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Jun 18 1269

Eleanor of England Countess of Bar born in Windsor Castle Windsor Berkshire (d. 1298)

Jun 18 1318

Eleanor of Woodstock Engliah princess Duchess of Guelders born in Woodstock Oxfordshire (d. 1355)

Jun 18 1466

Ottaviano Petrucci Italian printer born in Fossombrone Italy (d. 1539)

Jun 18 1511

Bartolommeo Ammanati Italian sculptor and architect born in Settignano Italy (d. 1592)

Jun 18 1667

Ivan Trubetskoy Russian field marshal (d. 1750)

Jun 18 1681

Feofan Prokopovich theologian archbishop of Novgorod westernizer

Jun 18 1716

Joseph M Vien French (court) painter born in Montpellier France

Jun 18 1717

Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz Czech composer born in Nmeck Brod Bohemia (d. 1757)

Jun 18 1757

Gervasio Antonio de Posadas Argentine leader (d. 1833)

Jun 18 1758

Pieter PJQ Ondaatje CeylonDutch juristpatriot

Jun 18 1799

William Lassell discoverer (satellites of Uranus & Neptune)

Jun 18 1809

Sylvanus William Godon Commander (Union Navy) (d. 1879)

Jun 18 1812

Ivan Goncharov Russian novelisttravel writer (Oblomov)

Jun 18 1813

Pavel Annenkov Russian literature historian (Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti) born in Moscow Russia (d. 1887)

Jun 18 1824

Johannes Heykamp Catholic archbishop of Utrecht

Jun 18 1839

William Henry Seward Jr American banker and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Auburn New York (d. 1920)

Jun 18 1845

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran French physician recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)

Jun 18 1857

Henry Clay Folger American CEO of Standard Oil and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library born in New York City (d. 1930)

Jun 18 1861

Jose FdT Coelho Portuguese writer (Os Meus Amores)

Jun 18 1868

Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya Hungarian admiralregent (1910-44)

Jun 18 1870

Edouard Le Roy French philosopher and mathematician

Jun 18 1877

James Montgomery Flagg illustrator (I want you Uncle Sam)

Jun 18 1882

Georgi Dimitrov Bulgaria premier (1946-49) [or 628]

Jun 18 1886

Alexander Wetmore American ornithologist (d. 1978)

Jun 18 1887

Blanche Yurka American actress (Taxi A Tale of Two Cities) born in Saint Paul Minnesota (d. 1974)

Jun 18 1888

Margarita Xirgu Catalan stage actress director and political radical (Bloody Wedding Mariana Pineda) born in Barcelona Spain (d. 1969)

Jun 18 1891

Annie Mae Busch Australian actress (Foolish Wives) born in Melbourne Victoria (d. 1946)

Jun 18 1891

Con Conrad American songwriter and producer born in NYC New York (d. 1938)

Jun 18 1892

Edward Steuermann Austrian-American pianist and composer born in Sambor Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1964)

Jun 18 1895

Manuela Fernndez-Fojaco Spanish supercentenarian

Jun 18 1896

Blanche Sweet American actress (Home Sweet Home Avenging Conscience) born in Chicago Illinois (d. 1986)

Jun 18 1896

Cota Ramaswami cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922 Test 1936)

Jun 18 1896

Philip Barry American dramatist (Philadelphia Story)

Jun 18 1178 Five monks at Canterbury report something exploding on the moon shortly after sunset (only known observation)

Jun 18 1264 The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature

Jun 18 1316 Peace of Fexhe prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark and Luikse towns

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