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| *[[1802]] - [[Erasmus Darwin]], English physician and botanist (b. [[1731]]) | *[[1802]] - [[Erasmus Darwin]], English physician and botanist (b. [[1731]]) | ||
| - | *[[1873]] - [[Justus von Liebig]], German chemist (b. [[1803]]) | ||
| *[[1898]] - [[Gustave Moreau]], French painter (b. [[1826]]) | *[[1898]] - [[Gustave Moreau]], French painter (b. [[1826]]) | ||
| - | *[[1906]] - [[Luis Martín]], Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. [[1846]]) | ||
| - | *[[1917]] - [[Vladimir Serbsky]], Russian psychiatrist (b. [[1858]]) | ||
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Panait Istrati]], Romanian writer (b. [[1884]]) | ||
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Ottorino Respighi]], Italian composer (b. [[1879]]) | ||
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney]], American socalite (b. [[1875]]) | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Isoroku Yamamoto]], Japanese admiral. (b. [[1884]]) | ||
| - | *[[1945]] - [[John Ambrose Fleming]], English physicist and engineer (b. [[1849]]) | ||
| - | * 1945 - [[Ernie Pyle]], American journalist (b. [[1900]]) | ||
| - | *1945 - [[William, Prince of Albania|Prince William of Wied]], sovereign Prince of Albania (b.[[1876]]) | ||
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Josef Tiso]], Slovakian leader (b. [[1887]]) | ||
| *[[1955]] - [[Albert Einstein]], [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1879]]) | *[[1955]] - [[Albert Einstein]], [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1879]]) | ||
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Maurice Gamelin]], French general (b. [[1872]]) | + | *[[1995]] - [[Bernard Edwards]], American record producer (b. [[1952]]) |
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Ben Hecht]], American writer (b. [[1894]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Guillermo González Camarena]], Mexican inventor (b. [[1917]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Karl Miller (footballer)|Karl Miller]], German footballer (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Marcel Pagnol]], French novelist, playwright and filmmaker (b. [[1895]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Mahmoud Younis]], [[Suez Canal]] nationalization Engineer (b. [[1911]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Gory Guerrero]], professional wrestler (b. [[1921]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1993]] - [[Masahiko Kimura]], Japanese judoka (b. [[1917]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1995]] - [[Arturo Frondizi]], President of [[Argentina]] (b. [[1908]]) | + | |
| - | * 1996 - [[Brook Berringer]], American football player (b. [[1973]]) | + | |
| - | * 1996 - [[Bernard Edwards]], American record producer (b. [[1952]]) | + | |
| *[[1998]] - [[Terry Sanford]], American politician (b. [[1917]]) | *[[1998]] - [[Terry Sanford]], American politician (b. [[1917]]) | ||
| *[[2002]] - [[Thor Heyerdahl]], Norwegian explorer (b. [[1914]]) | *[[2002]] - [[Thor Heyerdahl]], Norwegian explorer (b. [[1914]]) | ||
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- 1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
- 1580 - Thomas Middleton, English dramatist (d. 1627)
- 1947 - Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
- 1947 - James Woods, American actor
Deaths
- 1802 - Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
- 1898 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
- 1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
- 1995 - Bernard Edwards, American record producer (b. 1952)
- 1998 - Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
- 2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
- 2002 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
- 2003 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
- 2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920)
- 2005 - Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
- 2007 - Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945)
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. ...
