Famous people born in 1918

The best-known people born in 1918, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
July 18 · d. 2013
Photo: Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel, CC BY-SA 2.0
Ingmar Bergman
Swedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007)
July 14 · d. 2007
Photo: Joost Evers / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
December 11 · d. 2008
Photo: Bert Verhoeff for Anefo, CC0
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
May 11 · d. 1988
Photo: Copyright Tamiko Thiel 1984, CC BY-SA 3.0
Gamal Abdel Nasser
President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
January 15 · d. 1970
Photo: Press, Public domain
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981
December 25 · d. 1981
Photo: Press, Public domain
Helmut Schmidt
Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)
December 23 · d. 2015
Photo: Hans Schafgans, CC BY-SA 2.0
Rita Hayworth
American actress (1918–1987)
October 17 · d. 1987
Photo: Columbia Pictures; photographer not identified, Public domain
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
July 31 · d. 1987
Photo: Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain
Kurt Waldheim
Austrian politician and diplomat (1918–2007)
December 21 · d. 2007
Photo: Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist (1918–2013)
August 13 · d. 2013
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Gertrude B. Elion
American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
January 23 · d. 1999
Photo: GlaxoSmithKline plc, CC BY 4.0
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Hungarian-American socialite and actress (1917–2016)
February 6 · d. 2016
Photo: Studio publicity still, Public domain
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990)
August 25 · d. 1990
Photo: Jack Mitchell, CC BY-SA 4.0
Billy Graham
American Baptist evangelist (1918–2018)
November 7 · d. 2018
Photo: Warren K. Leffler, Public domain
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
August 26 · d. 2020
Photo: NASA, Public domain
Martin Ryle
English radio astronomer (1918–1984)
September 27 · d. 1984
Photo: Rights NRAO/AUI/NSF Photographer Woodruff T. Sullivan III Photo Credit NRAO/AUI Archives, Sullivan C, CC BY 4.0
Louis Althusser
French Marxist philosopher (1918–1990)
October 16 · d. 1990
Photo: Arturo Espinosa from barcelona, Cataluña (España), CC BY 2.0
Julian Seymour Schwinger
American theoretical physicist (1918–1994)
February 12 · d. 1994
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Spiro Agnew
vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973
November 9 · d. 1996
Photo: Seems to be his official VPOTUS portrait, and a small version is licensed as such at Wikipedia., Public domain
Betty Ford
First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
April 8 · d. 2011
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author or not provided, Public domain
William Holden
American actor (1918–1981)
April 17 · d. 1981
Photo: film studio, Public domain
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Japanese politician (1918–2019)
May 27 · d. 2019
Photo: 内閣官房内閣広報室, CC BY 4.0
Frederick Reines
American physicist (1918–1998)
March 16 · d. 1998
Photo: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Attribution
Kai Siegbahn
Swedish physicist (1918–2007)
April 20 · d. 2007
Photo: Jan Collsiöö, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
9th President of Italy (1918–2012)
September 9 · d. 2012
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Attribution
Kenichi Fukui
Japanese chemist (1918–1998)
October 4 · d. 1998
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Bertram Brockhouse
Canadian physicist
July 15 · d. 2003
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Alberto Ascari
Italian racing driver (1918–1955)
July 13 · d. 1955
Photo: El Gráfico, Public domain
Arthur Kornberg
American biochemist
March 3 · d. 2007
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

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Month by month

January

January 10 · Arthur Chung, First President of Guyana, Senior Magistrate, Sworn Land Surveyor (1918–2008)
January 12 · Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritual master
January 15 · João Figueiredo, Brazilian politician and military officer, 30th President of Brazil from 1979 to 1985
January 21 · Richard Winters, United States Army Officer
January 26 · Philip José Farmer, American writer (1918–2009)
January 29 · John Forsythe, American film and television actor (1918–2010)

