The 230th day of the year, the 231st in a leap year
Born on 18 August
Every 18 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 18 August in any year.
Which weekday 18 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 18 August falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 18 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,836 babies were born on 18 August in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 109th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 18 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Roman Polanski | 1933– | French-Polish filmmaker |
| Franz Joseph I | 1830–1916 | Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary |
| Robert Redford | 1936–2025 | American actor and director |
| Edward Norton | 1969– | American actor |
| Patrick Swayze | 1952–2009 | American actor, producer, singer and dancer |
| Luc Montagnier | 1932–2022 | French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008) |
| Antonio Salieri | 1750–1825 | Italian composer and teacher |
| Felipe Calderón | 1962– | President of Mexico from 2006 to 2012 |
| Rosalynn Carter | 1927–2023 | First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981 |
| Shelley Winters | 1920–2006 | American actress |
| John Russell, 1st Earl Russell | 1792–1878 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1846–1852 and 1865–1866 |
| Just Fontaine | 1933–2023 | French football player and manager |
| Mika | 1983– | British-Lebanese musician, singer and songwriter |
| Lavr Kornilov | 1870–1918 | Imperial Russian Army general; born 18 August in the Julian calendar, which is 30 August in the Gregorian |
| Esteban Cambiasso | 1980– | Argentine association football player |
| Renato Sanches | 1997– | Portuguese association football player |
| Carole Bouquet | 1957– | French actress |
| Christian Slater | 1969– | American actor and producer |
Died on 18 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Kofi Annan | 1938–2018 | 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| Honoré de Balzac | 1799–1850 | French novelist and playwright |
| Alain Delon | 1935–2024 | French actor |
| Pope Alexander VI | 1431–1503 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1492 to 1503, of the Borgia family |
| Kim Dae-jung | 1924–2009 | 8th President of the Republic of Korea |
| B. F. Skinner | 1904–1990 | American behaviorist |
| Pope Paul IV | 1476–1559 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1555 to 1559 |
| Pope Sixtus III | died 440 | Pope and bishop of Rome from 432 to 440 |
| Subhas Chandra Bose | 1897–1945 | Indian nationalist leader |
| Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire | 1617–1648 | 18th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1640–1648) |
| Pope Adrian V | died 1276 | pope |
| Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor | 1708–1765 | Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany |
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