Today's Famous Birthdays

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Wilbur Wright
(April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912)

were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's
first successful motor-operated airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered,
heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 mi (6 km) south of
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, at what is now known as Kill Devil Hills. The brothers were also the
first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.









Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE
(16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977)

was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the
film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood
in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977,
and encompassed both adulation and controversy.









Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE FRSA
(born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov  16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004)

was a British actor, filmmaker, and writer. An internationally known raconteur, he was a fixture on
television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. An intellectual and diplomat, he
held various academic posts and served as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF and president of
the World Federalist Movement.









David Jack Peverett
(16 April 1943 – 7 February 2000),

also known as Lonesome Dave, was an English singer and guitarist, best known as the original lead
vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Foghat, which he co-founded following his tenure
in Savoy Brown.









Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
( born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 16, 1947)

is an American former professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball
Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers. During his career as a center,
Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP). He was a 19-time NBA All-Star—tied
for the most ever—a 15-time All-NBA Team member, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team selection.
He was a member of six NBA championship teams as a player and two more as an assistant coach,
and was twice voted the NBA Finals MVP. He was named to three NBA anniversary teams
(35th, 50th, and 75th). Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he was called the
greatest basketball player of all time by Pat Riley, Isiah Thomas, and Julius Erving. Abdul-Jabbar
was the NBA's career scoring leader from 1984 to 2023.










Jonathan Niven Cryer
(born April 16, 1965)

is an American actor, writer, director and producer. Born into a show business family, he made his
motion picture debut as a teenage photographer in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair;
his breakout role came in 1986, in the John Hughes-written film Pretty in Pink. In 1998, he wrote
and produced the independent film Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five.










Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence
(born April 16, 1965)

is an American comedian and actor. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood
career as a leading actor. He got his start playing Maurice Warfield in What's Happening Now!!
(1987–1988). He was a leading actor in the Fox television sitcom Martin, the Bad Boys franchise,
and House Party, Boomerang, Open Season, Wild Hogs, Nothing to Lose, Blue Streak, Life,
Black Knight, Big Momma's House, and A Thin Line Between Love and Hate.









Stanley Robert "Bobby" Vinton
(born April 16, 1935)

is an American former singer and occasional actor, who also hosted his own self-titled TV show
in the late 1970s. As a teen idol, he became known as "The Polish Prince", as his music paid
tribute to his Polish heritage. One of his most popular songs is "Blue Velvet" (a cover of the 1951
song recorded by Tony Bennett) which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963, No. 1 in
Canada (5 weeks), and number 2 in the UK in 1990.

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William Holden
(born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981)

was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. Holden won the
Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award
for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the television miniseries
The Blue Knight (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically
acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), Picnic (1955),
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Network (1976). He was named
one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the
American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classical Hollywood cinema.









Harry Reasoner
(April 17, 1923 – August 6, 1991)

was an American journalist for CBS and ABC News, known for his adroit use of language as a
television commentator and as one of the original hosts of the news magazine 60 Minutes
(1968–1970, 1978–1991). Over the course of his career, Reasoner won three Emmy Awards
and a George Foster Peabody Award in 1967.









Roderick George Toombs
(April 17, 1954 – July 31, 2015),

better known as ”Rowdy” Roddy Piper, was a Canadian professional wrestler, amateur wrestler,
and actor. In professional wrestling, Piper was best known to international audiences for his work
with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW)
between 1984 and 2000. Although he was Canadian, because of his Scottish heritage he was
billed as coming from Glasgow and was known for his signature kilt and bagpipe entrance music.
Piper earned the nicknames "Rowdy" and "Hot Rod" by displaying his trademark "Scottish"
short temper, spontaneity, and quick wit. According to The Daily Telegraph, he is "considered by
many to be the greatest 'heel' (or villain) wrestler ever".









