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*[[1480]] - [[Lucrezia Borgia]], Florentine ruler and daughter of [[Pope Alexander VI]] (d. [[1519]]) *[[1480]] - [[Lucrezia Borgia]], Florentine ruler and daughter of [[Pope Alexander VI]] (d. [[1519]])
*[[1580]] - [[Thomas Middleton]], English dramatist (d. [[1627]]) *[[1580]] - [[Thomas Middleton]], English dramatist (d. [[1627]])
-*[[1590]] - [[Ahmed I]], [[Ottoman Emperor]] (d. [[1617]])+ 
-*[[1605]] - [[Giacomo Carissimi]], Italian composer (d. [[1674]])+
-*[[1771]] - [[Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg]], Austrian field marshal (d. [[1820]])+
-*[[1772]] - [[David Ricardo]], English economist (d. [[1823]])+
-*[[1797]] - [[Adolphe Thiers]], French statesman (d. [[1877]])+
-*[[1819]] - [[Carlos Manuel de Céspedes]], Cuban Revolutionary (d. [[1874]])+
-*[[1819]] - [[Franz von Suppé]], Austrian composer (d. [[1895]])+
-*[[1838]] - [[Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran]], French scientist (d. [[1912]])+
-*[[1857]] - [[Clarence Darrow]], American attorney (d. [[1938]])+
-*[[1863]] - [[Leopold Graf Berchtold]], Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (d. [[1942]])+
-*[[1864]] - [[Richard Harding Davis]], American author (d. [[1916]])+
-*[[1874]] - [[Oskar Ernst Bernhardt]], German author (d. [[1941]])+
-*[[1877]] - [[Vicente Sotto]], Filipino patriot,Author of the "Sotto Law" ,The Press Freedom Law(RA 53),Father of Cebuano Literature +
-*[[1875]] - [[Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic]], Croatian writer (d. [[1938]])+
-*[[1880]] - [[Sam Crawford]], baseball player (d. [[1968]])+
-*[[1882]] - [[Leopold Stokowski]], Polish conductor (d. [[1977]])+
-*[[1888]] - [[Duffy Lewis]], baseball player (d. [[1979]])+
-*[[1893]] - [[Violette Morris]], French athlete (d. [[1944]])+
-*[[1897]] - [[Ardito Desio]], Italian topographer (d. [[2001]])+
-*[[1901]] - [[Al Lewis (lyricist)|Al Lewis]], American lyricist (d. [[1967]])+
-*[[1902]] - [[Giuseppe Pella]], [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (d. [[1981]])+
-* 1902 - [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]], [[Hasidic Judaism]] leader (d. [[1994]])+
-*[[1904]] - [[Pigmeat Markham]], American comedian (d. [[1981]])+
-*[[1905]] - [[George H. Hitchings]], American scientist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1998]])+
-*[[1907]] - [[Miklós Rózsa]], Hungarian-born composer (d. [[1995]])+
-*[[1915]] - [[Joy Gresham]], American writer (d. [[1960]])+
-*[[1917]] - [[Ty LaForest]], Canadian baseball player (d. [[1947]])+
-* 1917 - [[Frederika of Hanover]], Queen Consort of Greece (d. [[1981]])+
-*[[1918]] - [[Cliff Hillegass]], American publisher (d. [[2001]])+
-* 1918 - [[Tony Mottola]], American guitarist (d. [[2004]])+
-*[[1919]] - [[Virginia O'Brien]], American singer and actress (d. [[2001]])+
-*[[1921]] - [[Barbara Hale]], American actress+
-* 1921 - [[Jean Richard]], French actor (d. [[2001]])+
-*[[1924]] - [[Clarence Gatemouth Brown|Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown]], American musician (d. [[2005]])+
-* 1924 - [[Henry Hyde]], American politician (d. [[2007]])+
-*[[1927]] - [[Samuel P. Huntington]], American political scientist+
-*[[1930]] - [[Clive Revill]], New Zealand born actor+
-*[[1934]] - [[George Shirley]], American tenor+
-*[[1936]] - [[Tommy Ivo]], American race car driver+
-*[[1937]] - [[Jan Kaplický]], British architect of Czech origin+
-*[[1939]] - [[Ali Khamenei]], the [[Supreme Leader]] of the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]]+
-* 1939 - [[Thomas J. Moyer]], American judge+
-*[[1940]] - [[Joseph L. Goldstein]], American scientist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]]+
-* 1940 - [[Mike Vickers]], British guitarist and saxophonist ([[Manfred Mann]])+
-*[[1942]] - [[Jochen Rindt]], German-Austrian race car driver and one-time [[F1]] ([[Posthumous recognition|posthumous]]) [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|world champion]] (d. [[1970]])+
-*[[1945]] - [[Margaret Hassan]], Irish-born aid worker (d. [[2004]])+
-*[[1946]] - [[Hayley Mills]], English actress+
*[[1947]] - [[Kathy Acker]], American author (d. [[1997]]) *[[1947]] - [[Kathy Acker]], American author (d. [[1997]])
* 1947 - [[Dorothy Lyman]], American actress * 1947 - [[Dorothy Lyman]], American actress

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1776, April 18: In a letter from the Marquis de Sade to his wife:

I am in a tower closed in by nineteen iron doors, with light reaching me only through two little windows, each with a score of iron bars. He complains that in over the two months he has been in prison he has been allowed only five walks of one hour each, in a sort of tomb about fourty feet square surrounded by walls more than fifty feet high ...--source unidentified

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Philip II of Macedon[1], father of Alexander the Great (382 BC, April 18). In 350 BC he leaves on a military expedition, taking with him 800 boys to be used for the pleasure of himself and his officers. --A Complete Alternative Sexuality History Timeline

Gustave Moreau (April 6, 1826 – April 18, 1898) was a French Symbolist painter. He was born and died in Paris. Moreau's main focus was the illustration of ...

André Bazin André Bazin (April 18, 1918 - November 11, 1958) was a famous critic of the French New Wave (circa 1958-62) who worked closely with Jean-Luc Godard and ...

Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 in Manhattan—November 30, 1997 in Tijuana, Mexico) was an experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, ...

James Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. Born in Vernal, Utah, he grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island where he attended Pilgrim High ...

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Martin Hannett (May 1948 - April 18, 1991) was an innovative record producer, closely associated with Joy Division and Factory Records. ...

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