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April 1, 1815- Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor, statesman

April 1, 1928- Jane Powell, actress/singer

April 1, 1932- Debbie Reynolds, actress

April 1, 1938- Ali MacGraw, actress

April 1, 1947- David Eisenhower, author, grandson of Pres. Dwight Eisenhower

April 2, 1805- Hans Christian Anderson, children's author

April 2, 1834- Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, sculpted the Statue of Liberty

April 2, 1908- Buddy Ebsen, actor

April 2, 1914- Sir Alec Guinness, actor

April 2, 1920- Jack Webb, actor, "Joe Friday "on Tv series "Dragnet"

April 2, 1939- Marvin Gaye, singer

April 2, 1955- Dana Carvey, actor, comedian

April 3, 1783- Washington Irving, author

April 3, 1924- Marlon Brando, actor

April 3, 1924- Doris Day, actress, singer

April 3, 1926- Virgil "Gus" Grissom, astronaut , died in a fire during a simulation aboard Apollo 1

April 3, 1942- Wayne Newton, singer

April 3, 1944- Tony Orlando, singer

April 3, 1958- Alec Baldwin, actor

April 3, 1961- Eddie Murphy, actor, comedian

April 3, 1970 -Rick Schroder, actor

April 3, 1971- Picabo Street, Olympic champion skier

April 4, 1895- Arthur Murray, dance studio fame

April 4, 1906- John Cameron Swayze, TV news anchorman

April 4, 1915- Muddy Waters, blues singer

April 4, 1924- Gil Hodges, baseball player, manager

April 4, 1926- Cloris Leachman, actress

April 4, 1946 -Craig T. Nelson, actor

April 4, 1965- Robert Downey Jr., actor

April 5, 1900 -Spencer Tracy, actor

April 5, 1908- Bette Davis, actress

April 5, 1916 -Gregory Peck, actor

April 5, 1920- Arthur Hailey, author

April 5, 1934- Frank Gorshin, actor, comedian

April 5, 1937- Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of State

April 5, 1941- Michael Moriarty, actor

April 5, 1949- Judith Resnick, astronaut, died in the Challenger space shuttle explosion

April 6, 1483- Raphael (Sanzio), Italian painter, architect

April 6, 1870- Oskar Straus,  Austrian composer

April 6, 1892- Lowell Thomas, broadcaster, journalist

April 6, 1928- James D. Watson, biochemist, co-discovered the structure of DNA

April 6, 1937 -Merle Haggard, singer, songwriter

April 6, 1937- Billy Dee Williams, actor

April 6, 1947- John Ratzenberger, actor

April 6, 1952- Marilu Henner, actress

April 6, 1976- Candace Cameron, actress

April 7, 1770- William Wordsworth, poet, philosopher

April 7, 1897- Walter Winchell, journalist, broadcaster

April 7, 1915- Billie Holiday, jazz singer

April 7, 1928- James Garner, actor

April 7, 1933- Wayne Rogers, actor

April 7, 1939- Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker

April 7, 1951- Janis Ian, singer, songwriter

April 7, 1954- Jackie Chan, actor

April 7, 1964- Russell Crowe, actor

April 8, 563 BC- Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), religious leader, founded of Buddhism

April 8, 1918- Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States

April 8, 1928- John Gavin, actor

April 8, 1938- Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General

April 8, 1940 -John Havlicek, basketball player

April 8, 1962- Julian Lennon, singer, musician, son of John & Cynthia Lennon

April 9, 1879- W. C. Fields, actor

April 9, 1883- Frank King, cartoonist, created "Gasoline Alley"

April 9, 1926- Hugh Hefner, publisher of Playboy

April 9, 1928- Tom Lehrer, songwriter

April 9, 1939- Michael Learned, actress

April 9, 1954- Dennis Quaid, actor

April 9, 1957- Seve Ballesteros, golfer

April 10, 1794- Commodore Matthew Perry, opened naval relations with Japan

April 10, 1847- Joseph Pulitzer, journalist, publisher

April 10, 1882- Frances Perkins, first U.S. woman cabinet member- Secretary of Labor

April 10, 1915- Harry Morgan, actor

April 10, 1921- Chuck Connors, actor

April 10, 1932- Omar Sharif, actor

April 10, 1936- John Madden, football coach, sportscaster

April 10, 1938- Don Meredith, football player, sportscaster

April 10, 1951- Steven Seagal, actor

April 11, 1913 Oleg Cassini, fashion designer

April 11, 1928- Ethel Kennedy, wife of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy

