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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Frank Abagnale
Criminal
27-Apr-1948   Catch Me If You Can
Anouk Aimée
Actor
27-Apr-1932   La Dolce Vita
Earl Anthony
Bowling
27-Apr-1938 14-Aug-2001 Professional bowler
Jari Askins
Politician
27-Apr-1953   Lt. Governor of Oklahoma
Frank Bainimarama
Head of State
27-Apr-1954   Prime Minister of Fiji
Nigel Barker
Photographer
27-Apr-1972   Judge, America's Next Top Model
Judith Blegen
Singer
27-Apr-1941   Operatic soprano
Cory Booker
Politician
27-Apr-1969   Mayor of Newark, NJ
Maurice de Broglie
Physicist
27-Apr-1875 14-Jul-1960 X-ray spectroscopy
Arthur F. Burns
Economist
27-Apr-1904 6-Jun-1987 Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1970-78
G. K. Butterfield
Politician
27-Apr-1947   Congressman, North Carolina 1st
Judy Carne
Actor
27-Apr-1939   Sock-it-to-me girl on Laugh-In
Wallace Hume Carothers
Chemist
27-Apr-1896 29-Apr-1937 Inventor of Nylon
Anna Chancellor
Actor
27-Apr-1965   Juliet Shaw on Spooks
Chiang Ching-Kuo
Head of State
27-Apr-1910 13-Jan-1988 President of Nationalist China, 1978-88
Adam Clymer
Journalist
27-Apr-1937   The New York Times
Charles B. Curtis
Activist
27-Apr-1940   Nuclear Threat Initiative
Cecil Day-Lewis
Poet
27-Apr-1904 22-May-1972 UK Poet Laureate, 1968-72
Sandy Dennis
Actor
27-Apr-1937 2-Mar-1992 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Charles J. Van Depoele
Inventor
27-Apr-1846 18-Mar-1892 Trolley car pioneer
Leo Diegel
Golf
27-Apr-1899 8-May-1951 Winner, 1928 and 1929 PGA Championships
Arielle Dombasle
Actor
27-Apr-1955   Pauline at the Beach
Robert Donner
Actor
27-Apr-1931 8-Jun-2006 Exidor on Mork and Mindy
Sheena Easton
Singer
27-Apr-1959   My Baby Takes The Morning Train
Herman Edwards
Football
27-Apr-1954   NFL Coach
Larry Elder
Radio Personality
27-Apr-1952   Republitarian radio talk show host
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Novelist
27-Apr-1882 30-Apr-1961 Comedy: American Style
Andrew Z. Fire
Scientist
27-Apr-1959   RNA interference
Ace Frehley
Guitarist
27-Apr-1951   Lead guitarist, KISS
Dan Frisa
Politician
27-Apr-1955   Congressman from New York, 1995-97
George Gervin
Basketball
27-Apr-1952   The Iceman
Ulysses S. Grant
Head of State
27-Apr-1822 23-Jul-1885 Eighteenth President of the United States
Ari Graynor
Actor
27-Apr-1983   Rachel on Fringe
Sally Hawkins
Actor
27-Apr-1976   Happy-Go-Lucky
Rogers Hornsby
Baseball
27-Apr-1896 5-Jan-1963 The Raj
Casey Kasem
Radio Personality
27-Apr-1932   American Top 40
Coretta Scott King
Activist
27-Apr-1927 30-Jan-2006 Widow of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jack Klugman
Actor
27-Apr-1922   The Odd Couple
Nicholas D. Kristof
Journalist
27-Apr-1959   New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Tim LaHaye
Religion
27-Apr-1926   Left Behind series
David Lascher
Actor
27-Apr-1972   Vinnie on Blossom
James LeGros
Actor
27-Apr-1962   Living in Oblivion
James R. Mann
Politician
27-Apr-1920 20-Dec-2010 Congressman from South Carolina, 1969-79
Betsy Markey
Politician
27-Apr-1956   Congresswoman from Colorado, 2009-11
Kevin McNally
Actor
27-Apr-1956   Pirates of the Caribbean
Robert H. McWilliams
Judge
27-Apr-1916   10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1970-84
Dana Milbank
Journalist
27-Apr-1968   Washington Post White House reporter
Joseph Moakley
Politician
27-Apr-1927 28-May-2001 Congressman from Massachusetts, 1973-2001
Samuel F. B. Morse
Inventor
27-Apr-1791 2-Apr-1872 Telegraph inventor and publicist
William Moseley
Actor
27-Apr-1987   The Chronicles of Narnia
Cristian Mungiu
Film Director
27-Apr-1968   4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Nikolai Novikov
Critic
27-Apr-1744 31-Jul-1818 Early Russian critic, The Drone
Gordon Oliver
Actor
27-Apr-1910 26-Jan-1995 The Spiral Staircase
Kate Pierson
Singer
27-Apr-1948   Vocalist for the B-52s
Gary Pinkel
Football
27-Apr-1952   Missouri Head Coach
Moana Pozzi
Pornstar
27-Apr-1961 15-Sep-1994 Backdoor Summer 2
Matt Reeves
Film Director
27-Apr-1966   Felicity
Vere Rothermere
Publisher
27-Apr-1925 1-Sep-1998 Proprietor of the Daily Mail, 1971-98
Dinara Safina
Tennis
27-Apr-1986   Champion, 2008 US Open Series
Andrew Schlafly
Activist
27-Apr-1961   Conservapedia founder
Eric Schmidt
Business
27-Apr-1955   CEO of Google, 2001-11
Nicolas Slonimsky
Musicologist
27-Apr-1894 25-Dec-1995 Preeminent musicologist
Herbert Spencer
Philosopher
27-Apr-1820 8-Dec-1903 Synthetic Philosophy
Patrick Stump
Musician
27-Apr-1984   Fall Out Boy
Suleiman the Magnificent
Royalty
27-Apr-1495 5-Sep-1566 Ottoman Sultan, 1520-66
Jerry Trainor
Actor
27-Apr-1977   Spencer on iCarly
Daniel A. Webster
Politician
27-Apr-1949   Congressman, Florida 8th
Edward Whymper
Explorer
27-Apr-1840 16-Sep-1911 Scrambles among the Alps
August Wilson
Playwright
27-Apr-1945 2-Oct-2005 The Piano Lesson
Mary Wollstonecraft
Author
27-Apr-1759 10-Sep-1797 Vindication of the Rights of Women
Ramzi Yousef
Terrorist
27-Apr-1968   Mastermind of 1993 WTC bombing


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