August 18th, 1957

Born on August 18th, 1957

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 24,000 days old!

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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, 1957

66

Carole Bouquet

French actress

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

66

Denis Leary

American actor and comedian

*August 18th, 1957, Worcester

66

Tan Dun

Chinese composer

*August 18th, 1957, Changsha

66

Harald Schmidt

German actor, comedian and television presenter

*August 18th, 1957, Neu-Ulm

66

Taieb Hadhri

Tunisian politician

*August 18th, 1957, Monastir

66

Sauli Ahvenjärvi

Finnish engineer, politician and gospel musician

*August 18th, 1957, Jämijärvi

66

Richard B. Alley

American geologist, author, and academic

*August 18th, 1957, Ohio

66

Eric Smaling

Dutch former politician and agronomist

*August 18th, 1957, Amsterdam

66

Burkhard Sude

Deutscher Volleyballspieler

*August 18th, 1957, Dorfitter

66

Jadwiga Kotnowska

Polish musician

*August 18th, 1957, Warsaw

66

Agberto Guimarães

Brazilian middle-distance runner

*August 18th, 1957, Belém

66

Tonho

Brazilian association football player born 1957

*August 18th, 1957, Criciúma

66

Laila Zuberi

Pakistani actress

*August 18th, 1957, Pakistan

66

James D. Peterson

United States District Judge

*August 18th, 1957, Lake Charles

66

Jim Looney

American football player

*August 18th, 1957, Bastrop

66

Carol Colatrella

American writer

*August 18th, 1957, Newark

66

Dževad Prekazi

Footballer

*August 18th, 1957, Mitrovica

66

Javier Moracho

Spanish hurdler

*August 18th, 1957, Monzón

66

Alexander Borst

German neurobiologist

*August 18th, 1957, Bad Neustadt an der Saale

66

Diana Castle

American actress

*August 18th, 1957, New York City

63

Christy Ryan

Irish Gaelic football player

*August 18th, 1957, Cork †February 9th, 2021, Glasheen

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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

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

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

65

Madeleine Stowe

American actress (born 1958)

*August 18th, 1958, Los Angeles

87

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

45

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

59

Craig Bierko

American actor and singer

*August 18th, 1964, New York City

54

Edward Norton

American actor (born 1969)

*August 18th, 1969, Boston

56

Carolin Emcke

German journalist; Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2016

*August 18th, 1967, Mülheim an der Ruhr

23

Belén Aizen

Argentinian handball player

*August 18th, 2000, General San Martín

24

Vitão

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 18th, 1999, São Paulo

61

Felipe Calderón

63th President of Mexico

*August 18th, 1962, Morelia

96

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

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

67

John Debney

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

*August 18th, 1956, Glendale

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

57

Patrick Swayze

American actor, singer and dancer (1952–2009)

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

26

Goh Sze Fei

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1997, Malacca

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66

Julian Cope

Welsh musician, author, antiquarian, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator

*October 21st, 1957, Deri

66

John Kassir

American actor and comedian

*October 24th, 1957, Baltimore

67

Lars Brygmann

Danish actor

*February 17th, 1957, Copenhagen

66

Stephen Morris

British drummer

*October 28th, 1957, Macclesfield

67

Kristin Clemet

Norwegian politician

*April 20th, 1957, Harstad Municipality

54

Osama bin Laden

Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)

*March 10th, 1957, Riyadh †May 2nd, 2011, Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad

66

Dagfinn Høybråten

Norwegian politician

*December 2nd, 1957, Oslo

67

Peter Aude

Danish actor

*January 19th, 1957, Copenhagen

66

Klaus Augenthaler

German association football player and manager

*September 26th, 1957, Fürstenzell

66

Frances McDormand

American actress

*June 23rd, 1957, Gibson City

41

Adrian Borland

English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer (1957–1999)

*December 6th, 1957, London †April 26th, 1999, Wimbledon

66

Stephen Fry

British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

*August 24th, 1957, Hampstead

67

Henning Krautmacher

German singer and actor

*March 5th, 1957, Leverkusen

60

Alain Defossé

French writer and translator (1957-2017)

*February 11th, 1957, Nantes †May 14th, 2017, 19th arrondissement of Paris

67

Nick Hornby

English novelist

*April 17th, 1957, Redhill

67

Mari Maurstad

Norwegian actress

*March 17th, 1957, Oslo

67

Timothy Spall

English actor

*February 27th, 1957, London

66

Matthias Klinghardt

German Protestant theologian

*August 24th, 1957, Waldshut-Tiengen

66

Christian Michelides

Austrian psychotherapist

*July 19th, 1957, Graz

66

Daniel Day-Lewis

British-Irish actor

*April 29th, 1957, Kensington

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No: With 365 days 1957 is a normal year and no leap year.

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