For the 1984 Indian film, see April 18 (film) .
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April 18 is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 257 days remain until the end of the year.
Events [ ] 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen , Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.[1] 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms . He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros .1738 – Real Academia de la Historia Madrid .1775 – American Revolution : The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.1783 – Three-Fifths Compromise : the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation . This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.[2] 1831 – The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama .1847 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.1857 – "The Spirits Book " by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.1864 – Battle of Dybbøl : A Prussian -Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig . Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire .1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria .1902 – The 7.5 Template:M Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), killing between 800–2,000.1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco , California .1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.1912 – The Cunard liner Template:RMS brings 705 survivors from the Template:RMS to New York City.1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I .1923 – Yankee Stadium : "The House that Ruth Built" opens.1925 – The International Amateur Radio Union is formed in Paris.[3] 1930 – The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that "there is no news" in their evening report .1939 – Robert Menzies , who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons .[4] 1942 – World War II : The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama , Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France .
1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance , Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island .1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland , Germany.1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague , Netherlands.1949 – The Republic of Ireland Act comes into effect.1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding . However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals .
1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt .1955 – Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung , Indonesia , for the first Asian-African Conference .1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia ) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.1983 – A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut , killing 63 people.1987 – The New York Islanders defeat the Washington Capitals 3–2 in Game 7 of their Patrick Division Semifinal series.[5] 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Qana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.1997 – The Red River flood begins and soon overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota . Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.[6] 1999 – Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time points scorer, plays his final game at Madison Square Garden as a teammate of the New York Rangers in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Gretzky recorded his final career point, an assist, bringing his career point total to 2,857.2007 – A series of bombings , two of them being suicides , occur in Baghdad , killing 198 and injuring 251.2013 – A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.2018 – King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini .[7] 2019 - A redacted version of the Mueller Report is released to the United States Congress and the public.[8] 2020 - Coronavirus Pandemic : Europe surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 deaths. [9] Births [ ] 359 – Gratian , Roman emperor (d. 383)588 – K'an II , Mayan ruler (d. 658)812 – Al-Wathiq , Abbasid caliph (d. 847)1446 – Ippolita Maria Sforza , Italian noble (d. 1484)1480 – Lucrezia Borgia , daughter of Pope Alexander VI1503 – Henry II of Navarre , (d. 1555)1534 – William Harrison , English clergyman (d. 1593)1580 – Thomas Middleton , English Jacobean playwright and poet (d. 1627)1590 – Ahmed I , Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)1605 – Giacomo Carissimi , Italian priest and composer (d. 1674)1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel , French violinist and composer (d. 1747)1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet , English banker and politician (d. 1810)1759 – Jacques Widerkehr , French cellist and composer (d. 1823)1771 – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820)1772 – David Ricardo , British economist and politician (d. 1823)1794 – William Debenham , English founder of Debenhams (d. 1863)1797 – Adolphe Thiers , French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877)1813 – James McCune Smith , African-American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author (d. 1865)1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes , Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874)1819 – Franz von Suppé , Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895)
