August 18th, 1942

Born on August 18th, 1942

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on August 18th?

August 18th, 2017

Two people were killed and eight others wounded when a rejected asylum seeker went on a knife rampage in Turku, Finland.

August 18th, 2008

Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf resigned under pressure from a movement to impeach him.

August 18th, 1983

Hurricane Alicia made landfall near Galveston, Texas, causing $3 billion in damage and 21 fatalities.

August 18th, 1966

Vietnam War: Members of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment were surrounded by a much larger Viet Cong unit at the Battle of Long Tan, but held them off for several hours until reinforcements arrived.

August 18th, 1964

East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.

August 18th, 1948

Australia won the fifth Test of the 1948 Ashes series, becoming the first Test cricket team to go undefeated in England, earning them the nickname "The Invincibles".

August 18th, 1945

World War II: Amid a Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Sakhalin, Japanese police massacred 18 Koreans in Kamishisuka.

August 18th, 1940

Second World War: During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe made an all-out effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command, with both sides combined losing more aircraft on this day than at any other point during the campaign.

August 18th, 1920

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country.

August 18th, 1919

Russian Civil War: British motor torpedo boats raided the Bolshevik Baltic Fleet's home base of Kronstadt, sinking a depot ship and damaging a battleship.

August 18th, 1877

American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos, the smaller one.

August 18th, 1864

American Civil War: At the Battle of Globe Tavern, Union forces attempted to sever the Weldon Railroad during the Siege of Petersburg.

August 18th, 1783

A meteor procession blazed across the night sky over Great Britain.

August 18th, 1612

The trials of the Pendle and Samlesbury witches (statue pictured), among the most famous of England's witch trials, began at the assizes in Lancaster.

August 18th, 1590

John White, governor of the Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in North America (located in present-day North Carolina), returned after a three-year absence to find it deserted (depicted).

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 18th

Born on August 18th, 1942

81

Michel Kafando

Burkinabé diplomat

*August 18th, 1942, Ouagadougou

79

Lauro António

Portuguese film director

*August 18th, 1942, Lisbon †February 3rd, 2022, Lisbon

81

Judith Keppel

First winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

*August 18th, 1942, Wolverhampton

81

Catharina Lodders

Dutch beauty pageant contestant

*August 18th, 1942, Haarlem

81

Bosse Ringholm

Swedish politician (1942-)

*August 18th, 1942, Falköping

81

Michał Butkiewicz

Polish fencer

*August 18th, 1942, Warsaw

80

Radko Polič

Slovene actor

*August 18th, 1942, Črnomelj †September 15th, 2022

81

Henry G. Sanders

Actor

*August 18th, 1942, Houston

52

Sabine Sinjen

Actress (1942-1995)

*August 18th, 1942, Itzehoe †May 18th, 1995, Berlin

81

Shirl Henke

American writer

*August 18th, 1942, Missouri

81

Sten Elfström

Actor

*August 18th, 1942, Solna †March 20th, 2024

81

Barry Ashworth

English footballer (born 1942)

*August 18th, 1942, Stockport

81

Mark Sisk

American Episcopal Bishop

*August 18th, 1942, New York City

81

Erna Schürer

Italian actress

*August 18th, 1942, Naples

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74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

87

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

30

Sikki Reddy

Indian badminton player

*August 18th, 1993, Kodad

89

Luc Montagnier

French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)

*August 18th, 1932, Chabris †February 8th, 2022, Neuilly-sur-Seine

80

Gianni Rivera

Italian footballer

*August 18th, 1943, Alessandria

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

96

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

*August 18th, 1927, Plains †November 19th, 2023, Plains

78

David Dewhurst

American businessman

*August 18th, 1945, Houston

90

Roman Polanski

French-Polish director, screenwriter, producer and actor

*August 18th, 1933, Paris

76

Giulio Tremonti

Italian politician.

*August 18th, 1947, Sondrio

86

Paul Grimm

German prehistorian and medievalist (1907-1993)

*August 18th, 1907, Torgau †November 19th, 1993, Berlin

66

Carole Bouquet

French actress

*August 18th, 1957, Neuilly-sur-Seine

45

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

23

Belén Aizen

Argentinian handball player

*August 18th, 2000, General San Martín

82

Mohamed Ghannouchi

Tunisian politician

*August 18th, 1941, Sousse

24

Vitão

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 18th, 1999, São Paulo

26

Goh Sze Fei

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1997, Malacca

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81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

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No: With 365 days 1942 is a normal year and no leap year.

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