Famous Births on 3 Apr

Famous Births on 3 Apr

1151 - Igor Svyatoslavich, Ukrainian prince (d. 1202)
1367 - King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
1529 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581)
1593 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (d. 1633)
1643 - Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1690)
1683 - Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)
1693 - George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)
1715 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787)
1764 - John Abernathy, English surgeon (d. 1831)
1769 - Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (d. 1835)
1770 - Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (d. 1843)
1783 - Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)
1806 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
1814 - Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (d. 1901)
1821 - T. Pelham Dale, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1892)
1822 - Edward Everett Hale, American writer (d. 1909)
1823 - William Marcy Tweed, American political boss (d. 1878)
1880 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (d. 1903)
1881 - Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1954)
1885 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American film director (d. 1981)
1885 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954)
1889 - GrigoraÅŸ Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (d. 1949)
1893 - Leslie Howard, English actor (d. 1943)
1893 - Princess Maud of Fife (d. 1945)
1895 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (d. 1968)
1898 - George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981)
1898 - Henry Luce, American publisher (d. 1967)
1899 - David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958)
1904 - Russel Wright, American industrial designer (d. 1976)
1904 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (d. 1999)
1905 - Robert Frederick Sink, United States Army Officer (d. 1965)
1913 - Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
1916 - Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (d. 1997)
1918 - Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer, conductor and administrator (d. 2000)
1920 - John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-born American auto worker, alleged Nazi
1920 - Stan Freeman, American composer and lyricist (d. 2001)
1921 - Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)
1921 - Darío Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer and songwriter (d. 1968)
1921 - Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)
1924 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
1924 - Doris Day, American actress
1925 - Tony Benn, British politician
1926 - Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
1926 - Alex Grammas, American baseball player
1928 - Don Gibson, American country musician (d. 2003)
1928 - Kevin Hagen, American actor (d. 2005)
1928 - Jennifer Paterson, English chef and TV personality (d. 1999)
1929 - Lee Leonard, American television personality
1930 - Wally Moon, American baseball player
1930 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany
1930 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. (Florida) Senator and Governor (d. 1998)
1934 - Jane Goodall, English zoologist
1936 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (d. 1961)
1936 - Jimmy McGriff, American jazz organist
1938 - Jeff Barry, American songwriter and record producer
1939 - François de Roubaix, French film score composer (d. 1975)
1941 - Philippé Wynne, American musician (d. 1984)
1941 - Eric Braeden, German-born actor
1941 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (d. 1984)
1941 - Jan Berry, American musician (d. 2004)
1942 - Marsha Mason, American actress
1942 - Wayne Newton, American singer
1942 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (d. 2005)
1942 - Billy Joe Royal, American singer
1943 - Doreen Tracey, English-born Mouseketeer
1943 - Richard Manuel, Canadian musician and songwriter (d. 1986)
1943 - Jonathan Lynn, British actor and comedy writer
1943 - Mario Lavista, Mexican composer
1944 - Tony Orlando, American musician
1945 - Bernard Parent, Quebec ice hockey player
1945 - Catherine Spaak, French actress
1946 - Marisa Paredes, Spanish actress
1946 - Hanna Suchocka, Poland's first female prime minister
1948 - Carlos Salinas, President of Mexico
1948 - Arlette Cousture, French-Canadian writer
1949 - Lyle Alzado, American football player (d. 1992)
1949 - Anthony Grayling, British philosopher
1949 - Richard Thompson, English musician and songwriter
1950 - Sally Thomsett, English actress
1951 - Mel Schacher, American musician
1952 - Mike Moore, American politician and attorney
1953 - Craig Taubman, Jewish singer
1954 - Elisabetta Brusa, Italian composer
1956 - Boris Miljkovic, Serbian director
1956 - Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (d. 1996)
1956 - Miguel Bosé, Spanish musician and actor
1958 - Alec Baldwin, American actor
1958 - Jaya Prada, Indian Actress
1959 - David Hyde Pierce, American actor
1960 - Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch musician
1960 - Marie Denise Pelletier, Quebec singer
1961 - Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
1962 - Jennifer Rubin, American actress
1962 - Mike Ness, American musician
1963 - Criss Oliva, American musician (d. 1993)
1963 - Jack Del Rio, American football coach
1963 - Tsuyoshi Sekito, Japanese composer
1964 - Andy Robinson, English rugby player
1964 - Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist
1965 - Nazia Hassan, South Asian pop singer (d.2000)
1966 - Mina Tominaga, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1966 - John de Vries, Australian racing driver
1967 - Mark Skaife, Australian racing driver
1967 - Brent Gilchrist, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Pervis Ellison, American basketball player
1968 - Sebastian Bach, Canadian musician
1968 - Charlotte Coleman, English actress (d. 2001)
1968 - Jamie Hewlett, English illustrator
1969 - Lance Storm, Canadian professional wrestler
1971 - Picabo Street, American alpine ski champion
1972 - Sandrine Testud, French Top-10 tennis player
1972 - Jennie Garth, American actress
1973 - Jamie Bamber, English actor
1973 - Matthew Ferguson, Canadian actor
1975 - Koji Uehara, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
1975 - Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese professional baseball player
1975 - Aries Spears, American comedian
1975 - Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian basketball player
1975 - Mickey Beyer Clausen, Danish entrepreneur and philanthropist
1975 - Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player
1976 - Drew Shirley, American musician
1976 - Will Mellor, English actor
1978 - Matthew Goode, English actor
1978 - Tommy Haas, German tennis player
1978 - John Smit, South African rugby player
1981 - DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player
1981 - Heath Ramsay, Australian Olympic swimmer
1981 - Matthew Nash, Australian soccer player
1981 - Aaron Bertram, American musician
1982 - Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
1982 - Kasumi Nakane, Japanese gravure idol
1982 - Iain Fyfe, Australian soccer player
1982 - Fler, German rapper
1982 - Jared Allen, American football player
1983 - Errol Barnett, English reporter
1984 - Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer
1984 - Maxi López, Argentine footballer
1985 - Leona Lewis, English singer
1986 - Sergio Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1986 - Amanda Bynes, American actress
1987 - Jay Bruce, American baseball player
1987 - Julie Sokolow, American musician
1987 - Sal Zizzo, American soccer player
1988 - Peter Hartley, English footballer
1988 - Tim Krul, Dutch footballer
1989 - Israel Falou, Australian Rugby League player
1993 - Dakoda Dowd, American golfer