April 11, 1932- Joel Grey, actor

April 11, 1939- Louise Lasser, actress , "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"

April 11, 1950- Bill Irwin, actor, choreographer

April 12, 1777- Henry Clay, statesman, Speaker of the House

April 12, 1916- Beverly Cleary, children's author

April 12, 1919- Ann Miller, actress, dancer

April 12, 1926- Jane Withers, actress

April 12, 1930- Tiny Tim, actor, musician, "Tip Toe through the Tulip"

April 12, 1947- Tom Clancy, author

April 12, 1947- David Letterman, TV personality, comedian

April 12, 1949- Scott F. Turow, author

April 12, 1950- David Cassidy, singer, actor

April 12, 1956- Andy Garcia, actor

April 12, 1971- Shannen Doherty, actress, "Beverly Hills 90210"  

April 12, 1979-  Claire Danes, actress

April 13, 1743- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U. S. President (1801-1809)

April 13, 1866- Butch Cassidy, Wild West outlaw

April 13, 1899- Alfred Butts, invented the board game "Scrabble"

April 17, 1926- Don Adams, TV Actor, "Maxwell Smart" on "Get Smart"

April 13, 1950- Ron Perlman, actor

April 13, 1951- Peabo Bryson, singer

April 14, 1866- Anne Sullivan, taught Helen Keller

April 14, 1925- Rod Steiger, actor

April 14, 1935- Loretta Lynn, country western singer

April 14, 1940- Julie Christie, actress

April 14, 1941- Pete Rose, baseball player, manager

April 14, 1960- Brad Garrett, Actor, "Robert"on TV series "Everybody Loves Raymond"

April 14, 1977- Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

April 15, 1452- Leonardo da Vinci, artist, sculptor, inventor

April 15, 1741- Charles Wilson Peale, portrait painter

April 15, 1843- Henry James, novelist, short story writer, critic

April 15, 1933- Elizabeth Montgomery, Actress, "Samantha Stevens" on TV series "Bewitched"

April 15, 1933- Roy Clark, singer, musician

April 15, 1957- Evelyn Ashford, Olympic champion, sprinter

April 15, 1959- Emma Thompson, actress

April 16, 1867- Wilbur Wright, pioneer aviator

April 16, 1889- Charlie Chaplin, comic actor, filmmaker

April 16, 1921- Peter Ustinov, actor

April 16, 1924- Henry Mancini, composer

April 16, 1929- Edie Adams, singer, actress

April 16, 1930- Herbie Mann, jazz musician

April 16, 1935 -Bobby Vinton, singer

April 16, 1939- Dusty Springfield, British pop star

April 16, 1947- Kareem Abdul Jabbar, one of the greatest players in NBA history. Born Frederick Lewis Alcindor Jr.

April 16, 1955- Ellen Barkin, actress

April 16, 1971- Selena Quintanilla, popular hispanic singer, tragically murdered at peak of career

April 17, 1837- John Pierpont Morgan, financier, philanthropist

April 17, 1894- Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader, famous quote: "We will bury you!"

April 17, 1897- Thornton Wilder, playwright, novelist

April 17, 1918- William Holden, actor

April 17, 1923- Harry Reasoner, TV anchorman, journalist

April 17, 1961- Norman "Boomer" Esiason, NFL Quarterback

April 17, 1072- Jennifer Garner, Actress, "Sidney Bristow" on TV series "Alias"

April 17, 1974- Victoria Addams, singer, "Posh Spice" of Spice Girls

April 18, 1857- Clarence Darrow, attorney

April 18, 1922- Barbara Hale, actress

April 18, 1946- Jim "Catfish" Hunter, baseball pitcher

April 18, 1946- Hayley Mills, actress

April 18, 1947- Dorothy Lyman, actress

April 18, 1953- Rick Moranis, actor, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"

April 18, 1963- Conan O'Brien, TV late night talk show

April 19, 1912- Glenn T. Seaborg, chemist, discovered plutonium

April 19, 1925- Hugh O'Brien, actor

April 19, 1935- Dudley Moore, actor

April 19, 1962- Al Unser Jr., auto racer

April 19, 1968- Ashley Judd, actress

April 19, 1979- Kate Hudson, actress

April 20, 1889- Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator

April 20, 1908- Lionel Hampton, bandleader, musician

April 20, 1941- Ryan O'Neal, actor

April 20, 1949- Jessica Lange, actress

April 20, 1951- Luther Vandross, singer, songwriter

April 20, 1973- Carmen Electra, actress

April 21, 1915- Anthony Quinn, actor

April 21, 1926- Queen Elizabeth II, queen of England

April 21, 1935- Charles Grodin, actor

April 21, 1951- Tony Danza, actor

April 21, 1782  - Friedrich Froebel, started the first Kindergarten in Germany in 1837.

April 21, 1958- Andie MacDowell, actress, model

April 21, 1961- Don Mattingly, baseball player

April 22, 1908- Eddie Albert, actor

April 22, 1928- Aaron Spelling, TV writer, producer

April 22, 1936 -Glen Campbell, singer

April 22, 1937- Jack Nicholson, actor

April 22, 1939- Jason Miller, playwright, actor

April 22, 1950- Peter Frampton, singer

April 23, 1564- William Shakespeare, playwright, poet. Died: April 23, 1616.

April 23, 1791- James Buchanan, 15th  U.S. President (1857-1861)

April 23, 1928- Shirley Temple Black, child actress, diplomat

April 23, 1936- Roy Orbison, singer

April 23, 1940- Lee Majors, actor, "Six Million Dollar Man"

April 23, 1942- Sandra Dee, actress

April 23, 1960- Valerie Bertinelli, actress

April 23, 1961- George Lopez, actor

April 24, 1766 - Robert Bailey Thomas, founder & editor of "The Farmer's Almanac"

April 24, 1905- Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist

April 24, 1934- Shirley MacLaine, actress, dancer

April 24, 1942- Barbra Streisand, actress, director, singer

April 24, 1955- Michael O'Keefe, actor

April 24, 1982- Kelly Clarkson, First "American Idol" winner

April 25, 1874- Guglielmo Marconi, inventor, wireless telegraphy

April 25, 1906- William J. Brennan Jr., Supreme Court justice

April 25, 1918- Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer

April 25, 1932- Meadowlark Lemon, basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters

April 25, 1940- Al Pacino, actor

April 25, 1969- Renee Zellweger, actress

April 26, 1785- John James Audubon, artist, naturalist

April 26, 1798-  Eugene Delacroix, painter

April 26, 1822- Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, park designer

April 26, 1894- Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader

April 26, 1900- Charles Francis Richter, physicist, seismologist, developed Richter scale

April 26, 1933- Carol Burnett, actress, comedian

April 26, 1942- Bobby Rydell, singer

April 27, 1791- Samuel Morse, invented magnetic telegraph

April 27, 1822- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President, Civil War general (1869-1877)

April 27, 1896- Rogers Hornsby, baseball player

April 27, 1922- Jack Klugman, actor

April 27, 1927- Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader, wife of Martin Luther King Jr.

April 27, 1933- Casey Kasem, radio personality

April 27, 1937- Sandy Dennis, actress

April 27, 1959- Sheena Easton, singer

April 28, 1758 -James Monroe, 5th U.S. President (1817-1825)

April 28, 1878- Lionel Barrymore, actor

April 28, 1937- Saddam Hussein, Iraqi president

April 28, 1941- Ann-Margret, actress, singer

April 28, 1950- Jay Leno, TV comedian, "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"

April 29, 1863- William Randolph Hearst, newspaper editor, publisher

April 29, 1899- Duke Ellington, jazz musician, bandleader

April 29, 1901- Emperor Hirohito, emperor of Japan during World War II

April 29, 1915- Donald Mills, singer and member of the Mills Brothers

April 29, 1951- Dale Earnhardt, auto racer

April 29, 1954- Jerry Seinfeld, actor, comedian

April 29,  1957-Michelle Pfeiffer, actress

April 29, 1970- Andre Agassi, tennis champion

April 29,  1970-Uma Thurman, actress

April 30, 1933- Willie Nelson, country singer

April 30, 1938- Gary Collins, actor

April 30, 1945- Michael J. Smith, astronaut, died in Challenger space shuttle explosion

April 30, 1948- Perry King, actor

April 30, 1961- Isiah Thomas, NBA basketball player

April 30, 1982- Kirsten Dunst, actress

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