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): Carole Bouquet • Clairo • François de Chasseloup-Laubat • Grant Williams (actor) • Kaitlin Olson • Kelly Willard • Lavr Kornilov • Lucy Ozarin • Lydia Litvyak • Madeleine Stowe • Margaret Murie • Tan Dun • Virginia Dare • Wally Hickel • Zdzisław Żygulski (art historian)
Born in the same month (August 1935): Annie Proulx • Charles Wright (poet) • Eldridge Cleaver • Fortunato Baldelli • Frank Yablans • Gilles Rocheleau • John Phillips (musician) • Lee Corso • László Garai • Melvin Charney • Michael Holroyd • Roy Benavidez • Roy Strong • Vic Vogel