August 18th, 1959

Born on August 18th, 1959

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, 1959

64

June Angela

Actress/singer/dancer

*August 18th, 1959, New York City

64

Laurence Jalbert

Canadian musician

*August 18th, 1959, Gaspé

64

Tom Prichard

American professional wrestler and trainer

*August 18th, 1959, Pasadena

64

Pedro Eustache

Venezuelan musician

*August 18th, 1959, Caracas

64

James Tour

American synthetic organic chemist

*August 18th, 1959, New York City

64

Terry Blocker

American baseball player

*August 18th, 1959, Columbia

64

Jillian Banfield

Australian geomicrobiologist

*August 18th, 1959, Armidale

64

Dmitry Mezentsev

Governor of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

*August 18th, 1959, Saint Petersburg

64

Kate De Goldi

New Zealand writer

*August 18th, 1959, Christchurch

64

Danilo Santos

Colombian actor

*August 18th, 1959, Bogotá

64

Gerardo Gómez

Costa Rican association football player

*August 18th, 1959, Limón Province

64

Walter Filz

German journalist

*August 18th, 1959, Cologne

64

Nirmala Sitharaman

Indian politician

*August 18th, 1959, Madurai

64

Valérie Favre

Swiss artist

*August 18th, 1959, Evilard

64

Jiří Walker Procházka

Czech writer

*August 18th, 1959, Kutná Hora

64

Hilde Waage

Norwegian historian

*August 18th, 1959, Drammen Municipality

64

Dorothy Bush Koch

American writer and philanthropist

*August 18th, 1959, Harris County

64

Ronald D. Schrimpf

Computer scientist

*August 18th, 1959, Lake City

64

Nick Leslau

British businessman

*August 18th, 1959, Cricklewood

64

Rik Daems

Belgian painter and politician

*August 18th, 1959, Aarschot

64

Leszek Walankiewicz

Polish association football player

*August 18th, 1959, Przemyśl

64

Michael McCleery

Actor

*August 18th, 1959, Chicago

Same Day
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

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

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

59

Craig Bierko

American actor and singer

*August 18th, 1964, New York City

63

Andreas Pinkwart

Politician and dean

*August 18th, 1960, Neunkirchen-Seelscheid

61

Felipe Calderón

63th President of Mexico

*August 18th, 1962, Morelia

45

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

54

Edward Norton

American actor (born 1969)

*August 18th, 1969, Boston

87

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

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

26

Goh Sze Fei

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1997, Malacca

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

25

Joy Lai

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1998, Victoria

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Born in 1959

64

Jim Kerr

Scottish singer

*July 9th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

56

Nahed Hattar

Jordanian writer

*November 30th, 1959, Amman †September 25th, 2016, Amman

64

Wolfgang Rolff

German association football player and manager

*December 26th, 1959, Lamstedt

64

Mike Pence

Vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 7th, 1959, Columbus

64

Morten Andreas Meyer

Norwegian politician

*October 20th, 1959, Sarpsborg Municipality

64

Jon Fosse

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

*September 29th, 1959, Haugesund Municipality

64

Donna Strickland

Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel laurate

*May 27th, 1959, Guelph

64

Dave Ball

English producer and electronic musician

*May 3rd, 1959, Blackpool

64

Charlie Burchill

Scottish musician and composer

*November 27th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Rolf Mützenich

German politician (SPD)

*June 25th, 1959, Cologne

64

Martin Atkins

English musician

*August 3rd, 1959, Coventry

64

Bryan Adams

Canadian guitarist

*November 5th, 1959, Kingston

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

64

Carla Antonelli

Spanish actress and activist

*July 12th, 1959, Güímar

64

Johannes Röring

German politician

*May 16th, 1959, Vreden

64

Peter Enders

German politician (1959–)

*May 10th, 1959, Eichen

64

Allison Janney

American actress

*November 19th, 1959, Boston

65

Luc Besson

French film director, writer, and producer

*March 18th, 1959, Paris

64

Stephen Harper

22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015

*April 30th, 1959, Toronto

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No: With 365 days 1959 is a normal year and no leap year.

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