August 18

Events

 * 1937 - FCC issues first FM construction permit to W1XOJ, Boston. Station signs on in 1941 as WGTR.
 * 1969 - Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.

Births

 * 1685 - Brook Taylor, british mathematician. Taylor was the first to express mathematically the movement of a vibrating string on the basis of mechanical principles. (d. 1731)


 * 1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
 * 1893 - Ernest MacMillan, Canadian musician (d. 1973)
 * 1918 - Cisco Houston (Woodie Guthrie's great friend and fellow folk singer)
 * 1925 - Sonny Til (Orioles)
 * 1929 - Hugues Aufray, French singer
 * 1930 - Johnny Preston (Running Bear)
 * 1934 - Ronnie Carroll, British singer
 * 1939 - Johnny Preston, American singer
 * 1944 - Carl Wayne (Move)
 * 1945 - Barbara Harris, American singer (Toys)
 * 1945 - Nona Hendryx (Labelle)
 * 1950 - Dennis Elliot (Foreigner)
 * 1956 - John Debney, American composer
 * 1957 - Ron Strykert (Men at Work)
 * 1964 - Edith Frost, American singer/songwriter
 * 1965 - Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
 * 1967 - Daler Mehndi, Indian bhangra/pop singer
 * 1967 - Tracy Tracy (Primitives)
 * 1968 - Dan Peters, American musician
 * 1969 - Masta Killa, American rapper
 * 1969 - Everlast, American musician
 * 1971 - Richard D James, Irish-born musician (Aphex Twin)
 * 1977 - Régine Chassagne, Canadian musician Arcade Fire
 * 1981 - Jonathan Schneck, American musician (Relient K)
 * 1983 - Mica Penniman (Mika), Lebanese-born musician
 * 1983 - Daniel Keith Swain (Danny!), American record producer/hip-hop artist