December 18 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 18, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#38 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 18 birthdays
J. J. Thomson · British physicist1856
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria · Heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary1863
Willy Brandt · German politician1913
Harold E. Varmus · American scientist1939
Keith Richards · British musician, guitarist of the Rolling Stones1943
Steven Spielberg · American filmmaker1946
Steve Biko · South African anti-apartheid activist1946
Ray Liotta · American actor1954
Yoon Suk Yeol · President of South Korea from 2022 to 20251960
James Sie · American actor1962
Brad Pitt · American actor1963
Stone Cold Steve Austin · American professional wrestler and actor1964
Pierre Nkurunziza · President of Burundi from 2005 to 20201964
DMX · American rapper and actor1970
Sia · Australian singer and songwriter1975
Katie Holmes · American actress1978
Christina Aguilera · American singer, songwriter and actress1980
Ashley Benson · American actress1989
Bridgit Mendler · American actress and singer1992
Billie Eilish · American singer-songwriter2001
On this day in history
1913The Jew's Christmas, the first American film to include a rabbi as a character, was released.
1932Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified American football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in the first playoff game of the National Football League.
1958The United States launched SCORE (rocket pictured), the world's first communications satellite.
1996The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial resolution officially declaring African-American Vernacular English to be a separate language or dialect.
1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth James Bond film and the only one to star George Lazenby, premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.
1999NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
2019The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time.
2023A series of mass protests began in Belgrade, Serbia, alleging electoral irregularities in the Serbian parliament and Belgrade city assembly elections.
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