Celebrating Today’s Famous Birthdays: 18th November – A Tribute to Remarkable Individuals
Welcome, dear readers! It brings me great joy to present a heartfelt tribute to the remarkable individuals born on this significant date. Today, we commemorate the birth anniversary of a diverse array of extraordinary personalities who have left an indelible mark on the world.
| Year | Person |
|---|---|
| 1417 | Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (d. 1480) |
| 1464 | Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526) |
| 1503 | Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1547) |
| 1563 | Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English poet and politician (d. 1626) |
| 1597 | Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (d. 1660) |
| 1600 | Charles I of England (d. 1649) |
| 1600 | Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 1669) |
| 1617 | Eustache Le Sueur, French painter and educator (d. 1655) |
| 1700 | Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physicist (d. 1770) |
| 1711 | Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1765) |
| 1722 | Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809) |
| 1722 | Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810) |
| 1752 | George Rogers Clark, American general (d. 1818) |
| 1770 | Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor and academic (d. 1844) |
| 1802 | Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (d. 1866) |
| 1805 | Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal (d. 1894) |
| 1808 | Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian journalist, physician, and politician (d. 1881) |
| 1812 | Karl Schwarz, German theologian and politician (d. 1885) |
| 1828 | Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (d. 1858) |
| 1831 | James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881) |
| 1833 | Wilhelm Dilthey, German psychologist, sociologist, and historian (d. 1911) |
| 1834 | Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (d. 1924) |
| 1843 | Richard Avenarius, German-Swiss philosopher and academic (d. 1896) |
| 1843 | C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (d. 1914) |
| 1845 | Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (d. 1939) |
| 1859 | Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1935) |
| 1862 | Billy Sunday, American baseball player and evangelist (d. 1935) |
| 1875 | Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician, 1st Head of State of The Soviet Union (d. 1946) |
| 1876 | Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (d. 1964) |
| 1877 | Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (d. 1947) |
| 1879 | Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1957) |
| 1883 | Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1957) |
| 1887 | James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) |
| 1888 | José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban-American chess player and theologian (d. 1942) |
| 1889 | Clifton Webb, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1966) |
| 1892 | Thomas Clay, English footballer and coach (d. 1949) |
| 1892 | Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (d. 1970) |
| 1893 | René Voisin, French trumpet player (d. 1952) |
| 1894 | Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987) |
| 1895 | Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989) |
| 1895 | Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964) |
| 1897 | Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1918) |
| 1898 | Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924) |
| 1898 | Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist and academic (d. 2003) |
| 1899 | Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (d. 1992) |
| 1899 | Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979) |
| 1900 | Bunny Ahearne, Irish-English ice hockey player and manager (d. 1985) |
| 1900 | Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980) |
| 1900 | Anna Seghers, German author and politician (d. 1983) |
| 1901 | Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (d. 1961) |
| 1904 | Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (d. 1971) |
| 1905 | Eleanor Audley, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1905 | Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, composer and bandleader (The California Ramblers) (d. 1956) |
| 1906 | Franz Schädle, German SS officer (d. 1945) |
| 1907 | Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991) |
| 1909 | Peter Drucker, Austrian-American theorist, educator, and author (d. 2005) |
| 1910 | Adrian Conan Doyle, English race car driver, author, and explorer (d. 1970) |
| 1912 | Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop (d. 2015) |
| 1912 | George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008) |
| 1912 | Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author (d. 2014) |
| 1915 | Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974) |
| 1917 | Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (d. 1984) |
| 1919 | Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2006) |
| 1919 | Alan Young, English-Canadian actor, singer, and director (d. 2016) |
| 1920 | Gene Tierney, American actress and singer (d. 1991) |
| 1921 | Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (d. 1993) |
| 1921 | Peter Ruckman, American pastor and educator (d. 2016) |
| 1922 | Salil Chowdhury, Indian director, playwright, and composer (d. 1995) |
| 1922 | Yuri Knorozov, Ukrainian-Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer (d. 1999) |
| 1922 | Rajko Mitić, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2008) |
| 1923 | Louis D. Rubin, Jr., American author, critic, and academic (d. 2013) |
| 1924 | William Russell, English actor |
| 1924 | Knut Steen, Norwegian-Italian sculptor (d. 2011) |
