List of Famous people born on October 18th

Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam was a Russian Jewish writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the gulag of Siberia. She wrote two memoirs about their lives together and the repressive Stalinist regime: Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974), both first published in the West in English, translated by Max Hayward.

Anna Maria Manahan was an Irish stage, film and television actress.

Hilde Boman-Behram was an expressionist dancer, choreographer and dance teacher whose pioneering work in integrated dance transformed modern dance.

Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum was a Polish-American mathematician and statistician who contributed to functional analysis, nonparametric testing and estimation, probability inequalities, survival distributions, competing risks, and reliability theory.

Johann Böhm is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. He was a member of the Landtag of Bavaria from 1974 to 2003 and was President of the Landtag of Bavaria from 1994 to 2003.