February

February 1 · Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist and writer (1918–2006)
February 4 · Ida Lupino, British actress (1918–1995)
February 5 · Gara Garayev, Azerbaijani composer (1918–1982)
February 17 · Volodymyr Scherbytsky, Soviet politician (1918-1990)
February 22 · Robert Wadlow, American who was the tallest recorded person in history (1918–1940)
February 26 · Theodore Sturgeon, American speculative fiction writer (1918–1985)

March

March 1 · João Goulart, President of Brazil from 1961 to 1964
March 5 · James Tobin, American economist (1918–2002)
March 9 · Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (1918–2006)
March 17 · Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (1916-2004)
March 29 · Sam Walton, American businessman (1918–1992)
March 29 · Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (1918–1990)

April

April 9 · Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (1918–2008)
April 16 · Spike Milligan, Irish actor (1918–2002)
April 17 · Anne Shirley, American actress (1918–1993)
April 18 · André Bazin, French film critic and theorist (1918–1958)
April 23 · Maurice Druon, French novelist
April 26 · Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch track and field athlete (1918–2004)

May

May 4 · Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese politician (1918–1993)
May 6 · Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Sheikh of Abu Dhabi from 1966 to 2003
May 16 · Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (1917–1986)
May 17 · Birgit Nilsson, Swedish opera singer (1918–2005)
May 18 · Boris Christoff, Bulgarian bass singer (1914–1993)
May 20 · Edward B. Lewis, American biologist (1918–2004)

June

June 6 · Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist (1918–2009)
June 8 · Robert Preston, American actor and singer (1918–1987)
June 13 · Ben Johnson, American film actor (1918–1996)
June 15 · François Tombalbaye, President of Chad (1918–1975)
June 18 · Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist (1918–2003)
June 18 · Jerome Karle, American physical chemist (1918–2013)

July

July 1 · Ahmed Deedat, South African writer and orator (1918–2005)
July 4 · Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga, King of Tonga (1918–2006)
July 14 · Jay Wright Forrester, American operations researcher (1918–2016)
July 15 · Brenda Milner, Canada-based British neuroscientist and neuropsychologist
July 31 · Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist (1918–2018)
July 31 · Hank Jones, American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)

August

August 1 · Zhou Xuan, Chinese actress and singer (1920-1957)
August 9 · Robert Aldrich, American film director (1918–1983)
August 19 · Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India from 1992 to 1997
August 23 · Anna Mani, Indian meteorologist
August 28 · Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, 38th President of the Argentine Republic (1918–1996)
August 30 · Ted Williams, American baseball player and fighter pilot

September

September 8 · Derek Barton, English organic chemist (1918–1998)
September 13 · Rosemary Kennedy, younger sister of John F. Kennedy (1918–2005)
September 17 · Chaim Herzog, 6th President of Israel (1983–1993) – (born1918–1997)
September 22 · Hans Scholl, German pacifist, executed by Nazi Germany (1918–1943)
September 22 · Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist (1918–1988)
September 28 · Vasyl Oleksandrovych Sukhomlynsky, Ukrainian educationalist (1918–1970)

October

October 8 · Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist (1918-2018)
October 10 · Yigal Allon, Israeli politician, general, acting prime minister of Israel (1918–1980)
October 11 · Jerome Robbins, American choreographer and director (1918–1998)
October 18 · Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993 (1918–2017)
October 21 · Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu, South African anti–apartheid activist (1918-2011)
October 27 · Teresa Wright, American actress (1918–2005)

November

November 2 · Carmen Amaya, Spanish flamenco dancer and singer
November 4 · Art Carney, American actor and comedian (1918–2003)
November 10 · Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (1918–2007)
November 26 · Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician and former president (1918–2016)
November 29 · Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (1918–2007)
November 30 · Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor (1918–2014)

December

December 3 · Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian politician and general (1918–2000)
December 10 · Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (1918–1995)
December 13 · Rosalia Lombardo, Italian child who died of pneumonia
December 14 · B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga teacher and scholar (1918–2014)
December 15 · Jeff Chandler, American actor and singer (1918–1961)
December 26 · Georgios Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (1918–2006)

People from Wikidata (CC0), photos from Wikimedia Commons; each photo shows its author and licence.