Famous Births on 1 May

Famous Births on 1 May

1218 - John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)
1218 - Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)
1285 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)
1582 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (d. 1643)
1594 - John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate
1672 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (d. 1719)
1738 - King Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (d. 1819)
1769 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (d. 1852)
1804 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d. 1860)
1829 - José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (d. 1877)
1831 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903)
1850 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (d. 1942)
1851 - Laza Lazarević, Serbian writer and psychiatrist (d. 1891)
1852 - Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d. 1903)
1852 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1934)
1872 - Sidónio Pais, Portuguese military and politician (d. 1918)
1881 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher (d. 1955)
1884 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (d. 1964)
1887 - Alan Gordon Cunningham, British army officer (d. 1983)
1896 - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (d. 1947)
1896 - Mark Wayne Clark, American general (d. 1984)
1896 - J. Lawton Collins, American general (d. 1987)
1901 - Antal Szerb, Hungarian author and historian (d. 1945)
1901 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (d. 1985)
1905 - Henry Koster, German film director (d. 1988)
1905 - Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (d. 1982)
1906 - Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (d. 1983)
1907 - Oliver Hill, civil rights attorney (d. 2007)
1907 - Kate Smith, American singer (d. 1986)
1908 - Giovanni Guareschi, Italian journalist (d. 1968)
1909 - Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize, 9 times candidate for the Nobel Prize (d. 1990)
1912 - Otto Kretschmer, German U-Boat commander (d. 1998)
1913 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1913 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
1915 - Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993)
1916 - Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (d. 2006)
1917 - John Beradino, American actor and baseball player (d. 1996)
1917 - Danielle Darrieux, French singer and actress
1918 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (d. 1977)
1918 - Jack Paar, American television host (d. 2004)
1919 - Lewis Hill, American pacifist and founder of Pacifica Radio (d. 1957)
1919 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish film actor (d. 2005)
1923 - Joseph Heller, American novelist (d. 1999)
1924 - Art Fleming, American game show host (d. 1995)
1924 - Karel Kachyňa, Czech film director (d. 2004)
1924 - Terry Southern, American screenwriter (d. 1995)
1925 - Scott Carpenter, American astronaut
1925 - Chuck Bednarik, American football player
1926 - Peter Lax, Hungarian Mathematician
1928 - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racer (d. 2002)
1929 - Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician
1929 - Sonny James, American country music singer and songwriter
1930 - Richard Riordan, former mayor of Los Angeles
1930 - Little Walter, American blues singer (d. 1995)
1934 - Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexican politician
1934 - Shirley Horn, American jazz singer and pianist (d. 2005)
1934 - Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
1935 - Ann Robinson, American actress
1937 - Una Stubbs, English actress
1939 - Judy Collins, American folk singer
1939 - Max Robinson, American broadcast journalist (d. 1988)
1940 - Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
1944 - Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
1945 - Rita Coolidge, American singer
1946 - Joanna Lumley, English actress
1946 - John Woo, Hong Kong director
1947 - Sergio Infante, Chilean poet and writer
1949 - Tim Hodgkinson, English composer and musician (Henry Cow)
1949 - Paul Teutul, Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers
1950 - Danny McGrain, Scottish footballer
1950 - Dann Florek, American actor
1951 - Antony Worrall Thompson, English celebrity chef
1953 - Glen Ballard, American songwriter and record producer
1954 - Ray Parker Jr., American singer and songwriter
1954 - Joel Rosenberg, science fiction author
1955 - Nick Feldman, English musician
1956 - Catherine Frot, French actress
1957 - Ko Otani, Japanese composer
1960 - Steve Cauthen, American jockey
1961 - Marilyn Milian, current judge on The People's Court
1962 - Maia Morgenstern, Romanian actress
1962 - Ted Sundquist, General Manager of the Denver Broncos
1964 - Yvonne van Gennip, Dutch speed skater
1966 - Olaf Thon, German football player
1967 - Tim McGraw, American musician
1968 - D'arcy Wretzky, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
1968 - Sol Kyung-gu, South Korean actor
1968 - Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer
1969 - Wes Anderson, American director and writer
1969 - Billy Owens, American basketball player
1971 - Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor
1972 - Julie Benz, American actress
1973 - Oliver Neuville, German footballer
1973 - Curtis Martin, American football player
1975 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
1975 - Jodhi May, British actress
1975 - Austin Croshere, American basketball player
1975 - Alexei Smertin, Russian footballer
1976 - Darius McCrary, American actor
1977 - Dan Regan, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1977 - Vera Lischka, Austrian swimmer
1978 - Sachie Hara, Japanese actress
1979 - Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
1979 - Ben Easter, American actor
1979 - MC Harvey (Michael Harvey), British musical artist
1980 - Jan Heylen, Belgian racing driver
1980 - Ana Claudia Talancón, Mexican actress
1981 - Wes Welker, American football player
1981 - Derek Asamoah, Ghanaian Footballer
1981 - Aliaksandr Hleb, Belarusian footballer
1982 - Tommy Robredo, Spanish tennis player
1983 - The Human Tornado (Craig Williams), American professional wrestler
1984 - Alexander Farnerud, Swedish footballer
1984 - Farah Fath, American actress
1984 - Keiichiro Koyama, Japanese musician (NEWS)
1985 - Drew Sidora, American actress
1986 - Adam Casey, Australian footballer
1986 - Cristian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer
1987 - Shahar Pe'er, Israeli tennis player
1987 - Matt Di Angelo, English Actor
1988 - Graeme Owens, English footballer
1990 - Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress
1991 - Creagen Dow, American actor
1997 - Ariel Gade, American actress

Famous Births on 30 Apr

Famous Births on 30 Apr

1245 - King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
1553 - Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, queen of France (d. 1601)
1623 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France (d. 1708)
1651 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer, Catholic saint (d. 1719)
1662 - Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694)
1664 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
1710 - Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795)
1721 - Roger Sherman, American statesman (d. 1793)
1723 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
1770 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (d. 1857)
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician (d. 1855)
1803 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879)
1812 - Kaspar Hauser, German mystery boy (d. 1833)
1829 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (d. 1884)
1857 - Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940)
1864 - Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (d. 1913)
1865 - Max Nettlau, German anarchist (d. 1944)
1869 - Hans Poelzig, German architect (d. 1936)
1870 - Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (d. 1948)
1874 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman (d. 1949)
1876 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937)
1877 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion of Gertrude Stein (d. 1967)
1883 - Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (d. 1923)
1893 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)
1895 - Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960)
1896 - Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996)
1897 - Humberto Mauro, Brazillina director and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1901 - Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
1902 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1908 - Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990)
1908 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (d. 1970)
1909 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1909 - F. E. McWilliam,Irish sculptor (d. 1992)
1916 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999)
1916 - Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician (d. 2001)
1920 - Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver (d. 1994)
1923 - Percy Heath, American jazz musician (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2005)
1923 - Al Lewis, American actor (d. 2006)
1923 - Francis Tucker, South African Rally Driver (d. 2008)
1925 - Corinne Calvet, French actress (d. 2001)
1925 - Johnny Horton, American musician (d. 1960)
1926 - Cloris Leachman, American actress
1928 - Hugh Hood, Canadian author (d. 2000)
1933 - Dickie Davies, British television presenter
1933 - Willie Nelson, American musician
1934 - Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (d.1995)
1938 - Larry Niven, American author
1938 - Gary Collins, American actor
1938 - Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak film director
1940 - Burt Young, American actor
1941 - Johnny Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny)
1943 - Frederick Chiluba, former Zambian president (1991-2001)
1943 - Bobby Vee, American singer
1944 - Jill Clayburgh, American actress
1945 - Michael Smith, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1945 - Annie Dillard, American writer
1946 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
1946 - Don Schollander, American swimmer
1946 - Bill Plympton, American animator
1947 - Tom Køhlert, Brondby IF coach
1947 - Mats Odell, Swedish politician
1947 - Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer
1947 - Leslie Grantham, English actor
1948 - Perry King, American actor
1949 - Phil Garner, baseball manager
1949 - António Guterres, Prime Minister of Portugal
1952 - Jacques Audiard, French film director
1954 - Jane Campion, New Zealand film director
1955 - Nicolas Hulot, French journalist
1956 - Jorge Chaminé, Portuguese baritone
1956 - Lars von Trier, Danish film director
1957 - Aviva Chomsky, American historian, daughter of Noam Chomsky
1958 - Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter
1959 - W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist
1959 - Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
1959 - Paul Gross, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1960 - Kerry Healey, American politician
1960 - David Miscavige, American cult leader
1961 - Isiah Thomas, American basketball player
1963 - Michael Waltrip, American race car driver
1964 - Ian Healy, Australian cricketer
1964 - Barrington Levy, Jamaican musician
1965 - Adrian Pasdar, American actor
1966 - Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Steven Mackintosh, British actor
1969 - Paulo Jr., Brazilian musician (Sepultura)
1969 - Warren Defever, American musician, composer
1970 - Ken Stanton, American Radio Personality
1971 - Darren Emerson, English DJ (Underworld)
1971 - John Boyne, Irish novelist
1973 - Akon, American R&B Singer
1975 - Elliott Sadler, American race car driver
1975 - Mike Chat, American actor
1975 - Johnny Galecki, American actor
1976 - Amanda Palmer, American musician (The Dresden Dolls)
1977 - Pell James, American actress
1977 - Jeannie Haddaway, American politician
1979 - Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer
1981 - John O'Shea, Irish footballer
1981 - Emma Pierson, British actress
1982 - Andrew Seeley, Canadian actor and singer
1982 - Cleo Higgins, British singer and actress
1982 - Kirsten Dunst, American actress
1982 - Lloyd Banks, American rapper
1983 - Tatjana Hüfner, German luger
1983 - Troy Williamson, American football player
1984 - Shawn Daivari, Persian-American professional wrestler and manager
1985 - Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American singer and call girl
1987 - Nikki Webster, Australian entertainer
1987 - Rohit Sharma, Indian Cricketer

