April 5




Birthdays


Thomas Hobbes 1588

Elihu Yale 1649

Joseph Lister 1827 - British surgeon, inventor (Listerine mouthwash)

Robert Smalls 1839

Booker T. Washington 1856 - Educator, author (Up From Slavery)

Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy 1900 - Actor ("Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941]")

Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg) 1901 - Actor ("Ghost Story", "Being There")

Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis 1908 - Actress ("Dangerous", "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?")

Jagjivan Ram 1908 - Political leader in India

Gregory Peck 1916 - Actor ("To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]", "The Guns of Navarone", "Captain Horatio Hornblower")
(Eldred) Gregory Peck

Arthur Hailey 1920 - Author (Airport, The Final Diagnosis)

Robert Q. Lewis 1921 - Comedian, TV quiz show panelist ("What's My Line", "To Tell the Truth")

Gale Storm (Josephine Cottle) 1922 - Singer ("Ivory Tower"), actress ("My Little Margie")

Stan Levey 1925 - Drummer (in band with Charlie Parker), composer

Roger Corman 1926 - Director

Tony Williams 1928 - Singer (Platters)

Nigel Hawthorne 1929 - Actor ("Richard III", "Demolition")

Cowboy Jack Clement 1931

Billy Bland 1932 - Singer

Frank Gorshin 1934 - Impressionist, actor ("Batman", "The Great Imposter")

Stanley Turrentine 1934 - Saxophone player

Colin Powell 1937 - U.S. Secretary of State, four-star general, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff

Tommy Cash 1940 - Songwriter, country singer, brother of Johnny Cash

David LaFlamme 1941

Michael Moriarty 1941 - Actor ("Windmills of the Gods")

Peter Greenaway 1942 - Director, writer

Maxwell Gail 1943 - Actor ("Barney Miller")

Crispin St. Peters 1944

Dave Holland (Judas Priest) 1944

Doug Favell 1945 - Hockey player

Jane Asher 1946 - Actress

Dr. Judith A. Resnik 1949 - Electric engineer, astronaut

Agnetha Faltskog 1950 - Singer (ABBA)

Marv Bateman 1950 - Football player

Rennie (Renaldo Antonio Porte) Stennett 1951 - Baseball player

Brad Van Pelt 1951 - Football player

Peter Greenway 1952

Peter Case 1954 - Musician (Plimsouls)

Stan Ridgeway 1954 - Musician (Wall of Voodoo)

Mike McCready 1966 - Musician (Pearl Jam)

Troy Gentry 1967

Paula Cole 1968