| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |