About the day » Sunday March 18, 1888Calender converter

• Adrianus Domenicus Dudok, Warmenhuizen
• Akke Steen, Ferwerd
• Adriana Saarloos, fijnaart en heijningen (noord brabant)
• Adriaantje Verkerke, Melissant († 1971)
• Abraham Vischschoonmaker, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1935)
• Aaltje Johannes Zuidema, Onstwedde, Nederland
• Aartje Vels, Heerde
• , Nieuwenhagen, Nederland († 1890)
• van Esch, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Klaar, Vlagtwedde (NL) († 1888)

• Baart Koomen (67), Amsterdam
• Alardus Lammerts Kalsbeek (64), Warga Idaarderadeel (FRL) The Netherlands
• Sarens (0), Bornem
• Anna Maria van Staveren (62), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius (Teunis) Zwanink (64), Kockengen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Staveren (62), Rotterdam
• Aldegunda Hubertina Schols (0), Kerkrade (Kerkrade) (Limburg)
• Arnoldus Hubertus Hendrickx (26), Sint Pieter
• Almyra Irwin (37), Lawrence, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States
• Abraham Bodee Enloe (16), Troy, Obion County, Tennnessee

• 1877 » Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and engineer († 1945)
• 1877 » Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic († 1945)
• 1878 » Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman († 1956)
• 1882 » Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator († 1973)
• 1884 » Bernard Cronin, English-Australian journalist and author († 1968)
• 1886 » Edward Everett Horton, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1970)
• 1890 » Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1893 » Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist († 1978)
• 1893 » Wilfred Owen, English soldier and poet († 1918)
• 1901 » Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian mystic, author and philosopher († 1990)

• 1845 » Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and missionary (b. 1774)
• 1871 » Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806)
• 1898 » Matilda Joslyn Gage, American author and activist (b. 1826)
• 1900 » Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (b. 1835)
• 1907 » Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
• 1913 » George I of Greece (b. 1845)
• 1918 » Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (b. 1847)
• 1930 » Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter (b. 1863)
• 1936 » Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864)
• 1939 » Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)

• 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• March 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
• June 15 » Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
• August 14 » An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
• September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
• September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
• October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.

The temperature on March 18, 1888 was about -5.7 °C. The air pressure was 42 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.