Famous Birthdays for April 18th

Pre-1600[edit]

• 359 – Gratian, Roman emperor (d. 383)
• 588 – K'an II, Mayan ruler (d. 658)
• 812 – Al-Wathiq, Abbasid caliph (d. 847)
• 1446 – Ippolita Maria Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1484)
• 1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
• 1503 – Henry II of Navarre, (d. 1555)
• 1534 – William Harrison, English clergyman (d. 1593)
• 1580 – Thomas Middleton, English Jacobean playwright and poet (d. 1627)
• 1590 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)

1601–1900[edit]

• 1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1674)
• 1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747)
• 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (d. 1810)
• 1759 – Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823)
• 1771 – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820)
• 1772 – David Ricardo, British economist and politician (d. 1823)
• 1794 – William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams (d. 1863)
• 1813 – James McCune Smith, African-American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author (d. 1865)
• 1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874)
• 1819 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895)
• 1838 – Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (d. 1912)
• 1854 – Ludwig Levy, German architect (d. 1907)
• 1857 – Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938)
• 1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1962)
• 1858 – Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935)
• 1863 – Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (d. 1942)
• 1863 – Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (d. 1920)
• 1863 – Siegfried Bettmann, founder of the Triumph Motorcycle Company and Mayor of Coventry (d. 1955)
• 1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (d. 1916)
• 1874 – Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (d. 1938)
• 1877 – Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1950)
• 1879 – Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962)
• 1880 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964)
• 1882 – Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977)
• 1883 – Aleksanteri Aava, Finnish poet (d. 1956)^[14]
• 1884 – Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician (d. 1937)
• 1889 – Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970)^[15]
• 1892 – Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1962)
• 1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001)
• 1898 – Patrick Hennessy, Irish soldier and businessman (d. 1981)
• 1900 – Bertha Isaacs, Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist (d. 1997)^[16]

1901–present[edit]

• 1901 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967)
• 1901 – László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975)
• 1902 – Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (d. 1972)
• 1902 – Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
• 1904 – Pigmeat Markham, African-American comedian, singer, and dancer (d. 1981)
• 1905 – Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990)
• 1905 – George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• 1907 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (d. 2011)
• 1914 – Claire Martin, Canadian author (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Joy Davidman, Polish-Ukrainian American poet and author (d. 1960)
• 1916 – Carl Burgos, American illustrator (d. 1984)
• 1918 – Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
• 1918 – André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958)
• 1918 – Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
• 1918 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded CliffsNotes (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
• 1919 – Virginia O'Brien, American actress and singer (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Esther Afua Ocloo, Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending (d. 2002)
• 1920 – John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Jean Richard, French actor and singer (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Barbara Hale, American actress (d. 2017)
• 1924 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer and author (d. 2005)
• 1926 – Doug Insole, English cricketer (d. 2017)
• 1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician
• 1930 – Clive Revill, New Zealand actor and singer
• 1931 – Bill Miles, American director and producer (d. 2013)
• 1934 – James Drury, American actor (d. 2020)
• 1934 – George Shirley, African-American tenor and educator
• 1935 – Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1936 – Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer (d. 2022)
• 1936 – Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997)
• 1937 – Keiko Abe, Japanese marimba player and composer^[17]
• 1937 – Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009)
• 1939 – Glen Hardin, American pianist and arranger
• 1939 – Thomas J. Moyer, American lawyer and judge (d. 2010)
• 1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 – Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter
• 1941 – Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland^[18]
• 1942 – Michael Beloff, English lawyer and academic
• 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic
• 1942 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian racing driver (d. 1970)
• 1944 – Kathy Acker, American author and poet (d. 1997)
• 1944 – Philip Jackson, Scottish sculptor and photographer
• 1945 – Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009)
• 1946 – Hayley Mills, English actress^[19]
• 1947 – Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1947 – James Woods, American actor and producer
• 1948 – Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1950 – Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer
• 1953 – Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer and screenwriter
• 1954 – Robert Greenberg, American pianist and composer
• 1956 – Eric Roberts, American actor^[20]
• 1958 – Gabi Delgado-López, Spanish-German singer, co-founder of D.A.F. (d. 2020)
• 1958 – Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (d. 1999)
• 1959 – Susan Faludi, American journalist, author and feminist^[21]
• 1960 – Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova, Ukrainian runner
• 1961 – Jane Leeves, English actress and dancer
• 1961 – John Podhoretz, American journalist and author
• 1963 – Conan O'Brien, American television host, comedian, and podcaster^[22]
• 1963 – Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor^[20]
• 1964 – Niall Ferguson, Scottish historian and academic
• 1969 – Keith DeCandido, American author
• 1970 – Saad Hariri, Saudi Arabian-Lebanese businessman and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Lebanon
• 1971 – David Tennant, Scottish actor
• 1972 – Rosa Clemente, American journalist and activist
• 1972 – Eli Roth, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian runner
• 1981 – Audrey Tang, Taiwanese computer scientist and academic