Born on Saturday, 5th April – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 554 notable people were born on 5th April — spanning from 1170 to 2001. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Saturday, 5 April 2025 marks a date rich with notable births across entertainment, sport and public life. Among those born on this date, Nicolas Beer, the Danish race car driver, was born in 1996 and has gone on to establish a career in motorsport. Another significant figure born on this day is Nathaniel Clyne, an English footballer who was born in 1991 and has represented several major clubs during his professional career.
The date also coincides with numerous other professional athletes and entertainers who have marked their birthdays on 5 April. Sporting figures range from ice hockey players to footballers, whilst cultural figures include actors, musicians and singers who have contributed to entertainment across multiple decades. The breadth of professions represented among those born on this date reflects the diverse paths people born on 5 April have pursued throughout their careers.
This Saturday falls under the Aries zodiac sign, occurs during a waning gibbous moon phase, and in the location where you are checking this information, the weather conditions are typical for early April. The date provides a snapshot of how births have been distributed across different eras and professions, showing a consistent pattern of notable individuals entering the world on this particular day throughout recorded history.
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05/04/2001
Johnny Beecher, American ice hockey player
John Beecher is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 30th overall by the Boston Bruins in the 2019 NHL entry draft. He played college ice hockey for the Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team from 2019 to 2022.
Felipe Peña, Argentine footballer
Felipe Peña Biafore is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Lanús.
05/04/1999
Bobby Miller, American baseball player
Robert Anthony Miller is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Louisville Cardinals and was selected 29th overall by the Dodgers in the 2020 MLB draft.
05/04/1998
Nathan Broadhead, Welsh football player
Nathan Paul Broadhead is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a forward or left winger for EFL Championship club Wrexham and the Wales national team.
05/04/1997
Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer
Borja Mayoral Moya is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Getafe.
Dominik Mysterio, American wrestler
Dominik Óscar Gutiérrez, better known by the ring name Dominik Mysterio, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand and is a member of The Judgment Day stable. He also appears in WWE's sister promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he is the AAA Mega Champion in his first reign. Mysterio is also a former two-time WWE Intercontinental Champion.
05/04/1996
Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver
Nicolas Beer is a Danish former racing driver.
Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer
Abdelraouf Benguit is an Algerian professional footballer who plays for CR Belouizdad.
05/04/1995
Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player
Viliame Kikau is a Fijian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row forward for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League and Fiji at international level.
Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer
Sei Muroya is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a right-back for FC Tokyo in the J1 League and for the Japan national team.
Gleb Rassadkin, Belarusian footballer
Gleb Rassadkin is a Belarusian professional football player.
Sebastian Starke Hedlund, Swedish footballer
Björn Sebastian Starke Hedlund is a Swedish footballer who plays for Östers IF as a defender.
05/04/1994
Mateusz Bieniek, Polish volleyball player
Mateusz Bieniek is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as a middle blocker for Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie and the Poland national team. With Poland, Bieniek won the 2018 World Champion title and took part in 3 Olympic Games – Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, winning a silver medal at the latter.
Edem Rjaïbi, Tunisian footballer
Edem Rjaïbi is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Richard Sánchez, Mexican footballer
Richard Sánchez Alcaraz is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for USL Championship side San Antonio FC. Born in the United States, he played for the Mexico national under-21 team.
05/04/1993
Andreas Bouchalakis, Greek footballer
Andreas Bouchalakis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Super League club Panetolikos.
Maya DiRado, American swimmer
Madeline Jane "Maya" DiRado-Andrews is a retired American competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle, butterfly, backstroke, and individual medley events. She attended and swam for Stanford University, where she won NCAA titles in the 200 and 400 meter individual medley in 2014 and graduated with a degree in management science and engineering. At the 2016 US Olympic Trials, DiRado qualified to swim the 200 meter and 400 meter individual medley events, as well as the 200 meter backstroke, at the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she won a gold medal in the women's 4x200 meter freestyle relay, a silver medal in the 400 meter individual medley, a bronze medal in the women's 200 meter individual medley, and a gold medal in the 200 meter backstroke. Following the Olympics, DiRado retired from the sport.
Laura Feiersinger, Austrian footballer
Laura Feiersinger is an Austrian footballer who plays as a midfielder for 1. FC Köln. She represented the Austria national team from 2010 until 2025, earning 126 caps and scoring 19 goals.
Benjamin Garcia, French rugby league player
Benjamin Garcia is a French professional rugby league footballer who plays as a loose forward, hooker or second-row for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League and France at international level.
Scottie Wilbekin, American-Turkish basketball player
Scottie Jordan Wilbekin is an American-born naturalized Turkish professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Florida Gators, where he was named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year in 2014. Wilbekin played professional basketball in Australia, Greece, Turkey and Israel. He led Darüşşafaka to win the 2018 EuroCup title, while earning the EuroCup Finals and the Regular Season MVP awards.
05/04/1992
Emmalyn Estrada, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
Emmalyn Estrada, known professionally as Emmalyn, is a Canadian singer. Her first single, "Get Down", entered Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 chart for the week of August 29, 2009, at number 88 and peaked at number 59 for the week of October 31, 2009. She is best known as a member of the girl group G.R.L., formed by Robin Antin.
Shintaro Kurumaya, Japanese footballer
Shintaro Kurumaya is a Japanese footballer who plays as a left back for Kawasaki Frontale.
Kaveh Rezaei, Iranian footballer
Kaveh Rezaei is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Sepahan and the Iran national team.
Dmytro Ryzhuk, Ukrainian footballer
Dmytro Ryzhuk is a Ukrainian football midfielder for Atyrau.
05/04/1991
Yassine Bounou, Moroccan footballer
Yassine Bounou, also known as Bono mononymously, is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal and the Morocco national team.
Nathaniel Clyne, English footballer
Nathaniel Edwin Clyne is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back, right wing-back, or centre-back for Premier League club Crystal Palace.
Adriano Grimaldi, Italian-German footballer
Adriano Grimaldi is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for 2. Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg.
Joël Mall, Swiss footballer
Joël Yves Mall is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Swiss Super League side Servette. Born in Switzerland, he plays for the Cyprus national team after gaining citizenship in 2023.
Guilherme dos Santos Torres, Brazilian footballer
Guilherme dos Santos Torres, commonly known as Guilherme, is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder of Qatar Stars League football club Al Sadd. Born in Brazil, he plays for the Qatar national team.
05/04/1990
Amer Said Al-Shatri, Omani footballer
Amer Said Al-Shatri is an Omani international footballer who plays as a midfielder for Omani club Mirbat.
Alex Cuthbert, Welsh rugby player
Alex Cuthbert is an English-born Welsh former rugby union player. Born and raised in Gloucester, he played on the wing for the Ospreys and the Wales national team.
Patrick Dangerfield, Australian footballer
Patrick Dangerfield is an Australian rules football player for the Geelong Football Club of the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Adelaide Football Club from 2008 to 2015. He has served as Geelong captain since the 2023 season.
Fredy Hinestroza, Colombian footballer
Freddy Hinestroza Arias is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Colombian club Atlético Bucaramanga.
Chen Huijia, Chinese swimmer
Chen Huijia is a female Chinese swimmer, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Haruma Miura, Japanese actor and singer (died 2020)
Haruma Miura was a Japanese actor and singer. He made his acting debut in the television drama Agri (1997) and rose to popularity after starring in the film Koizora (2007), winning Newcomer of the Year at the 31st Japan Academy Prize. In the following years, Miura notably starred in the third season of Gokusen (2009), Bloody Monday (2009), Naoko (2009), Kimi ni Todoke (2010), Last Cinderella (2013), Boku no Ita Jikan (2013), The Eternal Zero (2013), Attack on Titan (2015), Gintama 2 (2018), and Two Weeks (2019). He also starred as Lola in the Japanese production of Kinky Boots (2016), winning Best New Actor and the Haruko Sugimura Award at the 24th Yomiuri Theater Awards. In addition to his acting career, Miura debuted as a singer in 2019 with the single "Fight for Your Heart."
