April 1 - Births

Births

1220 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
1543 – François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (d. 1626)
1578 – William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657)
1610 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (d. 1703)
1629 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, French composer, harpsichordist and organist (d. 1691)
1640 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)
1647 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)
1697 – Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (d. 1763)
1721 – Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch organist and violinist, and composer (d. 1799)
1732 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1753 – Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821)
1765 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810)
1776 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831)
1815 – Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (d. 1898)
1815 – Edward Clark, American politician (d. 1880)
1834 – James Fisk, American stock broker and corporate executive (d. 1872)
1854 – Bill Traylor, American artist (d. 1949)
1856 – Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933)
1865 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
1866 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924)
1868 – Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (d. 1918)
1871 – F. Melius Christiansen, Norwegian violinist and conductor (d. 1955)
1873 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
1874 – Ernest William Barnes, English mathematician and theologian (d. 1953)
1875 – Edgar Wallace, English writer (d. 1932)
1880 – Agha Petros, Assyrian general (d. 1932)
1881 – Henri Laurent, French fencer (d. 1954)
1882 – Paul Anspach, Belgian fencer (d. 1991)
1883 – Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (d. 1930)
1884 – Laurette Taylor, American actress (d. 1946)
1885 – Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)
1887 – H. S. Lloyd, British dog breeder (d. 1963)
1889 – K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and Hindu nationalism advocate (d. 1940)
1893 – Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (d. 1980)
1895 – Alberta Hunter, American singer (d. 1984)
1895 – Paul Richter, Austrian actor (d. 1961)
1897 – Nita Naldi, American actress (d. 1961)
1898 – William James Sidis, American mathematician (d. 1944)
1899 – Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968)
1901 – Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor, and defector (d. 1961)
1902 – Mary Miles Minter, American actress (d. 1984)
1902 – Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930)
1904 – Sid Field, English comedian and actor (d. 1950)
1905 – Gaston Eyskens, Belgian economist and politician (d. 1988)
1906 – Aleksandr Yakovlev, Russian engineer and designer (d. 1989)
1908 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)
1909 – Abner Biberman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1909 – Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1951)
1911 – Fauja Singh, Indian athlete
1912 – Donald Nyrop, American airline executive (d. 2010)
1913 – Memos Makris, Greek sculptor (d. 1993)
1914 – Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (d. 2002)
1915 – Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)
1917 – Leon Janney, American actor and radio personality (d. 1980)
1917 – Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d. 1950)
1917 – Sydney Newman, Canadian producer (d. 1997)
1917 – Melville Shavelson, American director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1919 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel laureate
1920 – Toshirō Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
1921 – William Bergsma, American composer (d. 1994)
1921 – Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1921 – Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American musician and songwriter
1922 – William Manchester, American historian (d. 2004)
1923 – Leora Dana, American actress (d. 1983)
1923 – Bobby Jordan, American actor (d. 1965)
1924 – Brendan Byrne, American politician
1924 – Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (d. 2003)
1926 – Charles Bressler, American tenor
1926 – Gérard La Forest, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
1926 – John Scott Martin, English actor (d. 2009)
1926 – Anne McCaffrey, American author (d. 2011)
1927 – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian soccer player (d.2006)
1927 – Walter Bahr, American soccer player
1927 – Peter Cundall, Australian horticulturist
1927 – Amos Milburn, American pianist (d. 1980)
1928 – George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007)
