August 18th, 1962

Born on August 18th, 1962

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, 1962

61

Felipe Calderón

63th President of Mexico

*August 18th, 1962, Morelia

61

Brian Schmetzer

American soccer player-coach

*August 18th, 1962, Seattle

61

Carlos Carrera

Mexican film director

*August 18th, 1962, Mexico City

61

Carina Benninga

Field hockey player

*August 18th, 1962, Leiden

61

Johnny Klimek

Australian musician, music producer, and composer

*August 18th, 1962, Melbourne

61

Claudio Maniscalco

German actor

*August 18th, 1962, Mölln

61

Katie O'Malley

American judge

*August 18th, 1962, Miami

61

Jayney Klimek

Australian singer-songwriter

*August 18th, 1962, Melbourne

61

Ralf Haber

German hammer thrower

*August 18th, 1962, Altenburg

61

Juan Carlos Justes Albiol

Association football player

*August 18th, 1962, Almudévar

61

Norman Hacker

Austrian film actor

*August 18th, 1962, Enns

61

Geoff Courtnall

Canadian ice hockey player

*August 18th, 1962, Victoria

61

Sandra Farmer-Patrick

American athlete (born 1962)

*August 18th, 1962, Kingston

61

Adam Storke

American actor

*August 18th, 1962, New York City

61

Stephen Endelman

Composer and conductor

*August 18th, 1962, England

61

Hakase Suidōbashi

Japanese owarai tarento, tarento and politician

*August 18th, 1962, Kurashiki

61

Zbigniew Januszkiewicz

Polish sportsperson

*August 18th, 1962, Bydgoszcz

61

Mohammed Ridha al-Sistani

Iraqi-Iranian Shia scholar

*August 18th, 1962, Najaf

61

Kevin Sandoval

Guatemalan footballer

*August 18th, 1962, Guatemala City

61

Jimmy Teal

American football wide receiver

*August 18th, 1962, Lufkin

61

Cinthia Knoth

Brazilian sailor

*August 18th, 1962, Rio de Janeiro

61

Yūichi Satō

Japanese film director

*August 18th, 1962, Tokyo

61

Sergey Dvortsevoy

Kazakh film director

*August 18th, 1962, Shymkent

61

Audie Blaylock

Musical artist

*August 18th, 1962, El Paso †January 12th, 2024, Auburn

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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

59

Craig Bierko

American actor and singer

*August 18th, 1964, New York City

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

66

Carole Bouquet

French actress

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

56

Carolin Emcke

German journalist; Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2016

*August 18th, 1967, Mülheim an der Ruhr

54

Edward Norton

American actor (born 1969)

*August 18th, 1969, Boston

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

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

45

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

87

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

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

63

Andreas Pinkwart

Politician and dean

*August 18th, 1960, Neunkirchen-Seelscheid

96

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

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

25

Joy Lai

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1998, Victoria

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

54

Timothy Snyder

American historian

*August 18th, 1969, Dayton

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62

Markus Merk

German football referee

*March 15th, 1962, Kaiserslautern

62

Sarah Wollaston

British Liberal Democrat politician

*February 17th, 1962, Woking

61

Hannes Holm

Swedish film director

*November 26th, 1962, Lidingö

61

Chairul Tanjung

Indonesian businessman and bureaucrat

*June 16th, 1962, Jakarta

62

Michele Greene

American actress

*February 3rd, 1962, Las Vegas

61

Marina Kaljurand

Estonian diplomat, politician and badminton player

*September 6th, 1962, Tallinn

62

Jim Carrey

Canadian comedian and actor

*January 17th, 1962, Newmarket

61

Marit Arnstad

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*May 4th, 1962, Skatval

62

Olga Tokarczuk

Polish writer and activist

*January 29th, 1962, Sulechów

61

Tom Cruise

American actor and producer (born 1962)

*July 3rd, 1962, Syracuse

53

Turid Birkeland

Norwegian politician and arts executive (1962–2015)

*November 5th, 1962, Haugesund Municipality †December 24th, 2015, Oslo

61

Demi Moore

American actress

*November 11th, 1962, Roswell

61

Razif Sidek

Malaysian badminton player

*May 29th, 1962, Banting

61

Michelle Yeoh

Malaysian actress (born 1962)

*August 6th, 1962, Ipoh

61

Ginger Lynn

American pornographic actress

*December 14th, 1962, Rockford

61

Herry Iman Pierngadi

Badminton coach from Indonesia

*August 21st, 1962, Pangkal Pinang City

61

Ong Beng Teong

Malaysian badminton player

*May 29th, 1962, Kuala Lumpur

62

Eddie Izzard

British comedian and actor (born 1962)

*February 7th, 1962, Aden

61

Baz Luhrmann

Australian writer, director, and producer

*September 17th, 1962, Sydney

61

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

German politician, former federal minister of defence

*August 9th, 1962, Völklingen

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No: With 365 days 1962 is a normal year and no leap year.

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