Births on 18 April
1900s
Ski Mask the Slump God
1996
American rapper (born 1996)
Divock Origi
1995
Belgian footballer (born 1995)
Aminé
1994
American rapper (born 1994)
Mika Zibanejad
1993
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1993)
Chloe Bennet
1992
American actress, model and singer (born 1992)
Wojciech Szczęsny
1990
Polish footballer (born 1990)
Jessica Jung
1989
American and South Korean singer (born 1989)
Alia Shawkat
1989
American actress (born 1989)
Vanessa Kirby
1988
British actress (born 1987/88)
Tina Bru
1986
Norwegian politician (born 1986)
Łukasz Fabiański
1985
Polish footballer (born 1985)
America Ferrera
1984
American actress (born 1984)
Miguel Cabrera
1983
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1983)
Audrey Tang
1981
Taiwanese politician and software programmer
Matt Cooper (rugby league)
1979
Australia international rugby league footballer
Kourtney Kardashian
1979
American media personality (born 1979)
Melissa Joan Hart
1976
American actress, director and producer (born 1976)
Edgar Wright
1974
English filmmaker (born 1974)
Derrick Brooks
1973
American football player and executive (born 1973)
Haile Gebrselassie
1973
Ethiopian long-distance runner and businessman (born 1973)
Rosa Clemente
1972
American journalist (born 1972)
Eli Roth
1972
American film director and screenwriter (born 1972)
David Tennant
1971
Scottish actor (born 1971)
Saad Hariri
1970
Lebanese politician (born 1970)
Willie Roaf
1970
American football player (born 1970)
Keith DeCandido
1969
American science fiction and fantasy writer
Maria Bello
1967
American actress (born 1967)
Niall Ferguson
1964
Scottish historian (born 1964)
Eric McCormack
1963
Canadian actor (born 1963)
Conan O'Brien
1963
American television host, comedian, and writer (born 1963)
Jeff Dunham
1962
American ventriloquist and comedian (born 1962)
Jane Leeves
1961
English actress
John Podhoretz
1961
American writer (born 1961)
Olena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova
1960
Ukrainian track and field athlete
Susan Faludi
1959
American feminist author and journalist
Gabi Delgado-López
1958
Spanish-German singer (1958–2020)
Malcolm Marshall
1958
Barbadian cricketer (1958–1999)
Eric Roberts
1956
American actor (born 1956)
Robert Greenberg
1954
American composer (born 1954)
Rick Moranis
1953
Canadian entertainer (born 1953)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Indian politician)
1953
West Bengal politician
Grigory Sokolov
1950
Russian pianist (born 1950)
Régis Wargnier
1948
French film director
Moses Blah
1947
President of Liberia in 2003
Jerzy Stuhr
1947
Polish actor (1947–2024)
James Woods
1947
American actor (born 1947)
Hayley Mills
1946
English actress and singer (born 1946)
Bernard Arcand
1945
Canadian anthropologist and writer (1945–2009)
Kathy Acker
1944
American novelist and playwright (1947–1997)
Philip Jackson (sculptor)
1944
Scottish sculptor (born 1944)
Michael Beloff
1942
English barrister
Robert Christgau
1942
American music journalist (born 1942)
Jochen Rindt
1942
Racing driver (1942–1970)
Michael D. Higgins
1941
President of Ireland from 2011 to 2025
Joseph L. Goldstein
1940
American biochemist
Mike Vickers
1940
English musician (born 1940)
Glen Hardin
1939
American piano player and arranger (b. 1939)
Thomas J. Moyer
1939
American judge
Keiko Abe
1937
Japanese composer and marimba player
Jan Kaplický
1937
Czech architect
Roger Graef
1936
American-born British filmmaker (1936–2022)
Vladimir Hütt
1936
Estonian philosopher (1936–1997)
Costas Ferris
1935
Greek film director
James Drury
1934
American actor (1934–2020)
George Shirley
1934
American opera singer
Bill Miles
1931
American filmmaker
Clive Revill
1930
New Zealand actor (1930–2025)
Jean Guillou
1930
French composer, organist, and pianist (1930–2019)
Peter Hordern (politician)
1929
British politician (1929–2024)
Karl Josef Becker
1928
German Catholic theologian (1928-2015)
Otto Piene
1928
German-American artist (1928–2014)
Samuel P. Huntington
1927
