Famous Birthdays In April - 18

1480  Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI) was born on April - 18.  

1521  On April - 18 birth of francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general (Jarnac)  

1580  On April - 18 birth of thomas Middleton, English playwright (Game of Chess)  

1590  Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17) was born on this day in history.  

1590  Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617) was born on this day in history.  

1605  Giacomo Carissimi, composer was born on April - 18.  

1729  On April - 18 birth of gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer  

1732  On April - 18 birth of george Colman, "the Elder  

1740  On April - 18 birth of francis Baring, banker/merchant  

1744  On this day in history birth of pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot  

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1759  Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer was born on this day in history.  

1764  Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer was born on this day in history.  

1771  Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820) was born on this day in history.  

1777  On April - 18 birth of ignac Ruzitska, composer  

1786  On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer  

1797  Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France was born on this day in history.  

1803  Charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen of Neth East Indies (1856-61) was born on this day in history.  

1806  On April - 18 birth of ludwig Schuberth, composer  

1813  James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865) was born on April - 18.  

1817  On this day in history birth of george Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe)  

1819  Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874) was born on April - 18.  

1819  Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895) was born on April - 18.  

1838  On April - 18 birth of paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)  

1839  Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer was born on April - 18.  

1839  On April - 18 birth of henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)  

1842  On April - 18 birth of antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice)  

1845  On this day in history birth of wilhelm Gericke, composer  

1852  On April - 18 birth of george Clausen, painter  

1855  On this day in history birth of abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen)  

1855  Josef Gruber, composer was born on April - 18.  

1857  On April - 18 birth of clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial  

1859  On this day in history birth of eduard G H H Cuypers, architect (Sanatorium High-Laren)  

1863  Felix Blumenfeld, composer was born on this day in history.  

1864  On this day in history birth of richard Harding Davis, US, journalist/author (In The Fig)  

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0680  Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies on this day in history.  

1161  On this day in history death of theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury  

1504  On April - 18 filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52  

1530  Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43 on this day in history.  

1552  On April - 18 john Leland, antiquary, dies  

1556  Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61 on April - 18.  

1558  Death of Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent on April - 18.  

1567  On this day in history wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63