Famous Birthdays In April - 18

1480  On this day in history 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  On April - 18 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 this day in history.  

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

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

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

1744  On April - 18 birth of pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot  

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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  On this day in history birth of karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)  

1777  On April - 18 birth of ignac Ruzitska, composer  

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  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 this day in history.  

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

1817  George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1839  On April - 18 birth of frantz Jehin-Prume, composer  

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

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

1845  Wilhelm Gericke, composer was born on April - 18.  

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 this day in history.  

1857  Clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial was born on April - 18.  

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

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

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 April - 18.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

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