January 18: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is January 18th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on January 18th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

January 18th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

January 18th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Sir Francis Grant, Scottish painter (Charles Trelawny on his Favourite Hunter Grimaldi with his Favourite Hound, Portrait of Charles Trelawny Master of the Dartmoor Hunt and Portrait of Lady Victoria Leveson-Gower on her pony Lady Whitworth), was born on January 18, 1803.

January 18th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

American professional baseball player Curtis Charles Flood (Cincinnati Redlegs, St.Louis Cardinals and Washington Senators), was born on January 18, 1938.

Pete Laframboise, Canadian professional hockey player (Baltimore Clippers, Binghamton Dusters, California Golden Seals, Edmonton Oilers, Hershey Bears, Oshawa Generals, Ottawa 67s, Pittsburgh Penguins, Providence Reds, Springfield Indians and Washington Capitals), was born on January 18, 1950.

American professional baseball player Scott Houston McGregor (Baltimore Orioles) was born on January 18, 1954.

Canadian professional hockey player Mark John Douglas Messier (Cincinnati Stingers, Edmonton Oilers, Indianapolis Racers, New York Rangers and Vancouver Canucks) was born on January 18, 1961.

Carl Wendle Morton, American professional baseball player (Atlanta Braves and Montreal Expos), was born on January 18, 1944.

Joseph Paul (Joe) Schmidt, American professional football player (Detroit Lions), was born on January 18, 1932.

American professional football player Pat Sullivan (Atlanta Falcons) was born on January 18, 1950.

January 18th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

British journalist (Punch), poet and author (The Dover Road, The House at Pooh Corner, Mr. Pim Passes By, Now We Are Six, The Red House Mystery, When We Were Very Young and Winnie-the-Pooh) Alan Alexander (A.A.) Milne was born on January 18, 1882.

British physician, linguist and lexicographer Peter Mark Roget (Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases) was born on January 18, 1779.

January 18th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

American engineer and barbed wire fence inventor Joseph Farwell Glidden (Barb Fence Company) was born on January 18, 1813.

Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, British aviation pioneer and aircraft designer (World War I Sopwith Camel), was born on January 18, 1888.

January 18th Birthdays: Famous Performers

Dave Attell, American comedian and television personality (The Gong Show with Dave Attell and Insomniac with Dave Attell), was born on January 18, 1965.

British rock keyboardist, singer and songwriter Tom Bailey (The Thompson Twins), was born on January 18, 1954.

David Martin (DJ Quik) Blake, American rap singer, was born on January 18, 1970.

British rock guitarist and singer Christian Anthony Burns (BBMak and Tiesto) was born on January 18, 1974. Christian Burns is the son of rocker Tony Burns.

Mark Collie, American country music singer ("Born to Love You" and "Even the Man in the Moon Is Cryin'") and actor (Fire Down Below and The Punisher), was born on January 18, 1956.

American actor (3000 Miles to Graceland, The Bodyguard,

Bull Durham, Dances with Wolves, Field of Dreams, JFK, The Postman, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Thirteen Days, Tin Cup, The Untouchables, The Upside of Anger and Waterworld) and Academy Award winner (1990) Kevin Costner was born on January 18, 1955.

Jonathan Houseman Davis, American heavy metal rock singer (Korn), was born on January 18, 1971.

Bobby Goldsboro, American pop and country music guitarist, singer and songwriter ("Alice Doesn't Love Here Anymore," "Autumn of My Life," "A Butterfly for Bucky," "Goodbye Marie," "Honey," "I'm a Drifter," "Love Ain't Never Hurt Nobody," "Muddy Mississippi Line," "The Round-Up Saloon," "See the Funny Little Clown," "The Straight Life," "Summer: The First Time," "Take a Little Good Will Home" and "Watching Scotty Grow"), was born on January 18, 1941.

Norvell Oliver (Ollie) Hardy, American comedian (Laurel & Hardy) and actor (A-Haunting We Will Go, Air Raid Warden, Babes in Toyland, Block-Heads, Bonnie Scotland, A Chump at Oxford, The Fighting Kentuckian, The Flying Deuces, Great Guns, Jitterbugs, The Music Box, Nothing But Trouble, Pack Up Your Troubles, Pardon Us, Riding High, Saps at Sea, Sons of the Desert, Swiss Miss and Way Out West), was born on January 18, 1892.

British singer and actress (Absolutely Fabulous, Brothers of the Head, The Dressmaker, Faeries, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Getting It Right, Life Is Sweet, Little Voice, Look I'm Talking, Memphis Belle, Tinker Bell and The Witches) Barbara Jane Horrocks was born on January 18, 1964.

American dancer, singer, actor (The Court Jester, The Danny Kaye Show, Hans Christian Anderson, The Inspector General, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Skokie, Up In Arms and White Christmas) and UNICEF ambassador David Daniel (Danny Kaye) Kominski was born on January 18, 1913.

Archibald Alexander (Cary Grant) Leach, British actor (Arsenic and Old Lace, The Awful Truth, The Bishop's Wife, Bringing Up Baby, Charade, His Girl Friday, Holiday, North by Northwest, Notorious, The Philadelphia Story, She Done Him Wrong and To Catch A Thief), was born on January 18, 1904.

Irish pop and R&B singer ("Always Come Back to Your Love," "Baby Come on Over," "Body II Body," "Don't Need You to Tell Me I'm Pretty," "Gotta Tell You," "I'm Right Here" and "Lately") and actress (3 Crosses, Boy Eats Girl, Dancing on Ice, Johnny Was, Shifter, Spin the Bottle and The Time Machine) Samantha Tamania Anne Cecilia Mumba was born on January 18, 1983.

Heather Lynaye Floyd Payne, American contemporary Christian singer (Point of Grace), was born on January 18, 1970.

American actor Derek Richardson (Bring It on Again, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, Felicity, Hostel, Law & Order, Men in Trees, Reeker and Strangers with Candy) was born on January 18, 1976.

American soul singer Davis Eli (David) Ruffin (The Temptations) was born on January 18, 1941.

Jason Jordan Segel, American actor (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Freaks and Geeks, How I Met Your Mother and Undeclared), was born on January 18, 1980.

Larry (Legs) Smith, British comedy-rock drummer (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band), was born on January 18, 1944.

American actor Jesse Lamont (Jesse L. Martin) Watkins (413 Hope St., Ally McBeal, A Christmas Carol, Deep in My Heart, Law & Order, Restaurant, Season of Youth and Sexual Healing) was born on January 18, 1969.

January 18th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

German chemist Hans Goldschmidt (Chemische Fabrik Th. Goldschmidt) was born on January 18, 1861.

Thomas Augustus Watson, American engineer and scientist, was born on January 18, 1854. Thomas Watson assisted Alexander Graham Bell in the 1876 invention of the telephone.

January 18th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

Daniel Webster, American attorney, statesman, 14^th and 19^th U.S. Secretary of State (under 9^th U.S. President William Henry Harrison, 10^th U.S. President John Tyler and 13^th U.S. President Millard Fillmore), U.S. Senator (Federalist and Whig - MA) and U.S. Congressman (Federalist and Whig - MA), was born on January 18, 1782.

Do you know any others who are celebrating birthdays on January 18th?

If you know additional notable people (including yourself) who may be celebrating a birthday on January 18th, please indicate so in a comment below. Thank you!

Happy Birthday, January 18th.

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