Famous Personalities Born In April - 18
Wednesday, 02 July 2025
1480 On April - 18 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 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 Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617) was born on April - 18.
1605 Giacomo Carissimi, composer was born on this day in history.
1729 On this day in history birth of gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer
1732 On this day in history birth of george Colman, "the Elder
1740 Francis Baring, banker/merchant was born on this day in history.
1744 On this day in history birth of pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot
1759 Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer was born on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1777 On this day in history birth of ignac Ruzitska, composer
1786 On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer
1797 Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France was born on this day in history.
1803 On this day in history birth of charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen of Neth East Indies (1856-61)
1806 On this day in history birth of ludwig Schuberth, composer
1813 On this day in history birth of james McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
1817 George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe) was born on this day in history.
1819 On April - 18 birth of carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)
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 this day in history.
1839 Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds) was born on April - 18.
1842 Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice) was born on this day in history.
1845 Wilhelm Gericke, composer was born on April - 18.
1852 On this day in history 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 April - 18.
1857 On this day in history birth of clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial
1859 On April - 18 birth of eduard G H H Cuypers, architect (Sanatorium High-Laren)
1863 On this day in history birth of felix Blumenfeld, composer
1864 Richard Harding Davis, US, journalist/author (In The Fig) was born on April - 18.