Famous Births on 29 Apr

Famous Births on 29 Apr

1665 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
1667 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist (d. 1735)
1686 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742)
1727 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer (d. 1810)
1745 - Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1807)
1762 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)
1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
1784 - Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)
1837 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
1842 - Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
1854 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
1863 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (d. 1922)
1863 - William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951)
1863 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)
1872 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930)
1875 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)
1876 - Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
1879 - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961)
1882 - Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945)
1885 - Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and author (d. 1948)
1893 - Harold Urey, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1895 - Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d. 1967)
1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)
1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
1907 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1997)
1907 - Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (d. 1983)
1908 - Jack Williamson, American writer (d. 2006)
1909 - Tom Ewell, American actor (d. 1994)
1912 - Richard Carlson, American actor (d. 1977)
1915 - Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (d. 1999)
1917 - Celeste Holm, American actress
1918 - George Allen, American football player and coach (d. 1990)
1919 - Gérard Oury, French film actor and director (d. 2006)
1920 - Harold Shapero, American composer
1922 - Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz guitarist and harmonica player
1922 - Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcyclist (d. 2001)
1924 - Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006)
1924 - Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballet dancer and actress
1925 - Ned Austin, American character actor (d. 2007)
1925 - John Compton, Saint Lucian Prime Minister (d. 2007)
1925 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator, producer and film director (d. 2007)
1928 - Carl Gardner, American singer (The Coasters)
1929 - Walter Kempowski, German author (d. 2007)
1929 - Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer
1929 - Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1929 - Ray Baretto, American jazz musician (d. 2006)
1930 - Jean Rochefort, French actor
1931 - Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter
1931 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002)
1933 - Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
1933 - Rod McKuen, American poet and composer
1934 - Otis Rush, American musician
1934 - Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan baseball player
1936 - Zubin Mehta, Indian-born conductor
1936 - April Stevens, American singer
1936 - Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005)
1937 - Jill Paton Walsh, English writer
1938 - Klaus Voormann, German musician, artist, and record producer
1938 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (d. 2004)
1942 - Galina Kulakova, Soviet cross country skier
1944 - Princess Benedikte of Denmark
1944 - Richard Kline, American actor and director
1945 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (d. 1970)
1947 - Tommy James, American musician
1947 - Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher
1947 - Serge Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player
1947 - Jim Ryun, American athlete and politician
1948 - Bruce Cutler, American attorney
1948 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist and violinist (Can) (d. 2001)
1950 - Debbie Stabenow, American politician
1950 - Phillip Noyce, Australian film director
1951 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
1952 - Nora Dunn, American actress
1952 - David Icke, English writer
1952 - Bob McClure, American baseball player
1954 - Jake Burton Carpenter, American snowboarder
1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1955 - Gino Quilico, Canadian baritone
1955 - Wendee Lee, American voice actress
1955 - Kate Mulgrew, American actress
1956 - Sofia Sakorafa, Greek javelin thrower and politician
1956 - Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer
1957 - Daniel Day-Lewis, British-Irish actor
1957 - Mark Kendall, American guitarist
1957 - Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast (d. 2003)
1958 - Gary Cohen, Baseball broadcaster
1958 - Eve Plumb, American actress
1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1960 - Phil King, English bassist
1960 - Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian writer
1960 - Caveh Zahedi, American filmmaker
1961 - Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese seiyū
1963 - Mike Babcock, NHL Coach
1964 - Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor
1966 - Phil Tufnell, English cricketer
1967 - Master P, American rapper
1967 - Curtis Joseph, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Carnie Wilson, American singer
1969 - Paul Adelstein, American actor
1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
1970 - China Forbes, American singer and songwriter (Pink Martini)
1970 - Uma Thurman, American actress
1971 - Sam Michael, Australian engineer
1972 - Dustin McDaniel, American politician
1973 - Johan Hegg, Swedish heavy metal vocalist
1973 - David Belle, French physical educator
1974 - Jasper Wood, Canadian violinist
1974 - Julian Knowle, Austrian tennis player
1974 - Pascal Cygan, French footballer
1974 - Anggun, Indonesian singer
1975 - Béres Zoo, Hungarian radio DJ
1975 - Rafael Betancourt, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 - Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and producer
1977 - Rocío Carrasco, Spanish TV host and socialite
1977 - Claus Jensen, Danish footballer
1978 - Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, American tennis players
1978 - Tony Armas, Jr., Venezuelan baseball player
1979 - Ryan Sharp, Scottish racing driver
1979 - Jo O'Meara, British singer (S Club)
1979 - Lee Dong-Gook, Korean footballer
1979 - Matt Tong, English drummer (Bloc Party)
1980 - Mathieu Biron, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)
1980 - Kelly Shoppach, American baseball player
1981 - Alex Vincent, American actor
1981 - Émilie Mondor, Canadian athlete (d. 2006)
1981 - George McCartney, Northern Irish footballer
1982 - Kamran Jawaid, Pakistani film critic
1983 - Jay Cutler, American football player
1983 - Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese gravure idol and actress
1983 - David Lee, American basketball player
1983 - Sam Jones III, American Actor
1984 - Phạm Văn Quyến, Vietnamese footballer
1984 - Firass Dirani, Lebanese-Australian actor
1984 - Taylor Cole, American actress
1986 - Renee Alway, American Model
1987 - Matthew Doherty, Northern Irish footballer
1987 - Alicia Morton, American actress
1988 - Younha, Korean pop singer
2003 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2007)
2003 - Maud Behn, Princess of Norway
2007 - Infanta Sofía of Spain, Princess of Spain
534 - Taliesin, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion

