Doppelgängers (6) | Birthdays (3) | Events (2) | Passed (4)
May 18, 2026
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Finding her was like chasing a rainbow.
- Joe DiMaggio on Marilyn Monroe
6 Doppelgängers Today
I track 9,188 doppelgängers out of 21,283 people in my custom software, specializing in look alikes who were born in the same week in history. Similar looking public figures are always born within a few days of each other. This is a phenommenon seen across all of documented history.
Born within 3 days in 1924
Born on May 21, 1924 Peggy CassAmerican actress, comedian, game show panelist, and announcer |
Born on May 18, 1924 Priscilla PointerAmerican retired actress |
Born within 5 days in 1936
Born on May 23, 1936 (1936 - 2023) Charles KimbroughAmerican actor, best known for his role as the straight-faced anchorman Jim Dial on Murphy Brown |
Born on May 18, 1936 (1936 - 2023) Edward HumeAmerican film and television writer, best known for creating and developing several TV series in the 1970s, and for writing the 1983 TV movie The Day After |
Born within 5 days in 1919
Born on May 23, 1919 Betty GarrettAmerican actress, comedian, singer and dancer |
Born on May 18, 1919 (1919 - 1991) Margot FonteynEnglish ballerina |
Born within 7 days in 1897
Born on May 25, 1897 (1897 - 1978) Gene TunneyAmerican professional boxer who competed from 1915 to 1928 |
Born on May 18, 1897 Frank CapraItalian-born American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s |
Born within 3 days in 1918
Born on May 15, 1918 (1918 - 1978) Charles D. TandyChairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of the Tandy Corporation |
Born on May 18, 1918 Roland 'Monty' BurtonBritish pilot who won the 1953 London to Christchurch air Race |
Born within 5 days in 1912
Born on May 23, 1912 John PayneJohn Payne may refer to: |
Born on May 18, 1912 (1912 - 2001) Perry ComoItalian-American singer, actor and television personality |
3 Birthdays Today
ANADU BLOCK 1872-6.0518
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, logician, and social critic, an academic, who worked in philosophy, mathematics, and logic.
ANADU BLOCK 1970-1.0518
Tina Fey
American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright
ANADU BLOCK 1920-2.0518
Pope John Paul II
Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005
2 Events
On This Day
ANADU BLOCK 1953-1.0518
Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
It happened on May 18, 1953
At Rogers Dry Lake in the United States, Californian Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to exceed Mach 1, in a North American F-86 Sabre at 652.337 mph (566.865 kn; 1,049.835 km/h)
Featuring: Jacqueline Cochran.
ANADU BLOCK 1910-3.0518
1910: The Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet.
It happened on May 18, 1910
Featuring: Edmond Halley.
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4 People Who
Passed On This Day
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Leslie Epstein
American educator, essayist and novelist.
Recognized as pillar of the Boston University Creative Writing Program, serving as its director for more than 30 years, his Holocaust novel “King of the Jews” was widely praised. He also wrote about his show-business family in "San Remo Drive: A Novel
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ANADU BLOCK 1902-3.0219
John W. Sublett
American tap dancer, vaudevillian, movie actor, and television performer
ANADU BLOCK 1880-5.0611
Jeannette Rankin
First woman elected to the United States Congress.
ANADU BLOCK 1933-6.0415
