For those that don't know, my birthday is this month (on the 18th). I was bored so I took a look on wikipedia to see what happenned and who was born/died on December 18th:

Events: First performance of The Nutcracker, Soyuz 13 launched, Ebonics declared a linguistic dialect in California, and HTML 4.0 is released.

Notable Births: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Josef Stalin, Ty Cobb, Michael Moorcock, Keith Richards, Steven Spielberg, Leonard Maltin, Ray Liota, Ron White, Brad Pitt, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Tommy Davidson, Casper Van Dean, DMX, Rob Van Dam, Trish Stratus, Katie Holmes, and Christina Aguilera.

Notable Deaths: Chris Farley (damn eerie considering I always said I'd imagine him playing me in the movie of my life).