Famous Birthdays In April - 18

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

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 April - 18.  

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  On this day in history birth of giacomo Carissimi, composer  

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 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  On April - 18 birth of bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer  

1771  Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820) was born on this day in history.  

1777  On April - 18 birth of ignac Ruzitska, composer  

1786  Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer was born on this day in history.  

1797  On this day in history birth of louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France  

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

1806  On April - 18 birth of ludwig Schuberth, composer  

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  On this day in history birth of carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)  

1819  Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895) was born on April - 18.  

1838  On April - 18 birth of paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)  

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 this day in history.  

1845  On this day in history 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  Josef Gruber, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

1859  On April - 18 birth of eduard G H H Cuypers, architect (Sanatorium High-Laren)  

1863  Felix Blumenfeld, composer was born on April - 18.  

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 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 this day in history.  

1552  John Leland, antiquary, dies on this day in history.  

1556  On this day in history 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.