American political scientist and academic (1927–2008)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
1927
40th Prime Minister of Poland (1989–91)
Doug Insole
1926
English cricketer (1926–2017)
Marcus Schmuck
1925
20th-century Austrian mountaineer
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
1924
American singer and multi-instrumentalist (1924–2005)
Barbara Hale
1922
American actress (1922–2017)
Jean Richard (actor)
1921
French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur
John F. Wiley
1920
American football player and coach (1920–2013)
Virginia O'Brien
1919
American actress and singer (1919–2001)
Esther Afua Ocloo
1919
Ghanaian entrepreneur
Gabriel Axel
1918
Danish film director, actor, writer and producer
André Bazin
1918
French film critic (1918–1958)
Shinobu Hashimoto
1918
Japanese screenwriter (1918–2018)
Clifton Hillegass
1918
Creator and publisher of CliffsNotes
Tony Mottola
1918
American jazz guitarist (1918–2004)
Carl Burgos
1916
American cartoonist
Joy Davidman
1915
American poet (1915–1960)
Claire Martin (writer)
1914
Canadian writer
Maurice Goldhaber
1911
American physicist (1911–2011)
Miklós Rózsa
1907
Hungarian-American composer (1907–1995)
Sydney Halter
1905
Canadian sports executive (1905–1990)
George H. Hitchings
1905
Nobel Prize-winning American doctor (1905–1998)
Pigmeat Markham
1904
American entertainer (1904–1981)
Waldemar Hammenhög
1902
Swedish writer
Giuseppe Pella
1902
Italian politician (1902–1981)
Al Lewis (lyricist)
1901
American lyricist (1901–1967)
László Németh
1901
Hungarian writer
Bertha Isaacs
1900
1800s
Patrick Hennessy (industrialist)
1898
Ardito Desio
1897
Italian geologist, mountaineer and cartographer (1897–2001)
Eugene Houdry
1892
French mechanical engineer (1892–1962)
Jessie Street
1889
Australian activist
Jaan Anvelt
1884
Estonian communist (1884–1937)
Aleksanteri Aava
1883
Finnish poet
Isaac Babalola Akinyele
1882
Ruler of Ibadan, Nigeria (1882–1964)
Leopold Stokowski
1882
British conductor (1882–1977)
Sam Crawford
1880
American baseball player and coach (1880–1968)
Korneli Kekelidze
1879
Soviet and Georgian philologist
Vicente Sotto
1877
Filipino politician, playwright and journalist
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
1874
Croatian writer (1874–1938)
Richard Harding Davis
1864
American journalist, war correspondent, and fiction writer (1864–1916)
Leopold Berchtold
1863
Austro-Hungarian politician (1863–1942)
Linton Hope
1863
British sailor
Siegfried Bettmann
1863
German industrialist bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer
Dhondo Keshav Karve
1858
Indian social reformer (1858–1962)
Alexander Shirvanzade
1858
Armenian playwright and novelist
Clarence Darrow
1857
American defense attorney and leading member of ACLU (1857–1938)
Ludwig Levy
1854
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
1838
French chemist (1838–1912)
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
1819
Cuban revolutionary and plantation owner (1819–1874)
Franz von Suppé
1819
Austrian composer (1819–1895)
James McCune Smith
1813
American physician (1813–1870)
Before 1800
William Debenham
1794
British businessman
David Ricardo
1772
British economist and politician (1772–1823)
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
1771
Austrian nobleman and field marshal
Jacques Widerkehr
1759
French composer
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet
1740
English merchant banker (1740–1810)
Jean-Féry Rebel
1666
French Baroque composer and violinist
Giacomo Carissimi
1605
Italian composer (1605–1674)
Ahmed I
1590
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617
Thomas Middleton
1580
English playwright and poet (1580–1627)
William Harrison (priest)
1534
English clergyman, born 1534
Henry II of Navarre
1503
King of Navarre from 1517 to 1555
Lucrezia Borgia
1480
Spanish-Italian duchess-consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio (1480–1519)
Ippolita Maria Sforza
1446
Italian noblewoman
Al-Wathiq
812
Abbasid caliph from 842 to 847
Kʼan II
588
Ajaw
Gratian
359
Roman emperor from 367 to 383