List of Famous people born on October 18th

Alf Lüdtke was a historian and a leading German representative of the history of everyday life. He said his main fields of interest and research include work as a social practice, the connection of production and destruction through "work", forms of taking part and acquiescing in European dictatorships in the 20th century, and remembering and memorialising forms of dealing with war and genocide in the modern era.

Stéphane Brizé is a French film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.

Sandra Toft Galsgaard is a Danish handball goalkeeper for Brest Bretagne Handball and the Danish national team.

María Consuelo Araújo Castro is a Colombian politician. In 2006 she was appointed Minister of Foreign Relations of the government of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez. She had previously served as Minister of Culture from 2002 to 2006.

Mehmed Esad Pasha, known as Mehmet Esat Bülkat after the 1934 Surname Law, was an Ottoman general active during the First Balkan War, where he led the Yanya Corps, and in World War I, where he was the senior Ottoman commander in the Dardanelles Campaign.

Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer and conductor noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, with one being for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979.

Ferran Latorre Torres is a Spanish mountaineer and adventurer.

Pierre Barlaguet was a French football manager and player, known for his association with Nîmes. He also managed Mazamet, Châtellerault, Vichy and Bourges.

Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War. Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.

Enrique Haroldo Gorriarán Merlo was an Argentine guerrilla, born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province.