Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 18

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Births

1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558) (pictured)
1745 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)
1892 - Wendell Willkie, American politician (d. 1944)
1896 - Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
1931 - Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2019)
1954 - John Travolta, American actor

Deaths

1294 - Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215)
1546 - Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
1564 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist (b. 1475)
1967 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
2001 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)