Anniversaries 18 April
Birth
![Thomas Middleton photo]()
English playwright and poet
1580–1627
![David Ricardo photo]()
British political economist, broker and politician
1772–1823
![George Henry Lewes photo]()
British philosopher
1817–1878
![Henry Becque photo]()
French dramatist
1837–1899
![Clarence Darrow photo]()
American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Li…
1857–1938
![Leopold Stokowski photo]()
British conductor
1882–1977
![Arnold Lunn photo]()
British writer and skier
1888–1974
![W. Sterling Cole photo]()
American politician
1904–1987
![Maurice Goldhaber photo]()
American physicist
1911–2011
![Frederica of Hanover photo]()
Queen consort of Greece as the wife of King Paul; daughter …
1917–1981
![André Bazin photo]()
French film critic
1918–1958
![Xu Yuanchong photo]()
Translator of Chinese poetry
1921
![Frederick Herzberg photo]()
American psychologist
1923–2000
![Samuel P. Huntington photo]()
American political scientist
1927–2008
![Tadeusz Mazowiecki photo]()
Polish politician and prime minister
1927–2013
![Howard S. Becker photo]()
American sociologist
1928
![F. David Peat photo]()
British physicist
1938–2017
![Mike Murdock photo]()
American televangelist
1946
![Janet Kagan photo]()
Science fiction author
1946–2008
![James Woods photo]()
American film, stage and television actor
1947
![Kathy Acker photo]()
American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet
1947–1997
![Conan O'Brien photo]()
American television show host and comedian
1963
![Ivan Camilleri photo]()
bishop of the roman-catholic church
1969
![Keith R. A. DeCandido photo]()
American science fiction and fantasy writer
1969
![Katherine Maher photo]()
chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikim…
1983
![Christina Wirth photo]()
American basketball player
1987
![Kayleigh McEnany photo]()
American political commentator and writer
1988
Death
![David Lindsay photo]()
Scottish noble and poet
1490–1554
![John Foxe photo]()
British historian
1516–1587
![Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden photo]()
English lawyer, judge and Whig politician
1714–1794
![Erasmus Darwin photo]()
English physician, botanist; member of the Lunar Society
1731–1802
![H. A. L. Fisher photo]()
British politician
1865–1940
![Epifanio de los Santos photo]()
Filipino politician
1871–1928
![Frank Rutter photo]()
British art critic
1876–1937
![Albert Einstein photo]()
German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativi…
1879–1955
![Pandurang Vaman Kane photo]()
Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
1880–1972
![Isoroku Yamamoto photo]()
Japanese Marshal Admiral
1884–1943
![Ben Hecht photo]()
American screenwriter
1894–1964
![Marcel Pagnol photo]()
novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France
1895–1974
![Austin Bradford Hill photo]()
English epidemiologist and statistician
1897–1991
![Michał Kalecki photo]()
Polish economist
1899–1970
![Thor Heyerdahl photo]()
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer
1914–2002
![Kamisese Mara photo]()
President of Fiji
1920–2004
![E. F. Codd photo]()
computer scientist
1923–2003
![Dick Clark photo]()
American radio personality
1929–2012