John Pierpont Morgan Sr.
(April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913)

was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street
throughout the Gilded Age. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as
J.P. Morgan and Co., he was the driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidation in the
United States spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Over the course of his career on
Wall Street, J.P. Morgan spearheaded the formation of several prominent multinational corporations
including U.S. Steel, International Harvester and General Electric which subsequently fell under
his supervision. He and his partners also held controlling interests in numerous other American
businesses including Aetna, Western Union, Pullman Car Company and 21 railroads. Due to the
extent of his dominance over U.S. finance, Morgan exercised enormous influence over the nation's
policies and the market forces underlying its economy. During the Panic of 1907, he organized a
coalition of financiers that saved the American monetary system from collapse.

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Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham
(April 18, 1904 – December 13, 1981)

was an American entertainer. Though best known as a comedian, Markham was also a singer,
dancer, and actor. His nickname came from a stage routine, in which he declared himself to be
"Sweet Poppa Pigmeat". He was sometimes credited in films as Pigmeat "Alamo" Markham.
His boisterous, indecorous "heyeah (here) come da judge" schtick, which made a mockery of
formal courtroom etiquette, became his signature routine. Markham would sit at an elevated
judge's bench (often in a black graduation cap-and-gown, to look more impressive), and deal
with a series of comic miscreants. He would often deliver his "judgments", as well as express
frustration with the accused, by leaning over the bench and smacking the accused with
an inflated bladder-balloon.








Barbara Hale
(April 18, 1922 – January 26, 2017)

was an American actress who portrayed legal secretary Della Street in the dramatic television
series Perry Mason (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting
Actress in a Drama Series. She reprised the role in 30 Perry Mason made-for-television
movies (1985–1995).








Robert Francis Hastings
(April 18, 1925 – June 30, 2014)

was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Lt. Elroy Carpenter on McHale's Navy
and voicing Commissioner James Gordon in the DC Animated Universe.









James Child Drury Jr.
(April 18, 1934 – April 6, 2020)

was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly
Western television series The Virginian, which was broadcast on NBC from 1962 to 1971.









Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills
(born 18 April 1946)

is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and younger sister
of actress Juliet Mills, she began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising
newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in
the British crime drama film Tiger Bay (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's Pollyanna
(1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early
career, she appeared in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual role as twins Susan and
Sharon in the Disney film The Parent Trap (1961). Her performance in Whistle Down the Wind
(a 1961 adaptation of the novel written by her mother) saw Mills nominated for the
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress and she was voted the biggest star in Britain for 1961.









James Howard Woods
(born April 18, 1947)

is an American actor. He is known for fast-talking intense roles on stage and screen. He received
various accolades including three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild
Awards as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. He started his career in minor roles on
and off-Broadway. In 1972, he appeared in The Trial of the Catonsville Nine alongside Sam Waterston
on Broadway. In 1978, he made his television breakthrough alongside Meryl Streep, playing her
husband in the acclaimed NBC miniseries Holocaust, which received the Primetime Emmy Award
for Outstanding Limited Series. Woods early film roles include in The Visitors (1972),
The Way We Were (1973) and Night Moves (1975). He rose to prominence portraying Gregory Powell
in The Onion Field (1979). He earned two Academy Awards nominations: one for Best Actor for
Salvador (1986) and for Best Supporting Actor for Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). His career spans
five decades and includes collaborations with some of the most acclaimed filmmakers of his time,
such as John Carpenter, Elia Kazan, Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood,
Sydney Pollack, Arthur Penn, Oliver Stone, Rob Reiner, Richard Attenborough, and Sofia Coppola.
Notable film roles include in Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Nixon (1995),
Chaplin (1992), Casino (1995), Contact (1997), Vampires (1998), Any Given Sunday (1999),
and The Virgin Suicides (1999).








Frederick Allan Moranis
(born April 18, 1953)

is a Canadian actor, comedian, musician, songwriter, writer and producer. He appeared in the
sketch comedy series Second City Television (SCTV) in the 1980s and several Hollywood films,
including Strange Brew (1983), Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989),
Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Spaceballs (1987), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989, and its
1992 and 1997 sequels), Parenthood (1989), My Blue Heaven (1990), and The Flintstones (1994).
n 2020, after a hiatus of nearly 23 years from live-action films, Moranis signed to appear in a
new sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, called Shrunk.










