On This Day (18 April) in 1587, clergyman, historian, theologian and martyrologist John Foxe died at his London home on Grub Street, in the parish of St Giles-without-Cripplegate.

Lady Anne Clifford, Duchess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, was born January 1590 at Skipton Castle.

In Mar 1550, a poem was composed, dedicated to the life and achievements of the recently deceased Marguerite of Navarre -The Hecatodistichon