18 May: today's birthdays

• Pierre Balmain - French fashion designer. He was the founder of the fashion house Balmain
• Rudolf Carnap - German-born American philosopher
• Bernard Feringa - Dutch chemist and laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Jean-Pierre Sauvage and James Fraser Stoddart.
• Walter Gropius - German architect, designer and urban planner. One of the founders of Bauhaus
• Martika - Stage name of Marta Marrero, American singer-songwriter and actress of Cuban descent
• Bertrand Russell - English philosopher, historian, mathematician and writer, born Bertrand Arthur William Russell. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950
• Augusto César Sandino - Nicaraguan revolutionary
• Karol Wojtyła - 264º bishop of Rome and Pope of the Catholic Church, of Polish nationality, born Karol Józef Wojtyła