What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every November birthday · battle November 18 against another date · all rankings
Who shares November 18
Share of the 38 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
1972–2025 · India
Zubeen Garg was an Indian musician, composer, singer, songwriter who primarily worked and sang in the Assamese, Bengali, and Hindi-language films and music industries.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1968 · United States
Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor and screenwriter. His accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, two Actor Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and an Independent Spirit Award.
Owen_Wilson_Cannes_2011.jpg: Georges Biard derivative work: César (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1974 · United States
Chloë Stevens Sevigny is an American actress and director. Known for her work in independent films with controversial or experimental themes, her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Inventor
1939 · Canada
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor.
Collision Conf, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1897–1974 · United Kingdom
British physicist (1897-1974)
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1939 · United States
John Michael O'Keefe is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at University College London.
Per Henning/NTNU, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1909–1976 · United States
John Herndon Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallichs.
William P. Gottlieb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1923–1998 · United States
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was an American astronaut. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space and, in 1971, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, at age 47.
NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1961 · Australia
John Andrew Henry Forrest, nicknamed Twiggy, is an Australian businessman. He is best known as the founder and current executive chairman of mining company Fortescue, one of Australia's largest companies. He also serves as team principal of the Fortescue Zero Racing team.
Chatham House, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Gallup
1901–1984 · United States
George Horace Gallup was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a statistically based survey sampled measure of public opinion.
Norman James, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1976 · Kingdom of Denmark
Sofie Kirk Kristiansen is a Danish fourth-generation owner of The Lego Group. Together with her father Kjeld, sister Agnete and brother Thomas, they split ownership of a 75% stake in the company.
Entrepreneur
1956 · Indonesia
Susilo Wonowidjojo (蔡道平) is an Indonesian billionaire businessman.
November 18 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Athlete
1963 · Kingdom of Denmark
Peter Bolesław Schmeichel is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Carlsberg, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1962 · United States
Kirk Lee Hammett is an American musician. Hammett has been the lead guitarist of heavy metal band Metallica since 1983; prior to joining Metallica, he co-formed thrash metal band Exodus in 1979.
Ralph Arvesen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1953 · United Kingdom
Alan Moore is an English author known primarily for his work in comics including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, Batman: The Killing Joke, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? and From Hell.
Fimb, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1970 · United States
Michael Elliot Epps is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He played Day-Day Jones in Next Friday and its sequel, Friday After Next, and also appeared in The Hangover and The Hangover Part III as "Black Doug".
Kristen Wong, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
0331–0363 · Ancient Rome
Julian was Caesar of Western Rome from 355 to 360 and Roman emperor from 361 to 363, as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek.
ANS, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1960 · United Kingdom
Kim Wilde is an English pop singer. She first gained success in 1981 with her debut single "Kids in America", which peaked at no. 2 in the UK. In 1983, she received the Brit Award for Best British Female solo artist.
Andrew D. Hurley, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1939 · United States
Brenda Buell Vaccaro is an American stage, film and television actress. In a career spanning over half a century, she received one Academy Award nomination, three Golden Globe Award nominations, four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and three Tony Award nominations.
ABC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1656–1742 · Kingdom of Great Britain
Edmond Halley was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720.
Richard Phillips, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Chief executive
1991 · Estonia
Tomas Tammemets, known professionally as Tommy Cash, is an Estonian rapper, singer, dancer, and visual artist. He usually performs in English with a distinct non-native accent, and is known for sexually explicit lyrical themes and provocative music videos.
Quejaytee, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1983 · United Kingdom
Michael Richard Dawson is an English former professional football player and sports pundit.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bensutherland/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1989 · United Kingdom
Marc Kevin Albrighton is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger or wing-back.
Антон Зайцев, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1906–1949 · United States
Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann was a German writer and anti-fascist activist. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann and Golo Mann.
United States 5th Army, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1836–1911 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. The most famous of these include H.M.S.
Elliott & Fry; restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1882–1973 · France
Jacques Maritain was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive Thomas Aquinas for modern times, and was influential in the development and drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1154–1211 · Kingdom of Portugal
Sancho I also referred to as Sancho the Populator, was King of Portugal from 1185 until his death in 1211. He was the second king of Portugal.
Portuguese wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1907–2003 · Cuba
Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles, known professionally as "Compay Segundo", was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer.
David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1647–1706 · France
Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. He is best known for his Historical and Critical Dictionary, whose publication began in 1697.
Attributed to Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1888–1973 · United States
Frances Marion was an American screenwriter, director, journalist and author often cited as one of the most renowned female screenwriters of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos. During the course of her career, she wrote over 325 scripts.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1878–1959 · United Kingdom
Arthur Cecil Pigou was an English economist. As a teacher and builder of the School of Economics at the University of Cambridge, he trained and influenced many Cambridge economists who went on to take chairs of economics around the world.
John Palmer Clarke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1804–1878 · Kingdom of Italy
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora was an Italian general and statesman. His older brothers include a soldier and a naturalist Alberto della Marmora and Alessandro Ferrero La Marmora, founder of the branch of the Italian army now called the Bersaglieri.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1927–2015 · Russia
Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pact countries.
Г. Ровенский / Главархив Москвы, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1832–1901 · Sweden
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the noble Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (baron).
Scientist
1906–1997 · United States
George Wald was an American scientist and activist who studied pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.
Molendijk, Bart / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1969 · South Africa
South African businessman
Athlete
1992 · Japan
Kenyu Sugimoto is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a striker for J2 League club RB Omiya Ardija.
Ikkyuusan 999, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1956 · Czech Republic
Czech businessman
This page lists 38 people born on November 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 November 18. Read the full methodology.
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