Famous Births on 28 Apr

Famous Births on 28 Apr

1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
1545 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)
1630 - Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687)
1686 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
1715 - Franz Sparry, composer (d. 1767)
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
1765 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1834)
1819 - Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884)
1838 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel laureate (d. 1913)
1868 - Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1953)
1868 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)
1874 - Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)
1878 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)
1889 - António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d. 1970)
1897 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (d. 1986)
1900 - Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo (disappeared in 1945)
1900 - Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d. 1992)
1902 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979)
1906 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
1906 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978)
1908 - Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman (d. 1974)
1910 - Sam Merwin, Jr., American mystery fiction writer (d. 1996)
1911 - Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (d. 1999)
1912 - Odette Sansom, French resistance worker (d. 1995)
1914 - Philip E. High, Science fiction author (d. 2006)
1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
1921 - Rowland Evans, American journalist (d. 2001)
1922 - William Guarnere, WWII Veteran
1922 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (d. 1987)
1924 - Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor
1924 - Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia
1925 - T. John Lesinski, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
1926 - Harper Lee, American author
1926 - Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer
1928 - Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
1928 - Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997)
1930 - James Baker, American politician
1930 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
1934 - Lois Duncan, American novelist
1937 - Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (d. 2006)
1938 - Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (d. 1995)
1941 - Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet
1941 - Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
1941 - K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress
1942 - Mike Brearley, English cricketer
1943 - Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor
1944 - Elizabeth LeCompte, American theater director
1944 - Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
1944 - Alice Waters, American chef
1946 - Ginette Reno, French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress
1948 - Terry Pratchett, English author
1948 - Marcia Strassman, American actress
1948 - Dorothée Berryman, French Canadian actress and singer
1949 - Indian Larry, American stuntsman (d. 2004)
1949 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006)
1950 - Willie Colón , Puerto Rican salsa legend
1950 - Jay Leno, American comedian and television host
1952 - Mary McDonnell, American actress
1953 - Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1953 - Roberto Bolano, Latin American author and poet
1954 - Ron Zook, American Football Coach
1955 - Nicky Gumbel, British author and priest
1955 - Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
1956 - Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-born singer
1957 - Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer
1958 - Hal Sutton, American golfer
1960 - Walter Zenga, Italian footballer
1960 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (d. 1993)
1960 - Joel H. Rosenthal American political scientist
1960 - Ian Rankin, Scottish novelist
1960 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (d. 2004)
1961 - Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese serial killer
1963 - Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater
1964 - Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
1964 - Mark Steven Robinson, American director
1964 - Barry Larkin, American baseball player
1965 - Steven Blum, American voice actor
1966 - John Daly, American golfer
1966 - Too Short, American rapper
1967 - Kari Wührer, American actress
1968 - Andy Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer
1968 - Howard Donald, British musician
1968 - Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
1970 - Nicklas Lidström, Swedish ice hockey player
1970 - Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer
1971 - Bridget Moynahan, American actress
1972 - Joseph Bruce, American musician
1973 - Francisco Palencia, Mexican footballer
1973 - Jorge Garcia, American actor
1973 - Elisabeth Röhm, American actress
1974 - Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
1974 - Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
1974 - Vernon Kay, British TV/radio presenter
1978 - Lauren Laverne, Disc jockey, television presenter and former singer
1979 - Bahram Radan, Iranian actor
1980 - Josh Howard, American basketball player (Dallas Mavericks)
1981 - Jessica Alba, American actress
1982 - Nikki Grahame, Big Brother 7 Star
1983 - Roger Johnson, English footballer
1986 - George Nozuka, Canadian Singer/Songwriter

Famous Births on 27 Apr

Famous Births on 27 Apr

1495 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)
1623 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (d. 1722)
1650 - Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)
1701 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
1718 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
1724 - Col. Thomas Gardner, a heroic political figure and soldier (d. 1775)
1737 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (d. 1794)
1748 - Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (d. 1833)
1755 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (d. 1797)
1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872)
1806 - Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
1812 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)
1812 - William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886)
1820 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1903)
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War general and 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
1840 - Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (d. 1911)
1848 - King Otto I of Bavaria (d. 1916)
1850 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921)
1853 - Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914)
1878 - Frank Alvin Gotch, American professional wrestler (d. 1917)
1888 - Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)
1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (d. 1953)
1893 - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1893 - Dragoljub Mihailović, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (d. 1946)
1894 - George Petty, WWII Pin-Up Artist (d. 1975)
1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born musicologist and composer (d. 1995)
1896 - Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1899 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)
1903 - Horace Stoneham, American Major league baseball owner (d. 1990)
1904 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)
1906 - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (d. 1966)
1913 - Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004)
1916 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1918 - Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy
1920 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
1920 - Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet
1920 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1997)
1922 - Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer, holocaust survivor
1922 - Jack Klugman, American actor
1927 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (d. 1988)
1927 - Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Joe Moakley, American politician (d. 2001)
1927 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2006)
1931 - Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
1932 - Casey Kasem, American disc jockey
1932 - Pik Botha, South African politician
1932 - Anouk Aimée, French actress
1936 - Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer
1937 - Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
1937 - Robin Eames, Northern Irish clergyman
1938 - Earl Anthony, American bowler (d. 2001)
1938 - Alain Caron, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1939 - Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish Cardinal
1939 - Judy Carne, British actress and comedian
1941 - Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
1942 - Jim Keltner, American drummer
1943 - Helmut Marko, Austrian racing driver
1944 - Michael Fish, British former weather forecaster
1944 - Cuba Gooding, Sr., American musician (The Main Ingredient)
1945 - August Wilson, American playwright (d. 2005)
1947 - Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
1947 - Peter Ham, Welsh singer and songwriter (Badfinger) (d. 1975)
1947 - George Kenneth Butterfield, American politician
1947 - Ann Peebles, American singer
1948 - Frank William Abagnale, Jr., con artist turned security consultant.
1948 - Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's)
1948 - Amrit Bohra, Nepalese politician
1951 - Ace Frehley, American musician (Kiss)
1952 - Larry Elder, American political commentator
1952 - Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver
1952 - George Gervin, American basketball player
1953 - Arielle Dombasle, French singer and actress
1956 - Douglas P., English musician (Death in June, Crisis)
1956 - Bryan Harvey, American musician
1957 - Eric Bristow, English darts player
1957 - Rosanna Scotto, American news anchor
1957 - Michel Barrette, Canadian actor and stand-up comedian
1959 - Louis Lortie, French Canadian concert pianist
1959 - Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
1962 - Ángel Comizzo, Argentine footballer
1962 - James LeGros, American actor
1963 - Cali Timmins, Canadian actress
1963 - Russell T. Davies, Welsh television writer and executive producer of Doctor Who
1964 - Michael Mahonen, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter
1964 - Lisa Wilcox, American actress
1967 - Jason Whitlock, American sportswriter
1967 - Erik Thomson, Australian actor
1967 - Tommy Smith, Scottish jazz musician
1967 - Aki Avni, Israeli entertainer
1967 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
1969 - Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
1969 - Darcey Bussell, British ballerina
1969 - Grahame Cheney, Australian boxer
1969 - Mica Paris, British singer and presenter
1970 - Kylie Travis, English actress and model
1971 - Tess Daly, British television presenter
1972 - David Lascher, American actor
1973 - Sébastien Lareau, French Canadian professional tennis player
1974 - Johnny Devine, Canadian professional wrestler
1974 - Richard Johnson, Australian footballer
1975 - Rabih Abdullah, former National Football League player
1975 - Chris Carpenter, American baseball player
1975 - Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player
1976 - Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Sally Hawkins, English film actress
1976 - Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer and composer
1977 - Khalid Zoubaa, French runner
1977 - Jerry Trainor, American actor
1978 - Adamantia Kontogiorgi, Greek actress
1979 - Will Boyd, American musician
1979 - Natasha Chokljat, Australian netballer
1980 - Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player
1980 - Ananda Mikola, Indonesian racing driver
1980 - Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer
1981 - Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer
1981 - Joey Gathright, American baseball player
1981 - Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
1982 - Katrina Johnson, American actress
1983 - Ari Graynor, American actress
1984 - Daniel Holdsworth, Australian Rugby League player
1984 - Pierre-Marc Bouchard, hockey player
1984 - Frank Carter, British musician (Gallows) and tattooist
1984 - Patrick Stump, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1986 - Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer
1987 - William Moseley, British actor
1987 - Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress
1987 - Elliott Shriane, Australian speed skater
1989 - Emily Rios, American actress

