Famous Birthdays In April - 18

1480  On this day in history birth of lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)  

1521  On this day in history birth of francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general (Jarnac)  

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

1590  On this day in history birth of ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17)  

1590  Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617) was born on April - 18.  

1605  On this day in history birth of giacomo Carissimi, composer  

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

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

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

1764  On this day in history birth of bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer  

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

1777  Ignac Ruzitska, composer was born on this day in history.  

1786  On April - 18 birth of franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer  

1797  On April - 18 birth of louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France  

1803  Charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen of Neth East Indies (1856-61) was born on April - 18.  

1806  On this day in history birth of ludwig Schuberth, composer  

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

1817  George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe) was born on April - 18.  

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

1819  On April - 18 birth of franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)  

1838  Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912) was born on this day in history.  

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

1839  Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds) was born on April - 18.  

1842  On this day in history birth of antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice)  

1845  Wilhelm Gericke, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

1855  On April - 18 birth of abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen)  

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

1857  On this day in history 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  On April - 18 birth of felix Blumenfeld, composer  

1864  On April - 18 birth of richard Harding Davis, US, journalist/author (In The Fig)  

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0680  Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies on April - 18.  

1161  Death of Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury on April - 18.  

1504  On this day in history filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52  

1530  Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43 on April - 18.  

1552  On this day in history john Leland, antiquary, dies  

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 April - 18.  

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