List of Famous people born on August 18th

Grainger Hines is an American actor, writer, producer, and director.

Elizabeth Chambers is an American television personality and entrepreneur. Best known as the founder of the Texas-based Bird Bakery retail chain, she has filmed holiday cooking on The Cooking Channel, Today, and The Food Network. She is also known for a film role in The Game Plan and appeared in television series Shark and Criminal Minds.

Catharina Johanna Lodders, now Catharina Evans is a Dutch model and beauty queen who won the 1962 Miss World contest, representing the Netherlands.

Cakka Nuraga is an Indonesian musician, singer and guitarist. Singing since the age of eight, he began his musical career by singing jingles and by appearing in a televised music competition in Indonesia.

Daniel Joe Peters is the drummer for Mudhoney. He joined Bundle of Hiss when he was fifteen years old. He also played drums for Nirvana, appearing on one single, "Sliver". Peters' only live appearance with Nirvana was on September 22, 1990, in Seattle, Washington, at the Motor Sports International Garage. Peters continues to drum for Mudhoney, and was replaced in Nirvana by Dave Grohl. Peters expressed his only regret as missing the chance to play drums on Nevermind. He returned to Mudhoney for the recording of Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. He has stayed with Mudhoney ever since. Mudhoney's latest offering is Digital Garbage released on September 19, 2018. Peters has also played drums for Ellensburg, Washington based band Screaming Trees from 1990 to 1991. He also appeared in Black Sheep alongside David Spade and Chris Farley. He is married to a prominent litigator with the Seattle-based, Emerald Law Group. She was formerly a partner with the venerable law firm, Scott, Kinney & Mack pllc.

Sergey Yevgenyevich Treshchov is a former cosmonaut of the RSC Energia. He spent 184 days in space as a flight engineer of the International Space Station long duration Expedition 5 crew. During the mission he also conducted a spacewalk.

Heike Friedrich is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.