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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Mason Adams
Actor
26-Feb-1919 26-Apr-2005 Charlie Hume on Lou Grant
Hasil Adkins
Musician
29-Apr-1937 26-Apr-2005 Rockabilly one man band
Edward Arnold
Actor
18-Feb-1890 26-Apr-1956 You Can't Take It With You
George Frederick Baer
Business
26-Sep-1842 26-Apr-1914 Social Darwinist railroad baron
Lucille Ball
Actor
6-Aug-1911 26-Apr-1989 I Love Lucy
Count Basie
Pianist
21-Aug-1904 26-Apr-1984 Big band pianist
John Beal
Actor
13-Aug-1909 26-Apr-1997 The Little Minister
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Playwright
8-Dec-1832 26-Apr-1910 Synnöve Solbakken
Michael Bohnen
Singer
2-May-1887 26-Apr-1965 Operatic bass baritone
John Wilkes Booth
Assassin
10-May-1838 26-Apr-1865 Abraham Lincoln's assassin
Carl Bosch
Chemist
27-Aug-1874 26-Apr-1940 Chairman of I. G. Farben
John Bunny
Actor
21-Sep-1863 26-Apr-1915 Comic starred in over 200 short films
Cicely Courtneidge
Actor
1-Apr-1893 26-Apr-1980 The Ghost Train
Broderick Crawford
Actor
9-Dec-1911 26-Apr-1986 All the King's Men
Jim Davis
Actor
26-Aug-1909 26-Apr-1981 Jock Ewing on Dallas
Madge Evans
Actor
1-Jul-1909 26-Apr-1981 Hallelujah I'm a Bum
Robert Garioch
Poet
9-May-1909 26-Apr-1981 Scots dialect poet
Archie M. Gubbrud
Politician
31-Dec-1910 26-Apr-1987 Governor of South Dakota, 1961-65
A. B. Guthrie
Novelist
13-Jan-1901 26-Apr-1991 The Way West
Guillermo Haro
Astronomer
21-Mar-1913 26-Apr-1988 Herbig-Haro objects
Jan Davidsz de Heem
Painter
1606 26-Apr-1684 17th c. Dutch still life painter
Edmund Husserl
Philosopher
8-Apr-1859 26-Apr-1938 Phenomenological philosopher
Sid James
Actor
8-May-1913 26-Apr-1976 Carry on...
Celia Johnson
Actor
18-Dec-1908 26-Apr-1982 Brief Encounter
Corliss Lamont
Activist
28-Mar-1902 26-Apr-1995 Millionaire socialist
Gypsy Rose Lee
Dancer
9-Feb-1911 26-Apr-1970 Terpsichorean ecdysiast
Bessie Love
Actor
10-Sep-1898 26-Apr-1986 The Broadway Melody
Albert Maltz
Playwright
28-Oct-1908 26-Apr-1985 One of the Hollywood Ten
George Herbert Mead
Philosopher
27-Feb-1863 26-Apr-1931 Pragmatist, social behaviorist
E. J. Pratt
Poet
4-Feb-1883 26-Apr-1964 Newfoundland Verse
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematician
22-Dec-1887 26-Apr-1920 Self-educated mathematician
George Rublee
Government
7-Jul-1868 26-Apr-1957 Advisor to Woodrow Wilson
Irene Ryan
Actor
17-Oct-1902 26-Apr-1973 Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Poet
19-May-1890 26-Apr-1916 Dispersão
Maria Schell
Actor
15-Jan-1926 26-Apr-2005 The Heart of the Matter
Hubert Selby
Author
23-Jul-1928 26-Apr-2004 Requiem for a Dream
Thomas P. Shoesmith
Diplomat
25-Jan-1922 26-Apr-2007 US Ambassador to Malaysia, 1983-87
Phoebe Snow
Jazz Musician
17-Jul-1952 26-Apr-2011 Jazz vocalist
Valerie Solanas
Activist
9-Apr-1936 26-Apr-1988 Shot Andy Warhol
Arnold Sommerfeld
Physicist
5-Dec-1868 26-Apr-1951 Fine-structure constant
Pope Stephen II
Religion
? 26-Apr-757 AD Forged the Donation of Constantine
Eduard Suess
Geologist
20-Aug-1831 26-Apr-1914 Das Antlitz der Erde
Jack Valenti
Business
5-Sep-1921 26-Apr-2007 Presidential advisor, headed the MPAA




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