April 18 - Births

Births

• 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)
• 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)
• 1874 – 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)
• 1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-born American physicist
• 1915 – Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer, wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960)
• 1917 – Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (d. 1947)
• 1917 – Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (d. 1981)
• 1918 – Cliff Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Tony Mottola, American guitarist (d. 2004)
• 1918 – Gabriel Axel, Danish film director
• 1918 – Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter
• 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)
• 1925 – Bob Hastings, American actor
• 1925 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008)
• 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 – Thomas J. Moyer, American judge
• 1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate
• 1940 – Mike Vickers, British guitarist and saxophonist (Manfred Mann)
• 1942 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian racer and F1 (posthumous) world champion (d. 1970)
• 1942 – Steve Blass, American professional baseball player
• 1942 – Robert Christgau, American music critic
• 1944 – Robert Hanssen, American spy
• 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 – Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
• 1947 – Dorothy Lyman, American actress
• 1947 – Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
• 1947 – Cindy Pickett, American actress
• 1947 – James Woods, American actor
• 1949 – Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
• 1950 – Kenny Ortega, American film and TV producer and choreographer
• 1950 – Paul Callery, football player
• 1951 – Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer
• 1951 – Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician
• 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 – Jane Leeves, British actress
• 1961 – Steve Lombardi, American wrestler
• 1961 – John Podhoretz, American columnist and political pundit
• 1962 – Jeff Dunham, American comedian
• 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 – Saad Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon
• 1970 – Greg Eklund, American musician
• 1970 – Esther Schweins, German actress and comedienne
• 1970 – Tatiana Stefanidou, Greek television host
• 1971 – Tamara Braun, American actress
• 1971 – Russell Payne, English writer
• 1971 – Samantha Cameron, business executive; wife of UK Prime Minister David Cameron
• 1971 – David Tennant, Scottish actor
• 1971 – Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Fredro Starr, American rapper (Onyx)
• 1972 – Rosa Clemente, American activist and hip-hop artist
• 1972 – Eli Roth, American film director
• 1973 – Derrick Brooks, American football player
• 1973 – Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete
• 1973 – Brady Clark, American baseball player
• 1973 – Jad Abumrad, American radio host and producer
• 1974 – Mark Tremonti, American musician
• 1974 – Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer
• 1974 – Edgar Wright, British director
• 1976 – Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
• 1976 – Fayray, Japanese singer
• 1976 – Jo Gibb, Scottish Actress
• 1976 – Justin Ross, American politician
• 1977 – Dan Lacouture, NHL hockey player
• 1979 – Michael Bradley, American basketball player
• 1979 – Anthony Davidson, British Formula One driver
• 1979 – Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer
• 1979 – Matthew Upson, English footballer
• 1979 – Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star
• 1980 – Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Brian Buscher, American baseball player
• 1982 – Simone Farina, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Scott Hartnell, NHL hockey player
• 1982 – Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (d. 2009)
• 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 – Maurice Edu, American soccer player
• 1986 – Billy Butler, American baseball player
• 1986 – Conrad Logan, Irish footballer
• 1987 – Brett Deledio, Australian Rules Football player
• 1987 – Danny Guthrie, English footballer
• 1987 – Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
• 1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, British model
• 1988 – Alexander Hauck, South African-born German rugby player
• 1989 – Alia Shawkat, American actress
• 1989 – Jessica, American-born Korean singer
• 1989 – Simas Buterlevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1994 – Moises Arias, American actor
• 2007 – Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan