18 March: today's birthdays

• Nikolaj Aleksandrovič Berdjaev (Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev) - Russian philosopher
• Luc Besson - French film director. He directed Subway, Nikita, Léon: The Professional, and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
• René Clément - French film director and screenwriter
• Grover Cleveland - American politician. He was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States
• Lily Collins - English actress and model, born Lily Jane Collins 
• Fustel de Coulanges - French historian
• Rudolph Diesel - German engineer and inventor
• Sébastien Frey - French soccer player
• Arthur Keily - English athlete
• Kurt Koffka - German psychologist
• Arlette Laguiller - French politician
• Adam Levine - American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is the frontman of the Maroon 5 band 
• Madame de La Fayette - French writer born Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne
  
• Stéphane Mallarmé - French symbolist poet, writer, and critic, born Étienne Mallarmé. He was an English teacher for a living
• Gustav Peichl - Austrian architect
• Reince Priebus - American attorney and politician, White House Chief of Staff named by US President Donald Trump, born Reinhold Richard Priebus
• Queen Latifah - American singer and actress
• Walter A. Shewhart - American physicist and engineer
• John Updike - American novelist. He wrote the novel The Witches of Eastwick which was adapted into the film starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon in 1987
• Mauro Matías Zárate - Argentine soccer player