Born on Friday, 4th April – Famous Birthdays

04/04/2005

Lil Mabu, American rapper

Matthew Peter DeLuca, known by the stage name Lil Mabu, is an American rapper from Manhattan, New York City. He first gained recognition in 2020 for his song "Miss Me", and became best known for his 2023 single "Mathematical Disrespect", which entered the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100.

---

04/04/2003

Harvey Elliott, English footballer

Harvey Daniel James Elliott is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Aston Villa, on loan from Liverpool.

---

04/04/2001

Anzor Alem, Congolese actor and singer

Rashidi Alema Anzor is a Congolese film and theatre actor and singer. He is best known for his roles in Baby Boy of the House, Ima, and Tozoom. He also made a brief guest appearance in the 2022 survival thriller Beast, starring Idris Elba.

---

Jalen Carter, American football player

Jalen Da'Quan Carter is an American professional football defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, where he was a unanimous All-American in 2022 and a two-time CFP national champion before being selected by the Eagles ninth overall in the 2023 NFL draft. Carter earned second-team All-Pro honors in 2024, and played an instrumental part in helping the Eagles win Super Bowl LIX.

---

Angelo Stiller, German footballer

Angelo Stiller is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart and the Germany national team.

---

04/04/1996

Austin Mahone, American singer-songwriter and actor

Austin Harris Mahone is an American singer. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, he gained initial recognition performing covers of pop songs on YouTube. He was discovered by record producers Rocco Did It Again! and Mike Blumstein in 2012, and subsequently signed with their label, Chase Records in a joint venture with Republic Records in June of that year. His 2012 debut single, "Say Somethin'" and its follow-up, "Say You're Just a Friend" both received gold certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), while his 2013 single, "What About Love" did so and marked his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. All three were included on his titularly-titled debut extended play (2013), which was released only in Japan. In September of that year, his recording contract entered a triple joint venture with Birdman's Cash Money Records, an imprint of Republic.

---

04/04/1994

Shunsuke Nishikawa, Japanese actor

Shunsuke Nishikawa is a Japanese actor who was affiliated with K Dash, until he moved to RubyParade on April 4. 2017. He played the role of Takaharu Igasaki (Akaninger), the main character of the 2015 Super Sentai TV series Shuriken Sentai Ninninger.

---

Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer and actress

Risako Sugaya is a former Japanese singer and actress. She first gained recognition when she joined Hello! Project Kids and later became one of the lead vocalists of the girl group Berryz Kobo from 2004 to 2015.

---

04/04/1993

Samir Carruthers, English footballer

Samir Badre Carruthers is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dartford. He has represented the Republic of Ireland at U19 and U21 level.

---

David Soria, Spanish footballer

David Soria Solís is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Getafe.

---

Frank Kaminsky, American basketball player

Francis Stanley Kaminsky III is an American professional basketball player for Alvark Tokyo of the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for the Wisconsin Badgers.

---

04/04/1992

Lucy May Barker, English actress and singer

Lucy May Barker is a British actress.

---

Ricky Dillon, American YouTuber and singer

Richard Porter Dillon Jr., nicknamed as Ricky Dillon, is an American YouTube personality and singer. Over his ten years on YouTube, Dillon has amassed over 2.9 million subscribers on his channel, as well as more than 383 million views on his videos.

---

04/04/1991

Yui Koike, Japanese singer and actress

Yui Koike is a Japanese actress and former gravure idol. She is known for her role as Ahim de Famille/Gokai Pink in the 2011 Super Sentai series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. She was a member of the idol group Tomato n'Pine. She is currently affiliated with Weeds Company.

---

Asia Muhammad, American tennis player

Asia Muhammad is an American professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She has been ranked as high as world No. 8 in doubles by the WTA, achieved on March 17, 2025. Muhammad has won 13 doubles titles on the WTA Tour including the 2024 Cincinnati WTA 1000 title with Erin Routliffe and the 2025 Indian Wells with Demi Schuurs.

---

Justin O'Neill, Australian rugby league player

Justin O'Neill is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Melbourne Storm and North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL and Australia at international level.

---

Martín Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player

Martín Pérez Jiménez is a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher in the Atlanta Braves organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, and Chicago White Sox. Pérez was an MLB All-Star in 2022 and won the 2023 World Series with the Rangers.

---

Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress and singer

Jamie Lynn Spears is an American actress, singer, and is the younger sister of Britney Spears. Spears began her career as a child actress on All That and had her breakthrough role when she played Zoey Brooks on the Nickelodeon teen sitcom Zoey 101 (2005–2008); she later reprised this role in the sequel film Zoey 102 (2023). She plays Noreen Fitzgibbons on the Netflix romantic drama series Sweet Magnolias (2020–present). She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Gracie Award, two Kids Choice Awards and two Young Artist Awards.

---

Marlon Stöckinger, Filipino race car driver

Marlon Alexander Stöckinger is a Filipino-Swiss racing driver competing under the Philippine flag. He most recently competed in the 2016 GT Series Sprint Cup for ISR Racing. He raced for Status Grand Prix in the 2015 GP2 Series and 2012 GP3 Series, and for Lotus in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series from 2013 to 2015. He is the first Filipino to win a formula race in Europe, winning race 9 of the 2010 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship at the Croft Circuit on 19 June of that year.

---

04/04/1990

Elizabeth Booker Houston American lawyer, public health professional, stand‑up comedian, and political commentator.

Elizabeth Booker Houston is an American lawyer, public health professional, stand-up comedian, and political commentator. She gained national attention for blending legal analysis with satire and her viral rebuke of conservative pundit Ann Coulter at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.

---

04/04/1989

Vurnon Anita, Dutch footballer

Vurnon San Benito Anita is a Curaçaoan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or full-back for Vierde Divisie side Ajax Amateurs. Born in Curaçao and raised in the Netherlands, Anita played for the Netherlands national team in 2010 before switching to play for the Curaçao national team in 2021.

---

Steven Finn, English cricketer

Steven Thomas Finn is a former English cricketer. He was a right-arm fast bowler, who also bats right-handed. At the age of 16, he became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest-ever debutant in first-class cricket. He made his England Test debut in 2010 against Bangladesh. In 2019 he became a commentator for Test Match Special.

---

Chris Herd, Australian footballer

Christopher Herd is an Australian former professional soccer player. Herd could be described as a utility player who was able to play in several positions, including central defence, full-back and central midfield. He represented Australia at under-20 level and won three caps with the Australia senior national team in 2014.

---

Jens Toornstra, Dutch footballer

Jens Toornstra is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for Eredivisie side Sparta Rotterdam. He usually plays as an attacking midfielder.

---

04/04/1988

Frank Fielding, English footballer

Francis David Fielding is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL Championship club Stoke City.

---

04/04/1987

Sami Khedira, German footballer

Sami Khedira is a German former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.

---

McDonald Mariga, Kenyan footballer

McDonald Mariga Wanyama is a Kenyan politician and former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. In 2010, he became the first Kenyan footballer to play in and win the UEFA Champions League for Inter Milan.

---

Cameron Maybin, American baseball player

Cameron Keith Maybin is an American professional baseball broadcaster and former center fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Florida / Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels, Houston Astros, Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, and New York Mets. He was the tenth overall pick in the 2005 MLB draft by the Tigers and debuted with them in 2007. With the Astros, he won the 2017 World Series.

---

Marcos Vellidis, Greek footballer

Markos Vellidis is a former Greek professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

---

Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress

Sarah Lynn Gadon is a Canadian actress. She began her acting career guest-starring in a number of television series, such as Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1999), Mutant X (2002), and Dark Oracle (2004). She also worked as a voice actress on various television productions. Gadon gained recognition for her roles in David Cronenberg's films A Dangerous Method (2011), Cosmopolis (2012), and Maps to the Stars (2014). She also starred in Denis Villeneuve's thriller Enemy (2014), the period drama Belle (2014), and the action horror film Dracula Untold (2014).

---

04/04/1986

Eunhyuk, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

Lee Hyuk-jae, known professionally as Eunhyuk, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, and television host. He is a member of the South Korean boy group Super Junior and its subgroups Super Junior-T and Super Junior-H. In 2011, he joined Super Junior's Mandopop subgroup Super Junior-M and the duo Super Junior-D&E, active in China and Japan respectively.

---

Cameron Barker, Canadian ice hockey player

Cameron Barker is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was selected third overall in the 2004 NHL entry draft by the Chicago Blackhawks and spent four seasons with the club before being traded to the Minnesota Wild in 2010. Internationally, Barker played for the Canadian national team and won back-to-back gold medals at the 2005 and 2006 World Junior Championships with the junior team.

---

Maurice Manificat, French skier

Maurice Manificat is a French cross-country skier who has competed since 2004.

---

Aiden McGeady, Scottish-born Irish footballer

Aiden John McGeady is a former professional footballer. He played for clubs including Celtic, Spartak Moscow, Everton and Sunderland, and won 93 caps for the Republic of Ireland.

---

Alexander Tettey, Norwegian footballer

Alexander Banor Tettey is a former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Born in Ghana, he represented the Norway national team.

---

04/04/1985

Rudy Fernández, Spanish basketball player

Rodolfo "Rudy" Fernández Farrés is a Spanish former professional basketball player who spent the majority of his career for Real Madrid of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He is a 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall swingman. He is a three-time All-EuroLeague Team selection and won the EuroLeague title in 2015, 2018 and 2023. During his stint in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he was an NBA All-Rookie Second Team member.

---

Dudi Sela, Israeli tennis player

David "Dudi" Sela is an Israeli former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 29 in July 2009.

---

Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer

Ricardo Kaschensky Vilar is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Xylotymbou.

---

04/04/1984

Sean May, American basketball player

Sean Gregory May is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant basketball coach at the University of North Carolina. May was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. He was a three-time all-state selection at Bloomington High School North, and was at one time a teammate of former NBA player Jared Jeffries. May was named to the 2002 McDonald's High School All-American team, along with Raymond Felton and Rashad McCants, who would later team with May to win an NCAA Championship as part of the 2004–05 North Carolina Tar Heels.

---

Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer

Arkady Arkadyevich Vyatchanin is a retired Russian, Serbian and American backstroke swimmer. He was born in Vorkuta, and in 1999 moved to Taganrog, Russia, where he graduated from the South Federal University. He was a member of the Russian National Team in 2000–2015; moved to Serbia in 2015 and to the United States in 2017, and retired in June 2018.

