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April 11th
1906 Dale Messick (cartoonist: created the "Brenda Starr, Reporter" strip) (d 4/5/05, age 98)
1912 John Larkin (actor) (d 1/29/65, age 52)
1913 Oleg Cassini (fashion designer) (d 3/17/06, age 92)
1916 Howard Koch (producer: The Odd Couple movie) (d 2/16/01, age 84)
1921 Dorothy Shay (actress) (d 10/22/78, age 57)
1928 Ethel Kennedy (widow of Robert Kennedy) (d 10/10/24, age 96)
1931 Johnny Sheffield (actor: many Tarzan movies as the "boy" or "Bomba") (d 10/15/10, age 79)
1932 Joel Grey (actor, father of Jennifer Grey)
1934 Cleotha Staples (singer: The Staple Singers) (d 2/20/13, age 78)
1935 Richard Berry (songwriter: Louie Louie) (d 1/23/97, age 61)
1937 Adam Greenberg (cinematographer: The Terminator, Ghost, Rush Hour) (d 10/31/25, age 88)
1939 Luther 'Guitar Jr.' Johnson (blues guitarist)
1939 Louise Lasser (actress: Mary Hartman Mary Hartman)
1945 Paul Ainsley (actor: Jim, the Reagle Beagle bartender on "Three's Company") (d 1/19/13, age 67)
1945 Robert Fripp (guitarist: King Crimson)
1947 Mashach Taylor (actor: Sheldon on "Dave's World," Anthony on "Designing Women") (d 6/28/14, age 67)
1947 Peter Riegert (actor)
1949 Carl Franklin (actor)
1951 Jay Benedict (actor) (d 4/4/20, age 68)
1955 Michelle Scarabelli (actress: Jo Santini on "Airwolf")
1958 Stuart Adamson (singer/guitarist: Big Country - "In a Big Country") (d 11/7/01, age 43)
1958 John Castellanus (actor)
1961 Lucky Vanous
1963 Eddie Moya (actor)
1965 Nigel Pulsford (guitarist: Bush)
1966 Lisa Stansfield (singer)
1970 Dylan Keefe (bassist: Marcy Playground)
1984 Kelli Garner (actress)
1987 Joss Stone (singer)
April 12th
1909 Lionel Hampton (bandleader, singer, songwriter, jazz musician; played vibes, drums, and piano) (d 8/31/02, age 93)
1910 Thelma White (actress: Reefer Madness) (d 1/11/05, age 94)
1914 Gilbert Taylor (cinematographer: Star Wars, A Hard Day's Night, The Omen, Dr. Strangelove) (d 8/23/13, age 99)
1915 Theodore 'Hound Dog' Taylor (blues guitarist/singer) (d 12/17/75, age 60)
1916 Beverly Cleary (children's author: Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby) (d 3/25/21, age 104)
1916 Russell Garcia (orchestra leader, composer) (d 11/20/11, age 95)
1919 Billy Vaughn (orchestra leader: Melody of Love) (d 9/26/91, age 72)
1923 Ann Miller (actress, dancer: Easter Parade, On the Town) (d 1/22/04, age 80)
1927 Jane Withers (actress) (d 8/7/21, age 95)
1931 Betty Clooney (singer) (d 8/5/76, age 45)
1932 Hubert 'Tiny Tim' Khaury (ukulele playing falsetto singer: Tiptoe Through The Tulips) (d 11/30/96, age 64)
1936 Charles Napier (actor) (d 10/5/11, age 75)
1940 Herbie Hancock
1942 Frank Bank (actor: Lumpy on "Leave it to Beaver") (d 4/13/13, age 71)
1944 John Kay (singer: Steppenwolf)
1945 Anne Rabson (pianist/singer: Saffire The Uppity Blues Women) (d 1/30/13, age 67)
1945 Michael Bernard Gottlieb (director: Mannequin) (d 5/23/14, age 69)
1946 Ed O'Neill (actor: Al Bundy on "Married...with Children")
1947 Tom Clancy (novelist: The Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger) (d 10/1/13, age 66)
1947 Dan Lauria (actor: Jack (the father) on "The Wonder Years")
1947 David Letterman
1948 Jeremy Beadle (British TV producer, writer, and host) (d 1/30/08, age 59)
1949 Scott Turow (author: Presumed Innocent)
1950 David Cassidy (singer, actor: Keith Partridge on “The Partridge Family") (d 11/21/17, age 67)
1950 Tom Werner (producer, with Marcy Carsey, of Normal Ohio, Cosby, The Cosby Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, That '70s Show, Roseanne, etc)
1951 Jakson Spires (drummer: Blackfoot) (d 3/16/05, age 53)
1952 J.D. Nicholas (guitarist: Heatwave, The Commodores)
1954 Pat Travers
1956 Doris Baaten (actress: Sesame Street)
1956 Alex Briley (singer: the G.I. in The Village People)
1956 Andy Garcia
1957 Vince Gill
1958 Will Sergeant (guitarist: Echo & the Bunnymen)
1962 Art Alexakis (guitarist/singer: Everclear)
1964 Amy Ray (singer: Indigo Girls)
1967 Ulpuan Sergio 'Mellow Man Ace' Reyez (rapper/actor)
1968 Alicia Coppola (actress)
1970 Nick Hexum (guitarist/keyboardist/singer: 311)
1971 Shannen Doherty (actress: Prue Halliwell on “Charmed," Brenda Walsh on "Beverly Hills 90210," Jenny Wilder on "Little House on the Prairie") (d 7/13/24, age 53)
1978 Guy Berryman (bassist: Coldplay)
1978 Eddie Robinson (actor)
1979 Claire Danes (actress: Angela Chase on "My So Called Life")
April 13th
1888 John Hayes Hammond, Jr. (of Hammond Organs) (d 2/12/65, age 76)
1906 Lawrence 'Bud' Freeman (jazz tenor saxophonist) (d 3/15/91, age 84)
1909 Eudora Welty (author) (d 7/23/01, age 92)
1912 William Tuttle (makeup artist for over 200 movies including "Young Frankenstein" and "The Time Machine") (d 7/27/07, age 95)
1919 Howard Keel (actor: Kiss Me Kate, Dallas) (d 11/7/04, age 85)
1925 Jules Irving (actor) (d 7/28/79, age 54)
1926 Don Adams (actor: Maxwell Smart on "Get Smart") (d 9/25/05, age 79)
1931 Dan Gurney (auto racer: first to win all four major categories - NASCAR Stock, NASCAR Sports, Formula One, and Indy) (d 1/14/18, age 86)
1935 Lyle Waggoner (actor: The Carol Burnett Show, The Jimmie Rodgers Show, Wonder Woman) (d 3/17/20, age 84)
1937 Lanford Wilson (playwright) (d 3/24/11, age 73)
1939 Paul Sorvino (singer; actor: Law and Order, Reds, Oh! God, Dick Tracy, Goodfellas) (d 7/25/22, age 83)
1940 Lester Chambers (harmonica/singer: The Chambers Brothers - "Time Has Come Today")
1942 Bill Conti (composer: Rocky IV, Right Stuff)
1944 Jack Casady (bassist: Jefferson Airplane)
1945 Lowell George (guitarist: Little Feat) (d 6/29/79, age 34)
1945 Tony Dow (actor: Wally Cleaver on "Leave it to Beaver") (d 7/27/22, age 77)
1946 Al Green
1950 Ralph 'Riff' West (bassist: Molly Hatchet) (d 11/19/14, age 64)
1950 Terry Lester (actor) (d 11/28/03, age 53)
1950 Ron Perlman
1951 Peobo Bryson (singer: I'm So into You)
1951 Max Weinberg (drummer: E-Street Band)
1954 Jimmy Destri (keyboardist: Blondie)
1955 Louis Johnson (bassist/singer: The Brothers Johnson) (d 5/21/15, age 60)
1957 Wayne Lewis (keyboardist/singer: Atlantic Starr) (d 6/5/25, age 68)
1957 Gary Kroeger (comedian: Saturday Night Live)
1957 Saundra Santiago (actress: Gina on "Miami Vice")
1961 Tammy Stephens (singer)
1964 Page Hannah (actress)
1964 Caroline Rhea (actress, talk show host)
1970 Rick Schroder (actor: NYPD Blue, Ricky on "Silver Spoons")
1971 Corey Yothers (actor, brother of Tina Yothers)
1976 Jonathan Brandis (actor) (d 11/12/03, age 27)
