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Birthdays:

• Ignaz Pleyel, composer of the Classical music era, pupil of Joseph Haydn; in 1807, became a manufacturer of pianos June 18, 1757 – November 14, 1831


• Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, physician, discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, the first time that protozoa were shown to be a cause of disease, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, June 18, 1845 – May 18, 1922


• Sarah Blanche Sweet, silent film actress, June 18, 1895 - September 6, 1986


• Jeanette MacDonald, singer and actress, best known for her film duets with Nelson Eddy, June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965


• Keye Luke, actor; among many roles, played Charlie Chan's eldest son in films, was the voice of Mr. Han in Enter the Dragon, and played Master Po in the television series, Kung Fu, June 18, 1904 – January 12, 1991


• Manuel Rosenthal, composer and conductor, the last of Maurice Ravel's few students, June 18, 1904 - June 5, 2003


• Clayton J. Heermance, Jr., aka Bud Collyer, radio actor/announcer who hosted the television game shows Beat the Clock and To Tell The Truth, June 18, 1908 – September 8, 1969


• Everett Evander Grunz, aka E. G. Marshall, actor, June 18, 1914 - August 24, 1998


• Ray McKinley, jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader, June 18, 1910 – May 7, 1995


• Samuel Cohen, aka Sammy Cahn, songwriter and musician, played the piano and violin, June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993


• Paul Neal RED Adair, oil field firefighter, June 18, 1915 – August 7, 2004


• Richard Allen Boone, film and TV actor, known for his roles in westerns, star of Have Gun, Will Travel, June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981


• Ian Carmichael OBE, film, stage, television, and radio actor, 1920


• Claude Helffer, oianist, June 18, 1922 – October 27, 2004


• Paul Eddington, CBE, actor, known for his starring roles in Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, June 18, 1927 – November 4, 1995


• John Spencer, retired professional snooker player, 1969, 1971, and 1977 World Champion, 1935


• Lou Brock, former MLB player, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985; the National League honors each stolen base leader with the Lou Brock Award, 1939


• Roger Joseph Ebert, film critic, 1942


• Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Beatle, 1942


• Hans Vonk, conductor, June 18, 1942 - August 29, 2004


• Carl Dean Radle, musician, bassist in Derek and the Dominos, June 18, 1942 - May 30, 1980


• Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator of children's books, known for Jumanji and The Polar Express, 1949


• Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini, model and actress, daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, 1952


• Carolyn Laurie CAROL Kane, actress, winner of two Emmy Awards for her work in the TV series Taxi as Simka, 1952


• Andrés José Padovani Galarraga, MLB first baseman, known as The Big Cat [El Gato Grande], 1961

RIP:

• Michel Richard Delalande, composer and organist, 1657 – June 18, 1726


• Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, astronomer, discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation, January 19, 1851 – June 18, 1922


• Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen, explorer, leader of the Antarctic expedition of 1910–1912, which was the first to reach the South Pole, July 16, 1872 – June 18, 1928


• Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov, aka Maxim Gorky, author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist, March 28, 1868 – June 18, 1936


• Ethel Barrymore, Academy Award-winning American actress, August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959


• Paul Karrer, organic chemist, best known for his work on vitamins; he and Walter Haworth won the 1937 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, April 21, 1889 – June 18, 1971


• ROGER Caesar Marius Bernard de DELGADO Torres Castillo Roberto, actor, best known for his role as The [first] Master in Doctor Who, March 1, 1918 – June 18, 1973


• John Cheever, novelist and short story writer, winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982


• Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens, stage and film actor, usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens, December 13, 1915 - June 18, 1982


• Alan Berg, liberal talk radio host, who broadcast his opinions on gun control, homosexuality, religion, and other controversial topics; murdered by three members of The Order, a white supremacist group, - June 18, 1984


• Mordecai Ardon, painters, famous for the Ardon Windows in Jerusalem, 1896 - June 18, 1992


• Lev Kopelev, author and dissident, April 9, 1912 - June 18, 1997


• Nancy Marchand, actress, Mrs. Pynchon on Lou Grant and Livia Soprano on The Sopranos, June 19, 1928 – June 18, 2000


• John Francis JACK Buck, sportscaster, best known for his work announcing the St. Louis Cardinals' games, August 21, 1924 – June 18, 2002


• Lawrence Eugene LARRY Doby, professional baseball player in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball, third American to play in the Japanese Baseball League, December 13, 1923 – June 18, 2003