April 1



Birthdays


William Harvey England 1578

Otto Von Bismarck 1815

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

Abraham Maslow 1908

Art Lund 1920 - Singer

Toshiro Mifune 1920 - Actor ("Midway", "Paper Tiger")

William Manchester 1922 - Writer

Anne McCaffrey 1926

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

Rusty Staub 1944 - Baseball player

Heather Young 1945

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

Billy Currie 1952 - Musician (Ultravox)

Annette O'Toole 1953 - Actress

Jeff Porcaro (Toto) 1954

Stan Ridgway (Wall of Voodoo) 1955

Libby Riddles 1956 - First woman to win the Iditarod dogsled race

Mark White 1961 - Musician (ABC)

Woody Lee 1968 - Country singer

Maradalena Maleeva 1975 - Tennis player

Bijou Phillips 1980 - Singer

Sam Huntington 1982 - Actor

Josh Zuckerman 1985 - Actor