About the day » Wednesday April 18, 2007Calender converter

• Hidde Joustra, Zwolle
• Kiki Manders, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2007)

• Cornelia Johanna Leegwater (85), Waarland
• Anne-Marie Kuhlmann (44), Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland
• Cornelia van Hengel (89), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Hendrica Maria Ammerlaan (88)
• Clare Richard Bullis (96), Cheboygan, Cheboygan, Michigan
• Aleida Johanna Soppe (90), Coevorden
• Arie de Klerk (89), Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ate Romkes de Jong (59), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Betty Jane Guyer (81)
• Bouwe Schat (81), Sint Jacobiparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1990 » Anna van der Breggen, Dutch cyclist
• 1990 » Henderson Álvarez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1990 » Jake Howells, English footballer
• 1993 » Matt Salisbury, English cricketer
• 1993 » Nathan Sykes, English singer-songwriter
• 1995 » Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
• 1996 » Ioana Ducu, Romanian tennis player
• 1996 » Mariah Bell, American figure skater
• 1997 » Donny van de Beek, Dutch footballer
• 1997 » Matthias Blübaum, German chess grandmaster

• 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)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• January 1 » Adam Air Flight 574 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes near the Makassar Strait, Indonesia killing all 102 people on board.
• April 20 » Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
• April 25 » Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
• July 25 » Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
• September 10 » Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
• December 13 » The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members states of the European Union.

The temperature on April 18, 2007 was between 4.5 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.