Famous Birthdays In April - 18

1480  Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI) was born on this day in history.   

1521  On this day in history 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  Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17) was born on April - 18.   

1590  Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617) was born on April - 18.   

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  On this day in history birth of george Colman, "the Elder   

1740  On this day in history birth of francis Baring, banker/merchant   

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

1759  Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer was born on April - 18.   

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 April - 18.   

1777  Ignac Ruzitska, composer was born on April - 18.   

1786  On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer   

1797  On April - 18 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 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  On April - 18 birth of george Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe)   

1819  On this day in history birth of carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)   

1819  On this day in history 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 this day in history birth of frantz Jehin-Prume, composer   

1839  On this day in history birth of henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)   

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

1845  On this day in history birth of wilhelm Gericke, composer   

1852  On this day in history 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  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  Felix Blumenfeld, composer was born on April - 18.   

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 this day in history.   

1161  Death of Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury on April - 18.   

1504  Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52 on this day in history.   

1530  On this day in history francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43   

1552  John Leland, antiquary, dies on April - 18.   

1556  On this day in history luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61   

1558  On April - 18 death of roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent   

1567  Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 on April - 18.