April 18th Calendar By Years in History

• Calendar Day of Week for April 18th. It's the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 258 days left to the end of the year.

Famous Deaths in History for April 18th

• Year 52 » Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (b. 93 BC)
• Year 474 » Leo I the Thracian, Byzantine emperor (b. 401)
• Year 1213 » Tamar of Georgia (b. 1160)
• Year 1367 » Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
• Year 1425 » Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
• Year 1471 » Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
• Year 1586 » Margaret of Parma (b. 1522)
• Year 1677 » Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch administrator, founded Cape Town (b. 1619)
• Year 1803 » Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
• Year 1849 » Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (b. 1752)
• Year 1862 » John Tyler, American politician, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
• Year 1873 » Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
• Year 1878 » Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
• Year 1886 » Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
• Year 1892 » Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
• Year 1896 » Charles Floquet, French politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
• Year 1923 » Wallace Reid, American actor (b. 1891)
• Year 1936 » Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• Year 1936 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
• Year 1940 » Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865)
• Year 1945 » Hermann Braun, American-German actor (b. 1918)
• Year 1951 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (b. 1867)
• Year 1952 » Curly Howard, American actor and singer (b. 1903)
• Year 1954 » Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
• Year 1955 » Saadat Hassan Manto, Pakistani author (b. 1912)
• Year 1956 » Konstantin Päts, Estonian politician, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)
• Year 1963 » Hugh Gaitskell, English politician (b. 1906)
• Year 1966 » Kathleen Norris, American author (b. 1880)
• Year 1967 » Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
• Year 1969 » Dada Lekhraj, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1884)
• Year 1969 » Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
• Year 1970 » David O. McKay, American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
• Year 1971 » Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (b. 1914)
• Year 1975 » Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
• Year 1978 » Walter H. Thompson, English bodyguard (b. 1890)
• Year 1978 » Carl Betz, American actor (b. 1921)
• Year 1978 » Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher and author (b. 1919)
• Year 1980 » Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
• Year 1984 » Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Belarusian general and politician (b. 1902)
• Year 1984 » Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1915)
• Year 1985 » Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
• Year 1989 » Bruce Chatwin, English author (b. 1940)
• Year 1990 » Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
• Year 1993 » Eleanor Hibbert, English author (b. 1906)
• Year 1993 » Dionysios Zakythinos, Greek historian, academic, and politician (b. 1905)
• Year 1994 » Denis Henry Desty, English chromatographer (b. 1923)
• Year 1995 » Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• Year 1995 » Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937)
• Year 1996 » N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923)
• Year 1997 » Paul Tsongas, American politician (b. 1941)
• Year 1997 » Adriana Caselotti, American voice actress and singer (b. 1916)
• Year 1998 » Dan Georgiadis, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• Year 2000 » Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
• Year 2001 » Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Congolese politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
• Year 2001 » Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
• Year 2003 » Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (b. 1907)
• Year 2003 » Ed Farhat, American wrestler (b. 1924)
• Year 2005 » Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
• Year 2005 » Pez Whatley, American wrestler (b. 1951)
• Year 2006 » Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
• Year 2007 » Brent Liles, American bass player (Agent Orange (band) known as Agent Orange and Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
• Year 2008 » John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)
• Year 2008 » Frank Lewin, American composer and theorist (b. 1925)
• Year 2008 » Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman (b. 1927)
• Year 2009 » Tony Hart, English television host (b. 1925)
• Year 2009 » Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (b. 1931)
• Year 2009 » Bob May (actor) called Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
• Year 2009 » Danai Stratigopoulou, Greek singer (b. 1913)
• Year 2009 » Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
• Year 2010 » Robert B. Parker, American author (b. 1932)
• Year 2010 » Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer-songwriter and accordion player (Mountain City Four and Kate and Anna McGarrigle) (b. 1946)
• Year 2011 » Sargent Shriver, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to France (b. 1915)
• Year 2012 » Yuri Rasovsky, American playwright and producer, founded The National Radio Theater of Chicago (b. 1944)
• Year 2012 » Georg Lassen, German captain (b. 1915)
• Year 2012 » Anthony Gonsalves, Indian composer (b. 1927)
• Year 2012 » Mel Goldstein, American meteorologist (b. 1945)
• Year 2012 » Ray Finch, English potter (b. 1914)
• Year 2012 » Tom Cowie, English businessman (b. 1922)
• Year 2012 » Karen Brazell, American author and academic (b. 1938)
• Year 2013 » Morné van der Merwe, South African rugby player (b. 1973)
• Year 2013 » Theodore Stern, American academic (b. 1912)
• Year 2013 » Jacques Sadoul, French author (b. 1934)
• Year 2013 » Ron Nachman, Israeli politician (b. 1942)
• Year 2013 » Lewis Marnell, Australian skateboarder (b. 1982)
• Year 2013 » Jon Mannah, Australian rugby player (b. 1989)
• Year 2013 » Jim Horning, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1942)
• Year 2013 » Sean Fallon (footballer) known as Sean Fallon, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• Year 2013 » Walmor Chagas, Brazilian actor (b. 1930)
• Year 2013 » Peter Boyle (footballer born 1951) or Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (b. 1951)
• Year 2014 » Takao Iwami, Japanese journalist (b. 1935)
• Year 2014 » Andy Graver, English footballer (b. 1927)
• Year 2014 » Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (Toto (band) Toto, Angel (band) Angel, and LeRoux (band) LeRoux) (b. 1951)
• Year 2014 » Komla Dumor, Ghanaian-English journalist (b. 1972)
• Year 2014 » Michael Botmang, Nigerian politician, 17th List of Governors of Plateau State or Governor of Plateau State (b. 1938)
• Year 2014 » Robert A. Alberty, American chemist and academic (b. 1921)
• Year 2014 » Kathryn Abbe, American photographer (b. 1919)
• Year 2014 » Sarah Marshall (British film actress) or Sarah Marshall, English-American actress (b. 1933)