List of Famous people who born in 1918

Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs was a French astronomer.

Willi Becker was a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party. Because of a disease Becker committed suicide.

Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s. This discovery was a turning point in investigations of the cerebral cortex, as nearly all cortical studies of sensory function after Mountcastle's 1957 paper, on the somatosensory cortex, used columnar organization as their basis.

Joan Banks was an American film, television, stage, and radio actress, who often appeared in dramas with her husband, Frank Lovejoy.

Paul Bonneau was a French conductor, composer and arranger, whose career was mainly in the field of light music and films.