September 18th, 1955

Born on September 18th, 1955

Weekday

Sunday

September 18th, 1955 was a Sunday.

Age

People born on September 18th, 1955 will turn 71 this year (2026), in exactly 54 days .

Zodiac

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Virgo (The Maiden)

August 24th, 1955 - September 23rd, 1955

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 25,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 121 days, exactly on November 24th, 2026, people who were born on September 18th, 1955 will be 26,000 days old!

25,879 Days

3,697 Weeks

850 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Born on September 18th, 1955: When to retire?

Birth

67 80

Childhood & Education 20 Years

Work 47 Years

Retirement 13 Years

Already retired

According to the assumptions made it looks like you can already enjoy your well-deserved retirement!

What happened on September 18th, 1955?

September 18th, 1955

A four-person landing party, led by Lt.-Cdr. Desmond Scott RN, disembarks from a Royal Navy helicopter and raises the Union Flag on Rockall, claiming the uninhabited Atlantic island for the United Kingdom.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy

What else happened on September 18th?

September 18th, 1950

Korean War: The Korean People's Army retreated from the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter after six weeks of fighting, marking the farthest that the KPA would advance in the war.

September 18th, 2001

Five letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to various media outlets in the United States.

September 18th, 1961

An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting in the deaths of 16 people, including United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld.

September 18th, 1948

The Australian cricket team's Invincibles tour of England concluded; they had played 34 matches, including five Tests, without defeat.

September 18th, 1918

World War I: The Central Powers' defeat at the Battle of Dobro Pole played a role in the Bulgarian withdrawal from the war and led to the subsequent liberation of Vardar Macedonia.

September 18th, 1895

Daniel David Palmer performed the first chiropractic adjustment on janitor William Harvey Lillard.

September 18th, 1879

The Blackpool Illuminations (example pictured) in the English seaside town of Blackpool were switched on for the first time.

September 18th, 1875

The Indianola hurricane dissipated over Mississippi after killing around eight hundred people in Texas.

September 18th, 1873

Panic of 1873: The American bank Jay Cooke & Company declared bankruptcy, setting off a chain reaction of bank failures.

September 18th, 1870

Nathaniel P. Langford of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition first observed a geyser in the Wyoming Territory erupting at regular intervals, naming it Old Faithful (video featured).

September 18th, 1851

The New York Times, the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, was founded.

September 18th, 1850

The United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, decreeing that all escaped slaves be brought back to their masters.

September 18th, 1809

The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (interior pictured), opened in London after the original was destroyed by fire.

September 18th, 1048

Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Byzantine forces defeated their Seljuk opponents in the flanks of the nocturnal Battle of Kapetron, but learned of their Georgian allies' defeat in the centre the next morning.

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

Born on September 18th, 1955

Lise Dion

Canadian humorist

*September 18th, 1955, Montreal

David Mirkin

American writer, director and producer

*September 18th, 1955, Philadelphia

Dieter Paul Rudolph

German specialist in literature and writer (1955-2017)

*September 18th, 1955, Blieskastel †May 29th, 2017

Same year
Born in 1955

Milly Quezada

Dominican Republic singer

*May 21st, 1955, Santo Domingo

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

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

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

Guillermo Lasso

47th president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

Tim Berners-Lee

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

*June 8th, 1955, London

Steve Jobs

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

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

Lars Brygmann

Danish actor

*November 30th, 1955, Copenhagen

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

Nicolas Sarkozy

23rd president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

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

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

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

Peter Neururer

German association football manager

*April 26th, 1955, Marl

Friedrich Merz

German politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

*November 11th, 1955, Brilon

Jair Bolsonaro

38th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil from 2019 to 2023, Captain of the Brazilian Army, Federal Deputy of Brazil (1991-2019) and Councilman of the City of Rio de Janeiro (1989-1991)

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério