List of Famous people who born in 1918
Baby Esther
Esther Lee Jones, known by her stage names "Baby Esther" and "Little Esther", was an American singer and child entertainer of the late 1920s, known for interpreting popular songs with a "mixture of seriousness and childish mischief". After gaining attention in her hometown of Chicago, she became an international celebrity before leaving the public spotlight as a teenager.
Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
Ali Şen
Ali Şen was a Turkish actor, father of the actor Şener Şen. He played many roles both as protagonist and antagonist.
Fay McKenzie
Eunice Fay McKenzie was an American actress and singer. She starred in silent films as a child, and then sound films as an adult, but perhaps she is best known for her leading roles opposite Gene Autry in the early 1940s in five horse opera features. She was also known for her collaborations with director Blake Edwards on five occasions. She also appeared on Broadway, radio and television, having appeared on screen at ten weeks old in 1918. She was still appearing on screen at the time of her death, with her latest project opposite her son Tom Waldman Jr. in the comedy Kill a Better Mousetrap, based on a play by Scott K. Ratner, filmed in the summer of 2018 and not yet released at the time of her death. She was briefly billed as Fay Shannon.
Rosalia Lombardo
Rosalia Lombardo was an Italian child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, one week shy of her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, was grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia, an embalmer, to preserve her remains. Her mummified body, sometimes called "Sleeping Beauty", was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.
William Jefferson Blythe, Jr.
William Jefferson Blythe Jr. was an Arkansas salesman of heavy equipment and the biological father of Bill Clinton. Blythe died three months before his son was born.
Tom Moore, Jr.
Tom Moore Jr. was a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from McLennan County. Moore is most noted for an April Fool's Day prank he played to demonstrate that his fellow legislators often did not read the legislation they were approving and for being a member of the "Dirty Thirty."
Robert Walker
Robert Hudson Walker was an American actor, best remembered for his starring role as the villain in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Strangers on a Train (1951), which was released shortly before his death.
Mariano Mores
Mariano Alberto Martínez, known professionally as Mariano Mores, was an Argentine tango composer and pianist.
Art Carney
Arthur William Matthew Carney was an American actor and comedian. A recipient of an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and six Primetime Emmy Awards, Carney was best known for his role as Ed Norton on the sitcom The Honeymooners (1955–1956).