1764 – Gottfried Rieger, Czech composer, born in Opavice, Czech Replublic (d. 1855)
1818 – José Amador de los Ríos, Spanish historian and poet, born in Baena, Spain (d. 1878)
1829 – José de Alencar, Brazilian writer (O Guarani), born in Fortaleza, Ceará, Empire of Brazil (d. 1877)
1858 – Anthony Johnson Showalter, American composer, born in Cherry Grove, Virginia (d. 1924)
1889 – John Evans, English cricket batsman (1 Test) and author (‘The Escaping Club’), born in Newtown, Hampshire (d. 1960)
1925 – Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7), born in Boulder, Colorado (d. 2013)
1927 – Bernard Vukas, Croatian soccer forward (59 caps, Yugoslavia; Hajduk Split; Olympic silver 1948, 52), born in Zagreb, Croatia (d. 1983)
1937 – Una Stubbs, English actress (Till Death Us Do Part), born in Welwyn Garden City
1947 – Jacob Bekenstein, American-Israeli theoretical physicist (Bekenstein-Hawking radiation), born in Mexico City (d. 2015)
1970 – Damon Diletti, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Olympic silver 1992; Champions Trophy gold 1999), born in Perth, West Australia
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Famous Birthdays for 30th April 2022
1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician considered one of the greatest of all time (Gaussian distribution, fundamental theorem of algebra), born in Brunswick, Germany (d. 1855)
1895 – Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (Trente arpents), born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec (d. 1960)
1909 – F. E. McWilliam [Frederick Edward], Northern-Irish surrealist sculptor (Four Seasons Group), born in Banbridge, County Down (d. 1992)
1917 – Bea Wain, American singer and radio host (“Deep Purple”; “Heart and Soul”), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2017)
1938 – Larry Niven, American sci-fi author (5 Hugo, Neutron Star), born in Los Angeles, California
1941 – Johnny Farina, American rocker (Santo and Johnny), born in Brooklyn, New York
1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough), born in NYC, New York (d. 2010)
1945 – Claude van de Berge, Flemish writer (Graph Theory), born in Assenede, Belgium
1963 – Steve Smith, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1982 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress (Interview with the Vampire, Spider-Man), born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey
Famous Birthdays for 29th April 2022
1908 – Philippe Brun, French jazz trumpeter, born in Paris (d. 1994)
1912 – Terence de Vere White, Irish novelist (An Affair with the Moon), born in Dublin (d. 1994)
1918 – Merv Harvey, Australian cricketer (brother of Neil, Test for Australia), born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1995)
1921 – Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer (Sun), born in Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands
1922 – George Allen, American NFL football coach (LA Rams, Washington Redskins), born in Nelson County, Virginia (d. 1990)
1934 – Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan baseball player (Chicago White Sox, MLB Hall of Fame), born in Maracaibo, Venezuela
1962 – Robert Druppers, Dutch runner (world record 1 km indoor), born in Utrecht, Netherlands
1962 – Bruce Driver, Canadian NHL defenseman (NY Rangers), born in Toronto, Ontario
1966 – John Vander Wal, American NLB outfielder (Colorado Rockies), born in Grand Rapids Michigan
1967 – Mary McCagg, American rower (Olympic 4th 1992, 96), born in Seattle, Washington
Famous Birthdays for 28th April 2022
1810 – Daniel Ullman, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Wilmington, Delaware (d. 1892)
1886 – Erich Salomon, German photographer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1944)
1908 – Jack Fingleton, Australian cricket batsman (18 Tests, 1,189 runs @ 42.46, 5 x 100s), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1981)
1948 – Dorothée Berryman, Canadian stage and screen actress (The Decline of the American Empire), and jazz singer, born in Quebec City, Quebec
1948 – Marcia Strassman, American actress (Julle Kotter-Welcome Back Kotter), born in New York, (d. 2014)
1949 – Paul Guilfoyle, American actor (CSI, Mrs. Doubtfire), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1950 – Robert Greenidge, Trinidadian steelpan drum player (Jimmy Buffet; John Lennon; Grover Washington, Jr.), born in Success Village, Trinidad
1978 – Drew Scott, Canadian TV personality (Property Brothers), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1986 – George [Nozuka], Canadian-Japanese RandB singer-songwriter (“Talk To Me”), born in New York City
1995 – Melanie Martinez, American singer-songwriter (Cry Baby), born in Queens, New York
Famous Birthdays for 27th April 2022
1410 – Jean Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland, Zealand and West Frisia (d. 1493)
1875 – Freddie Fane, British cricketer (Hobbs’ 1st Test opening partner), born in Curragh Camp, County Kildare, Ireland (d. 1960)
1875 – André Baillon, Belgian-French author (Un homme si simple), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1932)
1888 – Florence La Badie, Canadian-American actress (Cinderella, The Evidence of the Film), born in NYC, New York (d. 1917)
1919 – Walter Ritchie, British sculptor (Man’s Struggle), born in Coventry, England (d. 1997)
1922 – Daphne Anderson, British actress (Beggar’s Opera, Hobson’s Choice), born in London, England (d. 2013)
1922 – Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer, holocaust survivor, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 2016)
1937 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (Up the Down Staircase), born in Hastings, Nebraska (d. 1992)
1942 – Jim Keltner, American session drummer (Bob Dylan; George Harrison; John Lennon; Ringo Starr; Harry Nilsson; Richard Thompson; Traveling Wilburys; Elvis Costello; Joe Cocker; Ry Cooder; Eric Clapton; Carly Simon; Jackson Browne; Randy Newman; and others…), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1958 – David Barnes, New Zealand sailor (470 world champion 1981, 83, 84), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 2020)