Famous Births on 26 Apr

Famous Births on 26 Apr

121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
1538 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)
1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (d. 1616)
1573 - Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
1648 - King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
1662 - Maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1689)
1710 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796)
1711 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
1718 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (d. 1802)
1774 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
1782 - Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, queen of France (d. 1866)
1785 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851)
1787 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
1798 - James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867)
1798 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
1801 - Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
1804 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
1812 - Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
1826 - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
1826 - Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872
1856 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
1878 - Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop
1879 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
1886 - Äžabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
1886 - Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
1888 - Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
1889 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951)
1893 - Draza Mihajlovic, Serbian WWII hero and war criminal (d. 1946)
1894 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
1896 - Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
1897 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
1897 - Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (d. 1987)
1898 - John Grierson, Scottish filmmaker (d. 1972)
1898 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
1900 - Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985)
1900 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
1904 - Paul-Émile Léger, Quebec cardinal and archbishop (d. 1991)
1910 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
1911 - Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
1912 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (d. 2000)
1914 - James W. Rouse, American investor (d. 1996)
1914 - Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
1916 - Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999)
1916 - Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
1917 - Sal Maglie, American baseball player (d. 1992)
1917 - I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
1918 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
1918 - Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
1922 - Jeanne Sauvé, French Canadian politician (d. 1993)
1925 - Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician
1926 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
1926 - David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster
1927 - Jack Douglas, English actor
1929 - Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002)
1930 - Roger Moens, Belgian athlete
1932 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1932 - Francis Lai, French film music composer
1933 - Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
1933 - Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1933 - Carol Burnett, American comedian
1938 - Duane Eddy, American musician
1938 - Maurice Williams, American singer (The Zodiacs)
1940 - Cliff Watson, English rugby league footballer
1940 - Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
1941 - John Mitchell, American composer
1941 - Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer
1942 - Bobby Rydell, American singer
1942 - Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
1942 - Claudine Auger, French actress
1943 - Gary Wright, American singer
1943 - Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
1944 - Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
1945 - Sylvain Simard, Quebec politician
1947 - Warren Clarke, English actor
1949 - Dominic Sena, American film director
1949 - Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
1949 - Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer
1955 - Mike Scott, American baseball player
1956 - Koo Stark, American actress
1958 - John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute
1958 - Giancarlo Esposito, American actor
1958 - Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor
1959 - John Corabi, American Musician
1959 - Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter
1960 - Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player
1960 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
1961 - Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress
1961 - Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
1961 - Chris Mars, American rock drummer (The Replacements)
1962 - Colin Anderson, English footballer
1962 - Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer
1962 - Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
1963 - Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player
1963 - Jet Li, Chinese martial artist
1965 - Kevin James, American comedian
1966 - Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka who created YuYu Hakusho
1967 - Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress
1967 - Glen Jacobs, American professional wrestler
1970 - Melania Trump, Slovenian model
1970 - Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer (TLC)
1971 - Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts)
1972 - Avi Nimni, Israeli Footballer
1972 - Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer
1972 - Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver
1973 - Chris Perry, English footballer
1974 - Ivana Milicevic, Croatian-American actress
1974 - Adil Ray, English radio presenter (BBC Asian Network)
1975 - Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
1975 - Nerina Pallot, British singer
1976 - Vaclav Varada, Czech ice hockey player
1977 - Jason Earles, American actor
1977 - Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
1977 - Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player
1977 - Tom Welling, American actor
1978 - Avant, American singer
1978 - Joe Crede, American baseball player
1978 - Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
1979 - Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
1979 - Ariane Moffatt, Quebec singer and songwriter
1980 - Jordana Brewster, American actress
1980 - Anna Mucha, Polish actress
1980 - Channing Tatum, American actor
1981 - Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
1981 - Ms. Dynamite, English musician
1982 - Jon Lee, British singer (S Club)
1982 - Cooper Wallace, National Football League tight end
1982 - Brock Gillespie, American basketball player
1982 - Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet
1983 - José María López, Argentine racing driver
1983 - Jessica Lynch, American P.O.W.
1984 - Lee Humphrey, American basketball player
1984 - Mija Martina, Bosnian singer
1985 - Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer, member of See Ya
1985 - John Isner, American Tennis player
1987 - Jessica Lee Rose, American-born New Zealand actress, famous YouTube star lonelygirl15
570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20.

Famous Births on 25 Apr

Famous Births on 25 Apr

1214 - King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)
1228 - Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
1284 - King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
1287 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
1502 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574)
1599 - Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (d. 1658)
1608 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
1621 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
1710 - James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
1725 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786)
1767 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
1770 - Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
1775 - Charlotte of Spain, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (d. 1830)
1776 - Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape designer (d. 1903)
1843 - Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
1849 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
1851 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist (d. 1901)
1868 - John Bevins Moisant, pioneer aviator, first to cross English Channel with passenger and a cat, killed in New Orleans whose present day airport was originally name for him. (D. 1910)
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
1897 - Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
1898 - Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
1900 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
1905 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
1906 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
1908 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
1909 - William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
1914 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
1918 - Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (d. 2006)
1921 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
1923 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
1925 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
1925 - Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986)
1926 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
1927 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
1929 - Yvette Williams First New Zealander to go to Olympics
1930 - Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer
1931 - Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
1932 - William Roache, British television actor (Coronation Street)
1932 - Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player
1933 - Jerry Leiber, American composer
1934 - Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer
1935 - April Ashley, English model
1938 - Ton Schulten, Dutch artist
1939 - Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate
1940 - Al Pacino, American actor
1941 - Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor
1941 - Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan
1942 - Jon Kyl, American politician
1945 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
1945 - Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1946 - Talia Shire, American actress
1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
1947 - Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer
1947 - Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
1948 - Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan
1949 - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician
1949 - Vicente Pernía, Argentine footballer
1949 - James Fenton, British poet
1950 - Steve Ferrone, British drummer
1951 - Ian McCartney, British Member of Parliament
1952 - Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet ice hockey player
1952 - Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
1955 - Américo Gallego, Argentine footballer
1955 - Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
1956 - Jaroslava Schallerová, Hungarian actress
1958 - Fish, Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion)
1959 - Dominique Blanc, French actress
1960 - Bruce Redman, Australian film producer
1961 - Dinesh D'Souza, American author
1964 - Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director
1964 - Andy Bell, British singer and songwriter (band Erasure)
1964 - Hank Azaria, American actor
1965 - Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear)
1965 - Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene)
1966 - James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer
1969 - Renée Zellweger, American actress
1969 - Darren Woodson, American football player
1969 - Gina Torres, American actress
1969 - Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster
1970 - Jason Lee, American actor
1970 - Tionne Watkins, American singer
1971 - Tomoko Kawakami, (Voice Actress), Japanese Seiyuu
1972 - Sara Baras, Spanish ballerina
1973 - Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
1975 - Chris Lilley, Australian actor, comedian, and writer
1975 - Jacque Jones, American baseball player
1975 - Emily Bergl, English-American actress
1976 - Tim Duncan, American basketball player
1976 - Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
1976 - Gilberto, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish musician
1977 - Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer
1977 - Matthew West, American Christian singer
1977 - Marguerite Moreau, American actress
1977 - Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer
1978 - Letícia Birkheuer, Brazilian model
1980 - Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
1980 - Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer
1980 - Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese basaball player
1981 - Anja Pärson, Swedish skier
1981 - John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter
1981 - Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver
1981 - Dwone Hicks, National Football League runningback
1982 - Monty Panesar, English cricketer
1982 - Brian Barton, American baseball player
1983 - DeAngelo Williams, National Football League runningback
1983 - J.P. Howell, American baseball player
1984 - Robert Andino, Baseball player
1984 - Andre' Woodson, American football quarterback
1985 - Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver
1987 - Johann Smith, American soccer player
1988 - Sara Paxton, American actress
1988 - James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
1989 - Robbie Tarrant, Australian football player
1996 - Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress
32 - Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)

Famous Births on 24 Apr

Famous Births on 24 Apr

1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1581 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)
1620 - John Graunt, English statistician and founder of the science of demography (d. 1674)
1706 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1780)
1718 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
1743 - Edmund Cartwright, British inventor (d. 1823)
1784 - Peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860)
1815 - Anthony Trollope, English novelist (d. 1882)
1845 - Carl Spitteler, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
1856 - Henri Philippe Pétain, French soldier and statesman (d. 1951)
1876 - Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
1876 - Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (d. 1960)
1878 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
1882 - Hugh Dowding, Scottish fighter pilot (d. 1970)
1887 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
1889 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
1889 - Stafford Cripps, British politician (d. 1952)
1896 - Benjamin Whorf, American linguist (d. 1941)
1897 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
1899 - Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986)
1903 - José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange (d. 1936)
1904 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter (d. 1997)
1905 - Robert Penn Warren, American poet (d. 1989)
1906 - William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
1907 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
1908 - Marceline Day, American actor (d. 2000)
1914 - William Castle, American film director and producer (d. 1977)
1916 - Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1922 - J.D. Cannon, American actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Ruth Kobart, American actor and singer (d. 2002)
1924 - Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician
1926 - Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
1929 - Dr.Rajkumar, Kannada actor
1930 - Jerome Callet, American musician
1930 - Richard Donner, American film director and producer
1933 - Freddie Scott, American singer (d. 2007)
1933 - Helmuth Lohner, Austrian actor
1933 - Alan Eagleson, Canadian ice hockey agent and promoter
1933 - Claire Davenport, British actress (d. 2002)
1933 - Patricia Bosworth, American actor, journalist, writer and biographer
1934 - Shirley MacLaine, American actor and author
1936 - Jill Ireland, British actress (d. 1990)
1937 - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
1940 - Sue Grafton, American author
1941 - John Williams, Australian guitarist
1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer and actor
1942 - Richard M. Daley, American politician
1943 - Richard Sterban, American singer
1945 - Doug Clifford, American drummer
1945 - Robert Knight, American singer
1945 - Doug Riley, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
1945 - Dick Rivers, French singer and actor
1947 - Roger D. Kornberg, American chemist, Nobel-prized
1947 - Josep Borrell Fontelles, Former President of the European Parliament
1947 - Claude Dubois, Quebec singer and songwriter
1948 - Paul Cellucci, 69th Governor of Massachusetts and former United States Ambassador to Canada
1949 - Véronique Sanson, French singer and songwriter
1952 - Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
1953 - Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer
1954 - Captain Sensible, British guitarist
1954 - Mumia Abu-Jamal, American death-row inmate
1955 - John de Mol, Dutch media businessman
1957 - David J, British musician
1957 - Boris Williams, British musician
1958 - Valery Lantratov, Russian ballet dancer
1958 - Brian Paddick, British former deputy assistant commissioner and most senior openly gay police officer
1959 - Malcolm Oastler, Australian engineer
1959 - Dave Ridgway, Canadian football player
1960 - Paula Yates, British television presenter (d. 2000)
1962 - Stuart Pearce, English footballer and manager
1962 - Steve Roach, Australian rugby league footballer
1963 - Paula Frazer, American singer/songwriter
1963 - Billy Gould, American musician
1963 - Mano Solo, French singer
1963 - Tõnu Trubetsky, Estonian musician
1964 - Djimon Hounsou, Beninese actor
1964 - Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian and actor
1965 - Son Chang Min, South Korean actor
1966 - Pierre Brassard, Quebec humorist and actor
1966 - Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer
1967 - Omar Vizquel, Venezuelan baseball player
1968 - Hashim Thaci, Kosovan politician
1968 - Yuji Nagata, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - Todd Jones, American baseball player
1968 - Stacy Haiduk, American actress
1969 - Elias Atmatsidis, Greek footballer
1969 - Melinda Clarke, American actress
1969 - Viveca Paulin, Swedish actress
1970 - Damien Fleming, Australian cricketer
1971 - Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian guitarist and singer
1972 - Jure Košir, Slovenian skier
1972 - Chipper Jones, American baseball player
1972 - Nicolas Gill, Canadian judoka
1972 - Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer
1973 - Eric Snow, American basketball player
1973 - Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
1973 - Gabby Logan, British television presenter
1974 - Dave Vitty, British radio personality
1974 - Brian Marshall, American bassist
1974 - Eric Kripke, American television writer, director and producer
1974 - Derek Luke, American actor
1974 - Kristie Krabe, American stage actress
1974 - Joseph Bruce, American rapper
1975 - Sam Doumit, American actress
1976 - Steve Finnan, Irish footballer
1977 - Carlos Beltran, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 - Siarhey Balakhonau, Belarusian writer
1978 - Eric Balfour, American actor
1978 - Kim Hyun-ju, Korean actress
1978 - Stella Damasus Aboderin, Nigerian actress
1980 - Fernando Arce, Mexican footballer
1980 - Austin Nichols, American actor
1981 - Taylor Dent, American tennis player
1982 - Kelly Clarkson, American singer
1983 - Princess Iman bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1984 - Tyson Ritter, American musician
1987 - Kristopher Letang, Canadian hockey player
1987 - Jan Vertonghen, Belgian footballer
1994 - Austin Rogers, American actor
1998 - Ryan Newman, American actress

