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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Flex Alexander
Actor
15-Apr-1970   One on One
Michael Ansara
Actor
15-Apr-1922   Cochise in Broken Arrow
Jeffrey Archer
Novelist
15-Apr-1940   First Among Equals
Michael Armacost
Diplomat
15-Apr-1937   US Ambassador to Japan, 1989-93
Maureen Arthur
Actor
15-Apr-1934   How to Succeed in Business
Evelyn Ashford
Track and Field
15-Apr-1957   Olympic sprinter, 4 Gold Medals
Josiane Balasko
Actor
15-Apr-1950   French Twist
Florence Bates
Actor
15-Apr-1888 31-Jan-1954 The Moon and Sixpence
Thomas Hart Benton
Painter
15-Apr-1889 19-Jan-1975 Muralist
Howard Berman
Politician
15-Apr-1941   Congressman, California 28th
Curtis Bernhardt
Film Director
15-Apr-1899 22-Feb-1981 A Stolen Life
Susanne Bier
Film Director
15-Apr-1960   Things We Lost in the Fire
Charles G. Boyd
Military
15-Apr-1938   Retired General, US Air Force
Alice Braga
Actor
15-Apr-1983   City of God
Martin Broughton
Business
15-Apr-1947   Chairman of British Airways
Joseph E. Brown
Politician
15-Apr-1821 30-Nov-1894 Governor of Georgia, 1857-65
Stanley Bruce
Head of State
15-Apr-1883 25-Aug-1967 Prime Minister of Australia, 1923-29
Thomas François Burgers
Head of State
15-Apr-1834 9-Dec-1881 President of Transvaal Republic
Claudia Cardinale
Actor
15-Apr-1938   Once Upon a Time in the West
Catherine I
Royalty
15-Apr-1684 17-May-1727 Empress of Russia, 1725-27
Lois Chiles
Actor
15-Apr-1947   Moonraker
Roy Clark
TV Personality
15-Apr-1933   Hee Haw
Hans Conried
Actor
15-Apr-1917 5-Jan-1982 Character actor, 1930s to 1970s
Leonardo Da Vinci
Artist
15-Apr-1452 2-May-1519 Mona Lisa, The Last Supper
Dzhokhar Dudayev
Military
15-Apr-1944 21-Apr-1996 Head of the Chechen rebellion
Dermot Dunphy
Business
15-Apr-1932   CEO of Sealed Air, 1971-99
Émile Durkheim
Sociologist
15-Apr-1858 15-Nov-1917 Rules of the Sociological Method
Dave Edmunds
Musician
15-Apr-1944   I Hear You Knocking
Leonhard Euler
Mathematician
15-Apr-1707 18-Sep-1783 The Elements of Euclid
Luke Evans
Actor
15-Apr-1979   Immortals
Dodi al-Fayed
Business
15-Apr-1955 31-Aug-1997 Princess Diana's last boyfriend
Charles Fried
Government
15-Apr-1935   US Solicitor General, 1985-89
Rikki Fulton
Comic
15-Apr-1924 28-Jan-2004 Scotland's beloved comedian
Jay Garner
Military
15-Apr-1938   Ex-Director of Reconstruction of Iraq
Wayne Gilchrest
Politician
15-Apr-1946   Congressman from Maryland, 1991-2009
Robert Gore
Chemist
15-Apr-1937   Co-inventor of Gore-Tex
Arshile Gorky
Painter
15-Apr-1904 21-Jul-1948 Abstract expressionist
Carol W. Greider
Scientist
15-Apr-1961   Co-Discoverer of telomerase
Richard A. Griffin
Judge
15-Apr-1952   6th Circuit Court of Appeals
Sarah Jane Hamilton
Pornstar
15-Apr-1971   I Cum From A Land Down Under
Helene Hanff
Author
15-Apr-1916 9-Apr-1997 84, Charing Cross Road
Walt Hazzard
Basketball
15-Apr-1942 18-Nov-2011 UCLA basketball coach 1984-88
Conrad Hubert
Business
15-Apr-1856 12-Mar-1928 Flashlights
Walter D. Huddleston
Politician
15-Apr-1926   US Senator from Kentucky, 1973-85
Henry James
Author
15-Apr-1843 28-Feb-1916 Portrait of a Lady
Marian Jordan
Actor
15-Apr-1898 7-Apr-1961 Molly of Fibber McGee and Molly
Benjamin Jowett
Scholar
15-Apr-1817 1-Oct-1893 Translator of Plato, etc.
