Birthday twins
July 18 is the birthday of 49 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, actors and creators, and 2 of them are billionaires.
What the data says
Entrepreneur · All Elite Wrestling · entertainment
1950 · United States
$14.3Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes
Shahid Rafiq Khan is a Pakistani and American businessman.
Reported estimate as of 2025: $14.3B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every July birthday · battle July 18 against another date · all rankings
The July 18 wealth profile
Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.
Entrepreneur · Virgin Atlantic · telecommunications
1950 · United Kingdom
$3Bolder estimate, as of June 2023 · Forbes
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate who co-founded the Virgin Group in 1970, and, as of 2016, controlled five companies.
User:David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Who shares July 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
Politician
1918–2013 · South Africa
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1982 · India
Priyanka Chopra Jonas is an Indian actress, film producer and singer. The winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant, she is India's highest-paid actress and her accolades include two National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1980 · United States
Kristen Anne Bell is an American actress and singer. Her work includes both film and television, and her accolades include two Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards.
Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1967 · United States
Mark Sinclair Vincent, known professionally as Vin Diesel, is an American actor and filmmaker. One of the world's highest-grossing actors, he gained prominence for portraying Dominic "Dom" Toretto in the Fast & Furious franchise.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1940 · United States
James Brolin is an American actor. He has appeared in over 140 film and television productions since his debut in 1961 and is the recipient of two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
lifescript, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1937–2005 · United States
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author, regarded as a pioneer of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe.
Photograph credited to "Cashman Photo Enterprises, Inc." Published by Random House., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1921–2016 · United States
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962.
U.S. Senate Historical Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1957 · United Kingdom
Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo is an English retired professional golfer and television commentator. Faldo was renowned for his dedication to the game, and was ranked number one on the Official World Golf Ranking for a total of 97 weeks.
Flickr user SN#1 [2] modified by me, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1895–1954 · United States
George Kelly Barnes, better known by his nickname Machine Gun Kelly, was an American gangster from Memphis, Tennessee, active during the Prohibition era. His nickname came from his favorite weapon, a Thompson submachine gun.
United States Department of Justice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1947 · United States
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr. is an American publisher, businessman, and politician who is the chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes, the business magazine. The son of longtime Forbes publisher Malcolm Forbes and the grandson of Forbes' founder B.C.
Justin Hoch photographing for Hudson Union Society, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Norwegian Air Shuttle
1946 · Norway
Bjørn Kjos is a Norwegian aviator, lawyer, and business magnate. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle, briefly Scandinavia's largest airline, and Europe's third largest low-cost airline.
Kjetil Ree, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Founder · 1C Company · software
1958 · Russia
Boris Georgievich Nuraliev is a Soviet and Russian entrepreneur, billionaire, one of the founders of the 1C company and scientist, who heads the «Corporate Information Systems» department at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the «1С» specialised department at the…
Anton Nosik, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
July 18 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1976 · Spain
Elsa Lafuente Medianu, known professionally as Elsa Pataky, is a Spanish model and actress.
See original page., CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1975 · United Kingdom
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, known professionally as M.I.A., is a British rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and activist. Her music combines elements of alternative, dance, electronic, hip hop and world music with electronic instruments and samples.
Interscope Records, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1985 · United States
Christopher Chace Crawford is an American actor. He is known for his television portrayals of Nate Archibald on the teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and of Kevin / The Deep in the satirical superhero series The Boys (2019–2026) and the resulting franchise.
David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1969 · United States
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American journalist and author. Her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, has sold over 12 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. The book was also made into a film of the same name in 2010.
Erik Charlton from Menlo Park, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1938 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch filmmaker, who has worked variously in the Netherlands, the United States, and in France. He is known for directing genre films with strong satirical elements, often featuring graphic violence and explicit sexual content and nudity.
Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1964 · United States
Wendy Williams Hunter is an American former broadcaster, media personality and author. Williams began her career as a radio DJ and quickly became known as a shock jock in New York City. She gained notoriety for her confrontational interviews of celebrities.
WBLS, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1992 · Iran
Mehdi Taremi is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a striker for UAE Pro League club Al Wasl and the Iran national team.
Parto Joghataee, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1867–1932 · United States
Margaret Brown, posthumously known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist.
Bain News Service; quick cleanup by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1975 · United States
Daron Malakian is an Armenian-American musician. He is the guitarist, songwriter, and second vocalist of the metal band System of a Down, and the lead vocalist, lead guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter of Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway.
DM, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1811–1863 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist and illustrator.
Jesse Harrison Whitehurst, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1940 · Malawi
Arthur Peter Mutharika is a Malawian politician and lawyer who has been the seventh president of Malawi since 2025.
U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1909–1978 · Afghanistan
Mohammad Daoud Khan, also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan, was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup d'état which overthrew the monarchy, served as the first president…
Unknown authorUnknown author / Government of Afghanistan; processing by Roman Kubanskiy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1993 · France
Nabil Fekir is a French professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Abha.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1922–1996 · United States
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles. The book popularized the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.
Bob Bielk, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1853–1928 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch theoretical physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Executive
1942–2006 · Italy
Giacinto Facchetti was an Italian footballer who played as a left-back for Inter Milan from 1960 to 1978. He later served as Inter chairman from January 2004 until his death in 2006.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1914–2000 · Italy
Gino Bartali, nicknamed Gino the Pious and Ginettaccio, was a champion road cyclist. He was the most renowned Italian cyclist before the Second World War, having won the Giro d'Italia twice, in 1936 and 1937, and the Tour de France in 1938.
Angelo Cozzi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1951 · Belgium
Elio Di Rupo is a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2011 to 2014, heading the Di Rupo Government, and as minister-president of Wallonia for three non-consecutive terms between 1999 and 2024.
Actor
1933–2017 · Russia
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films.
mos.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1937 · United States
Roald Hoffmann is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions”. He has also published plays, poetry and popular science.
. The original uploader was Xtreambar at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1871–1958 · Italy
Giacomo Balla was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings, he depicted light, movement and speed.
Artist
1659–1743 · France
Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra, known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud, was a French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility.
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1902–1999 · France
Nathalie Sarraute was a French writer and lawyer. She was nominated in 1969 for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Lars Gyllensten.
Michaud, Fernand (1929-2012). Photographe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Investor
1720–1793 · Kingdom of Great Britain
Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1977 · Russia
Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994.
This photo was taken by Przemysław JahrAutorem zdjęcia jest Przemysław JahrWykorzystując zdjęcie proszę podać jako autor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1205–1276 · Republic of Genoa
Pope Adrian V, born Ottobuono de' Fieschi, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 July 1276 to his death on 18 August 1276.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1831–1912 · Grand Duchy of Baden
Johann Martin Schleyer was a German Catholic priest who invented the constructed language Volapük. His official name was "Martin Schleyer"; he added the name "Johann" unofficially.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1948 · Germany
Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist, who received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.
Shauchungshin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1864–1947 · Switzerland
Ricarda Huch was a pioneering German intellectual. Trained as a historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play. Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her honour.
Paul Peterich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Investor
1836–1929 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Joseph Smit was a Dutch zoological illustrator.
This page lists 49 people born on July 18, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2025. 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 July 18. Read the full methodology.
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