Famous Births on 23 Apr

Famous Births on 23 Apr

1170 - Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190)
1185 - King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
1464 - Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, queen of France (d. 1505)
1484 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian philosopher (d. 1558)
1500 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565)
1516 - Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571)
1598 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1653)
1621 - William Penn, English admiral (d. 1670)
1628 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
1720 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
1725 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755)
1746 - Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794)
1775 - J. M. W. Turner, English painter (d. 1851)
1791 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868)
1792 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
1794 - Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
1805 - Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, German philosopher (d. 1879)
1813 - Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853)
1813 - Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate (d. 1861)
1823 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861)
1853 - Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)
1857 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919)
1858 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1861 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (d. 1936)
1865 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
1867 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1928)
1876 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
1880 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (d. 1942)
1882 - Albert Coates, British composer (d. 1953)
1888 - Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 1967)
1889 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (d. 1942)
1893 - Frank Borzage, American film director (d. 1952)
1894 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
1895 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
1897 - Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1972)
1897 - Lucius Clay, American general (d. 1978)
1899 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1979)
1900 - Joseph Green, Polish-born actor and director (d. 1996)
1900 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1901 - E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988)
1902 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1903 - Guy Simonds, youngest general officer in the Canadian army (d 1974)
1904 - Duncan Renaldo, Spanish-American actor (d. 1985)
1907 - Lee Miller, American photographer & model (d. 1977)
1907 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
1908 - Myron Waldman, American animator (d. 2006)
1910 - Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005)
1917 - Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (d. 2008)
1918 - Maurice Druon, French author
1919 - Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet double-agent
1921 - Janet Blair, American actress (d. 2007)
1921 - Warren Spahn, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1923 - Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler
1923 - Avram Davidson, American writer (d. 1993)
1923 - Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas
1924 - Chuck Harmon, American baseball player
1924 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007)
1926 - J. P. Donleavy, Irish American author
1928 - Shirley Temple, American actress and politician
1932 - Jim Fixx, American athlete and writer (d. 1984)
1932 - Halston, American fashion designer (d. 1990)
1935 - Bunky Green, American musician
1936 - Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (d. 1988)
1939 - Jorge Fons, Mexican film director
1939 - Lee Majors, American actor
1939 - Ray Peterson, American singer (d. 2005)
1940 - Michael Copps, American Federal Government official
1941 - Jacqueline Boyer, French singer
1941 - Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland 1995-2003
1941 - Michael Lynne, American film executive
1942 - Sandra Dee, American actress (d. 2005)
1943 - Gail Goodrich, American basketball player
1943 - Tony Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 - Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter
1943 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor (d. 1993)
1947 - Glenn Cornick, British musician (Jethro Tull)
1947 - Bernadette Devlin, Irish politician
1948 - Pascal Quignard, French author
1948 - Serge Thériault, French-Canadian comedian and actor
1949 - Joyce DeWitt, American actress
1949 - David Cross, British violinist (King Crimson)
1952 - Narada Michael Walden, American musician and producer
1954 - Michael Moore, American filmmaker
1955 - Judy Davis, Australian actress
1955 - Tony Miles, English chess player (d. 2001)
1957 - Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer
1958 - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Icelandic music composer
1958 - Ryan Walter, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 - Claude Julien, French-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (d. 1991)
1960 - Valerie Bertinelli, American actress
1961 - Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (d. 2001)
1961 - George Lopez, American actor and comedian
1962 - Hillel Slovak Former guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers (1988)
1962 - John Hannah, Scottish actor
1963 - Paul Belmondo, French actor and racing driver
1963 - Magnús Ver Magnússon, Icelandic powerlifter
1967 - Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
1967 - Rheal Cormier, Canadian baseball player
1968 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001)
1968 - Princess Aisha bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1968 - Princess Zein bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1969 - Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast
1969 - Richard Wolstencroft, Australian Filmmaker
1969 - Martin López-Zubero, Spanish swimmer
1970 - Sadao Abe, Japanese actor
1970 - Dennis Bayne Culp, American singer/songwriter
1970 - Andrew Gee, Australian rugby league footballer
1970 - Scott Bairstow, American actor
1971 - Charmaine Sinclair, English model
1972 - Sonya Smith, American actress
1972 - Patricia Manterola, Mexican singer
1972 - Pierre Labrie, Canadian poet
1973 - Patrick Poulin, French-Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Carlos Dengler, American musician (Interpol)
1974 - Barry Watson, American actor
1975 - Bobby Shaw, American football wide receiver for the NFL
1975 - Jón Þór Birgisson, Icelandic musician and singer (Sigur Rós)
1977 - John Cena, American professional wrestler
1977 - Andruw Jones, Curaçaoan baseball player
1977 - Willie Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Kal Penn, American actor
1977 - Lee Young-Pyo, Korean footballer
1979 - Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus)
1979 - Jaime King, American actress
1979 - Yana Gupta, Indian actress & model
1979 - Barry Fratelli, Scottish bassist (The Fratellis)
1981 - Sean Henn, American baseball player
1981 - Joanna Krupa, Supermodel/actress
1981 - Chris Sharma, American rock climber/boulderer
1982 - Taio Cruz, London/English R&B, Pop, Hip Hop singer
1983 - Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
1983 - Jennifer Heil, Canadian free style skier
1984 - Alexandra Kosteniuk, Chess Woman World Champion
1985 - Angel Locsin, Filipina TV and movie actress
1986 - Sven Kramer, Dutch speedskater
1986 - Jessica Stam, Canadian supermodel
1987 - Emily Fox, American cupstacking champion
1988 - Victor Anichebe, Nigerian footballer
1989 - Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player
1990 - Matthew Dillon Underwood, American actor