1838 – Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran , French chemist and academic (d. 1912)1854 – Ludwig Levy , German architect (d. 1907 )1857 – Clarence Darrow , American lawyer (d. 1938)1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve , Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1962)1858 – Alexander Shirvanzade , Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935)
1863 – Count Leopold Berchtold , Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (d. 1942)1863 – Linton Hope , English sailor and architect (d. 1920)
1864 – Richard Harding Davis , American journalist and author (d. 1916)1874 – Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić , Croatian author and poet (d. 1938)1877 – Vicente Sotto , Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1950)1879 – Korneli Kekelidze , Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962)1880 – Sam Crawford , American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968)1882 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele , Nigerian ruler (d. 1964)1882 – Leopold Stokowski , English conductor (d. 1977)
1884 – Jaan Anvelt , Estonian educator and politician (d. 1937)1888 – Duffy Lewis , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979)1889 – Jessie Street , Australian activist (d. 1970)[10] 1892 – Eugene Houdry , French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1962)1893 – Violette Morris , French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944)1897 – Ardito Desio , Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001)1897 – Per-Erik Hedlund , Swedish skier (d. 1975)
1898 – Patrick Hennessy , Irish soldier and businessman (d. 1981)1900 – Bertha Isaacs , Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist (d. 1997)[11] 1901 – Al Lewis , American songwriter (d. 1967)1901 – László Németh , Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975)
1902 – Waldemar Hammenhög , Swedish author (d. 1972)1902 – Giuseppe Pella , Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
1904 – Pigmeat Markham , African-American comedian, singer, and dancer (d. 1981)1905 – Sydney Halter , Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990)1905 – George H. Hitchings , American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1907 – Miklós Rózsa , Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995)1911 – Ilario Bandini , Italian businessman and racing driver (d. 1992)1911 – Maurice Goldhaber , Ukrainian Jewish-American physicist and academic (d. 2011)
1914 – Claire Martin , Canadian author (d. 2014)1915 – Joy Davidman , Polish-Ukrainian Jewish American poet and author (d. 1960)1916 – Carl Burgos , American illustrator (d. 1984)1916 – Doug Peden , Canadian basketball player (d. 2005)
1917 – Ty LaForest , Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947)1918 – Gabriel Axel , Danish-French actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)1918 – André Bazin , French critic and theorist (d. 1958)
1918 – Shinobu Hashimoto , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
1918 – Clifton Hillegass , American publisher, founded CliffsNotes
1918 – Tony Mottola , American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1919 – Virginia O'Brien , American actress and singer (d. 2001)1919 – Esther Afua Ocloo , Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending (d. 2002)
1920 – John F. Wiley , American football player and coach (d. 2013)1921 – Jean Richard , French actor and singer (d. 2001)1922 – Barbara Hale , American actress (d. 2017)1922 – Lord Kitchener , Trinidadian singer (d. 2000)
1923 – Alfred Bieler , Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2013)1923 – Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle , English engineer and politician (d. 2015)
1924 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)1924 – Henry Hyde , American commander, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)
1924 – Roy Mason , English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2015)
1925 – Marcus Schmuck , Austrian mountaineer and author (d. 2005)1926 – Doug Insole , English cricketer (d. 2017)1927 – Samuel P. Huntington , American political scientist, author, and academic (d. 2008)1927 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki , Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013)
1927 – Charles Pasqua , French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 2015)
1928 – Karl Josef Becker , German cardinal and theologian (d. 2015)1928 – Otto Piene , German sculptor and academic (d. 2014)
