November 18 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 18, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#207 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 18 birthdays
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld · Finland Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer1832
Frances Marion · American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter1888
Patrick Blackett · British physicist1897
George Wald · American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate1906
Klaus Mann · German writer1906
Alan Shepard · American astronaut, first American in space, lunar explorer1923
Eldar Ryazanov · Soviet and Russian film director1927
Margaret Atwood · Canadian poet1939
John O'Keefe · American British neuroscientist1939
Brenda Vaccaro · American actress1939
Qaboos bin Said · Sultan of Oman from 1970 to 20201940
Mahinda Rajapaksa · President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 20151945
Alan Moore · British comic book author1953
Kim Wilde · English pop singer1960
Kirk Hammett · American guitarist1962
Peter Schmeichel · Danish association football player1963
Owen Wilson · American actor1968
Mike Epps · American actor, musician and comedian1970
Chloë Sevigny · American actress1974
Allyson Felix · American track and field athlete1985
On this day in history
1865"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, becoming the first great success of American author Mark Twain.
1872American suffragist Susan B. Anthony was arrested and later fined $100 for having voted in the presidential election two weeks earlier.
2003With its ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made the state the first in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriage.
2017Cyclone Numa, a rare "medicane", made landfall in Greece to become the worst weather event that the country had experienced since 1977.
1991The current flag of Uzbekistan was adopted, making the country the first newly independent republic in Central Asia to choose a new flag.
1993In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives.
2011The sandbox video game Minecraft exited beta with the official release of version 1.0.
2013NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
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