July 18 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 18, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#23 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 18 birthdays
William Makepeace Thackeray · British novelist1811
Hendrik Lorentz · Dutch physicist1853
Lev Kamenev · Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician1883
Nelson Mandela · President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist1918
John Glenn · American astronaut and politician1921
Thomas Kuhn · American historian, physicist and philosopher1922
Hunter S. Thompson · American journalist and author1937
Roald Hoffmann · Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwright1937
Paul Verhoeven · Dutch film director1938
James Brolin · American actor1940
Peter Mutharika · President of Malawi1940
Richard Branson · British business magnate1950
Elio Di Rupo · Belgian politician1951
Vin Diesel · American actor1967
Elizabeth Gilbert · American writer1969
Daron Malakian · Armenian-American rock musician1975
Kristen Bell · American actress1980
Priyanka Chopra · Indian actress1982
Chace Crawford · American actor1985
Noah Lyles · American sprinter1997
On this day in history
1899Newsboys from Long Island City turned over a distribution wagon for the New York Journal, marking the start of the Newsboys' strike of 1899.
1995Selena's album Dreaming of You, instrumental in popularizing Tejano music, was posthumously released.
2013The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
2014The conviction of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had been found guilty of paying for an underage prostitute, was overturned on appeal.
1936Nationalist rebels attempted a coup against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.
1968Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1976At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci became the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 for her routine on the uneven bars.
1984Parts of the dismembered body of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa were found in Stockholm.
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