18 October: today's birthdays

• Violeta Barrios de Chamorro - Nicaraguan politician. She has been President of Nicaragua
• Henri Bergson - French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927. He wrote the book Creative Evolution
• Chuck Berry - American guitarist and singer-songwriter, born Charles Edward Anderson Berry. He wrote and performed the big hit Johnny B. Goode
• Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès - French politician and legislator, Duke of Parma
• Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - French writer and inventor. He is best known for his novel Dangerous Liaisons (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), which has been adapted into the homonymous film directed by Stephen Frears, starring Glenn Close and Michelle Pfeiffer
• Zac Efron - American actor and singer, born Zachary David Alexander Efron. He became famous starring in the musical film High School Musical
• Wynton Marsalis - American jazz trumpeter and composer
• Boris Sagal - Ukrainian-born American film director
• Lindsey Vonn - American alpine ski racer, born Lindsey Caroline Kildow