Jane Elizabeth Leeves
(born 18 April 1961)

is an English actress, best known for her role as Daphne Moon on the NBC sitcom Frasier
(1993-2004), for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
She also played Joy Scroggs on TV Land's sitcom Hot in Cleveland. Leeves made her screen
debut with a small role in 1983 on the British comedy television show The Benny Hill Show,
and appeared as a dancer in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. She moved to the
United States, where she performed in small roles. From 1986 to 1988, she had her first
leading role in the short-lived sitcom Throb, then secured a recurring part in the television
sitcom Murphy Brown.








Conan Christopher O'Brien
(born April 18, 1963)

is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. O'Brien is best known for having
hosted late-night talk shows for almost 28 years, beginning with Late Night with Conan O'Brien
(1993–2009) and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009–2010) on the NBC television network,
and Conan (2010–2021) on the cable channel TBS. Before his hosting career, he was a writer for
the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1988 to 1991, and the Fox animated
sitcom The Simpsons from 1991 to 1993. He has also been host of the podcast series
Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend since 2018 and is expected to launch a new show on HBO Max.
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, O'Brien was raised in an Irish Catholic family.










Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
(April 18, 1924 – September 10, 2005)

was an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana. He won a Grammy Award for
Best Traditional Blues Album in 1983 for his album, Alright Again!. Brown was born in Vinton, Louisiana,
and raised near Orange, Texas. His father was a railroad worker and local musician who taught him
several musical instruments, including fiddle by age 5; as well as piano and guitar.









Robert Philip Hanssen
(born April 18, 1944)

is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian
intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the
Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history." Hanssen is currently
serving fifteen consecutive life sentences without parole at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison
near Florence, Colorado. In 1979, three years after joining the FBI, Hanssen approached the
Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) to offer his services, beginning his first espionage cycle,
lasting until 1981. He restarted his espionage activities in 1985 and continued until 1991, when he
ended communications during the collapse of the Soviet Union, fearing he would be exposed.
Hanssen restarted communications the next year and continued until his arrest. Throughout his spying,
he remained anonymous to the Russians.

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Richard Stanford Cox
(April 19, 1930 – July 8, 1994),

known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor, notable as the second actor to
portray Darrin Stephens on ABC's fantasy situation comedy Bewitched. He took the name
Dick Sargent from a Saturday Evening Post illustrator/artist of the same name.








Jayne Mansfield
(born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967)

was an American actress, singer, nightclub entertainer, and Playboy Playmate. A sex symbol of the
1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox, Mansfield was known for her
well-publicized personal life and publicity stunts. Her film career was short-lived, but she had several
box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe Award. Mansfield took her
professional name from her first husband, public relations professional Paul Mansfield. She married
three times, each marriage ending in divorce, and had five children. She was allegedly intimately
involved with numerous men, including Robert and John F. Kennedy, her attorney Samuel S. Brody,
and Las Vegas entertainer Nelson Sardelli. On June 29, 1967, she died in an automobile crash in
New Orleans at the age of 34










Dudley Stuart John Moore CBE
(19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002)

was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. Moore first came to prominence in the
UK as a leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s. He was one of the four
writer-performers in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe from 1960 that created a boom in
satiric comedy, and with a member of that team, Peter Cook, collaborated on the BBC television
series Not Only... But Also. As a popular double act, Moore’s buffoonery contrasted with Cook’s
deadpan monologues. They jointly received the 1966 British Academy Television Award for
Best Entertainment Performance. They worked together on other projects until the mid 1970s,
by which time Moore had settled in Los Angeles to concentrate on his film acting.









