| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Mumia Abu-Jamal |
Criminal |
23-Apr-1954 |
|
Black Panther, sentenced to death |
| Edmund Allenby |
Military |
23-Apr-1861 |
14-May-1936 |
Defeated the Turks in WWI |
| Ken Auletta |
Columnist |
23-Apr-1942 |
|
Media Columnist |
| Aram Avakian |
Film Director |
23-Apr-1926 |
17-Jan-1987 |
End of the Road |
| Scott Bairstow |
Actor |
23-Apr-1970 |
|
Ned on Party of Five |
| C. Fred Bergsten |
Economist |
23-Apr-1941 |
|
Institute for International Economics |
| Valerie Bertinelli |
Actor |
23-Apr-1960 |
|
One Day at a Time |
| David Birney |
Actor |
23-Apr-1939 |
|
Nightfall |
| Janet Blair |
Actor |
23-Apr-1921 |
19-Feb-2007 |
Night of the Eagle |
| Frank Borzage |
Film Director |
23-Apr-1894 |
19-Jun-1962 |
A Farewell to Arms |
| Jim Bottomley |
Baseball |
23-Apr-1900 |
11-Dec-1959 |
St. Louis Cardinal, Hall-of-Famer |
| Dolph Briscoe |
Politician |
23-Apr-1923 |
27-Jun-2010 |
Governor of Texas, 1973-79 |
| Blair Brown |
Actor |
23-Apr-1946 |
|
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd |
| James Buchanan |
Head of State |
23-Apr-1791 |
1-Jun-1868 |
15th US President, 1857-61 |
| Dolph Camilli |
Baseball |
23-Apr-1907 |
21-Oct-1997 |
National League MVP, 1941 |
| John Cena |
Wrestling |
23-Apr-1977 |
|
WWE Champion |
| W. Murray Crane |
Politician |
23-Apr-1853 |
2-Oct-1920 |
Governor and Senator from Massachusetts |
| Taio Cruz |
Singer/Songwriter |
23-Apr-1980 |
|
Break Your Heart |
| Hal Daub |
Politician |
23-Apr-1941 |
|
Mayor of Omaha, 1995-2001 |
| Judy Davis |
Actor |
23-Apr-1955 |
|
A Passage to India |
| Sandra Dee |
Actor |
23-Apr-1942 |
20-Feb-2005 |
Gidget |
| Chauncey Depew |
Politician |
23-Apr-1834 |
5-Apr-1928 |
Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society |
| Bernadette Devlin |
Politician |
23-Apr-1947 |
|
Northern Ireland nationalist |
| Joyce DeWitt |
Actor |
23-Apr-1949 |
|
Janet on Three's Company |
| E. J. Dionne |
Journalist |
23-Apr-1952 |
|
The Washington Post |
| Sanford Ballard Dole |
Politician |
23-Apr-1844 |
9-Jun-1926 |
Governor of Hawaii, 1900-03 |
| J. P. Donleavy |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1926 |
|
The Ginger Man |
| Stephen A. Douglas |
Politician |
23-Apr-1813 |
3-Jun-1861 |
US Senator, debated Lincoln |
| Tony Esposito |
Hockey |
23-Apr-1943 |
|
NHL Hall of Famer |
| Chuck Feeney |
Business |
23-Apr-1931 |
|
Duty Free Shoppers |
| Johannes Fibiger |
Scientist |
23-Apr-1867 |
30-Jan-1928 |
Caused cancer in lab rats |
| Ann M. Fudge |
Business |
23-Apr-1951 |
|
CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2003-07 |
| Samir G. Gibara |
Business |
23-Apr-1939 |
|
CEO of Goodyear, 1996-2002 |
| Gail Goodrich |
Basketball |
23-Apr-1943 |
|
NBA Hall of Famer |
| Friedrich von Hagedorn |
Poet |
23-Apr-1708 |
28-Oct-1754 |
German Anacreontic poet |
| Barry Hannah |
Author |
23-Apr-1942 |
1-Mar-2010 |
High Lonesome |
| John Hannah |
Actor |
23-Apr-1962 |
|
Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| Willie Herenton |
Politician |
23-Apr-1940 |
|
Mayor of Memphis |
| Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson |
Composer |
23-Apr-1958 |
|
Icelandic film composer |
| Jan Hooks |
Comic |
23-Apr-1957 |
|
Saturday Night Live |
| Fenton J. A. Hort |
Religion |
23-Apr-1828 |
30-Nov-1892 |
Translator of the New Testament |
| Raymond Huntley |
Actor |
23-Apr-1904 |
19-Oct-1990 |
Passport to Pimlico |
| Lucinda Jenney |
Actor |
23-Apr-1954 |
|
Rain Man |
| Andruw Jones |
Baseball |
23-Apr-1977 |
|
Los Angeles Dodgers |
| Melina Kanakaredes |
Actor |
23-Apr-1967 |
|
Det. Bonasera on CSI: NY |
| Margaret Kennedy |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1896 |
31-Jul-1967 |
The Constant Nymph |
| Jaime King |
Actor |
23-Apr-1979 |