Ismaeel Mohammad, Qatari footballer
Ismaeel Mohammad Mohammad is a Qatari professional footballer who plays as a winger for Al-Duhail in the Qatar Stars League and the Qatar national football team.
Iryna Pamialova, Belarusian canoeist
Iryna Uladzimirauna Pamialova is a Belarusian canoer. She won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the K-4 500 metres event with Nadzeya Papok-Liapeshka, Volha Khudzenka, and Maryna Litvinchuk.
Jakub Sedláček, Czech ice hockey player
Jakub Sedláček is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who currently playing for HC Olomouc of the Czech Extraliga.
Sercan Yıldırım, Turkish footballer
Sercan Yıldırım is a Turkish former football player who played as a forward.
Género Zeefuik, Dutch footballer
Género Zeefuik is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker.
05/04/1989
Kader Amadou, Nigerien footballer
Kader Amadou Dodo is a Nigerien footballer who plays as a right-back or centre-back for AS SONIDEP.
Yémi Apithy, Beninese fencer
Yémi Geoffrey Apithy is a French-Beninese sabre fencer representing Benin in international competitions, silver medalist at the 2014 and 2015 African Championships. He bore the flag for Benin at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Liemarvin Bonevacia, Dutch sprinter
Liemarvin Bonevacia is a Dutch sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He won bronze medals in the event at the 2016 and 2024 European Athletics Championships, and the 2017 and 2021 European Indoor Championships. Bonevacia also earned five major medals for the 4 × 400 m relays, either men's or mixed, including silver medal in the men's relay at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Freddie Fox, English actor
Frederick Samson Robert Morice Fox is an English film and stage actor. His prominent screen performances include roles as singer Marilyn in the BBC's Boy George biopic Worried About the Boy (2010), Freddie Baxter in series Cucumber (2015) and Banana (2015), Jeremy Bamber in White House Farm (2020) and Spider Webb in Slow Horses (2022–2023).
Emre Güral, Turkish footballer
Emre Güral is a professional footballer who plays as a forward. Born in Germany, he represented Turkey at 'A2' international level.
Justin Holiday, American basketball player
Justin Alaric Holiday is an American professional basketball player for the Guangzhou Loong Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies. He went undrafted in the 2011 NBA draft, but would sign with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2013. He won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in 2015. His brothers Jrue and Aaron are also NBA players.
Rachel Homan, Canadian curler
Rachel Catherine Homan is a Canadian international curler and the reigning women's world champion. Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a five-time Canadian national champion, and three-time World Champion, all as a skip. She was the skip of the Canadian women's curling team at the 2018 and 2026 Winter Olympics. The team won the bronze medal in 2026 edition of the event. She also competed in the mixed doubles event at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Lily James, English actress
Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson, known professionally as Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began her career in the British television series Just William (2010). Following a supporting role in the period drama series Downton Abbey (2012–2015), her breakthrough was the title role in the fantasy film Cinderella (2015).
Trevor Marsicano, American speed skater
Trevor Marsicano is an American speed skater and silver medalist in the Winter Olympics.
Jonathan Rossini, Swiss footballer
Jonathan "Johnny" Rossini is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He is also a former Switzerland international.
Kiki Sukezane, Japanese actress
Kiki Sukezane is a Japanese actress from Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, working mostly in American productions.
Sosuke Takatani, Japanese wrestler
Sosuke Takatani is an amateur Japanese freestyle wrestler, who competes in the middleweight category.
05/04/1988
Gerson Acevedo, Chilean footballer
Gerson Elías Acevedo Rojas is a Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Teresa Almeida, Angolan handball player
Teresa Patricia De Almeida nicknamed Bá is an Angolan handball player for Petro de Luanda and the Angolan national team.
