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What happened in history on this day: April 18?
On April 18 in ...
- 1946 - Call Me Mister opens at National Theater in New York City for 734 performances.
- 1977 - Stephen Sondheim's musical Side by Side premieres at Music Box theater in New York City for 390 performances.
- 2003 - Soul singer Etta James receives her star (#2,223) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Births on April 18
- 1881 - Birth of Hermann KJ Zilcher; German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart).
- 1882 - Birth of Leopold Stokowski in London, England; conductor (Cincinnati Symphony).
- 1908 - Birth of Joseph Keilberth; German conductor (Bayreuther Festspiele).
- 1910 - Birth of Sylvia Fisher; soprano (Albert Herring Opera).
- 1918 - Birth of Tony Mottola in Kearney, New Jersey, USA; guitarist (studio musician, CBS studio orchestra, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Melody Street TV show, arranger for Perry Como's TV variety show), president of Sony Music Entertainment.
- 1924 - Birth of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown in Vinton, Louisiana, USA; blues singer ("Mary is Fine").
- 1941 - Birth of Mike Vickers; guitarist (Manfred Mann - "Mighty Quinn").
- 1946 - Birth of Lenny Baker; rocker (Sha Na Na).
- 1946 - Birth of Alexander (Skip) Spence at Windsor, Ontario, Canada; rock and roll singer/guitarist/drummer (Moby Grape - "Omaha", Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service).
- 1947 - Birth of Walt Richmond; Country keyboardist (The Tractors).
- 1948 - Birth of Catherine Malfitano in New York City, New York, USA; soprano (Metropolitan Opera).
- 1950 - Birth of Bill Sudderth III; trumpeter (Atlantic Star - "Touch Four Leaf Clover").
- 1952 - Birth of Jim Scholten in Midland, Michigan, USA; country singer/bassist (Sawyer Brown - "Betty's Bein' Bad").
- 1954 - Birth of Kim Stone; bassist (Spyro Gyra - "Morning Dance").
- 1958 - Birth of Les Pattinson Ormskirk in Merseyside, England; rock bassist (Echo and the Bunnymen - "Heaven Up Here").
- 1961 - Birth of Kelly Hansen; heavy metal rocker (Hurricane - "I'm on to You").
- 1962 - Birth of Shirlie Hollman; rocker (Pepsi and Shirley - "All Right Now").
- 1965 - Birth of Diana Villegas in México; rocker (Triplets - "You Don't Have To Go").
- 1965 - Birth of Sylvia Villegas in México; rocker (Triplets - "You Don't Have To Go").
- 1965 - Birth of Vicky Villegas in México; rocker (Triplets - "You Don't Have To Go").
- 1967 - Birth of Jayce Fincher Junior; heavy metal bassist (Southgang - "Tainted Angel").
- 1970 - Birth of Greg Eklund; rock musician (The Oolahs).
- 1974 - Birth of Trina; rhythm-and-blues singer (Trina and Tamara).
Deaths on April 18
- 1996 - Death of Bernard Edwards at age 43, found dead in a hotel room in Tokyo, Japan; musician (Chic - "Le Freak" (1978), "Good Times" (1979)), record producer (Diana Ross, Rod Stewart, Sister Sledge - "We Are Family").
- 2001 - Death of Billy Mitchell at age 74; bebop tenor saxophonist (in bands of Woody Herman, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie).
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