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  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  On April - 18 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  George Colman, "the Elder was born on April - 18.  

1740  Francis Baring, banker/merchant was born on April - 18.  

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 April - 18.  

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  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 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  Ludwig Schuberth, composer was born on April - 18.  

1813  James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865) was born on this day in history.  

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

1819  Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874) was born on this day in history.  

1819  Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895) was born on this day in history.  

1838  On this day in history birth of paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)  

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  On April - 18 birth of wilhelm Gericke, composer  

1852  On April - 18 birth of george Clausen, painter  

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

1855  On April - 18 birth of josef Gruber, composer  

1857  Clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial was born on this day in history.  

1859  Eduard G H H Cuypers, architect (Sanatorium High-Laren) was born on this day in history.  

1863  On this day in history birth of felix Blumenfeld, composer  

1864  Richard Harding Davis, US, journalist/author (In The Fig) was born on this day in history.  

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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 this day in history.  

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  John Leland, antiquary, dies on April - 18.  

1556  On April - 18 luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61  

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 this day in history.