April 25
Oliver Cromwell 1599
Guglielmo Marconi 1874
Edward R. Murrow 1908
Earl Bostic 1913
Sal Franzella 1915
Jerry Barber 1916
Ella Fitzgerald 1918
Robert Q. Lewis 1920
Albert King 1923
Anita Bjorak 1923
Melissa Hayden 1923
Vassar Clements 1928
Paul Mazursky 1930
Gator Jackson 1932
Meadowlark Lemon 1932 - Basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters
Jerry Leiber 1933
Anthony Lukas 1933
Al Pacino 1940
Stu Cook 1945 - Musician (CCR)
Bjorn Ulvaeus 1945 - Musician (Abba)
Talia Shire 1946
Jeffrey De Munn 1947
Michael Brown 1949 - Musician (The Left Banke)
Hank Azaria 1964
Andy Bell 1964 - Musician (Erasure)
James Barbour 1965 - Actor
Eric Avery 1965 - Musician (Jane's Addiction)
Renee Zellweger 1969
Emily Bergl 1975
April 26
Birthdays
John James Audubon 1785 - POrnithologist, naturalist, painter
Frederick Olmsted 1822 - Journalist, landscape designer
Jessie Redmon Fauset 1882 - Poet, essayist, novelist
Anita Loos 1893 - Screenwriter, playwright, author
Rudolf Hess 1895 - Adolf Hitler's Deputy in the Nazi Party
Charles Richter 1900 - Seismologist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale used to quantify earthquakes
Teddy Edwards 1924 - Jazz musician
Jorgen Ingmann 1925 - Musician
Bernard Malamud 1914 - Author of novels and short stories
Bambi Linn 1926 - Dancer
Carol Burnett 1933 - Actress, comedian
Duane Eddy 1938 - Musician
Maurice Williams 1938 - Musician (Zodiacs)
Claudine Clark 1941 - Musician
Bobby Rydell 1942 - Singer
Claudine Auger 1942 - Actress ("Thunderball")
Gary Wright 1943 - Musician
Giorgio Moroder 1944 - Record producer, songwriter, performer
Boyd Matson 1947 - Television anchor (National Geographic Explorer, NBC's Weekend Today)
Donna De Varona 1947 - Swimmer
Giancarlo Esposito 1958 - Actor, director
Roger Taylor 1960 - Musician (Duran Duran)
Chris Mars 1961 - Artist, musician
Joan Chen 1961 - Actress
Michael Damian 1962 - Actor, singer, producer
Jet Li 1963 - Actor ("War", "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor")
Kevin James 1965 - Actor ("I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry", "The King of Queens")
Marianne Jean-Baptiste 1967 - Actress ("Without a Trace")
T-Boz (Tionne Tenese Watkins) 1970 - Songwriter (TLC)
Jordan Brewster 1980 - Actress
Marnette Patterson 1980 - Actress
Jessica Lynch 1983
April 27
Edward Gibbon 1737 - Historian, author
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 1759 - Author
Samuel F.B. (Finley Breese) Morse 1791 - Inventor (electromagnetic telegraph)
Ulysses S. Grant 1822 - 18th U.S. President, Lt. General in command of all Union armies during the U.S. Civil War, nickname: Hero of Appomattox
- Today in U.S. Civil War History - More information here - Today in U.S. President History
Edward Whymper 1840
Wallace Hume 1896
Rogers "Rajah" Hornsby 1896 - Baseball player
Walter Lantz 1900 - Animator, creator of Woody Woodpecker
Enos (Bradsher) "Country" Slaughter 1916 - Baseball player
Jack Klugman 1922 - Actor ("The Odd Couple", "Quincy, M.E.")
Coretta Scott King 1927 - Wife of Dr. Martin Luther King
Chuck Knox 1932
Casey Kasem (Kemal Amin Kasem) 1932 - Radio announcer, DJ, host ("American Top 40), character voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo, actor ("Hawaii Five-O")
Maxine Brown 1932 - Musician (The Browns)
Calvin Newborn 1933 - Jazz/blues guitarist, brother of pianist Phineas Newborn Jr.
