Famous Personalities Born In April - 18
Thursday, 23 October 2025
1480 On this day in history 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 this day in history 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 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 this day in history.
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 April - 18.
1777 On this day in history birth of ignac Ruzitska, composer
1786 Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer was born on this day in history.
1797 Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France was born on this day in history.
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 April - 18.
1813 James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865) was born on April - 18.
1817 On this day in history 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 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 Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer was born on April - 18.
1839 Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds) was born on this day in history.
1842 Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice) was born on April - 18.
1845 Wilhelm Gericke, composer was born on April - 18.
1852 George Clausen, painter was born on April - 18.
1855 On this day in history birth of abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen)
1855 On this day in history birth of josef Gruber, composer
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 April - 18 birth of felix Blumenfeld, composer
1864 On this day in history birth of richard Harding Davis, US, journalist/author (In The Fig)