Famous Births on 22 Apr

Famous Births on 22 Apr

1451 - Queen Isabella of Castile and Leon (d. 1504)
1610 - Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1658 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (d. 1709)
1690 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)
1692 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)
1707 - Henry Fielding, English author (d. 1754)
1711 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)
1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
1744 - James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)
1766 - Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1812 - Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (d. 1894)
1816 - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general
1832 - Julius Sterling Morton, Arbor Day founder (d. 1902
1840 - Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
1844 - Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
1852 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
1854 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1943)
1860 - Ada Rehan, American stage actress (d. 1916)
1868 - Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
1870 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1872 - Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)
1873 - Ellen Glasgow, American author (d. 1945)
1876 - Robert Bárány, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1876 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)
1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
1884 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (d. 1939)
1889 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945, by suicide)
1891 - Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
1891 - Nicola Sacco, American anarchist (d. 1927)
1891 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965)
1892 - Vernon Johns, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1904 - Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
1905 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (d. 1991)
1906 - Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
1906 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, second in line to the Swedish throne (d. 1946)
1907 - Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972)
1909 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel laureate
1909 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (d. 2001)
1910 - Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1912 - Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (d. 1953)
1914 - Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944)
1914 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)
1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
1918 - Mickey Vernon, baseball player
1919 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)
1922 - Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)
1922 - Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (d. 1973)
1923 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (d. 2006)
1923 - Bettie Page, American model
1923 - Avis Bunnage, English actress (d. 1990)
1925 - George Cole, English actor
1926 - Charlotte Rae, American actress
1926 - James Stirling, British architect (d. 1992)
1927 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (d. 2005)
1935 - Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (d. 1969)
1936 - Pierre Hétu, French Canadian conductor and pianist (d. 1998)
1936 - Glen Campbell, American musician
1937 - Jack Nicholson, American actor
1937 - Jack Nitzsche, American composer (d. 2000)
1938 - Adam Raphael, English journalist and author
1939 - Mel Carter, American singer
1939 - Jason Miller, American playwright (d. 2001)
1939 - Theodor Waigel, German politician and finance minister
1943 - Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate
1944 - Steve Fossett, American adventurer (d. 2007)
1946 - John Waters, American film writer
1946 - Louise Harel, Quebec politician
1946 - Nicole Garcia, French actress and director
1946 - Steven L. Bennett, USAF Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1972)
1950 - Peter Frampton, English musician
1950 - Zygi Wilf, owner of the Minnesota Vikings
1951 - Ana María Shua, Argentine poet
1951 - Paul Carrack, English musician
1952 - Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress
1952 - François Berléand, French actor
1953 - Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
1955 - Johnnie To, Hong Kong film director and producer
1957 - Donald Tusk, Polish Prime Minister
1958 - Ken Olandt, American actor
1959 - Ryan Stiles, Canadian-born actor
1959 - Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress
1960 - Mart Laar, Estonian statesman
1960 - Gary Rhodes, English chef
1960 - Randall L. Stephenson, American business executive
1962 - Jeff Minter, English video game programmer
1965 - Lauri Hendler, actress
1965 - Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor
1966 - Mariana Levy, Mexican actress (d. 2005)
1967 - Sheryl Lee, American actress
1967 - Sherri Shepherd, American comedian and actress
1967 - Harvey Williams, American football player
1968 - Zarley Zalapski, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 - Dion Dublin, English footballer
1970 - Andrea Giani, Italian volleyball player
1970 - Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
1971 - Eric Mabius, American actor
1971 - Daisuke Enomoto, Japanese people space tourist
1972 - Sabine Appelmans, Belgian tennis player
1972 - Owen Finegan, Australian rugby union footballer
1973 - Adem Poric, Australian former footballer
1973 - Ofer Talker, Israeli footballer
1974 - Diego Costa, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1974 - Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist (System of a Down)
1975 - Carlos Sastre, Spanish cyclist
1975 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999)
1976 - Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer
1976 - Paul Henderson, Australian soccer player
1976 - Dan Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer
1977 - Aaron Fink, American guitarist (Breaking Benjamin)
1978 - Esteban Tuero, Argentinian race car driver
1978 - Jason Stollsteimer, American singer (The Von Bondies)
1979 - Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1979 - Zoltan Gera, Hungarian footballer
1980 - Nicolas Douchez, French footballer
1980 - Courtney Friel, presenter of World Poker Tour
1980 - Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 - Aaron Michael Metchik, American actor
1981 - Ken Dorsey, American football player
1982 - Tim Hamilton, Slovak adult movie actor
1982 - Kaká, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Matt Jones, American football player
1984 - Michelle Ryan, English actress
1984 - Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)
1986 - Dusan Sakota, Serbian-Greek basketball player
1986 - Amber Heard, American actress
1986 - Marshawn Lynch, American Football player

Famous Births on 21 Apr

Famous Births on 21 Apr

1555 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
1651 - Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)
1652 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
1671 - John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
1673 - Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1742)
1713 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
1767 - Elisabeth of Württemberg, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1790)
1774 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (d. 1862)
1775 - Alexander Anderson, American illustrator (d. 1870)
1810 - John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864)
1811 - Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903)
1814 - Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist (d. 1906)
1816 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855)
1837 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1922)
1838 - John Muir, American environmentalist (d. 1914)
1851 - Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
1854 - William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907)
1864 - Max Weber, German economist and sociologist (d. 1920)
1870 - Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer (d. 1941)
1879 - Kartini, Indonesian national figure (d. 1904)
1882 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1887 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
1889 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1904 - Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi (d. 1945)
1905 - Pat Brown, American politician (d. 1996)
1911 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (d. 2000)
1912 - Marcel Camus, French film director (d. 1982)
1914 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
1915 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born American actor (d. 2001)
1919 - Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
1920 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
1920 - Ronald Magill, British actor (d. 2007)
1923 - John Mortimer, English barrister and writer
1925 - Sir Anthony Mason, former Chief Justice of Australia
1926 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
1926 - Arthur Rowley, English Footballer (d. 2002)
1927 - Gerald Flood, British actor (d. 1989)
1930 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
1932 - Elaine May, American comedian
1935 - Thomas Kean, American politician
1935 - Charles Grodin, American actor
1936 - James Dobson, American evangelist
1938 - Ernie Maresca, American singer and record executive
1939 - Helen Prejean, American writer
1944 - Adrian Hurley, Australian basketball coach
1945 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000)
1947 - John Weider, British rock musician (Eric Burdon and the Animals, Family)
1947 - Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)
1948 - Gary Condit, American politician
1948 - Paul Davis, American singer
1949 - Patti LuPone, American singer and actress
1951 - Steve Vickers, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Robert Gotobed, English drummer (Wire)
1951 - Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
1951 - Tony Danza, American actor and comedian
1954 - James Morrison, American actor
1954 - Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer
1956 - Phillip Longman, American demographer
1957 - Edward Leslie, American professional wrestler
1958 - Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist
1958 - Michael Zarnock, American author and columnist
1958 - Andie MacDowell, American actress
1959 - Robert Smith, British musician (The Cure)
1959 - Jerry Only, American musician (The Misfits)
1959 - Michael Timmins, Canadian musician (Cowboy Junkies)
1960 - Michel Goulet, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Les Lancaster, American baseball player
1963 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1963 - Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor
1963 - John Cameron Mitchell, American film director
1964 - Alex Baumann, Canadian Olympic swimmer
1964 - Ludmila Engquist, Russian-born Swedish athlete
1965 - Fiona Kelleghan, American academic and critic
1965 - Karen Foster, American model (Playboy)
1965 - Ed Belfour, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Michael Franti, American musician
1969 - Robin Meade, American reporter
1970 - Nicole Sullivan, American actress
1970 - Rob Riggle, American comedian
1970 - Glen Hansard, Irish songwriter and actor
1971 - Alexander Kravchenko, Russian professional poker player
1971 - Hasan Akbar, American convicted murderer
1971 - Michael Turner, American comic book artist
1972 - Gwendal Peizerat, French ice dancer
1972 - Severina Vučković, Croatian singer
1973 - Jonathan Nsenga, Belgian athlete
1976 - Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player
1977 - Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater
1977 - Doseone, American rapper
1978 - Jacob Burns, Australian footballer
1978 - Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer (Nightwish)
1978 - Branden Steineckert, American drummer (Rancid), (The Used)
1979 - James McAvoy, Scottish actor
1980 - Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian hockey player
1980 - Tony Romo, American football player
1980 - Jeff Keppinger, American baseball player
1981 - Stephanie Larimore, American model
1982 - Carnell "Cadillac" Williams, American football player
1983 - Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
1984 - Eric Devendorf, American basketball player
1986 - Audra Cohen, American tennis player
1986 - Alexander Edler, Swedish hockey player
1987 - Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer
1988 - Robbie Amell, Canadian actor
1988 - Pedro Mosquera, Spanish footballer
2007 - Princess Isabella of Denmark

