Today's Famous Birthdays

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George Takei
(born Hosato Takei, April 20, 1937)

is an American actor, author and activist known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman
of the fictional starship USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek and subsequent films.








Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal
(born April 20, 1941)

is an American actor and former boxer. He trained as an amateur boxer before beginning his
career in acting in 1960. In 1964, he landed the role of Rodney Harrington on the ABC nighttime
soap opera Peyton Place. It was an instant hit and boosted O'Neal's career. He later found success
in films, most notably Love Story (1970), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe
nominations as Best Actor, Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973),
Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far (1977), and
Walter Hill's The Driver (1978). From 2005 to 2017, he had a recurring role in the Fox television
series Bones as Max, the father of the show's protagonist.









Jessica Phyllis Lange
(born April 20, 1949)

is an American actress. She is the 13th actress to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having
received a Tony Award, two Academy Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2010,
Lange won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's
aunt Big Edie in HBO's Grey Gardens (2009). Between 2011 and 2014, she won her first
Screen Actors Guild Award, first Critics Choice Award, fifth Golden Globe Award, three Dorian Awards
and her second and third Emmy Awards for her performances in the first, second and third
seasons of FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story (2011–2015, 2018). In 2016,
Lange won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, an
Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding
Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of Long Day's Journey into Night.
She also had a supporting role in Louis C.K.'s Peabody Award-winning web series Horace and Pete.
In 2017, for her portrayal of actress Joan Crawford in the miniseries Feud, Lange received her
ninth Emmy, 16th Golden Globe, sixth Screen Actors Guild, and second TCA award nominations.
In 2019, she received a tenth Emmy nomination for her performance in
American Horror Story: Apocalypse.









Clinton Engle Howard
(born April 20, 1959)

is an American actor. He is the second son born to American actors Rance and Jean Howard, and
younger brother of actor and director Ron Howard. His 200-plus acting credits include feature films
such as The Waterboy and Apollo 13, as well as television series, such as Gentle Ben, The Baileys
of Balboa, The Cowboys, and My Name Is Earl. He has appeared in many films directed by his brother,
Ron, and had a small role in the 1967 animated film The Jungle Book. He is lead singer of his own
band, The Kempsters, and also makes custom snow globes.








Crispin Hellion Glover
(born April 20, 1964)

is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for portraying eccentric characters on screen,
such as George McFly in Back to the Future (1985), Layne in River's Edge (1986), Andy Warhol
in The Doors (1991), Bobby McBurney in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), the Thin Man in
Charlie's Angels (2000) and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Willard Stiles in Willard (2003),
Grendel in Beowulf (2007), The Knave of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland (2010),
Phil in Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), and Mr. World in the Starz television series
American Gods (2017–2021).








Tara Leigh Patrick
(born April 20, 1972),

known professionally as Carmen Electra, is an American actress, model, singer, and media personality.
She began her career as a singer after moving to Minneapolis, where she met Prince, who produced
her self-titled debut studio album, released in 1993. Electra began glamour modeling in 1996 with
appearances in Playboy magazine, before relocating to Los Angeles, where she had her breakthrough
portraying Lani McKenzie in the action drama series Baywatch (1997–1998).








Adolf Hitler
(20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945)

was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide
in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then
taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship, he initiated World War II
in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations
throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of about
six million Jews and millions of other victims. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary
and was raised near Linz. He lived in Vienna later in the first decade of the 1900s and moved to
Germany in 1913. He was decorated during his service in the German Army in World War I. In 1919,
he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the Nazi Party, and was appointed
leader of the Nazi Party in 1921. In 1923, he attempted to seize governmental power in a failed coup
in Munich and was imprisoned with a sentence of five years. In jail, he dictated the first volume of
his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). After his early release in 1924,
Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting pan-Germanism,
anti-Semitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. He frequently
denounced international capitalism and communism as part of a Jewish conspiracy.









Craig Frost
(born April 20, 1948 in Flint, Michigan)

is the keyboardist for Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band. He is also known as keyboardist for 1970s
hard rock band Grand Funk Railroad. He plays organ, synthesizers, and piano. Frost expanded
Grand Funk's "power trio" musical style, by adding another dimension to their music. Grand Funk
scored its biggest hits after Frost joined the band in 1972, and his work is instantly recognizable on
Grand Funk's #1 songs "The Loco-Motion" (a cover of Little Eva's hit) and "We're an American Band".
He also contributed significantly to Grand Funk as a songwriter, in partnership with drummer Don Brewer.









Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr.
(April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005)

was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Known for his sweet and soulful vocals,
Vandross has sold over 40 million records worldwide. He achieved eleven consecutive Platinum
albums and eight Grammy Awards, including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four different times.
In 2004, Vandross won a total of four Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Song of
the Year for a song recorded not long before his death, "Dance with My Father". Vandross was never
married and had no children. His mother outlived all of her four children, and his three older siblings
all predeceased him due to diabetes and asthma. In 2006, Bruce Vilanch, a friend and colleague of
Vandross, told Out magazine, "He said to me, 'No one knows I'm in the life.' ... He had very few
sexual contacts". According to Vilanch, Vandross experienced his longest romantic relationship with
a man while living in Los Angeles during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In December 2017, 12 years
after his death, Vandross' friend Patti LaBelle confirmed that he was gay.[56] In addition, Vandross
was well aware that officially coming out as gay while he was actively making music would have been
detrimental to the trajectory of his career, given the majority of his target audience were women
seeking some mode of emotional engagement from his words. LaBelle shared that "[Vandross] had
a lot of lady fans" and "he just didn't want to upset the world