18 September: today's birthdays

• Lance Armstrong - American racing cyclist. He won the Tour de France seven times. The victories were cancelled after doping allegations
• Léon Foucault - French physicist, born Jean Bernard Léon Foucault. He is best known for inventing the Foucault pendulum, which shows the Earth's rotation
• James Gandolfini - American actor. He is best known for his role as Tony Soprano, in the TV series The Sopranos
• Adrien-Marie Legendre - French mathematician
• Anna Jur'evna Netrebko (Anna Yuryevna Netrebko) - Russian soprano
• Dmitrij Pavlovič (Dmitri Pavlovich) - Russian nobleman. He is known for being involved in the murder of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
• Karim Rashid - Egyptian designer
• Mark Romanek - American film director and screenwriter. He directed the film One Hour Photo and Never let me go 
• Wolfgang Schäuble - German politician. He is the current Minister of Finance in Germany
• Peter Shilton - Former English soccer player
• Xzibit - American rapper and actor, born Alvin Nathaniel Joiner