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| March 18th, 2008 (March 18 2008) | Death | Anthony Minghella, Film Director (born in 1954) |  | 
| March 18th, 2008 (March 18 2008) | Death | Andrew Britton, Author (born in 1981) |  | 
| March 18th, 1988 (March 18 1988) | Death | Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (born in 1917) |  | 
| March 18th, 1978 (March 18 1978) | Birth | Khalilah Adams, American actress |  | 
| March 18th, 1978 (March 18 1978) | Birth | Yoshie Takeshita, Japanese volleyball player |  | 
| March 18th, 1978 (March 18 1978) | Birth | Jan Bulis, Czech ice hockey player |  | 
| March 18th, 1978 (March 18 1978) | Birth | Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer |  | 
| March 18th, 1978 (March 18 1978) | Death | Leigh Brackett, American author (born in 1915) |  | 
| March 18th, 1978 (March 18 1978) | Death | Peggy Wood, American actress (born in 1892) |  | 
| March 18th, 1968 (March 18 1968) | Event | Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. |  | 
| March 18th, 1968 (March 18 1968) | Birth | Shinichiro Miki, Japanese seiyu (voice actor) |  | 
| March 18th, 1968 (March 18 1968) | Birth | Eudes, duc d Angouleme, French prince |  | 
| March 18th, 1968 (March 18 1968) | Birth | Paul Marsden, British politician |  | 
| March 18th, 1948 (March 18 1948) | Event | Soviet consultants have left Yugoslavia in first sign of Tito-Stalin split. |  | 
| March 18th, 1948 (March 18 1948) | Birth | Guy Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player |  | 
| March 18th, 1948 (March 18 1948) | Birth | Lockwood Phillips, American radio host |  | 
| March 18th, 1948 (March 18 1948) | Birth | Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer |  | 
| March 18th, 1938 (March 18 1938) | Event | Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders. |  | 
| March 18th, 1938 (March 18 1938) | Birth | Charley Pride, American musician |  | 
| March 18th, 1938 (March 18 1938) | Birth | Shashi Kapoor, Indian Actor |  | 
| March 18th, 1938 (March 18 1938) | Birth | Timo Makinen, Finnish race car driver |  | 
| March 18th, 1928 (March 18 1928) | Birth | Julia Mullock, Princess of Korea |  | 
| March 18th, 1928 (March 18 1928) | Birth | Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist |  | 
| March 18th, 1928 (March 18 1928) | Birth | Fidel V. Ramos, President of the Philippines |  | 
| March 18th, 1918 (March 18 1918) | Birth | Al Benton, American baseball player (died in 1968) |  | 
| March 18th, 1918 (March 18 1918) | Birth | Bob Broeg, American sports writer (died in 2005) |  | 
| March 18th, 1898 (March 18 1898) | Birth | Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (died in 1960) |  | 
| March 18th, 1898 (March 18 1898) | Death | Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (born in 1826) |  | 
| March 18th, 1858 (March 18 1858) | Birth | Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (died in 1913) |  | 
| March 18th, 1848 (March 18 1848) | Birth | Nathanael Herreshoff, American naval architect (died in 1938) |  | 
| March 18th, 1848 (March 18 1848) | Birth | Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (died in 1939) |  | 
| March 18th, 1828 (March 18 1828) | Birth | William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died in 1908) |  | 
| March 18th, 1768 (March 18 1768) | Death | Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (born in 1713) | Laurence Sterne Quotes | 
| March 18th, 1608 (March 18 1608) | Event | Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. |  | 
| March 18th, 1438 (March 18 1438) | Event | Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Germany. |  | 
| March 18th, 0978 (March 18 0978) | Death | King Edward the Martyr of England |  |