August 18th, 2000

Born on August 18th, 2000

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 8,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 208 days, exactly on April 9th, 2025, people who were born on August 18th, 2000 will be 9,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on August 18th?

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).

August 18th, 1487

Reconquista: After a four-month siege, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain conquered the city of Málaga from the Emirate of Granada.

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

Born on August 18th, 2000

24

Belén Aizen

Argentinian handball player

*August 18th, 2000, General San Martín

24

Andreea Dragoman

Romanian table tennis player

*August 18th, 2000, Mediaș

24

Nikolaj Majorov

Swedish figure skater

*August 18th, 2000, Luleå

24

Viih Tube

Brazilian YouTuber

*August 18th, 2000, Sorocaba

24

Nawaf Al-Rashoudi

Saudi Arabian association football player

*August 18th, 2000, Saudi Arabia

24

Éric Vales

Andorran footballer (born 2000)

*August 18th, 2000, Andorra la Vella

24

Yentl Van Genechten

Association football player

*August 18th, 2000, Belgium

24

Matteo Di Giusto

Swiss footballer

*August 18th, 2000, Switzerland

24

Nikolai Titkov

Russian footballer

*August 18th, 2000, Ryazan

24

Alen Smailagić

Serbian basketball player

*August 18th, 2000, Belgrade

24

Emilija Đonin

Serbian singer

*August 18th, 2000, Vršac

24

Naomi Seibt

German climate change denialist

*August 18th, 2000, Münster

24

Alex Malzer

English field hockey player

*August 18th, 2000, England

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 18th?

25

Vitão

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 18th, 1999, São Paulo

31

Sikki Reddy

Indian badminton player

*August 18th, 1993, Kodad

40

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

26

Joy Lai

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1998, Victoria

27

Goh Sze Fei

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1997, Malacca

75

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

45

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

46

Sergio Llopis

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1978, Xàtiva

77

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

30

Krists Neilands

Latvian cyclist

*August 18th, 1994, Ventspils

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

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

88

Robert Redford

American actor (born 1936)

*August 18th, 1936, Santa Monica

36

Are Strandli

Norwegian rower

*August 18th, 1988, Stavanger

27

Renato Sanches

Portuguese association football player

*August 18th, 1997, Lisbon

43

Frida Svensson

Swedish rower

*August 18th, 1981, Falkenberg

96

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

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

32

Kristýna Fleissnerová

Czech rower

*August 18th, 1992, Prague

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

Chad Muma

American football player (born 1999)

*August 18th, 1999, Denver

55

Edward Norton

American actor (born 1969)

*August 18th, 1969, Boston

Same year
Born in 2000

24

Mischa Bredewold

Dutch cyclist

*June 20th, 2000, Amersfoort

24

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

Indian badminton player

*August 13th, 2000, Amalapuram

24

Ice Spice

American rapper and songwriter (born 2000)

*January 1st, 2000, The Bronx

24

Khea

Argentine rapper

*April 13th, 2000, Virreyes

24

Benee

New Zealand singer-songwriter

*January 30th, 2000, Grey Lynn

24

Surf Mesa

American record producer and multi-instrumentalist

*April 10th, 2000, Seattle

24

Manuel Turizo

Colombian singer

*April 12th, 2000, Montería

24

Nicki Nicole

Argentine singer (born 2000)

*August 25th, 2000, Rosario

23

Elena Wassen

German diver

*November 1st, 2000, Eschweiler

23

Isac Elliot

Finnish-Swedish pop singer, songwriter, dancer and actor

*December 26th, 2000, Kauniainen

24

Mxmtoon

American singer-songwriter and YouTuber

*July 9th, 2000, Oakland

23

Cameron Kasky

American activist against gun violence

*November 11th, 2000, Hollywood

23

Mina Jacobsen

Norwegian YouTuber

*November 30th, 2000, Eidsvoll Municipality

23

Joshua Bassett

American actor and singer-songwriter

*December 22nd, 2000, Oceanside

24

María Becerra

Argentine singer (born 2000)

*February 12th, 2000, Quilmes

24

Yeat

American rapper singer-songwriter, and record producer (born. 2000)

*February 26th, 2000, Irvine

23

24kGoldn

American rapper and singer

*November 13th, 2000, San Francisco

24

Amalie Magelund

Badminton player

*May 13th, 2000, Roskilde

24

Freja Ravn

Danish badminton player

*February 17th, 2000, Copenhagen

24

Halla Bouksani

Badminton player

*July 30th, 2000, Kouba

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Public holidays on August 18th

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Leap year

Yes: 2000 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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