People born on September 18

Anna Netrebko

Russian-born Austrian operatic soprano

Samuel Johnson

English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)

Ronaldo

Brazilian footballer (born 1976)

Greta Garbo

Swedish-American actress (1905–1990)

Lance Armstrong

Cyclist from the United States

Gregory XVI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846

James Gandolfini

American actor (1961–2013)

Léon Foucault

French physicist

Mark Shuttleworth

South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station

Victor Ambartsumian

Soviet Armenian astrophysicist

Edwin McMillan

American physicist (1907-1991)

Steven Pinker

Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

Junichi Inamoto

Japanese association football player

James Marsden

American actor (born 1973)