Today's celebrity birthdays: October 18, 2026

Happy birthday to entertainers like Pam Dawber, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Zac Efron! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for October 18, 2026:

Actress Pam Dawber (1951) played straight woman to Mork from Ork on "Mork & Mindy" and got her own title role on "My Sister Sam." She popped up on "NCIS" for a recurring run more than three decades later.

TV producer Chuck Lorre (1952) co-created "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory" and signs off his shows with his trademark vanity cards. He spun off "Young Sheldon" and took the "Big Bang" universe to HBO Max this summer with "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe."

Tennis player Martina Navratilova (1956) won a record nine Wimbledon singles titles and owned the No. 1 ranking for 332 weeks. She grabbed her 59th and final Grand Slam title just shy of her 50th birthday and picked up the Czech Republic's Order of the White Lion last year.