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Huang Chih-yung (Chinese: 黃 智勇; pinyin: Huáng Zhìyǒng; born October 18 1967 in Taipei) is a retired Taiwanese swimmer who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He is a two-time Olympian […]

Zhou Xun (born October 18 1974) is a Chinese actress and singer. She is regarded as one of the Four Dan actresses (四大花旦) in the early 2000s along with Zhang […]

721 Tabora is a planetoid orbiting the Sun.Tabora was named at a conference in Hamburg Germany in 1913. The name was chosen because the conference was held aboard the passenger […]

24308 Cowenco (1999 YC9) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 29 1999 by G. Hug and G. Bell at Farpoint Observatory.

Charles Silent (January 1 1842 – December 14 1918) was a German-born American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court. After leaving the bench […]

Rick Folstad (born October 18 1951) is a retired light welterweight professional boxer from Minneapolis Minnesota.

Matt Jones (born 18 October 1987) is a professional Australian rules football player at the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the club […]

Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (born 18 October 1960) professionally known as Jean-Claude Van Damme and abbreviated as JCVD is a Belgian martial artist actor and director best known for […]

2481 Bürgi is an asteroid from the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 18 October 1977 at the Zimmerwald Observatory.

Reiko Yasuhara (安原 麗子 Yasuhara Reiko) (born October 18 1969) is a Japanese singer and voice actress. She was a member of the group Shoujotai (少女隊).

Allison Parks (October 18 1941 – June 21 2010) born Gloria Waldron was an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month in October […]

John Frederick Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (18 October 1654 – 22 March 1686) succeeded his father Albert II as margrave of Ansbach in 1667. He married his second wife Eleonore Erdmuthe […]

Harry McPherson (born 18 October 1902) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

SIC Comédia was a Portuguese TV channel available on cable. It was part of the television network SIC (Sociedade Independente de Comunicação). It closed on 31 December 2006.The channel aired […]

Pedro Rodolfo Martínez (born 18 October 1963) is a Paraguayan professional golfer.Martinez was born in Asunción and turned pro in 1985.Martinez played on the European Tour in 2000 and 2001 […]

José Antonio Sánchez de Luna (born October 18 1984 in Granada Spain) is a former Spanish professional tennis player. He is currently director of the NES Campus Tennis Club in […]

2060 Chiron is a minor planet in the outer Solar System. Discovered in 1977 by Charles T. Kowal (precovery images have been found as far back as 1895) it was […]

St. Denis Ssebuggwawo (Musajja-mukulu) was by tribe a Muganda from Bulemeezi county. His father was Kajansi and mother Nsonga (Musoga). Ssebuggwawo was from Edible or Cane Rat (Musu) clan – […]

Jan Schäfer (born 18 October 1974 in Dresden) is a German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics he won a […]

8 Flora is a large bright main-belt asteroid. It is the innermost large asteroid: no asteroid closer to the Sun has a diameter above 25 kilometres or two-elevenths that of […]