---

04/04/1983

Evgeny Artyukhin, Russian ice hockey player

Yevgeni Evgenyevich Artyukhin is a Russian former professional ice hockey right winger. He last played competitively for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

---

Eric André, American comedian

Eric Samuel André is an American comedian, actor, television host, writer, producer, and musician. He is best known as the creator, host, and co-writer of the Adult Swim surreal comedy series The Eric Andre Show (2012–2023). His other notable roles include Mike on the FXX comedy series Man Seeking Woman (2015–2017), and Stuart Clarke in the Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries Ironheart. He also performs music under the stage name Blarf.

---

Ben Gordon, American basketball player

Benjamin Ashenafi Gordon is a British-American former professional basketball player. He played for 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Bobcats, and Orlando Magic. He played college basketball for the University of Connecticut, where he won a national championship in 2004.

---

Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player

Douglas Lynch is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played with the Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League (NHL).

---

Natalie Pike, Scottish-English model and actress

Natalie Sheila Hannah Pike is a British model and broadcaster, currently working as a presenter for Manchester City FC and BBC Radio Manchester.

---

Amanda Righetti, American actress

Amanda Righetti is an American actress. She is known for playing Grace Van Pelt on The Mentalist and her roles in Friday the 13th, The O.C. and Colony.

---

04/04/1982

Justin Cook, American voice actor and producer

Justin Cook is an American voice actor, voice director, audio engineer and line producer who works for anime-dubbing companies Funimation and Okratron 5000. His work includes acting on Yu Yu Hakusho and the Dragon Ball franchise.

---

04/04/1981

Currensy, American rapper

Shante Scott Franklin, better known by his stage name Currensy, is an American rapper. Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, he signed with the local record labels Cash Money Records and Young Money Entertainment in the mid-2000s, but parted ways with both without any major releases. He signed with DD172 to release four albums before signing with Warner Records to release his fifth album and major label debut, Weekend at Burnie's (2011). In February of that year, he founded the record label Jet Life Recordings.

---

Eduardo Luís Carloto, Brazilian footballer

Eduardo Luís Carloto is a Brazilian footballer. He spent his professional career at Italian Lega Pro.

---

Casey Daigle, American baseball player

Sean Casey Daigle is an American former professional pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Houston Astros.

---

Anna Pyatykh, Russian triple jumper

Anna Viktorovna Pyatykh is a professional Russian triple jumper. She has won the SPAR European Cup four consecutive times, won bronze medals at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki and 2009 World Championships in Berlin. She has also competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

---

Ned Vizzini, American author and screenwriter (died 2013)

Edison Price Vizzini was an American writer. He was the author of four books for young adults, including It's Kind of a Funny Story (2006), which NPR placed at #56 in its list of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" and which is the basis of the film of the same name.

---

04/04/1980

Johnny Borrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jonathan Edward Borrell is an English guitarist and singer, currently the frontman of the rock band Razorlight, of which he is the only consistent original member.

---

Trevor Moore, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2021)

Trevor Paul Moore was an American comedian, actor, filmmaker, and musician. He was a founding member of the comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know (WKUK), alongside Sam Brown, Zach Cregger, Timmy Williams and Darren Trumeter. The troupe had a sketch comedy series which aired for five seasons on IFC from March 2007 until June 2011.

---

Eric Steinbach, American football player

Eric Steinbach is an American former professional football player who was a guard for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, and earned consensus All-American honors. He was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2003 NFL draft. He played for the Bengals from 2003 to 2006 and the Cleveland Browns from 2007 to 2011.

---

Björn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver

Björn Karl Mikael Wirdheim is a Swedish professional racing driver. His main achievement to date is becoming the European Le Mans Series champion in 2015. He previously won the International Formula 3000 title in 2003, tested for the Jaguar F1 Team, and twice finished runner-up in Super GT's GT300 class.

---

04/04/1979

Heath Ledger, Australian actor (died 2008)

Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian actor. Known for his versatility across independent and major studio films, his work consisted of 20 films in a variety of genres. He received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

---

Roberto Luongo, Canadian ice hockey player

Roberto Luongo is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a goaltender for the New York Islanders, Florida Panthers, and Vancouver Canucks. In 2022, Luongo was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Luongo is a two-time NHL All-Star and winner of the William M. Jennings Trophy for backstopping his team to the lowest goals against average in the league. He was a finalist for several awards, including the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender, the Lester B. Pearson Award as the top player voted by his peers, and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player (2007). Luongo is third all-time in games played as an NHL goaltender (1,044) and fourth all-time in wins (489). He employed the butterfly style of goaltending.

---

Natasha Lyonne, American actress

Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein is an American actress, director, comedian, producer, writer, and tech executive. Lyonne started her career as a child actress before expanding her career taking on mature roles in film and television, for which she was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, and named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2023. Lyonne made her first uncredited appearance in Heartburn (1986), had a recurring role in Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986), and a supporting role in Dennis the Menace (1993). She transitioned to taking on teen roles in several independent films such as Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), and Party Monster (2003), as well as the American Pie film series (1999–2012).

---

Andy McKee, American guitarist

Andy McKee is an American fingerstyle guitar player who has released six studio albums, three extended plays, and one live album to date. A number of YouTube videos featuring McKee's highly-technical guitar performances have achieved viral fame, garnering hundreds of millions of views collectively.

---

Maksim Opalev, Russian canoeist

Maksim Alexandrovich Opalev is a retired Russian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won a complete set of medals in the C-1 500 m event.

---

04/04/1978

Jason Ellison, American baseball player and scout

Jason Jerome Ellison is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder. He attended Lewis-Clark State in Lewiston, Idaho, and made his major league debut on May 9, 2003. He is currently the hitting coach for the Arizona State Sun Devils.

---

Alan Mahon, Irish footballer

Alan Joseph Mahon is an Irish former professional footballer who played a midfielder and was capped by the Republic of Ireland.

---

04/04/1977

Stephan Bonnar, American mixed martial artist (died 2022)

Stephan Patrick Bonnar was an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler. Bonnar competed as a Light Heavyweight in the UFC for most of his career. Bonnar was the runner-up on The Ultimate Fighter 1; his TUF Ultimate Finale loss to Forrest Griffin is widely considered to be the most important fight in the history of the UFC.

---

Keith Bulluck, American football player and sportscaster

Keith J. Bulluck is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the Syracuse Orange, he was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the first round in the 2000 NFL draft. He had a ten-year career with the Titans, which included a Pro Bowl selection in 2003. He played for the New York Giants in 2010.

---

Adam Dutkiewicz, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Adam Jonathan Dutkiewicz is an American musician and record producer. He is the lead guitarist of the metalcore bands Killswitch Engage, Aftershock and Times of Grace, as well as the guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the melodic death metal supergroup Serpentine Dominion. He has also produced and engineered albums for several other metal bands.

---

Stephen Mulhern, English magician and television host

Stephen Daniel Mulhern is an English television presenter, magician and comedian. He began his career at CITV presenting the children's television shows Finger Tips (2001–2004) and Tricky TV (2005–2010). Mulhern went on to present various television shows for ITV, including Britain's Got More Talent (2007–2019), Animals Do the Funniest Things (2007–2011), This Morning's Hub (2011–2014), Catchphrase (2013–present), Big Star's Little Star (2013–2018), In for a Penny (2019–2024), Rolling In It (2020–2021), Deal or No Deal (2023–present) and Dancing on Ice (2024–2025).

---

Omarr Smith, American football player and coach

Omarr Ali Hasan Smith is an American football coach and former defensive back. He played professionally for the San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League (AFL), and collegiately at San Jose State.

---

04/04/1976

Nathan Blacklock, Australian rugby player

Nathan Blacklock is an Australian former professional rugby league and, briefly, rugby union footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. An Australia national rugby league representative wing, he played for the Sydney City Roosters and the St. George Dragons before they formed a joint-venture with the Illawarra Steelers to form the St. George Illawarra Dragons, with whom he continued playing, becoming the National Rugby League's top try-scorer for three consecutive seasons from 1999 to 2001. Blacklock also played in the Super League for Hull FC, with whom he won the 2005 Challenge Cup.

---

Sébastien Enjolras, French race car driver (died 1997)

Sébastien Olivier Enjolras was a French racing driver. Considered to be one of the most promising French drivers of his generation, he was killed in a crash during practice for the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans race, aged 21.

---

Emerson Ferreira da Rosa, Brazilian footballer

Emerson Ferreira da Rosa, simply known as Emerson, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. At international level, he played 73 games for the Brazil national team between 1997 and 2006, scoring 6 goals. With Brazil, he has taken part in two FIFA World Cups, two editions of the Copa América, and three Confederations Cups, winning the 1999 Copa América and the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, while also reaching the 1998 World Cup Final.

---

James Roday, American actor, director, and screenwriter

James Roday Rodriguez is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying Shawn Spencer, a hyper-observant consultant detective and fake psychic, in USA Network series Psych and the subsequent Psych film series. He also starred in A Million Little Things which debuted in 2018, playing Javier "Gary" Mendez.

---

04/04/1975

Delphine Arnault, French businesswoman

Delphine Caroline Marie Arnault is a French businesswoman who has been the chairperson and chief executive officer of Christian Dior Couture since February 2023.

---

Thobias Fredriksson, Swedish skier

Thobias Fredriksson is a Swedish former cross-country skier who began competing in 2000. He won two medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy with a gold in the team sprint and a bronze in the individual sprint events.

---

Joyce Giraud, Puerto Rican television actress and producer, Miss Puerto Rico 1994

Joyce Marie Giraud Mojica, also known as Joyce Giraud de Ohoven, is a Puerto Rican actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. In 1994, she competed at Miss World 1994 but failed to place in the semifinals. In 1998, Giraud was crowned Miss Universe Puerto Rico 1998 and represented Puerto Rico at Miss Universe 1998 where she finished as 2nd Runner-Up. She has since appeared in acting roles in television and film, and beginning in 2013 was a housewife on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for its fourth season.

