin Popa, Romanian–Israeli basketball player
* 1971 &ndash; Thomas Bjorn, Danish golfer
* 1972 &ndash; Fabian Picardo, 7th Chief Minister of Gibraltar
* 1973 &ndash; Claude Makélélé, French footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Shawn Estes, American baseball player
* 1974 &ndash; Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player
* 1975 &ndash; Keith Gillespie, Irish footballer
* 1975 &ndash; Gary Neville, English footballer
* 1975 &ndash; Thora Arnorsdottir, Icelandic television presenter and former Presidential candidate

### From 1976 
* 1977 &ndash; Chrissie Wellington, English tri–athlete
* 1978 &ndash; Josip Simunic, Croatian footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Nikolai Antropov, Kazakhstani ice hockey player
* 1981 &ndash; Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player
* 1981 &ndash; Ivan Sproule, Irish footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Courtney Act, Australian drag queen, singer and entertainer
* 1982 &ndash; Kaspars Cipruss, Latvian basketball player
* 1983 &ndash; Roberta Vinci, Italian tennis player
* 1983 &ndash; Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Laurent Vidal, French triathlete (d. 2015)
* 1985 &ndash; Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Jos van der Emden, Dutch cyclist
* 1985 &ndash; Song Jae-rim, South Korean actor and model
* 1985 &ndash; Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican–American spree killer
* 1986 &ndash; Vika Jigulina, Romanian singer
* 1986 &ndash; Marc Torrejon, Spanish footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Changmin, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer and actor
* 1988 &ndash; Maiara Walsh, Brazilian–American actress
* 1990 &ndash; Park Shin-hye, South Korean actress, dancer, model and singer
* 1990 &ndash; Kang So-ra, South Korean actress
* 1991 &ndash; Malese Jow, American actress and singer-songwriter
* 1991 &ndash; Henry Surtees, English racing driver (d. 2009)
* 1992 &ndash; Logan Miller, American actor
* 1995 &ndash; Samantha Crawford, American tennis player

