Anniversaries 18 April
Birth
English playwright and poet
1580–1627
British political economist, broker and politician
1772–1823
British philosopher
1817–1878
French dramatist
1837–1899
American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Li…
1857–1938
British conductor
1882–1977
British writer and skier
1888–1974
American politician
1904–1987
American physicist
1911–2011
Queen consort of Greece as the wife of King Paul; daughter …
1917–1981
French film critic
1918–1958
Translator of Chinese poetry
1921
American psychologist
1923–2000
American political scientist
1927–2008
Polish politician and prime minister
1927–2013
American sociologist
1928
British physicist
1938–2017
American televangelist
1946
Science fiction author
1946–2008
American film, stage and television actor
1947
American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet
1947–1997
American television show host and comedian
1963
bishop of the roman-catholic church
1969
American science fiction and fantasy writer
1969
chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikim…
1983
American basketball player
1987
American political commentator and writer
1988
Death
Scottish noble and poet
1490–1554
British historian
1516–1587
English lawyer, judge and Whig politician
1714–1794
English physician, botanist; member of the Lunar Society
1731–1802
British politician
1865–1940
Filipino politician
1871–1928
British art critic
1876–1937
German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativi…
1879–1955
Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
1880–1972
Japanese Marshal Admiral
1884–1943
American screenwriter
1894–1964
novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France
1895–1974
English epidemiologist and statistician
1897–1991
Polish economist
1899–1970
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer
1914–2002
President of Fiji
1920–2004
computer scientist
1923–2003
American radio personality
1929–2012