Famous Birthdays In April - 18

1480  Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI) was born on April - 18.  

1521  On April - 18 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 this day in history.  

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

1729  On this day in history 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  

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1759  Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer was born on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history birth of ignac Ruzitska, composer  

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

1797  On this day in history 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  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  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 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  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  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 this day in history.  

1855  Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen) was born on April - 18.  

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

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

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0680  On this day in history mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies  

1161  Death of Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury on this day in history.  

1504  On April - 18 filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52  

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

1552  On April - 18 john Leland, antiquary, dies  

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.