Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Edwin Abbey |
Painter |
1-Apr-1852 |
1-Aug-1911 |
American artist in London |
John Abizaid |
Military |
1-Apr-1951 |
|
C-in-C, US Central Command, 2003-07 |
Jane Adams |
Actor |
1-Apr-1965 |
|
Dr. Mel Karnofsky on Frasier |
Samuel Alito |
Judge |
1-Apr-1950 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
George Baker |
Actor |
1-Apr-1931 |
7-Oct-2011 |
Ruth Rendell Mysteries |
Wallace Beery |
Actor |
1-Apr-1885 |
15-Apr-1949 |
Grand Hotel |
Abner Biberman |
Actor |
1-Apr-1909 |
20-Jun-1977 |
Knock on Wood |
Otto von Bismarck |
Head of State |
1-Apr-1815 |
30-Jul-1898 |
Unifier of Germany |
Leonard Bloomfield |
Linguist |
1-Apr-1887 |
18-Apr-1949 |
Structural linguistics of Tagalog |
Susan Boyle |
Singer |
1-Apr-1961 |
|
Britain's Got Talent |
Sophonisba Breckinridge |
Activist |
1-Apr-1866 |
30-Jul-1948 |
Suffragette and abolitionist |
Ferruccio Busoni |
Pianist |
1-Apr-1866 |
27-Jul-1924 |
Fantasia Contrappuntistica |
Brendan T. Byrne |
Politician |
1-Apr-1924 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 1974-82 |
Louis Caldera |
Government |
1-Apr-1956 |
|
US Secretary of the Army, 1998-2001 |
Whittaker Chambers |
Author |
1-Apr-1901 |
9-Jul-1961 |
Accuser of Alger Hiss |
Lon Chaney |
Actor |
1-Apr-1883 |
26-Aug-1930 |
The Phantom of the Opera |
Carl Charlier |
Astronomer |
1-Apr-1862 |
5-Nov-1934 |
Motion and the Distribution of the Stars |
Jimmy Cliff |
Singer/Songwriter |
1-Apr-1948 |
|
Reggae musician |
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
Physicist |
1-Apr-1933 |
|
Trapped atoms with laser light |
Cicely Courtneidge |
Actor |
1-Apr-1893 |
26-Apr-1980 |
The Ghost Train |
Peter Cundall |
TV Personality |
1-Apr-1927 |
|
Host of Gardening Australia, 1989-2008 |
Leora Dana |
Actor |
1-Apr-1923 |
13-Dec-1983 |
Some Came Running |
Samuel R. Delany |
Author |
1-Apr-1942 |
|
Triton |
Peter Deutsch |
Politician |
1-Apr-1957 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 1993-2005 |
Eddy Duchin |
Pianist |
1-Apr-1909 |
9-Feb-1951 |
The Magic Fingers of Radio |
Charles F. Dunbar |
Diplomat |
1-Apr-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1988-91 |
Gaston Eyskens |
Head of State |
1-Apr-1905 |
3-Jan-1988 |
Thrice Prime Minister of Belgium |
Christian Finnegan |
Comic |
1-Apr-1973 |
|
Two For Flinching |
Jim Fisk |
Business |
1-Apr-1834 |
6-Jan-1872 |
Business partner of Jay Gould |
Jon Gosselin |
TV Personality |
1-Apr-1977 |
|
Jon & Kate Plus 8 |
David Gower |
Cricket |
1-Apr-1957 |
|
Left-handed batsman |
George Grizzard |
Actor |
1-Apr-1928 |
2-Oct-2007 |
Advise and Consent |
William Snow Harris |
Physicist |
1-Apr-1791 |
22-Jan-1867 |
Invented a lightning rod for ships |
William Harvey |
Doctor |
1-Apr-1578 |
3-Jun-1657 |
Discovered circulation of blood |
Albert Hughes |
Film Director |
01-Apr-1972 |
|
A Hughes Brother |
Allen Hughes |
Film Director |
01-Apr-1972 |
|
A Hughes Brother |
Alberta Hunter |
Singer |
1-Apr-1895 |
17-Oct-1984 |
Downhearted Blues |
Sam Huntington |
Actor |
1-Apr-1982 |
|
Superman Returns |
Gordon Jump |
Actor |
1-Apr-1932 |
22-Sep-2003 |
Maytag repairman who headed WKRP |
Herbert G. Klein |
Journalist |
1-Apr-1918 |
2-Jul-2009 |
White House Communications Director, 1969-73 |
Milan Kundera |
Author |
1-Apr-1929 |
|
The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
Leslie Langston |
Bassist |
1-Apr-1964 |
|
Bassist for Throwing Muses |
Matt Lanter |
Actor |
1-Apr-1983 |
|
Liam Court on 90210 |
Charles W. Larson, Jr. |
Politician |
1-Apr-1968 |
|
US Ambassador to Latvia |
Chris Lee |
