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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Don Adams
Actor
13-Apr-1926 25-Sep-2005 Maxwell Smart on Get Smart
Robert O. Anderson
Business
13-Apr-1917 2-Dec-2007 CEO of ARCO, 1966-86
Jeanne Balibar
Actor
13-Apr-1968   Va Savoir
A. L. Barker
Novelist
13-Apr-1918 21-Feb-2002 Innocents
Mari Blanchard
Actor
13-Apr-1927 10-May-1970 She-Devil
John Braine
Novelist
13-Apr-1922 28-Oct-1986 Room at the Top
Joseph Bramah
Inventor
13-Apr-1748 9-Dec-1814 Inventor of the hydraulic press
Jonathan Brandis
Actor
13-Apr-1976 12-Nov-2003 Lucas Wolenczak on SeaQuest
Lyn Brown
Politician
13-Apr-1960   British MP, West Ham
Michael S. Brown
Biologist
13-Apr-1941   Metabolism of cholesterol
Peabo Bryson
Singer
13-Apr-1951   If Ever You're In My Arms Again
Roberto Calvi
Business
13-Apr-1920 17-Jun-1982 Vatican banker who died mysteriously
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Politician
13-Apr-1933   US Senator from Colorado, 1993-2005
Jack Casady
Bassist
13-Apr-1944   Jefferson Airplane
Bob Casey, Jr.
Politician
13-Apr-1960   US Senator from Pennsylvania
Butch Cassidy
Criminal
13-Apr-1866 c. 1908 Train and bank robber
Jack Chick
Cartoonist
13-Apr-1924   Anti-Catholic comics publisher
Alan Clark
Politician
13-Apr-1928 5-Sep-1999 Controversial, Conservative MP and minister
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Novelist
13-Apr-1940   Nomadic novelist
Jim Costa
Politician
13-Apr-1952   Congressman, California 20th
Félicien-César David
Composer
13-Apr-1810 29-Aug-1876 Le Désert
Baron Davis
Basketball
13-Apr-1979   Golden State Warriors
John W. Davis
Attorney
13-Apr-1873 24-Mar-1955 US Solicitor General, 1913-18
Susan Davis
Politician
13-Apr-1944   Congresswoman, California 53rd
Peter Davison
Actor
13-Apr-1951   The Fifth Doctor Who
Catherine de Medici
Royalty
13-Apr-1519 5-Jan-1589 De facto ruler of France, 1547-59
Bob Devaney
Football
13-Apr-1915 9-May-1997 Cornhuskers Head Coach, 1962-72
Michel Deville
Film Director
13-Apr-1931   La Lectrice
Stanley Donen
Film Director
13-Apr-1924   Singin' in the Rain
Tony Dow
Actor
13-Apr-1945   Wally on Leave It to Beaver
Richard T. Ely
Economist
13-Apr-1854 4-Oct-1943 Introduction to Political Economy
James Ensor
Painter
13-Apr-1860 19-Nov-1949 Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889
Arthur Fadden
Head of State
13-Apr-1895 21-Apr-1973 Prime Minister of Australia, 1941
Guy Fawkes
Criminal
13-Apr-1570 31-Jan-1606 Tried to blow up British Parliament
Edward Fox
Actor
13-Apr-1937   Force 10 from Navarone
Kelli Giddish
Actor
13-Apr-1980   Di Henry on All My Children
Amy Goodman
Radio Personality
13-Apr-1957   Host of Democracy Now!
