| 8088 | January 18 | Death | 1873 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1803) |
| 8089 | January 18 | Death | 1878 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1788) |
| 8090 | January 18 | Death | 1886 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819) |
| 8091 | January 18 | Death | 1892 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819) |
| 8092 | January 18 | Death | 1896 – Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828) |
| 8093 | January 18 | Death | 1923 – Wallace Reid, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891) |
| 8094 | January 18 | Death | 1936 – Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871) |
| 8095 | January 18 | Death | 1936 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) |
| 8096 | January 18 | Death | 1940 – Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865) |
| 8097 | January 18 | Death | 1945 – Hermann Braun, American-German actor (b. 1918) |
| 8098 | January 18 | Death | 1951 – Amy Carmichael, Irish-Indian missionary (b. 1867) |
| 8099 | January 18 | Death | 1952 – Curly Howard, American actor and singer (b. 1903) |
| 8100 | January 18 | Death | 1954 – Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor and singer (b. 1879) |
| 8071 | January 18 | Birth | 1993 – Morgan York, American actress |
| 8072 | January 18 | Birth | 1994 – Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer (Kara) |
| 8073 | January 18 | Birth | 1994 – Ilona Kremen, Belarusian tennis player |
| 8074 | January 18 | Birth | 1995 – Bastien Damiens, French canoe racer (d. 2015) |
| 8075 | January 18 | Birth | 1996 – Sarah Gilman, American actress |
| 8076 | January 18 | Birth | 1999 – Karan Brar, American actor |
| 8077 | January 18 | Death | 52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (b. 93 BC) |
| 8078 | January 18 | Death | 474 – Leo I the Thracian, Byzantine emperor (b. 401) |
| 8079 | January 18 | Death | 1213 – Tamar of Georgia (b. 1160) |
| 8080 | January 18 | Death | 1367 – Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320) |
| 8081 | January 18 | Death | 1425 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391) |
| 8082 | January 18 | Death | 1471 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419) |
| 8083 | January 18 | Death | 1586 – Margaret of Parma (b. 1522) |
| 8084 | January 18 | Death | 1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch politician, founded Cape Town (b. 1619) |
| 8085 | January 18 | Death | 1803 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet and academic (b. 1743) |
| 8086 | January 18 | Death | 1849 – Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (b. 1752) |
| 8087 | January 18 | Death | 1862 – John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790) |