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): Alain Robbe-Grillet • Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau • Huw Edwards • Marcel Carné • Margaret Murie • Maxine Brown (soul singer) • Ricardo Villa

Born in the same month (August 1935): Alex de Renzy • Alexandra Bellow • Beverlee McKinsey • Bobby Richardson • Gilles Rocheleau • John Cazale • Karen Spärck Jones • László Garai • Michael Holroyd • Michael J. Noonan (Fianna Fáil politician) • Octavio Getino • Rahsaan Roland Kirk • Ron Paul • Sonny Shroyer