1711 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College, born in Windham, Connecticut (d. 1779)
1902 – Megan Lloyd George, English politician (1st female MP for Welsh – Carmarthen), born in Criccieth, Caernarfonshire, Wales (d. 1966)
1909 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (History of the Greeks), born in Fucecchio, Italy (d. 2001)
1915 – Dick Dudley, American TV host (Village Barn), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2000)
1919 – Donald J. Cram, American biochemist (development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity – Nobel 1987), born in Chester, Vermont (d. 2001)
1922 – Lou Stein, American pianist (Tonight! America After Dark), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)
1958 – Ashraf Ali, cricket wicket-keeper (Pakistani mid-80s)
1960 – Randall L. Stephenson, American business executive
1963 – Sean Lock, British comedian and actor (British Comedy Award, 2000), born in Chertsey, Surrey
1980 – Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
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Famous Birthdays for 21st April 2020
1673 – Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress, born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1742)
1920 – Christopher Dark [Alfred Francis DeLeo], American actor, (World Without End, The Time Tunnel), born in NYC, New York (d. 1971)
1922 – Allan Watkins, cricketer, England batsman late 40s early 50s)
1936 – Anthony Joseph Gnazzo, composer
1947 – John Weider, bassist (Family-Family Entertainment)
1954 – James Morrison [Paige], American actor (24, Twin Peaks), born in Bountiful, Utah
1954 – Dale Eggeling, American golfer (3 LPGA titles), born in Statesboro, Georgia
1959 – Robert Smith, English rock guitarist and vocalist (Cure-Hell’s Kitchen), born in Blackpool, England
1972 – Gwendal Peizerat, French ice dancer
1980 – Jeff Keppinger, American baseball player
Famous Birthdays for 20th April 2020
1646 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (Frangipani genus Plumeria is named after him), born in Marseille, France (d. 1704)
1889 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45), born in Gasthof zum Pommer, Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary (d. 1945)
1937 – George Takei, American actor (Sulu-Star Trek, Green Berets), born in Los Angeles, California
1939 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian Prime Minister (1981-82, 1986-89, 1990-96) and Director-General of the World Health Organisation, born in Bærum, Norway
1941 – Ryan O’Neal, American actor (Love Story, Paper Moon), born in Los Angeles, California
1946 – Gordon Smiley, American racecar driver, born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1982)
1954 – Peter Toohey, Australian cricketer (NSW and Australian batsman 1977-80), born in Blayney, Australia
1964 – Paul Nobes, Australian cricketer (prolific opening batsman for Victoria and SA), born in Heidelberg West, Victoria, Australia
1967 – J. D. Roth, American TV host (Fun House), born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
1976 – Joey Lawrence, American actor (Gimme a Break, Blossom, Summer Rental), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Famous Birthdays for 19th April 2020
1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1690-1716), born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1716)
1728 – Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian writer and playwright, born in Bologna (d. 1804)
1905 – John Thach, American WWII Naval aviator (developed the Thach Weave) and USN admiral, born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas (d. 1981)
1910 – Andrew Gilchrist, British ambassador (Ireland, Indonesia, Iceland), born in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1993)
1921 – Will Ogdon, American composer, born in Redlands, California (d. 2013)
1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress (Father Knows Best, Get a Life), born in Tacoma, Washington
1961 – Richard Phelps, British pentathelete (Olympic bronze 1988), born in Gloucester, England
1968 – Arshad Warsi, Indian film actor (Lage Raho Munna Bhai), born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
1974 – Ante Moric, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics 1996), born in Sydney, Australia
1978 – James Franco, American actor (The Disaster Artist), born in Palo Alto, California
Famous Birthdays for 18th April 2020
1855 – Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen), born in Amsterdam (d. 1946)
1881 – Hermann Zilcher, German pianist and composer (Dr Eisenbart), born in Frankfurt am Main (d. 1948)
1893 – Violette Morris, French athlete and spy for Nazi Germany, born in Paris (d. 1944)
1903 – Leonid Kinskey, Russian actor (Casablanca, Duck Soup), born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1998)
1912 – Wendy Barrie, British-American TV hostess (Wendy Barrie Show), born in Hong Kong (d. 1978)
1937 – Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2009)
1939 – Glen Hardin, American rock n roll and country musician (Crickets), born in Wellington, Texas
1965 – Rob Stenders, Dutch radio discjockey (Stenders Latevermaak and RobRadio), born in Oisterwijk, Netherlands
1976 – Justin Ross, American politician (Member of the Maryland House of Delegates from the 22nd district 2003-12), born in Bowie, Maryland
1985 – Łukasz Fabiański, Polish football goalkeeper (Poland national team), born in Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Poland
Famous Birthdays for 17th April 2020
1644 – Abraham Jansz Storck, Dutch painter, baptized in Amsterdam (d. 1708)
1911 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian world chess champion (1948-63), born in Repino, Russia (d. 1995)
1918 – Anne Shirley [Dawn Evelyeen Paris], British actress (The Devil and Daniel Webster, Murder My Sweet), born in NYC, New York (d. 1993)
1919 – Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (1984-90), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2016)
1928 – Cynthia Ozick, American author (Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories), born in NYC, New York
1937 – Daffy Duck, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in “Porky’s Duck Hunt”
1964 – Raye Hollitt, American bodybuilder (American Gladiators), born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
1967 – Marquis Grissom, American baseball outfielder (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1973 – Gene Makowsky, Canadian football offensive linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders), born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1975 – Gabriel Soto, Mexican actor and model, born in Mexico City
Famous Birthdays for 16th April 2020
1897 – Arthur Charles Ernest Hoérée, Belgian-French composer, born in St. Gilles, Brussels, Belgium (d. 1986)
1897 – John Bagot Glubb, British commandant and writer (A soldier with the Arabs), born in Preston, Lancashire, England (d. 1986)
1912 – John Halas, Hungarian-American cartoonist and animator (Animal Farm), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1995)
1915 – Gerard McLarnon, British-Irish actor and writer (The Wrestler’s Honeymoon), born in Clitheroe, Lancashire (d. 1997)
1927 – Pope Benedict XVI [Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger], Catholic Pope (2005-2013), born in Marktl, Bavaria, Germany
1952 – Peter Westbrook, American fencer (Olympic bronze 1988, 92, 96), born in St Louis, Missouri
1972 – Conchita Martínez, Spanish tennis player (Wimbledon 1994), born in Monzón, Huesca, Spain
1982 – Jonathan Vilma, American football player, born in Coral Gables, Florida
1984 – Noah Fleiss, American actor, born in White Plains, New York
1994 – Liliana Mumy, American actress, born in San Marcos, California
Famous Birthdays for 15th April 2020
1552 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1626)
1809 – Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician, born in Stettin, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1877)
1882 – Giovanni Amendola, Italian anti-fascist and editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), born in Naples, Italy (d. 1926)
1888 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet, born in Berlin (d. 1904)
1927 – Robert Mills, American physicist (quantum field theory), born in Englewood, New Jersey (d. 1999)
1930 – Richard Davis, American jazz bassist described as “the greatest bass ever heard on a rock album” (Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks), born in Chicago, Illinois
1931 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet (Nobel Prize for Literature – 2011), born in Stockholm (d. 2015)
1936 – Héctor Quintanar, Mexican composer, born in Mexico City, Mexico (d. 2013)
1951 – Marsha S. Ivins, American astronaut (STS 32, 46, 62, 81), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1985 – John Danks, American baseball player
Famous Birthdays for 14th April 2020
1723 – John Wainwright, English composer and organist (d. 1768)
1870 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter, born in Saratov, Russia (d. 1905)
1886 – Ernst Robert Curtius, German literature historian, born in Thann, Haut-Rhin (d. 1956)
1891 – B.R. Ambedkar [Baba Saheb], Indian politician, jurist (architect of the Constitution of India) and social reformer who inspired the Dalit Buddhist Movement, born in Mhow, India (d. 1956)
1907 – Otto Frans Antoine Hubert van Nispen, Dutch mayor (Pannerden), born in Pannerden, Netherlands (d. 1992)
1922 – Maria Luisa Bemberg, Argentine filmmaker, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1995)
1925 – Bill Harris, American guitarist (Clovers-Good Lovin’), born in Nashville, North Carolina (d. 1988)
1936 – Bobby Nichols, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1964), born in Louisville, Kentucky
1969 – Tim Roberts, American NFL defensive end (NE Patriots), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1970 – Brian Stablein, American NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts), born in Erie, Pennsylvania
Famous Birthdays for 13th April 2020
1229 – Louis II, Duke of Bavaria, ruler of upper Baveria, born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1294)
1584 – Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria, born in Munich (d. 1666)
1771 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor (steam locomotive), born in Tregajorran, England (d. 1833)
1849 – Enrique José Varona, Cuban author, born in Puerto Principe, Cuba (d. 1933)
1880 – Charles Christie, Canadian film studio owner, born in London, Ontario, Canada (d. 1955)
1890 – Frank Murphy, American politician and 56th United States Attorney General, born in Harbor Beach, Michigan (d. 1949)
1913 – Dave Albritton, American high jumper (Olympic silver 1936), born in Danville, Alabama (d. 1994)
1964 – Davis Love III, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1997; 21 PGA Tour titles), born in Charlotte, North Carolina
1979 – Baron Davis, American basketball player, born in Los Angeles, California
1983 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player, born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa