Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/April/April 18


 * 1567 - Death of adventurer Wilhelm von Grumbach
 * 1873 - Death of chemist Justus von Liebig
 * 1947 - British units attempt to destroy the island of Heligoland in a large explosion
 * 1955 - Death of physicist Albert Einstein, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics