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April 25th
1908 Edward R. Murrow (d 12/11/65, age 57)
1912 Gladys Presley (Elvis' Mother) (d 8/14/58, age 46)
1915 Johnny Shines (blues singer: Dust my Broom) (d 4/20/92, age 76)
1917 Ella Fitzgerald (d 6/15/96, age 79)
1923 Albert King (blues singer/guitarist: Born Under a Bad Sign) (d 12/21/92, age 69)
1927 Frances Hyland (actress) (d 7/11/04, age 77)
1928 Vassar Clements (fiddle virtuoso and A-list studio musician, played on more than 2,000 albums, by artists such as Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, The Grateful Dead, Bruce Hornsby, Hank Williams Jr, The Byrds, Woody Herman, and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) (d 8/16/05, age 77)
1929 Dotty Mack (actress) (d 11/11/19, age 90)
1930 Lynn Hamilton (actress) (d 6/19/25, age 95)
1930 Paul Mazursky (actor, director, also creator of The Monkees) (d 6/30/14, age 84)
1932 George 'Meadowlark' Lemon (Harlem Globetrotter 1955-1980) (d 12/27/15, age 83)
1933 Jerry Leiber (songwriter: Leiber & Stoller, responsible for such classics as Up on the Roof, Jailhouse Rock, On Broadway, and Chapel of Love) (d 8/22/11, age 78)
1940 O.B. McCinton (country singer) (d 9/23/87, age 47)
1940 Al Pacino
1941 Bertrand Tavernier (actor) (d 3/25/21, age 79)
1944 Len Goodman ("Dancing with the Stars" judge) (d 4/22/23, age 78)
1945 Jack Smith (ABC news correspondent for 26 years) (d 4/7/04, age 58)
1945 Stu Cooke (bassist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1945 Bjorn Ulvaeus (singer/guitarist: ABBA)
1946 Talia Shire (actress: Adrian in "Rocky," Constanzia Corleone in "The Godfather")
1950 Steve Ferrone (drummer: Average White Band)
1958 Derek 'Fish' Dick (singer: Marillion)
1959 Tony Phillips (played in MLB 1982-1999) (d 2/17/16, age 56)
1964 Hank Azaria (actor: Mad About You, voice: Simpsons characters Chief Clancy Wiggum, Moe Szyslak, and Apu Nahasapeemapetilon)
1964 Andy Bell (singer: Erasure)
1965 John Henson (puppeteer, son of Jim Henson) (d 2/14/14, age 48)
1965 Eric Avery (bassist: Jane's Addiction)
1967 Jane Clayson
1969 Darren Woodson (safety: Dallas Cowboys)
1969 Renee Zellweger
1970 Jason Lee
1975 Ruben Gomez (singer: Menudo)
1977 Jonathan Angel (actor)
1977 Marguerite Moreau (actress)
1985 Jonathan Halyalker (actor: Billy on "Who's the Boss")
2000 Tristan McIntosh (singer, sixth place finisher on 2016 American Idol)
April 26th
1886 Gertrude Pridgett (aka Ma Rainey, blues singer) (d 12/22/39, age 53)
1896 Jules Stein (co-founder: MCA Records) (d 4/29/81, age 85)
1900 Charles Richter (seismologist, invented the "Richter Scale") (d 4/30/85, age 85)
1917 I.M. Pei (architect) (d 5/16/19, age 102)
1918 Stafford Repp (actor: Chief O'Hara on "Batman") (d 11/5/74, age 56)
1925 Jorgen Ingmann (guitarist: "Apache") (d 3/21/15, age 89)
1926 Teddy Edwards (tenor saxophonist) (d 4/20/03, age 76)
1927 Harry 'The Horse' Gallatin (New York Knicks 1948-1957, Detroit Pistons 1958) (d 10/7/15, age 88)
1927 Jack Douglas (comedian) (d 12/18/08, age 81)
1931 Bernie Brillstein (Hollywood talent agent, manager, producer, studio head - guided the careers of many Saturday Night Live comedians) (d 8/7/08, age 77)
1933 Carol Burnett
1936 Doug Sax (music mastering engineer: Doors debut, Eagles debut, Pink Floyd The Wall, Stones Sticky Fingers, Who's Next, etc) (d 4/2/15, age 78)