1992 Jett Travolta (son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston) (d 1/2/09, age 16)
April 14th
1904 Sir John Gielgud (Shakespearean actor) (d 5/21/00, age 96)
1917 Marvin Miller (Major League Baseball executive director 1966-1982, during which time the players' union became one of the strongest unions in the country) (d 11/27/12, age 95)
1918 Mary Healy (actress) (d 2/3/15, age 96)
1925 Rod Steiger (Academy Award-winning actor: In the Heat of the Night) (d 7/9/02, age 77)
1929 Gerry Anderson (TV producer: Thunderbirds, Space 1999) (d 12/26/12, age 83)
1935 Loretta Lynn (d 10/4/22, age 90)
1936 Kenneth Mars (actor/voice actor: Mel Brooks movies) (d 2/12/11, age 74)
1936 Arlene Martel (actress: Spock's fiancee on "Star Trek") (d 8/12/14, age 78)
1940 Julie Christie
1941 Pete Rose (baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Rookie of the Year 1963, "Charlie Hussle") (d 9/30/24, age 83)
1942 Dick Brooks (auto racer) (d 2/1/06, age 63)
1944 Mike Brewer (of Brewer & Shipley - "One Toke Over the Line") (d 12/17/24, age 80)
1945 Ritchie Blackmore (guitarist: Deep Purple, Rainbow)
1948 Berithia 'Berry' Berenson (photographer/actress, killed by terrorists on board American Airlines flight 11) (d 9/11/01, age 53)
1948 Larry Ferguson (keyboardist: Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing")
1948 John Shea (actor: Honeymoon, New Life, Lois & Clark)
1949 Dennis Bryon (drummer: The Bee Gees) (d 11/14/24, age 75)
1950 Randolph Powell (actor)
1952 Danny McKenna (guitarist: Toby Beau - "My Angel Baby") (d 4/26/06, age 54)
1955 Simone Griffeth (actress)
1959 Steve Byrnes (sports announcer/producer, mostly NFL and NASCAR) (d 4/21/15, age 56)
1960 Brian Forster (actor: Chris Partridge on "The Partridge Family")
1960 Brad Garrett (actor: Robert on "Everybody Loves Raymond," Eddie on "Til Death")
1961 Robert Carlyle
1961 John Clarke (actor)
1962 John Bell (singer: Widespread Panic)
1964 Jeff Andretti
1968 Anthony Michael Hall
1974 Shawntae 'DaBrat' Harris (rapper/actress)
1977 Sarah Michelle Gellar (actress: Casey 'Cici' Cooper in "Scream 2," Buffy on "Vampire Slayer")
1982 Damien Nash (running back: Denver Broncos) (d 2/24/07, age 24)
Tax Day
1891 Alvin Pleasant 'A.P.' Carter (patriarch of The Carter Family) (d 11/7/60, age 69)
1894 Bessie Smith (blues singer, "Empress of the Blues") (d 9/26/37, age 43)
1903 John Williams (actor) (d 5/5/83, age 80)
1917 Hans Conried (actor: Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy) (d 1/5/82, age 64)
1918 Astrid Varney (soprano) (d 9/4/06, age 88)
1921 Ken Potts (second to last survivor of the USS Arizona) (d 4/21/23, age 102)
1922 Michael Ansara (actor: Head of the Klingons on 'Star Trek") (d 7/31/13, age 91)
1922 Harold Washington (Chicago mayor: 1983-1987) (d 11/25/87, age 65)
1929 Adrian Cadbury (candy manufacturer) (d 9/3/15, age 86)
1933 Elizabeth Montgomery (actress: Samantha on "Bewitched") (d 5/18/95, age 62)
1933 Roy Clark (picker and grinner: Hee Haw) (d 11/15/18, age 85)
1936 Frank Frost (blues harpist) (d 10/12/99, age 63)
1937 Frank Vincent (actor) (d 9/13/17, age 80)
1938 Claudia Cardinale (actress) (d 9/23/25, age 87)
1940 Robert Walker Hudson (actor: Charlie on the 'Charlie X' episode of "Star Trek") (d 12/5/19, age 79)
