Anniversaries 18 April

Birth

Thomas Middleton35

English playwright and poet 1580–1627

David Ricardo37

British political economist, broker and politician 1772–1823

George Henry Lewes54

British philosopher 1817–1878

Henry Becque1

French dramatist 1837–1899

Clarence Darrow70

American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Li… 1857–1938

Кларенс Дарроу1

1857–1938

Leopold Stokowski8

British conductor 1882–1977

Arnold Lunn1

British writer and skier 1888–1974

W. Sterling Cole2

American politician 1904–1987

Maurice Goldhaber1

American physicist 1911–2011

Joy Davidman1

American poet 1915–1960

Frederica of Hanover1

Queen consort of Greece as the wife of King Paul; daughter … 1917–1981

André Bazin1

French film critic 1918–1958

Xu Yuanchong6

Translator of Chinese poetry 1921

Frederick Herzberg21

American psychologist 1923–2000

Samuel P. Huntington36

American political scientist 1927–2008

Tadeusz Mazowiecki3

Polish politician and prime minister 1927–2013

Howard S. Becker35

American sociologist 1928

F. David Peat14

British physicist 1938–2017

Mike Murdock9

American televangelist 1946

Janet Kagan1

Science fiction author 1946–2008

James Woods3

American film, stage and television actor 1947

Kathy Acker38

American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet 1947–1997

Robin Jones Gunn17

American writer 1955

Susan Faludi8

American feminist 1959

Neo Rauch1

German painter 1960

Karen Handel3

American politician 1962

Conan O'Brien17

American television show host and comedian 1963

Niall Ferguson24

British historian 1964

Ivan Camilleri1

bishop of the roman-catholic church 1969

Keith R. A. DeCandido1

American science fiction and fantasy writer 1969

David Tennant7

Scottish actor 1971

Steve Maraboli277

1975

Katherine Maher3

chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikim… 1983

Christina Wirth1

American basketball player 1987

Kayleigh McEnany4

American political commentator and writer 1988

Death

David Lindsay13

Scottish noble and poet 1490–1554

John Foxe5

British historian 1516–1587

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden4

English lawyer, judge and Whig politician 1714–1794

Erasmus Darwin7

English physician, botanist; member of the Lunar Society 1731–1802

Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale13

British lawyer 1783–1851

Justus von Liebig3

German chemist 1803–1873

Gustave Moreau6

French painter 1826–1898

H. A. L. Fisher5

British politician 1865–1940

Epifanio de los Santos44

Filipino politician 1871–1928

Frank Rutter4

British art critic 1876–1937

Albert Einstein702

German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativi… 1879–1955

Pandurang Vaman Kane1

Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar 1880–1972

Isoroku Yamamoto7

Japanese Marshal Admiral 1884–1943

Ben Hecht32

American screenwriter 1894–1964

Marcel Pagnol9

novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France 1895–1974

Austin Bradford Hill1

English epidemiologist and statistician 1897–1991

Michał Kalecki16

Polish economist 1899–1970

Thor Heyerdahl5

Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer 1914–2002

Kamisese Mara20

President of Fiji 1920–2004

E. F. Codd5

computer scientist 1923–2003

Dick Clark1

American radio personality 1929–2012