Famous birthdays
Famous people born on October 18
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 18 include Henri Bergson (1859), Chuck Berry (1926), Martina Navratilova (1956) and Zac Efron (1987). Our list below has 99 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 18 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1634 (Luca Giordano) and the most recent is 2003 (Alejandro Balde). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, writer.
Who was born on October 18?
- Henri Bergson 1859 French philosopher
- Chuck Berry 1926 American musician
- Martina Navratilova 1956 Czech-American tennis player
- Zac Efron 1987 American actor and singer
- Jean-Claude Van Damme 1960 Belgian actor and martial artist
- Pierre Trudeau 1919 Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984
- Huell Howser 1945 American television personality
- Frederick III, German Emperor 1831 As King of Prussia German Emperor
- Freida Pinto 1984 Indian actress
- Eugene of Savoy 1663 Prince of the house of Savoy, then commander in chief of the armies of the Holy Roman…
- Karl Nehammer 1972 Chancellor of Austria from 2021 to 2025
- Lindsey Vonn 1984 American alpine skier
- Klaus Kinski 1926 German actor
- George C. Scott 1927 American actor, film director and producer
- Melina Mercouri 1920 Greek actress, singer and politician. Minister of Culture of Greece
- Violeta Barrios de Chamorro 1929 President of Nicaragua
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1741 French novelist, official and army general
- Mongkut 1804 King of Siam from 1851 to 1868
- Mauricio Funes 1959 President of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014
- Ne-Yo 1979 American singer and songwriter
- Ramiz Alia 1925 Former First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, 1st President of the…
- Zakir Naik 1965 Indian Islamic preacher
- Craig Mello 1960 American biologist
- Howard Shore 1946 Canadian film score composer
- Naoto Otake 1968 Japanese association football player and manager
- Dante 1983 Brazilian association football player
- Ivanoe Bonomi 1873 Italian prime minister in 1921–22 and 1944–45
- Alejandro Balde 2003 Spanish-Dominican association football player
- Brittney Griner 1990 American basketball player
- Wynton Marsalis 1961 American jazz musician and educator
- Milo Yiannopoulos 1984 British far-right political commentator
- Vytautas Landsbergis 1932 Lithuanian politician and musicologist
- Peter Boyle 1935 American actor
- Tyler Posey 1991 American actor, musician (b. 1991)
- Konstantinos Mitsotakis 1918 Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993
- John McGinn 1994 Scottish association football player
- Philibert Tsiranana 1912 First President of Madagascar
- Lotte Lenya 1898 Austrian singer and actress
- Svetlana Loboda 1982 Ukrainian singer-songwriter
- Miriam Hopkins 1902 American actress
- Michael Stich 1968 German tennis player
- Norberto Bobbio 1909 Italian legal scholar
- Mihailo Petrović 1957 Serbian association football player and manager
- Pascual Jordan 1902 German physicist and politician
- Luca Giordano 1634 Italian Baroque painter
- Ryan Nelsen 1977 New Zealand association football player and coach
- Sergey Bezrukov 1973 Russian actor and singer
- Pascal Wehrlein 1994 German racing driver
- Muhammad Rashid Rida 1865 Syrian Muslim scholar and reformer
- Esperanza Spalding 1984 American jazz bassist and singer
- Justo José de Urquiza 1801 Argentine politician and military
- Megumi Sakata 1971 Japanese association football player
- James Foley 1973 American journalist
- Lucien Petit-Breton 1882 French cyclist
- Robert Harting 1984 German discus thrower
- Midhat Pasha 1822 Ottoman grand vizier, reformist, and creator of the first Ottoman constitution
- Joe Morton 1947 American actor
- Thomas Love Peacock 1785 English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company
- Chuck Lorre 1952 American television director, screenwriter, producer, composer and actor (ищкт 1952)
- Hilde Holger 1905 Austrian British dancer and choreographer
- Jyothika 1979 Indian actress
- Gianfranco Ravasi 1942 Catholic cardinal
- Zhou Xun 1974 Chinese actress and singer
- Jaroslav Drobný 1979 Czech footballer
- Kota Watanabe 1998 Japanese association football player
- Kir Bulychev 1934 Soviet Russian science fiction writer and historian
- Ernest Simoni 1928 Albanian Roman Catholic cardinal
- Johannes Linnankoski 1869 Finnish writer
- Christian Friedrich Schönbein 1799 German-Swiss chemist, discoverer of guncotton and ozone
- Salomon August Andrée 1854 Swedish engineer, balloon pioneer and explorer
- Jesse Helms 1921 American politician
- Julio Olarticoechea 1958 Argentine association football player
- Frederick IV, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp 1671 Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
- Sophie Thatcher 2000 American actress
- Győző Kulcsár 1940 Hungarian fencer
- Milcho Manchevski 1959 Macedonian-American film director
- Paul Stalteri 1977 Soccer player
- Juan Valera 1824 Spanish writer and diplomat
- Anita O'Day 1919 American jazz singer
- Christian Bassogog 1995 Cameroonian footballer
- Freja Beha Erichsen 1987 Danish model
- Yui Ohashi 1995 Japanese swimmer
- Efe Ambrose 1988 Nigerian footballer
- Mikhail Kuzmin 1872 Russian writer
- David Twohy 1955 American film director and screenwriter
- Laura Nyro 1947 American singer and songwriter
- Ernesto Canto 1959 Athletics competitor
- Charles Stross 1964 British science fiction writer and blogger
- Kong Linghui 1975 Chinese table tennis player
- Toby Regbo 1991 English actor
- James McAtee 2002 English footballer
- Guy Roux 1938 French football player and manager
- Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès 1753 French lawyer and statesman during the French Revolution and the First Empire, best…
- Janalynn Castelino 1998 Italian-Indian singer-songwriter and record producer
- Andrej Bajuk 1943 Prime Minister of Slovenia
- Ludovico Scarfiotti 1933 Racecar driver
- Yoo Sang-chul 1971 South Korean association football player
- Inger Stevens 1934 Swedish-American actress
- Robbie Savage 1974 Welsh association football player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 18 share the 18th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.