Timothy James Curry
(born 19 April 1946)

is an English actor and singer. He rose to prominence for his portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in
the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), reprising the role he had originated in the 1973
London and 1974 Los Angeles musical stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show. Curry's other
stage work includes various roles in the original West End production of Hair,
Tristan Tzara in the 1975 West End and Broadway productions of Travesties, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart in the 1980 Broadway production of Amadeus, Alan Swann in the Broadway production
of My Favourite Year, and King Arthur in Broadway and West End productions of Spamalot from
2005 to 2007. His theatre accolades include three Tony Award nominations and two
Laurence Olivier Award nominations. Curry received further acclaim for his film and television roles,
including Rooster Hannigan in the film adaptation of Annie (1982), Darkness in Legend (1985),
Wadsworth in Clue (1985), Pennywise in the miniseries It (1990), the Concierge in Home Alone 2:
Lost in New York (1992), Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (1993), and Long John Silver
in Muppet Treasure Island (1996). He has also gained acclaim for his voice acting roles, including
his Daytime Emmy Award-winning performance as Captain Hook on Peter Pan & the Pirates (1990–1991),
Hexxus in FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Sir Nigel Thornberry on The Wild Thornberrys
(1998–2004), and Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious on Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2012–2014).










Jesse Gregory James
(born April 19, 1969)

is an American entrepreneur, automotive mechanic, and television personality. He is the founder of
West Coast Choppers and former partner of Austin Speed Shop and current CEO of Jesse James
Firearms Unlimited, both based in Austin, Texas. He was the focus of a show chronicling some of the
custom motorcycle builds in his TV series Jesse James: Monster Garage, which ran a shortened single
season in 2012 on the Discovery Channel before being canceled. James was the host of the reality
TV shows Jesse James Is a Dead Man on Spike TV and Monster Garage on the Discovery Channel,
and the focus of the documentary Motorcycle Mania, also on Discovery. He also appeared in the
2004 skateboarding video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2.










Kate Garry Hudson
(born April 19, 1979)

is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and
a nomination for an Academy Award. Born to singer Bill Hudson and actress Goldie Hawn, Hudson
made her film debut in the 1998 drama Desert Blue, which was followed by supporting roles in
several films. She rose to prominence with her portrayal of Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's musical
drama Almost Famous (2000), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and
received an Oscar nomination in the same category.










Roger Sherman
(April 19, 1721 – July 23, 1793)

was an American statesman, lawyer, and a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person
to sign four of the great state papers of the United States related to the founding:
the Continental Association, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution.
He also signed the 1774 Petition to the King.








Erastus "Deaf" Smith
(April 19, 1787 – November 30, 1837),

who earned his nickname due to hearing loss in childhood, was an American frontiersman noted for
his part in the Texas Revolution and the Army of the Republic of Texas. He fought in the Grass Fight
and the Battle of San Jacinto. After the war, Deaf Smith led a company of Texas Rangers. Smith died
in Richmond, Texas, aged 50, at the home of Randall Jones. The Episcopal churchyard has a modest
marker, "Deaf Smith, the Texas Spy, Died Nov. 30, 1837", but his exact burial site is unknown.








Eliot Ness
(April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957)

was an American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone and enforce
Prohibition in Chicago. He was the leader of a team of law enforcement agents, nicknamed
The Untouchables. His co-authorship of an autobiography, The Untouchables, which was released
shortly after his death, launched several television and motion picture portrayals establishing
Ness's posthumous fame as an incorruptible crime fighter.









Hugh O'Brian
(born Hugh Charles Krampe; April 19, 1925 – September 5, 2016)

was an American actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the ABC Western
television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961) and the NBC action television
series Search (1972–1973). His notable films included the adaptation of Agatha Christie's
Ten Little Indians (1965); he also had a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film,
The Shootist (1976).








Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr.
(born April 19, 1965)

