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James Norton is known for roles in the television series Happy Valley (2014–2023), Grantchester (2014–2019), War & Peace (2016), and McMafia (2018).
Famous Birthdays on July 18
1985 — James Norton
English actor
July 18 has 220 recorded notable births across history, from 1013 to 2007. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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1013 – 2007
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Major events on July 18
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- 1389 France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years' War. Source
- 1863 American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner. Source
- 1968 Intel is founded in Mountain View, California. Source
- 1966 Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle. Source
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Bam Adebayo also won a gold medal with the 2020 and 2024 U.
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Hunter S. Thompson rose to prominence with the book Hell's Angels (1967), for which he lived a year among the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences.
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With 2,342 hits during his playing career, Torre is the only major leaguer to achieve both 2,000 hits as a player and 2,000 wins as a manager.
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marshal and the city marshal of Tombstone, in the Arizona Territory when he led his younger brothers Wyatt and Morgan, and Doc Holliday, in a confrontation with outlaw Cowboys at the Gunfight at the O.
More major people born on July 18
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1997
Bam Adebayo
American basketball player
Edrice Femi "Bam" Adebayo is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1937
Hunter S. Thompson
American journalist and author (died 2005)
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author, regarded as a pioneer of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe.
1940
Joe Torre
American baseball player, manager, and executive
Joseph Paul Torre Jr. is an American professional baseball executive and former player, manager, and television color commentator.
1843
Virgil Earp
American marshal (died 1905)
Virgil Walter Earp was an American lawman. He was both deputy U.S.
1906
Clifford Odets
American director, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1963)
Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
1921
Aaron Beck
American psychiatrist and academic (died 2021)
Aaron Temkin Beck was an American psychiatrist who was a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.
1929
Dick Button
American figure skater and actor (died 2025)
Richard Totten Button was an American figure skater and skating analyst. He was a two-time Olympic champion and five-time consecutive world champion (1948–1952).
2000
Sarah Kinsley
American singer-songwriter
Sarah Kinsley is an American singer-songwriter. Throughout her childhood, she performed classical music in youth orchestras and eventually studied music at Columbia University, where she began to produce her own alt pop…
1934
Edward Bond
English director, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2024)
Thomas Edward Bond was an English playwright, theatre director, poet, dramatic theorist and screenwriter.
1916
L. Patrick Gray
American lawyer and bureaucrat (died 2005)
Louis Patrick Gray III was acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from May 3, 1972, to April 27, 1973.
1939
Jerry Moore
American football player and coach
Gerald Hundley Moore is an American former college football coach and player.
1939
Dion DiMucci
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Dion Francis DiMucci, better known mononymously as Dion, is an American singer and songwriter. His music incorporates elements of doo-wop, pop, rock, R&B, folk and blues.
1941
Martha Reeves
American singer and politician
Martha Rose Reeves is an American R&B & pop singer. She is best known for being the lead singer of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas, which scored several major Hot 100 hits such as "Nowhere to Run", "Heat…
1886
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
American general (died 1945)
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II who served in the Pacific Theater.
1950
Jack Dongarra
American computer scientist and academic
Jack Joseph Dongarra is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
1853
Hendrik Lorentz
Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch theoretical physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
1895
Machine Gun Kelly
American gangster (died 1954)
George Kelly Barnes, better known by his nickname Machine Gun Kelly, was an American gangster from Memphis, Tennessee, active during the Prohibition era.
1927
Kurt Masur
German conductor and educator (died 2015)
Kurt Masur was a German conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era.
1948
Carlos Colón Sr.
Puerto Rican-American wrestler and promoter
Carlos Edwin Colón González Sr. is a Puerto Rican wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler, better known as Carlitos Colón or simply Carlos Colón.