Famous Births on 20 Apr

Famous Births on 20 Apr

1494 - Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
1586 - Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)
1633 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
1646 - Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704)
1650 - William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
1668 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)
1718 - David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
1723 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1781)
1745 - Philippe Pinel, French physician (d. 1826)
1808 - Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (d. 1873)
1818 - Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)
1826 - Dinah Craik, English author (d. 1887)
1850 - Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (d. 1931)
1851 - Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
1870 - Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Urdu, Pakistani scholar (d.1961)
1879 - Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)
1882 - Holland Smith, U.S. General (d. 1967)
1884 - Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
1889 - Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist (d. 1996)
1889 - Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his death (d. 1945)
1890 - Maurice Duplessis, premier of Québec, known as "Le Chef" (d. 1959)
1893 - Harold Lloyd, American actor (d. 1971)
1893 - Edna Parker, American supercentenarian
1893 - Joan Miró, Spanish painter (d. 1983)
1895 - Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1896 - Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
1896 - Henry de Montherlant, French writer (d. 1972)
1904 - George Stibitz, American scientist (d. 1995)
1904 - Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972)
1908 - Lionel Hampton, American musician (d. 2002)
1914 - Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
1915 - Joseph Wolpe, South African-born psychotherapist (d. 1997)
1918 - Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1918 - Edward L. Beach, Jr., American naval officer, author (d. 2002)
1919 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (d. 1943)
1920 - John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1920 - Ronald Speirs, WWII Veteran (d. 2007)
1921 - Janine Sutto, French Canadian actress
1923 - Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster
1923 - Tito Puente, American musician (d. 2000)
1924 - Leslie Phillips, English actor
1925 - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (d. 2006)
1927 - Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion
1928 - Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
1928 - Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (d. 2003)
1936 - Pat Roberts, American politician
1937 - George Takei, American actor
1939 - Johnny Tillotson, American singer
1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway
1939 - Peter S. Beagle, American author
1941 - Ryan O'Neal, American actor
1943 - Edie Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1971)
1943 - John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
1945 - Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
1945 - Michael Brandon, American actor
1946 - Mel Winkler, American voice actor
1946 - Gordon Smiley, American racecar driver (d. 1982)
1946 - Julien Poulin, French Canadian actor
1947 - Björn Skifs, Swedish singer (Blue Swede)
1947 - Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author
1947 - David Leland, British actor, director and screenwriter
1948 - Rémy Trudel, French Canadian politician
1948 - Gregory Itzin, American actor
1948 - Craig Frost, American musician (Grand Funk & Bob Seger)
1949 - Massimo D'Alema, Prime Minister of Italy
1949 - Veronica Cartwright, American actress
1949 - Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater and artist
1949 - Jessica Lange, American actress
1950 - Chandra Babu Naidu, Indian politician
1950 - Aleksandr Lebed, Russian general and politician (d. 2002)
1950 - Steve Erickson, American novelist
1951 - Luther Vandross, American singer (d. 2005)
1952 - Božidar Maljković, Serbian basketball coach
1953 - Sebastian Faulks, British novelist
1954 - Gilles Lupien, French Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician
1957 - Geraint Wyn Davies, Welsh-Canadian actor
1958 - Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player
1959 - Clint Howard, American actor
1961 - Don Mattingly, American baseball player
1961 - Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
1963 - Mauricio Gugelmin, Brazilian racing driver
1963 - Aubrey de Grey, British biomedical gerontologist
1964 - Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
1964 - Andy Serkis, English actor
1964 - Crispin Glover, American actor
1965 - Ralph Cirella, stylist and friend of Howard Stern
1965 - Kostas Hatzidakis, Greek politician
1965 - Adrian Fernández, Mexican racing driver
1966 - David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
1967 - Lara Jill Miller, American actress
1967 - Mike Portnoy, American drummer (Dream Theater)
1967 - Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
1968 - J. D. Roth, American game show host and television personality
1969 - Chris Jarvis, children's TV personality
1970 - Shemar Moore, American actor
1970 - Adriano Moraes, Brazilian rodeo performer
1971 - Tina Cousins, English singer
1971 - Allan Houston, American basketball player
1971 - Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
1972 - Carmen Electra, American actress
1972 - Le Huynh Đuc, Vietnamese footballer
1972 - Stephen Marley, Jamaican musician
1973 - Geoff Lloyd, British radio presenter
1976 - Joey Lawrence, American actor
1976 - Shay Given, Irish footballer
1977 - Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli, professional wrestler
1978 - Mirei Kuroda, Japanese gravure idol
1980 - Jasmin Wagner, German singer
1981 - Matus Valent, male fitness model
1983 - Terrence J, American television host
1983 - Miranda Kerr, Australian supermodel
1984 - Tyson Griffin, American mixed martial artist
1986 - Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (d. 2003)
1987 - John Patrick Amedori, American actor
702 - Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765)

Famous Births on 19 Apr

Famous Births on 19 Apr

1603 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
1658 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
1665 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
1686 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)
1721 - Roger Sherman, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
1785 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858)
1787 - Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
1793 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
1814 - Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875)
1832 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
1874 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
1877 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934)
1882 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954)
1883 - Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d. 1953)
1889 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
1892 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
1897 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
1897 - Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
1899 - George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1900 - Richard Hughes, English novelist (d. 1976)
1900 - Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
1903 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
1912 - Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1922 - Erich Hartmann, German fighter pilot (d. 1993)
1925 - Hugh O'Brian, American actor
1928 - Alexis Korner, English musician (d. 1984)
1930 - Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
1931 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004)
1931 - Garfield Morgan, English actor
1933 - Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
1933 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
1934 - Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989)
1935 - Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002)
1936 - Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium
1937 - Joseph Estrada, actor and President of the Philippines
1937 - Elinor Donahue, American actress
1940 - Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive)
1941 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer
1941 - Bobby Russell, American songwriter (d. 1992)
1941 - Alan Price, English musician (The Animals, The Alan Price Set)
1942 - Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (disappeared 1975).
1942 - Jack Roush, American racing entrepreneur
1943 - Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
1944 - James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize
1944 - Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (P Funk)
1944 - Keith Erickson, American basketball player
1946 - Tim Curry, British actor
1946 - Mary Jo Slater, American casting director
1947 - Murray Perahia, American pianist
1947 - Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles)
1948 - Rick Miller, American baseball player
1949 - Paloma Picasso daughter of artist Pablo Picasso
1949 - Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (d. 1993)
1951 - Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)
1951 - Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1952 - Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer
1953 - Ruby Wax, British television personality
1953 - Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger)
1954 - Trevor Francis, English footballer
1954 - Bob Rock, Canadian record producer & musician (The Payolas)
1957 - Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
1960 - Frank Viola, baseball player
1960 - John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
1960 - Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
1962 - Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
1963 - Valerie Plame Wilson, former C.I.A. agent
1965 - Natalie Dessay, French soprano
1965 - Suge Knight, American record producer
1966 - Julia Neigel, German singer and songwriter
1966 - Osamu Matsuda, Japanese professional wrestler
1966 - David La Haye, Canadian actor
1966 - Véronique Gens, French soprano
1967 - Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
1967 - Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
1968 - Ashley Judd, American actress
1968 - Craig McNeil, American writer, lawyer, and military officer
1968 - Mswati III, King of Swaziland
1968 - Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician
1969 - Susan Polgar, Hungarian-born American chess player
1969 - Jesse James, American television personality and motorcycle builder
1970 - Kelly Holmes, English athlete
1970 - Luis Miguel, Mexican pop-singer
1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
1972 - Jeff Wilkins, American Football Player
1974 - Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
1975 - Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
1975 - Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
1976 - Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
1976 - Scott Padgett, American basketball player
1977 - Joe Beimel, American baseball player
1977 - Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
1977 - Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
1978 - Amanda Sage, American born visionary artist
1978 - Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
1978 - James Franco, American actor
1979 - Kate Hudson, American actress
1980 - Alexis Thorpe, American actress
1981 - Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
1981 - Troy Polamalu, American football player
1981 - Kasie Head, American actress and model
1981 - Martin Havlat, Czech hockey player
1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
1983 - Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 - Zack Duke, American baseball player
1983 - Joe Mauer, American baseball player
1983 - Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
1984 - Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
1985 - Valon Behrami, Swiss Footballer
1986 - Candace Parker, American basketball player
1987 - Joe Hart, English Under-21 Footballer
1987 - Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
1987 - Courtland Mead, American actor
1987 - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
1989 - Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars)
1990 - Kim Chiu, Filipino actress

