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Births On This Day,
June, 18

  • 1986 Richard Gasquet

    French tennis player

  • 1942 Paul McCartney

    English singer-songwriter, musician, producer

  • 1942 Thabo Mbeki

    South African politician, 23rd President of South Africa

  • 1942 Roger Ebert

    American journalist, critic, screenwriter

  • 1929 Jürgen Habermas

    German sociologist, philosopher

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Deaths On This Day,
June, 18

  • 2010 José Saramago

    Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate

  • 2003 Larry Doby

    American baseball player

  • 1989 I. F. Stone

    American journalist, author

  • 1974 Georgy Zhukov

    Russian general

  • 1928 Roald Amundsen

    Norwegian explorer