Famous Births on 2 Apr

Famous Births on 2 Apr

1348 - Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1385)
1527 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
1565 - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (d. 1599)
1618 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
1653 - Prince George of Denmark, prince consort of Anne of England (d. 1708)
1719 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (d. 1803)
1725 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (d. 1798)
1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (Old style date) (d. 1826)
1781 - Bhagwan Swaminarayan, religious leader (d. 1830)
1788 - Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862)
1798 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (d. 1874)
1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
1812 - Louise-Marie of France, queen of Belgium (d. 1850)
1814 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879)
1827 - William Holman Hunt, English painter (d. 1910)
1838 - Léon Gambetta, French statesman (d. 1882)
1840 - Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902)
1862 - Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1947)
1867 - Eugen Sandow, German bodybuilder and circus performer (d. 1925)
1869 - Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (d. 1928)
1875 - Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
1884 - Sir John Squire, British poet, writer, and historian (d. 1958))
1891 - Max Ernst, German painter (d. 1976)
1900 - Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942)
1902 - Jan Tschichold, German typographer (d. 1974)
1903 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
1907 - Luke Appling, American baseball player (d. 1991)
1908 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)
1910 - Paul Triquet, Canadian military officer (d. 1980)
1912 - Herbert Mills, American singer (The Mills Brothers) (d. 1989)
1914 - Sir Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
1917 - Dabbs Greer, American actor (d. 2007)
1917 - Lou Monte, American singer (d. 1989)
1920 - Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982)
1923 - Gloria Henry, American actress
1923 - G. Spencer-Brown, English mathematician
1923 - Clifford Scott Green, American Federal Judge (d. 2007)
1926 - Sir Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver, three-time F1 world champion and co-founder of eponymous race team
1926 - George MacDonald Fraser, English author (d. 2008)
1927 - Carmen Basilio, American boxer
1927 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006)
1927 - Kenneth Tynan, English critic and writer (d. 1980)
1928 - Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, American cardinal (d. 1996)
1928 - Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991)
1934 - Brian Glover, British actor and wrestler (d. 1997)
1934 - Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007)
1937 - Dick Radatz, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1938 - John Larsson, 17th General of The Salvation Army
1938 - Whirlaway, American thoroughbred racehorse, 1941 Triple Crown Winner (d. 1953)
1938 - Booker Little, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1961)
1939 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (d. 1984)
1939 - Lise Thibault, Lieutenant-governor of Quebec
1940 - Penelope Keith, English actress
1941 - Dr. Demento, American radio personality
1942 - Leon Russell, American blues-rock pianist/guitarist session musician
1942 - Hiroyuki Sakai, Japanese chef
1945 - Reggie Smith, American baseball player
1945 - Linda Hunt, American actress
1945 - Anne Waldman, American poet
1945 - Don Sutton, American baseball player
1946 - Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist (The Guess Who) (d. 1997)
1947 - Camille Paglia, American feminist writer
1947 - Emmylou Harris, American singer
1948 - Dimitris Mitropanos, Greek singer
1948 - Joan D. Vinge, American author
1949 - Paul Gambaccini, British television presenter
1949 - Pamela Reed, American actress
1949 - Ron Palillo, American actor
1951 - Moriteru Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist
1951 - Ayako Okamoto, Japanese golfer
1952 - Leon Wilkeson, American rock bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2001)
1952 - Thierry Le Luron, French humorist (d. 1986)
1952 - Pat Drummond, Australian singer-songwriter
1953 - Jim Allister, Northern Irish politician
1953 - David Robinson, American musician
1953 - Debralee Scott, American actress (d. 2005)
1954 - Susumu Hirasawa, Japanese electropop musician
1954 - Allan Davis, Australian diplomat
1955 - Michael Stone, British terrorist
1959 - Juha Kankkunen, Finnish race car driver
1959 - Yves Lavandier, French film director
1959 - Badou Zaki, Morrocan footballer and manager
1960 - Linford Christie, English athlete
1960 - Brad Jones, Australian racing driver
1961 - Keren Woodward, English singer (Bananarama)
1961 - Christopher Meloni, American actor
1962 - Pierre Carles, French documentarist
1962 - Clark Gregg, American actor
1962 - Mark Shulman, American children's author
1963 - Mike Gascoyne, British engineer
1963 - Karl Beattie, English television director and producer
1964 - Pete Incaviglia, American baseball player
1965 - Rodney King, American victim of police brutality
1966 - Garnet Silk, Jamaican singer (d. 1994)
1966 - Teddy Sheringham, English footballer
1966 - Bill Romanowski, American football player
1967 - Greg Camp, American musician (Smash Mouth)
1967 - Helen Chamberlain, British television presenter
1970 - Roselyn Sanchez, Puerto Rican actress
1971 - Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player
1971 - ZEEBRA, Japanese hip hop artist
1972 - Chico Slimani, Moroccoan-British singer
1974 - Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician
1975 - Adam Rodriguez, American actor
1976 - Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer
1976 - Andreas Anastasopoulos, Greek shot putter
1977 - Jelena Abbou, Serbian fitness model
1977 - Michael Fassbender, Actor
1977 - Aiden Turner, British actor
1978 - John Gall, American baseball player
1979 - Jesse Carmichael, American musician (Maroon 5)
1980 - Carlos Salcido, Mexican footballer
1980 - Adam Fleming, English news reporter
1980 - Ricky Hendrick, NASCAR driver and owner (d. 2004)
1981 - Michael Clarke, Australian cricketer
1981 - Bethany Joy Lenz-Galeotti, American actress
1982 - Bianca Chatfield, Australian netballer
1982 - Leyla Milani, Canadian actress and model
1982 - Jack Evans, American professional wrestler
1982 - Jeremy Bloom, American skier and football player
1982 - Marco Amelia, Italian World Cup-winning footballer
1983 - Felix Borja, Ecuadorian footballer
1983 - Yung Joc, American rapper
1983 - Paul Capdeville, Chilean tennis player
1984 - Meryl Cassie, New Zealand actress
1991 - Taylor Henderson, Australian musician
742 - Charlemagne (d. 814)