Anouk Aimee (Françoise Sorya Dreyfus) 1934 - Actress ("La Dolce Vita", "Dr. Bethune")
Phil Jones 1937 - Newsman
Sandy Dennis 1937 - Actress ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff [1966]", "Splendor in the Grass")
Judy Carne 1939 - Actress, comedienne
Judith Blegen 1941 - Opera singer
Lee Roy Jordan 1941 - Football player
Bob Foster 1942 - Boxer
Cuba Gooding 1944 - Singer
Doug Buffone 1944 - Football player
Ann Peebles 1947 - Singer
Mack Alston 1947 - Football player
Keith Magnuson 1947 - Hockey player
Pete Ham 1947 - Musician (Badfinger)
Dave Peel 1947 - Musician (The Lower East Side)
Kate Pierson 1948 - Musician (B-52's), Official B-52s Store
Herbie Murrell 1949 - Singer (The Stylistics)
Douglas Sheehan 1949 - Actor
Clive Taylor 1949 - Musician (Amen Corner)
Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley 1951 - Musician (KISS, Frehley's Comet)
Gary Huff 1951 - Football player
George Gervin 1952 - Basketball player
Sheena Easton 1959 - Singer
Marco Pirroni 1959 - Musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees, Adam & the Ants)
James Le Gros 1962 - Actor
Rob Squires 1965 - Musician (Big Head Todd & the Monsters)
Mica Paris 1969 - Singer
Travis Meeks 1979 - Musician (Days of the New)
April 28
James Monroe 1758 - 5th U.S. President, nickname: The Last Cocked Hat
Charles Stuart 1795
Mifflin Gibbs 1828
Louise Homer 1871 - Opera singer
Sidney Toler 1874 - Actor ("Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum", "The Jade Mask")
Lionel Barrymore 1878 - Actor ("Captains Courageous", "It's a Wonderful Life")
Red (Charles Frederick) Lucas 1902 - Baseball player, "The Nashvilled Narcissus"
Odette Hallowes 1912
Robert Anderson 1917 - Playwright ("Tea and Sympathy", "The Nun's Story")
Rowland Evans 1921
(Nelle) Harper Lee 1926 - Author ("To Kill A Mockingbird")
Blossom Dearie 1926 - Musician (Blue Stars)
Carolyn Jones 1933
Jackie (John George) Brandt 1934 - Baseball player
Saddam Hussein 1937 - Iraqi leader
Madge Sinclair 1938 - Actress ("Trapper John M.D.", "Coming to America")
Ann-Margret (Olsson) 1941 - Singer, actress ("Viva Las Vegas", "Grumpy Old Men")
John Walters 1945 - Musician (Dr. Hook)
Marcia Strassman 1948 - Actress ("Welcome Back Kotter", "Another Stakeout"), singer
Pablo (Arnoldo) Torrealba 1948 - Baseball player
Bruno Kirby 1949 - Actor ("The Basketball Diaries", "When Harry Met Sally")
Paul Guilfoyle 1955 - Actor ("CSI: Crime Scene Investigation")
Jay Leno 1950 - Comedian, television talk show host ("The Tonight Show")
Jim Wiley 1950 - Hockey player
Mary McDonnell 1953 - Actress
Tony Peters 1953 - Football player
Kim Gordon 1953 - Musician (Sonic Youth)
Barry Larkin 1964 - Baseball player
Too Short 1966 - Rapper
Chris Young 1971 - Actor ("Falcon Crest", "The Great Outdoors")
Simba Khali 1971 - Actress
Big Gipp 1973 - Rapper
Elisabeth Rohm 1973 - Actress
Jorge Garcia 1973 - Actor ("Becker", "Lost") - Official Lost Products
Penelope Cruz 1974 - Actress
Nate Richert 1978 - Actor
Jessica Alba 1981 - Actress ("Dark Angel")