Famous Birthdays for February 18th

Pre-1600[edit]

• 1201 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (d. 1274)
• 1372 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (d. 1448)
• 1486 – Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Indian monk and saint (d. 1534)
• 1516 – Mary I of England (d. 1558)^[8]
• 1530 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyō (d. 1578)
• 1543 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)^[9]
• 1547 – Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (d. 1621)
• 1559 – Isaac Casaubon, Swiss philologist and scholar (d. 1614)^[10]
• 1589 – Henry Vane the Elder, English politician (d. 1655)
• 1589 – Maarten Gerritsz Vries, Dutch explorer (d. 1646)

1601–1900[edit]

• 1602 – Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (d. 1680)
• 1602 – Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Italian painter (d. 1660)^[11]
• 1609 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1674)
• 1626 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician (d. 1697)
• 1632 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1692)
• 1642 – Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
• 1658 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French philosopher and author (d. 1743)
• 1732 – Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer (d. 1809)
• 1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827)
• 1754 – Emanuel Granberg, Finnish church painter (d. 1797)^[12]
• 1814 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (d. 1900)
• 1817 – Lewis Armistead, American general (d. 1863)
• 1818 – John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (d. 1883)^[13]
• 1836 – Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi (d. 1886)
• 1838 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
• 1846 – Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager (d. 1904)
• 1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (d. 1933)
• 1849 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician (d. 1906)
• 1850 – George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (d. 1934)
• 1855 – Jean Jules Jusserand, French historian, author, and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (d. 1932)
• 1860 – Anders Zorn, Swedish artist (d. 1920)
• 1862 – Charles M. Schwab, American businessman, co-founded Bethlehem Steel (d. 1939)
• 1867 – Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer (d. 1950)
• 1870 – William Laurel Harris, American painter and author (d. 1924)
• 1871 – Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
• 1883 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright (d. 1957)
• 1885 – Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1954)
• 1893 – Maksim Haretski, Belarusian prose writer, journalist and activist (d. 1938)
• 1890 – Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1890 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)
• 1892 – Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1944)
• 1896 – Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (d. 1970)
• 1898 – Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet and politician, 1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (d. 1980)
• 1899 – Arthur Bryant, English historian and journalist (d. 1985)

1901–present[edit]

• 1903 – Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (d. 1983)
• 1906 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician and academic (d. 1980)
• 1909 – Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Phyllis Calvert, English actress (d. 2002)^[14]
• 1919 – Jack Palance, American boxer and actor (d. 2006)
• 1920 – Rolande Falcinelli, French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Mary Amdur, American toxicologist and public health researcher (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian pianist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1997)^[15]
• 1922 – Helen Gurley Brown, American journalist and author (d. 2012)^[16]
• 1922 – Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (d. 1995)^[17]
• 1925 – George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016)^[18]
• 1926 – Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (d. 1976)
• 1927 – Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Len Deighton, English historian and author
• 1929 – André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1968)
• 1931 – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist, co-created The Wizard of Id (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019).^[19]
• 1932 – Miloš Forman, Czech-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2018)^[20]
• 1933 – Yoko Ono, Japanese-American multimedia artist and musician^[21]
• 1933 – Bobby Robson, English international footballer and international manager (d. 2009)^[22]
• 1933 – Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (d. 1975)
• 1934 – Audre Lorde, American writer and activist (d. 1992)^[23]
• 1939 – Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist and academic (d. 1996)
• 1940 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
• 1940 – Prue Leith, English restaurateur and journalist
• 1946 – Michael Buerk, English journalist
• 1950 – Nana Amba Eyiaba I, Ghanaian queen mother and advocate^[24]
• 1950 – John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1951 – Queen Komal of Nepal
• 1951 – Isabel Preysler, Filipino-Spanish journalist
• 1952 – Randy Crawford, American jazz and R&B singer
• 1952 – Juice Newton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 – Charlie Fowler, American mountaineer, author, and photographer (d. 2006)
• 1954 – John Travolta, American actor, singer and producer^[25]
• 1955 – Lisa See, American writer and novelist^[26]
• 1957 – Marita Koch, German sprinter^[27]
• 1960 – Greta Scacchi, Italian-Australian actress^[28]
• 1967 – Roberto Baggio, Italian international footballer
• 1967 – Colin Jackson, Welsh sprinter and hurdler^[29]
• 1968 – Molly Ringwald, American actress^[30]
• 1970 – James H. Fowler, American political scientist and author
• 1971 – Thomas Bjørn, Danish golfer
• 1974 – Carrie Ann Baade, American painter and academic
• 1974 – Radek Černý, Czech international footballer^[31]
• 1974 – Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmentalist and author
• 1974 – Leilani Maaja Münter, American environmental activist and former professional race car driver^[32]
• 1975 – Gary Neville, English international footballer
• 1982 – Christian Tiffert, German footballer
• 1983 – Jermaine Jenas, English international footballer^[33]
• 1990 – Monica Aksamit, American Olympic saber fencer^[34]
• 1991 – Sebastian Neumann, German footballer