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)
1853 – Alfred Berger, Austrian playwright, born in Vienna (d. 1912)
1886 – Frank Merrik, composer
1889 – Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer
1896 – Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996)
1899 – Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal, author (regional novels)
1925 – Corinne Calvet, French actress (Phantom of Hollywood, Apache Uprising), born in Paris, France (d. 2001)
1926 – Cloris Leachman, American actress (Last Picture Show, Phyllis), born in Des Moines, Iowa
1959 – Lauren Howe, LPGA golfer
1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 29th April 2019
1895 – Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts)
1903 – Frank Parker, American singer (Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party), born in NYC, New York (d. 1999)
1909 – Tom Ewell [Sam Yewell Tompkins], American actor (Tom Ewell Show, The Seven Year Itch), born in Owensboro, Kentucky (d. 1994)
1912 – Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic
1930 – Alf Valentine, Jamaican cricketer (great West Indian lefty spinner)
1933 – Edwin “Ed” Charles, American MLB third baseman (Miracle Mets-1969), born in Daytona Beach, Florida (d. 2018)
1960 – Caveh Zahedi, American filmmaker
1982 – Kamran Jawaid, Pakistani film critic
1984 – Taylor Cole, American actress
1993 – Aurelia Clasina Lucia Wildeboer, daughter of Pieter and Mirtle
Famous Birthdays for 28th April 2019
1889 – Bryant Washburn, American actor (Exposure, Millionaire Kid, Nabonga), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1963)
1924 – Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia (1964-91), born in Chinsali, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
1927 – Garry [Garfield Howard] Weston, English industrial billionaire (Twinings Tea)
1943 – John Oliver Creighton, NASA astronaut (STS 51G, 36, 48), born in Orange, Texas
1945 – Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1969)
1947 – Steve Khan, jazz musician (Christmas Waltz), born in Los Angeles, California
1953 – Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1960 – Joel H. Rosenthal American political scientist
1962 – Evguenni Rochtchin, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Olympics 1998)
1964 – L’Wren Scott [Laura Bambrough], American fashion designer and partner of Mick Jagger, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2014)
Famous Birthdays for 27th April 2019
1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English writer and feminist (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), mother of Mary Shelley, born in London (d. 1797)
1840 – Edward Whymper, English mountaineer, 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865), born in London (d. 1911)
1912 – Renato Rascel [Ranucci], Italian actor (7 Hills of Rome, Secrets of Santa Vittoria), born in Turin, Piedmont, Italy (d. 1991)
1916 – Jan Rychlik, Czech composer, born in Prague (d. 1964)
1937 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (Up the Down Staircase), born in Hastings, Nebraska (d. 1992)
1943 – Helmut Marko, Austrian auto racer (Le Mans Grand Prix), born in Graz, Austria
1947 – Pete Ham, Welsh rock vocalist (Badfinger-Come and Get It), born in Swansea, Wales
1953 – Arielle Dombasle, American-French singer and actress, born in Norwich, Connecticut
1970 – Mikiko Hagiwara, Japanese basketball player, born in Fukushima, Japan
1975 – Chris Carpenter, American baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals), born in Exeter, New Hampshire
Famous Birthdays for 26th April 2019
570 – Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi’a sect. Other sources suggest April 20. Observed according to the Islamic lunar calendar
1782 – Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, French queen as wife of Louis Phillip of Austria, born in Caserta Palace, Naples (d. 1866)
1822 – Jan Albert van Eijken, Dutch composer and organist, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands (d. 1868)
1878 – Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop (cared for the wounded, sick, and dying during the Mexican Revolution), born in Cotija, Michoacán, Mexico (d. 1938)
1879 – Owen Williams Richardson, British physicist (Nobel 1928), born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England (d. 1959)
1914 – James Rouse, American builder (founder of The Rouse Company), born in Easton, Maryland (d. 1996)
1923 – Oliver Millar, British art historian (served in the Royal Household for 41 years), born in Standon, Hertfordshire (d. 2007)
1962 – Colin Anderson, English footballer, born in Newcastle, England
1977 – Tom Welling, American actor
1981 – Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
