Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 18

Births

 * 1757 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
 * 1868 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (d. 1957)
 * 1907 - Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter (d. 1998)
 * 1924 - George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
 * 1929 - Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
 * 1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002
 * 1942 - Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
 * 1942 - Sir Paul McCartney, (pictured) English singer and songwriter (Beatles)
 * 1942 - Roger Ebert, American film reviewer (d. 2013)
 * 1946 - Fabio Capello, Italian football coach
 * 1964 - Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003)

Deaths

 * 1928 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
 * 1936 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)
 * 1974 - Georgy Zhukov, Soviet General during WWII (b. 1896)

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