1937 Thomas G. Yohe (creator of "Schoolhouse Rock" cartoon series) (d 12/21/00, age 63)
1938 Duane Eddy (guitarist: Rebel Rouser) (d 4/30/24, age 86)
1938 Maurice Williams (falsetto singer: The Zodiacs - "Oh, won't you stay...") (d 8/3/24, age 86)
1940 Giorgio Moroder (composer)
1941 Claudine Auger (actress: Bond Girl in "Thunderball") (d 12/18/19, age 78)
1942 Bobby Rydell (singer: Wild One, actor: Bye Bye Birdie) (d 4/5/22, age 79)
1943 Gary Wright (keyboardist/singer: Spooky Tooth, and solo: Dream Weaver, Love is Alive) (d 9/4/23, age 80)
1944 Larry Miller (Utah Jazz owner) (d 2/20/09, age 64)
1945 Mike Finnigan (session organist, specializes in Hammond B3, played pop, rock, blues, and jazz) (d 8/11/21, age 76)
1947 Warren Clarke (actor: A Clockwork Orange) (d 11/12/14, age 67)
1948 Boyd Matson (host: National Geographic Explorer)
1949 Jimmy Hall (singer/harpist: Wet Willy)
1952 Ralph Kinsey (drummer: The Kinsey Report)
1957 Michael Newman (actor: Baywatch, the only actor on the show who was actually a lifeguard in real life) (d 10/20/24, age 67)
1958 Giancarlo Esposito
1960 Roger Taylor (drummer: Duran Duran)
1961 Joan Chen
1961 Chris Mars (drummer: The Replacements - "Friends" theme)
1962 Michael Damian (singer: Rock on, actor: The Young & the Restless)
1963 Jet Li (actor, producer)
1965 Kevin James (actor: King of Queens, Solo Mio, Mall Cop)
1966 Heather Rattray (actress)
1970 Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins (singer: TLC)
1970 Melania Trump
1971 Jay DeMarcus (singer: Rascal Flatts)
1972 Marco Rivera (guard: Green Bay Packers 1997-2004)
1977 Studio 54 (nightclub) :-) (d 4/27/80, age 3)
1977 Tom Welling (actor)
1979 Sean Fox (actor)
1980 Jordana Brewster (actress)
1980 Marne Patterson (actress)
1980 Channing Tatum
1984 Ryan O'Donohue (actress)
April 27th
1900 Walter Lantz (cartoonist: creator of Woody Woodpecker) (d 3/22/94, age 93)
1916 Enos Slaughter (baseball hall of famer: St. Louis Cardinals) (d 8/12/02, age 86)
1918 John Scali (newspaperman, ABC correspondent, U.S. Representative to U.N., helped negotiate end to Cuban Missile Crisis) (d 10/9/95, age 77)
1922 Jack Klugman (actor: Oscar Madison on "The Odd Couple," Quincy) (d 12/24/12, age 90)
1927 Coretta Scott King (widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr) (d 1/31/06, age 78)
1927 William Sachse (1950 UW Grad, invented Buckingham U. (Bucky) Badger) (d 5/20/12, age 85)
1931 Maxine Brown (singer: The Browns - "The Three Bells") (d 1/21/19, age 87)
1931 Robert Donner (actor: Exidor on "Mork & Mindy," Yancy on "The Waltons") (d 6/8/06, age 75)
1932 Chuck Knox (coach: LA Rams [1973-1976, 1992-1994], Buffalo Bills [1978-1982], Seattle Seahawks [1983-1991]) (d 5/12/18, age 86)
1932 Casey Kasem (host: American Top 40; voice actor: Shaggy on Scooby Doo) (d 6/15/14, age 82)
1932 Anouk Aimee (actress) (d 6/18/24, age 92)
1937 Sandy Dennis (actress: Gwen in "The Out of Towners") (d 3/2/92, age 54)
1937 Phil Jones (newsman: CBS)
1938 Earl Anthony (six-time PBA bowler of the year and its greatest winner with 41 professional titles, earned $107,585 in 1975, becoming the first bowler to top the $100,000 mark in a season) (d 8/14/01, age 63)
1939 Judy Carne (actress/comedienne: the 'sock it to me' girl on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In") (d 9/3/15, age 76)
1939 Jerry Mercer (drummer: April Wine)
