18 July: today's birthdays

• Bam Adebayo - American basketball player who plays for the Miami Heat in the NBA. His name is Edrice Femi Adebayo, but he uses his nickname Bam, in reference to Bamm-Bamm of The Flintstones. Adebayo is of Yoruba descent.
• Richard Branson - English entrepreneur. He founded of Virgin Group
• Priyanka Chopra - Indian actress and singer. She was awarded Miss World in 2000
• Tristan Corbière - French poet, born Édouard-Joachim Corbière
• Chace Crawford - American actor
• Mohammed Daoud Khan - Afghan politician
• Odile Decq - French architect 
• Vin Diesel - American actor
• Evgenij Aleksandrovic Evtušenko (Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko) - Russian poet and novelist
• Larissa Iapichino - Italian long jumper. She won a gold medal at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in Boras, Sweden
• Thomas Samuel Kuhn - American philosopher and historian of science
• Daron Malakian - American singer-songwriter and musician of Armenian descent. He is the cofounder of the hard rock band System of a Down
• Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela - South African politician, first President of South Africa
• Fernanda Pivano - Italian translater. She translated into Italian works by Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski
• Nathalie Sarraute - Pseudonym of Natacha Tcherniak, Russian-born French writer
• Raymond Murray Schafer - Canadian composer and writer
• William Makepeace Thackeray - English novelist born in India. He wrote Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
• Ben Vautier - French artist
• Paul Verhoeven - Dutch film director, screenwriter and producer