Famous People Born Today, Today's Famous Birthdays
Here is a list who born on date 18 December today. Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day. Today's famous birthdays list for December 18
Who Born Today, Famous Birthdays on December 18
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1406 | Richard Olivier de Longueil, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d. 1470) |
| 1481 | Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Saxony (d. 1503) |
| 1499 | Sebald Heyden, German musicologist and theologian (d. 1561) |
| 1505 | Philipp von Hutten, German explorer (d. 1546) |
| 1507 | Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyō (d. 1551) |
| 1552 | Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi, Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (d. 1616) |
| 1590 | William Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (d. 1640) |
| 1610 | Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (d. 1688) |
| 1620 | Heinrich Roth, German missionary and scholar (d. 1668) |
| 1626 | Christina, Queen of Sweden (d. 1689) |
| 1660 | Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1715) |
| 1661 | Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and inventor (d. 1751) |
| 1662 | James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish colonel and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (d. 1711) |
| 1707 | Charles Wesley, English missionary and composer (d. 1788) |
| 1725 | Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and theologian (d. 1791) |
| 1734 | Jean-Baptiste Rey, French conductor and composer (d. 1810) |
| 1800 | James Watney, English brewer and businessman (d. 1884) |
| 1824 | John Hall, English-New Zealand politician, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1907) |
| 1825 | Charles Griffin, American general (d. 1876) |
| 1825 | John S. Harris, American surveyor and politician (d. 1906) |
| 1835 | Lyman Abbott, American minister, theologian, and author (d. 1922) |
| 1847 | Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer (d. 1903) |
| 1849 | Henrietta Edwards, Canadian activist and author (d. 1931) |
| 1856 | J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) |
| 1860 | Edward MacDowell, American pianist and composer (d. 1908) |
| 1861 | Lionel Monckton, English composer and critic (d. 1924) |
| 1863 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1914) |
| 1867 | Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player and horse breeder (d. 1941) |
| 1869 | Edward Willis Redfield, American painter and educator (d. 1965) |
| 1870 | Saki, British short story writer (d. 1916) |
| 1873 | Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (d. 1957) |
| 1875 | Matt McGrath, Irish-American hammer thrower (d. 1941) |
| 1878 | Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1953) |
| 1879 | Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator (d. 1940) |
| 1882 | Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway (d. 1950) |
| 1884 | Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical pharmacology (d. 1942) |
| 1886 | Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (d. 1961) |
| 1887 | Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and playwright (d. 1971) |
| 1888 | Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer (d. 1971) |
| 1888 | Robert Moses, American urban planner (d. 1981) |
| 1890 | Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (d. 1954) |
| 1896 | Gerald Barry, English colonel and cricketer (d. 1977) |
| 1897 | Fletcher Henderson, American pianist and composer (d. 1952) |
| 1899 | Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian philosopher and author (d. 1990) |
| 1904 | George Stevens, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1975) |
| 1907 | Bill Holland, American race car driver (d. 1984) |
| 1907 | Lawrence Lucie, American guitarist and educator (d. 2009) |
| 1908 | Celia Johnson, English actress (d. 1982) |
| 1908 | Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (d. 1969) |
| 1910 | Abe Burrows, American author, playwright, and director (d. 1985) |
| 1910 | Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and umpire (d. 2010) |
| 1911 | Jules Dassin, American-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008) |
| 1912 | Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general and pilot (d. 2002) |
| 1913 | Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (d. 1987) |
| 1913 | Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992) |
| 1913 | Ray Meyer, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006) |
| 1916 | Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American trade union leader and academic (d. 2008) |
