September 18: Today's Notable Birthdays

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

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

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September 18th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

September 18th Birthdays: Famous Artists

William Collins, British landscape painter (Rustic Civility and Returning from the Haunts of the Seafowl), was born on September 18, 1787.

Lady Hetta Empson, British sculptress, was born on September 18, 1915.

American Puritan pastor and hymnwriter Oliver Holden ("All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" and "Boundless Mercy") was born on September 18, 1765.

Frederic Mares, Spanish sculptor (Monumento al Tambor de Bruch), was born on September 18, 1893.

Dutch Realist painter Anton Rudolf Mauve (Changing Pasture, Entering the Fold and Morning Ride) was born on September 18, 1838. Master painter Vincent Van Gogh was his cousin.

Johann David Passavant, German museum curator (Stadelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt) and painter (Holy Family with Elizabeth and John and A Visitation, Christ and the Samaritan), was born on September 18, 1787.

Japanese Nihonga painter Yokoyama Taikan (Muga, Night Sakura and Snowy Peak with Cranes ) was born on September 18, 1868.

September 18th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Lance Armstrong, American cyclist, Olympian and author (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life), was born on September 18, 1971.

September 18th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Samuel Johnson, British scholar and author (Dictionary of the English Language, The Idler, Life of Savage, Lives of the Poets, Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia and The Vanity of Human Wishes), was born on September 18, 1709.

September 18th Birthdays: Famous Performers

American actor Eddie (Rochester) Anderson (Birth of the Blues, Gone with the Wind, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Jack Benny Show) was born on September 18, 1905.

American R&B vocalist Ricardo (Ricky) Bell (Bell Biv Devoe and New Edition) was born on September 18, 1967.

Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (The Barefoot Contessa, The Bobo, The Christmas That Almost Wasn't, Formula for a Murder, The Italian Job, The Light in the Piazza, Little Women, South Pacific, The Story of Esther Costello, Summertime, The Third Solution and Three Coins in the Fountain), was born on September 18, 1916.

British rock singer Joanne Catherall (Human League) was born on September 18, 1962.

Douglas (Dee Dee Ramone) Colvin, American rock bass guitarist (The Ramones), was born on September 18, 1951.

Tara Fitzgerald, British actress (Brassed Off, The Chamomile Lawn, Dark Blue World, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, I Capture the Castle, New World Disorder, Sirens, Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Virgin Queen and Waking the Dead), was born on September 18, 1967.

American actor James Gandolfini (8MM, 12 Angry Men, A Civil Action, Crimson Tide, Get Shorty, The Juror, The Sopranos, A Stranger Among Us and Terminal Velocity) was born on September 18, 1961.

Greta (Garbo) Lovisa Gustafsson, Swedish-American actress (Anna Christie, Anna Karenina, As You Desire Me, The Atonement of Gosta Berling, Camille, Conquest, Flesh and the Devil, Grand Hotel, Inspiration, Mata Hari, Ninotchka, The Painted Veil, Queen Christina, The Temptress, The Torrent and Two-Faced Woman), was born

Mike Hossack, American rock drummer, Doobie Brothers was born on September 18, 1950. September 18, 1928 Phyllis (Kirk) Kirkegaard, American actress, Thin Man, The Red Buttons Show, The Thin Man, House of WaxRed Button's Show was born on September 18,

American rock guitarist Kerry Livgren (Kansas) was born on September 18, 1949.

American actress Alison Marion Lohman (Big Fish, Delivering Milo, Flicka, Matchstick Men, The Million-Dollar Kid, Planet Patrol, Sharing the Secret, Things We Lost in the Fire, Where the Truth Lies, White Boy and White Oleander) was born on September 18, 1979.

James Marsden, American actor (Ally McBeal, Boogie's Diner, Disturbing Behavior, In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco, On the Edge of Innocence and X-Men), was born on September 18, 1973.

Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (Flash Gordon and Summer Night) was born on September 18, 1941.

American actor Jack Mullaney (All the Fine Young Cannibals, It's About Time, Little Big Man, Little Miss Marker, My Living Doll, South Pacific, Spinout, Seven Days in May and The Absent-Minded Professor) was born on September 18, 1932.

Holly Robinson Peete, American actress (21 Jump Street, For Your Love and Hanging with Mr. Cooper), was born on September 18, 1964.

Brandon and Taylor Porter, twin actors (Party of Five), were born on September 18, 1993.

Jimmie Rodgers, American guitarist and singer ("Are You Really Mine," "Honeycomb," "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" and "Secretly"), was born on September 18, 1933.

American actor C.J. Sanders (Ray and Six Feet Under) was born on September 18, 1996.

Anna Deavere Smith, American playwright and actress (The American President, Philadelphia, The Practice and The West Wing), was born on September 18, 1950.

Jada Pinkett Smith, American actress (A Different World, Bamboozled, Collateral, If These Walls Could Talk, Jason's Lyric, Menace II Society, The Nutty Professor, Scream 2 and Woo), was born on September 18, 1971.

Aisha Tyler, American actress (24, Balls of Fury, Black Water Transit, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Death Sentence, Friends, Ghost Whisperer, The Santa Clause 2, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause and The Whipper), television personality (The Fifth Wheel and Talk Soup) and author (Swerve: A Guide to the Sweet Life for Postmodern Girls), was born on September 18, 1970.

American actor Jack Warden (All the President's Men, Bad News Bears, Brian's Song, Crazy like a Fox, From Here to Eternity, NYPD, Problem Child, Shampoo and Used Cars) was born on September 18, 1920.

American comedian and actor Fred Willard (Fernwood 2 Night and Real People) was born on September 18, 1939.

September 18th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Sir John Kerr, Scottish Parliamentarian, embryologist and naval camouflage developer, was born on September 18, 1869.

Adrien-Marie Lagendre, French mathematician (Lagrangian Elliptical Functions), was born on September 18, 1752.

Edwin Mattison McMillan, American nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1951), was born on September 18, 1907. McMillan has been credited with using plutonium to produce the first transuranium element.

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

Canadian Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker was born on September 18, 1895.

Joseph Story, American judge and 19^th U.S. Supreme Court justice, was born on September 18, 1779.

Marcus Ulpius Trajan, 3^rd Roman Emperor, was born on September 18, 52 AD.

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

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

Happy Birthday, September 18th.

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