is an American former record executive, convicted felon, and the co-founder and former CEO of
Death Row Records. Knight was a central figure in gangsta rap's commercial success in the 1990s.
This feat is attributed to the record label's first two album releases: Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992
and Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle in 1993. In 1995, Tupac Shakur began serving a prison sentence of
up to four and a half years. Knight struck a deal with Shakur that October, paying his bail and
freeing him from prison pending an appeal of his conviction, while signing him to Death Row Records.
In 1996, the label released Shakur's greatest commercial success, All Eyez on Me. That September,
after departing a Mike Tyson boxing match in Las Vegas, a group that included Knight and Shakur
assaulted Orlando Anderson, a Southside Compton Crips gang member. Three hours later, someone
shot into the car that Knight was driving and fatally wounded Shakur, injuring Knight in the process.
Dr. Dre left Death Row Records shortly before Shakur's death, followed by Snoop Dogg two years later.
The label rapidly declined. Meanwhile, allegations mounted that Knight, beyond employing gang members,
had often employed intimidation and violence in his business dealings. From the late 1990s into the
early 2000s, Knight spent a few years incarcerated for assault convictions and associated violations
of probation and parole. In September 2018, Knight pled no contest to voluntary manslaughter in a
fatal 2015 hit-and-run, and was sentenced to 28 years in prison. Knight's conviction, along with his
previous felonies (stealing a camera, and also sending a harassing text message to Straight Outta Compton
director F. Gary Gray), triggered California's three-strikes law. He is eligible for parole in November 2034.
Knight is a prime suspect in orchestrating the murder of the Notorious B.I.G.

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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

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Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca
(April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001),

better known by his stage name Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor. He was known for his
portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal and elemental virility" in numerous
critically acclaimed films both in Hollywood and abroad. His notable films include La Strada,
The Guns of Navarone, Guns for San Sebastian, Lawrence of Arabia, The Shoes of the Fisherman,
The Message, Lion of the Desert, Jungle Fever and Seven Servants. He also had an Oscar-nominated
titular role in Zorba the Greek. Quinn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice: for
Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956. In addition, he received two Academy Award nominations
in the Best Leading Actor category, along with five Golden Globe nominations and two BAFTA Award
nominations. In 1987, he was presented with the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement
Award. Through both his artistic endeavors and civil-rights activism, he remains a seminal figure of
Latin-American representation in the media of the United States.









Tony Danza
(born Anthony Salvatore Iadanza; April 21, 1951)

is an American actor. He is known for co-starring in the television series Taxi (1978–1983) and
Who's the Boss? (1984–1992), for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four
Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer
in a New Television Series for his work on the 1997 sitcom The Tony Danza Show
(not to be confused with his 2004–2006 daytime variety talk show of the same name).
He has also appeared in films such as The Hollywood Knights (1980), Going Ape! (1981),
Angels in the Outfield (1994), Crash (2004), and Don Jon (2013).









Charlotte Brontë
(21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855)

was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood
and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head, Mirfield,
in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne,
at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839, she undertook the role of governess for the
Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth, where the sisters opened a
school but failed to attract pupils. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published
in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Although her first novel, The Professor,
was rejected by publishers, her second novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. The sisters
admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in
London literary circles. Charlotte Brontë was the last to die of all her siblings. She became
pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855, almost certainly
from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.










Elizabeth II
(Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022)

was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her
death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and was head of
state of 15 realms at the time of her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of
any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female head of state in history.









James Newell Osterberg Jr.
(born April 21, 1947),

known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, radio broadcaster, songwriter
and actor. Called the "Godfather of Punk", he was the vocalist and lyricist of proto-punk band
The Stooges, who were formed in 1967 and have disbanded and reunited many times since.










Robert James Smith
(born 21 April 1959)

is an English musician. He is the lead singer, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member
of the rock band the Cure, which he co-founded in 1978. He was also the lead guitarist for the band
Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984, and was part of the short-lived group the Glove in 1983.
Smith is known for his guitar-playing style, distinctive voice, and fashion sense, with the latter—a pale
complexion, smeared red lipstick, black eye-liner, a dishevelled nest of wiry black hair, and all-black
clothes—being highly influential on the goth subculture that rose to prominence in the 1980s. He was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cure in 2019, and in its 2023 issue
of the list, he was ranked the 157th greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

[Boxer9]

I believe it is the birthday or discovery of LSD as well. I think it was Hoffman who synthesized it for Sandoz on this day or very near. I will need to look for my research paper on it....or just use chat G&T

[Charon]

yes u r correct. it is claimed no one knew one could hallucinate until 1943. (discovered in 1938.)

