Births on 18 August
2000s
Summer McIntosh
2006
Canadian swimmer (born 2006)
1900s
Cassius Stanley
1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Brian To'o
1998
Samoa international rugby league footballer
Clairo
1998
American singer-songwriter (born 1998)
Nick Fuentes
1998
American far-right political activist (born 1998)
Josephine Langford
1997
Australian actress (born 1997)
Renato Sanches
1997
Portuguese footballer (born 1997)
Alīna Fjodorova
1995
Latvian figure skater
Parker McKenna Posey
1995
American actress
Madelaine Petsch
1994
American actress and YouTuber (born 1994)
Morgan Sanson
1994
French association football player (born 1994)
Seiya Suzuki
1994
Japanese baseball player (born 1994)
Jung Eun-ji
1993
South Korean singer-songwriter and actress (born 1993)
Maia Mitchell
1993
Australian actress (born 1993)
Elizabeth Beisel
1992
American competition swimmer
Bogdan Bogdanović (basketball)
1992
Serbian basketball player (born 1992)
Frances Bean Cobain
1992
American visual artist (born 1992)
Liz Cambage
1991
Australian basketball player (born 1991)
Richard Harmon
1991
Canadian actor (born 1991)
Anna Akana
1989
American YouTuber and comedian (born 1989)
Yu Mengyu
1989
Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player
Jack Hobbs (footballer)
1988
English footballer (born 1988)
Eggert Jónsson
1988
Icelandic footballer
G-Dragon
1988
South Korean rapper (born 1988)
Joanna Jędrzejczyk
1987
Polish mixed martial artist and kickboxer
Justin Wilson (baseball)
1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Evan Gattis
1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Ross McCormack
1986
Scottish footballer
Inge Dekker
1985
Dutch swimmer (born 1985)
Bryan Ruiz
1985
Costa Rican football player (born 1985)
Sigourney Bandjar
1984
Surinamese footballer
Robert Huth
1984
German footballer (born 1984)
Mika (singer)
1983
British-Lebanese singer (born 1983)
Cameron White
1983
Australian cricketer (born 1983)
César Delgado
1981
Argentine footballer (born 1981)
Dimitris Salpingidis
1981
Greek footballer
Esteban Cambiasso
1980
Argentine footballer (born 1980)
Rob Nguyen
1980
Australian racing car driver
Ryan O'Hara
1980
Australian former professional rugby league footballer
Bart Scott
1980
American football player (born 1980)
Jeremy Shockey
1980
American football player (born 1980)
Stuart Dew
1979
Australian rules footballer, born 1979
Andy Samberg
1978
American actor, comedian, and musician (born 1978)
Paraskevas Antzas
1977
Greek footballer (born 1977)
Even Skatrud
1977
Norwegian musician, composer, and orchestra leader
Kaitlin Olson
1975
American actress and comedian (born 1975)
Nicole Krauss
1974
American novelist (born 1974)
Patrik Andersson
1971
Swedish footballer
Aphex Twin
1971
British electronic musician (born 1971)
Jason Furman
1970
American economist and political adviser (born 1970)
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
1970
American actor (1970–2025)
Everlast
1969
American rapper, singer, and songwriter (born 1969)
Masta Killa
1969
American rapper (born 1969)
Mark Kuhlmann
1969
Germany international rugby union player
Edward Norton
1969
American actor (born 1969)
Christian Slater
1969
American actor (born 1969)
Daler Mehndi
1967
Indian singer (born 1967)
Brian Michael Bendis
1967
American comic book writer and artist (born 1967)
Gustavo Charif
1966
Argentine writer, visual artist and film director
Ikue ÅŒtani
1965
Japanese actress (born 1965)
Craig Bierko
1964
American actor (born 1964)
Andi Deris
1964
German singer (born 1964)
Mark Sargent
1964
Australia international rugby league footballer
Kenny Walker (basketball)
1964
American basketball player (born 1964)
Felipe Calderón
1962
President of Mexico from 2006 to 2012
Geoff Courtnall
1962
Canadian ice hockey player, coach (born 1962)
Adam Storke
1962
American actor
Huw Edwards
1961
Welsh news presenter (born 1961)
Timothy Geithner
1961
American banker and politician (born 1961)
Bob Woodruff
1961
American journalist
Mike LaValliere
1960
American baseball player (born 1960)
Fat Lever
1960
American basketball player (born 1960)
Tom Prichard
1959
