Famous April Birthdays
Who was Born in April on Your Birthday?
Do you know who was born on your birthday? There are many famous April birthdays displayed below. We hope you find famous and historic people who share your special day. See who was born in your birth month below.
Famous April Birthdays
April 1, 1815 – Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor, statesman
April 1, 1928 – Jane Powell, actress/singer
April 1, 1932 – Debbie Reynolds, actress
April 1, 1939 – Ali MacGraw, actress
April 1, 1947 – David Eisenhower, author, grandson of Pres. Dwight Eisenhower
April 1, 1963 – General Hospital premiered on television.
April 2, 1513 – Ponce de Leon discovers Florida.
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 the TV series “Dragnet”
April 2, 1939 – Marvin Gaye, singer
April 2, 1955 – Dana Carvey, actor, comedian
April 3, 1783 – Washington Irving, author, wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. The “Father of Halloween”.
April 3, 1924 – Marlon Brando, actor
April 3, 1924 – Doris Day, American 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, and actor
April 3, 1944 – Tony Orlando, singer
April 3, 1958 – Alec Baldwin, an American actor
April 3, 1961 – Eddie Murphy, American 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, 742 – Charlemagne, King of the Franks
April 7, 1770 – William Wordsworth, poet, philosopher
April 7, 1891 – Kirk Christiansen, created LEGO bricks
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 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, 1963 – Julian Lennon, singer, musician, son of John & Cynthia Lennon
April 8, 1968 – Patricia Arquette, Oscar-winning actress
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 10, 1982 – Actress, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “The Practice”.
Who was born in April?
April 11 Birthdays
Oleg Cassini, fashion designer. (1913)
Ethel Kennedy, wife of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (1928)
Joel Grey, actor. (1932)
Louise Lasser, actress, “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”. (1939)
Bill Irwin, actor, choreographer. (1950)
April 12 Birthdays
Henry Clay, statesman, Speaker of the House. (1777)
Beverly Cleary, children’s author. (1916)
Ann Miller, actress, dancer. (1919)
Jane Withers, actress. (1926)
Tiny Tim, actor, musician, “Tip Toe through the Tulip”. (1930)
Tom Clancy, author. (1947)
David Letterman, TV personality, comedian. (1947)
Scott F. Turow, author. (1949)
David Cassidy, singer, actor. (1950)
April 12, 1956 – actor. (1956)
Shannen Doherty, actress, “Beverly Hills 90210”. (1971)
Claire Danes, actress. (1979)
April 13 Birthdays
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U. S. President (1743)
Butch Cassidy, Wild West outlaw. (1866)
Alfred Butts, invented the board game “Scrabble”. (1899)
Don Adams, TV Actor, “Maxwell Smart” on “Get Smart”. (1923)
Tony Dow, actor played “Wally Cleaver” on television sitcom “Leave it to Beaver”. (1945)
Ron Perlman, actor. (1950)
Peabo Bryson, singer. (1951)
Gary Kasparov, Russian Chess Master. (1963)
Rick Shroeder, Actor, “Silver Spoons”, “NYPD Blue”. (1970)
April 14 Birthdays
Anne Sullivan, taught Helen Keller. (1866)
Rod Steiger, actor. (1925)
Loretta Lynn, country western singer. (1935)
Julie Christie, actress. (1940)
Pete Rose, baseball player, manager. (1941)
Brad Garrett, Actor, “Robert “on TV series “Everybody Loves Raymond”. (1960)
Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. (1977)
April 15 Birthdays
April 15, 1452 – Vinci, artist, sculptor, inventor. (1452)
Charles Wilson Peale, portrait painter. (1741)
Henry James, novelist, short story writer, critic. (1843)
Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of Soviet Union, Famous Cold War Quote to U.S.: “We will bury You”. (1894)
Henry Mancini, U.S. actor. (1924)
April 15, 1933 – Montgomery, Actress, “Samantha Stevens” on TV series “Bewitched”. (1933)
Roy Clark, singer, musician. (1933)
Evelyn Ashford, Olympic champion, sprinter. (19574)
Emma Thompson, Oscar-winning actress. (1959)
Seth Rogen, actor. (1982)
April 16 Birthdays
Wilbur Wright, pioneer aviator. (1867)
Charlie Chaplin, comic actor, filmmaker. (1889)
Peter Ustinov, actor. (1921)
Henry Mancini, composer. (1924)
Edie Adams, singer, actress. (1929)
Herbie Mann, jazz musician. (1930)
Bobby Vinton, singer. (1935)
Dusty Springfield, British pop star. (1939)
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, one of the greatest players in NBA history. Born Frederick Lewis Alcindor Jr. (1947)
Bill Belichick, Head Coach, New England Patriots Superbowl teams. (1952)
Ellen Barkin, actress. (1955)
Selena Quintanilla, popular Hispanic singer, tragically murdered at peak of her career. (1971)
April 17 Birthdays
John Pierpont Morgan, financier, philanthropist. (1837)
Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader, famous quote: “We will bury you!”. (1894)
Thornton Wilder, playwright, novelist. (1897)
William Holden, actor. (1918)
Harry Reasoner, TV anchorman, journalist. (1923)
Norman “Boomer” Esiason, NFL Quarterback. (1961)
Jennifer Garner, Actress, “Sidney Bristow” on TV series “Alias”. (1972)
Victoria Addams, singer, “Posh Spice” of Spice Girls. (1974)
April 18 Birthdays
Clarence Darrow, attorney. (1857)
Barbara Hale, actress. (1922)
Jim “Catfish” Hunter, baseball pitcher. (1946)
Hayley Mills, actress. (1946)
Dorothy Lyman, actress. (1947)
Rick Moranis, actor, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”. (1953)
Conan O’Brien, TV late-night talk show. (1963)
Cloe Bennet, actress played in “Agents of “S.H.I.E.L.D.”. (1992)
April 19 Birthdays
Eliot Ness, American Lawman. (1903)
Glenn T. Seaborg, chemist, discovered plutonium. (1912)
Hugh O’Brien, actor. (1925)
Dudley Moore, actor. (1935)
Al Unser Jr., auto racer. (1962)
Ashley Judd, actress. (1968)
Kate Hudson, actress. (1979)
April 20 Birthdays
Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator of Germany. (1889)
Lionel Hampton, bandleader, musician. (1908)
Ryan O’Neal, actor. (1941)
Jessica Lange, Oscar-winning actress. (1949)
Luther Vandross, singer, songwriter. (1951)
Shemar Moore, actor, “S.W.A.T.”, “Criminal Minds”. (1970)
Carmen Electra, actress, “Baywatch”. (1973)
Who was born on your April birthday?