1944 Cuba Gooding (singer: The Main Ingredient - "Everybody Plays the Fool") (d 4/20/17, age 72)
1945 August Wilson (writer) (d 10/2/05, age 60)
1947 Pete Ham (guitarist/singer/pianist/songwriter: Badfinger) (d 4/24/75, age 27)
1947 Ann Peebles (singer: I Can't Stand the Rain)
1948 Kate Pierson (singer: The B52s)
1949 Doug Sheehan (actor) (d 6/29/24, age 75)
1949 Herb Murrell (singer: The Stylistics - "You Make Me Feel Brand New")
1951 Paul 'Ace' Frehley (guitarist: Kiss, Frehley's Comet - "Back in the New York Groove") (d 10/16/25, age 74)
1954 Eric Lee Bergren (screenwriter: The Elephant Man) (d 7/14/16, age 62)
1956 Bryan Harvey (guitarist: House of Freaks) (d 1/1/06, age 49)
1959 Sheena Easton (singer: Morning Train)
1959 Marco Pirroni (guitarist: Adam & the Ants)
1965 Rob Squires (bassist: Big Head Todd & the Monsters)
1972 David Lascher (actor)
1973 Andre Gower (actor)
1983 Ari Graynor (actress)
1992 Allison Iraheta (singer, fourth place finisher on 2009 American Idol)
April 28th
1916 Ferruccio Lamborghini (as in the car) (d 2/20/93, age 76)
1917 Robert Anderson (playwright: Tea and Sympathy, I Never Sang for my Father) (d 2/9/09, age 91)
1921 Rowland Evans (columnist and TV commentator) (d 3/23/01, age 79)
1926 Nelle Harper Lee (author: To Kill a Mockingbird) (d 2/19/16, age 89)
1929 Carolyn Jones (actress: Morticia on "The Addams Family") (d 8/3/83, age 54)
1930 James Baker III (Secretary of Treasury 1985-1988, Secretary of State 1989-1991)
1937 Saddam Hussein (Iraqi Dictator: 1979-2003) (d 12/30/06, age 69)
1938 Madge Sinclair (actress) (d 12/20/95, age 57)
1940 Phil Guy (blues guitarist, younger brother of Buddy Guy) (d 8/20/08, age 68)
1941 Ann-Margret (Olsson)
1945 John Wolters (drummer: Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show) (d 6/16/97, age 52)
1947 Jim McBride (country music songwriter) (d 1/6/26, age 78)
1948 Terry Pratchett (writer: Discworld series) (d 3/12/15, age 66)
1948 Marcia Strassman (actress: Julie Kotter on "Welcome Back Kotter") (d 10/25/14, age 66)
1949 Bruno Kirby (actor: When Harry Met Sally) (d 8/14/06, age 57)
1950 Willie Colon (salsa musician) (d 2/21/26, age 75)
1950 Jay Leno (host: The Tonight Show 1992-2009, 2010-2014)
1952 Mary McDonnell (actress)
1953 Kim Gordon (bassist: Sonic Youth)
1955 Eddie Jobson (violinist/keyboardist: Frank Zappa, Roxy Music)
1958 Nancy Lee Grahn (actress)
1971 Simbi Khali (actress: Nina on "3rd Rock from the Sun")
1974 Penelope Cruz
1978 Nate Richert (actor: Harvey on "Sabrina The Teenage Witch")
1981 Jessica Alba (actress: Dark Angel)
April 29th
1899 Duke Ellington (d 5/24/74, age 75)
1901 Hirohito (Japan's longest reigning emperor - 1926-1989) (d 1/4/89, age 87)
1908 Jack Williamson (science fiction writer) (d 11/10/06, age 98)
1909 Tom Ewell (actor) (d 9/12/94, age 85)
1915 Donald Mills (singer: The Mills Brothers) (d 11/13/99, age 84)
1918 George Allen (former Washington Redskins coach, sportscaster) (d 12/31/90, age 72)
1919 Celeste Holm (actress: All About Eve) (d 7/15/12, age 93)
1922 Tommy Noonan (actor: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) (d 4/24/68, age 45)
1923 Irvin Kershner (director: The Empire Strikes Back, Never Say Never Again, Robocop 2) (d 11/27/10, age 87)
1925 Iwao Takamoto (creator of Scooby-Doo, as well as other characters for The Flintstones and The Jetsons) (d 1/8/07, age 81)
