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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Dean Armstrong
Actor
24-Apr-1973   Blake on Queer as Folk
Eric Balfour
Actor
24-Apr-1977   Claire's boyfriend on Six Feet Under
Carlos Beltran
Baseball
24-Apr-1977   Outfielder, New York Mets
David H. Blackwell
Mathematician
24-Apr-1919 8-Jul-2010 Bayesian statistics
Eric Bogosian
Actor
24-Apr-1953   Talk Radio
Manuel Ávila Camacho
Head of State
24-Apr-1897 13-Oct-1955 President of Mexico, 1940-46
Jim Capaldi
Drummer
24-Apr-1944 28-Jan-2005 Drummer/Songwriter for Traffic
Edmund Cartwright
Inventor
24-Apr-1743 30-Oct-1823 Invented the power loom
William Castle
Film Director
24-Apr-1914 31-May-1977 House on Haunted Hill
Paul Cellucci
Politician
24-Apr-1948   Governor of Massachusetts, 1997-2001
Melinda Clarke
Actor
24-Apr-1969   Julie Cooper-Nichol on The O.C.
Kelly Clarkson
Singer
24-Apr-1982   First winner of American Idol
F. Anthony Comper
Business
24-Apr-1945   President of Bank of Montreal, 1990-2007
Kenneth L. Connor
Activist
24-Apr-1947   President of the Family Research Council, 2000-03
Guy Cordon
Politician
24-Apr-1890 8-Jun-1969 US Senator from Oregon, 1944-55
Stafford Cripps
Politician
24-Apr-1889 21-Apr-1952 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1947-50
Richard M. Daley
Politician
24-Apr-1942   Mayor of Chicago, 1989-2011
Peter Vivian Daniel
Judge
24-Apr-1784 31-May-1860 US Supreme Court Justice, 1842-60
Willem de Kooning
Painter
24-Apr-1904 19-Mar-1997 Abstract expressionist
Richard Donner
Film Director
24-Apr-1930   Superman
Morgan Earp
Government
24-Apr-1851 18-Mar-1882 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Cedric the Entertainer
Comic
24-Apr-1964   The Steve Harvey Show
Thorbjörn Fälldin
Head of State
24-Apr-1926   Twice Prime Minister of Sweden
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Fashion Designer
24-Apr-1952   Made Madonna's black studded bra
Jim Geringer
Politician
24-Apr-1944   Governor of Wyoming, 1995-2003
Aidan Gillen
Actor
24-Apr-1968   Stuart Alan Jones on Queer as Folk
James L. Goddard
Government
24-Apr-1923 18-Dec-2009 FDA Commissioner, 1966-68
Reagan Gomez-Preston
Actor
24-Apr-1980   Zaria Peterson on The Parent 'Hood
Len Goodman
Dancer
24-Apr-1942   Judge, Dancing with the Stars
Sue Grafton
Author
24-Apr-1940   A Is for Alibi, B Is for ...
Stacy Haiduk
Actor
24-Apr-1968   Seaquest DSV
Daniela Hantuchova
Tennis
24-Apr-1983   Won Pacific Life Open in 2002
George J. Harad
Business
24-Apr-1944   CEO of Boise Cascade, 1995-2004
Lord Haw-Haw
Radio Personality
24-Apr-1906 3-Jan-1946 WWII propagandist hanged in England
John P. Hiler
Politician
24-Apr-1953   Congressman from Indiana, 1981-91
Richard C. Holbrooke
Diplomat
24-Apr-1941 13-Dec-2010 US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Julius C. Holmes
Diplomat
24-Apr-1899 15-Jul-1968 US Ambassador to Iran, 1961-65
Friedrich von Holstein
Politician
24-Apr-1837 8-May-1909 Ran the German foreign office
Djimon Hounsou
Actor
24-Apr-1964   In America
Virginia Huston
Actor
24-Apr-1925 28-Feb-1981 Tarzan's Peril
Jill Ireland
Actor
24-Apr-1936 18-May-1990 Love and Bullets
Chipper Jones
Baseball
24-Apr-1972   Atlanta Braves third-baseman
Stanley Kauffmann
Critic
24-Apr-1916   Film critic for The New Republic
Enda Kenny
Head of State
24-Apr-1951   Prime Minister of Ireland
Jack Kingston
Politician
24-Apr-1955   Congressman, Georgia 1st
Roger D. Kornberg
Scientist
24-Apr-1947   Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
Thad Luckinbill
Actor
24-Apr-1975   The Young and the Restless
Sir Thomas Lucy
Aristocrat
24-Apr-1532 7-Jul-1600 Caricatured by Shakespeare
Derek Luke
Actor
24-Apr-1974   Antwone Fisher
Shirley MacLaine
Actor
24-Apr-1934   Terms of Endearment
Glenn Morshower
Actor
24-Apr-1959   Aaron Pierce on 24
Austin Nichols
Actor
24-Apr-1980   John from Cincinnati
Michael O'Keefe
Actor
24-Apr-1955   Caddyshack
George Oppen
Poet
24-Apr-1908 7-Jul-1984 Objectivist proponent and poet
Pief Panofsky
Physicist
24-Apr-1919 24-Sep-2007 Stanford Linear Accelerator
Michael Parks
Actor
24-Apr-1940   Then Came Bronson
Philippe Pétain
Head of State
24-Apr-1856 23-Jul-1951 Leader of Vichy France
Leonidas LaFayette Polk
Agriculturalist
24-Apr-1837 11-Jun-1892 Agrarian reformer
Erich Raeder
Military
24-Apr-1876 6-Nov-1960 Reich Admiral
Rajkumar
Actor
24-Apr-1928 12-Apr-2006 Kannada megastar kidnapped by Veerappan
Tyson Ritter
Singer
24-Apr-1984   Lead singer, The All-American Rejects
Stefania Rocca
Actor
24-Apr-1971   Heaven
José Sarney
Head of State
24-Apr-1930   President of Brazil, 1985-90
James Sheakley
Politician
24-Apr-1829 10-Dec-1917 Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1893-97
Charles Ferguson Smith
Military
24-Apr-1807 25-Apr-1862 Union Army General, died after Shiloh
Snuppy
Oddity
24-Apr-2005   First cloned dog
Carl Spitteler
Poet
24-Apr-1845 29-Dec-1924 The Olympic Spring
Barbra Streisand
Singer
24-Apr-1942   You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Sachin Tendulkar
Cricket
24-Apr-1973   Top batsman in cricket
John W. Thompson
Business
24-Apr-1949   Ex-CEO of Symantec
Bamir Topi
Head of State
24-Apr-1957   President of Albania
Anthony Trollope
Novelist
24-Apr-1815 6-Dec-1882 Barchester Towers
Carlisle Trost
Military
24-Apr-1930   Chief of Naval Operations, 1986-90
St. Vincent de Paul
Religion
24-Apr-1576 27-Sep-1660 Filles de la Charité
Tony Visconti
Music Producer
24-Apr-1944   Influential rock producer and musician
Robert Penn Warren
Poet
24-Apr-1905 15-Sep-1989 First US Poet Laureate
Eugen Weber
Historian
24-Apr-1925 17-May-2007 The Western Tradition
Robert Wiene
Film Director
24-Apr-1873 17-Jul-1938 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Paula Yates
TV Personality
24-Apr-1960 17-Sep-2000 Rock Stars in Their Underpants
John A. Young
Business
24-Apr-1932   CEO of Hewlett Packard, 1978-92
Ernst Zundel
Activist
24-Apr-1939   Holocaust denier




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