Notable Birthdays for September 18
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this date include:
- English poet and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, writer of the first English dictionary, in 1709
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story in 1779
- French physicist Leon Foucault, inventor of the gyroscope, in 1819
- choreographer Agnes de Mille in 1905
- actors Greta Garbo in 1905, Leon Askin in 1907, Jack Warden in 1920 and Robert Blake in 1933 (age 81)
- film producer Bud Greenspan in 1926
- comedian Fred Willard in 1939 (age 75)
- singer/actor Frankie Avalon in 1940 (age 74)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Dee Dee Ramone in 1951
- surgeon and political commentator Dr. Ben Carson, also in 1951, (age 63)
- basketball Hall of Fame member Rick Pitino in 1952 (age 62)
- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges in 1956 (age 58)
- baseball Hall of Fame member Ryne Sandberg in 1959 (age 55)
- actor Holly Robinson Peete in 1964 (age 50)
- actor Jada Pinkett Smith and cyclist Lance Armstrong, both in 1971 (age 43).
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