List of Famous people born on October 18th

Akitake Okada is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

Minoru Shiraishi is a Japanese actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter and radio personality who was formerly affiliated with I'm Enterprise and Pro-Fit. He is the only "live-action" character in the Newtype Anime magazine to be featured in the Monthly Top-10 Most-Popular Male Character charts. He played himself in Episode 6 of Kiddy Girl-and as a voice actor in a voice actor cafe. Other roles include Taniguchi in the Haruhi Suzumiya series, and Itsuki Takeuchi in the Initial D reboot feature films in 2014.

Líber Ernesto Vespa Legarralde was an Uruguayan footballer who played for a number of clubs both in Argentina and Uruguay, including Argentinos Juniors, Rosario Central and C.A. Cerro.

Flavio Cotti was a Swiss politician and a member of the Federal Council from 1986 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic People's Party representing the canton of Ticino, he served as Switzerland's interior minister and foreign minister. In the 1990s, Cotti led the Swiss government's unsuccessful attempts to further Switzerland's political integration into the European Union. He was President of the Confederation in 1991 and 1998.

Eduardo César Angeloz was an Argentine politician. He was a presidential candidate and Governor of Córdoba from 1983 to 1995.

Isabelle Autissier is a French sailor, navigator, writer, and broadcaster. She is celebrated for being the first woman to have completed a solo world navigation in competition.

Emanuel Ortega is an Argentine pop singer. The son of Argentinian pop singer Ramón "Palito" Ortega.

Rouven Schröder is a former German football player & current Director of Mainz 05.

Édouard Stern was a French banker famously murdered in Geneva, Switzerland, by a woman he had a four-year relationship with. At the time of his death, he was the 38th richest French citizen.

Faisal Ghazi Faisal is an Iraqi athlete who hoped to represent Iraq in the 2006 Winter Olympics.