Quade Cooper, New Zealand-Australian rugby player and boxer
Quade Santini Cooper is an Australian professional rugby union coach, former player, and occasional boxer. Although born in New Zealand, he has represented Australia in rugby at international level. Finishing his playing career with the Hanazono Liners in Japan, Cooper established his career with the Queensland Reds in the Super Rugby. He went on to play for Toulon in the French Top 14 and also played for the Melbourne Rebels. His team position was fly-half, however Cooper was often deployed in the midfield earlier in his career, as well as fullback.
Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby union player
Jonathan Davies is a former Welsh professional rugby union player who played at centre for the Scarlets and the Wales national team. His brother is James Davies, who also played professional rugby for Wales as a flanker.
Gevorg Ghazaryan, Armenian footballer
Gevorg Ghazaryan is an Armenian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward.
Alisha Glass, American ex-indoor volleyball player
Alisha Rebecca Glass Childress is an American professional volleyball player who plays as a setter for the Vegas Thrill of the Pro Volleyball Federation. Glass played collegiate volleyball for Penn State, where she led Penn State to three NCAA consecutive championships. Glass won gold with the national team at the 2014 World Championship, and bronze at the 2015 World Cup and 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Vurğun Hüseynov, Azerbaijani footballer
Vurgun Huseynov is an Azerbaijani former professional footballer.
Matthias Jaissle, German footballer and manager
Matthias Jaissle is a German professional football manager and former player who is the currently head coach of Saudi Pro League club Al-Ahli.
Christopher Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier
Christopher Papamichalopoulos is an alpine skier from Cyprus. He competed for Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the slalom and giant slalom. Christopher was Cyprus's flag bearer during the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
Zack Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
Zachary Smith is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played for the Ottawa Senators, who drafted him 79th overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, and the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Pape Sy, French basketball player
Pape Ousseynou Sy is a French former professional basketball player. A versatile guard/forward, Sy was drafted by the Hawks as the 53rd overall pick in the second round of the 2010 NBA draft after spending five seasons with STB Le Havre.
Alexey Volkov, Russian biathlete
Alexey Anatolyevich Volkov is a Russian former biathlete.
05/04/1987
Max Grün, German footballer
Maximilian "Max" Grün is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Regionalliga Bayern club Viktoria Aschaffenburg.
Balázs Hárai, Hungarian water polo player
Balázs Hárai is a Hungarian water polo center forward. He competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and won a gold medal at the 2013 World Championships.
Anton Kokorin, Russian sprint athlete
Anton Sergeyevich Kokorin is a Russian sprint athlete. Anton was part of the team that finished third in Men's 4x400 m relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but the team was disqualified after team mate Denis Alekseyev tested positive for doping.
Fyodor Kudryashov, Russian footballer
Fyodor Vasilievich Kudryashov is a Russian former professional footballer who played as a left back. He could also play as a centre back.
Etiënne Reijnen, Dutch footballer
Etiënne Reijnen is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who is assistant manager at Eredivisie club Feyenoord.
05/04/1986
Anna Sophia Berglund, American model and actress
Anna Sophia Berglund is an American actress, model, Playmate, and reality show personality. She was Playmate of the Month for Playboy in January 2011. She was discovered originally by GXS Motorsports, where she spent two years as a promotional model. She went by the name Sophi Berglund until working for Playboy and resuming her original name.
Anzor Boltukayev, Chechen wrestler
Anzor Adamovich Boltukayev is a Russian freestyle wrestler of Chechen descent. He competes in the 96 kg division and won the bronze medal in the same division at the 2013 World Wrestling Championships defeated Aleksey Krupnyakov of Kyrgyzstan.
Diego Chará, Colombian footballer
Diego Ferney Chará Zamora is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder and captains Major League Soccer club Portland Timbers.
Charlotte Flair, American wrestler, author and actress
Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr is an American professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Charlotte Flair.
Róbert Kasza, Hungarian Modern pentathlete
Róbert Kasza is a Hungarian modern pentathlete. He was on the gold medal-winning relay team at the 2011 World Modern Pentathlon Championships. He also qualified for and participated in the modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Robert Kasza is represented by STRONGAA Management.
Eetu Muinonen, Finnish footballer
Eetu Muinonen is a Finnish footballer, who plays for RoPS.
Manuel Ruz, Spanish footballer
Manuel Ruz Baños is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right back.
Albert Selimov, Azerbaijani boxer
Albert Shevketovich Selimov is a Russian former amateur boxer of Lezgin descent. He is best known for being the only man to defeat Vasiliy Lomachenko in the amateur ranks. Competing for Russia, he won the 2007 world title, the 2008 World Cup, and two European titles, in 2006 and 2010. After failing to qualify for the 2012 Olympics, he moved to Azerbaijan and representing that country, placed second at the 2015 World Championships and fifth at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
05/04/1985
Daniel Congré, French footballer
Daniel Congré is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender. He could operate all across defence, although he was most adept at centre-back. He is noted for his pace.
Erwin l'Ami, Dutch chess player
Erwin l'Ami is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He attained the title of grandmaster in 2005, and has reached a peak rating of 2651. l'Ami has represented the Netherlands at seven Chess Olympiads and won the 2015 Reykjavik Open.
Jolanda Keizer, Dutch heptathlete
Jolanda Keizer is a Dutch heptathlete.
Sergey Khachatryan, Armenian violinist
Sergey Khachatryan is an Armenian violinist. Since 1993 he has lived in Germany where he gave his first orchestral concert at the age of nine in the Kurhaus, Wiesbaden.
Linas Pilibaitis, Lithuanian footballer
Linas Pilibaitis is a Lithuanian former professional footballer.
Jan Smeets, Dutch chess grandmaster
Jan Smeets is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Dutch Chess Champion.
Kristof Vandewalle, Belgian cyclist
Kristof Vandewalle is a Belgian former professional road cyclist, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2015 for the Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator, Omega Pharma–Quick-Step and Trek Factory Racing teams. While a member of the Omega Pharma–Quick-Step squad, he won two successive World Team Time Trial Championships and two consecutive Belgian National Time Trial Championships.
05/04/1984
Marshall Allman, American actor
Marshall Scot Allman is an American actor. He is known to television audiences for his role as L. J. Burrows on the Fox television series Prison Break. He is also known for playing Tommy Mickens on True Blood.
Aram Mp3, Armenian singer and comedian
Aram Avetiki Sargsyan, known professionally as Aram Mp3, is an Armenian singer and comedian. He represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song "Not Alone", which finished in fourth place.
Rune Brattsveen, Norwegian biathlete
Rune Brattsveen is a former Norwegian biathlete.
Alexei Glukhov, Russian ice hockey player
Alexei Vladimirovich Glukhov is a Russian former professional ice hockey forward who last played under contract with HC Sibir Novosibirsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was selected by Tampa Bay Lightning in the 9th round of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.
Maartje Goderie, Dutch field hockey player
Maartje Goderie is a Dutch field hockey player, who plays as forward for Dutch club HC Den Bosch. She also plays for the Netherlands national team and she was part of the Dutch squad that became World Champion at the 2006 Women's Hockey World Cup and which won the 2007 Champions Trophy.
Darija Jurak, Croatian tennis player
Darija Jurak Schreiber is a Croatian tennis player. Her career-high doubles ranking is world No. 9, achieved on 15 November 2021. Her best WTA ranking in singles is 188 which she reached in April 2004. She qualified with Andreja Klepač for the 2021 WTA Finals after 20 years on the professional tour.
Dejan Kelhar, Slovenian footballer
Dejan Kelhar is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Dmitry Kozonchuk, Russian cyclist
Dmitry Anatolyevich Kozonchuk is a Russian professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI Professional Continental team Gazprom–RusVelo.
