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): Elayne Boosler • Gérard Filion • Ikue Ōtani • Mark Kuhlmann • Renato Sanches • Sigourney Bandjar • Tan Dun • William Halford

Born in the same month (August 1935): Alexandra Bellow • Andreas Stamatiadis • August 31 • Bobby Richardson • Eldridge Cleaver • Gilles Rocheleau • Hank Cochran • John Phillips (musician) • Karen Spärck Jones • Lee Corso • Michael J. Noonan (Fianna Fáil politician)