Famous Birthdays In April - 18

1480  On April - 18 birth of lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)  

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

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  On April - 18 birth of ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)  

1605  Giacomo Carissimi, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

1732  George Colman, "the Elder was born on this day in history.  

1740  On this day in history birth of francis Baring, banker/merchant  

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

1759  Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer was born on April - 18.  

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

1771  On April - 18 birth of karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)  

1777  Ignac Ruzitska, composer was born on April - 18.  

1786  Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer was born on April - 18.  

1797  Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France was born on April - 18.  

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

1806  Ludwig Schuberth, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

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  Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912) was born on this day in history.  

1839  On this day in history birth of frantz Jehin-Prume, composer  

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

1842  Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice) was born on April - 18.  

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

1852  George Clausen, painter was born on April - 18.  

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

1855  Josef Gruber, composer was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1864  Richard Harding Davis, US, journalist/author (In The Fig) was born on April - 18.  

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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 this day in history.  

1530  On April - 18 francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43  

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

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

1558  On this day in history death of roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent  

1567  Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 on this day in history.