1929 – Jonathan Haze, American actor
1929 – Milan Kundera, Czech writer
1929 – Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (d. 2010)
1929 – Jane Powell, American actress, singer, and dancer
1929 – Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)
1930 – Eugene Weingand, German actor (d. 1986)
1930 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress
1931 – Ita Ever, Estonian actress
1931 – Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
1931 – George Baker, English actor (d. 2011)
1932 – Gordon Jump, American actor (d. 2003)
1932 – Debbie Reynolds, American actress
1933 – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel laureate
1933 – Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996)
1934 – Jim Ed Brown, American singer (The Browns)
1934 – Don Hastings, American actor
1934 – Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1934 – Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
1935 – Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983)
1936 – Peter Collinson, British director (d. 1980)
1936 – Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician (d. 1998)
1936 – Tarun Gogoi, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Assam
1936 – Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist
1936 – Don Steele, American disc jockey (d. 1997)
1937 – Jordan Charney, American actor
1937 – Yılmaz Güney, Turkish actor and director (d. 1984)
1938 – John Quade, American actor (d. 2009)
1939 – Ali MacGraw, American actress
1939 – Phil Niekro, American baseball player
1939 – Rudolph Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers)
1940 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2011)
1941 – Gideon Gadot, Israeli journalist and politician (d. 2012)
1941 – Ajit Wadekar, Indian cricketer
1942 – Samuel R. Delany, American author
1942 – Phil Margo, American musician (The Tokens)
1942 – Annie Nightingale, British disc jockey
1942 – Richard D. Wolff, American economist
1943 – Carol White, British actress (d. 1991)
1944 – Rusty Staub, American baseball player
1945 – John Barbata, American drummer (The Sentinals, The Turtles, and Jefferson Airplane)
1946 – Nikitas Kaklamanis, Greek politician
1946 – Ronnie Lane, English musician, songwriter, and producer (Faces and Small Faces) (d. 1997)
1946 – Arrigo Sacchi, Italian football coach
1946 – Eva Polttila, Finnish news anchor
1947 – Alain Connes, French mathematician
1947 – Philippe Kirsch, Canadian diplomat and judge
1947 – Robin Scott, English singer (M)
1947 – Norm Van Lier, American basketball player (d. 2009)
1948 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician, singer, and actor
1949 – Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
1949 – Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer
1949 – Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and author (d. 2011)
1950 – Samuel Alito, American lawyer and jurist
1950 – Loris Kessel, Swiss race car driver (d. 2010)
1950 – Daniel Paillé, Canadian politician
1951 – John Philip Abizaid, American army general
1952 – Annette O'Toole, American actress
1952 – Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher
1953 – Barry Sonnenfeld, producer and director
1954 – Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (Toto and Clover) (d. 1992)
1955 – Don Hasselbeck, American football player
1955 – Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani statesman
1955 – Terry Nichols, American convicted accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing
1956 – Jeffrey Beecroft, American production designer
1957 – Andreas Deja, German-American animator
1957 – David Gower, English cricketer
1957 – Denise Nickerson, American actress
1958 – D. Boon, American musician (Minutemen and The Reactionaries) (d. 1985)
1959 – Ivan G'Vera, Czech actor
1959 – Margita Stefanović, Yugoslav musician (Ekatarina Velika) (d. 2002)
1960 – Michael Praed, English actor
1960 – J. Christopher Stevens, American lawyer and diplomat, 10th United States Ambassador to Libya (d. 2012)
1961 – Susan Boyle, Scottish singer
1961 – Mark White, British guitarist (ABC)
1962 – Chris Grayling, English politician
1962 – Samboy Lim, Filipino basketball player
1962 – Phillip Schofield, English broadcaster and television personality
1963 – Teddy Diaz, Filipino guitarist (The Dawn) (d.1988)
1964 – Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist and manager
1964 – Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (d. 2008)
1964 – José Rodrigues dos Santos, Portuguese writer, journalist, and educator
1964 – Scott Stevens, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – Tomas Alfredson, Swedish director
1965 – Mark Jackson, American basketball player
1965 – Robert Steadman, English composer
