July 18: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is July 18th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on July 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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July 18th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

July 18th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Kenneth Armitage, English sculptor (How Many Miles to Babylon, L-Shaped Screen, Pandarus X, Prophet and Reclining Figure), was born on July 18, 1816.

Italian Baroque operatic composer Giovanni Battista Bononcini (Astarto, Calphurnia, Cefalo, La Clemza di Augusto, Erminia, Griselda, Maria Fuggitivo, L'Odio e L'Amore and Xerse) was born on July 18, 1670.

Victor David Gruen, Austrian-American architect, city planner and shopping mall designer, was born on July 18, 1903.

July 18th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Tenley Albright, American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (1952 and 1956) and the first female office on the U.S. Olympic Committee (1979), was born on July 18, 1935.

Dick Totten Button, American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist

(1948 and 1952), was born on July 18, 1929.

Anfernee (Penny) Hardaway, American basketball player and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on July 18, 1972.

Daniel Dion O'Brien, American decathelete and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on July 18, 1966.

Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, Australian hurdler and Olympic gold medalist (1952 and 1956), was born on July 18, 1925.

July 18th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Canadian author Jean Margaret Wemyss Laurence (The Stone Angel) was born on July 18, 1926.

Clifford Odets, American playwright and screenwriter (Awake and Sing, Clash by Night, Deadline at Dawn, Flowering Peach, Golden Boy, Humoresque, Rocket to the Moon, Sweet Smell of Success, Till the Day I Die, Waiting for Lefty and Wild in the Country), was born on July 18, 1906.