People born on January 18

Montesquieu

French social commentator and political thinker (1689-1755)

Kevin Costner

American actor and filmmaker

Cary Grant

British-American actor (1904–1986)

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

Gilles Deleuze

French philosopher (1925–1995)

Rubén Darío

Nicaraguan poet, journalist, writer, and diplomat

Takeshi Kitano

Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer

A. A. Milne

British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh

Yoichiro Nambu

American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)

Makoto Hasebe

Japanese association football player

Leo Varadkar

Taoiseach from 2017 to 2020, and since 2022

Angelique Kerber

German tennis player

Dave Bautista

American actor and former professional wrestler

Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens

British sociologist (born 1938)