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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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


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