18 February: today's birthdays

• Fabrizio De André - Italian singer-songwriter, composer and poet
• Matt Dillon - American actor and film director
• Dr. Dre - Stage name of American singer and record producer Andre Romell Young
• Enzo Ferrari - Italian entrepreneur, engineer and former race car driver, the founder of the car company Ferrari
• Miloš Forman - Czech film director, screenwriter and actor, born Jan Tomáš Forman. He won two Oscars for Best Director for his films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus
• Fritz Heider - Austrian psychologist
• J-Hope - Stage name of South Korean songwriter, rapper, and dancer Jung Ho-seok
• Mór Jókai - Hungarian dramatist and novelist
  
• Jung Ho-seok - South Korean songwriter, rapper, and dancer, better known as J-Hope
• Max Klinger - German painter and sculptor
• ​Audre Lorde - American writer, feminist, and civil rights activist, born Audrey Geraldine Lorde.
• Alessandra Mastronardi - Italian actress, born Alessandra Carina Mastronardi
• Toni Morrison - American novelist born Chloe Anthony Wofford. She is the author of Beloved and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993
• László Nemes Jeles - Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He directed the film Son of Saul (Saul fia ) winning an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2016
• Georgios Papandrèu - Greek politician
• Gérard Rancinan - French photographer
• Bobby Robson - English soccer coach and former player
• Cybill Shepherd - American actress
• István Szabó - Hungarian film director
• John Travolta - American actor, singer and dancer. He starred in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction
• Roberta Vinci - Italian tennis player
• Alessandro Volta - Italian physicist, the inventor of the battery