What happened on April 18 ?

1161 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury

1552 - John Leland, English antiquarian (b. 1502)

1556 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (b. 1495)

1567 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)

1558 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent

1636 - Julius Caesar, English judge

1650 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (b. 1602)

1674 - John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)

1689 - George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice (b. 1648)

1690 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 1643)

1794 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)

1796 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)

1802 - Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)

1873 - Justus von Liebig, German chemist (b. 1803)

1898 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)

1935 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)

1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (b. 1879)

1943 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (b. 1884)

1945 - John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and electrical engineer (b. 1849)

1945 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)

1947 - Josef Tiso, Slovakian leader (b. 1887)

1955 - Albert Einstein, German-born Jewish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)

1964 - Ben Hecht, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1894)

1967 - Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)

1993 - Masahiko Kimura, Famous Judoka (b. 1917)

1996 - Piet Hein, Danish mathematician and inventor (b. 1905)

1996 - Bernard Edwards, American musician and record producer (b. 1952)

1998 - Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)

2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)

2002 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)

2003 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)

2003 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)

2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920)

2005 - Sam Mills, American football linebacker (b. 1959)