The Birthday Gazette

Born on December 18

December 18 birthdays & history

If you were born on December 18, you share a birthday with Steven Spielberg, Brad Pitt and Christina Aguilera. December 18 babies are Sagittarius, with turquoise as their birthstone and the narcissus as their birth flower. December 18 is the 353rd day of the year in leap years (352nd in other years).

Famous people born on December 18

  • 1946Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks
  • 1963Brad Pitt, American actor and producer
  • 1980Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
  • 2001Billie Eilish, American singer
  • 1913Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1856J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1863Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Heir to the Austrian throne (1863–1914)
  • 1879Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator
  • 1943Keith Richards, English musician
  • 1946Steve Biko, South African activist, founded the Black Consciousness Movement

What happened on December 18

  • 1833The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.
  • 1854The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes the seigneurial system.
  • 1878The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
  • 1892The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky premiers in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  • 1898Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 63.159 km/h (39.245 mph) in a Jeantaud electric car.
  • 1913The Jew's Christmas, the first American film to include a rabbi as a character, was released.
  • 1935The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
  • 1944The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States.
  • 1958The United States launched SCORE, the world's first communications satellite.
  • 1966Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken for Janus; it took twelve years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
  • 1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth James Bond film and the only one to star George Lazenby, premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.
  • 1996The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial resolution officially declaring African-American Vernacular English to be a separate language or dialect.

Also observed on December 18

  • International Migrants Day
  • National Day (Qatar)
  • Republic Day (Niger)
  • UN Arabic Language Day (United Nations)

Questions, answered

What star sign is December 18?

People born on December 18 are Sagittarius. Their birthstone is turquoise and their birth flower is the narcissus.

Which famous people were born on December 18?

Steven Spielberg (1946), Brad Pitt (1963), Christina Aguilera (1980), Billie Eilish (2001), Willy Brandt (1913), J. J. Thomson (1856) were all born on December 18.

What happened on December 18 in history?

Among other things: in 1966, Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken for Janus; it took twelve years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit; in 1969, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth James Bond film and the only one to star George Lazenby, premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London; in 1996, The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial resolution officially declaring African-American Vernacular English to be a separate language or dialect.

Can I get a newspaper front page from December 18?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any December 18 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “December 18”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.