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Famous April Birthdays

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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 Birthdays

Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor, statesman. (1815)

Jane Powell, actress/singer. (1928)

Debbie Reynolds, actress. (1932)

Ali MacGraw, actress. (1939)

David Eisenhower, author, grandson of Pres. Dwight Eisenhower. (1947)

General Hospital premiered on television. (1963)

April 2 Birthdays

Ponce de Leon discovers Florida. (1513)

Hans Christian Anderson, children’s author. (1805)

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, sculpted the Statue of Liberty. (1834)

Buddy Ebsen, actor. (1908)

Sir Alec Guinness, actor. (1914)

Jack Webb, actor, “Joe Friday “on the TV series “Dragnet”. (1920)

Marvin Gaye, singer. (1939)

Dana Carvey, actor, comedian. (1955)

April 3 Birthdays

Washington Irving, author, wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. The “Father of Halloween”. (1783)

Marlon Brando, actor. (1924)

Doris Day, American actress, singer. (1924)

Virgil “Gus” Grissom, astronaut, died in a fire during a simulation aboard Apollo 1. (1926)

Wayne Newton, singer, and actor. (1942)

Tony Orlando, singer. (1944)

Alec Baldwin, an American actor. (1958)

Eddie Murphy, American actor, comedian. (1961)

Rick Schroder, actor. (1970)

Picabo Street, Olympic champion skier. (1971)

April 4 Birthdays

Arthur Murray, dance studio fame. (1895)

John Cameron Swayze, TV news anchorman. (1906)

Muddy Waters, blues singer. (1915)

Gil Hodges, baseball player, manager. (1924)

Cloris Leachman, actress. (1926)

 Craig T. Nelson, actor. (1946)

Robert Downey Jr., actor. (1965)

April 5 Birthdays

Spencer Tracy, actor. (1900)

Bette Davis, actress. (1908)

Gregory Peck, actor. (1916)

Arthur Hailey, author. (1920)

Frank Gorshin, actor, comedian. (1934)

Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of State (1937)

Michael Moriarty, actor. (1941)

Judith Resnick, astronaut, died in the Challenger space shuttle explosion. (1949)

April 6 Birthdays

Raphael (Sanzio), Italian painter, architect. (1483)

Oskar Straus,  Austrian composer. (1870)

Lowell Thomas, broadcaster, journalist. (1892)

James D. Watson, biochemist, co-discovered the structure of DNA. (1928)

Merle Haggard, singer, songwriter. (1937)

Billy Dee Williams, actor. (1937)

John Ratzenberger, actor. (1947)

Marilu Henner, actress. (1952)

Candace Cameron, actress. (1976)

April 7 Birthdays

Charlemagne, King of the Franks. (742)

William Wordsworth, poet, philosopher. (1770)

Kirk Christiansen, created LEGO bricks. (1891)

Walter Winchell, journalist, broadcaster. (1897)

Billie Holiday, jazz singer. (1915)

James Garner, actor. (1928)

Wayne Rogers, actor. (1933)

Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker. (1939)

Janis Ian, singer, songwriter. (1951)

Jackie Chan, actor. (1954)

Russell Crowe, actor. (1964)

April 8 Birthdays

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), religious leader, founded Buddhism. (563 B.C.)

Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States. (1918)

John Gavin, actor. (1928)

Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General. (1938)

John Havlicek, basketball player. (1940)

Julian Lennon, singer, musician, son of John & Cynthia Lennon. (1963)

Patricia Arquette, Oscar-winning actress. (1968)

April 9 Birthdays

W. C. Fields, actor. (1879)

Frank King, cartoonist, created “Gasoline Alley”. (1883)

Hugh Hefner, publisher of Playboy. (1926)

Tom Lehrer, songwriter. (1928)

Michael Learned, actress. (1939)

Dennis Quaid, actor. (1954)

Seve Ballesteros, golfer. (1957)

April 10 Birthdays

Commodore Matthew Perry, opened naval relations with Japan. (1794)

Joseph Pulitzer, journalist, publisher. (1847)

Frances Perkins, first U.S. woman cabinet member- Secretary of Labor. (1882)

Harry Morgan, actor. (1915)

Chuck Connors, actor. (1921)

 Omar Sharif, actor. (1932)

John Madden, football coach, sportscaster. (1936)

Don Meredith, football player, sportscaster. (1938)

Steven Seagal, actor. (1951)

Cathy Turner, an American short track skater (Olympic gold 1994). Born in Rochester, New York. (1962)

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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

Leonardo DaVinci, 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)

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)



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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 (1900)

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

Ferdinand Magelan, Portuguese explorer. (1521)

Samuel Morse, invented magnetic telegraph. (1791)

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)

Who was Born on April 29?

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)

Famous 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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