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, 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, 1866- Butch Cassidy, Wild West outlaw
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 Lennon &
Yoko Ono
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
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
| Famous April Events
1 Oliver Pollack invents the dollar sign $ (1778)
1 Dexter Mason Ferry and partners found Gardener, Ferry & Church Seed
Company, now called
Ferrry-Morse,
the oldest seed company in America (1856)
1 Daytime soap opera General Hospital first airs on ABC (1963)
2 Congress passes the Coinage Act and the U.S. Mint is born. (1792)
3 The Pony Express begins delivering the mail. (1860)
4 Susanna Medora Salter is the first woman to be elected mayor in the nation
in Argonia, Kansas. (1887)
4 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. (1968)
4 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is signed. (1949)
5 General Douglas MacArthur died in Washington, D.C. at the age of 84. (1964)
6 Explorers Matthew A. Henson and Robert E. Perry are the first to reach
the North Pole. (1909)
6 The first modern Olympic games opens in Athens, Greece (1896)
6 Twinkies hit the market. The first twinkies were banana-filled.(1930)
7 The musical South Pacific, by Rodgers and Hammerstein, opens on
Broadway. (1949)
7 The World Health Organization (WHO) is founded. (1948)
8 Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th home run to surpass Babe
Ruth's 714 home run record. (1974)
9 Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant
at Appomattox Courthouse, ending the Civil War. (1865)
9 French explorer LaSalle reaches the Mississippi river (1691)
9 The U.S. Senate passes a law making
Winston Churchill
the first honorary U.S. citizen. (1963)
10 The "unsinkable" RMS Titanic departs on it's maiden voyage from
Southampton, England. (1912)
10 Do you love animals? The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals was established on this date in 1866.
12 By an Act of Congress, Puerto Rico becomes a U.S, territory. (1900)
12 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space. (1961).
14 President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. (1865)
15 The Titanic hits an iceberg in the Northern Atlantic ocean as sinks. (1912)
18 Paul Revere makes his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Ma.,
shouting "the Red Coats are coming" as the American Revolutionary War begins.
(1775)
18 The Great San Fransisco earthquake hits, killing 700 people. (1906)
19 The Revolutionary War begins. (1775)
19 After a 51 day siege in Waco, Texas, the Branch Dividian compound goes
up in flames, killing the cult members (1993)
20 Two teenage boys go on a shooting rampage in Columbine High school in
Littleton, Colorado. One teacher and 12 students are killed. (1999)
25 Delegates from 45 countries meet in San Fransisco to organize the United
Nations. (1945)
27 Senior citizens take note, the first Social Security checks were distributed
on this day in 1937.
29 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, N.J. patents the zipper. (1913)
30 The Vietnam War ends with the fall of Saigon (later renamed Ho Chi
Minh City) (1975)
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