History Births on February 18

Alex Ríos, American baseball player

#Alex_Ríos

Dennis DeYoung, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player

#Dennis_DeYoung

Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager (d. 1904)

#Wilson_Barrett

Jean Jules Jusserand, French historian, author, and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (d. 1932)

#Jean_Jules_Jusserand

Gary Neville, English footballer and coach

#Gary_Neville

Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer

#Roberto_Baggio

Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (d. 1988)

#Enzo_Ferrari

Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgian businessman and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Georgia

#Bidzina_Ivanishvili

Joe Tipton, American baseball player and soldier (d. 1994)

#Joe_Tipton

Regina Spektor, Russian-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

#Regina_Spektor

James Metzger, American businessman and philanthropist

#James_Metzger

Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet and politician, 1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (d. 1980)

#Luis_Muñoz_Marín

Jason Maxiell, American basketball player

#Jason_Maxiell

Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, manager, and scout (d. 2016)

#Luis_Arroyo

Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French philosopher and author (d. 1743)

#Charles-Irénée_Castel_de_Saint-Pierre

Len Ford, American football player (d. 1972)

#Len_Ford

Bernadette Sembrano, Filipino journalist

#Bernadette_Sembrano

Carlos Kameni, Cameroonian footballer

#Carlos_Kameni

Changmin, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

#Changmin

Miloš Forman, Czech-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2018)

#Miloš_Forman

Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright (d. 1957)

#Nikos_Kazantzakis

Anders Zorn, Swedish artist (d. 1920)

#Anders_Zorn

Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2000)

#Pee_Wee_King

George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016)

#George_Kennedy

John Warner, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 61st United States Secretary of the Navy

#John_Warner

Leilani Munter, American race car driver and environmentalist

#Leilani_Munter

Francesco Redi, Italian physician (d. 1697)

#Francesco_Redi

Phyllis Calvert, English actress (d. 2002)

#Phyllis_Calvert

Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019).

#Toni_Morrison

Marita Koch, German sprinter

#Marita_Koch

Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player

#Andrei_Kirilenko

Randy Crawford, American jazz and R&B singer

#Randy_Crawford

Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (d. 1680)

#Per_Brahe_the_Younger

Greta Scacchi, Italian-Australian actress

#Greta_Scacchi

Merritt Gant, American guitarist

#Merritt_Gant

Cody Hodgson, Canadian ice hockey player

#Cody_Hodgson

Shawn Estes, American baseball player and sportscaster

#Shawn_Estes

Swraj Paul, Baron Paul, Indian-English businessman and philanthropist

#Swraj_Paul,_Baron_Paul

Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer (d. 1950)

#Hedwig_Courths-Mahler

Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)

#Adolphe_Menjou

Chanda Rubin, American tennis player

#Chanda_Rubin

George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (d. 1934)

#George_Henschel

Maksim Haretski, Belarusian prose writer, journalist and activist (d. 1938)

#Maksim_Haretski

Yoko Ono, Japanese-American singer-songwriter

#Yoko_Ono

Isabel Preysler, Filipino-Spanish journalist

#Isabel_Preysler

Jayne Atkinson, English-American actress

#Jayne_Atkinson

Paco Rabanne, Spanish-French fashion designer

#Paco_Rabanne

Alexander Mogilny, Russian-American ice hockey player

#Alexander_Mogilny

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (d. 1933)

#Louis_Comfort_Tiffany

Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player

#Yevgeny_Kafelnikov

J-Hope, South Korean rapper, dancer, singer-songwriter

#J-Hope

Irma Thomas, American singer

#Irma_Thomas

Halit K?vanç, Turkish journalist and sportscaster

#Halit_K?vanç

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (d. 1274)

#Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Indian monk and saint (d. 1534)

#Chaitanya_Mahaprabhu

Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956)

#Edward_Arnold_(actor)

Dr. Dre, American rapper, producer, and actor

#Dr._Dre

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1674)

#Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon

Ghafar Baba, Malaysian politician (d. 2006)

#Ghafar_Baba

Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1944)

#Wendell_Willkie

Herman Santiago, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter

#Herman_Santiago

Anton Ferdinand, English footballer

#Anton_Ferdinand

Didi Gregorius, Dutch baseball player

#Didi_Gregorius

Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (d. 2009)

#Bobby_Robson

Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian pianist and composer (d. 2013)

#Oscar_Feltsman

Matt Dillon, American actor and director

#Matt_Dillon

Henry Vane the Elder, English politician (d. 1655)

#Henry_Vane_the_Elder

Claude Makélélé, French footballer and manager

#Claude_Makélélé

Nik Antropov, Kazakhstani-Canadian ice hockey player

#Nik_Antropov

Aivar Anniste, Estonian footballer

#Aivar_Anniste

Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)

#Ernst_Mach

Josip Šimuni?, Croatian footballer

#Josip_Šimuni?

Michael Buerk, English journalist

#Michael_Buerk

Christian Tiffert, German footballer

#Christian_Tiffert

Pat Bowlen, American businessman (d. 2019)

#Pat_Bowlen

Eliot Engel, American educator and politician

#Eliot_Engel

Ivan Sproule, Northern Irish footballer

#Ivan_Sproule

Prue Leith, English restaurateur and journalist

#Prue_Leith

Raine Maida, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

#Raine_Maida

Cheetah Chrome, American musician

#Cheetah_Chrome

Manny Mota, Dominican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster

#Manny_Mota

Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)

#Charles_III,_Duke_of_Lorraine

Robert DeLong, American singer-songwriter

#Robert_DeLong

Bill Cullen, American game show panelist and host (d. 1990)

#Bill_Cullen

Jack Palance, American boxer and actor (d. 2006)

#Jack_Palance

Susan Egan, American actress and singer

#Susan_Egan

Juice Newton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

#Juice_Newton

Jake Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player

#Jake_Trbojevic

Qin Shi Huang, Chinese emperor (d. 210 BC)

#Qin_Shi_Huang

Jillian Michaels, American fitness trainer and author

#Jillian_Michaels

Carrie Ann Baade, American painter and academic

#Carrie_Ann_Baade

Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1954)

#Henri_Laurens

Charlie Fowler, American mountaineer, author, and photographer (d. 2006)

#Charlie_Fowler

Larry Sweeney, American wrestler and manager (d. 2011)

#Larry_Sweeney

Paul Hanley, English drummer and songwriter

#Paul_Hanley_(musician)

Colin Jackson, Welsh sprinter and hurdler

#Colin_Jackson

Jermaine Jenas, English footballer

#Jermaine_Jenas

Ruby Dhalla, Canadian chiropractor and politician

#Ruby_Dhalla

Derek Pellicci, English-Australian drummer

#Derek_Pellicci

Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician (d. 1906)

#Alexander_Kielland

Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmentalist and author

#Julia_Butterfly_Hill

Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer (d. 1809)

#Johann_Christian_Kittel

Lewis Armistead, American general (d. 1863)

#Lewis_Armistead

Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (d. 1900)

#Samuel_Fenton_Cary

Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)

#Harry_Brearley

Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist and academic (d. 1996)

#Claude_Ake

Charles M. Schwab, American businessman, co-founded Bethlehem Steel (d. 1939)

#Charles_M._Schwab

John Travolta, American actor and producer

#John_Travolta

Jos van Emden, Dutch cyclist

#Jos_van_Emden

Jean Drapeau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1999)

#Jean_Drapeau

Gary Ridgway, American criminal, Green River Killer

#Gary_Ridgway

Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827)

#Alessandro_Volta

Maarten Gerritsz Vries, Dutch explorer (d. 1646)

#Maarten_Gerritsz_Vries

Cybill Shepherd, American actress and singer

#Cybill_Shepherd

Sadanoyama Shinmatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 50th Yokozuna (d. 2017)

