February 18 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 18, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#251 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 18 birthdays
Ramakrishna · Indian mystic and religious preacher1836
Ernst Mach · Austrian physicist1838
Enzo Ferrari · Italian racing driver and entrepreneur1898
Jack Palance · American actor1919
George Kennedy · American actor1925
Toni Morrison · African American novelist, essayist, and academic1931
Miloš Forman · Czech American director, screenwriter, and professor1932
Yoko Ono · Japanese artist and activist based in the United States1933
Bobby Robson · English association football player and manager1933
Audre Lorde · American writer and feminist activist1934
Cybill Shepherd · American actress1950
John Hughes · American filmmaker1950
John Travolta · American actor1954
Matt Dillon · American actor1964
Dr. Dre · American rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor1965
Roberto Baggio · Italian association football player1967
Molly Ringwald · American actress and writer1968
Gary Neville · English football pundit and former playe1975
Igor Dodon · 5th President of Moldova from 2016 until 20201975
Regina Spektor · American musician1980
On this day in history
1946President Harry S. Truman signed the Rescission Act, annulling benefits payable to Filipino troops who fought for the U.S. during World War II.
1977NASA's first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, made its first test flight on top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (both pictured).
2001American FBI agent Robert Hanssen was arrested for having spied for the KGB and GRU over a 22-year period.
2021Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully.
1885Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
1943The core members of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group, were arrested by the Gestapo.
2010WikiLeaks published the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by Chelsea Manning.
2013Eight gunmen stole US$50,000,000 worth of diamonds from a Swiss-bound aircraft at Brussels Airport.
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