1925 Colette Marchand (actress/ballerina) (d 6/5/15, age 90)
1927 Cecil James 'Big Jay' McNeely (saxophonist) (d 9/16/18, age 91)
1928 Carl Gardner (singer: The Coasters - "Yakety Yak") (d 6/12/11, age 83)
1929 J.B. Hutto (blues guitarist, uncle of Ed Williams of Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials) (d 6/12/83, age 54)
1931 Lonnie Donegan (guitarist/singer: popularized the song "Rock Island Line" before Johnny Cash) (d 11/2/02, age 71)
1935 Otis Rush (blues guitarist) (d 9/29/18, age 83)
1936 Lane Smith (actor: Nixon in "The Final Days," Perry White in "Lois and Clark") (d 6/13/05, age 69)
1937 Walter 'Lefy Dizz' Williams (guitarist) (d 9/7/93, age 56)
1938 Bernie Madoff (investment fraudster who ran the world's largest ponzi scheme) (d 4/14/21, age 82)
1942 Klaus Voorman (bassist: Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
1943 Duane Allen (singer: Oak Ridge Boys)
1945 Tammi Terrell (singer: Ain't No Mountain High Enough) (d 3/16/70, age 24)
1945 Richard Warwick (actor) (d 12/16/97, age 52)
1946 John Waters (director: Hairspray)
1947 Tommy James (singer: Tommy James and The Shondells: I Think We're Alone Now, Hanky Panky, Mony Mony, Crimson and Clover, Sweet Cherry Wine, Crystal Blue Persuasion; and solo: Draggin' the Line)
1948 Reb Brown (actor: Bull in "Fast Break")
1951 Dale Earnhardt (racer, killed in a crash on the last curve of the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500) (d 2/18/01, age 49)
1952 Nora Dunn (actress: Saturday Night Live)
1954 Jerry Seinfeld
1955 Leslie Jordan (actor: Beverley Leslie on "Will and Grace," Phil on "Call Me Kat") (d 10/24/22, age 67)
1955 Kate Mulgrew (actress: Star Trek Voyager)
1956 Susan Pratt (actress)
1957 Daniel Day-Lewis (actor: My Left Foot)
1958 Michelle Pfeiffer (actress)
1958 Eve Plumb (actress: Jan on "The Brady Bunch")
1960 Joseph Guzaldo (actor)
1967 Rachel Williams (model)
1968 Carnie Wilson (singer: Wilson Phillips, daughter of Beach Boy Brian Wilson)
1970 Andre Agassi (tennis star)
1970 Percy 'Master P' Miller (rapper)
1970 Uma Thurman (actress: Pulp Fiction)
1973 Michael Gerard Hogan (bassist: The Cranberries)
April 30th
1910 Al Lewis (actor: Grandpa on "The Munsters") (d 2/3/06, age 95)
1912 Eve Arden (actress: Our Miss Brooks) (d 11/12/90, age 78)
1916 Robert Shaw (reknowned choral director) (d 1/25/99, age 82)
1916 Claude Shannon (computer mathmatician who invented binary code, the theory that became the basis of modern mass communication networks) (d 2/24/01, age 84)
1925 Johnny Horton (singer: Sink the Bismarck, Battle of New Orleans, North to Alaska) (d 11/5/60, age 35)
1926 Cloris Leachman (d 1/26/21, age 94)
1931 Jimmy Lee Robinson (blues guitarist/singer) (d 7/6/02, age 71)
1933 Willie Nelson
1938 Gary Collins (actor/talk show host) (d 10/13/12, age 74)
1940 Burt Young (actor: Convoy, Paulie in "Rocky," Lou the Chauffer in "Back to School") (d 10/8/23, age 83)
1941 Johnny Farina (guitarist: Santo & Johnny - "Sleep Walk")
1943 Bobby Vee (singer: Rubber Ball, Take Good Care of My Baby, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes) (d 10/24/16, age 73)
1944 Jill Clayburgh (actress) (d 11/5/10, age 66)
1945 Michael J. Smith (commander/astronaut on ill-fated Challenger) (d 1/28/86, age 40)
1945 Margarita Mimi Baez-Farina (folk singer, founder of Bread and Roses benefit concert series in 1974) (d 7/18/01, age 56)
