August 18th, 1951

Born on August 18th, 1951

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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, 1951

72

Greg Pruitt

American football player

*August 18th, 1951, Houston

72

Jean-Michel Leniaud

French art historian

*August 18th, 1951, Toulon

72

Christa Köhler

East German diver

*August 18th, 1951, Tessin

72

Moni Moshonov

Israeli actor, comedian and theater director

*August 18th, 1951, Ramla

72

Xaime Barreiro Gil

Spanish politician

*August 18th, 1951, Santa Comba

72

Aslan Aslanov

Azerbaijani journalist

*August 18th, 1951, Jabrayil District

72

Teri McMinn

American actress

*August 18th, 1951, Houston

72

Kyōhei Shibata

Japanese actor, singer

*August 18th, 1951, Shizuoka Prefecture

72

Marchel

Bishop

*August 18th, 1951, Pîrlița

72

Bruce Cowick

Canadian ice hockey player

*August 18th, 1951, Victoria

72

Anca Andreiu

Romanian swimmer

*August 18th, 1951, Reșița

72

William D. Richardson

Professor of Biology and Director of the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at University College London

*August 18th, 1951, Belfast

72

Alexandra Sviridova

American journalist

*August 18th, 1951, Kherson

72

Bruce Abbey

Canadian ice hockey defenceman

*August 18th, 1951, Central Elgin

72

Håkan Spik

Finnish long-distance runner

*August 18th, 1951, Kronoby

66

Annie Goetzinger

French comics artist (1951-2017)

*August 18th, 1951, 20th arrondissement of Paris †December 20th, 2017, Boulogne-Billancourt

70

Graham Fyfe

British association football player (1951–2022)

*August 18th, 1951, Motherwell †April 18th, 2022

69

Mangkunegara IX

Ninth ruler of Mangkunegaran, Java, 1987-2021

*August 18th, 1951, Surakarta City †August 13th, 2021

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74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

30

Sikki Reddy

Indian badminton player

*August 18th, 1993, Kodad

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

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

57

Patrick Swayze

American actor, singer and dancer (1952–2009)

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

71

Markus Meckel

German theologian and politician

*August 18th, 1952, Müncheberg

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

66

Carole Bouquet

French actress

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

87

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

76

Giulio Tremonti

Italian politician.

*August 18th, 1947, Sondrio

96

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

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

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

45

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

23

Belén Aizen

Argentinian handball player

*August 18th, 2000, General San Martín

24

Vitão

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 18th, 1999, São Paulo

78

David Dewhurst

American businessman

*August 18th, 1945, Houston

54

Edward Norton

American actor (born 1969)

*August 18th, 1969, Boston

86

Paul Grimm

German prehistorian and medievalist (1907-1993)

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

90

Roman Polanski

French-Polish director, screenwriter, producer and actor

*August 18th, 1933, Paris

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72

John McDonnell

British Labour politician (born 1951)

*September 8th, 1951, Liverpool

72

Jesse Ventura

American professional wrestler and 38th governor of Minnesota (born 1951)

*July 15th, 1951, Minneapolis

72

Ellen Foley

American singer and actress

*June 5th, 1951, St. Louis

72

Agathe Fontain

Greenlandic politician

*June 9th, 1951, Sisimiut

63

Robin Williams

American actor and comedian (1951–2014)

*July 21st, 1951, Chicago †August 11th, 2014, Tiburon

65

Gilbert Baker

American artist and gay rights activist

*June 2nd, 1951, Chanute †March 31st, 2017, New York City

73

Daniel Miller

British music producer and founder of Mute Records

*February 14th, 1951, London

65

Kaci Kullmann Five

Norwegian politician (1951-2017)

*April 13th, 1951, Oslo †February 19th, 2017, Oslo

72

Imelda Wiguna

Badminton player

*October 12th, 1951, Slawi

73

Horst Hrubesch

German association football player and manager

*April 17th, 1951, Hamm

71

Joachim Streich

German association football player and manager

*April 13th, 1951, Wismar †April 16th, 2022, Leipzig

72

Volker Bouffier

German politician (CDU), Minister President of Hesse

*December 18th, 1951, Giessen

73

Cajus Julius Caesar

German politician

*January 22nd, 1951, Rinteln

70

Hans-Jürgen Dörner

East German football player and long-term coach of national junior football teams (1951–2022)

*January 25th, 1951, Görlitz †January 19th, 2022, Dresden

72

Sven-Åke Nilsson

Road racing cyclist

*September 13th, 1951, Malmö

73

Raphaële Billetdoux

French novelist

*January 1st, 1951, Paris

72

Andrea Tidona

Italian actor

*November 30th, 1951, Modica

72

Geoffrey Rush

Australian actor (born 1951)

*July 6th, 1951, Toowoomba

72

Juan Manuel Santos

Former president of Colombia

*August 10th, 1951, Bogotá

65

Věra Špinarová

Czech singer

*December 22nd, 1951, Pohořelice †March 26th, 2017, Prague

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No: With 365 days 1951 is a normal year and no leap year.

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