| 1924 | Margaret Turner-Warwick, English physician and academic |
| 1925 | Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-English sociologist, historian, and academic (d. 2017) |
| 1926 | Jeane Kirkpatrick, American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006) |
| 1926 | Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (d. 2012) |
| 1926 | Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (d. 2011) |
| 1928 | Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (d. 2012) |
| 1929 | Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and scholar (d. 2004) |
| 1930 | Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player, referee, and sportscaster (d. 2011) |
| 1932 | Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (d. 2009) |
| 1933 | Larry King, American journalist and talk show host |
| 1933 | Jerry Sheindlin, American judge and author |
| 1934 | Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer and scout |
| 1934 | Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2011) |
| 1934 | David Lloyd-Jones, English conductor |
| 1935 | Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and scholar (d. 1990) |
| 1935 | Jack Welch, American engineer, businessman, and author |
| 1936 | Dick Cavett, American actor and talk show host |
| 1936 | Ray Collins, American singer (d. 2012) |
| 1936 | Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 1937 | Penelope Leach, English psychologist and author |
| 1938 | Frank Misson, Australian cricketer |
| 1938 | Ted Turner, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Turner Broadcasting System |
| 1939 | Emil Constantinescu, Romanian academic and politician, 3rd President of Romania |
| 1939 | Tom Harkin, American commander, lawyer, and politician |
| 1939 | Jane Mansbridge, American political scientist and academic |
| 1939 | Richard Zare, American chemist and academic |
| 1940 | Gary Gruber, author and expert on test-prep |
| 1941 | Dan Haggerty, American actor and producer (d. 2016) |
| 1941 | Tommy Thompson, American captain and politician, 19th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services |
| 1942 | Roland Clift, English engineer and academic |
| 1942 | Larry Gilbert, American golfer (d. 1998) |
| 1942 | Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc. |
| 1942 | Sharon Olds, American poet and academic |
| 1943 | Fred Lipsius, American saxophonist and educator |
| 1943 | Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-American baseball player and manager (d. 1990) |
| 1944 | Agnes Baltsa, Greek soprano and actress |
| 1944 | Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster |
| 1945 | Hans Monderman, Dutch engineer (d. 2008) |
| 1945 | Bobby Tolan, American baseball player and manager |
| 1947 | Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager |
| 1947 | Anfinn Kallsberg, Faroese politician, 10th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands |
| 1947 | Lamar S. Smith, American lawyer and politician |
| 1949 | Raymond Blanc, French chef and author |
| 1949 | Ahmad Rashād, American football player and sportscaster |
| 1950 | Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian chess player |
| 1951 | Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain |
| 1952 | Stephen Soldz, American psychoanalyst and activist |
| 1953 | Robert Beltran, American actor |
| 1953 | Alexander O’Neal, American R&B singer-songwriter |
| 1954 | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egyptian field marshal and politician, 6th President of Egypt |
| 1954 | Réjean Lemelin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| 1954 | Kathleen Quinlan, American actress |
| 1955 | Sam Hamm, American screenwriter and producer |
| 1956 | Peter Carter, English diplomat, British Ambassador to Estonia (d. 2014) |
| 1956 | Eileen Collins, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut |
| 1956 | Ann Curry, Guamanian-American journalist |
| 1956 | Glynnis O’Connor, American actress |
| 1958 | Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (d. 2007) |
| 1958 | Algirdas Butkevičius, Lithuanian sergeant and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Lithuania |
| 1958 | Terrence C. Carson, American actor and singer |
| 1958 | Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian, author, and academic |
| 1958 | Charlie Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 1958 | Michael Wilbon, American sportscaster and journalist |
| 1959 | Robert Barron, American bishop, author, and theologian |
| 1959 | Jo Bonner, American U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 1st congressional district |
| 1959 | Allison Janney, American actress |
| 1960 | Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003) |
| 1960 | Matt Sorum, American drummer, songwriter, and producer |
| 1961 | Jim L. Mora, American football player and coach |
| 1961 | Meg Ryan, American actress and producer |
| 1962 | Jodie Foster, American actress, director, and producer |
| 1962 | Sean Parnell, American lawyer and politician, 12th Governor of Alaska |
| 1962 | Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Filipino boxer and trainer |
| 1963 | Terry Farrell, American actress |
| 1963 | Jon Potter, English-American field hockey player |
| 1964 | Fred Diamond, American-English mathematician and academic |
| 1964 | Vincent Herring, American saxophonist and flute player |
| 1964 | Phil Hughes, Irish footballer and coach |
| 1964 | Jung Jin-young, South Korean actor |
| 1964 | Irina Laricheva, Russian target shooter |
| 1964 | Eric Musselman, American basketball player and coach |
| 1964 | Nicholas Patrick, English-American engineer and astronaut |
| 1964 | Peter Rohde, Australian footballer and coach |
| 1964 | Tony Ryall, New Zealand banker and politician, 38th New Zealand Minister of Health |
