October 18 Births

Published : 18 Oct 2018, 14:52

Jagoroniya Desk

October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of the year.

Births
1127 – Go-Shirakawa, Japanese emperor (d. 1192)
1130 – Zhu Xi, Chinese philosopher (d. 1200)
1405 – Pius II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1464)
1444 – John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English nobleman (d. 1476)
1482 – Philipp III, count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1538)
1517 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (d. 1570)
1523 – Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1596)
1536 – William Lambarde, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1601)
1547 – Justus Lipsius, Belgian philologist and scholar (d. 1606)
1553 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (d. 1599)
1587 – Lady Mary Wroth, English poet (d. 1651)
1596 – Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (d. 1655)
1616 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist (d. 1654)
1630 – Henry Powle, English politician (d. 1692)
1634 – Luca Giordano, Italian painter and illustrator (d. 1705)
1653 – Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Dutch merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
1662 – Matthew Henry, Welsh minister and scholar (d. 1714)
1663 – Eugene of Savoy, Austrian prince and statesman (d. 1736)
1668 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
1701 – Charles le Beau, French historian and author (d. 1778)
1706 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1785)
1741 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
1777 – Heinrich von Kleist, German author and poet (d. 1811)
1785 – Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (d. 1866)
1792 – Lucas Alamán, Mexican politician and historian (d. 1853)
1804 – Mongkut, Thai king (d. 1868)
1818 – Francis Dutton, German-Australian politician, 7th Premier of South Australia (d. 1877)
1822 – Midhat Pasha, Ottoman civil servant and politician, 238th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1883)
1831 – Frederick III, German emperor (d. 1888)
1836 – Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (d. 1911)
1850 – Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (d. 1935)
1854 – Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
1859 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1862 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (d. 1952)
1865 – Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist and author (d. 1957)
1865 – Logan Pearsall Smith, American-English author and critic (d. 1946)
1868 – Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
1870 – D. T. Suzuki, Japanese author and scholar (d. 1966)
1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet and author (d. 1936)
1873 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
1874 – Christine Murrell, English medical doctor, first female member of the British Medical Association's Central Council (d. 1933)
1875 – Len Braund, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1955)
1878 – James Truslow Adams, American historian and author (d. 1949)
1880 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-Russian general, journalist, and theorist (d. 1940)
1881 – Max Gerson, German-born American physician (d. 1959)
1882 – Lucien Petit-Breton, French cyclist (d. 1917)
1887 – Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (d. 1946)
1888 – Paul Vermoyal, French actor (d. 1925)
1893 – Sidney Holland, New Zealand lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1961)
1893 – George Ohsawa, Japanese philosopher and academic (d. 1966)
1894 – H. L. Davis, American author and poet (d. 1960)
1894 – Tibor Déry, Hungarian author and translator (d. 1977)
1897 – Isabel Briggs Myers, American theorist and author (d. 1980)
1898 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
1900 – Sarah Bavly, Dutch-Israeli nutritionist, author and educator (d. 1993)
1900 – Evelyn Berckman, American author, known for her detective and Gothic horror novels (d. 1978)
1902 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist (d. 1980)
1903 – Lina Radke, German runner and coach (d. 1983)
1904 – A. J. Liebling, American journalist and author (d. 1963)
1904 – Haim Shirman, Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1981)
1905 – Jan Gies, Dutch activist (d. 1993)
1905 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 1993)
1906 – James Brooks, American painter and educator (d. 1992)
1909 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2004)
1914 – Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)
1915 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)
1918 – Molly Geertsema, Dutch lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1991)
1918 – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek lawyer and politician, 178th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2017)
1918 – Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1999)
1919 – Ric Nordman, Canadian captain and politician (d. 1996)
1919 – Anita O'Day, American singer (d. 2006)
1919 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
1919 – Camilla Williams, American soprano and educator (d. 2012)
1920 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (d. 1994)
1921 – Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 2005)
