September 18 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 18, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#7 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 18 birthdays
Léon Foucault · French physicist1819
Greta Garbo · Swedish-American actress1905
Edwin McMillan · American physicist1907
Viktor Ambartsumian · Soviet Armenian astrophysicist1908
Fred Willard · American actor and comedian1933
Wolfgang Schäuble · German politician and statesman1942
John McAfee · British-American programmer and businessman1945
Steven Pinker · Canadian-American cognitive psychologist1954
Joshua Angrist · Israeli-American economist1960
James Gandolfini · American actor1961
Anna Netrebko · Russian and Austrian operatic soprano1971
Lance Armstrong · Cyclist from the United States1971
Jada Pinkett Smith · American actress1971
James Marsden · American actor1973
Mark Shuttleworth · South African entrepreneur1973
Xzibit · American rapper and actor1974
Jason Sudeikis · American actor and comedian1975
Alison Lohman · American actress1979
Junichi Inamoto · Japanese association football player1979
Christian Pulisic · American soccer player1998
On this day in history
1850The United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, decreeing that all escaped slaves be brought back to their masters.
1851The New York Times, the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, was founded.
1873Panic of 1873: The American bank Jay Cooke & Company declared bankruptcy, setting off a chain reaction of bank failures.
1964The wedding of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark took place in Athens.
1924The U.S. ends its military occupation of the Dominican Republic, after invading in May 1916 to force the Dominican government to pay its debts to European creditors.
1947The National Security Act reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services.
1948The Australian cricket team's Invincibles tour of England concluded; they had played 34 matches, including five Tests, without defeat.
1950Korean War: The Korean People's Army retreated from the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter after six weeks of fighting, marking the farthest that the KPA would advance in the war.
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