---

Pamela Ribon, American actress, screenwriter, and author

Pamela Ribon is an Academy Award-nominated American screenwriter, author, blogger and actress. She created, wrote, and performed in the short film My Year of Dicks (2022), which was nominated for the 95th Academy Awards under the category Best Animated Short Film and based on her memoir Notes to Boys . Known for her screenwriting work in multiple Oscar-nominated animated features, and Emmy-nominated television series, Pamela's career spans multiple genres, including documentaries, graphic novels, anime, sketch comedy, and VR experiences. In November 2014, she found a Barbie book from 2010 titled I Can be a Computer Engineer. She decried elements of the book where Barbie appeared to be reliant on male colleagues. Mattel has since ceased publishing the book. Also known as Pamie and Wonder Killer, she runs the website pamie.com. She was one of the original recappers for Television Without Pity. Her commencement address for the 2019 College of Fine Arts graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin was praised by Texas Monthly.

---

Miranda Lee Richards, American singer-songwriter

Miranda Lee Richards is an American singer-songwriter.

---

Scott Rolen, American baseball player

Scott Bruce Rolen is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays, and Cincinnati Reds from 1996 to 2012.

---

Kevin Weekes, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Kevin Weekes is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 348 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). He is now a studio analyst for NHL Network, appearing on shows like On the Fly and NHL Tonight, while also calling weekly showcase games. He also calls games on ESPN/ABC, and makes regular studio appearances during games and on ESPN's weekly hockey show, The Point.

---

04/04/1973

Chris Banks, American football player (died 2014)

Warren Christopher Banks was an American professional football guard in the National Football League (NFL). Drafted out of the University of Kansas by the Broncos with the 226th overall pick in the seventh round of the 1996 NFL draft, Banks won a Super Bowl ring as a member of the Broncos' Super Bowl XXXIII championship team in 1998. Banks also played for the Barcelona Dragons and Atlanta Falcons. Banks died at his home in Abingdon, Maryland, on April 9, 2014.

---

David Blaine, American magician and producer

David Blaine is an American magician, mentalist, and endurance performer. Born in New York City, Blaine became interested in magic at a very young age. He gained prominence in 1997, when his first television special, David Blaine: Street Magic, aired on ABC. That year, he also appeared in Magic Man. He later starred in the television specials David Blaine: Real or Magic (2013), Beyond Magic (2016), and The Magic Way (2020).

---

Loris Capirossi, Italian motorcycle racer

Loris Capirossi is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, currently serving as Safety Advisor to Dorna Sports, the commercial rights holder of Grand Prix motorcycle racing.

---

Peter Hoekstra, Dutch footballer and coach

Peter Martin Hoekstra is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a left winger for PSV Eindhoven, Ajax and Stoke City. Capped five times by the Netherlands national team, he was a member of the Dutch squad at Euro 1996 in England under manager Guus Hiddink.

---

Chris McCormack, Australian triathlete and coach

Christopher John McCormack, also known as Macca, is an Australian triathlete. McCormack is a two-time winner of the Ironman World Championship, winning the titles in 2007 and 2010. He is also the winner of the 1997 International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Cup Series, the 1997 Triathlon World Championships, the 2012 Long Distance World Championships. and inducted into the AusTriathlon Hall of Fame for 2023.

---

Kelly Price, American singer-songwriter

Kelly Cherelle Price is an American R&B and gospel singer and songwriter. Beginning her career in 1992, Price originally performed backing vocals for Mariah Carey on multiple songs, including Carey's Billboard Hot 100-number one singles "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and "Fantasy." Price rose to wider prominence in 1997 following her uncredited performances on the number-one single "Mo Money Mo Problems" by the Notorious B.I.G. and the top-five single "Feel So Good" by Mase, prompting her to record as a lead artist. Her debut studio album, Soul of a Woman (1998), received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA); its lead single, "Friend of Mine" peaked within the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100.

---

04/04/1972

Jim Dymock, Australian rugby league player and coach

Jim Dymock is a professional rugby league coach who is the assistant coach of the Manly Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League (NRL) and a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s.

---

Martin Rundkvist, Swedish archaeologist and professor

Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist and associate professor at the University of Łódź in Poland. His research focuses on the Bronze, Iron, and Middle Ages of Scandinavia, including significant excavations in the province of Östergötland.

---

Jill Scott, American singer-songwriter and actress

Jill Heather Scott is an American singer, songwriter, model, poet, and actress. Her 2000 debut album, Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol. 1, went platinum and the follow-ups Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (2004) and The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 (2007) both achieved gold status.

---

Magnus Sveningsson, Swedish bass player

Magnus Sveningsson is best known as the bassist in the Swedish rock band The Cardigans.

---

04/04/1971

Yanic Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Yanic Jacques Perreault is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played a total of fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League. He is often considered one of the best face-off men in league history and holds the NHL record for the highest face-off winning percentage in a career (62.86%) as of the conclusion of the 2023-24 NHL season.

---

Malik Yusef, American actor, producer, and poet

Malik Yusef el-Shabazz Jones is an American spoken word artist, poet, rapper, record producer, and director based in Chicago, Illinois.

---

John Zandig, American wrestler and promoter

John Corson, better known by the ring name John Zandig, is an American professional wrestler and promoter. He is the founder and former owner of the promotion Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW).

---

04/04/1970

Georgios Amanatidis, Greek footballer and manager

Georgios Amanatidis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defender.

---

Dimitris Basis, Greek singer

Dimitrios Bibasis, better known by his stage name Dimitris Basis, is a Greek singer and musician. He is from the village of Cherso, near the city of Kilkis in Central Macedonia.

---

Greg Garcia, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Gregory Thomas Garcia is an American television writer, producer and director. He is the creator/executive producer of several long-running sitcoms, including Yes, Dear, My Name Is Earl, The Guest Book, Raising Hope, and Sprung. He has also worked for the series Family Matters and as a consulting producer on Family Guy.

---

Barry Pepper, Canadian actor and producer

Barry Robert Pepper is a Canadian-American actor. His best-known film roles include Private Daniel Jackson in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Corrections Officer Dean Stanton in The Green Mile (1999), Roger Maris in 61* (2001), Joseph L. Galloway in We Were Soldiers (2002), Charlie Halliday in The Snow Walker (2003), Mike Norton in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), Sergeant Michael Strank in Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Lucky Ned Pepper in True Grit (2010), DEA Agent Cooper in Snitch (2013), Vince in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), and David Keller in Crawl (2019).

---

Jason Stoltenberg, Australian tennis player

Jason Stoltenberg is an Australian former professional tennis player.

---

Josh Todd, American singer-songwriter and actor

Joshua Todd is an American singer and actor. He is the frontman and last remaining original member of hard rock band Buckcherry.

---

Yelena Yelesina, Russian high jumper

Yelena Borisovna Yelesina is a Russian female high jumper. She won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with 2,01m, one centimetre behind her personal best jump. She also won several other medals outside her Olympic gold.

---

04/04/1969

Piotr Anderszewski, Polish pianist and composer

Piotr Anderszewski is a Polish pianist and composer.

---

Karren Brady, English journalist and businesswoman

Karren Rita Brady, Baroness Brady, is a British business executive and television personality. She is a former managing director of Birmingham City F.C. and current vice-chairman of West Ham United F.C., and an aide to Alan Sugar on The Apprentice. She is a Conservative member of the House of Lords and has been a Small Business Ambassador for the UK government.

---

04/04/1968

Jesús Rollán, Spanish water polo player (died 2006)

Jesús Miguel Rollán Prada was a water polo goalkeeper from Spain who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

---

04/04/1967

Edith Masai, Kenyan-German runner

Edith Chewanjel Masai is a Kenyan former long-distance runner who specialised in cross country and track races, then road races in her late career. She represented Kenya at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her best achievements are three individual gold medals in the short race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships between 2002 and 2004.

---

George Mavrotas, Greek water polo player and politician

George Mavrotas is a former member of the Greek Parliament, while also being a retired Greek water polo player and associate professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. In July 2019 he was designated as General Secretary of Sport in the Greek Government.

---

04/04/1966

Nancy McKeon, American actress

Nancy Justine McKeon is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Jo Polniaczek on the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life and Jinny Exstead on The Division.

---

Mike Starr, American bass player (died 2011)

Michael Christopher Starr was an American musician best known as the original bassist for the rock band Alice in Chains, with which he played from the band's formation in 1987 until January 1993. He was also a member of Sato, Gypsy Rose, Sun Red Sun, and Days of the New.

---

Christos Tsekos, Greek basketball player

Christos Tsekos is a retired Greek professional basketball player. He played professionally in the Greek Basket League, and he represented Greece at the senior level.

---

04/04/1965

Vinny Burns, English guitarist and producer

Vinny Burns is an English hard rock guitarist and producer, best known for his work with the bands Dare, Ten and Bob Catley. He has also been a member of Asia, Ultravox, Hugo, FM, The Ladder, Phoenix Down, and on his own project with Sam Blue, Burns Blue. He is active as a producer and owns his one recording studio. The last album he produced was the debut album of the rock band The Beautiful Sleazy, "All Fired Up".

---

Robert Downey Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter.

Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor. His films as a leading actor have grossed over $14.3 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Downey was the highest-paid actor in the world annually from 2013 to 2015. Known for his versatility across roles, he is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Daytime Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards.

---

04/04/1964

Branco, Brazilian footballer and coach

Cláudio Ibrahim Vaz Leal, better known as Branco, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a left back. A member of the triumphant Brazilian team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, Branco was a free kick specialist with accurate placing of the ball.

---

Dr. Chud, American drummer and singer

David Calabrese, known professionally as Dr. Chud, is an American horror punk drummer best known for his work with the Misfits. He has also been a member of Graves, Gorgeous Frankenstein, Doyle and Blitzkid, and fronts his own solo project Dr. Chud's X-Ward.

---

Anthony Clark, American actor

Anthony Clark is an American actor and comedian who starred in the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, in which he played the character Greg Warner.

---

David Cross, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

David Cross is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television producer. Cross is best known for his stand-up performances, the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995–1998), his role as Ian Hawke in the first three Alvin and the Chipmunks movies, and his role as Tobias Fünke in the Fox/Netflix sitcom Arrested Development. He has been described as "one of the defining figures of cult Gen X comedy".

