The Birthday Gazette

Born on January 18

January 18 birthdays & history

If you were born on January 18, you share a birthday with Montesquieu, Kevin Costner and Cary Grant. January 18 babies are Capricorn, with garnet as their birthstone and the carnation as their birth flower. January 18 is the 18th day of the year in leap years.

Famous people born on January 18

  • 1689Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher
  • 1955Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer
  • 1904Cary Grant, English-American actor
  • 1971Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and manager
  • 1944Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Austria
  • 1925Gilles Deleuze, French metaphysician and philosopher
  • 1882A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright
  • 1867Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat
  • 1947Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
  • 1921Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

What happened on January 18

  • 350General Magnentius is proclaimed emperor by Roman aristocrats discontent with the rule of emperor Constans.
  • 1486King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
  • 1866Wesley College is established in Melbourne, Australia.
  • 1871The German Empire was formed by the unification of previously independent German states, under the rule of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
  • 1886Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
  • 1911Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
  • 1915Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.
  • 1919Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
  • 1958Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, becoming the first black Canadian to compete in the NHL.
  • 1981Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
  • 1993Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
  • 2008The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Also observed on January 18

  • Royal Thai Armed Forces Day (Thailand)

Questions, answered

What star sign is January 18?

People born on January 18 are Capricorn. Their birthstone is garnet and their birth flower is the carnation.

Which famous people were born on January 18?

Montesquieu (1689), Kevin Costner (1955), Cary Grant (1904), Pep Guardiola (1971), Alexander Van der Bellen (1944), Gilles Deleuze (1925) were all born on January 18.

What happened on January 18 in history?

Among other things: in 1981, Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs); in 1993, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states; in 2008, The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Can I get a newspaper front page from January 18?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any January 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, “January 18”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.