Anniversaries 18 June

Birth

Francesco Maria Molza1

Italian poet 1489–1544

Thomas Overbury3

(1581–1613) English poet and essayist 1581–1613

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh1

British politician 1769–1822

Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale13

British lawyer 1783–1851

Jang Bahadur Rana3

Nepalese prime minister and Maharaja of Lamjung and Kaski 1817–1877

Samuel Longfellow2

American clergyman 1819–1892

Auberon Herbert16

British politician 1838–1906

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis1

American publisher 1850–1933

Miklós Horthy5

Hungarian Admiral and Regent 1920-1944 1868–1957

Georgi Dimitrov8

Bulgarian politician 1882–1949

Igor Stravinsky13

Russian composer, pianist and conductor 1882–1971

George Mallory4

British mountaineer 1886–1924

Bruno Snell1

German classical philologist 1896–1986

Philip Barry1

American playwright 1896–1949

Raymond Radiguet3

French writer 1903–1923

Frithjof Schuon82

Swiss philosopher 1907–1998

Leonard Ravenhill23

British writer 1907–1994

Stanley Knowles12

Canadian politician 1908–1997

Sammy Cahn7

American lyricist, songwriter, musician 1913–1993

Franco Modigliani5

Italian-American economist 1918–2003

Ian Carmichael4

actor 1920–2010

Philip B. Crosby11

Quality guru 1926–2001

Valentino Braitenberg12

Italian-Austrian neuroscientist 1926–2011

Jürgen Habermas24

German sociologist and philosopher 1929

Antonio Dorado Soto2

Spanish bishop 1931–2015

Geoffrey Hill27

English poet and professor 1932–2016

Gail Godwin1

Novelist, short story writer 1937

Jack Herer2

American Cannabis/Hemp and freedom activist 1939–2010

Phillip E. Johnson11

American Law clerk 1940–2019

Roger Ebert264

American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942–2013

Thabo Mbeki3

South African politician, President of South Africa 1942

Paul McCartney50

English singer-songwriter and composer 1942

Paul Lansky1

American composer 1944

John E. Douglas1

Criminal profiler 1945

Lech Kaczyński14

Polish politician, president of Poland 1949–2010

Chris Van Allsburg2

US children's writer and illustrator 1949

Yousif Abba1

Iraqi bishop 1951

Isabella Rossellini3

Italian actress and filmmaker 1952

Amy Bloom13

Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist 1953

Richard Powers3

novelist 1957

Philippe Forest1

French writer 1962

Lisa Randall13

American theoretical physicist and an expert on particle ph… 1962

Джош Дан1

American musician 1988

Alireza Kohany5

Musician, Actor, Entrepreneur 1993

Death

Avicenna8

medieval Persian polymath, physician, and philosopher 980–1037

Thomas Brown3

English translator and writer of satire 1662–1704

Ambrose Philips8

Anglo-Irish poet and politician 1674–1749

Arthur Murphy4

Irish writer 1727–1805

William Cobbett58

English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist 1763–1835

William Smith O'Brien3

Irish nationalist politician (1803-1864) 1803–1864

Matthew Simpson4

American bishop and academic 1811–1884

J. Proctor Knott2

American politician 1830–1911

Carmine Crocco2

Italian revolutionary 1830–1905

Сэмюэль Батлер1

1835–1902

Samuel Butler232

novelist 1835–1902

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger4

Chief of the German General Staff 1848–1916

Robert M. La Follette Sr.22

American politician 1855–1925

Maxim Gorky10

Russian and Soviet writer 1868–1936

Roald Amundsen19

Norwegian polar researcher, who was the first to reach the … 1872–1928

Giorgio Morandi28

Italian painter 1890–1964

Djuna Barnes39

American Modernist writer, poet and artist 1892–1982

Georgy Zhukov24

Marshal of the Soviet Union 1896–1974

Konrad Heiden12

German journalist and historian 1901–1966

George Katona4

American psychologist 1901–1981

I. F. Stone15

American investigative journalist and author 1907–1989

John Cheever36

American novelist and short story writer 1912–1982

Tasha Tudor2

American illustrator and writer 1915–2008

José Saramago138

Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in … 1922–2010

Jules Sedney1

Prime Minister of Suriname (1922-2020) 1922–2020

Yelena Bonner1

human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of d… 1923–2011

Jack Buck18

American sportscaster 1924–2002

Vernard Eller2

Church of the Brethren pastor and academic, coiner of the t… 1927–2007

Lamia Abbas2

Iraqi poet 1929–2021