August 18 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 18, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#86 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 18 birthdays
Franz Joseph I · Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary1830
Shelley Winters · American actress1920
Alain Robbe-Grillet · French author and film director1922
Rosalynn Carter · First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 19811927
Luc Montagnier · French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology1932
Roman Polanski · French-Polish filmmaker1933
Just Fontaine · French football player and manager1933
Robert Redford · American actor and director1936
Patrick Swayze · American actor, producer, singer and dancer1952
Carole Bouquet · French actress1957
Madeleine Stowe · American actress1958
Felipe Calderón · 63th President of Mexico1962
Edward Norton · American actor1969
Christian Slater · American actor and producer1969
Timothy Snyder · American historian1969
Andy Samberg · American comedian and actor1978
Steve Chen · Chinese-American businessman1978
Esteban Cambiasso · Argentine association football player1980
Mika · British-Lebanese musician, singer and songwriter1983
Renato Sanches · Portuguese association football player1997
On this day in history
1864American Civil War: At the Battle of Globe Tavern, Union forces attempted to sever the Weldon Railroad during the siege of Petersburg.
1877American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos, the smaller one.
1920The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country.
2008Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf resigned under pressure from a movement to impeach him.
1958Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1963Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1965Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1983Hurricane Alicia made landfall near Galveston, Texas, causing $3 billion in damage and 21 fatalities.
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