John Hughes (filmmaker)
John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He began his career in 1970 as an author of humorous essays and stories for the National Lampoon magazine. He went on in Hollywood to write, produce and sometimes direct some of the most successful live-action comedy films of the 1980s. He directed such films as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, She's Having a Baby, and Uncle Buck; and wrote the films National Lampoon's Vacation, Mr. Mom, Pretty in Pink, The Great Outdoors, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Dutch, and Beethoven.
18 February 1950
Born on the same birth date (18 February 1950): Cybill Shepherd • Nana Amba Eyiaba I
Born on the same birth day (18 February): Alexander Mogilny • Charles III, Duke of Lorraine • Freddie Blassie • Giovanni Battista Vitali • Hedwig Courths-Mahler • Henry Vane the Elder • Isabel Preysler • Jayne Atkinson • Kentavious Caldwell-Pope • Maiara Walsh • Nasir al-Din al-Tusi • Ramakrishna
Born in the same month (February 1950): Andy Powell • Francisco Fernández Ochoa • Helen Clark • John Greaves (musician) • Jonathan Freeman (actor) • Julie Walters • Michael Ironside • Natalie Cole • Neil Jordan • Steve Hackett • Tony Wilson