List of Famous people born on December 18th

Koyuki Kato , better known by her stage name Koyuki (小雪), is a Japanese model and actress.

Nelly Karim is an Egyptian actress, model, and ballerina.

Véronic DiCaire is a Canadian Franco-Ontarian singer and impressionist.

Ryan Crouser is an American shot putter and discus thrower. On January 24, 2021, he threw 22.82 m to set a new World Indoor Shot Put Record in Fayetteville, Arkansas USA. The previous world indoor record of 22.66 m was set by Randy Barnes in 1989. Crouser also had a 22.70 m throw in the fourth round that also broke the 32 year old world record. Crouser won the gold medal in the shot put at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, setting the current Olympic Games record of 22.52 m.

V. Venkata Ramana Reddy, known professionally as Dil Raju, is an Indian film producer and distributor, known for his works in Telugu cinema. He owns the production house Sri Venkateswara Creations. In 2016, he received the Andhra Pradesh state Nagi Reddy–Chakrapani National Award for his contributions to popular cinema. His 2017 production Sathamanam Bhavati received National Film Award for Best Popular Film.

Yuki Furukawa is a Japanese actor, supermodel, guitarist and break dancer. He gained popularity as Naoki Irie in the 2013 television series Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo and its sequel, Mischievous Kiss 2: Love in Okinawa.

Gerald Edward Meerschaert III is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor since 2007, he has formerly competed for the RFA, Titan FC, and King of the Cage. He is the former RFA Middleweight Champion.

Ronald Dee White is an American stand-up comedian, actor and author, best known as a charter member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Nicknamed "Tater Salad", he is the author of the book I Had the Right to Remain Silent But I Didn't Have the Ability, which appeared on the New York Times best seller list.

Cesare Battisti is an Italian revolutionary, former member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism (PAC), a far-left militant and terrorist group which committed acts of illegality and crimes in Italy in the late 1970s during the period known as the "Years of Lead". He was sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy for four homicides. He fled Italy first to France and then to Mexico before settling in Brazil where he lived as a free man until an order of extradition issued in December 2018. He then fled to Santa Cruz in Bolivia, where he was arrested in 2019 by an Italian team of Interpol and extradited to Italy where is currently under arrest. He is also a fiction author, having written 15 novels.

In 1960, Graeme Thorne, an 8-year-old Australian boy, was kidnapped and murdered for part of the money that his parents, Bazil Thorne and Freda Thorne, had won in an Opera House lottery. The crime, regarded as one of the most infamous in Australia's history, caused massive shock at the time and attracted huge public attention, and was the country's first well known kidnap for ransom. The police investigation that led to the capture and conviction of his murderer, an immigrant named Stephen Bradley, is often considered as pioneering, sophisticated, and the beginning of modern forensic investigation in Australia.