June 18 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 18, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#118 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 18 birthdays
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran · French physician1845
Miklós Horthy · Regent of Hungary from 1920 to 19441868
Édouard Daladier · French politician1884
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia · Grand Duchess of Russia1901
Franco Modigliani · Italian-American economist1918
Jerome Karle · American physical chemist1918
Jürgen Habermas · German sociologist and philosopher1929
Dudley R. Herschbach · American chemist1932
Roger Ebert · American film critic and author1942
Paul McCartney · English musician and member of the Beatles1942
Thabo Mbeki · President of South Africa from 1999 to 20081942
Lech Kaczyński · Polish politician1949
Jarosław Kaczyński · 13th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland1949
Isabella Rossellini · Italian-American actress1952
Idriss Déby · Chadian former president1952
Carol Kane · American actress1952
Rumen Radev · Prime Minister of Bulgaria since 20261963
Blake Shelton · American country music singer and television personality1976
Kaja Kallas · Estonian politician and former prime minister of Estonia1977
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang · Gabonese-French footballer1989
On this day in history
1967American musician Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the end of a performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in California.
1983Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman and third one overall in space.
2009The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
2012Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was appointed the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
1954Carlos Castillo Armas led a CIA-sponsored invasion force across the Guatemalan border, beginning the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
1958English composer Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde was premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival.
1979SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1981The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology, made its maiden flight.
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