Hifikepunye Pohamba

Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba is a Namibian politician who served as the second president of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 21 March 2015. He won the 2004 presidential election overwhelmingly as the candidate of SWAPO, and was reelected in 2009. Pohamba was the president of SWAPO from 2007 until his retirement in 2015. He is a recipient of the Ibrahim Prize.

18 August 1935

Born on the same birth day (18 August): Caspar Weinberger • Cisco Houston • Daler Mehndi • Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena • Franz Joseph I of Austria • James Jones (bishop) • Jung Eun-ji • Marcel Carné • Mark Sargent • Rafer Johnson • Robert Winters

Born in the same month (August 1935): Beverlee McKinsey • Eldridge Cleaver • Ernie Broglio • Frank Yablans • Geraldine Ferraro • Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt • Hugo Brandt Corstius • John Cazale • Sonny Shroyer • Vic Vogel