## Deaths
### Up to 1900 
* 814 &ndash; Anglibert, Frankish monk and diplomat (b. 760)
* 901 &ndash; Thabit ibn Qurra, Iraqi physician, astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)
* 999 &ndash; Pope Gregory V (b. 972)
* 1139 &ndash; Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)
* 1294 &ndash; Kublai Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1215)
* 1379 &ndash; Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)
* 1405 &ndash; Tamerlane, Mongol ruler (b. 1336)
* 1455 &ndash; Fra Angelico, Italian artist (b. 1395)
* 1478 &ndash; George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1449)
* 1535 &ndash; Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer and theologian (b. 1486)
* 1546 &ndash; Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
* 1564 &ndash; Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (b. 1475)
* 1712 &ndash; Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the French throne (b. 1682)
* 1743 &ndash; Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)
* 1772 &ndash; Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count of Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)
* 1780 &ndash; Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714)
* 1834 &ndash; William Wirt, United States Attorney General (b. 1772)
* 1851 &ndash; Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804)
* 1873 &ndash; Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1837)
* 1890 &ndash; Gyula Andrassy, Hungarian politician and statesman (b. 1823)
* 1891 &ndash; Henry Hastings Sibley, American politician (b. 1811)
* 1893 &ndash; Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)
* 1895 &ndash; Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (b. 1817)
* 1899 &ndash; Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1842)
* 1900 &ndash; Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1902 &ndash; Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Co. (b. 1812)
* 1906 &ndash; John Batterson Stetson, American businessman (b. 1830)
* 1910 &ndash; Lucy Stanton, American abolitionist (b. 1831)
* 1911 &ndash; Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
* 1915 &ndash; Harry Ward Leonard, American engineer and inventor (b. 1861)
* 1931 &ndash; Frank C. Emerson, Governor of Wyoming (b. 1882)
* 1932 &ndash; Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (b. 1865)
* 1933 &ndash; James J. Corbett, American boxer (b. 1866)
* 1937 &ndash; Lamartine Griffin Hardman, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1856)
* 1937 &ndash; Grigory Ordzhonikidze, Soviet politician (b. 1886)
* 1945 &ndash; Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906)
* 1949 &ndash; Nicolas Alcala-Zamora, Spanish politician (b. 1877)
* 1956 &ndash; Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
* 1957 &ndash; Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
* 1957 &ndash; Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877)
* 1964 &ndash; Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and industrialist (b. 1907)
* 1966 &ndash; Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, movie director and producer (b. 1908)
* 1967 &ndash; Dragisa Cvetkovic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
* 1967 &ndash; J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
* 1969 &ndash; Dragisa Cvetkovic, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
* 1973 &ndash; Frank Costello, Italian–American mob boss (b. 1891)
* 1977 &ndash; Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)
* 1978 &ndash; Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928)
* 1981 &ndash; John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1895)
* 1982 &ndash; Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (b. 1895)
* 1993 &ndash; Jacqueline Hill, British actress (b. 1929)
* 1995 &ndash; Bob Stinson, American guitarist (b. 1959)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Dale Earnhardt, American racing driver (b. 1951)
* 2001 &ndash; Balthus, Polish–French painter (b. 1908)
* 2003 &ndash; Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912)
* 2004 &ndash; Jean Rouch, French movie maker and ethnologist (b. 1917)
* 2008 &ndash; Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and movie maker (b. 1922)
* 2009 &ndash; Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (b. 1982)
* 2009 &ndash; At-Tayyib Salih, Sudanese writer (b. 1929)
* 2010 &ndash; John Babcock, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1900)
* 2010 &ndash; Ariel Ramirez, Argentine composer (b. 1921)
* 2012 &ndash; Roald Aas, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (b. 1928)
* 2012 &ndash; George Brizan, Grenadian politician (b. 1942)
* 2013 &ndash; Jerry Buss, American businessman and owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team (b. 1933)
* 2013 &ndash; Elspet Gray, Scottish actress (b. 1928)
* 2013 &ndash; Otfried Preussler, German writer (b. 1923)
* 2014 &ndash; Nelson Frazier, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
* 2014 &ndash; Nikhil Baran Sengupta, Indian art director, producer, designer and actor (b. 1943)
* 2014 &ndash; Malcolm Tierney, British actor (b. 1938)
* 2014 &ndash; Al Greene, American baseball player (b. 1954)
* 2014 &ndash; Kristof Goddaert, Belgian cyclist (b. 1986)
* 2015 &ndash; Cass Ballenger, American politician (b. 1926)
* 2015 &ndash; Claude Criquielion, Belgian cyclist (b. 1957)
* 2015 &ndash; Mark Fischer, American lawyer (b. 1950)
* 2015 &ndash; Jerome Kersey, American basketball player (b. 1962)
* 2016 &ndash; Abdul Rashid Khan, Indian musician (b. 1907)
* 2016 &ndash; Pantelis Pantelidis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
* 2016 &ndash; John Reinhardt, American diplomat (b. 1920)
* 2017 &ndash; Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian terrorist (b. 1938)
* 2017 &ndash; Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1942)
* 2017 &ndash; Lawrence F. Snowden, American military officer (b. 1921)
* 2017 &ndash; Pasquale Squitieri, Italian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1938)
* 2017 &ndash; Clive Stubblefield, American drummer (b. 1942)
* 2017 &ndash; Michael Ogio, Governor–General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1942)
* 2017 &ndash; Norma McCorvey, American activist (b. 1947)
* 2017 &ndash; Dan Vickerman, Australian rugby player (b. 1979)
* 2017 &ndash; Richard Schickel, American writer, filmmaker and critic (b. 1933)
* 2020 &ndash; Sreten Stefanović, Serbian Olympic gymnast (b. 1916)
* 2020 &ndash; José Bonaparte, Argentine paleontologist (b. 1928)

## Observances 
* Independence Day (the Gambia)
* International Asperger's Day