---

Satoshi Furukawa, Japanese surgeon and astronaut

Satoshi Furukawa is a Japanese surgeon and JAXA astronaut. Furukawa was assigned to the International Space Station as a flight engineer on long-duration missions Expedition 28/29 (2011) and Expedition 69/70 (2023-2024).

---

Paul Parker, England international footballer and TV pundit

Paul Andrew Parker is an English sports television pundit and former professional football player and manager.

---

Đặng Thân, Vietnamese writer and poet

Đặng Thân is a Pushcart Prize-nominated bilingual poet, fiction writer, essayist and critic, based in Vietnam. There he is regarded "the typical figure of Post-Doi Moi Literature", and considered "the best humourist ever" and even an "awesomely brilliant genius". Unfortunately, it was repeatedly said that leading governmental departments in Vietnam instructed the "state-controlled" literary circle that his works were "harmful". From 2008 up to 2011 and from 2014 up to present, all publishing houses there had not been allowed to print any book of his for no righteous reasons, and official state-run newspapers had been ordered to leave him in the dark.

---

04/04/1963

A. Michael Baldwin, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

A. Michael Baldwin is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter. He came to public notice as a child actor, appearing as Mike Pearson in Phantasm (1979) and its sequels.

---

Jack Del Rio, American football player and coach

Jack Louis Del Rio Jr. is an American professional football coach and former linebacker who is the head coach of the Paris Musketeers of the European League of Football (ELF). He played college football for the USC Trojans from 1981 to 1984 and was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the third round of the 1985 NFL draft. Del Rio also played for the Kansas City Chiefs, Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, and Miami Dolphins before retiring in 1996.

---

Dale Hawerchuk, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2020)

Dale Martin Hawerchuk was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Drafted first overall by the Winnipeg Jets in the 1981 NHL entry draft, Hawerchuk played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 16 seasons as a member of the Jets, Buffalo Sabres, St. Louis Blues, and Philadelphia Flyers. He won the NHL's Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year in 1982 and was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in his second year of eligibility in 2001. Hawerchuk served as the head coach of the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League from 2010 to 2019.

---

Jane McDonald, English singer and broadcaster

Jane Ann McDonald is an English singer, songwriter, and television presenter. She first became known following her appearance on the BBC One show The Cruise in 1998. Later that year, her eponymous debut studio album topped the UK Albums Chart for three weeks and has had five UK top 10 albums. Her eleventh studio album, Living the Dream, was released in March 2026.

---

Graham Norton, Irish actor and talk show host

Graham William Walker, known professionally as Graham Norton, is an Irish comedian, broadcaster, actor, and writer. He is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for the comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show (2007–present). He has received the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance three times for the chat show So Graham Norton (1998–2002). He has been noted for his innuendo-laden dialogue and flamboyant presentation style.

---

04/04/1962

Craig Adams, English bass player and songwriter

Craig David Adams is an English musician, bass guitarist and songwriter. Over his career he has worked with a variety of rock bands, the most notable being the Sisters of Mercy and the Mission.

---

Kailasho Devi, Indian social worker and politician

Kailasho Devi Saini is a political and social worker and a member of parliament elected from Kurukshetra constituency in the Indian state of Haryana being an Indian National Lok Dal candidate.

---

04/04/1961

Hildi Santo-Tomas, American interior decorator

Hildi Santo-Tomas is an American interior designer and television personality. She is best known for being a designer on the TLC reality program Trading Spaces from 2000 to 2008, where she became known for her outlandish and often unpopular designs.

---

04/04/1960

Jonathan Agnew, English cricketer and sportscaster

Jonathan Philip Agnew, is an English cricket broadcaster and a former cricketer. He was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and educated at Uppingham School. He is nicknamed "Aggers" and, less commonly, "Spiro" – the latter, according to Debrett's Cricketers' Who's Who, after former US Vice-President Spiro Agnew.

---

Jane Eaglen, English soprano

Jane Eaglen is an English dramatic soprano particularly known for her interpretations of the works of Richard Wagner and the title roles in Bellini's Norma and Puccini's Turandot. Her career at the Metropolitan Opera started with her Brunhilde in the Ring Cycle. Eaglen has performed at all major houses globally such as La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera House and many others. She currently resides in Boston, MA as a voice teacher at the New England Conservatory. She is the President and founder of the Boston Wagner Society. Eaglen spends her summers instructing at the Merola opera training program for emerging artists. Every year she judges several voice competitions, including the Laffont-Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

---

Godknows Igali, Nigerian diplomat, civil servant and technocrat

Godknows Boladei Igali is a Nigerian public servant, diplomat, author and scholar. He was appointed by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in September 2007 as an ambassador to the Scandinavian countries - Sweden, Denmark and Norway, a position he occupied until he was appointed a Federal Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Water Resources on 4 May 2010.

---

Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-Australian actor and producer

Hugo Wallace Weaving is a stage, screen, and voice actor. Born in Colonial Nigeria to British parents, Weaving has lived in Australia since 1976, although retains British citizenship. He undertook his acting training at NIDA in Sydney. He became known internationally for his appearances in the Australian films Proof (1991) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), and more widely known as Agent Smith in the first three The Matrix films (1999–2003) and Elrond in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003), which were American productions.

---

04/04/1959

Phil Morris, American actor and screenwriter

Phil Morris is an American film and television actor. He played Jackie Chiles in Seinfeld, Martian Manhunter in Smallville, and Silas Stone in Doom Patrol. As a voice actor, he is known for voicing Dr. Sweet in Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Doc Saturday in The Secret Saturdays.

---

04/04/1958

Peter Baltes, German bass player

Peter Baltes is a German musician, best known as former bassist of heavy metal band Accept and as current bassist of U.D.O.

---

Cazuza, Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 1990)

Agenor de Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza, both while fronting Barão Vermelho and at solo career, is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music. In his 9-year career, he sold more than 5 million albums and achieved 11 number one singles and 18 Top 10 singles in Brazil.

---

Rodney Eade, Australian footballer and coach

Rodney Eade is a former Australian rules footballer and coach in the Australian Football League. He is a former coach of the Sydney Swans, the Western Bulldogs and the Gold Coast Football Club. He has, to date, coached 377 games of AFL football, placing him first on the all-time AFL/VFL list of most games coached without a premiership.

---

04/04/1957

Paul Downton, English cricketer

Paul Rupert Downton is a retired cricketer and cricket administrator.

---

Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter

Aki Olavi Kaurismäki is a Finnish filmmaker. He is best known for films such as Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989), Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017), and Fallen Leaves (2023).

---

Graeme Kelling, Scottish guitarist (died 2004)

Graeme Hunter Kelling was a Scottish musician and the original guitarist with the Scottish pop band, Deacon Blue.

---

Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese singer and trumpet player

Nobuyoshi Kuwano is a Japanese television performer, former member of Rats & Star. His nickname is "Kuwa-man" (桑マン). In Rats & Star, he took charge of the trumpet and vocals. After the group broke up, he shifted to a television comedian and co-starred with The Drifters' Ken Shimura and Masashi Tashiro. He took over as lead vocalist of Rats & Star during Masayuki Suzuki's solo concert tour.

---

04/04/1956

Evelyn Hart, Canadian ballerina

Evelyn Anne Hart is a Canadian ballerina and former principal dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

---

Tom Herr, American baseball player and manager

Thomas Mitchell Herr is an American former professional baseball second baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, and New York Mets, from 1979 to 1991. Although he never won a Gold Glove Award, Herr retired with the highest all-time career fielding percentage for National League second basemen (.989), a figure that was matched and surpassed a few years later when Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg retired.

---

David E. Kelley, American screenwriter and producer

David Edward Kelley is an American television writer, producer, and former attorney. He has created and/or produced a number of television series including Doogie Howser, M.D., Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Goliath, Big Little Lies, and Big Sky. Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows that have aired on all four top commercial American television networks as well as cable giant HBO.

---

04/04/1953

Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician (died 2022)

Robert "Bob" Bertrand was a Canadian politician. He was born in Fort-Coulonge, Quebec.

---

Henry Fotheringham, South African cricketer

Henry Richard Fotheringham is a retired South African cricketer.

---

Simcha Jacobovici, Canadian director, producer, journalist, and author

Simcha Jacobovici is a Canadian–Israeli journalist and documentary filmmaker. He has created documentaries on Israel, biblical history, Atlantis, and the transatlantic slave trade, among other topics. Several scholars consider him to be a pseudo-archeologist and pseudo-historian.

---

Sammy Wilson, Northern Irish politician, 31st Lord Mayor of Belfast

Samuel Wilson is a British politician who has served as Chief Whip of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in the House of Commons since 2019. Wilson has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Antrim since 2005.

---

Chen Yi, Chinese violinist and composer

Chen Yi is a Chinese-American composer of contemporary classical music and violinist. Chen Yi has earned global fame as a prolific composer who integrates Chinese and Western traditions, transcending cultural and musical boundaries. She was the first Chinese woman to receive a Master of Arts (M.A.) in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Chen was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Si Ji, and has received awards from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2010, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The New School and in 2012, she was awarded the Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019.

---

04/04/1952

Rosemarie Ackermann, German high jumper

Rosemarie "Rosi" Ackermann is a German former high jumper, Olympic champion and multiple world record holder. In Berlin on 26 August 1977, she became the first female high jumper to clear a height of two metres.

---

Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2010)

Patrick John Joseph Burns was a National Hockey League head coach. Over 14 seasons between 1988 and 2004, he coached in 1,019 games with the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, and New Jersey Devils, and he won the Stanley Cup in 2003 with the Devils. Burns retired in 2005 after being diagnosed with recurring cancer, which eventually claimed his life five years later. Burns won the Jack Adams Award three times, which is the most by a coach in NHL history. In fourteen seasons, he reached the postseason eleven times.

---

Gregg Hansford, Australian race car driver and motorcycle racer (died 1995)

Gregory John "Gregg" Hansford was an Australian professional motorcycle and touring car racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1978 to 1981 and in Australian touring car championships from 1982 to 1994. Hansford was a two-time vice-champion in the 250cc road racing world championships. With 10 Grand Prix victories to his credit, he is ranked fourth for the most Grand Prix wins by an Australian behind Mick Doohan, Casey Stoner (38) and Wayne Gardner (18).