American professional wrestler and trainer (born 1959)
Didier Auriol
1958
French rally driver (born 1958)
Madeleine Stowe
1958
American actress (born 1958)
Carole Bouquet
1957
French actress (born 1957)
Tan Dun
1957
Chinese-American composer and conductor (born 1957)
Denis Leary
1957
American comedian and actor (born 1957)
Ron Strykert
1957
Australian musician (born 1957)
John Debney
1956
American film composer (born 1956)
Sandeep Patil
1956
Indian cricketer
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz
1956
American drummer (born 1956)
Kelly Willard
1956
Contemporary Christian musician (born 1956)
Rainer Woelki
1956
German Cardinal of the Catholic Church (born 1956)
Bruce Benedict
1955
American baseball player (born 1955)
Taher Elgamal
1955
American cryptographer
Umberto Guidoni
1954
Italian astronaut and politician (born 1954)
Louie Gohmert
1953
American politician (born 1953)
Marvin Isley
1953
American musician (1953–2010)
Elayne Boosler
1952
American comedian (born 1952)
Patrick Swayze
1952
American actor (1952–2009)
Ricardo Villa
1952
Argentine footballer (born 1952)
Dennis Elliott
1950
British musician and artist
Nigel Griggs
1949
British-born bass guitarist
James Jones (bishop)
1948
Church of England bishop (born 1948)
John Scarlett
1948
British senior intelligence officer (born 1948)
Sarah Dash
1945
American singer (1945–2021)
Värner Lootsmann
1945
Estonian politician (born 1945)
Lewis Burwell Puller Jr.
1945
US Marine Corps and Attorney (1945-1994)
Paula Danziger
1944
American children's book author
Robert Hitchcock
1944
Australian sculptor (born 1944)
Martin Mull
1943
American actor (1943–2024)
Gianni Rivera
1943
Italian footballer and politician (born 1943)
Carl Wayne
1943
English singer and actor (1943–2004)
Henry G. Sanders
1942
American actor (born 1942)
Adam Makowicz
1940
Polish pianist and composer
Gil Whitney
1940
American television personality (1940–1982)
Maxine Brown (soul singer)
1939
American soul and R&B singer (born 1939)
Robert Horton (businessman)
1939
British businessman (1939–2011)
Johnny Preston
1939
American rock and roll singer (1939–2011)
Sheila Cassidy
1937
English doctor (born 1937)
Robert Redford
1936
American actor and director (1936–2025)
Gail Fisher
1935
American actress (1935–2000)
Hifikepunye Pohamba
1935
President of Namibia from 2005 to 2015
Vincent Bugliosi
1934
American lawyer and true crime writer (1934–2015)
Roberto Clemente
1934
Puerto Rican baseball player (1934–1972)
Gulzar
1934
Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and author (born 1934)
Rafer Johnson
1934
American decathlete and actor (1934–2020)
Michael May (racing driver)
1934
Swiss racing driver (born 1934)
Just Fontaine
1933
French footballer (1933–2023)
Roman Polanski
1933
Polish and French filmmaker (born 1933)
Frank Salemme
1933
American criminal (1933–2022)
Luc Montagnier
1932
French virologist and Nobel laureate (1932–2022)
Bramwell Tillsley
1931
Canadian salvationist and writer (1931–2019)
Hans van Mierlo
1931
Dutch politician (1931–2010)
Grant Williams (actor)
1931
American actor (1931–1985)
Liviu Librescu
1930
Romanian-Israeli-American scientist, Holocaust survivor
Rafael Pineda Ponce
1930
Honduran politician
Hugues Aufray
1929
French singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1929)
Marge Schott
1928
Major League Baseball owner (1928–2004)
Sonny Til
1928
American musician (1928–1981)
Rosalynn Carter
1927
First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Brian Aldiss
1925
British science-fiction writer (1925–2017)
Pierre Grondin
1925
Canadian cardiac surgeon (1925–2006)
Anis Mansour
1925
Egyptian writer
Katherine Victor
1923
American actress (1923–2004)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
1922
French writer and film director (1922–2008)
Lydia Litvyak
1921
Soviet flying ace (1921–1943)
Zdzisław Żygulski (art historian)
1921
Polish art historian
Godfrey Evans
1920
English cricketer
Bob Kennedy
1920
American baseball player, manager, and executive (1920–2005)
Shelley Winters
1920
American actress (1920–2006)
Wally Hickel
1919
American politician (1919–2010)
Cisco Houston
1918
American musician (1918–1961)
