What happened on June 18 ?

1466 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)

1511 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1592)

1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)

1552 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)

1667 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)

1716 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809)

1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)

1757 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)

1812 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d. 1891)

1815 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (d. 1881)

1824 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1769)

1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)

1854 - E.W. Scripps, American journalist and publisher (d. 1926)

1868 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (d. 1957)

1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (d. 1960)

1884 - ÿdouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)

1886 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)

1895 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)

1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)

1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)

1903 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)

1904 - Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (d. 1991)

1904 - Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)

1907 - Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter (d. 1998)

1908 - Bud Collyer, American game show host (d. 1969)

1908 - Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)

1908 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d. 1997)

1910 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)

1910 - Ray McKinley, jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1995)

1913 - Sammy Cahn, American composer (d. 1993)

1915 - Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)

1916 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (d. 2005)

1917 - Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)

1917 - Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (d. 1996)

1918 - Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1918 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)

1918 - Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master

1920 - Ian Carmichael, English actor

1922 - Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)

1924 - George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)

1927 - Paul Eddington, English actor (d. 1995)

1929 - Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher

1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002

1932 - Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1932 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet

1935 - Hugh McColl, American banker

1935 - John Spencer, English snooker player

1936 - Denny Hulme, 1967 Formula One World Champion (d. 1992)

1937 - Wray Carlton, American football player

1937 - John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator

1937 - Vitali Zholobov, cosmonaut

1938 - Kevin Murray, Australian footballer

1939 - Lou Brock, baseball player

1940 - Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005)

1942 - Roger Ebert, American film reviewer

1942 - Sir Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter (The Beatles)

1942 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)

1942 - Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa

1942 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist

1943 - Raffaella Carrà , Italian singer

1946 - Fabio Capello, Italian football coach

1949 - Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator

1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)

1949 - Lech Kaczynski, Polish president, 2005-present

1949 - Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Polish politician, twin brother of Lech Kaczynski

1950 - Jackie Leven aka Sir Vincent Lone Scottish singer and songwriter DXD

1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress

1952 - Carol Kane, American actress

1961 - Andrés Galarraga, baseball player

1961 - Alison Moyet, English pop singer

1963 - Bruce Smith, American football player

1964 - Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003)

1966 - Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater

1971 - Nathan Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)

1974 - Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer

1975 - Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player

1975 - Aleksandrs Koli?ko, Latvian footballer

1975 - Marie Gillain, Belgian actress

1975 - Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter

1975 - Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer

1978 - Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player

1981 - Donald Blair, Toronto political activist and candidate

1989 - Renee Olstead, American child actress and singer