November 18: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

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

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

(If someone you love is celebrating another year today, why not forward this list to the birthday boy or girl? Click SHARE at the bottom of this page to email the entire article with your "Happy Birthday" message.)

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

November 18th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Constantin Alajalov, Russian-American illustrator (Backstage at the Opera Lohengrin, Ditters and Jitters and Marx Brothers Make New Hit), was born on November 18, 1900.

Luca Cambiaso, Italian Mannerist Painter (Christ Before Caiaphas, Christ Led Out of Pilate's House, Holy Family with St John the Baptist, The Lamentation, Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and an Angel, Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine and The Running Boy), was born on November 18, 1527.

Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, French physicist, theatrical set painter and photographic pioneer (Daguerreotype photographic processing), was born on November 18, 1787.

Irish Realist painter Stanhope Alexander Forbes (The Harbour Window, Mousehole Harbour and A Street in Brittany) was born on November 18, 1857.

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, British composer and lyricist, was born on November 18, 1836. With Sir Arthur Sullivan, Sir William Gilbert created several popular comic operas, including The Gondoliers, The Grand Duke, H.M.S. Pinafore, Iolanthe, The Mikado, Patience, The Pirates of Penzance, Princess Ida, Ruddigore, Thespis, Trial by Jury and The Yeoman of the Guard.

Percy Wyndham Lewis, British author (Blasting and Bombardiering, The Childermass, The Human Age, Malign Fiesta, Monstre Gai, Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career and Tarr ) and Vorticist painter (Before Antwerp, Tyros and Workshop), was born on November 18, 1882.