Famous Birthdays In April - 18

1480  Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI) was born on this day in history.   

1521  Francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general (Jarnac) was born on this day in history.   

1580  Thomas Middleton, English playwright (Game of Chess) was born on this day in history.   

1590  On April - 18 birth of ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17)   

1590  On this day in history birth of ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)   

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

1729  Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer was born on April - 18.   

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

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

1744  Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot was born on April - 18.   

1759  On this day in history birth of jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer   

1764  Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer was born on April - 18.   

1771  Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820) was born on April - 18.   

1777  On April - 18 birth of ignac Ruzitska, composer   

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

1797  On this day in history birth of louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France   

1803  On April - 18 birth of charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen of Neth East Indies (1856-61)   

1806  On April - 18 birth of ludwig Schuberth, composer   

1813  On this day in history birth of james McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)   

1817  On April - 18 birth of george Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe)   

1819  On April - 18 birth of carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)   

1819  On this day in history birth of franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)   

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

1839  Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer was born on this day in history.   

1839  On this day in history birth of henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)   

1842  Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice) was born on this day in history.   

1845  On April - 18 birth of wilhelm Gericke, composer   

1852  George Clausen, painter was born on this day in history.   

1855  Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen) was born on this day in history.   

1855  On this day in history birth of josef Gruber, composer   

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

1859  Eduard G H H Cuypers, architect (Sanatorium High-Laren) was born on April - 18.   

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  On April - 18 mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies   

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

1504  Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52 on April - 18.   

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

1552  John Leland, antiquary, dies on April - 18.   

1556  Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1558  Death of Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent on this day in history.   

1567  Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 on April - 18.