Gertrud Schmidt (81)
July 18th, 1942

German athletics competitor – Gertrud Schmidt was born in Ozorków (City and urban gmina of Poland) on July 18th, 1942 and is 81 years old today.

Other personalities born on July 18

43

Kristen Bell

American actress (born 1980)

*July 18th, 1980, Huntington Woods

82

Frank Farian

German music producer

*July 18th, 1941, Kirn †January 23rd, 2024, Miami

77

Svein Ludvigsen

Norwegian politician

*July 18th, 1946, Hillesøy Municipality

95

Nelson Mandela

First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)

*July 18th, 1918, Mvezo †December 5th, 2013, Houghton Estate

74

Lonnie Mack

American musician (1941–2016)

*July 18th, 1941, West Harrison †April 21st, 2016, Nashville

36

Tontowi Ahmad

Indonesian badminton player

*July 18th, 1987, Banyumas

37

Anand Pawar

Badminton player

*July 18th, 1986, Mumbai

28

Delphine Lansac

Badminton player

*July 18th, 1995, Lyon

70

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, film producer, and boxer (1929-2000)

*July 18th, 1929, Cleveland †February 12th, 2000, Neuilly-sur-Seine

84

Brian Auger

English keyboardist

*July 18th, 1939, London

25

Luísa Sonza

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*July 18th, 1998, Tuparendi

74

Pete Yellin

American jazz musician

*July 18th, 1941, New York City †April 13th, 2016, New York City

56

Vin Diesel

American actor, producer, director, screenwriter and stuntman

*July 18th, 1967, Alameda County

72

Margo Martindale

American actress

*July 18th, 1951, Jacksonville

73

Richard Branson

British business magnate (born 1950)

*July 18th, 1950, Blackheath

27

Jonas Bager

Danish association football player

*July 18th, 1996, Hadsten

88

Kurt Masur

German conductor (1927-2015)

*July 18th, 1927, Brzeg †December 19th, 2015, Greenwich

41

Priyanka Chopra

Indian actress and singer (born 1982)

*July 18th, 1982, Jamshedpur

89

Edward Bond

English writer best known as a dramatist (1934–2024)

*July 18th, 1934, Holloway †March 3rd, 2024, Great Wilbraham

62

Elizabeth McGovern

American actress

*July 18th, 1961, Evanston

85

Paul Verhoeven

Dutch film director and screenwriter

*July 18th, 1938, Amsterdam

41

Eli Mambwe

Badminton player

*July 18th, 1982, Kalulushi

86

Roald Hoffmann

Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor

*July 18th, 1937, Zolochiv

32

Phyllis Chan

Badminton player

*July 18th, 1991, Hong Kong

83

Peter Mutharika

President of Malawi

*July 18th, 1940, Zomba

36

Yulianti CJ

Indonesian badminton player

*July 18th, 1987, Palembang

79

Thomas Markle

American lighting director and father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

*July 18th, 1944, Newport

72

Elio Di Rupo

Belgian politician

*July 18th, 1951, Morlanwelz

29

Ben Torrance

Scottish badminton player

*July 18th, 1994, Irvine

59

Wendy Williams

American television host, businesswoman, and author

*July 18th, 1964, Asbury Park

Also born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

82

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

27

Jimi Hendrix

American guitarist (1942–1970)

*November 27th, 1942, Seattle †September 18th, 1970, Kensington

75

Pierre Seron

Belgian comics artist (1942-2017)

*February 9th, 1942, Chênée †May 24th, 2017, Saint-Bénézet

81

Thomas Danneberg

German actor (1942–2023)

*June 2nd, 1942, Berlin †September 30th, 2023, Berlin

74

Sven-Erik Magnusson

Swedish singer and musician

*October 13th, 1942, Säffle †March 22nd, 2017, Karlstad

71

Bob Hoskins

English actor (1942–2014)

*October 26th, 1942, Bury St Edmunds †April 29th, 2014, Bury St Edmunds

82

Michael Bloomberg

American businessman and politician; 108th mayor of New York City

*February 14th, 1942, Boston

82

Mike Pender

British musician

*March 3rd, 1942, Kirkdale

70

Roger Ebert

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

*June 18th, 1942, Urbana †April 4th, 2013, Chicago

75

David Ogden Stiers

American actor (1942–2018)

*October 31st, 1942, Peoria †March 3rd, 2018, Newport

82

Barbra Streisand

American singer and actress (born 1942)

*April 24th, 1942, Brooklyn

82

Fraser Stoddart

Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

*May 24th, 1942, Edinburgh

Gertrud Schmidt