#Sadanoyama_Shinmatsu

Isaac Casaubon, Swiss philologist and scholar (d. 1614)

#Isaac_Casaubon

Vanna White, American model and game show host

#Vanna_White

William Laurel Harris, American painter and author (d. 1924)

#William_Laurel_Harris

Mary I of England (d. 1558)

#Mary_I_of_England

Lisa See, American writer and novelist

#Lisa_See

Skip Battin, American singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2003)

#Skip_Battin

Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimy? (d. 1578)

#Uesugi_Kenshin

Fabian Picardo, Gibraltarian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Gibraltar

#Fabian_Picardo

Jamey Carroll, American baseball player

#Jamey_Carroll

André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1968)

#André_Mathieu

Bob St. Clair, American football player (d. 2015)

#Bob_St._Clair

István Szabó, Hungarian director and screenwriter

#István_Szabó

Helen Gurley Brown, American journalist and author (d. 2012)

#Helen_Gurley_Brown

James H. Fowler, American political scientist and author

#James_H._Fowler

Molly Ringwald, American actress

#Molly_Ringwald

Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (d. 1976)

#Wallace_Berman

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (d. 1448)

#Ibn_Hajar_al-Asqalani

Radek ?erný, Czech footballer

#Radek_?erný

Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)

#Fabrizio_De_André

Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (d. 1983)

#Nikolai_Podgorny

Tinu Yohannan, Indian cricketer

#Tinu_Yohannan

Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)

#Marie_Champmeslé

Audre Lorde, American poet, essayist, memoirist, and activist (d. 1992)

#Audre_Lorde

Henry Surtees, English race car driver (d. 2009)

#Henry_Surtees

Juelz Santana, American rapper and actor

#Juelz_Santana

Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (d. 1970)

#Li_Linsi

Graeme Garden, Scottish comedian, actor, and author

#Graeme_Garden

Rob Andrew, English rugby player and cricketer

#Rob_Andrew

Cristian T?nase, Romanian footballer

#Cristian_T?nase

Sebastian Neumann, German footballer

Marc Torrejón, Spanish footballer

Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican-American murderer

Thomas Bjorn, Danish golfer

Massimo Taibi, Italian footballer

Tomaž Humar, Slovenian mountaineer (d. 2009)

Phillip DeFreitas, Dominican-English cricketer

Andy Moog, Canadian ice hockey player

Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (d. 1997)

Miles Tredinnick, English singer-songwriter and playwright

Paul Rendall, English rugby player

Robbie Bachman, Canadian rock drummer

Bernard Valcourt, Canadian lawyer and politician

Maurice Lucas, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)

Queen Komal of Nepal

John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)

Cristina Ferrare, American model, actress, author, and television host

Nana Amba Eyiaba I, Ghanaian queen mother and advocate

Keith Knudsen, American singer-songwriter and drummer (d. 2005)

Bruce Francis, Australian cricketer

Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress

Judy Rankin, American golfer and sportscaster

Marlos Nobre, Brazilian composer

Bobby Hart, American singer-songwriter

Jean M. Auel, American author

Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (d. 1975)

Johnny Hart, American cartoonist, co-created The Wizard of Id (d. 2007)

Len Deighton, English historian and author

Rex Mossop, Australian rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2011)

Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2005)

A. R. Ammons, American poet and critic (d. 2001)

Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (d. 1995)

Allan Melvin, American actor (d. 2008)

Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1997)

Mary Amdur, American toxicologist and public health researcher (d. 1998)

Rolande Falcinelli, French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue. (d. 2006)

Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1993)

Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician and academic (d. 1980)

Queenie Leonard, English actress (d. 2002)

Arthur Bryant, English historian and journalist (d. 1985)

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi.

Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1692)

Bah?? al-d?n al-??mil?, founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (d. 1621)