April 18
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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
Births
- 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)
Notes
- 1925 - Bob Kaufman, American poet (d. 1986)
- 1918 - Gabriel Axel, Danish director (Babette's Feast)
- 1904 - Giuseppe Terragni, Italian architect (d. 1943)
- 1648 - Madame de Guyon, French mystic (A Short and Easy Method of Prayer) (d. 1717)
- 1918 - André Bazin, French film critic an theorist (d. 1958)
- 1991 - Martin Hannett, British record producer (Joy Division) (b. 1948)
