The 18t o December is the 352t day o the year (353t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 13 days bidin.
- 1392 - John VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1448)
- 1626 - Christina, Queen o Swaden (d. 1689)
- 1662 - James Douglas, 2nt Duke o Queensberry, Scots nobleman (d. 1711)
- 1821 - John MacGillivray, Scots naituralist (d. 1867)
- 1856 - J. J. Thomson, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1940)
- 1861 - A. G. G. Asher, Scots rugby player an cricketer (d. 1930)
- 1863 - Airchduke Franz Ferdinand o Austrick (d. 1914)
- 1878 - Joseph Stalin, Georgie-born leader o the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
- 1879 - Paul Klee, German-Swiss penter (d. 1940)
- 1913 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor o Wast Germany (d. 1992)
- 1926 - Jock Aird, Scots-New Zealand fitbawer
- 1943 - Keith Richards, Inglis muisicker
- 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
- 1946 - Steve Biko, Sooth African activist (d. 1977)
- 1954 - Ray Liotta, American actor
- 1963 - Brad Pitt, American actor
- 1963 - Pierre Nkurunziza, Preses o Burundi (d. 2020)
- 1971 - Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Spaingie tennis player
- 1975 - Sia Furler, Australie sangster
- 1977 - Axwell (Axel Hedfors), Swadish DJ an record producer
- 1978 - Katie Holmes, American actress
- 1980 - Christina Aguilera, American sangster
- 1980 - Julie Fleeting, Scots fitbawer
- 1992 - Bridgit Mendler, American actress
- 1997 - Jack McMillan, Scots fitbawer
- 2001 - Billie Eilish, American sangster an sangwriter
- 1803 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian an poet (b. 1744)
- 1809 - Alexander Adam, Scots teacher an writer; b. 1741
- 1829 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744)
- 1884 - Alexander Murray, Scots geologist (b. 1810)
- 1922 - John James Pringle, Scots dermatologist; b. 1855
- 1932 - Eduard Bernstein, German politeecian an poleetical theorist (b. 1850)
- 1980 - Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politeecian (b. 1904)
- 1995 - Konrad Zuse, German ingineer an computer pioneer (b. 1910)
- 1998 - Harry Haddock, Scots fitbawer (b. 1925)
- 2000 - Kirsty MacColl, Inglis sangster (b. 1959)
- 2008 - Mark Felt, American Watergate figur (b. 1913)
- 2011 - Václav Havel, Czech playwricht an statesman (b. 1936)
- 2016 - Zsa Zsa Gábor, Hungarian-American actress an socialite (b. 1917)