The 261st day of the year, the 262nd in a leap year
Born on 18 September
Every 18 September birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Sunday and Friday16 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 September in any year.
Which weekday 18 September falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 18 September falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.
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How common a birthday 18 September is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,943 babies were born on 18 September in each year of the twenty, making it the 9th 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 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Netrebko | 1971– | Russian and Austrian operatic soprano |
| Samuel Johnson | 1709–1784 | English writer and lexicographer |
| Ronaldo | 1976– | Brazilian association football player |
| Greta Garbo | 1905–1990 | Swedish-American actress |
| Lance Armstrong | 1971– | cyclist from the United States |
| Pope Gregory XVI | 1765–1846 | Pope of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846 |
| James Gandolfini | 1961–2013 | American actor |
| Léon Foucault | 1819–1868 | French physicist |
| Mark Shuttleworth | 1973– | South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station |
| Viktor Ambartsumian | 1908–1996 | Soviet Armenian astrophysicist |
| Edwin McMillan | 1907–1991 | American physicist |
| Steven Pinker | 1954– | Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind |
| Jada Pinkett Smith | 1971– | American actress |
| James Marsden | 1973– | American actor |
| Christian Pulisic | 1998– | American soccer player |
| Adrien-Marie Legendre | 1752–1833 | French mathematician |
| Christian VIII | 1786–1848 | King of Norway 1814, King of Denmark 1839-1848 |
| Peter Shilton | 1949– | English footballer |
Died on 18 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Leonhard Euler | 1707–1783 | Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer |
| Jimi Hendrix | 1942–1970 | American guitarist |
| Dag Hammarskjöld | 1905–1961 | Swedish diplomat, economist, and author |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | 1933–2020 | American lawyer and jurist |
| John Cockcroft | 1897–1967 | British physicist |
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi | 1537–1598 | Japanese samurai and daimyo |
| Louis VII of France | 1120–1180 | King of France from 1137 to 1180 |
| Charles XV | 1826–1872 | King of Sweden and Norway from 1859 to 1872 |
| Pyotr Stolypin | 1862–1911 | Russian politician |
| Salvatore Schillaci | 1964–2024 | Italian association football player |
| Hippolyte Fizeau | 1819–1896 | French physicist |
| William Hazlitt | 1778–1830 | English essayist and writer |
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