| 1916 | Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1973) |
| 1917 | Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (d. 2005) |
| 1920 | Robert Leckie, American soldier and author (d. 2001) |
| 1922 | Jack Brooks, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012) |
| 1922 | Esther Lederberg, American microbiologist (d. 2006) |
| 1923 | Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Greater London (d. 2019) |
| 1927 | Ramsey Clark, American lawyer and politician, 66th United States Attorney General (d. 2021) |
| 1927 | Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009) |
| 1928 | Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph and author (d. 2003) |
| 1928 | Harold Land, American tenor saxophonist (d. 2001) |
| 1929 | Gino Cimoli, American baseball player (d. 2011) |
| 1929 | Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (d. 2013) |
| 1930 | Moose Skowron, American baseball player (d. 2012) |
| 1931 | Allen Klein, American businessman and music publisher (d. 2009) |
| 1931 | Alison Plowden, English historian and author (d. 2007) |
| 1931 | Bill Thompson, American television host (d. 2014) |
| 1932 | Norm Provan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and businessman (d. 2021) |
| 1932 | Roger Smith, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017) |
| 1933 | Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 2017) |
| 1934 | Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman, founded Glencore (d. 2013) |
| 1934 | Boris Volynov, Russian colonel, engineer, and cosmonaut |
| 1935 | Rosemary Leach, English actress (d. 2017) |
| 1935 | Jacques Pépin, French-American chef and author |
| 1936 | Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (d. 1987) |
| 1937 | Nancy Ryles, American politician (d. 1990) |
| 1938 | Chas Chandler, English bass player and producer (d. 1996) |
| 1938 | Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter and composer (d. 2005) |
| 1939 | Michael Moorcock, English author and songwriter |
| 1939 | Harold E. Varmus, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 1939 | Pedro Jirón, Nicaraguan footballer |
| 1940 | Ilario Castagner, Italian football manager |
| 1940 | John Cooper, English sprinter and hurdler (d. 1974) |
| 1941 | Sam Andrew, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015) |
| 1941 | Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpet player and composer |
| 1941 | Joan Wallach Scott, American historian, author, and academic |
| 1942 | Lenore Blum, American mathematician and academic |
| 1942 | Bobby Keyes, Australian rugby league player (d. 2022) |
| 1943 | Bobby Keys, American saxophone player (d. 2014) |
| 1943 | Keith Richards, English musician |
| 1943 | Alan Rudolph, American director and screenwriter |
| 1944 | Crispian Steele-Perkins, English trumpet player and educator |
| 1945 | Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| 1946 | Steve Biko, South African activist, founded the Black Consciousness Movement (d. 1977) |
| 1946 | Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks |
| 1947 | Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian author and screenwriter |
| 1948 | Bill Nelson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1948 | Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor and painter |
| 1948 | Laurent Voulzy, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1949 | David A. Johnston, American volcanologist and geologist (d. 1980) |
| 1950 | Gillian Armstrong, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 1950 | Randy Castillo, American drummer and songwriter (d. 2002) |
| 1950 | Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lankan general and politician |
| 1950 | Lizmark, Mexican wrestler (d. 2015) |
| 1950 | Leonard Maltin, American historian, author, and critic |
| 1951 | Bobby Jones, American basketball player |
| 1952 | John Leventhal, American songwriter and producer |
| 1953 | Elliot Easton, American guitarist and singer |
| 1953 | Kevin Beattie, English footballer (d. 2018) |
| 1954 | John Booth, English race car driver |
| 1954 | Ray Liotta, American actor (d. 2022) |
| 1954 | Willi Wülbeck, German runner |
| 1955 | Vijay Mallya, Indian businessman and politician |
| 1955 | Bogusław Mamiński, Polish runner |
| 1957 | Jonathan Cainer, English astrologer and author (d. 2016) |
| 1958 | Geordie Walker, English guitarist |
| 1958 | Julia Wolfe, American composer and educator |
| 1960 | Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist and academic |
| 1960 | Naoko Yamano, Japanese singer, guitarist and composer |
