Birthdays of Composers on November 18
1680 : Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
1736 : Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer
1742 : Felix Maximo Lopez, composer
1772 : Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer
1781 : Felice Blangini, composer
1786 : Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor
1786 : Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst "von" Weber, German composer (Freischtz)
1808 : Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer
1836 : William Schwenck Gilbert, London, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)
1860 : Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland (1919-20)
1871 : Amadeo Vives, composer
1874 : Riccardo Martin, composer
1895 : Ernst Levy, composer
1898 : Oswald Erich Sehlbach, composer
1902 : Barbara Giuranna, composer
1903 : Lillian Fuchs, composer
1904 : Guido Santorsola, composer
1920 : Louis Alfred Mennini, composer
1925 : William Robert Mayer, composer
1927 : Lawrence Kenneth Moss, composer
1933 : Jacques Charpentier, composer
1939 : Tom Johnson, composer
1975 : Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games