1965 – Simona Ventura, Italian television host
1966 – Chris Evans, English disc jockey
1966 – Craig Kelly, American snowboarder
1967 – Phil Demmel, American musician (Machine Head and Vio-Lence)
1968 – Julia Boutros, Lebanese singer
1968 – Traci Lind, American actress
1968 – Andreas Schnaas, German director
1969 – Fadl Shaker, Lebanese singer
1969 – Dean Windass, English football player
1970 – Sung Hi Lee, Korean model
1970 – Mark Wheeler, American football player
1971 – Sonia Bisset, Cuban javelin thrower
1971 – Jessica Collins, American actress
1971 – Karen Dunbar, Scottish comedienne and actress
1971 – Lachy Hulme, Australian actor and screenwriter
1971 – Method Man, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
1971 – Shinji Nakano, Japanese race car driver
1971 – Danielle Smith, Canadian politician
1972 – Albert Hughes, American director
1972 – Allen Hughes, American director
1972 – Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Jesse Tobias, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers and Splendid)
1973 – Christian Finnegan, American comedian, actor, and writer
1973 – Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricketer
1973 – Joe Francis, American adult video producer, founder of Girls Gone Wild
1973 – Rachel Maddow, American television host and political analyst
1973 – Kris Marshall, British actor
1973 – Daryn Tufts, American writer, director, producer, and actor
1973 – Kym Wilson, Australian actress
1974 – Beatriz Batarda, Portuguese actress
1974 – China Chow, British actress
1974 – Richard Christy, American drummer and radio personality
1974 – Colby Donaldson, American television host and actor
1974 – Hugo Benjamín Ibarra, Argentine footballer
1974 – Sandra Völker, German swimmer
1975 – George Bastl, Swiss tennis player
1975 – John Butler, Australian singer and musician (The John Butler Trio)
1976 – Aaron Goodwin, American paranormal investigator and cameraman
1976 – David Oyelowo, English-Nigerian actor
1976 – Clarence Seedorf, Dutch footballer
1976 – David Gilliland, American race car driver
1977 – Vitor Belfort, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1977 – Jon Gosselin, American television personality
1977 – Haimar Zubeldia, Spanish cyclist
1978 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (d. 2009)
1978 – Jean-Pierre Dumont, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – J. J. Feild, English-American actor
1978 – Anamaria Marinca, Romanian actress
1978 – Etan Thomas, American basketball player
1978 – Miroslava Vavrinec, Swiss tennis player
1979 – Ivano Balić, Croatian handballer
1980 – Dennis Kruppke, German footballer
1980 – Randy Orton, American wrestler
1980 – Bijou Phillips, American actress
1980 – Yūko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
1981 – Asli Bayram, Turkish-German model and actress
1981 – Aimee Chan, Canadian model and actress, Miss Hong Kong 2006
1981 – Antonis Fotsis, Greek basketball player
1981 – Hannah Spearritt, British singer and actor (S Club 7)
1981 – Bjoern Einar Romoeren, Norwegian skijumper
1982 – Sam Huntington, American actor
1982 – Taran Killam, American comedian and actor
1983 – John Axford, Canadian baseball player
1983 – Tamati Ellison, New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Lance Hohaia, New Zealand rugby league player
1983 – Jussi Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player
1983 – Matt Lanter, American actor and model
1983 – Sergey Lazarev, Russian singer (Smash!!)
1983 – Ólafur Ingi Skúlason, Icelandic footballer
1983 – Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)
1984 – Gilberto Macena, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Daniel Murphy, American baseball player
1985 – Beth Tweddle, English gymnast
1985 – Josh Zuckerman, American actor
1986 – Shunichi Miyamoto, Japanese musician and actor
1986 – Hillary Scott, American singer (Lady Antebellum)
1986 – Ireen Wüst, Dutch speed skater
1987 – Kayla Collins, American model
1978 – Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
1987 – Li Ting, Chinese diver
1987 – Gianluca Musacci, Italian footballer
1987 – Oliver Turvey, British racing driver
1988 – Brook Lopez, American basketball player
1988 – Robin Lopez, American basketball player
1988 – Courtney McCool, American gymnast
1988 – Alessandra Perilli, Sammarinese target shooter
1989 – Jan Blokhuijsen, Dutch speed skater
1989 – David N'Gog, French footballer
1989 – Christian Vietoris, German race car driver
1989 – Labrinth, English singer
1990 – Julia Fischer, German athlete
1993 – Blair Fowler, American beauty guru
1993 – Keito Okamoto, Japanese singer (Hey! Say! JUMP)
1993 – Nico Schulz, German footballer
1997 – Asa Butterfield, English actor
1998 – Lydia Waters, English actress