Famous Births on 18 Apr

Famous Births on 18 Apr

1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
1580 - Thomas Middleton, English dramatist (d. 1627)
1590 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
1605 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
1771 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
1772 - David Ricardo, English economist (d. 1823)
1797 - Adolphe Thiers, French statesman (d. 1877)
1813 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
1819 - Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)
1819 - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
1838 - Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)
1857 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (d. 1938)
1863 - Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (d. 1942)
1864 - Richard Harding Davis, American author (d. 1916)
1874 - Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)
1875 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)
1877 - Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (d. 1950)
1880 - Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968)
1882 - Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor (d. 1977)
1888 - Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1889 - Jessie Street, Australian suffragette, feminist, and human rights activist (d. 1970)
1893 - Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
1897 - Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001)
1901 - Al Lewis, American lyricist (d. 1967)
1902 - Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
1902 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (d. 1994)
1904 - Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (d. 1981)
1905 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1907 - Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1995)
1915 - Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer, wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960)
1917 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (d. 1981)
1917 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (d. 1947)
1918 - Cliff Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)
1918 - Tony Mottola, American guitarist (d. 2004)
1919 - Virginia O'Brien, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1921 - Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
1922 - Barbara Hale, American actress
1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (d. 2005)
1924 - Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007)
1927 - Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist
1930 - Clive Revill, New Zealand born actor
1934 - George Shirley, American tenor
1936 - Tommy Ivo, American race car driver
1937 - Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin
1939 - Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
1939 - Thomas J. Moyer, American judge
1940 - Mike Vickers, British guitarist and saxophonist (Manfred Mann)
1940 - Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian racer and F1 (posthumous) world champion (d. 1970)
1942 - Steve Blass, American professional baseball player
1945 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (d. 2004)
1946 - Hayley Mills, English actress
1946 - Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1999)
1947 - James Woods, American actor
1947 - Cindy Pickett, American actress
1947 - Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
1947 - Dorothy Lyman, American actress
1947 - Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
1949 - Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
1950 - Kenny Ortega, American film and TV producer and choreographer
1951 - Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician
1951 - Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer
1953 - Rick Moranis, Canadian comedian
1956 - Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress
1956 - Eric Roberts, American actor
1956 - Melody Thomas Scott, American actress
1956 - Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress
1958 - Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (d. 1999)
1961 - Steve Lombardi, American wrestler
1961 - Jane Leeves, British actress
1963 - Eric McCormack, Canadian actor
1963 - Conan O'Brien, American comedian
1964 - Niall Ferguson, British historian
1964 - Rithy Panh, Cambodian film director
1964 - Jim Ellison, musician
1964 - Mark Berry, aka Bez, Dancer in Happy Mondays
1965 - Rob Stenders, Dutch radio discjockey
1966 - Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
1966 - Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player
1967 - Maria Bello, American actress
1968 - Mary Birdsong, American actress
1968 - David Hewlett, English born Canadian actor
1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan
1969 - Keith R.A. DeCandido, American author
1970 - Rico Brogna, American baseball player
1970 - Greg Eklund, American musician
1971 - Tamara Braun, American actress
1971 - David Tennant, Scottish actor
1971 - Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player
1972 - Eli Roth, American film director
1973 - Brady Clark, American baseball player
1973 - Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete
1973 - Derrick Brooks, American football player
1974 - Mark Tremonti, American musician
1974 - Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer
1974 - Edgar Wright, British director
1976 - Justin Ross, American politician
1976 - Fayray, Japanese singer
1976 - Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
1977 - Dan Lacouture, NHL hockey player
1979 - Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star
1979 - Matthew Upson, English footballer
1979 - Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer
1979 - Anthony Davidson, British Formula One driver
1979 - Michael Bradley, American basketball player
1980 - Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Brian Buscher, American baseball player
1982 - Scott Hartnell, NHL hockey player
1982 - Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
1983 - Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 - Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer
1984 - America Ferrera, American actress
1985 - Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
1985 - Karl Reindler, Australian racing driver
1985 - Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
1986 - Billy Butler, American baseball player
1986 - Maurice Edu, American soccer player
1987 - Danny Guthrie, English footballer
1987 - Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
1989 - Alia Shawkat, American actress
1994 - Moises Arias, American Actor
1996 - Alexey Zhigalkovich, Belarusian Singer
2007 - Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan