| 131131 | November 18 | Birth | 1787 – Louis Daguerre, French physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype (d. 1851) |
| 131132 | November 18 | Birth | 1804 – Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Italian general and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1878) |
| 131133 | November 18 | Birth | 1810 – Asa Gray, American botanist and academic (d. 1888) |
| 131134 | November 18 | Birth | 1832 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish geologist and explorer (d. 1901) |
| 131135 | November 18 | Birth | 1836 – W. S. Gilbert, English playwright, poet, and illustrator (d. 1911) |
| 131136 | November 18 | Birth | 1839 – August Kundt, German physicist and educator (d. 1894) |
| 131137 | November 18 | Birth | 1856 – Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1929) |
| 131138 | November 18 | Birth | 1860 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (d. 1941) |
| 131139 | November 18 | Birth | 1861 – Dorothy Dix, American journalist and author (d. 1951) |
| 131140 | November 18 | Birth | 1874 – Clarence Day, American author and poet (d. 1935) |
| 131141 | November 18 | Birth | 1876 – Victor Hémery, French racing driver (d. 1950) |
| 131142 | November 18 | Birth | 1880 – Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall (d. 1952) |
| 131143 | November 18 | Birth | 1882 – Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian-American soprano (d. 1963) |
| 131144 | November 18 | Birth | 1882 – Wyndham Lewis, English painter and author (d. 1957) |
| 131145 | November 18 | Birth | 1882 – Jacques Maritain, French philosopher and author (d. 1973) |
| 131146 | November 18 | Birth | 1883 – Carl Vinson, American judge and politician (d. 1981) |
| 131147 | November 18 | Birth | 1886 – Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian soldier and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1967) |
| 131148 | November 18 | Birth | 1888 – Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Indian yoga instructor (d. 1989) |
| 131149 | November 18 | Birth | 1888 – Gustaf Molander, Finnish-Swedish actor and director (d. 1973) |
| 131150 | November 18 | Birth | 1889 – Stanislav Kosior, Polish-Russian politician (d. 1939) |
| 131151 | November 18 | Birth | 1897 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974) |
| 131152 | November 18 | Birth | 1898 – Joris Ivens, Dutch director and producer (d. 1989) |
| 131153 | November 18 | Birth | 1898 – Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (d. 1925) |
| 131154 | November 18 | Birth | 1899 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (d. 1985) |
| 131155 | November 18 | Birth | 1901 – George Gallup, American statistician and academic (d. 1984) |
| 131156 | November 18 | Birth | 1901 – V. Shantaram, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1984) |
| 131157 | November 18 | Birth | 1906 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, designed the mini car (d. 1988) |
| 131158 | November 18 | Birth | 1906 – Klaus Mann, German-American author, playwright, and critic (d. 1949) |
| 131159 | November 18 | Birth | 1906 – George Wald, American neurobiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) |
| 131160 | November 18 | Birth | 1907 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (d. 1998) |