Esther Obeng Dapaah (79)
January 18th, 1945

Ghanaian politician and lawyer – Esther Obeng Dapaah was born in Kumasi (Second largest city of Ghana) on January 18th, 1945 and is 79 years old today.

Other personalities born on January 18

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

35

Chen Long

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1989, Shashi District

81

Kay Granger

American politician

*January 18th, 1943, Greenville

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

29

Wang Chi-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 18th, 1995, Taipei

66

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

69

Kevin Costner

American actor and filmmaker

*January 18th, 1955, Lynwood

68

Werner Liebrich

German footballer (1927–1995)

*January 18th, 1927, Kaiserslautern †March 20th, 1995, Kaiserslautern

80

Paul Keating

Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia

*January 18th, 1944, Bankstown

53

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

75

Franz-Olivier Giesbert

French journalist

*January 18th, 1949, Wilmington

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

64

Mark Rylance

British actor, playwright and theatre director

*January 18th, 1960, Ashford

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

48

Lars Paaske

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1976, Hørsholm

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

77

Takeshi Kitano

Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer

*January 18th, 1947, Adachi-ku

41

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

42

Elin Bergblom

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1982, Knivsta

34

Linda Weni Fanetri

Indonesian badminton player

*January 18th, 1990, Jakarta

32

Denis Grachev

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1992, Vladivostok

76

Michael Bliss

Canadian historian and author

*January 18th, 1941, Leamington †May 18th, 2017, Toronto

29

Gloria Groove

Brazilian singer, rapper, songwriter, actor, voice actor and drag queen

*January 18th, 1995, São Paulo

27

Rubén Castellanos

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1997, Morales

84

Dieter Krause

East German canoe racer (1936-2020)

*January 18th, 1936, Brandenburg an der Havel †August 10th, 2020, Bad Saarow

61

Martin O'Malley

American politician

*January 18th, 1963, Washington, D.C.

30

Shi Longfei

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1994, Shanghai

40

Jan Glinker

German association football player

*January 18th, 1984, East Berlin

74

Danny Kaye

American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian (1911–1987)

*January 18th, 1913, Brooklyn †March 3rd, 1987, Los Angeles

Also born in 1945

78

Vernon Wells

Australian actor

*December 31st, 1945, Rushworth

79

Manuel Neuer

German association football player

*March 27th, 1945, Gelsenkirchen

78

Franz Beckenbauer

German footballer (1945–2024)

*September 11th, 1945, Richard-Wagner-Straße 19 (München) †January 7th, 2024, Salzburg

75

Gerd Müller

German footballer (1945–2021)

*November 3rd, 1945, Nördlingen †August 15th, 2021, Wolfratshausen

79

Thilo Sarrazin

German economist and politician

*February 12th, 1945, Gera

72

Christine Kaufmann

German actress and businesswoman (1945-2017)

*January 11th, 1945, Lengdorf †March 28th, 2017, Munich

78

Victoria Bond

American composer

*May 6th, 1945, Los Angeles

78

Andreas Schmidt-Schaller

German actor

*October 30th, 1945, Arnstadt

78

Lasse Berghagen

Swedish singer, musician, songwriter, writer and television presenter

*May 13th, 1945, Enskede-Årsta-Vantör city district †October 19th, 2023, Stockholms Sankt Johannes

79

Rodrigo Duterte

President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022

*March 28th, 1945, Maasin

78

Helen Mirren

English actor (born 1945)

*July 26th, 1945, Hammersmith

36

Bob Marley

Jamaican reggae musician (1945–1981)

*February 6th, 1945, Nine Mile †May 11th, 1981, Jackson Memorial Hospital

78

Manfred Clauss

German historian of classical antiquity

*August 16th, 1945, Cologne

78

Aung San Suu Kyi

Former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

*June 19th, 1945, Yangon

78

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

President of Brazil (2003–2010, 2023–present)

*October 27th, 1945, Caetés

78

Radovan Karadžić

Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet convicted of genocide

*June 19th, 1945, Petnjica

78

John Lithgow

American actor

*October 19th, 1945, Rochester

76

Peter Patzak

Austrian film director and Screenwriter (1945-2021)

*January 2nd, 1945, Vienna †March 11th, 2021, Krems

71

Claus Ryskjær

Danish actor (1945-2016)

*June 26th, 1945, Frederiksberg †December 12th, 2016

72

Barkley L. Hendricks

African American painter

*April 16th, 1945, Nicetown-Tioga †April 18th, 2017, New London

71

Bernd Fritz

German author

*November 12th, 1945, Bechtheim †April 16th, 2017, Bechtheim

79

Barry Bostwick

American actor

*February 24th, 1945, San Mateo

78

Jean Nouvel

French architect (b.1945)

*August 12th, 1945, Fumel

78

Adrienne Barbeau

American actress

*June 11th, 1945, Sacramento

78

Rasa von Werder

American bodybuilder and sex worker

*July 16th, 1945, Calw

79

Eric Clapton

English guitarist, singer, and songwriter (born 1945)

*March 30th, 1945, Ripley

79

Linda Hunt

American actress

*April 2nd, 1945, Morristown

78

Patrick Modiano

French writer

*July 30th, 1945, Boulogne-Billancourt

78

Alain Juppé

92nd Prime Minister of France

*August 15th, 1945, Mont-de-Marsan

78

Eddy Merckx

Belgian cyclist (born 1945)

*June 17th, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem

Esther Obeng Dapaah