August 18th, 1946

Born on August 18th, 1946

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, 1946

77

Olivia Muchena

Minister of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development

*August 18th, 1946, Mutoko

74

Derryl Cousins

Former baseball umpire from the United States

*August 18th, 1946, Fresno †October 20th, 2020, Palm Springs

77

Antonio Menéndez

Spanish bicycle racer

*August 18th, 1946, Cangas del Narcea

73

Gerardo Manuel

Peruvian musician

*August 18th, 1946, Lima Department †July 4th, 2020, Lima

74

Franz-Joseph Peine

German jurist

*August 18th, 1946, Detmold †June 28th, 2021

77

Roberto Pazzi

Italian novelist and poet

*August 18th, 1946, Ameglia †December 2nd, 2023, Ferrara

77

William Brisson

American politician

*August 18th, 1946, Dublin

77

Bob Chapman

English footballer (born 1946)

*August 18th, 1946, Walsall

77

Ken Moroney

Australian police chief

*August 18th, 1946, Glebe

77

Hubert Riesner

German long-distance runner

*August 18th, 1946, Frankfurt

77

Masood Akhtar

Cricketer

*August 18th, 1946, Delhi

77

Boontom Prasongquamdee

Thai cyclist

*August 18th, 1946, Thailand

77

Joseph Edward Kurtz

Catholic archbishop

*August 18th, 1946, Mahanoy City

77

Mambet Koigeldiev

Kazakh historian

*August 18th, 1946, Shu District

77

Jenny Runacre

British actress

*August 18th, 1946, Cape Town

76

Masaaki Ikenaga

Japanese baseball player (1946-2022)

*August 18th, 1946, Hōhoku †September 25th, 2022

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Who's birthday is on August 18th?

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

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

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

76

Giulio Tremonti

Italian politician.

*August 18th, 1947, Sondrio

30

Sikki Reddy

Indian badminton player

*August 18th, 1993, Kodad

78

David Dewhurst

American businessman

*August 18th, 1945, Houston

87

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

76

Eleonore Weisgerber

German actress and chansonnier

*August 18th, 1947, Wiesbaden

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

96

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

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

66

Carole Bouquet

French actress

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

90

Roman Polanski

French-Polish director, screenwriter, producer and actor

*August 18th, 1933, Paris

45

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

86

Paul Grimm

German prehistorian and medievalist (1907-1993)

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

23

Belén Aizen

Argentinian handball player

*August 18th, 2000, General San Martín

24

Vitão

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 18th, 1999, São Paulo

57

Patrick Swayze

American actor, singer and dancer (1952–2009)

*August 18th, 1952, Houston †September 14th, 2009, Los Angeles

80

Gianni Rivera

Italian footballer

*August 18th, 1943, Alessandria

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Born in 1946

77

Donald Trump

President of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 14th, 1946, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

77

George W. Bush

President of the United States from 2001 to 2009

*July 6th, 1946, New Haven

77

Bill Clinton

President of the United States from 1993 to 2001

*August 19th, 1946, Hope

77

Jean-Claude Arnault

Swedish photographer

*August 15th, 1946, Marseille

78

Kabir Bedi

Indian actor (1946-)

*January 16th, 1946, Lahore

77

Svein Ludvigsen

Norwegian politician

*July 18th, 1946, Hillesøy Municipality

78

Charlotte Rampling

British actress

*February 5th, 1946, Sturmer

77

Steven Spielberg

American filmmaker (born 1946)

*December 18th, 1946, Cincinnati

76

Suzanne Somers

American actress, author, singer, businesswoman in alternative medicine (1946–2023)

*October 16th, 1946, San Bruno †October 15th, 2023, Palm Springs

77

Berti Vogts

German footballer and manager

*December 30th, 1946, Büttgen

71

Jiří Bělohlávek

Czech conductor (1946-2017)

*February 24th, 1946, Prague †May 31st, 2017, Prague

62

Lux Interior

American punk rock musician and a founding member of the band The Cramps

*October 21st, 1946, Akron †February 4th, 2009, Glendale

64

Michael Hansen

German cabaret artist (1946-2011)

*October 21st, 1946, Aalborg †March 15th, 2011, Berlin

69

Alan Rickman

British actor and director (1946–2016)

*February 21st, 1946, Hammersmith †January 14th, 2016, London

77

Rolf Konow

Danish photographer and actor

*July 22nd, 1946, Copenhagen

78

David Lynch

American filmmaker, visual artist, and musician

*January 20th, 1946, Missoula

78

Liza Minnelli

American actress and singer

*March 12th, 1946, Los Angeles

78

Tan Aik Huang

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1946, Singapore

77

Sylvester Stallone

American actor and film director

*July 6th, 1946, Hell's Kitchen

77

Gerard 't Hooft

Dutch theoretical physicist

*July 5th, 1946, Den Helder

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No: With 365 days 1946 is a normal year and no leap year.

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