Caspar Weinberger
1917
American politician and businessman (1917–2006)
Neagu Djuvara
1916
Romanian historian (1916–2018)
Moura Lympany
1916
English concert pianist (1916–2005)
Max Lanier
1915
American baseball player (1915–2007)
Lucy Ozarin
1914
American psychiatrist
Romain Maes
1913
Belgian cyclist
Otto Ernst Remer
1912
German Wehrmacht Army officer and Neo-Nazi Leader (1912–1997)
Amelia Boynton Robinson
1911
American civil rights activist (1905–2015)
Klára Dán von Neumann
1911
Hungarian-American mathematician (1911–1963)
Maria Ulfah Santoso
1911
Indonesian politician and activist (1911–1988)
Herman Berlinski
1910
American classical composer
Robert Winters
1910
Canadian electrical engineer, army officer, politician and businessman
Gérard Filion
1909
Canadian businessman and journalist
Edgar Faure
1908
69th Prime Minister of France
Olav H. Hauge
1908
Norwegian horticulturist, translator and poet
Bill Merritt (cricketer)
1908
New Zealand cricketer & rugby league player (1908–1977)
Marcel Carné
1906
French film director (1906–1996)
Curtis Jones (pianist)
1906
American blues pianist
Enoch Light
1905
American dance band leader and recording engineer (1907–1978)
Max Factor Jr.
1904
American businessman
Lucienne Boyer
1903
French diseuse and singer
Adamson-Eric
1902
Estonian artist
Margaret Murie
1902
American naturalist and author
Ruth Bonner
1900
Soviet Communist activist
Ruth Norman
1900
American religious leader (1900–1993)
1800s
Clemente Biondetti
1898
Italian racing driver (1898–1955)
Jack Pickford
1896
Canadian-American actor (1896–1933)
Burleigh Grimes
1893
American baseball player and manager (1893–1985)
Ernest MacMillan
1893
Canadian conductor
Walther Funk
1890
German economist and politician (1890–1960)
John Anthony Sydney Ritson
1887
British Lions & England international rugby union player
Nettie Palmer
1885
Australian poet, essayist and literary critic
Alexander Rodzyanko
1879
Ukrainian general (1879–1970)
Lavr Kornilov
1870
Imperial Russian Army general (1870–1918)
Carl Rungius
1869
American painter
Mahboob Ali Khan
1866
Nizam of Hyderabad from 1869 to 1911
Libert H. Boeynaems
1857
Belgian Catholic bishop
Ahad Ha'am
1856
Hebrew-language essayist, poet, and critic of early Zionism (1856-1927)
Alfred Wallis
1855
English painter (1855–1942)
William Halford
1841
Marshall Field
1834
American businessman (1834–1906)
Ernest Noel
1831
Franz Joseph I
1830
Habsburg monarch from 1848 to 1916
Isaac P. Rodman
1822
American politician
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg
1819
Duchess of Leuchtenberg (1819–1876)
B. T. Finniss
1807
Australian politician (1807–1893)
Nathan Clifford
1803
US Supreme Court justice from 1858 to 1881
Before 1800
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
1792
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1846–1852, 1865–1866)
Meriwether Lewis
1774
American explorer and Governor (1774–1809)
François de Chasseloup-Laubat
1754
French general and military engineer (1754–1833)
Antonio Salieri
1750
Italian composer and teacher (1750–1825)
Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers
1720
English nobleman (1720–1760)
Bajirao I
1700
Peshwa of the Maratha Empire from 1720 to 1740
Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon
1692
French royal and politician (1692–1740)
Brook Taylor
1685
English mathematician
Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena
1657
Italian painter (1657–1743)
Agneta Horn
1629
Swedish writer
Maria Anna of Spain
1606
Holy Roman Empress from 1637 to 1646
Henry Hammond
1605
English churchman
Jean Bolland
1596
Flemish priest and hagiographer (1596–1665)
Virginia Dare
1587
First child born in the Americas to English parents (1587–unknown)
Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau
1579
French abbess
Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland
1542
English nobleman and peer (1542–1601)
Francesco Canova da Milano
1497
Italian composer
Lorenzo Pucci
1458
Italian cardinal and bishop
Marko Marulić
1450
Croatian national poet and European humanist
Ashikaga Takauji
1305
Japanese Samurai, Daimyo and Military ruler of Japan from 1338 to 1358