Events in Sport
- 1968-02-18 After winning men's luge singles Olympic gold medal in Innsbruck (1964), Thomas Köhler of Germany teams with Klaus Bonsack to take out the doubles in Grenoble
- 1984-02-12 12 years after winning the doubles in Sapporo (1972), Italian Paul Hildgarten wins the men's luge singles at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics
- 1984-02-12 East German luger Steffi Martin wins the first of 2 consecutive women's singles gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins in Calgary (1988)
- 2014-02-13 Women's luge singles champion Natalie Geisenberger and men's doubles winners Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt earn their 2nd Olympic gold medals in Sochi in team relay event; Germany sweeps 4 events
- 2018-02-15 German women's luge singles champion Natalie Geisenberger and men's doubles winners Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt earn their 2nd Olympic gold medals in Pyeongchang in the team relay event
Birthdays in Sport
- 1911-10-01 Riccardo Torriani, Swiss ice hockey player, luger (Olympic bronze 1928, 48; took the Olympic oath 1948), born in St. Moritz, Switzerland (d. 1988)
- 1939-02-23 Josef Feistmantl, Austrian luger (Olympic gold men's doubles 1964; World C'ship gold singles 1969), born in Absam, Austria (d. 2019)
- 1941-12-26 Klaus Bonsack, German luger (Olympic gold GDR men's doubles 1968, bronze 1972; silver singles 1964, bronze 1968; World C'ship gold 1967), born in Waltershausen, Germany (d. 2023)
- 1943-03-01 Wolfgang Scheidel, German DR, luge (Olympic gold 1972)
- 1943-12-01 Orton Enderlein, German [GDR] luger (Olympic gold women's singles 1964; World C'ships gold 1965, 67)), born in Trünzig, Sachsen, Germany
- 1946-04-01 Manfred Stengl, Austrian luger (Olympic gold men's doubles 1964), born in Salzburg, Austria (d. 1992)
- 1949-02-23 Anna-Maria Müller, German luger (Olympic gold GDR women's singles 1972), born in Friedrichroda, Germany (d. 2009)
- 1952-09-14 Margit Schumann, German luger (Olympic gold 1976), born in Waltershausen, Bezirk Erfurt, East Germany
- 1954-01-06 Norbert Hahn, German luger (Olympic gold GDR men's doubles 1976, 80; World C'ship gold 1975, 77), born in Elbingerode, Germany
- 1962-04-07 Bonny Warner, American luger, born in Mount Baldy, California
- 1966-09-09 Georg Hackl, German luger, born in West Germany
- 1967-04-11 Wendel Suckow, American luger (World C'ship gold men's singles 1993), born in Marquette, Michigan
- 1967-12-20 Duncan Kennedy, American luger (Olympics 1994), born in Burlington, California
- 1968-01-29 Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder (World C'ship gold x 7; Olympic silver Women's singles 1994, bronze 1992), born in Blankenburg, Germany
- 1969-01-03 Gerda Weissensteiner OMRI, Italian luger and bobsleigh pilot (Olympic gold women's singles 1994), born in Bolzano, Italy
- 1969-07-07 Sylke Otto, German luger, born in Chemnitz, Germany
- 1970-10-10 Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger (Olympic gold 1998), born in Sonneberg, Thuringia, Germany
- 1970-10-29 Chris Thorpe, American doubles luger (Olympics 1994), born in Waukegan, Illinois
- 1971-01-23 Mark Grimmette, American doubles luger (Olympics 1994), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- 1973-02-23 Robert Pipkins, American luge racer (Olympics 1994), born in Buffalo, New York
- 1975-07-07 Tony Benshoof, American luger, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
- 1983-04-30 Tatjana Hüfner, German luger
Deaths in Sport
- 1988-09-03 Riccardo Torriani, Swiss ice hockey player, luger (Olympic bronze 1928, 48; took the Olympic oath 1948), dies at 76
- 1992-06-06 Manfred Stengl, Austrian luger (Olympic gold men's doubles 1964), dies in a motorcycle accident at 46
- 2010-02-12 Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger, dies in a training run for the Winter Olympics at 21
- 2019-03-10 Josef Feistmantl, Austrian luger (Olympic gold men's doubles 1964; World C'ship gold singles 1969), dies at 80
- 2023-03-05 Klaus Bonsack, German luger (Olympic gold GDR men's doubles 1968, bronze 1972; silver singles 1964, bronze 1968; World C'ship gold 1967), dies at 81