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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 18th of April 1025 | EVENT | Boles?aw Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. |
| 18th of April 1506 | EVENT | The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid. |
| 18th of April 1518 | EVENT | Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland. |
| 18th of April 1738 | EVENT | Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid. |
| 18th of April 1775 | EVENT | American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements. |
| 18th of April 1797 | EVENT | The Battle of Neuwied : French victory against the Austrians. |
| 18th of April 1831 | EVENT | The University of Alabama is founded. |
| 18th of April 1848 | EVENT | American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico. |
| 18th of April 1857 | EVENT | "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France. |
| 18th of April 1864 | EVENT | Battle of Dybb?l: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement. |
| 18th of April 1880 | EVENT | An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100. |
| 18th of April 1881 | EVENT | Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico. |
| 18th of April 1897 | EVENT | The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. |
| 18th of April 1899 | EVENT | The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria. |
| 18th of April 1902 | EVENT | Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake. |
| 18th of April 1906 | EVENT | An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California. |
| 18th of April 1909 | EVENT | Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. |
| 18th of April 1912 | EVENT | The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City. |
| 18th of April 1915 | EVENT | French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. |
| 18th of April 1923 | EVENT | Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens. |
| 18th of April 1924 | EVENT | Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book. |
| 18th of April 1930 | EVENT | BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day. |
| 18th of April 1936 | EVENT | The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 18th of April 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed. |
| 18th of April 1942 | EVENT | Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France. |
| 18th of April 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. |
| 18th of April 1945 | EVENT | Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany. |
| 18th of April 1946 | EVENT | The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. |
| 18th of April 1949 | EVENT | 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. |
| 18th of April 1954 | EVENT | Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt. |
| 18th of April 1955 | EVENT | 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference. |
| 18th of April 1958 | EVENT | A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum. |
| 18th of April 1961 | EVENT | CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule. |
| 18th of April 1961 | EVENT | The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted. |
| 18th of April 1974 | EVENT | The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore dry port. |
| 18th of April 1980 | EVENT | The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency. |
| 18th of April 1981 | EVENT | The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game is suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23. |
| 18th of April 1983 | EVENT | A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people. |
| 18th of April 1988 | EVENT | The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II. |
| 18th of April 1992 | EVENT | General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul. |
| 18th of April 1996 | EVENT | In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge. |
| 18th of April 2007 | EVENT | The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision. |
| 18th of April 2007 | EVENT | A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251. |
| 18th of April 1480 | BIRTHDAY | Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519) |
| 18th of April 1580 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Middleton, English dramatist (d. 1627) |
| 18th of April 1590 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617) |
| 18th of April 1605 | BIRTHDAY | Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674) |
| 18th of April 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Philipp Furst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820) |
| 18th of April 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Adolphe Thiers, French statesman (d. 1877) |
| 18th of April 1813 | BIRTHDAY | James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865) |
| 18th of April 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874) |
| 18th of April 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (d. 1895) |
| 18th of April 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912) |
| 18th of April 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Darrow, American attorney (d. 1938) |
| 18th of April 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and novelist (d. 1935) |
| 18th of April 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (d. 1942) |
| 18th of April 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Harding Davis, American author (d. 1916) |
| 18th of April 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938) |
| 18th of April 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941) |
| 18th of April 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (d. 1950) |
| 18th of April 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist (d. 1962) |
| 18th of April 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968) |
| 18th of April 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor (d. 1977) |
| 18th of April 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979) |
| 18th of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Jessie Street, Australian suffragette, feminist, and human rights activist (d. 1970) |
| 18th of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944) |
| 18th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001) |
| 18th of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Al Lewis, American lyricist (d. 1967) |
| 18th of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Elene Akhvlediani, Georgian artist (d. 1975) |
| 18th of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Laszlo Nemeth, Hungarian writer (d. 1975) |
| 18th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981) |
| 18th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (d. 1994) |
| 18th of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (d. 1981) |
| 18th of April 1905 | BIRTHDAY | George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998) |
| 18th of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1995) |
| 18th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-born American physicist |
| 18th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer, wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960) |
| 18th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (d. 1947) |
| 18th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (d. 1981) |
| 18th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Clifton Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001) |
| 18th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Mottola, American guitarist (d. 2004) |
| 18th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Axel, Danish film director |
| 18th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter |
| 18th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia O'Brien, American singer and actress (d. 2001) |
| 18th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001) |
| 18th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Hale, American actress |
| 18th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007) |
| 18th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (d. 2005) |
| 18th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Hastings, American actor |
| 18th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2005) |
| 18th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008) |
| 18th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Revill, New Zealand born actor |
| 18th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | George Shirley, American tenor |
| 18th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Costas Ferris, Greek director |
| 18th of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Ivo, American race car driver |
| 18th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Kaplicky, British architect of Czech origin |
| 18th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas J. Moyer, American judge |
| 18th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate |
| 18th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Vickers, British guitarist and saxophonist (Manfred Mann) |
| 18th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Christgau, American music critic |
| 18th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Blass, American professional baseball player |
| 18th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian racer and F1 (posthumous) world champion (d. 1970) |
| 18th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hanssen, American spy |
| 18th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (d. 2004) |
| 18th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1999) |
| 18th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Hayley Mills, English actress |
| 18th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997) |
| 18th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Mullin, American serial killer |
| 18th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Lyman, American actress |
| 18th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Cindy Pickett, American actress |
| 18th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | James Woods, American actor |
| 18th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jerzy Stuhr, Polish film director and actor |
| 18th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Bodine, American race car driver |
| 18th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Callery, football player |
| 18th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Ortega, American film and TV producer and choreographer |
| 18th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician |
| 18th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer |
| 18th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Moranis, Canadian comedian |
| 18th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress |
| 18th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Roberts, American actor |
| 18th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Melody Thomas Scott, American actress |
| 18th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress |
| 18th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (d. 1999) |
| 18th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Leeves, British actress |
| 18th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Lombardi, American wrestler |
| 18th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | John Podhoretz, American columnist and political pundit |
| 18th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Dunham, American comedian |
| 18th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Eric McCormack, Canadian actor |
| 18th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Conan O'Brien, American comedian |
| 18th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Niall Ferguson, British historian |
| 18th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Rithy Panh, Cambodian film director |
| 18th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Ellison, musician (d. 1996) |
| 18th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Berry, aka Bez, dancer in Happy Mondays |
| 18th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Stenders, Dutch radio discjockey |
| 18th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete |
| 18th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player |
| 18th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Bello, American actress |
| 18th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Birdsong, American actress |
| 18th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | David Hewlett, English born Canadian actor |
| 18th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Sayako of Japan |
| 18th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Keith R.A. DeCandido, American author |
| 18th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rico Brogna, American baseball player |
| 18th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Saad Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon |
| 18th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Eklund, American musician |
| 18th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Esther Schweins, German actress and comedienne |
| 18th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tatiana Stefanidou, Greek television host |
| 18th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Payne, English writer |
| 18th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Cameron, business executive; wife of UK Prime Minister David Cameron |
| 18th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tamara Braun, American actress |
| 18th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | David Tennant, Scottish actor |
| 18th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Fredro Starr, American rapper (Onyx) |
| 18th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 18th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rosa Clemente, American activist and hip-hop artist |
| 18th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Eli Roth, American film director |
| 18th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete |
| 18th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Derrick Brooks, American football player |
| 18th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Brady Clark, American baseball player |
| 18th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jad Abumrad, American radio host and producer |
| 18th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Tremonti, American musician |
| 18th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer |
| 18th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Wright, British director |
| 18th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Fayray, Japanese singer |
| 18th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Gibb, Scottish Actress |
| 18th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Joan Hart, American actress |
| 18th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Ross, American politician |
| 18th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Maguire, British actor |
| 18th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Lacouture, NHL hockey player |
| 18th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bradley, American basketball player |
| 18th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Davidson, British Formula One driver |
| 18th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Upson, English footballer |