1929 – Peter Hordern , English soldier and politician1930 – Clive Revill , New Zealand actor and singer1931 – Bill Miles , American director and producer (d. 2013)1934 – James Drury , American actor (d. 2020)1934 – George Shirley , African-American tenor and educator
1935 – Brian Clay , Australian rugby league player (d. 1987)1935 – Costas Ferris , Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1936 – Roger Graef , American-English criminologist, director, and producer1936 – Vladimir Hütt , Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997)
1936 – "TV" Tommy Ivo , American actor and drag racer
1937 – Jan Kaplický , Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009)1937 – Tatyana Shchelkanova , Russian long jumper and heptathlete (d. 2011)
1937 – Teddy Taylor , Scottish journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
1939 – Glen Hardin , American pianist and arranger1939 – Thomas J. Moyer , American lawyer and judge (d. 2010)
1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein , American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate1940 – Mike Vickers , English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter
1941 – Michael D. Higgins , Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland [12] 1942 – Michael Beloff , English lawyer and academic1942 – Steve Blass , American baseball player and sportscaster
1942 – Robert Christgau , American journalist and critic
1942 – Jochen Rindt , German-Austrian racing driver (d. 1970)
1944 – Kathy Acker , American author and poet (d. 1997)1944 – Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza , English academic and politician
1944 – Robert Hanssen , American FBI agent and double agent
1944 – Philip Jackson , Scottish sculptor and photographer
1945 – Bernard Arcand , Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009)1945 – Richard Bausch , American novelist and short story writer
1945 – Robert Bausch , American novelist and short story writer
1946 – Hayley Mills , English actress[13] 1946 – Tommy Shannon , American bass guitarist
1947 – Moses Blah , Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013)1947 – Dorothy Lyman , American actress
1947 – Cindy Pickett , American actress
1947 – Jerzy Stuhr , Polish actor, director, and screenwriter
1947 – James Woods , American actor and producer
1948 – Régis Wargnier , French director, producer, and screenwriter1949 – Geoff Bodine , American race car driver1950 – Paul Callery , Australian footballer1950 – Tina Chow , American model and jewelry designer (d. 1992)
1950 – Kenny Ortega , American director, producer, and choreographer
1950 – Grigory Sokolov , Russian pianist and composer
1951 – Ricardo Fortaleza , Australian-Filipino boxer and coach1951 – Pierre Pettigrew , Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1953 – Rick Moranis , Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer and screenwriter1954 – Robert Greenberg , American pianist and composer1956 – Chris Jones , English footballer[14] 1956 – Eric Roberts , American actor
1957 – Ian Campbell , Australian jumper1958 – Gabi Delgado-López , Spanish-German singer, co-founder of D.A.F. 1958 – Malcolm Marshall , Barbadian cricketer and coach (d. 1999)
1959 – Susan Faludi , American journalist and author1959 – Frank Mulholland, Lord Mulholland , Scottish judge, former Solicitor General for Scotland and Lord Advocate
1960 – John Chiedozie , Nigerian international footballer[15] 1960 – Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova , Ukrainian runner
1961 – Kelly Hansen , American singer-songwriter1961 – Jane Leeves , English actress and dancer
1961 – John Podhoretz , American journalist and author
1962 – Jeff Dunham , American comedian and ventriloquist1962 – Nick Farr-Jones , Australian rugby player and sportscaster
1963 – Eric McCormack , Canadian-American actor and producer1963 – Conan O'Brien , American actor, producer, screenwriter, and talk show host
1963 – Phil Simmons , Trinidadian cricketer
1963 – Peter Van Loan , Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of International Trade
1964 – Niall Ferguson , Scottish historian and academic1964 – Rithy Panh , Cambodian director and screenwriter
1966 – Valeri Kamensky , Russian ice hockey player1967 – Maria Bello , American actress and writer1969 – Keith DeCandido , American author1969 – Stefan Schwarz , Swedish footballer and manager
1969 – Robert Změlík , Czech decathlete
1970 – Rico Brogna , American baseball player and coach1970 – Greg Eklund , American drummer and guitarist
1970 – Saad Hariri , Saudi Arabian-Lebanese businessman and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Lebanon
1970 – François Leroux , Canadian ice hockey player and radio host
1970 – Tatiana Stefanidou , Greek journalist and talk show host
1971 – Oleg Petrov , Russian ice hockey player1971 – Graham Rowntree , English rugby player
1971 – David Tennant , Scottish actor
1972 – Rosa Clemente , American journalist and activist1972 – Eli Roth , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Michael Rutter , English motorcycle racer
1973 – Derrick Brooks , American football player1973 – Brady Clark , American baseball player
1973 – Haile Gebrselassie , Ethiopian runner
1974 – Millie Corretjer , Puerto Rican-American actress and singer1974 – Mark Tremonti , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1976 – Gavin Creel , American actor and singer1976 – Melissa Joan Hart , American actress, director, and producer
1976 – Andrew Ilie , Romanian-Australian tennis player
1976 – Justin Ross , American politician
1976 – Staffan Strand , Swedish high jumper
1977 – Dan LaCouture , American ice hockey player1977 – Cindy Taylor , Paraguayan model and actress
1979 – Michael Bradley , American basketball player and coach1979 – Ethan Cohn , American actor
1979 – Matt Cooper , Australian rugby league player
1979 – Anthony Davidson , English racing driver
1979 – Kourtney Kardashian , American model and businesswoman
1980 – Rabiu Afolabi , Nigerian footballer and manager1980 – Justin Levens , American mixed martial artist (d. 2008)
1981 – Brian Buscher , American baseball player1981 – Milan Jovanović , Serbian footballer
1981 – Aldo Ramírez , Colombian footballer
1981 – Audrey Tang , Taiwanese computer scientist and academic
1982 – Ibrahim al-Asiri , Saudi Arabian terrorist1982 – Greg Camarillo , American football player
1982 – Ricardo Colclough , Canadian-American football player
1982 – Simone Farina , Italian footballer
1982 – Scott Hartnell , Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Blair Late , American singer-songwriter and journalist
1982 – Darren Sutherland , Irish boxer (d. 2009)
1982 – Marie-Élaine Thibert , Canadian singer
1983 – Miguel Cabrera , Venezuelan baseball player1983 – Reeve Carney , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1984 – Red Bryant , American football player1984 – America Ferrera , American actress and producer
1985 – Łukasz Fabiański , Polish footballer1986 – Billy Butler , American baseball player1986 – Maurice Edu , American soccer player
1986 – Taylor Griffin , American basketball player
1986 – Conrad Logan , Irish footballer
1986 – Efraín Velarde , Mexican footballer
1987 – Brett Deledio , Australian footballer1987 – Danny Guthrie , English footballer
1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley , English model and actress
1987 – Samantha Jade , Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1987 – Ivan Tričkovski , Macedonian footballer
1988 – Andre Frolov , Estonian footballer1988 – Alexander Hauck , South African-German rugby player
1989 – Jessica Jung , Korean American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer1990 – Henderson Álvarez , Venezuelan baseball player1990 – Anna van der Breggen , Dutch cyclist
1990 – Jake Howells , English footballer
1990 – Wojciech Szczęsny , Polish footballer
1990 – Junior Torunarigha , Nigerian footballer
1993 – Matt Salisbury , English cricketer1993 – Nathan Sykes , English singer-songwriter
1995 – Divock Origi , Belgian footballer1996 – Mariah Bell , American figure skater[16] 1996 – Ioana Ducu , Romanian tennis player[17]
1997 – Matthias Blübaum , German chess grandmaster[18] 1997 – Donny van de Beek , Dutch footballer[19] Deaths [ ] 727 – Agallianos Kontoskeles , Byzantine commander and rebel leader850 – Perfectus , Spanish monk and martyr [20] 909 – Dionysius II , Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch 943 – Fujiwara no Atsutada , Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 906)963 – Stephen Lekapenos , co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire [21] 1161 – Theobald of Bec , French-English archbishop (b. 1090)1176 – Galdino della Sala , Italian archdeacon and saint1552 – John Leland , English poet and historian (b. 1502)[22] 1555 – Polydore Vergil , English historian (b. 1470)[23] 1556 – Luigi Alamanni , Italian poet and politician (b. 1495)1567 – Wilhelm von Grumbach , German adventurer (b. 1503)1587 – John Foxe , English historian and author (b. 1516)[24] 1636 – Julius Caesar , English judge and politician (b. 1557)1650 – Simonds d'Ewes , English lawyer and politician (b. 1602)1674 – John Graunt , English demographer and statistician (b. 1620)1689 – George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys , Welsh judge and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1648)1732 – Louis Feuillée , French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (b. 1660)1742 – Arvid Horn , Swedish general and politician (b. 1664)[25] 1763 – Marie-Josephte Corriveau , Canadian murderer (b. 1733)1794 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden , English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)1796 – Johan Wilcke , Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1732)1802 – Erasmus Darwin , English physician and botanist (b. 1731)1832 – Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet , French painter (b. 1761)1859 – Tatya Tope , Indian general (b. 1814)1864 – Juris Alunāns , Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)1873 – Justus von Liebig , German chemist and academic (b. 1803)1898 – Gustave Moreau , French painter and academic (b. 1826)1906 – Luis Martín , Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)1912 – Martha Ripley , American physician (b. 1843)[26] 1917 – Vladimir Serbsky , Russian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1858)1923 – Savina Petrilli , Italian religious leader (b. 1851)[27] [28] [29] 1936 – Milton Brown , American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)1936 – Ottorino Respighi , Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)
1938 – George Bryant , American archer (b. 1878)1942 – Aleksander Mitt , Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)1942 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
1943 – Isoroku Yamamoto , Japanese admiral (b. 1884)1945 – John Ambrose Fleming , English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)1945 – Ernie Pyle , American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)
1947 – Jozef Tiso , Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)1951 – Óscar Carmona , Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)1955 – Albert Einstein , German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)1958 – Maurice Gamelin , Belgian-French general (b. 1872)1959 – Irving Cummings , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)1959 – Percy Smith , English footballer and manager (b. 1880)
1963 – Meyer Jacobstein , American academic and politician (b. 1880)1964 – Ben Hecht , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)1965 – Guillermo González Camarena , Mexican engineer (b. 1917)1967 – Karl Miller , German footballer (b. 1913)1974 – Marcel Pagnol , French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)1986 – Marcel Dassault , French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (b. 1892)1988 – Pierre Desproges , French journalist and actor (b. 1939)1988 – Oktay Rıfat Horozcu , Turkish poet and playwright (b. 1914)
1995 – Arturo Frondizi , Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)1996 – Brook Berringer , American football player (b. 1973)1996 – Bernard Edwards , American bass player and producer (b. 1952)
1997 – Edward Barker , English cartoonist (b. 1950)1998 – Terry Sanford , American lieutenant and politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)2002 – Thor Heyerdahl , Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (b. 1914)2002 – Wahoo McDaniel , American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
2003 – Edgar F. Codd , English-American soldier, pilot, and computer scientist (b. 1923)2004 – Kamisese Mara , Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (b. 1920)2005 – Sam Mills , American football player and coach (b. 1959)2006 – Mercedes Palomino , Spanish-born Quebec actor and theatre director (b. 1913)2007 – Iccho Itoh , Japanese politician (b. 1945)2008 – Germaine Tillion , French ethnologist and anthropologist (b. 1907)2012 – Dick Clark , American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (b. 1929)2012 – René Lépine , Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)
2012 – K. D. Wentworth , American author (b. 1951)
2013 – Cordell Mosson , American bass player (b. 1952)2013 – Steuart Pringle , English general (b. 1928)
2013 – Goran Švob , Croatian philosopher and author (b. 1947)
2013 – Anne Williams , English activist (b. 1951)
2014 – Guru Dhanapal , Indian director and producer (b. 1959)2014 – Sanford Jay Frank , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1954)
2014 – Eduard Kosolapov , Russian footballer (b. 1976)
2014 – David McClarty , Northern Irish politician (b. 1951)
2014 – Brian Priestman , English conductor and academic (b. 1927)
2014 – Dylan Tombides , Australian footballer (b. 1994)
2015 – Roger Lobo , Macanese-Hong Kong businessman and politician (b. 1923)2015 – Erwin Waldner , German footballer (b. 1933)
2016 – Aleah Stanbridge , Swedish singer (b. 1977)2017 – Vic Albury , Major League pitcher (b. 1947)2018 – Bruno Sammartino , Italian professional wrestler (b. 1935)2018 – Dale Winton , British television presenter (b. 1955)
2019 – Lorraine Warren , American paranormal investigator. (b. 1927) [30] Holidays and observances [ ] Christian feast day :
Apollonius the Apologist Corebus Cyril VI of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church )Eleutherius and Antia Galdino della Sala Molaise of Leighlin Perfectus Plato of Sakkoudion April 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Army Day (Iran) Coma Patients' Day (Poland )Friend's Day (Brazil )Independence Day , celebrates the independence of Zimbabwe from the United Kingdom in 1980.International Day For Monuments and Sites Invention Day (Japan )Victory over the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice (Russia )References [ ]
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