I am less than thrilled it was used for experimental purposes on military. And they were never told about why they had so many problems now. One hero of War just kept trying to kill himself after being given LSD over and over again. A genius he had been.

And no one told him he would hear voices and see weird things. It took him about fifty attempts but he finally killed himself.

Our military experimented freely on our men and women.

My father and i were gonna go to Canada so i would avoid the Viet Nam draft and he could still drive.

I had so many do evil and harm to my body, that no one was allowed to mess with my mind.

I obviously never tried it cuz my mind was everything to me. (and my long blonde hair, hint hint Lord, enuff of this looooong covid side effect. Just sayin Lord.)

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Edward Albert Heimberger
(April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005)

was an American actor and activist. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actor; the first nomination came in 1954 for his performance in
Roman Holiday, and the second in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid. Other well-known screen
roles of his include Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim
in the musical Oklahoma!, and the sadistic prison warden in 1974's The Longest Yard. He
starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television sitcom Green Acres and as
Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. He also had a recurring role as
Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest, opposite Jane Wyman.










Bettie Mae Page
(April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008)

was an American model who gained notoriety in the 1950s for her pin-up photos. She
was often referred to as the "Queen of Pinups": her long jet-black hair, blue eyes, and
trademark bangs have influenced artists for generations. After her death, Playboy founder
Hugh Hefner called her "a remarkable lady, an iconic figure in pop culture who influenced
sexuality, taste in fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society". In 1959,
Page converted to evangelical Christianity and worked for Billy Graham, studying at Bible
colleges in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, with the intent of becoming a missionary.
The latter part of Page's life was marked by depression, violent mood swings, and several
years in a state psychiatric hospital with paranoid schizophrenia.









Glen Travis Campbell
(April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017)

was an American country singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor. He was best known for a series
of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS
television from 1969 until 1972. He released 64 albums in a career that spanned five decades,
selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums,
and one double-platinum album. Among Campbell's hits are "Universal Soldier", his first hit from 1965,
along with "Gentle on My Mind" (1967), "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (1967),
"Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" (1968), "Wichita Lineman" (1968), "Galveston" (1969),
"Rhinestone Cowboy" (1975), and "Southern Nights" (1977).










John Joseph Nicholson
(born April 22, 1937)

is an American retired actor and filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors
of all time. In many of his films, he played rebels against the social structure. He received numerous
accolades throughout his career which spanned over five decades, including three Academy Awards,
three BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
He also received the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1994 and the
Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. Nicholson has won three Academy Awards, for Best Actor for
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and As Good as It Gets (1997) and for Best Supporting Actor
for Terms of Endearment (1983). He was Oscar-nominated for Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970),
The Last Detail (1974), Chinatown (1974), Reds (1981), Prizzi's Honor (1986), Ironweed (1987),
A Few Good Men (1992) and About Schmidt (2002). Nicholson is also known for his notable roles
in Carnal Knowledge (1971), The Shining (1980), Heartburn (1986), Broadcast News (1987),
Batman (1989), Hoffa (1992), Mars Attacks! (1996), Something's Gotta Give (2003),
The Departed (2006) and The Bucket List (2007)









Ryan Lee Stiles
(born April 22, 1959)

is an American-Canadian actor, comedian, and producer whose work is often associated with
improvisational comedy. He is best known for his work on the original British series and
American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and for his role as Lewis Kiniski on
The Drew Carey Show. He also played Herb Melnick on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men
and was a performer on the show Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza.








Amber Laura Heard
(born April 22, 1986)

is an American actress, humanitarian and social activist. She had her first leading role in the
horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), and went on to star in films such as
The Ward (2010), Drive Angry (2011), and London Fields (2018). She has also had supporting
roles in films including Pineapple Express (2008), Never Back Down (2008), The Joneses (2009),
The Rum Diary (2011), Paranoia (2013), Machete Kills (2013), Magic Mike XXL (2015), and
The Danish Girl (2015). Heard is part of the DC Extended Universe franchise, playing Mera in
Justice League (2017), Aquaman (2018), and the forthcoming Aquaman and the
Lost Kingdom (2023). She has also acted in television series such as Hidden Palms (2007)
and The Stand (2020).









Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
(22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924),

better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.
He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924
and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the
Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party.
Ideologically a Marxist, his development of the ideology is known as Leninism. A controversial
and highly divisive historical figure, Lenin is viewed by his supporters as a champion of socialism
and the working class. Meanwhile, Lenin's critics accuse him of establishing a totalitarian
dictatorship which oversaw mass killings and political repression.









J. Robert Oppenheimer
(April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967)

was an American theoretical physicist. A professor of physics at the University of
California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory
and is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the
Manhattan Project—the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear
weapons. Oppenheimer was among those who observed the Trinity test in New Mexico,
where the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945. He later
remarked that the explosion brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita:
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
In August 1945, the weapons were used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.










Peter Kenneth Frampton
(born 22 April 1950)

is an English-American guitarist, singer and songwriter who rose to prominence as a member
of the rock bands the Herd and Humble Pie. Later in his career Frampton found success as a
solo artist. He has released several albums, including his breakthrough album, the live release
Frampton Comes Alive! (1976), which spawned several hit singles and has earned 8× Platinum
by the RIAA in the United States. He has also worked with acts such as Ringo Starr, the
Who's John Entwistle, David Bowie, and both Matt Cameron and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam.
Frampton is best known for such hits as "Show Me the Way", "Baby, I Love Your Way",
"Do You Feel Like We Do", and "I'm in You", which remain staples of classic rock radio.
He has also appeared as himself in television shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy,
and Madam Secretary.

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Shirley Temple Black
(born Shirley Jane Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014)

was an American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one
box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States
ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.









Alan Oppenheimer
(born April 23, 1930)

is an American actor. He has performed numerous roles on live action television since the 1960s,
and he has had an active career doing voice work since the 1970s. As a character actor,
Oppenheimer has had diverse roles in popular American television programming, from playing
a Nazi in Hogan's Heroes, to playing an Israeli secret agent as well as a double-agent KAOS
scientist on Get Smart, to being the second actor to play Dr. Rudy Wells in The Six Million Dollar Man
(Martin Balsam played the role in the pilot film). Oppenheimer took over as Rudy starting with
the second film, "Wine, Women and War" up until the introduction of the bionic woman in 1975,
whereupon Martin E. Brooks took over as Wells until cancellation). He was the original
Mickey Malph (Ralph Malph's dad) on Happy Days. He played a recurring role during the first
two seasons of St. Elsewhere as Helen Rosenthal's husband, Ira. He had a recurring role as
Mayor Alvin B. Tutwiller on Mama's Family. He then continued in science fiction genre in the
1973 cult classic Westworld, where he played the head IT technician. He has also appeared in
three Star Trek series, always playing a different character. He appeared in the
Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Rightful Heir" as a Klingon cleric, Koroth,
a primary instigator of the cloning of Kahless; on Deep Space Nine as a
Starfleet Captain Declan Keogh in command of the USS Odyssey; and as an
alien ambassador in Voyager.








Lee Majors
(born Harvey Lee Yeary; April 23, 1939)

is an American actor. Majors portrayed the characters of Heath Barkley in the American television
Western series The Big Valley (1965–1969), Colonel Steve Austin in the American television science
fiction action series The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978), and Colt Seavers in American television
action series The Fall Guy (1981–1986).








Sandra Dee
(born Alexandra Zuck; April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005)

was an American actress. Dee began her career as a child model, working first in commercials,
and then film in her teenage years. Best known for her portrayal of ingénues, Dee earned a
Golden Globe Award as one of the year's most promising newcomers for her performance in
Robert Wise's Until They Sail (1958). She became a teenage star for her performances in
Imitation of Life and Gidget (both 1959), which made her a household name. By the late 1960s,
her career had started to decline, and a highly publicized marriage to Bobby Darin ended in
divorce. The year of her divorce, Dee's contract with Universal Pictures was dropped. She
attempted a comeback with the 1970 independent horror film The Dunwich Horror, but rarely
acted after this time, appearing only occasionally in television productions throughout the
1970s and early 1980s. The rest of the decade was marred by alcoholism, mental illness, plus
near total reclusiveness, particularly after her mother died in 1988. Afterwards she sought
medical and psychological help in the early 1990s, and died in 2005 of complications from
kidney disease, brought on by lifelong anorexia nervosa.










