What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every August birthday · battle August 18 against another date · all rankings
Who shares August 18
Share of the 49 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1936–2025 · United States
Charles Robert Redford Jr. was an American actor, director, and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave.
U.S. Embassy photographer JP Evans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1933 · Poland
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański is a Polish and French filmmaker and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three British Academy Film Awards, ten César Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards as well as a Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1952–2009 · United States
Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, singer-songwriter and dancer. Known for his romantic, tough, and comedic roles in blockbusters and cult films, Swayze was nominated for three Golden Globes and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1997.
Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1969 · United States
Edward Harrison Norton is an American actor and filmmaker.
Max Surprenant, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1958 · United States
Madeleine Stowe is an American actress. She appeared mostly on television before her role in the 1987 crime-comedy film Stakeout.
Artists for Peace and Justice, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1978 · United States
David Andrew Jerome Samberg is an American actor, comedian, rapper, writer and producer. He is a member of the comedy music group the Lonely Island, along with childhood friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1988 · South Korea
Kwon Ji-yong, best known as G-Dragon (지드래곤), is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur.
K-POPIT 케이팝잇, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1978 · Taiwan
Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur who is a co-founder and ex-CTO of YouTube. After he co-founded AVOS Systems, Inc. and built MixBit, he joined Google Ventures in 2014.
TaiwanPlus, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1919–2010 · United States
Walter Joseph Hickel was an American businessman, real estate developer, and politician who served as the second governor of Alaska from 1966 to 1969 and 1990 to 1994, as well as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1969 to 1970.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1978 · Belarus
Sergei Leonidovich Tikhanovsky is a Belarusian YouTuber, video blogger, businessman, opposition leader and pro-democracy activist. He is primarily known for his activism against the government of Belarus's long-serving president, Alexander Lukashenko.
Roman Kubanskiy / MozgON, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1965 · Russia
Samvel Sargsi Karapetyan is an Armenian billionaire businessman and politician. He is the owner of Tashir Group conglomerate, with businesses spanning real estate, energy, construction, retail and infrastructure.
Entrepreneur
1912–2009 · Turkey
Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman Efendi, also known as Osman Ertuğrul Osmanoğlu with a surname as required by the Turkish Republic, was a prince of the Ottoman Empire and the 43rd Head of the Imperial House of Osman from 1994 until his death.
August 18 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1969 · United States
Christian Michael Leonard Slater is an American actor. He made his film debut with a leading role in The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) and gained wider recognition for his breakout role as Jason "J.D." Dean, a sociopathic high school student, in the satire Heathers (1989).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1983 · United States
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr., known professionally as Mika, is a Lebanese singer-songwriter based in Paris and London. Mika rose to prominence after the release of his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday (2006), which contained his debut single "Relax, Take It Easy".
DCDEB, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1971 · Ireland
Richard David James, known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, composer and DJ active in electronic music since 1988.
Blackphoenix94, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1750–1825 · Republic of Venice
Antonio Salieri was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg monarchy.
Joseph Willibrord Mähler, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1920–2006 · United States
Shelley Winters was an American actress, whose film career spanned seven decades. In 1943 she changed her name to Shelley, after her favorite poet, and Winter(s) taking her mother's maiden name.
Unknown authorUnknown author studio photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1933–2023 · France
Just Louis Fontaine was a French professional footballer who played as a striker. He holds the record for the most goals scored in a single FIFA World Cup, with thirteen in six matches at the 1958 tournament.
Panini, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1997 · Portugal
Renato Júnior Luz Sanches is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. He last played for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain.
Original: Steffen Prößdorf; Derivative work: FMSky, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1969 · United States
Timothy David Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust.
Jindřich Nosek (NoJin), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1774–1809 · United States
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark.
Charles Willson Peale, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1927–2023 · United States
Eleanor Rosalynn Carter was an American activist and humanitarian who served as the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981, as the wife of President Jimmy Carter, from their marriage from 1946 until her death in 2023.
File:Rose Carter, official color photo, 1977.jpg: White House derivative work: Hagar (User talk:Hagar), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1957 · France
Carole Bouquet is a French actress and model who has appeared in more than 60 films since 1977. She is perhaps best known for playing Bond girl Melina Havelock in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981).
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1900–1990 · India
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was an Indian freedom fighter, diplomat and politician. She served as the 8th President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1953 to 1954, the first woman and the only Indian to have been appointed to this post.
Bassano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1980 · Argentina
Esteban Matías Cambiasso Deleau, nicknamed "Cuchu", is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Ludovic Péron, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1984 · Germany
Robert Huth is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is a three-time Premier League winner and has made the most Premier League appearances (322) by a German player.
p_a_h, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1943 · Italy
Giovanni "Gianni" Rivera is an Italian politician and former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder for clubs Alessandria and AC Milan.
Rolls Press / Popperfoto / Getty Images, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
0985–1021 · Fatimid Caliphate
Abu Ali al-Mansur, better known by his regnal name al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, was the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam (996–1021).
Politician
1890–1960 · Germany
Walther Immanuel Funk was a German economist, Nazi official and convicted war criminal who served as Reichsminister for the Economy from 1938 to 1945 and president of the Reichsbank from 1939 to 1945.
Robert Röhr, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1985 · Costa Rica
Bryan Jafet Ruiz González is a Costa Rican former professional footballer. A left-footed attacking midfielder, he also played as a second striker.
Victor Araiza, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1932–2022 · France
Luc Montagnier was a French virologist and joint recipient, with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Creator
1925–2017 · United Kingdom
Brian Wilson Aldiss was an English writer, artist and anthology editor, best known for science-fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s.
Szymon Sokół, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1935–2020 · United States
Rafer Lewis Johnson was an American decathlete and film and television actor. He was the 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon, having won silver in 1956. He had previously won a gold at the 1955 Pan American Games.
Angelo Cozzi (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1922–2008 · France
Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon.
Jose Lara, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1980 · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Emir Spahić is a Bosnian football executive and former player who played as a centre-back. He is the current director of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.
Scientist
1685–1732 · Kingdom of England
Brook Taylor was an English mathematician and barrister best known for several results in mathematical analysis. Taylor's most famous developments are Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series, essential in the infinitesimal approach of functions in specific points.
Louis Goupy (died 1747), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1912–1985 · Italy
Elsa Morante was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and children's books author. Her novel La storia (History) is included in the Bokklubben World Library List of 100 Best Books of All Time.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Investor
1950 · United States
Robert Martin Friedland is an American-Canadian billionaire financier in the mining industry. Since the early 1980s, he has specialized in securing funding for the exploration and development of mineral and energy resources and technology ventures.
Musician
1957 · People's Republic of China
Tan Dun is a Chinese-born American composer and conductor. A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a pairing which has shaped much of his life and music.
en:User:Iluv2write at en.wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1919–2004 · United Kingdom
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was a British electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1906–1996 · France
Marcel Albert Carné was a French film director.
Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1911–1963 · Hungary
Klára Dán von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician, self-taught engineer and computer scientist, noted as one of the first computer programmers. She was the first woman to execute modern-style code on a computer.
This page lists 49 people born on August 18, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on August 18. Read the full methodology.
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