Today’s famous birthdays list for October 18, 2025 includes celebrities Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sophie Thatcher

Birth­day wish­es go out to Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sophie Thatch­er and all the oth­er celebri­ties with birth­days today. Check out our slideshow below to see pho­tos of famous peo­ple turn­ing a year old­er on Octo­ber 18th and learn an inter­est­ing fact about each of them.

Top celebri­ty birth­days on Octo­ber 18, 2025

Com­pos­er Howard Shore turns 79

Fun fact: Also com­posed the score for the 2004 film “The Avi­a­tor

Steve Hol­land, from left,Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro arrive at a screen­ing of “Young Shel­don” dur­ing PaleyFest on Sun­day, April 14, 2024, at the Dol­by The­atre in Los Ange­les. (Pho­to by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Pro­duc­er Chuck Lorre turns 73

Fun fact: One of his ear­li­est TV jobs was work­ing as a free­lancer for the show “Charles in Charge

BURBANK, CALIFORNIA — JANUARY 17: Jean-Claude Van Damme arrives at the 2020 iHeartRa­dio Pod­cast Awards at iHeartRa­dio The­ater on Jan­u­ary 17, 2020 in Bur­bank, Cal­i­for­nia. (Pho­to by Emma McIntyre/WireImage)WireImage

Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme turns 65

Fun fact: Once appeared in an episode of “Friends” where he played him­self on the set of a fic­tion­al sequel to the film “Out­break.”

Check out more ‘Friends’ guest stars.

Olympian Lind­sey Vonn turns 41

Fun fact: Is look­ing to return to the Win­ter Olympics in 2026.

Frei­da Pin­to pos­es for pho­tog­ra­phers upon arrival for the ‘Women in Film’ event dur­ing the The Red Sea Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val in Jed­dah, Sau­di Ara­bia, Fri­day, Dec. 1, 2023. (Pho­to by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP

Actress Frei­da Pin­to turns 41

Fun fact: Her mid­dle name is Sele­na.

Zac Efron pos­es at the pre­miere of the Net­flix film “A Fam­i­ly Affair” at the Egypt­ian The­atre, Thurs­day, July 13, 2024, in Los Ange­les. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

Actor Zac Efron turns 38

Fun fact: His broth­er Dylan com­pet­ed on the most recent sea­son of “The Trai­tors.”

Sophie Thatch­er arrives at the pre­miere of “Com­pan­ion” on Mon­day, Jan. 27, 2025, in Los Ange­les. (Pho­to by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Actress Sophie Thatch­er turns 25

Fun fact: Starred in the film “Com­pan­ion” ear­li­er this year. 

More celebri­ties with birth­days today

Singer Russ Giguere of The Asso­ci­a­tion is 82. Actor Joe Mor­ton is 78. Actor Pam Daw­ber is 75. Gospel singer Vick­ie Winans is 72. Direc­tor David Twohy (“Rid­dick” movies) is 70. Actor Jon Lind­strom (“Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal”) is 68. Jazz trum­peter Wyn­ton Marsalis is 64. Actor Vin­cent Spano is 63. Bassist Tim Cross (Sponge) is 59. Singer Non­cha­lant is 58. Actor Joy Bryant (“Par­ent­hood”) is 51. Gui­tarist Peter Svens­son of The Cardi­gans is 51. Actor Wes­ley Jonathan is 47. Singer Ne-Yo is 46. Coun­try singer and “Amer­i­can Idol” con­tes­tant Josh Gracin is 45. Coun­try musi­cian Jesse Lit­tle­ton (Mar­shall Dyl­lon) is 44. Jazz musi­cian Esper­an­za Spald­ing is 41. Actor Joy Lau­ren (“Des­per­ate House­wives”) is 36. Actor Tyler Posey is 34. Actor Toby Reg­bo (“Fan­tas­tic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindel­wald”) is 34.