18 August
Notable Births
Cassius Stanley
b. 1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Brian To'o
b. 1998
Samoa international rugby league footballer
Clairo
b. 1998
American singer-songwriter (born 1998)
Nick Fuentes
b. 1998
American far-right political activist (born 1998)
Josephine Langford
b. 1997
Australian actress (born 1997)
Renato Sanches
b. 1997
Portuguese footballer (born 1997)
Alīna Fjodorova
b. 1995
Latvian figure skater
Parker McKenna Posey
b. 1995
American actress
Madelaine Petsch
b. 1994
American actress and YouTuber (born 1994)
Morgan Sanson
b. 1994
French association football player (born 1994)
Seiya Suzuki
b. 1994
Japanese baseball player (born 1994)
Jung Eun-ji
b. 1993
South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (born 1993)
Maia Mitchell
b. 1993
Australian actress (born 1993)
Elizabeth Beisel
b. 1992
American competition swimmer
Bogdan Bogdanović (basketball)
b. 1992
Serbian basketball player (born 1992)
Liz Cambage
b. 1991
Australian basketball player (born 1991)
Richard Harmon
b. 1991
Canadian actor (born 1991)
Anna Akana
b. 1989
American YouTuber and comedian (born 1989)
Yu Mengyu
b. 1989
Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player
Jack Hobbs (footballer)
b. 1988
English footballer (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Ruth Johnson Colvin
d. 2024
American literacy advocate (1916–2024)
Alain Delon
d. 2024
French actor (1935–2024)
Phil Donahue
d. 2024
American talk show host (1935–2024)
Lolita (orca)
d. 2023
Captive female orca (c. 1966 – 2023)
Al Quie
d. 2023
American politician (1923–2023)
Ben Cross
d. 2020
British actor (1947–2020)
Kofi Annan
d. 2018
UN Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006
Bruce Forsyth
d. 2017
British entertainer and presenter (1928–2017)
Ernst Nolte
d. 2016
German historian (1923–2016)
Khaled al-Asaad
d. 2015
Syrian archaeologist (1932–2015)
Suvra Mukherjee
d. 2015
Indian politician
Louis Stokes
d. 2015
American politician (1925–2015)
Gordon Faber
d. 2014
American mayor (1931–2014)
Jim Jeffords
d. 2014
American politician (1934–2014)
Levente Lengyel
d. 2014
Hungarian chess grandmaster (1933–2014)
Don Pardo
d. 2014
American announcer (1918–2014)
Jean Kahn
d. 2013
French Jewish community leader
Albert Murray (writer)
d. 2013
American writer
Harrison Begay
d. 2012
American painter (1914/17–2012)
Scott McKenzie
d. 2012
American singer-songwriter (1939–2012)