Politician |
1-Apr-1964 |
|
Congressman from New York, resigned |
Sung Hi Lee |
Actor |
1-Apr-1970 |
|
Playboy model, Actress |
Daniele Liotti |
Actor |
1-Apr-1971 |
|
La herencia Valdemar |
Wangari Maathai |
Activist |
1-Apr-1940 |
25-Sep-2011 |
Planted 12 million trees in Kenya |
Ali MacGraw |
Actor |
1-Apr-1938 |
|
Love Story |
Rachel Maddow |
TV Personality |
1-Apr-1973 |
|
The Rachel Maddow Show |
Method Man |
Rapper |
1-Apr-1971 |
|
Wu-Tang Clan |
William Manchester |
Author |
1-Apr-1922 |
1-Jun-2004 |
The Arms of Krupp |
Damien Marchessault |
Politician |
1-Apr-1818 |
20-Jan-1868 |
Los Angeles mayor, committed suicide |
Anamaria Marinca |
Actor |
1-Apr-1978 |
|
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days |
Abraham Maslow |
Psychologist |
1-Apr-1908 |
8-Jun-1970 |
Hierarchy of Needs |
Anne McCaffrey |
Author |
1-Apr-1926 |
21-Nov-2011 |
Pern series |
Larry McDonald |
Politician |
1-Apr-1935 |
1-Sep-1983 |
Congressman from Georgia, 1975-83 |
Toshirô Mifune |
Actor |
1-Apr-1920 |
24-Dec-1997 |
Yojimbo |
Mary Miles Minter |
Actor |
1-Apr-1902 |
4-Aug-1984 |
Anne of Green Gables |
Joseph E. Murray |
Doctor |
1-Apr-1919 |
|
Kidney transplants |
Terry Nichols |
Terrorist |
1-Apr-1955 |
|
Timothy McVeigh's partner in crime |
Annette O'Toole |
Actor |
1-Apr-1952 |
|
Martha Kent on Smallville |
Randy Orton |
Wrestling |
1-Apr-1980 |
|
The Legend Killer |
Hamaguchi Osachi |
Head of State |
1-Apr-1870 |
26-Aug-1931 |
Prime Minister of Japan, 1929-31 |
George Pake |
Scientist |
1-Apr-1924 |
4-Mar-2004 |
First director of Xerox PARC |
Bijou Phillips |
Musician |
1-Apr-1980 |
|
I'd Rather Eat Glass |
Jane Powell |
Actor |
1-Apr-1929 |
|
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
Charles H. Price II |
Diplomat |
1-Apr-1931 |
12-Jan-2012 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1983-89 |
John Quade |
Actor |
1-Apr-1938 |
9-Aug-2009 |
Every Which Way But Loose |
Debbie Reynolds |
Actor |
1-Apr-1932 |
|
Dancer, actress |
Daniel C. Roper |
Government |
1-Apr-1867 |
11-Apr-1943 |
US Commerce Secretary, 1933-38 |
Edmond Rostand |
Playwright |
1-Apr-1868 |
2-Dec-1918 |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
Bo Schembechler |
Football |
1-Apr-1929 |
17-Nov-2006 |
Michigan Wolverines Head Coach, 1969-89 |
Gil Scott-Heron |
Poet |
1-Apr-1949 |
27-May-2011 |
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
Melville Shavelson |
Film Director |
1-Apr-1917 |
8-Aug-2007 |
Yours, Mine and Ours |
Barry Sonnenfeld |
Film Director |
1-Apr-1953 |
|
Men in Black |
Hannah Spearritt |
Singer |
1-Apr-1981 |
|
In UK pop band S Club 7 |
Dennis Stanfill |
Business |
1-Apr-1927 |
|
CEO of 20th Century Fox, 1971-81 |
Rusty Staub |
Baseball |
1-Apr-1944 |
|
2716 career hits |
Sean Taylor |
Football |
1-Apr-1983 |
27-Nov-2007 |
Washington Redskins safety, murdered 2007 |
Ronald W. Tysoe |
Business |
1-Apr-1953 |
|
Vice Chairman of Federated, 1990-2006 |
John Varley |
Business |
1-Apr-1956 |
|
CEO of Barclays |
Edgar Wallace |
Novelist |
1-Apr-1875 |
10-Feb-1932 |
Highly prolific English novelist |
Kelli White |
Track and Field |
1-Apr-1977 |
|
Gold medalist sprinter, banned for drug use |
Grace Lee Whitney |
Actor |
1-Apr-1930 |
|
Yeoman Rand on Star Trek |
John Wilmot |
Poet |
1-Apr-1647 |
26-Jul-1680 |
Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery |
George A. Wilson |
Politician |
1-Apr-1884 |
8-Sep-1953 |
Governor of Iowa, 1939-43 |
Philip Yordan |
Screenwriter |
1-Apr-1914 |
24-Mar-2003 |
The Battle of the Bulge |
Richard Zsigmondy |
Chemist |
1-Apr-1865 |
23-Sep-1929 |
Ultramicroscope |