April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). There are 257 days remaining.
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Events
-1499
1500-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Births
1400-1899
- 1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Renaissance ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
- 1590 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
- 1605 - Giacomo Carissimi, Baroque era composer
- 1772 - David Ricardo, economist (d. 1823)
- 1819 - Franz von Suppé, Croatian - Austrian composer (d. 1895)
- 1857 - Clarence Darrow, attorney (d. 1938)
- 1864 - Richard Harding Davis, author (d. 1916)
- 1874 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croat writer (d. 1938)
- 1880 - Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1968)
- 1882 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977)
- 1888 - Duffy Lewis, Major League Baseball player (d. 1979)
- 1893 - Jo Swerling, writer (d. 1964)
- 1897 - Ardito Desio, Italian topographer and mountaineer (d. 2001)
1900-1999
- 1901 - László Németh, author (d. 1975)
- 1902 - Giuseppe Pella, former Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
- 1904 - Pigmeat Markham, comedian (d. 1981)
- 1921 - Jean Richard, actor (d. 2001)
- 1921 - Barbara Hale, actress
- 1928 - Otto Piene, painter
- 1940 - Robert N. Kucey, author
- 1946 - Hayley Mills, actress
- 1947 - James Woods, actor
- 1947 - Kathy Acker, author
- 1949 - Geoff Bodine, automobile racer
- 1954 - Rick Moranis, comedian
- 1956 - Anna Kathryn Holbrook, soap opera actress
- 1956 - Melody Thomas Scott, soap opera actress
- 1961 - Jane Leeves, actress
- 1963 - Conan O'Brien, comedian
- 1964 - Niall Ferguson, historian
- 1966 - Trine Hattestad, javelin thrower
- 1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan's Imperial Family
- 1979 - Michael Bradley, NBA basketball player
- 1983 - Miguel Cabrera, Major League Baseball player
- 1989 - Eric Gonzalez, Student
Deaths
- 1674 - John Graunt, statistician
- 1689 - George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice, presided over the Bloody Assizes (b. 1648)
- 1873 - Justus von Liebig, chemist (b. 1803)
- 1943 - Isoroku Yamamoto, japonese admiral.
- 1945 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
- 1964 - Ben Hecht, playwright, screenwriter (b. 1894)
- 1955 - Albert Einstein, scientist (b. 1879)
- 1996 - Piet Hein, mathematician, inventor (b. 1905)
- 2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer on the Kon-Tiki expedition (b. 1914)
- 2002 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player, wrestler (b. 1938)
- 2003 - Edgar F. Codd, Founder of theory of relational databases (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
- 2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister and later President of Fiji (b. 1920)
Holidays and observances
April 17 - April 19 - March 18 - May 18 -- listing of all days
af:04-18
be:18 красавіка
bg:18 април
ca:18 d'abril
cs:18. duben
cy:18 Ebrill
da:18. april
de:18. April
et:18. aprill
es:18 de abril
eo:18-a de aprilo
fr:18 avril
fy:18 april
gl:18 de abril
ko:4월 18일
hr:18. travnja
io:18 di aprilo
is:18. apríl
it:18 aprile
he:18 באפריל
lt:Balandžio 18
lb:18. Abrëll
hu:Április 18
nl:18 april
ja:4月18日
no:18. april
oc:18 d'abril
pl:18 kwietnia
pt:18 de Abril
ro:18 aprilie
ru:18 апреля
sa:१८ एप्रिल
sl:18. april
fi:18. huhtikuuta
sv:18 april
tr:18 Nisan
uk:18 квітня
zh:4月18日
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