About the day » Thursday August 18, 1864Calender converter

• Anna-Theresia MICHIELS
• Aaltje Jans van der Meer, Wouterswoude († 1933)
• Haven, Gemeente Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1864)
• Antonij Glaudemans, Berlicum († 1928)
• Anna Gesina Kamp, Moordrecht
• Anna Berendina van Baarlen, Schiedam († 1948)
• Adriana Gerrits, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1915)
• Anna Barendina Van Baarlen, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1948)
• Anna Maria Bosschaert, Antwerpen 2000, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Annie GUTBUB, Mont Lebanon,,Pennsylvania,UNITED STATES († 1866)

• Arcadius Anné (72), Temse, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• "Adolph" Friedrich Georg von dem Bussche (35), Hildesheim, Allemagne
• Alberta Ann Tipsword (2), Effingham, Effingham, Illinois, United States
• Alida Smit (20), Zeist
• Adrianus Ludovicus van Bebber (2), Tilburg
• Anna Margaretha van der Schroef (27), Norg
• Alexander Strong Martin (77)
• Angelina VANDENBROECK (28), Betekom
• "Albert" Age Victor baron van Asbeck (0), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia van Vegten (19), Linschoten, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1841 » William Halford, English-American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient († 1919)
• 1855 » Alfred Wallis, English painter and illustrator († 1942)
• 1857 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop and missionary († 1926)
• 1863 » Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter († 1930)
• 1869 » Carl Rungius, German-American painter and educator († 1959)
• 1870 » Lavr Kornilov, Russian general and explorer († 1918)
• 1879 » Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general († 1970)
• 1885 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic († 1964)
• 1887 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining († 1957)
• 1890 » Walther Funk, German economist and politician, Reich Minister of Economics († 1960)

• 1815 » Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
• 1823 » André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 1 » Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
• April 22 » The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
• June 30 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
• September 18 » American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.
• December 4 » American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta.
• December 15 » American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: The Union's Army of the Cumberland routs and destroys the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee, ending its effectiveness as a combat unit.

The temperature on August 18, 1864 was about 16.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.