| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Harold Arlen |
Songwriter |
15-Feb-1905 |
23-Apr-1986 |
Wrote score to Wizard of Oz |
| Yitzhak Ben-Zvi |
Head of State |
24-Nov-1884 |
23-Apr-1963 |
President of Israel, 1952-63 |
| Jules Berry |
Actor |
9-Feb-1883 |
23-Apr-1951 |
Le Jour se lève |
| Joh Bjelke-Petersen |
Politician |
13-Jan-1911 |
23-Apr-2005 |
Former Premier of Queensland, Australia |
| Brian Boru |
Royalty |
940 AD |
23-Apr-1014 |
High King of Ireland, 1002-14 |
| Rupert Brooke |
Poet |
3-Aug-1887 |
23-Apr-1915 |
1914 and Other Poems |
| Cesar Chavez |
Labor Leader |
31-Mar-1927 |
23-Apr-1993 |
Mastermind of the California grape boycott |
| Howard Cosell |
Sports Journalist |
25-Mar-1918 |
23-Apr-1995 |
Straight-shooting, toupee-wearing commentator |
| Buster Crabbe |
Actor |
17-Feb-1907 |
23-Apr-1983 |
Flash Gordon |
| Charles G. Dawes |
Politician |
27-Aug-1865 |
23-Apr-1951 |
US Vice President, 1925-29 |
| Paul Erdman |
Economist |
19-May-1932 |
23-Apr-2007 |
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing |
| Sam Ervin |
Politician |
27-Sep-1896 |
23-Apr-1985 |
US Senator from North Carolina, 1954-74 |
| King Ethelred II |
Royalty |
c. 968 AD |
23-Apr-1016 |
King of England 978-1013 & 1014-16 |
| Stanley Fields |
Actor |
20-May-1883 |
23-Apr-1941 |
Way Out West |
| St. George |
Religion |
? |
23-Apr-303 AD |
Patron saint of England |
| Paulette Goddard |
Actor |
3-Jun-1910 |
23-Apr-1990 |
Reap the Wild Wind |
| David Halberstam |
Journalist |
10-Apr-1934 |
23-Apr-2007 |
The Powers That Be |
| L. B. Hanna |
Politician |
9-Aug-1861 |
23-Apr-1948 |
Governor of North Dakota, 1913-17 |
| William Hartnell |
Actor |
8-Jan-1908 |
23-Apr-1975 |
The First Doctor Who |
| Jennifer Jayne |
Actor |
14-Nov-1931 |
23-Apr-2006 |
The Crawling Eye |
| Max von Laue |
Physicist |
9-Oct-1879 |
23-Apr-1960 |
X-ray crystallography |
| Maurice of Nassau |
Royalty |
13-Nov-1567 |
23-Apr-1625 |
Prince of Orange |
| John Mills |
Actor |
22-Feb-1908 |
23-Apr-2005 |
Ryan's Daughter |
| Alferd Packer |
Criminal |
21-Nov-1842 |
23-Apr-1907 |
Celebrated cannibal killer |
| Karl Polanyi |
Scholar |
25-Oct-1886 |
23-Apr-1964 |
The Great Transformation |
| Otto Preminger |
Film Director |
5-Dec-1906 |
23-Apr-1986 |
Anatomy of a Murder |
| James Earl Ray |
Assassin |
10-Mar-1928 |
23-Apr-1998 |
Pled guilty in Martin Luther King's assassination |
| Satyajit Ray |
Film Director |
2-May-1921 |
23-Apr-1992 |
Pather Panchali |
| Selena Royle |
Actor |
6-Nov-1904 |
23-Apr-1983 |
The Fighting Sullivans |
| Charles Edward Russell |
Author |
25-Sep-1860 |
23-Apr-1941 |
The Greatest Trust in the World |
| William Shakespeare |
Playwright |
23-Apr-1564 |
23-Apr-1616 |
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth |
| Herb Shriner |
Actor |
29-May-1918 |
23-Apr-1970 |
Two for the Money |
| Kent Smith |
Actor |
19-Mar-1907 |
23-Apr-1985 |
Cat People |
| John C. Stennis |
Politician |
3-Aug-1901 |
23-Apr-1995 |
US Senator from Mississippi, 1947-89 |
| Max van der Stoel |
Politician |
3-Aug-1924 |
23-Apr-2011 |
Two-time Dutch Foreign Minister |
| Johnny Thunders |
Guitarist |
15-Jul-1952 |
23-Apr-1991 |
New York Dolls guitarist |
| Henry Vaughan |
Poet |
17-Apr-1622 |
23-Apr-1695 |
Silex Scintillans |
| Clifton R. Wharton |
Diplomat |
11-May-1899 |
23-Apr-1983 |
First Black Career US Ambassador |
| William Wordsworth |
Poet |
7-Apr-1770 |
23-Apr-1850 |
English romantic poet laureate |
| Boris Yeltsin |
Head of State |
1-Feb-1931 |
23-Apr-2007 |
First president of post-Soviet Russia |
| John Young |
Politician |
12-Jun-1802 |
23-Apr-1852 |
Governor of New York, 1847-49 |