Famous Birthdays for 26th April 2022
1863 – Charles Haslewood Shannon, English lithographer and painter, born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire (d. 1937)
1922 – Paul-André Gaillard, Swiss composer, born in Veytaux, Switzerland (d. 1992)
1925 – Jørgen Ingmann, Danish jazz guitarist (“Apache”; “Dansevise”), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2015)
1940 – Cliff Watson, English rugby league front rower (30 Tests GB, 4 England; St Helens 373 games, Cronulla-Sutherland), born in London, England (d. 2018)
1945 – Chuck Blazer [Charles Gordon Blazer], American soccer administrator, born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentine soccer forward and coach (14 caps; Vélez Sarsfield, Boca Juniors), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1961 – Al Lawrence, Jamaican 4X100m relayer (Olympic silver 1984), born in Jamaica
1965 – Kevin James, American actor and comedian (The King of Queens), born in Mineola, Long Island, New York
1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress (Secrets and Lies), born in Camberwell, London
1982 – Brock Gillespie, American basketball player (CB Ciudad de Valladolid), born in Des Moines, Iowa
Famous Birthdays for 25th April 2022
1924 – Franco Mannino, Italian composer, born in Palermo, Italy (d. 2005)
1927 – Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist, sold the most books in Spanish (400 million), born in El Franco, Spain (d. 2009)
1941 – Princess Muna al-Hussein, mother of King Abdullah II of Jordan, born in Chelmondiston, Suffolk, England
1941 – Bertrand Tavernier, French actor (Capt Conan, L627, Daddy Nostalgie), born in Lyon, France
1946 – Digby Fairweather, British jazz trumpeter, born in Rochford, Essex, England
1969 – Nir Shental, Israeli Men’s 470 sailor (Olympic 15th-1996), born in Jaffa, Israel
1972 – Percell Gaskins, American football linebacker (Carolina Panthers), born in Daytona Beach, Florida
1974 – Tricia Dunn, American ice hockey forward (USA, Olympics 1998), born in Derry, New Hampshire
1980 – Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer, born in Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand
1988 – James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player, born in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada
Famous Birthdays for 24th April 2022
1620 – John Graunt, English statistician, founder of science of demography, born in London (d. 1674)
1660 – Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter and engraver, born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1704)
1864 – George August Alexander Alting von Geusau, Dutch Minister of War (1918-20), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1937)
1952 – Jean Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer (Hermès), born in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France
1953 – Eric Bogosian, American actor (Talk Radio), born in Woburn, Massachusetts
1954 – Thomas Jennefelt, Swedish composer, chiefly of choral works (A Warning To The Rich; Villarosa Sequences), born in Stuvsta, Sweden
1955 – John de Mol Jr., Dutch media businessman, born in The Hague, Netherlands
1968 – Tracy Gravely, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes), born in West Virginia
1971 – Jeff Brohm, American football quarterback (San Francisco 49ers), born in Louisville, Kentucky
1980 – Austin Nichols, American actor (One Tree Hill), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Famous Birthdays for 23rd April 2022
1185 – Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), born in Coimbra, Kingdom of Portugal (d. 1223)
1882 – Albert Coates, English conductor and composer (Eagle), born in St Petersburg, Russia
1900 – Henry Barraud, French composer, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1997)
1919 – Bulent Arel, Turkish-born electronic composer, born in Istanbul (d. 1990)
1972 – Pierre Labrie, Canadian poet, born in Mont-Joli, Quebec
1973 – Derek Armstrong, Canadian NHL center (NY Islanders), born in Ottawa, Ontario
1977 – Andruw Jones, Curaçaoan baseball player, born in Willemstad, Curaçao
1977 – Kal Penn, American actor (Dr. Lawrence Kutner-House, The Namesake) and civil servant, born in Montclair, New Jersey
1979 – Jaime King, American model and actress (Bulletproof Monk), born in Omaha, Nebraska
1988 – Alistair Brownlee, British triathlete (Olympic gold 2012, 16), born in Dewsbury, England
Famous Birthdays for 22nd April 2022
1866 – Hans von Seeckt, German general and advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, born in Schleswig, Duchy of Schleswig, German Confederation (d. 1936)
1878 – Kitty Gordon, English entertainer, born in Folkestone, Kent (d. 1974)
1911 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (“Sunbaker”), born in Ashfield, Australia (d. 1992)
1914 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch-English writer (Holland’s Glory), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 2002)
1921 – Philip “Gabby” Pahinui, Hawaiian slack-key guitarist and singer, born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (d. 1980)
1939 – Yury Sharov, Russian fencer (Olympic gold Soviet Union, team foil 1964, silver 1968), born in Saratov, Russia (d. 2021)
1939 – Jason Miller, American actor and writer (Exorcist, Light of Day), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
1946 – Louise Harel, Quebec politician and City Councillor for Maisonneuve–Longue-Pointe, born in Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec
1974 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-American heavy metal bassist (System of a Down), born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
1978 – Ezekiel Jacskon [Stephens], Guyanese-American professional wrestler (2007-15), born in Linden, Guyana