| 1964 | Ronnie Sinclair, Scottish footballer and coach |
| 1964 | Crystal Waters, American singer-songwriter |
| 1964 | Alfredo Zaiat, Argentine economist and journalist |
| 1964 | Shawn Holman, American baseball pitcher |
| 1965 | Laurent Blanc, French footballer and manager |
| 1965 | Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor |
| 1965 | Jason Pierce, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Spiritualized and Spacemen 3) |
| 1965 | Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, Brazilian cryptographer and academic |
| 1965 | Paul Weitz, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright |
| 1966 | Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi and author |
| 1966 | Gail Devers, American sprinter and hurdler |
| 1966 | Rocco DiSpirito, American chef and author |
| 1966 | Kakhaber Kacharava, Georgian footballer and manager |
| 1966 | Jason Scott Lee, American actor and martial artist |
| 1967 | Randi Kaye, American journalist |
| 1969 | Philippe Adams, Belgian race car driver |
| 1969 | Erika Alexander, American actress and screenwriter |
| 1969 | Ertuğrul Sağlam, Turkish footballer and coach |
| 1969 | Richard Virenque, Moroccan-French cyclist and sportscaster |
| 1971 | Justin Chancellor, English bass player |
| 1971 | Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer |
| 1971 | Naoko Mori, Japanese-English actress and singer |
| 1971 | Alice Peacock, American singer-songwriter |
| 1971 | Tony Rich, American R&B singer-songwriter and musician |
| 1972 | Sandrine Holt, English-American model and actress |
| 1973 | Billy Currington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1973 | Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer |
| 1973 | Django Haskins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1974 | Arun Vijay, Indian actor and singer |
| 1975 | Toby Bailey, American basketball player and agent |
| 1975 | Sushmita Sen, Indian actress, model and Miss Universe 1994 |
| 1976 | Jack Dorsey, American businessman, co-founded Twitter |
| 1976 | Robin Dunne, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter |
| 1976 | Jun Shibata, Japanese singer-songwriter |
| 1976 | Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player |
| 1976 | Stylianos Venetidis, Greek footballer and manager |
| 1977 | Kerri Strug, American gymnast and runner |
| 1978 | Dries Buytaert, Belgian computer programmer, founded Acquia |
| 1978 | Matt Dusk, Canadian singer |
| 1978 | Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech discus thrower and shot putter |
| 1979 | Keith Buckley, American singer-songwriter |
| 1979 | Mahé Drysdale, New Zealand rower |
| 1979 | John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player |
| 1979 | Ryan Howard, American baseball player |
| 1979 | Larry Johnson, American football player |
| 1979 | Leam Richardson, English footballer and manager |
| 1980 | Courtney Anderson, American football player |
| 1980 | Andrew Copson, English businessman |
| 1980 | Otis Grigsby, American football player |
| 1980 | Vladimir Radmanović, Serbian basketball player |
| 1981 | Marcus Banks, American basketball player |
| 1981 | André Lotterer, German race car driver |
| 1981 | Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, Argentine rugby player |
| 1981 | DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, and songwriter |
| 1981 | Mark Wallace, Welsh-English cricketer |
| 1983 | Chandra Crawford, Canadian skier |
| 1983 | Adam Driver, American actor |
| 1983 | Daria Werbowy, Polish-Canadian model |
| 1984 | Dawid Kucharski, Polish footballer |
| 1984 | Brittany Maynard, American activist (d. 2014) |
| 1984 | Janus del Prado, Filipino actor |
| 1985 | Chris Eagles, English footballer |
| 1985 | Alex Mack, American football player |
| 1986 | Sam Betty, English rugby player |
| 1986 | Jeannie Ortega, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress |
| 1986 | Michael Saunders, Canadian baseball player |
| 1986 | Jessicah Schipper, Australian swimmer |
| 1986 | Veronica Scott, American fashion designer, co-founded Fuchsia Clothing |
| 1986 | Milan Smiljanić, Serbian footballer |
| 1987 | Sílvia Soler Espinosa, Spanish tennis player |
| 1988 | Timo Eichfuss, Estonian basketball player |
| 1988 | Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player |
| 1989 | John McCarthy, Australian footballer (d. 2012) |
| 1989 | Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper |
| 1989 | Tyga, American rapper |
| 1990 | Marquise Goodwin, American football player |
| 1990 | John Moore, American ice hockey player |
| 1990 | Benedikt Schmid, German footballer |
| 1991 | Marina Marković, Serbian basketball player |
| 1991 | Fabien Antunes, French footballer |
| 1991 | Genki Yamamoto, Japanese professional racing cyclist |
| 1993 | Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer |
| 1993 | Suso, Spanish footballer |
| 1994 | Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer |
| 1995 | Vanessa Axente, Hungarian model |
| 1999 | Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater |
As we come to the end of this tribute to today’s famous birthdays, let us carry forward the inspiration and lessons gleaned from these exceptional individuals. Their journeys remind us that with determination, passion, and resilience, we can leave our own unique imprint on the world. May their stories serve as a guiding light, igniting the spark within each of us to pursue greatness and make a positive impact.
Stay tuned for more insightful posts dedicated to celebrating the lives and contributions of notable personalities. Their stories continue to resonate and inspire, shaping the course of history and leaving an unforgettable legacy for generations to come. Until next time, may the spirit of these extraordinary individuals continue to guide and inspire you on your own remarkable journey.
