April 1 BirthdaysWilliam Harvey England 1578 - Physician Otto Von Bismarck 1815 - First chancellor of united Germany Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 - Composer, musician Lon Chaney 1883 - Actor ("The Phantom of the Opera") Wallace (Fitzgerald) Beery 1885 - Actor ("The Champ", "The Last of the Mohicans") Jagjivan Ram 1908 - Also known as Babuji, Indian politician, government official Abraham Maslow 1908 - Psychologist Art Lund 1920 - Singer Toshiro Mifune 1920 - Actor ("Midway", "Paper Tiger") William Manchester 1922 - Writer Anne McCaffrey 1926 - Author George Grizzard 1928 - Actor ("Bachelor Party", "False Witness") Jane Powell (Suzanne Burce) 1929 - Actress Grace Lee Whitney 1930 - Actress, singer Gordon Jump 1932 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati") Debbie Reynolds (Mary Frances Reynolds) 1932 - Singer, Actress, mother of actress Carrie Fisher Don Hastings 1934 - Actor ("As The World Turns") James Edward Brown 1934 - Singer (The Browns) Ron (Ronald Peter) Perranoski 1936 - Baseball player, coach Eddie King 1938 - Blues singer Ali MacGraw 1938 - Actress Rudolf Isley 1939 - Singer (Isley Brothers) Phil (Philip Henry) Niekro 1939 - Baseball pitcher Guy Trottier 1941 - Hockey player Phil Margo 1942 - Singer (The Tokens) Alan Blakley 1942 - Musician (Brian Poole and The Tremeloes) Carol White 1944 - Actress Rusty Staub 1944 - Baseball player Heather Young 1945 - Actress John Barbata 1945 - Drummer (The Turtles) Ronnie Lane (Small Faces) 1946 Norm Van Lier 1947 - Basketball player Jimmy Cliff 1948 - Reggae singer Doug Southerland 1948 - Football player Wilie (Guillermo Naranjo) Montanez 1948 - Baseball player Gil Scott-Heron 1949 - Jazz musician Samuel Alito 1950 - U.S. Supreme Court justice Billy Currie 1952 - Musician (Ultravox) Annette O'Toole 1953 - Actress Jeff Porcaro (Toto) 1954 Libby Riddles 1956 - First woman to win the Iditarod dogsled race Mark White 1961 - Musician (ABC) Woody Lee 1968 - Country singer Rachel Maddow 1973 - Broadcast journalist Magdalena Maleeva 1975 - Tennis player Bijou Phillips 1980 - Singer Sam Huntington 1982 - Actor Hillary Scott 1984 - Country singer (Lady Antebellum) Josh Zuckerman 1985 - Actor |