18 August: today's birthdays

• Esteban Matías Cambiasso Delau - Argentine soccer player
• Sergio Castellitto - Italian actor and film director. He is married to Italian writer Margaret Mazzantini
• Austan Goolsbee - American economist
• Rafer Johnson - American athlete
• Nicole Krauss - American author. She wrote the novel The History of Love. She is married to writer Jonathan Safran Foer
• Meriwether Lewis - American explorer
• Elsa Morante - Italian novelist, poet and translator. She was married to Italian writer Alberto Moravia
• Ugo Mulas - Italian photographer
• Michael Holbrook Penniman - Lebanese-born English singer best known as Mika
• Jules Perrot - French dancer and choreographer
• Gleison Pinto dos Santos - Brazilian soccer player
• Roman Polanski - Polish-born American film director, screenwriter, and actor. He fled to France after beeing charged of rape in the U.S. in 1978. He won an Oscar for Best Director in 2003 for his film The Pianist
• Robert Redford - American actor, film director and producer. He won an Oscar for Best Director and an Honorary Oscar
• Alain Robbe-Grillet - French writer, film director and screenwriter. He wrote the novels Les Gommes, Le Voyeur and La Jalousie
• Andy Samberg - American actor and stand-up comedian
  
• Christian Slater - American actor, born Christian Michael Leonard Slater
• Patrick Swayze - American actor and dancer, born Patrick Wayne Swayze. He starred in Dirty Dancing, Point Break and Ghost 
• Aphex Twin - Irish musician