1921 – Jesse Helms, American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2008)
1921 – Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972)
1923 – Jessie Mae Hemphill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
1924 – Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2014)
1925 – Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (d. 2011)
1926 – Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
1926 – Klaus Kinski, German-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1927 – Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1927 – George C. Scott, American actor and director (d. 1999)
1928 – Keith Jackson, American sportscaster and actor (d. 2018)
1928 – Maurice El Mediouni, Algerian pianist and composer
1928 – Dick Taverne, English lawyer and politician
1929 – Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan publisher and politician, President of Nicaragua
1929 – Hillard Elkins, American producer and manager (d. 2010)
1929 – Kees Fens, Dutch author and critic (d. 2008)
1930 – Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun, Scottish politician
1930 – Esther Hautzig, Lithuanian-American author (d. 2009)
1930 – Frank Carlucci, American politician (d. 2018)
1931 – Chris Albertson, Icelandic-American historian, journalist, and producer
1931 – Roger Climpson, English-Australian journalist
1931 – Ien Dales, Dutch civil servant and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (d. 1994)
1932 – Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian musicologist and politician
1933 – Forrest Gregg, American football player and coach
1933 – Irwin M. Jacobs, American electrical engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur
1933 – Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1968)
1934 – Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (d. 1970)
1935 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
1936 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal
1938 – Ronnie Bright, American R&B and doo-wop singer (d. 2015)
1938 – Robert Dove, American lawyer and politician
1938 – Dawn Wells, American model and actress, Miss Nevada 1959
1939 – Flavio Cotti, Swiss lawyer and politician, 82nd President of the Swiss Confederation
1939 – Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
1939 – Jan Erik Vold, Norwegian poet, author, and translator
1940 – Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
1940 – Talitha Getty, actress and model of Dutch extraction (d. 1971)
1941 – Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, English businessman
1941 – Martha Burk, American psychologist and author
1942 – Gianfranco Ravasi, Italian cardinal and scholar
1943 – Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1943 – Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish police officer and politician, Danish Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
1945 – Huell Howser, American television host and actor (d. 2013)
1945 – Chris Shays, American politician
1946 – James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1946 – Frank Beamer, American football player and coach
1946 – Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Welsh academic and politician
1946 – Howard Shore, Canadian composer, conductor, and producer
1947 – Paul Chuckle, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1947 – Job Cohen, Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
1947 – Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1997)
1947 – Gary Sullivan, Australian rugby league player
1947 – Luc Jouret, Belgian religious cult leader in Switzerland (d. 1994)
1948 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher, author, and academic
1948 – Ntozake Shange, American author, poet, and playwright
1949 – Joe Egan, Scottish singer-songwriter
1949 – George Hendrick, American baseball player and coach
1949 – Gary Richrath, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2015)
1950 – Om Puri, Indian actor (d. 2017)
1950 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright and author (d. 2006)
1951 – Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and coach
1951 – Pam Dawber, American actress and producer
1951 – Terry McMillan, American author and screenwriter
1951 – David Normington, English civil servant and politician
1951 – Nic Potter, English bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
1952 – Roy Dias, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
1952 – Paul Geroski, American-English economist and academic (d. 2005)
1952 – Chuck Lorre, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1952 – Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer and photographer
1952 – Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese soldier and author
1952 – Allen Ripley, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1952 – Jerry Royster, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1953 – Vickie Winans, American gospel music singer-songwriter and music producer
1954 – Nick Houghton, English general
1954 – Arliss Howard, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Jean-Pierre Hautier, Belgian journalist and television host (d. 2012)
1955 – Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1955 – Timmy Mallett, English radio and television host
1955 – Stu Mead, American painter and illustrator
1955 – David Twohy, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Rita Verdonk, Dutch journalist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice
1955 – Denis Watson, Zimbabwean golfer
1955 – Mark Welland, English physicist and academic
1956 – Craig Bartlett, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
1956 – Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player and coach
1956 – Jim Talent, American lawyer and politician
1957 – Jon Lindstrom, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1957 – Catherine Ringer, French singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1958 – Thomas Hearns, American boxer
1958 – Megumi Ishii, Japanese actress and politician
1958 – Kjell Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1959 – Kirby Chambliss, American pilot
1959 – Mauricio Funes, Salvadoran politician, former President of El Salvador
1959 – Milcho Manchevski, Macedonian-American director and screenwriter
1959 – John Nord, American wrestler
1960 – Erin Moran, American actress (d. 2017)
1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist, actor, and producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Wynton Marsalis, American trumpet player, composer, and educator
1961 – Rick Moody, American author and composer
1961 – Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer
1962 – Min Ko Naing, Burmese activist
1962 – Vincent Spano, American actor, director, and producer
1963 – Sigvart Dagsland, Norwegian singer, pianist and composer
1964 – Dan Lilker, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1964 – Charles Stross, English journalist, author, and programmer
1965 – Curtis Stigers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Zakir Naik, an Indian Islamic preacher; founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF)
1966 – Dave Price, American journalist and game show host
1966 – Sam Sorbo, American actress, author, and talk radio host
1967 – Eric Stuart, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
1968 – Rhod Gilbert, Welsh comedian
1968 – Stuart Law, Australian cricketer and coach
1968 – Michael Stich, German tennis player and sportscaster
1969 – Volker Neumüller, German talent manager
1969 – Nelson Vivas, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
1970 – Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player and coach
1970 – Mike Starink, Dutch television host and actor
1971 – Nick O'Hern, Australian golfer
1972 – Mark Morrison, West German-born British hip hop and R&B musician
1972 – Mika Ninagawa, Japanese photographer and director
1972 – Alex Tagliani, Canadian race car driver
1973 – Stephen Allan, Australian golfer
1973 – James Foley, American photographer and journalist (d. 2014)
1973 – Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
1973 – Rachel Nichols, American journalist and sportscaster
1973 – Sarah Winckless, English rower
1974 – Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer and sportscaster
1974 – Peter Svensson, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
1974 – Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
1974 – Amish Tripathi, Indian author
1975 – Alex Cora, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, sportscaster and manager
1975 – Josh Sawyer, American video game designer
1977 – Flavia Colgan, Brazilian-American journalist
1977 – Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand-American soccer player and coach
1977 – David Vuillemin, French motorcycle racer
1978 – Kunal Kapoor, Indian actor
1978 – Mike Tindall, English rugby player
1978 – Kenji Wu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
1979 – Damon Scott, British entertainer
1979 – Jaroslav Drobný, Czech footballer
1979 – Ne-Yo, American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor
1980 – Josh Gracin, American country music singer and former member of the United States Marine Corps
1980 – Birsen Yavuz, Turkish sprinter and hurdler
1981 – Nathan Hauritz, Australian cricketer
1981 – Tina Hergold, Slovenian tennis player
1981 – Greg Warren, American football player
1982 – Thierry Amiel, French singer-songwriter
1982 – Michael Dingsdag, Dutch footballer
1982 – Mark Sampson, Welsh footballer and manager
1982 – Simon Gotch, American wrestler
1983 – Dante, Brazilian footballer
1984 – Robert Harting, German discus thrower
1984 – Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model
1984 – Esperanza Spalding, American singer-songwriter and bassist
1984 – Lindsey Vonn, American skier
1984 – Milo Yiannopoulos, British journalist and public speaker
1985 – Yoenis Céspedes, Cuban baseball player
1985 – Andrew Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1986 – Wilma Elles, German actress and fashion designer
1987 – Zac Efron, American actor and singer
1987 – Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
1988 – Tessa Schram, Dutch director and actress
1989 – Laci Green, American YouTube personality, video blogger, sex educator, and activist
1989 – Riisa Naka, Japanese model and actress
1990 – Bristol Palin, American public speaker and reality television personality
1990 – Brittney Griner, American professional basketball player
1990 – Drew Crawford, American basketball player
1991 – Roly Bonevacia, Dutch footballer
1993 – Ivan Cavaleiro, Portuguese professional footballer
1991 – Tyler Posey, American actor and musician
1994 – Pascal Wehrlein, German-Mauritian Formula One driver

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