| 1961 | Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater and coach |
| 1961 | Leila Steinberg, American singer, producer, author, and poet |
| 1961 | Daniel S. Loeb, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Third Point Management |
| 1961 | Lalchand Rajput, former Indian cricketer |
| 1963 | Karl Dorrell, American football player and coach |
| 1963 | Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundian soldier and politician, President of Burundi (d. 2020) |
| 1963 | Charles Oakley, American basketball player and coach |
| 1963 | Brad Pitt, American actor and producer |
| 1964 | Stone Cold Steve Austin, American wrestler and producer |
| 1964 | Don Beebe, American football player and coach |
| 1965 | Shawn Christian, American actor, director, and screenwriter |
| 1965 | Manuel Peña Escontrela, Spanish footballer (d. 2012) |
| 1966 | Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian footballer and sportscaster |
| 1967 | Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch journalist |
| 1967 | Mille Petrozza, German singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1968 | Mario Basler, German footballer and manager |
| 1968 | Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress |
| 1968 | Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1968 | Casper Van Dien, American actor and producer |
| 1969 | Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer |
| 1969 | Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager (d. 2019) |
| 1969 | Akira Iida, Japanese race car driver |
| 1970 | DMX, American rapper and actor (d. 2021) |
| 1970 | Lucious Harris, American basketball player |
| 1970 | Giannis Ploutarhos, Greek singer-songwriter |
| 1970 | Rob Van Dam, American wrestler |
| 1970 | Jonathan Yeo, English painter |
| 1970 | Norman Brown, American singer and guitarist |
| 1971 | Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist |
| 1971 | Noriko Matsueda, Japanese pianist and composer |
| 1971 | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player and sportscaster |
| 1972 | Anzhela Balakhonova, Ukrainian pole vaulter |
| 1972 | Raymond Herrera, American drummer and songwriter |
| 1973 | Fatuma Roba, Ethiopian runner |
| 1974 | Peter Boulware, American football player and politician |
| 1974 | Knut Schreiner, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer |
| 1975 | Sia, Australian singer-songwriter |
| 1975 | Randy Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1975 | Trish Stratus, Canadian wrestler and actress |
| 1977 | José Acevedo, Dominican baseball player |
| 1977 | Claudia Gesell, German runner |
| 1977 | Axwell, Swedish DJ, record producer, member of Swedish House Mafia |
| 1978 | Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1978 | Ali Curtis, American soccer player |
| 1978 | Josh Dallas, American actor |
| 1978 | Katie Holmes, American actress |
| 1980 | Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress |
| 1980 | Neil Fingleton, English actor and basketball player, one of the tallest 25 men in the world (d. 2017) |
| 1980 | Benjamin Watson, American football player |
| 1983 | Andy Fantuz, Canadian football player |
| 1984 | Brian Boyle, American ice hockey player |
| 1984 | Paul Harrison, English footballer |
| 1984 | Giuliano Razzoli, Italian skier |
| 1984 | Derrick Tribbett, American bass player and singer |
| 1986 | François Hamelin, Canadian speed skater |
| 1986 | Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-Australian cricketer |
| 1987 | Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater |
| 1988 | Lizzie Deignan, English cyclist |
| 1988 | Seth Doege, American football player |
| 1988 | Brianne Theisen-Eaton, Canadian heptathlete |
| 1988 | Imad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer |
| 1989 | Ashley Benson, American actress and singer |
| 1990 | Sierra Kay, American singer-songwriter |
| 1990 | Victor Hedman, Swedish ice hockey defenceman |
| 1991 | Marcus Butler, English internet celebrity |
| 1992 | Bridgit Mendler, American singer, songwriter and actress |
| 1992 | Ryan Crouser, American shot putter |
| 1993 | Byron Buxton, American baseball player |
| 1993 | Thomas Lam, Finnish professional football defender |
| 1994 | Natália Kelly, American-Austrian singer |
| 1994 | Gerard Gumbau, Spanish professional footballer |
| 1995 | Barbora Krejčíková, Czech tennis player |
| 1997 | Ronald Acuña Jr., Venezuelan baseball player |
| 2000 | Korapat Kirdpan, Thai actor and singer |
| 2000 | Travon Walker, American football player |
| 2001 | Billie Eilish, American singer |
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