1948 Perry King (actor)
1949 Phil Garner (Milwaukee Brewers Manager 1992-1999) (d 4/11/26, age 76)
1953 Merrill Osmond (singer: Osmond Brothers)
1961 Isiah Thomas (forward: Detroit Pistons)
1963 Michael Waltrip (Daytona 500 Winner: 2001, driving a car owned by Dale Earnhardt, who was killed in the same race)
1968 Babette VanVeen (actress)
1973 Robyn Griggs (actress) (d 8/13/22, age 49)
1973 Jeff Timmons (singer: 98 degrees)
1975 Johnny Galecki (actor: Leonard on "The Big Bang Theory," David on "Roseanne")
1976 Scott Savol (singer, fifth place finisher on 2005 American Idol)
1981 Kunal Nayyar (actor: Koothrappali on "The Big Bang Theory")
1982 Kirsten Dunst
1986 Dianna Agron
May Day
1891 Charley Patton (singer/guitarist) (d 4/28/34, age 42)
1907 Kate Smith (singer: God Bless America) (d 6/17/86, age 79)
1913 Louis Nye (comedian, created the catchphrase "Hi Ho Steverino" on The Steve Allen Show in the 1950s) (d 10/9/05, age 92)
1916 Glenn Ford (actor) (d 8/30/06, age 90)
1918 Jack Paar (host: Tonight Show 1957-1962) (d 1/27/04, age 85)
1919 Dan O'Herlihy (actor) (d 2/17/05, age 85)
1923 Joseph Heller (author: Catch-22) (d 12/12/99, age 76)
1924 'Big' Maybelle (Smith) (singer) (d 1/23/72, age 47)
1925 Chuck Bednarik (aka Concrete Charlie, linebacker/center: Philadelphia Eagles 1949-1962) (d 3/21/15, age 89)
1925 Scott Carpenter (astronaut, second American to orbit the Earth) (d 10/10/13, age 88)
1928 Sonny James (singer: Running Bear, Young Love) (d 2/22/16, age 87)
1929 Johnnie High (country music promoter, managed a club in Texas 1974 to 2010, gave early exposure to Boxcar Willie and LeAnn Rimes) (d 3/17/10, age 80)
1930 'Little' Walter Jacobs (blues harpist) (d 2/15/68, age 37)
1933 Dave Wilson (director: Saturday Night Live 1975-1986, 1989-1995) (d 6/30/02, age 69)
1933 Titus Turner (blues singer/songwriter) (d 9/13/84, age 51)
1934 Shirley Horn (jazz singer/pianist) (d 10/20/05, age 71)
1939 Max Robinson (newscaster: ABC) (d 12/20/88, age 49)
1939 Judy Collins (singer: Both Sides Now, Send in the Clowns, Amazing Grace)
1940 Joy Harmon (actress) (d 4/14/26, age 85)
1941 Cheerios (cereal)
1944 Rita Coolidge (singer)
1946 Nick Fortune (bassist: The Buckinghams)
1946 Joanna Lumley (actress)
1946 Bruce Robinson (actor)
1946 Jerry Weiss (trumpeter: Blood Sweat and Tears)
1949 Douglas Barr (actor: Howie on "The Fall Guy")
1954 Ray Parker, Jr. (singer: Raydio, Ghostbusters)
1956 Byron Stewart (actor: Warren on "St. Elsewhere")
1957 Steve Farris (guitarist: Mr. Mister)
1958 John Diehl (actor: Detective Zito on "Miami Vice")
1959 Paul Smith (saxophonist: Haircut 100)
1966 Angel Juarbe, Jr. (New York City firefighter, won the Fox reality show "Murder in Small Town X" for $250,000 in August 2001, then was killed in the WTC collapse) (d 9/11/01, age 35)
1966 Johnny Colt (bassist: The Black Crowes)
1966 Charlie Schlatter (actor)
1967 Scott Coffey (actor: Satisfaction)
1967 Tim McGraw (singer/actor: The Blind Side)
1968 D'Arcy (Wretzky) (bassist: Smashing Pumpkins)
1968 Mark Scott (drummer: Trixter)
1969 Wes Anderson (writer/director)
1969 Roy Rosello (singer: Menudo)
1972 Julie Benz
1976 Darius McCrary (actor: Eddie on "Family Matters," Bowie on "Committed")
1989 Tim Urban (singer, seventh place finisher on 2010 American Idol)
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