January 18 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 18, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#221 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 18 birthdays
Rubén Darío · Nicaraguan poet1867
A. A. Milne · British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh1882
Oliver Hardy · American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy1892
Cary Grant · British-American actor1904
Yoichiro Nambu · American theoretical physicist1921
Gilles Deleuze · French philosopher1925
Chun Doo-hwan · 11th and 12th President of the Republic of Korea1931
Anthony Giddens · British sociologist1938
Alexander Van der Bellen · President of Austria since 20171944
Takeshi Kitano · Japanese film director1947
Kevin Costner · American actor1955
Dave Bautista · American actor and former professional wrestler1969
Pep Guardiola · Spanish association football manager and player1971
Jonathan Davis · American singer1971
Leo Varadkar · Taoiseach from 2017 to 2020, and from 2022 to 20241979
Roberta Metsola · President of the European Parliament since 20221979
Jason Segel · American actor1980
Makoto Hasebe · Japanese association football player1984
Angelique Kerber · German tennis player1988
Nacho · Spanish association football player1990
On this day in history
1958Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, becoming the first black Canadian to compete in the NHL.
1969In response to months of nationwide student protests, thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo.
1990In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry, the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
2025The popular social media app, TikTok, is banned in the United States, after the passing of PAFACA.
1915Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.
1932The Alt Llobregat insurrection began with a miners' strike in Fígols and quickly spreads throughout central Catalonia.
1943World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege of the city.
1951Construction of the United Nations Military Cemetery began in Busan, South Korea.
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