1942 Julie Sommars (actress)
1943 'Mighty' Sam McClain (blues singer/songwriter) (d 6/16/15, age 72)
1944 Dave Edmunds (singer: I Hear You Knockin')
1947 Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (producer: Murphy Brown, Designing Women)
1947 Mike Chapman (songwriter/producer: Chinn & Chapman - Ballroom Blitz, My Sharona, Mickey, Kiss You All Over)
1948 Michael Kamen (composer who fused hard rock riffs with classical styling for Pink Floyd's Wall album, and produced music for the "Lethal Weapon" and "Die Hard" movies) (d 11/18/03, age 55)
1950 Amy Wright (actress: Breaking Away, Accidental Tourist)
1951 Heloise (Evans) (newspaper advice columnist: Hints from Heloise)
1952 Sam McMurray (actor)
1955 Imad Mohammed 'Dodi' Fayed) (boyfriend of Princess Diana) (d 8/31/97, age 42)
1955 Tommy Castro (blues guitarist/singer)
1958 Matt Reid (keyboardist: Berlin - "Take my Breath Away")
1959 Emma Thompson
1964 Lydie Denier (actress)
1966 Graeme Clark (bassist: Wet Wet Wet)
1966 Samantha Fox (singer: Touch Me)
1967 Mark Mortimer (actor)
1968 Ed O'Brien (guitarist: Radiohead)
1968 Stacey Williams (model)
1969 Ennis Cosby (murdered son of Bill Cosby) (d 1/16/97, age 27)
1974 Daniel Pino (actor: Scotty Valens on "Cold Case")
1982 Marlis 'Mark Mizzark' Pugh (rapper: Another Bad Creation)
1982 Seth Rogen (actor: Ron Garner on "Undeclared")
1990 Emma Watson (actress: Harry Potter)
April 16th
1889 Charlie Chaplin (d 12/25/77, age 88)
1913 Les Tremayne (voice actor: The Smurfs) (d 12/19/03, age 90)
1915 Joan Alexander (voice actress: Lois Lane in many 1960s and 1970s "Superman" and "Super Friends" episodes) (d 5/21/09, age 94)
1916 Ted Mann (owner of Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood) (d 1/15/01, age 84)
1918 Spike Milligan (comedian, writer, last surviving member of The Goon Show) (d 2/27/02, age 83)
1920 Barry Nelson (actor, first to play James Bond in the 1950s) (d 4/7/07, age 86)
1921 Peter Ustinov (actor) (d 3/28/04, age 82)
1924 Henry Mancini (d 6/14/94, age 70)
1927 Edie Adams (actress/singer/comedienne) (d 10/15/08, age 81)
1927 Joseph Alois Ratzinger (aka Pope Benedict XVI, 265th Catholic Pope 2005-2013 (d 12/31/22, age 95)
1928 Dick 'Night Train' Lane (cornerback: L.A. Rams 1952-1953, Chicago Cardinals 1954-1959, Detroit Lions 1960-1965) (d 1/29/02, age 73)
1929 Ed Townsend (songwriter: For Your Love, Let's Get it On) (d 8/13/03, age 74)
1930 Herbie Mann (jazz flautist) (d 7/1/03, age 73)
1931 Johnny Littlejohn (blues guitarist/singer) (d 2/1/94, age 62)
1934 Robert Stigwood (producer: Saturday Night Fever, Grease; manager: The Bee Gees, Cream) (d 1/4/16, age 81)
1935 Ike Pappas (longtime CBS newsman, witnessed the JFK assassination) (d 8/31/08, age 73)
1935 Stanley Vintulla (aka Bobby Vinton, singer: Roses are Red (My Love), Mr. Lonely)
1937 George 'The Animal' Steele (wrestler 1967-1988) (d 2/16/17, age 79)
1939 Dusty Springfield (singer: Son of a Preacher Man) (d 3/2/99, age 59)
1940 Paul Cox (director) (d 6/18/16, age 76)
1943 'Lonesome' Dave Peverett (singer/guitarist: Foghat) (d 2/7/00, age 56)
1947 Gerry Rafferty (guitarist/singer: Baker Street, and with Stealers Wheel "Stuck in the Middle With You") (d 1/4/11, age 63)
1947 Lew Alcindor (aka Kareem-Abdul Jabbar (L.A. Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks: NBA career record: games played [1,560], points [38,387], field goals [15,387], and blocked shots [3,189])
1950 David Graf (actor: Officer Tackleberry in the "Police Academy" movies) (d 4/7/01, age 50)
1953 Jerry O. Sanders (actor)
1955 Ellen Barkin
1956 David Brown (astronaut, mission specialist, U.S. Navy captain, killed in the Shuttle Columbia crash) (d 2/1/03, age 46)
1956 Garry Segal (guitarist/harmonica: Garry & the Moodswingers)
1963 Jimmy Osmond (singer: Osmond Brothers)
1964 Dave Pirner (singer: Soul Asylum)
1965 Jon Cryer (actor: Duckie in "Pretty in Pink," Alan Harper on "Two and a Half Men")
1965 Lawrence, Martin
1970 Fran Robinson (actress)
1971 Selena (d 3/31/95, age 23)
1971 Peter Billingsley (actor: Ralphie in "A Christmas Story")
1976 Lukas Haas
1979 Sean Costello (blues guitarist, played on Susan Tedeschi's "Just Won't Burn" album and toured with her, before releasing five solo albums) (d 4/15/08, age 28)
1980 Jesse Tendler (actor: Nick on "The Ellen Burstyn Show")
1990 Lorraine Nicholson (actress)
April 17th
1894 Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Premiere 1958-1964) (d 9/11/71, age 77)
1896 Wencslao 'Senor' Wences (ventriloquist) (d 4/20/99, age 103)
1897 Thornton Wildern (playwright: Our Town) (d 12/7/75, age 78)
1918 William Holden (actor) (d 11/16/81, age 63)
1923 Harry Reasoner (CBS correspondent: 60 Minutes) (d 8/6/91, age 68)
1923 Lloyd Biggle (science fiction/mystery writer) (d 9/12/02, age 79)
1926 Sam Carr (blues/jazz drummer) (d 9/21/09, age 83)
1929 James Last (composer/bandleader) (d 6/9/15, age 86)
1930 Chris Barber (jazz trombonist/bandleader) (d 3/2/21, age 90)
1930 Genevieve (actress) (d 3/14/04, age 73)
1933 Byther Smith (blues singer/guitarist) (d 9/10/21, age 89)
1934 Don Kirshner (music and concert promoter) (d 1/17/11, age 76)
1937 Daffy Duck (cartoon character)
1947 Charles Frank (actor)
1948 Jan Hammer (composer: Miami Vice theme)
1951 Olivia Hussey (actress) (d 12/27/24, age 73)
1952 Joe Alaskey (voice actor: Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Daffy Duck, Plucky Duck) (d 2/3/16, age 63)
1954 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper (pro wrestler) (d 7/31/15, age 61)
1954 Michael Sembello (singer)
1954 Lester Square (guitarist: Adam & the Ants)
1954 Kim Tyler (actress)
1956 Lonnie Shields (blues guitarist)
1957 Lance Taylor (aka Afrika Bombaataa, rapper) (d 4/9/26, age 68)
1959 Teri Austin (actress)
1959 Sean Bean (actor)
1959 Elizabeth Lindsey
1961 Norman 'Boomer' Esiason (quarterback: New York Jets; Cincinnati Bengals: Super Bowl XXIII)
1964 Raye Hollit (Zap on American Gladiators)
1966 Eric McKinnie (drummer: Blind Boys of Alabama)
1966 Lela Rochon (actress: Bud commercials with Spuds McKenzie)
1967 Leslie Bega (actress: Maria Tomlinson on "Head of the Class")
1967 Timothy Gibbs (actor: Father Murphy, Santa Barbara)
1967 Liz Phair (singer)
1972 Jennifer Garner (actress: Agent Sydney A. Bristow on “Alias," Sandra in "Pearl Harbor")
1974 Victoria Adams Beckham (singer: Posh Spice of "The Spice Girls")
1979 Tram-Anh Tran (actress)
1985 Rooney Maya
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