Birthdays

[Nelson Muntz]

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

[Nelson Muntz]

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

[Nelson Muntz]

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)

[Nelson Muntz]

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")