April 21 Birthdays
Friedrich Froebel, started the first Kindergarten in Germany in 1837. (1782)
Anthony Quinn, actor. (1915)
Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of England. (1926)
Charles Grodin, actor. (1935)
Tony Danza, actor. (1951)
Andie MacDowell, actress, model. (1958)
Don Mattingly, baseball player. (1961)
April 22 Birthdays
Eddie Albert, actor. (1908)
Aaron Spelling, TV writer, producer. (1928)
Glen Campbell, singer. (1936)
Jack Nicholson, Oscar-winning actor, director, producer, writer. (1936)
Jason Miller, playwright, actor. (1939)
Peter Frampton, singer. (1950)
April 23 Birthdays
William Shakespeare, playwright, poet. (1564)
James Buchanan, 15th U.S. President (1791)
Shirley Temple Black, child actress, diplomat. (1928)
Roy Orbison, singer. (1936)
Lee Majors, actor, “Six Million Dollar Man”. (1940)
Sandra Dee, actress. (1942)
Valerie Bertinelli, actress, “One Day at a Time”. (1960)
George Lopez, actor, comedian.(1961)
April 24 Birthdays
Robert Bailey Thomas, founder & editor of “The Farmer’s Almanac”. (1766)
Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Naval Commander who led the invasion of Pearl Harbor, starting WWII. (1884)
Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist. (1905)
Shirley MacLaine, actress, dancer. (1934)
Barbra Streisand, actress, director, singer. (1942)
Michael O’Keefe, actor. (1955)
Kelly Clarkson, First “American Idol” winner. (1982)
April 25 Birthdays
Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy. (1874)
William J. Brennan Jr., Supreme Court justice. (1906)
Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer. (1917)
Meadowlark Lemon, basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters. (1932)
Al Pacino, actor. (1940)
Renee Zellweger, Oscar-winning actress. (1969)
April 26 Birthdays
John James Audubon, artist, naturalist. (1785)
Eugene Delacroix, painter. (1798)
Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, park designer. (1822)
Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader. (1894)
Charles Francis Richter, physicist, seismologist, developed Richter scale
April 26, 1936 – Carol Burnett, actress, comedian. (1936)
Bobby Rydell, singer. (1942)
Kevin James, U.S. actor, starred in “King of Queens”. (1965)
Melania Trump, Slovenian supermodel, First Lady of the United States of America. (1970)
April 27 Birthdays
April 27, 1521 – Ferdinand Magelan, Portuguese explorer
April 27, 1791 – Samuel Morse, invented magnetic telegraph
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President, Civil War general (1822)
Rogers Hornsby, baseball player. (1896)
Jack Klugman, actor. (1922)
Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader, wife of Martin Luther King Jr. (1927)
Casey Kasem, radio personality. (1932)
Sandy Dennis, actress. (1937)
Sheena Easton, singer. (1959)
April 28 Birthdays
James Monroe, 5th U.S. President (1758)
Lionel Barrymore, actor. (1878)
Saddam Hussein, Iraqi president. (1937)
Ann-Margret, actress, singer. (1941)
Jay Leno, TV comedian, “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”. (1950)
Penelope Cruz – Oscar-winning actress. (1974)
Jessica Alba, actress, “Sin City”. (1981)
April 29 Birthdays
Jean-Georges Noverre, creator of the modern ballet. (1727)
William Randolph Hearst, newspaper editor, publisher. (1863)
Duke Ellington, jazz musician, bandleader. (1899)
Emperor Hirohito, emperor of Japan during World War II
Donald Mills, singer, member of the Mills Brothers. (1901)
Bernie Madoff, American businessman, investor, stockbroker, convicted of major Ponzi scheme, bilking thousands of people. (1938)
Dale Earnhardt, auto racer. (1951)
Jerry Seinfeld, actor, comedian. (1954)
Michelle Pfeiffer, actress. (1958)
Andre Agassi, tennis champion. (1970)
Uma Thurman, actress, “Pulp Fiction”. (1970)
April 30 Birthdays
Willie Nelson, country singer. (1933
Gary Collins, actor. (1938)
Michael J. Smith, astronaut, died in Challenger space shuttle explosion. (1945)
Perry King, actor. (1948)
Isaiah Thomas, NBA basketball player. (1961)
John Galecki, actor, played son Rusty in “Christmas Vacation” movie, Leonard on Televison series “Big Bang Theory”. (1975)
Kunal Nayyar, Indian-English actor, played “Raj Koothrappali” on Television series “Big Bang Theory”. (1981)
Kirsten Dunst, actress. (1982)
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