Victoria A. Graffeo
Judge
13-Apr-1952   Judge, NY Court of Appeals
Al Green
Singer
13-Apr-1946   Let's Stay Together
Seamus Heaney
Poet
13-Apr-1939   The Spirit Level
Christopher Hitchens
Journalist
13-Apr-1949 15-Dec-2011 Agent provocateur
Kyle Howard
Actor
13-Apr-1978   Bobby Newman on My Boys
Glenn Howerton
Actor
13-Apr-1976   Dennis Reynolds on It's Always Sunny
Thomas Jefferson
Head of State
13-Apr-1743 4-Jul-1826 3rd US President, 1801-09
Charles F. Johnson
Blogger
13-Apr-1953   Little Green Footballs
Garry Kasparov
Chess Player
13-Apr-1963   Grand Master chess player
Howard Keel
Actor
13-Apr-1919 7-Nov-2004 Clayton Farlow on Dallas
Jacques Lacan
Psychiatrist
13-Apr-1901 9-Sep-1981 The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I
Jack Lambert
Actor
13-Apr-1920 18-Feb-2002 Riverboat
Nella Larsen
Novelist
13-Apr-1891 30-Mar-1964 Quicksand
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Painter
13-Apr-1769 7-Jan-1830 English portrait painter
Donald James Leslie
Inventor
13-Apr-1911 2-Sep-2004 Invented the Leslie Speaker
Terry Lester
Actor
13-Apr-1950 28-Nov-2003 The Young and the Restless
Aaron Lewis
Singer
13-Apr-1972   Staind frontman
Richard Linn
Judge
13-Apr-1944   US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orléans
Royalty
13-Apr-1747 6-Nov-1793 Philippe Égalité
Davis Love III
Golf
13-Apr-1964   Winner, 1997 PGA Championship
Tully Marshall
Actor
13-Apr-1864 10-Mar-1943 The Covered Wagon
Max Mosley
Auto Racing
13-Apr-1940   Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
John E. Moss
Politician
13-Apr-1915 5-Dec-1997 Congressman from California, 1953-78
Frank Murphy
Judge
13-Apr-1890 19-Jul-1949 US Supreme Court Justice, 1940-49
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Religion
13-Apr-1919 Sep-1995 Atheist spokeswoman
Thomas Percy
Author
13-Apr-1729 30-Sep-1811 Percy Reliques
Ron Perlman
Actor
13-Apr-1950   Hellboy
Allen I. Questrom
Business
13-Apr-1941   CEO of JC Penney, 2000-04
Jack Quinn
Politician
13-Apr-1951   Congressman from New York, 1993-2005
Caroline Rhea
Actor
13-Apr-1964   Hilda Spellman on Sabrina
Maurice Ronet
Actor
13-Apr-1927 14-Mar-1983 Elevator to the Gallows
Bruno Rossi
Astronomer
13-Apr-1905 21-Nov-1993 Rossi curve and magnetopause
Christian Rub
Actor
13-Apr-1886 14-Apr-1956 Voice of Gepetto
William Sadler
Actor
13-Apr-1950   The Shawshank Redemption
Hideki Saijo
Singer
13-Apr-1945   Popular Japanese vocalist
Rick Schroder
Actor
13-Apr-1970   Silver Spoons
Hillel Slovak
Guitarist
13-Apr-1962 25-Jun-1988 Guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Paul Sorvino
Actor
13-Apr-1939   Det. Cerreta on Law & Order
John Spencer-Churchill
Aristocrat
13-Apr-1926   11th Duke of Marlborough
Harold Stassen
Politician
13-Apr-1907 4-Mar-2001 Perennial presidential candidate
Morton Subotnick
Electronic Musician
13-Apr-1933   Silver Apples of the Moon
Doreen Tracey
Actor
13-Apr-1943   Former Mouseketeer
Lyle Waggoner
Actor
13-Apr-1935   Wonder Woman, owns Star Waggons
Richard L. Walker
Scholar
13-Apr-1922 22-Jul-2003 US Ambassador to South Korea, 1981-86
Kevin M. Warsh
Economist
13-Apr-1970   Federal Reserve Governor, 2006-11
Robert Watson-Watt
Physicist
13-Apr-1892 5-Dec-1973 Radar
Max Weinberg
Drummer
13-Apr-1951   Drummer for Springsteen and Conan
Eudora Welty
Author
13-Apr-1909 23-Jul-2001 The Optimist's Daughter
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Educator
13-Apr-1875 26-Jun-1949 President of Stanford University, 1916-43
Lanford Wilson
Playwright
13-Apr-1937 24-Mar-2011 The Hot L Baltimore
Bokeem Woodbine
Actor
13-Apr-1973   The Big Hit
F. W. Woolworth
Business
13-Apr-1852 8-Apr-1919 Five and dime magnate
Herbert O. Yardley
Scientist
13-Apr-1889 7-Aug-1958 U.S. cryptographer during WWI




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