|
White Chicks |
| Aerin Lauder |
Business |
23-Apr-1970 |
|
Senior VP at Estée Lauder |
| Halldór Laxness |
Author |
23-Apr-1902 |
8-Feb-1998 |
Iceland's Bell |
| George Lopez |
Comic |
23-Apr-1961 |
|
Stand-up comic, George Lopez Show |
| Lee Majors |
Actor |
23-Apr-1939 |
|
Six Million Dollar Man |
| Silvana Mangano |
Actor |
23-Apr-1930 |
16-Dec-1989 |
Bitter Rice and Anna |
| Edwin Markham |
Poet |
23-Apr-1852 |
7-Mar-1940 |
The Man With the Hoe |
| Ngaio Marsh |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1895 |
18-Feb-1982 |
New Zealand detective novelist |
| Timothy McVeigh |
Terrorist |
23-Apr-1968 |
11-Jun-2001 |
Oklahoma City Bomber |
| Leon of Modena |
Religion |
23-Apr-1571 |
24-Mar-1648 |
Riti Ebraici |
| Michael Moore |
Film Director |
23-Apr-1954 |
|
Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| Talbot Mundy |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1879 |
5-Aug-1940 |
King of the Khyber Rifles |
| Vladimir Nabokov |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1899 |
2-Jul-1977 |
Lolita |
| Ronald Neame |
Film Director |
23-Apr-1911 |
16-Jun-2010 |
The Poseidon Adventure |
| Jimmie Noone |
Jazz Musician |
23-Apr-1895 |
19-Apr-1944 |
New Orleans jazz clarinetist |
| Bertil Ohlin |
Economist |
23-Apr-1899 |
3-Aug-1979 |
Hecksher-Ohlin model of free trade |
| John Oliver |
Comic |
23-Apr-1977 |
|
The Daily Show |
| Roy Orbison |
Singer/Songwriter |
23-Apr-1936 |
6-Dec-1988 |
Pretty Woman |
| Thomas Nelson Page |
Author |
23-Apr-1853 |
1-Nov-1922 |
In Ole Virginia |
| Dev Patel |
Actor |
23-Apr-1990 |
|
Slumdog Millionaire |
| Lester Bowles Pearson |
Head of State |
23-Apr-1897 |
27-Dec-1972 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1963-68 |
| Kal Penn |
Actor |
23-Apr-1977 |
|
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle |
| Max Planck |
Physicist |
23-Apr-1858 |
4-Oct-1947 |
Originator of quantum theory |
| Sergei Prokofiev |
Composer |
23-Apr-1891 |
5-Mar-1953 |
Peter and the Wolf |
| Duncan Renaldo |
Actor |
23-Apr-1904 |
3-Sep-1980 |
The Cisco Kid |
| James Russo |
Actor |
23-Apr-1953 |
|
The Box |
| Captain Sensible |
Bassist |
23-Apr-1954 |
|
Ex-bassist, The Damned |
| William Shakespeare |
Playwright |
23-Apr-1564 |
23-Apr-1616 |
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth |
| Craig Sheffer |
Actor |
23-Apr-1960 |
|
A River Runs Through It |
| Simone Simon |
Actor |
23-Apr-1910 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Cat People |
| Warren Spahn |
Baseball |
23-Apr-1921 |
24-Nov-2003 |
Winner of 1957 Cy Young Award |
| George Steiner |
Critic |
23-Apr-1929 |
|
After Babel |
| Johannes Stumpf |
Historian |
23-Apr-1500 |
1578 |
Swiss chronicler, theologian |
| Basil Sydney |
Actor |
23-Apr-1894 |
10-Jan-1968 |
English stage actor |
| Steve Symms |
Politician |
23-Apr-1938 |
|
US Senator from Idaho, 1981-93 |
| James V. Taranik |
Geologist |
23-Apr-1940 |
21-Jun-2011 |
Desert Research Institute |
| Shirley Temple |
Actor |
23-Apr-1928 |
|
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
| J. M. W. Turner |
Painter |
23-Apr-1775 |
19-Dec-1851 |
Romanticist English lanscape painter |
| Matthew Underwood |
Actor |
23-Apr-1990 |
|
Logan Reese on Zoey 101 |
| Fred Upton |
Politician |
23-Apr-1953 |
|
Congressman, Michigan 6th |
| Hervé Villechaize |
Actor |
23-Apr-1943 |
4-Sep-1993 |
Boss, the plane! The plane! |
| Artemus Ward |
Columnist |
23-Apr-1834 |
6-Mar-1867 |
Humorist |
| Arthur K. Watson |
Business |
23-Apr-1919 |
26-Jul-1974 |
Past President of IBM World Corp. |
| Barry Watson |
Actor |
23-Apr-1974 |
|
Matt Camden on 7th Heaven |
| Bud Wilkinson |
Football |
23-Apr-1916 |
9-Feb-1994 |
Sooners Head Coach, 1947-63 |
| Lauri Ylönen |
Singer |
23-Apr-1979 |
|
Lead vocalist of The Rasmus |