Famous Birthdays for 25th April 2019
1567 – Aurelio Signoretti, Italian composer, born in Reggio Emilia, Italy (d. 1635)
1694 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect, born in London (d. 1753)
1869 – Karl Prohaska, Austrian composer, born in Mödling, Austria (d. 1927)
1947 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch soccer player and coach (Ajax/Barcelona), born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (d. 2016)
1959 – Billy Rankin, Scottish rocker, born in Glasgow, Scotland
1974 – Libor Procházka, Czech ice hockey defenseman (Team Czech Olympic gold 1998), born in Vlašim, Czechoslovakia
1975 – Emily Bergl, English-American actress (The rage : Carrie 2), born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
1977 – Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer, born in Larissa, Greece
1978 – Matt Walker, British Paralympic swimmer, born in Stockport, England
1987 – Johann Smith, American soccer player, born in Hartford, Connecticut
Famous Birthdays for 24th April 2019
1718 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born portrait and miniature painter, born in Dublin (d. 1784)
1815 – James E. Harrison, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Greenville District, South Carolina (d. 1875)
1822 – Erastus Barnard Tyler, American businessman, merchant, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in West Bloomfield, New York (d. 1891)
1875 – Jeno Huszka, Hungarian composer, born in Szeged, Hungary (d. 1960)
1924 – Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2009)
1935 – Louis Keith, physician (expert on multiple-births), born in Chicago, Illinois
1945 – Douglas “Doug” Riley [Dr Music], Canadian musician and musical director (Famous People Players), born in Toronto, Canada (d. 2007)
1948 – Benzion Freshwater, English multi-millionaire property investor, born in Sassov, Galicia, Poland
1971 – Kumar Dharmasena, Sri Lankan cricketer (Sri Lankan off-spinner), born in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1972 – Rab Douglas, Scottish football goalkeeper (Arbroath), born in Lanark, Scotland
Famous Birthdays for 23rd April 2019
1728 – Samuel Wallis, English explorer (Wallis Island), born in Camelford, Cornwall (d. 1795)
1812 – Louis-Antoine Jullien, French conductor, born in Sisteron, France (d. 1860)
1827 – Johann Friedrich von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer, born in Winterberg, Germany (d. 1914)
1877 – Arthur Farwell, American composer, born in St Paul, Minnesota (d. 1952)
1892 – Minus van Looi [Benjamin van der Voort], Flemish writer, born in Tessenderlo, Belgium (d. 1952)
1919 – Tālivaldis Ķeniņš, Canadian composer, born in Liepāja, Latvia (d. 2008)
1936 – Elias [Etienne Michiels], Flemish painter, born in Ostend, Belgium
1940 – Michael Copps, Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1953 – Fred Upton, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan), born in St. Joseph, Michigan
1996 – Joshua “Josh” Kiszka, American vocalist (Greta Van Fleet), born in Frankenmuth, Michigan
Famous Birthdays for 22nd April 2019
1866 – Hans von Seeckt, German general (Future of the Reich)
1892 – Nikolai Obouhov, composer
1910 – Eric Scowen, physician
1917 – Sidney Nolan, Australia, painter/illustrator (Ned Kelly)
1923 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (Charlie’s Angels), (d. 2006)
1923 – Hugh Lloyd, British actor (Hugh and I, Punch and Judy Man), born in Chester, England (d. 2008)
1929 – Michael Atiyah, English mathematician (Atiyah-Singer Index, Fields Medal 1966), born in London, England (d. 2019)
1962 – Denise Baldwin, LPGA golfer (1991 Futures Salisbury), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1970 – Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
1980 – Aaron Michael Metchik, American actor
Famous Birthdays for 21st April 2019
1853 – Charles Malherbe, French violinist and composer, born in Paris (d. 1911)
1870 – Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer and producer (Jack and the Beanstalk), born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania (d. 1941)
1886 – Charles “Charlie” Naughton, Scottish actor (Frozen Limits), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1976)
1901 – Julián Bautista, Spanish composer, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1961)
1904 – Gijs van Hall, Dutch politician and Mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), born in Amsterdam (d. 1977)
1906 – Tom Burns, British-Chilean publisher and editor, born in Chile (d. 1995)
1944 – Adrian Hurley, Australian basketball coach
1960 – Julius Korir, Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympic gold 1984)
1978 – Jacob Burns, Australian footballer
2007 – Princess Isabella of Denmark