Michael Kamen
Composer
15-Apr-1948 18-Nov-2003 Prolific film composer and conductor
Tom Kane
Actor
15-Apr-1962   Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Marilyn Kelly
Judge
15-Apr-1938   Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
Ken Lay
Business
15-Apr-1942 5-Jul-2006 CEO of Enron, 1986-2002
Harvey Lembeck
Actor
15-Apr-1923 5-Jan-1982 Cpl. Barbella on The Phil Silvers Show
Debra A. Livingston
Judge
15-Apr-1959   2nd Circuit Court of Appeals
Neville Marriner
Conductor
15-Apr-1924   Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Abu Hamza al-Masri
Religion
15-Apr-1958   Imam of Finsbury Park Mosque
Samuel R. McKelvie
Politician
15-Apr-1881 6-Oct-1956 Governor of Nebraska, 1919-23
Sam McMurray
Actor
15-Apr-1952   The Tracey Ullman Show
Robert L. Mills
Physicist
15-Apr-1927 27-Oct-1999 Subatomic particles
Elizabeth Montgomery
Actor
15-Apr-1933 18-May-1995 Samantha on Bewitched
John Lothrop Motley
Diplomat
15-Apr-1814 29-May-1877 The Rise of the Dutch Republic
Michael L. Mussa
Economist
15-Apr-1944   Council of Economic Advisers, 1986-88
David R. Nagle
Politician
15-Apr-1943   Congressman from Iowa, 1987-93
Ed O'Brien
Guitarist
15-Apr-1968   Guitar, shaky things for Radiohead
Linda Perry
Singer
15-Apr-1965   Rock chick singer and producer
Danny Pino
Actor
15-Apr-1974   Scotty Valens on Cold Case
Horace Porter
Diplomat
15-Apr-1837 25-May-1921 US Ambassador to France, 1897-1905
A. Philip Randolph
Activist
15-Apr-1889 16-May-1979 20th century civil rights leader
Wallace Reid
Actor
15-Apr-1891 18-Jan-1923 Silent film actor and director
Seth Rogen
Actor
15-Apr-1982   Knocked Up
John F. W. Rogers
Business
15-Apr-1956   Chief of Staff, Goldman Sachs
Théodore Rousseau
Painter
15-Apr-1812 22-Dec-1867 French landscape painter
Richard Rush
Film Director
15-Apr-1929   The Stunt Man
David Schlesinger
Journalist
15-Apr-1960   Editor-in-Chief of Reuters
Peter Secchia
Diplomat
15-Apr-1937   US Ambassador to Italy, 1989-93
Jason Sehorn
Football
15-Apr-1971   St. Louis Rams #42
Seka
Pornstar
15-Apr-1954   Blonde Fire, Inside Seka
Nikolay Semyonov
Chemist
15-Apr-1896 25-Sep-1986 Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics
Glenn Shadix
Actor
15-Apr-1952 7-Sep-2010 Beetlejuice
Albert Sharpe
Actor
15-Apr-1885 13-Feb-1970 Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Charity Shea
Actor
15-Apr-1984   Samantha Best on The Best Years
Sir Robert Sibbald
Doctor
15-Apr-1641 Aug-1722 Scottish physician and antiquary
C. J. Silas
Business
15-Apr-1932   CEO of Phillips Petroleum, 1985-94
Bessie Smith
Singer
15-Apr-1894 26-Sep-1937 Empress of the Blues
Julie Sommars
Actor
15-Apr-1942   ADA Julie March on Matlock
Douglas Spain
Actor
15-Apr-1974   Star Maps
Johannes Stark
Physicist
15-Apr-1874 21-Jun-1957 Discovered the Stark Effect
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve
Astronomer
15-Apr-1793 23-Nov-1864 Studied double stars
Suleiman II
Royalty
15-Apr-1642 23-Jun-1691 Ottoman Sultan, 1687-91
Kim Il Sung
Head of State
15-Apr-1912 8-Jul-1994 North Korea's official deity
Thomas Szasz
Psychiatrist
15-Apr-1920   Libertarian psychiatrist
Tim Thomas
Hockey
15-Apr-1974   Boston Bruins Goaltender
Emma Thompson
Actor
15-Apr-1959   Howard's End
Hugh Thompson
Military
15-Apr-1943 6-Jan-2006 Stopped the My Lai massacre
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Zoologist
15-Apr-1907 21-Dec-1988 Grand Master of Ethology
Dara Torres
Swimmer
15-Apr-1967   Swimmer, won medals in 5 Olympics
Anna Torv
Actor
15-Apr-1978   Olivia Dunham on Fringe
Tomas Tranströmer
Poet
15-Apr-1931   Scandinavian poet
Michael Tucci
Actor
15-Apr-1946   Norman Briggs on Diagnosis Murder
Robert Walker, Jr.
Actor
15-Apr-1940   Ensign Pulver
Susan Ward
Actor
15-Apr-1976   Meg Cummings on Sunset Beach
Harold Washington
Politician
15-Apr-1922 25-Nov-1987 First black Mayor of Chicago
Emma Watson
Actor
15-Apr-1990   Hermione in Harry Potter films
Richard von Weizsäcker
Head of State
15-Apr-1920   President of Germany, 1984-94
Thomas F. Wilson
Actor
15-Apr-1959   Biff Tannen in Back to the Future




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