Famous Births on 18 Apr

Famous Births on 18 Apr

1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
1580 - Thomas Middleton, English dramatist (d. 1627)
1590 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
1605 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
1771 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
1772 - David Ricardo, English economist (d. 1823)
1797 - Adolphe Thiers, French statesman (d. 1877)
1813 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
1819 - Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)
1819 - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
1838 - Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)
1857 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (d. 1938)
1863 - Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (d. 1942)
1864 - Richard Harding Davis, American author (d. 1916)
1874 - Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)
1875 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)
1877 - Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (d. 1950)
1880 - Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968)
1882 - Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor (d. 1977)
1888 - Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1889 - Jessie Street, Australian suffragette, feminist, and human rights activist (d. 1970)
1893 - Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
1897 - Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001)
1901 - Al Lewis, American lyricist (d. 1967)
1902 - Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
1902 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (d. 1994)
1904 - Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (d. 1981)
1905 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1907 - Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1995)
1915 - Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer, wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960)
1917 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (d. 1981)
1917 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (d. 1947)
1918 - Cliff Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)
1918 - Tony Mottola, American guitarist (d. 2004)
1919 - Virginia O'Brien, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1921 - Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
1922 - Barbara Hale, American actress
1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (d. 2005)
1924 - Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007)
1927 - Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist
1930 - Clive Revill, New Zealand born actor
1934 - George Shirley, American tenor
1936 - Tommy Ivo, American race car driver
1937 - Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin
1939 - Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
1939 - Thomas J. Moyer, American judge
1940 - Mike Vickers, British guitarist and saxophonist (Manfred Mann)
1940 - Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian racer and F1 (posthumous) world champion (d. 1970)
1942 - Steve Blass, American professional baseball player
1945 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (d. 2004)
1946 - Hayley Mills, English actress
1946 - Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1999)
1947 - James Woods, American actor
1947 - Cindy Pickett, American actress
1947 - Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
1947 - Dorothy Lyman, American actress
1947 - Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
1949 - Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
1950 - Kenny Ortega, American film and TV producer and choreographer
1951 - Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician
1951 - Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer
1953 - Rick Moranis, Canadian comedian
1956 - Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress
1956 - Eric Roberts, American actor
1956 - Melody Thomas Scott, American actress
1956 - Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress
1958 - Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (d. 1999)
1961 - Steve Lombardi, American wrestler
1961 - Jane Leeves, British actress
1963 - Eric McCormack, Canadian actor
1963 - Conan O'Brien, American comedian
1964 - Niall Ferguson, British historian
1964 - Rithy Panh, Cambodian film director
1964 - Jim Ellison, musician
1964 - Mark Berry, aka Bez, Dancer in Happy Mondays
1965 - Rob Stenders, Dutch radio discjockey
1966 - Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
1966 - Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player
1967 - Maria Bello, American actress
1968 - Mary Birdsong, American actress
1968 - David Hewlett, English born Canadian actor
1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan
1969 - Keith R.A. DeCandido, American author
1970 - Rico Brogna, American baseball player
1970 - Greg Eklund, American musician
1971 - Tamara Braun, American actress
1971 - David Tennant, Scottish actor
1971 - Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player
1972 - Eli Roth, American film director
1973 - Brady Clark, American baseball player
1973 - Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete
1973 - Derrick Brooks, American football player
1974 - Mark Tremonti, American musician
1974 - Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer
1974 - Edgar Wright, British director
1976 - Justin Ross, American politician
1976 - Fayray, Japanese singer
1976 - Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
1977 - Dan Lacouture, NHL hockey player
1979 - Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star
1979 - Matthew Upson, English footballer
1979 - Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer
1979 - Anthony Davidson, British Formula One driver
1979 - Michael Bradley, American basketball player
1980 - Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Brian Buscher, American baseball player
1982 - Scott Hartnell, NHL hockey player
1982 - Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
1983 - Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 - Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer
1984 - America Ferrera, American actress
1985 - Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
1985 - Karl Reindler, Australian racing driver
1985 - Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
1986 - Billy Butler, American baseball player
1986 - Maurice Edu, American soccer player
1987 - Danny Guthrie, English footballer
1987 - Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
1989 - Alia Shawkat, American actress
1994 - Moises Arias, American Actor
1996 - Alexey Zhigalkovich, Belarusian Singer
2007 - Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan

Famous Births on 17 Apr

Famous Births on 17 Apr

1278 - Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1320)
1573 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651)
1586 - John Ford, English dramatist
1598 - Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
1620 - Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame (d. 1700)
1622 - Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (d. 1695)
1710 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (d. 1767)
1734 - Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782)
1741 - Samuel Chase, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1811)
1750 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (d. 1828)
1794 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868)
1798 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (d. 1840)
1816 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876)
1833 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (d. 1900)
1837 - J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)
1842 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (d. 1911)
1849 - William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1923)
1863 - Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician (d. 1940)
1863 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)
1865 - Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (d. 1939)
1866 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (d. 1927)
1877 - Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1949)
1882 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)
1884 - Leo Frank, American convict (d. 1915)
1885 - Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Danish author (d. 1962)
1890 - Art Acord, American actor and rodeo rider (d. 1931)
1894 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971)
1896 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (d. 1999)
1897 - Thornton Wilder, American dramatist (d. 1975)
1902 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican politician (d. 1974)
1903 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (d. 1975)
1903 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976)
1905 - Arthur Lake, American actor (d. 1987)
1906 - Sidney R. Garfield, American physician (d. 1984)
1909 - Alain Poher, French politician (d. 1996)
1910 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999)
1914 - George W. Davis, American art director (d. 1984)
1915 - Joe Foss, American soldier and politician (d. 2003)
1916 - Helenio Herrera, French footballer player and manager (d. 1997)
1917 - Bill Clements, American politician
1918 - William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
1919 - Gilles Lamontagne, French Canadian politician
1919 - Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer
1923 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director (d. 1994)
1923 - Harry Reasoner, American journalist (d. 1991)
1923 - Solly Hemus, American baseball player
1926 - Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1928 - Cynthia Ozick, American writer
1929 - James Last, German band leader
1929 - Peggy McKercher, 11th Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan)
1930 - Chris Barber, British jazz band leader
1934 - Don Kirshner, American composer
1935 - Theo Angelopoulos, Greek film director
1937 - Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German automotive engineer and executive
1938 - Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism
1938 - Ben Barnes, American politician
1940 - Billy Fury, British singer (d. 1983)
1940 - John McCririck, English television horse racing pundit
1940 - Anja Silja, German soprano
1942 - David Bradley, British actor
1947 - Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player
1947 - Linda Martin, Irish singer
1948 - Jan Hammer, Czech composer
1950 - L. Scott Caldwell, American actress
1950 - Bruce McNall, American former NHL team owner
1951 - Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress
1951 - Börje Salming, Swedish ice hockey player
1952 - Željko Ražnatović, Serbian warlord (d. 2000)
1954 - Michael Sembello, American musician
1954 - Rowdy Roddy Piper, Canadian professional wrestler
1954 - Riccardo Patrese, Italian race car driver
1955 - Pete Shelley, British musician
1957 - Nick Hornby, English author
1959 - Sean Bean, English actor
1961 - Boomer Esiason, American football player
1961 - Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader
1963 - Joel Murray, American actor
1964 - Maynard James Keenan, American singer (Tool and A Perfect Circle)
1964 - Ken Daneyko, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Lela Rochon, American actress
1965 - William Mapother, American actor
1965 - Yoshiki Kuroda, Japanese urban planner
1966 - Vikram, Indian actor
1967 - Liz Phair, American musician/songwriter
1967 - Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian-born Scottish actor
1967 - Kimberly Elise, American actress
1967 - Marquis Grissom, American baseball player
1968 - Prince Maurits of the Netherlands
1969 - Redman, American rapper
1972 - Claire Sweeney, English actress
1972 - Terran Sandwith, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Jarkko Wiss, Finnish Footballer
1972 - Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer
1972 - Jennifer Garner, American actress
1972 - Tony Boselli, American football player
1972 - Gary Bennett, American baseball player
1973 - Brett Maher, Australian basketballer
1973 - Kaihō Ryōji, Japanese sumo wrestler
1974 - Victoria Beckham, English singer
1974 - Mikael Ã…kerfeldt, Swedish guitarist and singer (Opeth)
1975 - Travis Roy, American hockey player
1975 - Gabriel Soto, Mexican actor
1976 - Monet Mazur, American actress and musician
1976 - Alex Nesic, American actor
1977 - Chad Hedrick, American speed skater
1977 - Sizzla, Jamaican dancehall artist
1977 - Phil Jamieson, Australian singer (Grinspoon)
1978 - Jason White, Scottish rugby player
1978 - Lindsay Hartley, American actress
1979 - Siddharth Narayan, Indian actor
1980 - Curtis Woodhouse, English footballer/boxer
1980 - Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
1981 - Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer
1981 - Ryan Raburn, American baseball player
1982 - Brad Boyes, Canadian hockey player
1982 - Lee Jun Ki, South Korean actor and model
1983 - Stanislav Chistov, Russian hockey player
1983 - Roberto Jimenez, Peruvian football player
1985 - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
1990 - Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
1995 - Paulie Litt, American actor
1996 - Dee Dee Davis, American actress