August 18th, 1955

Born on August 18th, 1955

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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, 1955

68

Taher Elgamal

American cryptographer

*August 18th, 1955, Cairo

68

Gerard Nijboer

Dutch long-distance runner

*August 18th, 1955, Hasselt

68

Bruce Benedict

American baseball player and coach

*August 18th, 1955, Birmingham

68

André Flahaut

Belgian politician

*August 18th, 1955, Walhain

68

Tony Jian

Taiwanese physician and politician

*August 18th, 1955, Taichung

68

Bruce Hawker

Australian political strategist

*August 18th, 1955, Edinburgh

68

Eddie Santiago

Puerto Rican musician

*August 18th, 1955, Toa Alta

66

Tom Flynn

American writer

*August 18th, 1955, Erie †August 23rd, 2021

68

Karl Del'Haye

German footballer

*August 18th, 1955, Aachen

68

Kōzō Shioya

Japanese voice actor and actor

*August 18th, 1955, Kagoshima

68

Shelly Berg

American musician

*August 18th, 1955, Cleveland

68

Batal Kobakhia

Batal Samsonovich Kobakhia is an Abkhaz archaeologist,public figure,The deputy of 4th convocation (2007-2012), chairman of committee for Human Rights And Rule Of Law.

*August 18th, 1955, Sukhumi

68

Ron Aiken

American football player and coach, defensive line coach for Arizona Hotshots

*August 18th, 1955, Moncks Corner

68

Paul Barry-Walsh

British businessman

*August 18th, 1955, London

68

Tommy Land

Arkansas politician

*August 18th, 1955, Haines City

68

Djoomart Otorbaev

Kyrgyzstani politician

*August 18th, 1955, Bishkek

68

Roland Rahm

Swedish basketball player

*August 18th, 1955, Huddinge Municipality

68

Hugo Bastidas

American painter

*August 18th, 1955, Quito

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Who's birthday is on August 18th?

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

30

Sikki Reddy

Indian badminton player

*August 18th, 1993, Kodad

66

Carole Bouquet

French actress

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

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

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

87

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

57

Patrick Swayze

American actor, singer and dancer (1952–2009)

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

45

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

71

Markus Meckel

German theologian and politician

*August 18th, 1952, Müncheberg

54

Edward Norton

American actor (born 1969)

*August 18th, 1969, Boston

96

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

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

23

Belén Aizen

Argentinian handball player

*August 18th, 2000, General San Martín

59

Craig Bierko

American actor and singer

*August 18th, 1964, New York City

24

Vitão

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 18th, 1999, São Paulo

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

67

John Debney

American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores (born 1956)

*August 18th, 1956, Glendale

56

Carolin Emcke

German journalist; Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2016

*August 18th, 1967, Mülheim an der Ruhr

26

Goh Sze Fei

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1997, Malacca

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Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

68

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

*November 13th, 1955, New York City

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No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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