---

Cherie Lunghi, English actress and dancer

Cherie Mary Lunghi is an English film, television, theatre actress and voice-over artist. She is known for her roles in many British dramas. Her international fame stems from her role as Guenevere in the 1981 film Excalibur. Lunghi's long list of screen, stage and TV credits include football manager Gabriella Benson in the 1990s television series The Manageress and a series of advertisements for Kenco coffee. She also competed in the 2008 series of Strictly Come Dancing. She is the mother of the actress Nathalie Lunghi.

---

Karen Magnussen, Canadian figure skater and coach

Karen Diane Magnussen, OC is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 1972 Olympic silver medallist and 1973 World champion. She was Canada's Female Athlete of the Year in 1971 and 1972, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1973.

---

Gary Moore, Northern Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2011)

Robert William Gary Moore was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career, he played in various groups and performed a range of music including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal and jazz fusion.

---

Villy Søvndal, Danish educator and politician, Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs

Villy Søvndal is a Danish politician who served as Denmark's Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2013. He represented the Socialist People's Party in Parliament (Folketinget) from 1994 to 2013. He was selected as party leader in a 2005 vote, succeeding Holger K. Nielsen.

---

04/04/1951

John Hannah, American football player and coach

John Allen Hannah, is an American former football guard who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the New England Patriots. Nicknamed "Hog", he is considered one of the greatest offensive linemen of all time.

---

04/04/1950

Christine Lahti, American actress and director

Christine Ann Lahti is an American actress and filmmaker. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1984 film Swing Shift. Her other film roles include ...And Justice for All (1979), Housekeeping (1987), Running on Empty (1988), Leaving Normal (1992), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). For her directorial debut with the 1995 short film Lieberman in Love, she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

---

04/04/1949

Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican-American singer (died 1999)

Franklin Delano Alexander "Junior" Braithwaite was a reggae musician from Kingston, Jamaica and the youngest member of the vocal group, The Wailing Wailers.

---

Litsa Diamanti, Greek singer

Litsa Diamanti is a Greek laïko singer who became famous in the 1960s and 1970s. She has been described as the "child-wonder of the Sixties decade and the absolute diva of metapolitefsi." Her hits have been described as "all-time classics."

---

Shing-Tung Yau, Chinese-American mathematician and academic

Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese-American mathematician. He is the director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University and professor emeritus at Harvard University. Until 2022, Yau was the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, at which point he moved to Tsinghua.

---

04/04/1948

Abdullah Öcalan, Turkish activist

Abdullah Öcalan, also known as Apo, is a founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

---

Berry Oakley, American bass player (died 1972)

Raymond Berry Oakley III was an American bassist and one of the founding members of the Allman Brothers Band. Known for his long, melodic bass runs, he was ranked number 46 on Bass Player magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Bass Players of All Time". He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Allman Brothers Band in 1995.

---

Richard Parsons, American lawyer and businessman (died 2024)

Richard Dean Parsons was an American business executive, notably the chairman of Citigroup and the chairman and CEO of Time Warner. He had also been the interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the interim chairman of the board for CBS.

---

Dan Simmons, American author (died 2026)

Daniel Joseph Simmons was an American science fiction and horror writer. He was the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. He also wrote mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.

---

Derek Thompson, Northern Irish actor

Derek Thompson is a British actor and former singer who is best known as Charlie Fairhead in Casualty, a role he portrayed for 38 years from the show's inception in 1986 to 2024.

---

Pick Withers, English drummer

David "Pick" Withers is an English drummer. He was the original drummer of the rock band Dire Straits and played on their first four albums, which included hit singles such as "Sultans of Swing", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Private Investigations". Withers was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Dire Straits in 2018.

---

04/04/1947

Wiranto, Indonesian general and politician

Wiranto is an Indonesian politician and retired army general, who is serving as the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council, since December 2019. Previously, he was the Commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces from February 1998 to October 1999 during Indonesia's transition from authoritarian rule to democracy. He ran unsuccessfully for President of Indonesia in 2004 and for the vice-presidency in 2009. On 27 July 2016, Wiranto was appointed Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs, replacing Luhut Binsar Panjaitan.

---

Ray Fosse, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2021)

Raymond Earl Fosse was an American professional baseball player and television sports color commentator. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher from 1967 to 1979, most prominently as an All-Star player for the Cleveland Indians, and then as a two-time World Series champion with the Oakland Athletics dynasty of the early 1970s. He also played for the Seattle Mariners and the Milwaukee Brewers. After his playing career, Fosse was a popular television and radio color commentator for the Athletics.

---

Eliseo Soriano, Filipino minister and television host (died 2021)

Eliseo "Eli" Fernando Soriano was a Filipino preacher and televangelist. He was the "Overall Servant" of the Members Church of God International (MCGI), an international Christian religious organization with headquarters in Apalit, Pampanga, Philippines. He was the main host of the radio and television program Ang Dating Daan, which is considered as the longest-running religious program in the Philippines.

---

04/04/1946

Colin Coates, Australian speed skater

Colin Victor Coates, is a former ice speed skater from Australia, who represented his native country in a record six consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1968 in Grenoble, France.

---

Dave Hill, English guitarist

David John Hill is an English rock musician. He is the lead guitarist, a backing vocalist and the sole continuous member in the English band Slade. Hill is known for his flamboyant stage clothes and hairstyle.

---

Katsuaki Satō, Japanese martial artist and coach

Katsuaki Satō is the founder and director of Satojuku Karate, also known as Odo karate. The Satojuku honbu (headquarters) is located in Tachikawa, Japan.

---

György Spiró, Hungarian author and playwright

György (George) Spiró is a dramatist, novelist and essayist who has emerged as one of post-war Hungary's most prominent literary figures. He is a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.

---

Bubba Wyche, American football player and coach

Bubba Wyche is a former American and Canadian football quarterback in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and World Football League (WFL). He played in the CFL for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the WFL for the Chicago Fire, Detroit Wheels, and Shreveport Steamers. After playing for North Fulton High School, Wyche played college football at Tennessee.

---

04/04/1945

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French-German educator and politician

Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a French-German politician. Born stateless to a German-Polish Ashkenazi Jewish family, Daniel Cohn-Bendit obtained German citizenship in 1959 and French citizenship in 2015.

---

Caroline McWilliams, American actress (died 2010)

Caroline Margaret McWilliams was an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Marcy Hill in the television series Benson. McWilliams had also appeared in nine episodes of its parent-series Soap, as Sally. She was a regular on the CBS soap Guiding Light for several years and appeared in a short-term role on the NBC soap Another World. She also had a recurring role on Beverly Hills, 90210 playing the mother of Jamie Walters's character, Ray Pruit.

---

04/04/1944

Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician

Magdalena Godelieve Hilda Aelvoet is a Belgian politician in Flanders. She was a provincial senator for Antwerp between 1985 and 1991 and a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the district of Leuven between 1991 and 1994, when she also served in the Flemish Council. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999, where she was the chair of the Greens. Aelvoet was appointed deputy prime minister and the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Public Health and the Environment in the Verhofstadt I government between 1999 and 2002 and became a Minister of State in 1995.

---

Mary Kenny, Irish journalist, author, and playwright

Mary Kenny is an Irish journalist, broadcaster and playwright. A founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement, she was one of the country's first and foremost feminists, often contributes columns to the Irish Independent and has been described as "the grand dame of Irish journalism". She is based in England.

---

Bob McDill, American country music songwriter

Robert Lee McDill is a retired American songwriter, active from the 1960s until 2000. During his career he wrote or co-wrote 31 number one country hits. His songs were also recorded by popular artists of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, including The Grateful Dead, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Anne Murray, and B. J. Thomas. His music credits in film include Primary Colors, The Thing Called Love, Texasville, and the documentary Grizzly Man. In addition to four Grammy nominations McDill received Songwriter of the Year awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the Nashville Songwriters Association International. In October 2012, McDill was awarded ASCAP's Golden Note Award in recognition of his "extraordinary place in American popular music." In September 2015 he received the Academy of Country Music's Poet's Award for lifetime achievement. In October 2023 he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He is the author of numerous articles as well as two books: Tales of the Old River Rod and Gun, Bloody Mary Society and Gentleman's Club and The Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Nathanial McDill.

---

Craig T. Nelson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Craig Theodore Nelson is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Hayden Fox in the ABC sitcom Coach, Deputy Warden Ward Wilson in Stir Crazy (1980), Steve Freeling in Poltergeist (1982), Burt Nickerson in All the Right Moves (1983), Peter Dellaplane in Action Jackson (1988), Chief Howard Hyde in Turner & Hooch (1989), Alex Cullen in The Devil's Advocate (1997), Chief Jack Mannion in the CBS drama The District (2000–2004), Coach Goddard in Blades of Glory (2007), The Warden in the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl (2007), and the voice of Mr. Incredible in the 2004 film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel.

---

Nelson Prudêncio, Brazilian triple jumper and educator (died 2012)

Nelson Prudêncio was a Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump. He won silver medals at the 1967 and 1971 Pan American Games and 1968 Summer Olympics, and a bronze at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Prudêncio was ranked world's #2 in 1968, #3 in 1972, #5 in 1975, and #8 in 1971.

---

Toktamış Ateş, Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist and writer (died 2013)

Toktamış Ateş was a Turkish academic, political commentator, columnist and writer. He was professor of political sciences at Istanbul University.

---

04/04/1943

Paulette Jiles, American writer (died 2025)

Paulette Kay Jiles was an American poet, memoirist and novelist.

---

04/04/1942

Jim Fregosi, American baseball player and manager (died 2014)

James Louis Fregosi was an American professional baseball shortstop and manager, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1961 to 1978, primarily for the Los Angeles / California Angels. He also played for the New York Mets, Texas Rangers, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

---

Kitty Kelley, American journalist and biographer

Katherine Kelley is an American journalist and author of best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British royal family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey.

---

Elizabeth Levy, American author

Elizabeth Levy is an American author who has written over eighty children's books in a variety of genres. Born in Buffalo, New York, she is currently living in New York City. She has appeared as a contestant on Billy on the Street on TruTV. Her cousin is children's author Robie Harris.

---

04/04/1941

Zia Uddin, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician

Mufakkir al-Islām Ḍiyā' ad-Dīn ibn Muqaddas ʿAlī, better known simply as Zia Uddin or reverentially as Nazim Saheb Huzur, is a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, politician and educationist. He is currently the president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh and Azad Dini Adarah-e-Talim, and an advisor to Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh. Uddin is also the director of Jamia Madania Angura-Muhammadpur and a member of Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh's permanent committee. He has played important roles in the 2013 Shapla Square protests and Khatme Nabuwwat movement, and has spoken out against the construction of the Tipaimukh Dam.

---

04/04/1940

Richard Attwood, English race car driver

Richard James David "Dickie" Attwood is a British motor racing driver from England. During his career he raced for the BRM, Lotus and Cooper Formula One teams. He competed in 17 World Championship Grands Prix, achieved one podium and scored a total of 11 championship points. He was also a successful sports car racing driver and won the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans race, driving a Porsche 917, the first of Porsche's record 19 victories at the famous race.

---

Sharon Sheeley, American singer-songwriter (died 2002)

Sharon Kathleen Sheeley was an American songwriter who wrote songs for Glen Campbell, Ricky Nelson, Brenda Lee, and Eddie Cochran.

---

04/04/1939

JoAnne Carner, American golfer

JoAnne Gunderson Carner is an American professional golfer. Her 43 victories on the LPGA Tour led to her induction in the World Golf Hall of Fame. She is the only woman to have won the U.S. Girls' Junior, U.S. Women's Amateur, and U.S. Women's Open titles, and was the first person to win three different USGA championship events. Tiger Woods is the only man to have won the equivalent three USGA titles. Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Carol Semple Thompson have also won three different USGA titles.

---

Darlene Hooley, American educator and politician

Darlene Kay Olson Hooley is an American politician and former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon who represented the state's 5th congressional district.

---

Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer (died 2018)

Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as "Soweto Blues" and "Bring Him Back Home". He also had a number-one US pop hit in 1968 with his version of "Grazing in the Grass".

---

04/04/1938

A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (died 1989)

Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball.

---

04/04/1935

Geoff Braybrooke, English-New Zealand soldier and politician (died 2013)

Geoffrey Bernard Braybrooke was a New Zealand politician. He was a member of the New Zealand Parliament from 1981 to 2002, representing the Labour Party. He was notably one of the party's more socially conservative MPs.

---

Kenneth Mars, American actor and comedian (died 2011)

Kenneth Mars was an American actor. He appeared in two Mel Brooks films: as the deranged Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in The Producers (1967) and Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp in Young Frankenstein (1974). He also co-starred in Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972) as well as appearing in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987) and Shadows and Fog (1991).

---

Trevor Griffiths, English playwright and educator (died 2024)

Trevor Griffiths was an English dramatist.

---

04/04/1934

Helen Hanft, American actress (died 2013)

Helen Hanft was an American actress.

---

Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist and activist (died 1996)

Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky was a Russian journalist, dissident, human rights activist and political prisoner.

---

04/04/1933

Bill France Jr., American businessman (died 2007)

William Clifton France, better known as Bill France Jr. or Little Billy, was an American motorsports executive who served from 1972 to 2000 as the chief executive officer (CEO) of NASCAR, the sanctioning body of the American-based stock car racing. He succeeded his father, NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. as its CEO. His son, Brian France, was the CEO from 2003 to 2018.

---

Brian Hewson, English runner (died 2022)

Brian Stanford Hewson was a middle-distance runner who represented Great Britain at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics. He won the gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 1958 European Championships.

---

Bapu Nadkarni, Indian cricketer (died 2020)

Rameshchandra Gangaram "Bapu" Nadkarni was an Indian international cricketer, mainly known for being an economical bowler. The chances of scoring against him was either nil, or negligible.

---

04/04/1932

Clive Davis, American record producer, founded Arista Records and J Records

Clive Jay Davis is an American record producer, A&R executive, record executive, and lawyer. He has won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a non-performer, in 2000.

---

Richard Lugar, American lieutenant and politician, 44th Mayor of Indianapolis (died 2019)

Richard Green Lugar was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Indiana from 1977 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party.

---

Anthony Perkins, American actor (died 1992)

Anthony Perkins was an American actor. Born in Manhattan, he began his acting career as a teenager in summer stock theatre, and appeared in films prior to his Broadway debut. His first film role was in The Actress (1953). That same year, he debuted on Broadway in Tea and Sympathy, a performance for which he received critical acclaim.

---

Johanna Reiss, Dutch-American author

Johanna Reiss is a Dutch-American writer whose work focuses on her experiences as a Jewish child during the Second World War. Her books have been compared to the writing of Anne Frank.

---

Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and producer (died 1986)

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin. He is widely considered one of the greatest directors in cinema history. His films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes and are known for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery and preoccupation with nature and memory.

---

04/04/1931

James Dickens, English politician (died 2013)

James McCulloch York Dickens was a British Labour Party politician.

---

Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence officer

Bobby Ray Inman is a retired United States Navy admiral who held several influential positions in the United States Intelligence Community. Inman is mainly known for holding executive leadership positions at virtually all major U.S. intelligence agencies and for his brief but controversial 1993 nomination to become U.S. Secretary of Defense, which was ultimately unsuccessful. His thirty-one-year military career, which began with his commissioning in the Naval Reserve in 1952, culminated in him achieving the permanent rank of four-star Admiral, becoming the first naval intelligence specialist to ever attain that rank.

---

Catherine Tizard, New Zealand politician, 16th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 2021)

Dame Catherine Anne Tizard was a New Zealand politician who served as mayor of Auckland City from 1983 to 1990, and the 16th governor-general of New Zealand from 1990 to 1996. She was the first woman to hold either office.

---

04/04/1930

Netty Herawaty, Indonesian actress (died 1989)

Netty Herawaty was an Indonesian actress who made more than fifty films between 1949 and 1986. She was the part of Classical Indonesian Cinema.

---

04/04/1929

Humbert Allen Astredo, American actor (died 2016)

Humbert Allen "Bud" Astredo, Jr. was an American stage, film, and television actor. He made several notable Broadway and Off-Broadway theatrical performances, but was best known for the numerous roles he performed on the daytime Gothic horror soap opera Dark Shadows, most notably that of the warlock Nicholas Blair.

---

04/04/1928

Maya Angelou, American memoirist and poet (died 2014)

Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou's series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.

---

Jimmy Logan, Scottish actor, director, and producer (died 2001)

James Allan Short, OBE, FRSAMD, known professionally as Jimmy Logan, was a Scottish performer, theatrical producer, impresario and director.

---

Monty Norman, English singer-songwriter and producer (died 2022)

Monty Norman was a British film score composer and singer. A contributor to West End musicals in the 1950s and 1960s, he is best known for composing the "James Bond Theme", first heard in the 1962 film Dr. No. He was an Ivor Novello Award and Olivier Award winner, and a Tony Award nominee.

---

04/04/1927

Joe Orlando, Italian-American author and illustrator (died 1998)

Joseph Orlando was an Italian-American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades. He was the associate publisher of Mad and the vice president of DC Comics, where he edited numerous titles and ran DC's Special Projects department.

---

04/04/1926

Ronnie Masterson, Irish actress (died 2014)

Ronnie Masterson was an Irish actress.

---

04/04/1925

Dettmar Cramer, German footballer and manager (died 2015)

Dettmar Cramer was a German football manager who led Bayern Munich to the 1975 and 1976 European Cups. He was born in Dortmund. Cramer is commonly considered to be the father of modern football in Japan and was a member of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd Class. He coached the Egypt national football team and also briefly coached the United States national team.

---

Frank Truitt, American basketball player and coach (died 2014)

Frank Wilson Truitt, Jr., was an American multi-sport collegiate coach and a veteran of World War II.

---

Claude Wagner, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (died 1979)

Claude Wagner was a Canadian judge and politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. Throughout his career, he was a Crown prosecutor, professor of criminal law and judge.

---

Emmett Williams, American poet and author (died 2007)

Emmett Williams was an American poet and visual artist. He was married to British visual artist Ann Noël.

---

04/04/1924

Bob Christie, American race car driver (died 2009)

Bob Christie was an American racecar driver. Christie raced in the USAC Championship Car series in the 1956-1963 seasons, with 15 career starts, including every Indianapolis 500 race in that span. He finished in the top-ten five times, with his best finish in third position in 1959 at Daytona. He died in Grants Pass, Oregon.

---

Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (died 1972)

Gilbert Raymond Hodges was an American first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played most of his 18-year career for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers. An eight-time All-Star, he anchored the infield for the Dodgers through six pennant winners and two World Series titles before leading the New York Mets to their first World Series title in 1969. One of the most beloved and admired players in major league history, Hodges was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022, fifty years after his sudden death.

---

04/04/1923

Peter Vaughan, English actor (died 2016)

Peter Ewart Ohm, known professionally as Peter Vaughan, was an English actor known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions. He also acted extensively on stage.

---

Gene Reynolds, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (died 2020)

Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal was an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. He was one of the developers and producers of the TV series M*A*S*H.

---

04/04/1922

Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor (died 2004)

Elmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. For his work, he received an Academy Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and a Primetime Emmy Award. He also received seven Golden Globe Awards, five Grammy Awards, and two Tony Award nominations.

---

04/04/1921

Orunamamu, American-Canadian author and educator (died 2014)

Orunamamu was an American/Canadian professional storyteller, raconteur and griot. Her peripatetic storytelling led her on extensive, demanding and often impromptu journeys across the United States including Alaska, overseas to the United Kingdom and Egypt and finally to Canada. She is included in a number of books, journals, articles and two documentaries. Her performance medium was the spoken voice in performances to audiences. For Orunamamu storytelling became her cause as well as her art form, because "[s]torytelling demonstrates the humanity in every culture." Orunamamu died in Calgary, Alberta on 4 September 2014 at the age of 93. She was booked to perform at the Calgary Spoken Word Festival in the summer of 2014. Orunamamu has been the subject of countless portraits over many decades and in many countries, including photographers such as Arthur Koch (Oakland), Kenneth Locke (Calgary) and Jim Hair. Many of these are shared through social media.

---

Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (died 2015)

Elizabeth Welter Wilson was an American actress whose career spanned nearly 60 years in film and television. In 1972 she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Sticks and Bones. Wilson was also a Primetime Emmy Award and BAFTA Award nominee, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2006.

---

04/04/1920

Ignatius IV of Antioch, Greek patriarch (died 2012)

Patriarch Ignatius IV was the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All The East from 1979 to 2012.

---

04/04/1918

George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, English soldier and politician, Leader of the House of Lords (died 2007)

George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, Baron Jellicoe of Southampton, was a British politician, diplomat and businessman.

---

04/04/1916

Nikola Ljubičić, Serbian general and politician, 10th President of Serbia (died 2005)

Nikola Ljubičić was the President of the Presidency of Serbia (1982–1984), a member of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1984–1989), and the Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia (1967–1982). He received numerous medals both from Yugoslavia and abroad, including the Order of the National Hero of Yugoslavia.

---

Mickey Owen, American baseball player and coach (died 2005)

Arnold Malcolm "Mickey" Owen was an American professional baseball player, coach and scout. He played as a catcher for 13 seasons in Major League Baseball between 1937 and 1954 for the St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox. Considered an outstanding defensive catcher, his career was nonetheless marred by a crucial error that he committed during the 1941 World Series.

---

David White, American actor (died 1990)

David White was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for playing Darrin Stephens's boss Larry Tate from 1964 to 1972 on the ABC situation comedy Bewitched.

---

04/04/1915

Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (died 2003)

Louis Archambault was a Quebec sculptor and ceramicist, who was one of the members of the "new sculpture" movement in Canada that moved away from traditional methods towards abstraction.

---

04/04/1914

Richard Coogan, American actor (died 2014)

Richard Charles Potter Coogan was an American actor best known for his portrayal of Captain Video in Captain Video and His Video Rangers from 1949 to 1950.

---

Marguerite Duras, French novelist, screenwriter, and director (died 1996)

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

---

David W. Goodall, Australian ecologist and botanist (died 2018)

David William Goodall was an English-born Australian botanist and ecologist. He was influential in the early development of statistical methods in plant communities. He worked as researcher and professor in England, Australia, Ghana and the United States. He was editor-in-chief of the 30-volume Ecosystems of the World series of books, and author of over 100 publications. He was known as Australia's oldest working scientist, still editing ecology papers at age 103. Long an advocate of voluntary euthanasia legalisation, he ended his own life in Switzerland via physician-assisted suicide aged 104.

---

04/04/1913

Dave Brown, Australian rugby league player (died 1974)

David Michael Brown was one of Australia's greatest rugby league footballers.

---

Rosemary Lane, American actress and singer (died 1974)

Rosemary Lane was an American actress and singer. She is known for her performances with Lola and Priscilla as the Lane Sisters and Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians in the 1930s, and for her film career in the 1930s to 1940s.

---

Frances Langford, American actress and singer (died 2005)

Frances Langford was an American singer and actress who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and made film and television appearances for over two decades.

---

Jules Léger, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (died 1980)

Joseph Jules Léger was a Canadian diplomat and statesman who served as the 21st governor general of Canada from 1974 to 1979.

---

Muddy Waters, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1983)

McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude".

---

04/04/1910

Đặng Văn Ngữ, Vietnamese physician and academic (died 1967)

Đặng Văn Ngữ (1910–1967) was a Vietnamese medical doctor and intellectual.

---

04/04/1907

Robert Askin, Australian sergeant and politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales (died 1981)

Sir Robert William Askin, was an Australian politician and the 32nd premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party. He was born in 1907 as Robin William Askin, but always disliked his first name and changed it by deed poll in 1971. Before being knighted in 1972, however, he was generally known as Bob Askin. Born in Sydney in 1907, Askin was educated at Sydney Technical High School. After serving as a bank officer and as a sergeant in the Second World War, Askin joined the Liberal Party and was elected to the seat of Collaroy at the 1950 election.

---

04/04/1906

Bea Benaderet, Turkish-Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress (died 1968)

Beatrice Benaderet was an American actress and comedienne. Born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, she began performing in Bay Area theatre and radio before embarking on a Hollywood career that spanned over three decades. Benaderet first specialized in voice-over work in the golden age of radio, appearing on numerous programs while working with comedians of the era such as Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, and Lucille Ball. Her expertise in dialect and characterization led to her becoming Warner Bros.' leading voice of female characters in their animated cartoons of the early 1940s through the mid-1950s.

---

John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (died 1995)

John Cameron Swayze was an American anchorman, news commentator, and game show panelist during the 1940s and 1950s. He later became best known as a product spokesman.

---

04/04/1905

Eugène Bozza, French composer and conductor (died 1991)

Eugène Joseph Bozza was a French composer and violinist. He was one of the most prolific composers of chamber music for wind instruments. Bozza's large ensemble works include five symphonies, operas, ballets, large choral work, wind band music, concertos, and many works for large brass or woodwind ensembles. Outside of France, he is best known for his chamber music, rather than his larger works.

---

Erika Nõva, Estonian architect and engineer (died 1987)

Erika Nõva née Volberg was an Estonian architect, remembered mainly for her farmhouse designs. She was the first woman to graduate as an architect in Estonia.

---

04/04/1902

Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, French journalist and author (died 1969)

Marie Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, commonly known as Louise de Vilmorin, was a French novelist, poet and journalist. Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but mordant tales, often set in aristocratic or artistic milieu.

---

Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author and poet (died 1935)

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was an American science fiction writer. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great acclaim in July 1934; the alien Tweel was arguably the first character to satisfy John W. Campbell's challenge: "Write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man." Weinbaum wrote more short stories and a few novels, but died from lung cancer less than a year and a half later.

---

04/04/1899

Hillel Oppenheimer, German-Israeli botanist and academic (died 1971)

Hillel Oppenheimer, was an Israeli professor of botany. He was awarded the Israel Prize for his work in Botany in 1959.

---

04/04/1898

Agnes Ayres, American actress (died 1940)

Agnes Ayres was an American actress who rose to fame during the period of silent films. She was known for her role as Lady Diana Mayo in The Sheik opposite Rudolph Valentino.

---

04/04/1897

Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter (died 1975)

Pierre Fresnay was a French stage and film actor.

---

04/04/1896

Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright and screenwriter (died 1955)

Robert Emmet Sherwood was an American playwright and screenwriter.

---

04/04/1895

Arthur Murray, American dancer and educator (died 1991)

Arthur Murray was an American ballroom dancer and businessman, whose name is most often associated with the dance studio chain that bears his name.

---

04/04/1892

Italo Mus, Italian painter (died 1967)

Italo Mus was an Italian painter.

---

Edith Södergran, Swedish-Finnish poet (died 1923)

Edith Irene Södergran was a Swedish-speaking Finnish poet. One of the first modernists within Swedish-language literature, her influences came from French Symbolism, German expressionism, and Russian futurism. At the age of 24 she released her first collection of poetry entitled Dikter ("Poems"). Södergran died at the age of 31, having contracted tuberculosis as a teenager. She did not live to experience the worldwide appreciation of her poetry, which has influenced many lyrical poets. Södergran is considered to have been one of the greatest modern Swedish-language poets, and her work continues to influence Swedish-language poetry and musical lyrics, for example, in the works of Mare Kandre, Gunnar Harding, Eva Runefelt, Heidi Sundblad-Halme, and Eva Dahlgren.

---

04/04/1889

Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1968)

Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi, also called Pandit ji, was an Indian poet, writer, essayist, playwright and who is particularly remembered for his participation in India's national struggle for independence and his contribution to Chhayavaad, the Neo-romanticism movement of Hindi literature. He was awarded the first Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his work Him Tarangini in 1955. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1963. For his works reinforcing Indian nationalism during the British Raj, he is referred to as the Yug Charan.

---

04/04/1888

Tris Speaker, American baseball player and manager (died 1958)

Tristram Edgar Speaker, nicknamed "the Gray Eagle", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a center fielder from 1907 to 1928. Considered one of the greatest players in the history of Major League Baseball, he compiled a career batting average of .345. His 792 career doubles represent an MLB career record. His 3,514 hits are fifth in the all-time hits list. Defensively, Speaker holds career records for assists, double plays, and unassisted double plays by an outfielder. He held the major league career record for putouts by a center fielder (6,592) until he was surpassed by Willie Mays in 1971. His fielding glove was known as the place "where triples go to die."

---

Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish historian and academic (died 1975)

Zdzisław Żygulski was a Polish literary historian and Germanist. He was a professor at the universities of Łódź and Wrocław. An expert of German literature of 18th–19th century and antique drama, he published, with Marian Szyrocki, a German literature history textbook Geschichte der deutschen Literatur. His notable works includes Gerhart Hauptmann. Człowiek i twórca (1968), Fryderyk Schiller (1975). His son, also named Zdzisław, was an art historian, academic and educator.

---

04/04/1886

Frank Luther Mott, American historian and journalist (died 1964)

Frank Luther Mott was an American academic, historian and journalist, who won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History for Volumes II and III of his series, A History of American Magazines.

---

04/04/1884

James Alberione, Italian priest, founded the Society of St. Paul (died 1971)

James Alberione, SSP, was an Italian Catholic priest, and the founder of the Society of St. Paul, of the Daughters of St. Paul, of the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master, of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master, of the Sisters of Jesus the Good Shepherd, of the Sisters of Mary Queen of the Apostles, and other religious institutes, which form the Pauline Family. The first two groups are best known for promoting the Catholic faith through various forms of modern media.

---

Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (died 1943)

Isoroku Yamamoto was an admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander of the Combined Fleet during World War II. He commanded the fleet from 1939 until his death in 1943, overseeing the start of the Pacific War in 1941 and Japan's initial successes and defeats before his plane was shot down by U.S. fighter aircraft over New Guinea.

---

04/04/1879

Gustav Goßler, German rower (died 1940)

Gustav Ludwig Goßler was a German rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

---

04/04/1878

Walter Conrad Arensberg, American art collector, critic and poet (died 1954)

Walter Conrad Arensberg was an American art collector, critic and poet. His father was part owner and president of a crucible steel company. He majored in English and philosophy at Harvard University. With his wife Louise, he collected art and supported artistic endeavors.

---

Stylianos Lykoudis, Greek admiral and historian (died 1958)

Stylianos Lykoudis was a Royal Hellenic Navy rear admiral, best known for his long service as head of the Navy's Lighthouse Service. He was also a scholar and historian, becoming a member of the Academy of Athens.

---

04/04/1876

Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter and poet (died 1958)

Maurice de Vlaminck was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. Vlaminck was one of the Fauves at the controversial Salon d'Automne exhibition of 1905.

---

04/04/1875

Pierre Monteux, Sephardic Jewish French-American viola player and conductor (died 1964)

Pierre Benjamin Monteux was a French conductor. After violin and viola studies, and a decade as an orchestral player and occasional conductor, he began to receive regular conducting engagements in 1907. He came to prominence when, for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company between 1911 and 1914, he conducted the world premieres of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and other prominent works including Petrushka, The Nightingale, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, and Debussy's Jeux. Thereafter he directed orchestras around the world for more than half a century.

---

04/04/1869

Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (died 1958)

Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter was an American architect and designer. She was one of the very few female American architects in her day. She was the designer of many landmark buildings and spaces for the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railroad, notably in Grand Canyon National Park. Her work had enormous influence as she helped to create a style, blending Spanish Colonial Revival and Mission Revival architecture with Native American motifs and Rustic elements, that became popular throughout the Southwest. Colter was a perfectionist, who spent a lifetime advocating and defending her aesthetic vision in a largely male-dominated field.

---

04/04/1868

Philippa Fawcett, English mathematician and educator (died 1948)

Philippa Garrett Fawcett was an English mathematician and educator. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. She taught at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at the normal school in Johannesburg, and she became an administrator for the London County Council.

---

04/04/1853

Remy de Gourmont, French poet, novelist, and critic (died 1915)

Remy de Gourmont was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common.

---

04/04/1851

James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (died 1931)

James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy,, was an Irish lawyer, politician in the British Parliament and later in the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State. He was also Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

---

04/04/1846

Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguayan-French poet and educator (died 1870)

Comte de Lautréamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, a French poet, born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern arts and literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. Ducasse died at the age of 24.

---

04/04/1843

William Henry Jackson, American painter and photographer (died 1942)

William Henry Jackson was an American photographer, Civil War veteran, painter, and an explorer famous for his images of the American West. He was a great-great nephew of Samuel Wilson, the progenitor of America's national symbol Uncle Sam. He was the great-grandfather of cartoonist Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead comics.

---

04/04/1842

Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (died 1891)

François Édouard Anatole Lucas was a French mathematician. Lucas is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence and the Tower of Hanoi. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him.

---

04/04/1835

John Hughlings Jackson, English physician and neurologist (died 1911)

John Hughlings Jackson was an English neurologist. He is best known for his research on epilepsy.

---

04/04/1829

Owen Suffolk, Australian bushranger, poet, confidence-man and author (died ?)

Owen Hargrave Suffolk was an English-born Australian bushranger, poet, confidence-man and author of Days of Crime and Years of Suffering (1867).

---

04/04/1826

Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (died 1901)

Zénobe Théophile Gramme was a Belgian electrical engineer. He was born at Jehay-Bodegnée on 4 April 1826, the sixth child of Mathieu-Joseph Gramme, and died at Bois-Colombes on 20 January 1901. He invented the Gramme machine, a type of direct current dynamo capable of generating smoother and much higher voltages than the dynamos known to that point.

---

04/04/1821

Linus Yale Jr., American engineer and businessman (died 1868)

Linus Yale Jr. was an American businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and metalsmith. He was a co-founder with millionaire Henry R. Towne of the Yale Lock Company, which became the premier manufacturer of locks in the United States. He was the country's leading expert on bank locks and its most important maker. By the early 20th century, about three-quarters of all banks in America used his bank locks. He is best remembered for his inventions of locks, especially the cylinder lock, and his basic lock design is still widely distributed today, and constitutes a majority of personal locks and safes.

---

04/04/1819

Maria II of Portugal (died 1853)

Dona Maria II also known as "the Educator" or as "the Good Mother", was Queen of Portugal from 1826 to 1828, and again from 1834 to 1853. Her supporters considered her to be the rightful queen also during the period between her two reigns.

---

04/04/1818

Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American author and poet (died 1883)

Thomas Mayne Reid was an Irish British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat (1792–1848), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). They were set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron. His novel Quadroon (1856), an anti-slavery work, was later adapted as a play entitled The Octoroon (1859) by Dion Boucicault and produced in New York.

---

04/04/1802

Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (died 1887)

Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American advocate on behalf of the poor mentally ill. By her vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, she helped create the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as a Superintendent of Army Nurses.

---

04/04/1792

Thaddeus Stevens, American lawyer and politician (died 1868)

Thaddeus Stevens was an American politician and lawyer who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, being one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. A fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination against Black Americans, Stevens sought to secure their rights during Reconstruction, leading the opposition to U.S. President Andrew Johnson. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee during the American Civil War, he played a leading role, focusing his attention on defeating the Confederacy, financing the war with new taxes and borrowing, crushing the power of slave owners, ending slavery, and securing equal rights for the freedmen.

---

04/04/1785

Bettina von Arnim, German author, illustrator, and composer (died 1859)

Bettina von Arnim was a German writer, composer, and novelist.

---

04/04/1780

Edward Hicks, American minister and painter (died 1849)

Edward Hicks was an American folk painter and distinguished Christian minister of the Society of Friends. He became a notable Quaker because of his paintings.

---

04/04/1772

Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement (died 1810)

Nachman of Breslov, also known as Rabbi Nachman of Breslev, Rabbi Nachman miBreslev, Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Reb Nachman Breslover, and Nachman from Uman, was the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement. He was particularly known for his creative parables, drawing on Eastern European folktales to infuse his teaching with deeply kabbalistic yet universally accessible remedies, pieces of advice, and parabolic stories. He emphasized finding and expressing one’s uniqueness while steering away from despair in a world he saw as becoming more and more uniform. Through Martin Buber's translation, his teaching is thought to have influenced some 20th-century writers, including Franz Kafka.

---

04/04/1762

Stephen Storace, English actor and composer (died 1796)

Stephen John Seymour Storace was an English composer of the Classical era, known primarily for his operas. His sister was the famous opera singer Nancy Storace.

---

04/04/1760

Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan organist and composer (died 1797)

Juan Manuel Hermenegildo de la Luz Olivares was a Venezuelan composer from the Colonial era.

---

04/04/1752

Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer (died 1837)

Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli was an Italian composer, chiefly of opera during the classical period.

---

04/04/1718

Benjamin Kennicott, English theologian and scholar (died 1783)

Benjamin Kennicott was an English churchman and Hebrew scholar.

---

04/04/1688

Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer and cartographer (died 1768)

Joseph-Nicolas Delisle was a French astronomer and cartographer. Delisle is mostly known for the Delisle scale, a temperature scale he invented in 1732.

---

04/04/1676

Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Italian composer (died 1760)

Giuseppe Maria Orlandini was an Italian baroque composer particularly known for his more than 40 operas and intermezzos. Highly regarded by music historians of his day like Francesco Saverio Quadrio, Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Charles Burney, Orlandini, along with Vivaldi, is considered one of the major creators of the new style of opera that dominated the second decade of the 18th century.

---

04/04/1648

Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-English sculptor (died 1721)

Grinling Gibbons was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle, the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London churches, Petworth House and other country houses, Trinity College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge. Gibbons was born to English parents in Holland, where he was educated.

---

04/04/1646

Antoine Galland, French orientalist and archaeologist (died 1715)

Antoine Galland was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of One Thousand and One Nights, which he called Les mille et une nuits. His version of the tales appeared in twelve volumes between 1704 and 1717 and exerted a significant influence on subsequent European literature and attitudes to the Islamic world. Jorge Luis Borges has suggested that Romanticism began when his translation was first read.

---

04/04/1640

Gaspar Sanz, Spanish guitarist, composer, and priest (died 1710)

Francisco Bartolomé Sanz Celma, better known as Gaspar Sanz, was a Spanish composer, guitarist, and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the comarca of Bajo Aragón, Spain. He studied music, theology and philosophy at the University of Salamanca, where he was later appointed Professor of Music. He wrote three volumes of pedagogical works for the baroque guitar that form an important part of today's classical guitar repertory and have informed modern scholars in the techniques of baroque guitar playing.

---

04/04/1593

Edward Nicholas, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (died 1669)

Sir Edward Nicholas was an English officeholder and politician who served as Secretary of State to Charles I and Charles II. He also sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. He served as secretary to Edward la Zouche and the Duke of Buckingham in the Admiralty and became a clerk of the Privy Council. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War and accompanied the court into exile, before assuming the post of Secretary of State on the Restoration.

---

04/04/1586

Richard Saltonstall, English diplomat (died 1661)

Sir Richard Saltonstall led a group of English settlers up the Charles River to settle in what is now Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630.

---

04/04/1572

William Strachey, English author (died 1621)

William Strachey was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English colonisation of North America. He is best remembered today as the eye-witness reporter of the 1609 shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Bermuda of the colonial ship Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane while sailing to Virginia. The survivors eventually reached Virginia after building two small ships during the ten months they spent on the island. His account of the incident and of the Virginia colony is thought by most Shakespearean scholars to have been a source for Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

---

04/04/1492

Ambrosius Blarer, German-Swiss theologian and reformer (died 1564)

Ambrosius Blarer was an influential Protestant reformer in southern Germany and north-eastern Switzerland.

---

04/04/1490

Vojtěch I of Pernstein, Bohemian nobleman (died 1534)

Vojtěch I of Pernštejn was a Bohemian nobleman, member of the Pernštejn family. He was High Hofmeister of Bohemia from 1514 to 1523 and from 1526, he was governor of Bohemia. He was considered one of the richest magnates in Bohemia.

---

04/04/1436

Amalia of Saxony, Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut (died 1501)

Amalia of Saxony was a princess of Saxony and by marriage Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut.

---

04/04/0188

Caracalla, Roman emperor (died 217)

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known by his nickname Caracalla, was Roman emperor from 198 to 217 AD, first serving as nominal co-emperor under his father and then ruling alone after 211 AD. He was a member of the Severan dynasty, the elder son of Emperor Septimius Severus and Empress Julia Domna. Severus proclaimed Caracalla co-ruler in 198, doing the same with his other son Geta in 209. The two brothers briefly shared power after their father's death in 211, but Caracalla soon had Geta murdered by the Praetorian Guard and became sole ruler of the Roman Empire. Julia Domna had a significant share in governance, since Caracalla found administration to be mundane. His reign featured domestic instability and external invasions by the Germanic peoples.

---