June 18

Events

 * 1903 - Vacuum tubes were developed
 * 1983 - First GUI/mouse computer, the Apple Lisa, unveiled.

Births

 * 1757 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
 * 1850 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer, music critic, and teacher (d. 1914)
 * 1904 – Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
 * 1910 – Ray McKinley, jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1995)
 * 1913 – Sammy Cahn, American composer (d. 1993)
 * 1922 – Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
 * 1942 – Sir Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter (The Beatles)
 * 1942 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
 * 1942 – Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (d. 1980)
 * 1943 – Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer
 * 1944 – Sandy Posey, American singer
 * 1948 – Éva Marton, Hungarian operatic soprano
 * 1961 – Alison Moyet, English pop singer
 * 1963 – Dizzy Reed, aka Darren Arthur Reed keyboardist for Guns N' Roses
 * 1969 – Pål Pot Pamparius, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
 * 1971 – Nathan Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
 * 1973 – Ray Lamontagne, American singer-songwriter
 * 1975 – Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter
 * 1976 – Blake Shelton, American Country Singer
 * 1980 – Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
 * 1981 – Ella (Jiahua) Chen, member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
 * 1982 – Vadim Pruzhanov, keyboardist for the British group Dragonforce