Famous Birthdays for April 15Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - Artist ("Mona Lisa," "The Last Supper") Charles Peale 1741 - Artist, portrait painter, primarily created works of colonial and American Revolutionary War figures Henry James 1843 - Author ("The Turn of the Screw," "The Portrait of a Lady") Thomas Benton 1889 - Artist Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom 1892 - Watchmaker, author ("The Hiding Place") Bessie Smith 1894 - Blues singer Nikita Khrushchev 1894 - U.S.S.R. premier Hans Conried 1917 - Actor ("Bus Stop," "Oh! God: Book 2") Jim Timmens 1920 - Composer, jazz musician, musical director Michael Ansara 1922 Herb Pomeroy 1930 - Musician, bandleader Roy Clark 1933 - Country musician, singer Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery 1933 - Actress ("Bewitched") Bob Luman 1937 - Singer Claudia Cardinale 1939 - Actress ("The Pink Panther") Reginald Smith (Marty Wilde) 1939 - Singer, father of singer Kim Wilde Willie (William Henry) Davis 1940 - Baseball player Clarence Satchell 1940 - Musician (The Ohio Players) Woody (Woodrow Thompson) Fryman 1940 - Baseball player Walt Hazzard 1942 - Basketball player Julie Sommars 1942 - Actress ("Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo") Dave Edmunds 1944 - Musician (Rockpile) Ted Sizemore 1945 - Baseball player Amy Wright 1950 - Actress ("The Deer Hunter," "The Scarlet Letter") Dick (Richard Louis) Sharon 1950 - Baseball player Michael Tucci 1950 Heloise (Ponce Kiah Marchelle Heloise Cruse Evans) 1951 - Newspaper columnist (Hints from Heloise), daughter of original Heloise Evelyn Ashford 1957 - Track athlete, 4-time Olympic gold medalist Emma Thompson 1959 - Actress Samantha Fox 1966 - Singer Graeme Clark 1966 - Musician (Wet Wet Wet) Ed O'Brien 1968 - Musician (Radiohead) Seth Rogan 1982 - Actor, writer ("Knocked Up," "Superbad") Emma Watson 1990 - Actress ("Harry Potter" movie series) |