Valerie Anne Bertinelli
(born April 23, 1960)

is an American actress. She first achieved recognition as an adolescent, portraying
Barbara Cooper Royer on the sitcom One Day at a Time (1975–1984), for which she
won two Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or
Television Film. She subsequently earned adult stardom as Gloria on the religious
drama series Touched by an Angel (2001–2003) and Melanie Moretti on the sitcom Hot
in Cleveland (2010–2015), the latter of which gained her a Screen Actors Guild Award
nomination. In 2012, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Bertinelli has hosted several programs for Food Network, such as the cooking shows
Valerie's Home Cooking (2015–2023) and Kids Baking Championship (2015–present),
winning two Daytime Emmy Awards for the former out of six nominations.
In December 2021, Bertinelli signed a new deal with Food Network. Bertinelli was
married to musician Eddie Van Halen from 1981 to 2007, with whom she has one child,
Wolfgang. She was married to Tom Vitale from 2011 to 2022.









George Lopez
(born April 23, 1961)

is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is most known for starring in his self-produced
ABC sitcom. His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations, including Mexican American
culture. Lopez has received several honors for his work and contributions to the Latino community,
including the 2003 Imagen Vision Award, the 2003 Latino Spirit Award for Excellence in Television
and the National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Award. He was also named one of
"The Top 25 Hispanics in America" by Time magazine in 2005.









Roy Kelton Orbison
(April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988)

was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex
song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. His music was described by critics as operatic, earning
him the nicknames "The Caruso of Rock" and "The Big O." Many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability
at a time when most male rock-and-roll performers chose to project machismo. He performed while
standing motionless and wearing black clothes to match his dyed black hair and dark sunglasses.
Born in Texas, Orbison began singing in a rockabilly and country-and-western band as a teenager.
He was signed by Sam Phillips of Sun Records in 1956, but enjoyed his greatest success with
Monument Records. From 1960 to 1966, 22 of Orbison's singles reached the Billboard Top 40.
He wrote or co-wrote almost all of his own Top 10 hits, including "Only the Lonely" (1960),
"Running Scared" (1961), "Crying" (1961), "In Dreams" (1963), and "Oh, Pretty Woman" (1964).
Orbison died of a heart attack in December 1988 at age 52.









David Edwin Birney
(April 23, 1939 – April 27, 2022)

was an American actor and director whose career included performances in both contemporary
and classical roles in theatre, film, and television. He is noted for having played the title role in
the television series Serpico. He also starred in Bridget Loves Bernie, an early 1970s TV series
about an interfaith marriage that also starred Meredith Baxter (who he married after the series ended).
He also portrayed Dr. Ben Samuels in St. Elsewhere from 1982 until 1983.








Brent Muscat
(born April 23, 1967)

is an American musician best known as the guitarist of glam metal band Faster Pussycat.
Faster Pussycat was formed in the 1980s Hollywood glam metal boom. The original line up
consisted of Brent, along with Taime Downe and Greg Steele. The band's most successful
album Wake Me When It's Over earned "Gold" status from the RIAA. Brent formed Deluxe
back in 1994 with Marc Anthony vocals, Tommy T-bone Caradonna
(ex-White Lion, Alice Cooper, Lita Ford) on bass and Gary Kaluza (ex-Glory Chain) on guitar.








Timothy James McVeigh
(April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001)

was an American domestic terrorist who perpetrated the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that
killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children, injured 680, and destroyed one-third of the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in the United States
prior to the September 11 attacks. It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in
Terre Haute, Indiana. His execution, which took place just over six years after the offense, was
carried out in a considerably shorter time than for most inmates awaiting execution.