| 18th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Nuria Fergo, Spanish singer |
| 18th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star |
| 18th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 18th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Buscher, American baseball player |
| 18th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Farina, Italian footballer |
| 18th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Hartnell, NHL hockey player |
| 18th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (d. 2009) |
| 18th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Elaine Thibert, Canadian singer |
| 18th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 18th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer |
| 18th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | America Ferrera, American actress |
| 18th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | ?ukasz Fabianski, Polish footballer |
| 18th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Reindler, Australian racing driver |
| 18th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro) |
| 18th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Logan, Irish footballer |
| 18th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Butler, American baseball player |
| 18th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Edu, American soccer player |
| 18th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Deledio, Australian Rules football player |
| 18th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer |
| 18th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, British model |
| 18th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Guthrie, English footballer |
| 18th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Hauck, South African-born German rugby player |
| 18th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica (Jessica Jung), American-born South Korean singer (Girls' Generation) |
| 18th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Alia Shawkat, American actress |
| 18th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Simas Buterlevicius, Lithuanian basketball player |
| 18th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Wojciech Szczesny, Polish footballer |
| 18th of April 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Sykes, Irish singer (The Wanted) |
| 18th of April 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Moises Arias, American actor |
| 18th of April 2007 | BIRTHDAY | Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan |
| 18th of April 1161 | DEATH | Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 18th of April 1552 | DEATH | John Leland, English antiquarian (Born 1502) |
| 18th of April 1556 | DEATH | Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Born 1495) |
| 18th of April 1558 | DEATH | Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent |
| 18th of April 1567 | DEATH | Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (Born 1503) |
| 18th of April 1636 | DEATH | Julius Caesar, English judge |
| 18th of April 1650 | DEATH | Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (Born 1602) |
| 18th of April 1674 | DEATH | John Graunt, English statistician (Born 1620) |
| 18th of April 1689 | DEATH | George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice (Born 1648) |
| 18th of April 1732 | DEATH | Louis Feuillee, French explorer (Born 1660) |
| 18th of April 1794 | DEATH | Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (Born 1714) |
| 18th of April 1796 | DEATH | Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (Born 1732) |
| 18th of April 1802 | DEATH | Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (Born 1731) |
| 18th of April 1859 | DEATH | Tantya Tope, Indian Revolutionary & General (Born 1814) |
| 18th of April 1873 | DEATH | Justus von Liebig, German chemist (Born 1803) |
| 18th of April 1898 | DEATH | Gustave Moreau, French painter (Born 1826) |
| 18th of April 1906 | DEATH | Luis Martin, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (Born 1846) |
| 18th of April 1917 | DEATH | Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (Born 1858) |
| 18th of April 1935 | DEATH | Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (Born 1884) |
| 18th of April 1936 | DEATH | Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Born 1879) |
| 18th of April 1942 | DEATH | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (Born 1875) |
| 18th of April 1942 | DEATH | Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (Born 1903) |
| 18th of April 1943 | DEATH | Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (Born 1884) |
| 18th of April 1945 | DEATH | Ernie Pyle, American journalist (Born 1900) |
| 18th of April 1945 | DEATH | John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (Born 1849) |
| 18th of April 1945 | DEATH | Prince William of Wied, sovereign Prince of Albania (Born 1876) |
| 18th of April 1947 | DEATH | Josef Tiso, Slovakian leader (Born 1887), Nazi collaborator and puppet ruler |
| 18th of April 1949 | DEATH | Will Hay, English comedian and actor (Born 1888) |
| 18th of April 1951 | DEATH | Antonio Oscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (Born 1869) |
| 18th of April 1955 | DEATH | Albert Einstein, German physicist (Born 1879) |
| 18th of April 1958 | DEATH | Maurice Gamelin, French general (Born 1872) |
| 18th of April 1963 | DEATH | Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (Born 1880) |
| 18th of April 1964 | DEATH | Ben Hecht, American writer (Born 1894) |
| 18th of April 1965 | DEATH | Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, Mexican inventor (Born 1917) |
| 18th of April 1967 | DEATH | Karl Miller, German footballer (Born 1913) |
| 18th of April 1974 | DEATH | Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and filmmaker (Born 1895) |
| 18th of April 1976 | DEATH | Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization engineer (Born 1911) |
| 18th of April 1983 | DEATH | George Balanchine, American choreographer (Born 1904) |
| 18th of April 1986 | DEATH | Marcel Dassault, French aircraft industrialist (Born1892) |
| 18th of April 1988 | DEATH | Pierre Desproges, French humorist (Born 1939) |
| 18th of April 1990 | DEATH | Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (Born 1921) |
| 18th of April 1990 | DEATH | Victoria O'Keefe, British actress (Born 1969) |
| 18th of April 1992 | DEATH | Frankie Howerd, English comedian and comic actor (Born 1917) |
| 18th of April 1993 | DEATH | Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (Born 1917) |
| 18th of April 1995 | DEATH | Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (Born 1908) |
| 18th of April 1995 | DEATH | Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (Born 1927) |
| 18th of April 1996 | DEATH | Brook Berringer, American football player (Born 1973) |
| 18th of April 1996 | DEATH | Bernard Edwards, American record producer (Born 1952) |
| 18th of April 1998 | DEATH | Terry Sanford, American politician (Born 1917) |
| 18th of April 2002 | DEATH | Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (Born 1938) |
| 18th of April 2002 | DEATH | Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (Born 1914) |
| 18th of April 2003 | DEATH | Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (Born 1923) |
| 18th of April 2004 | DEATH | Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (Born 1920) |
| 18th of April 2005 | DEATH | Sam Mills, American football player (Born 1959) |
| 18th of April 2007 | DEATH | Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (Born 1945) |
| 18th of April 2009 | DEATH | Stephanie Parker, Welsh actress (Born 1987) |
| 18th of April 2011 | DEATH | Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (Born 1985) |