Shin Min-a, South Korean actress
Yang Min-a, better known by the stage name Shin Min-a (신민아), is a South Korean actress who began her career as a model before debuting as an actress in 2000. She is known for her leading roles in television dramas A Love to Kill (2005), My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho (2010), Arang and the Magistrate (2012), Oh My Venus (2015), Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (2021), Our Blues (2022), and No Gain No Love (2024).
Jess Sum, Hong Kong actress
Jess Sum Cheuk-ying is a Hong Kong actress previously under TVB.
Peter Penz, Austrian luger
Peter Penz is an Austrian former luger who competed between 2003 and 2018. He and doubles partner Georg Fischler took two medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyongchang: a silver in the doubles competition and a bronze in the team relay. They were also gold medallists in the doubles at the 2012 European Luge Championships in Paramonovo. In addition, the pair took six medals at the FIL World Luge Championships: four in the doubles and two in mixed team competitions.
Samuele Preisig, Swiss footballer
Samuele Preisig is a former footballer from Switzerland, who played as defender.
Cristian Săpunaru, Romanian footballer
Cristian Ionuț Săpunaru is a Romanian former professional footballer who played mainly as a centre-back. He also played as a right-back or a defensive midfielder.
Fabio Vitaioli, San Marinese footballer
Fabio Vitaioli is a San Marinese footballer who currently plays for Murata and the San Marino national football team.
Kisho Yano, Japanese footballer
Kisho Yano is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward or right-back for Tochigi SC.
Saba Qamar, Pakistani actress-model
Saba Qamar Zaman is a Pakistani actress who works predominantly in Urdu films and television series. Qamar is one of Pakistan's most popular and highest-paid actresses. She is a recipient of several accolades including two Lux Style Awards and three PTV Awards alongside a Filmfare nomination. The Government of Pakistan has honoured her with the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 2012 and the Pride of Performance in 2016.
05/04/1983
Jaime Castrillón, Colombian footballer
Jaime Castrillón is a Colombian former footballer who last played for the Orlando SeaWolves in the Major Arena Soccer League.
Jorge Andrés Martínez, Uruguayan footballer
Jorge Andrés Martínez Barrios is a Uruguayan footballer who last played as a midfielder for Juventud de Las Piedras.
Brock Radunske, Canadian-South Korean ice hockey player
Brock Radunske is a Canadian-born South Korean former professional ice hockey forward. He was selected in the third round of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, 79th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers.
Yohann Sangaré, French basketball player
Yohann Sangaré is a French former professional basketball player.
Cécile Storti, French cross-country skier
Cécile Storti is a French cross-country skier who has competed since 2000. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of sixth in the 4 × 5 km relay at Vancouver in 2010.
Shikha Uberoi, Indian-American tennis player
Shikha Devi Uberoi is an Indian-American former professional tennis player, who formerly represented India in international tournaments and a former Indian No. 1. After Nirupama Sanjeev, she is also the second Indian female player in history to crack the top 200 rankings by the WTA.
05/04/1982
Hayley Atwell, English-American actress
Hayley Elizabeth Atwell is an English and American actress. After appearing in various West End productions, Atwell gained popularity for her roles in period dramas, appearing in the films Brideshead Revisited (2008), The Duchess (2008) and the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth (2010); for the latter two, she was nominated for a British Independent Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, respectively.
Matheus Coradini Vivian, Brazilian footballer
Matheus Coradini Vivian is a Brazilian former professional footballer. He also holds an Italian passport.
Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer
Thomas Hitzlsperger is a German football executive and former professional player who played as a midfielder. He is currently a board member at Serie A club Hellas Verona.
Kelly Pavlik, American boxer
Kelly Robert Pavlik is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2000 to 2012. He won the unified WBC, WBO, Ring magazine and lineal middleweight titles by defeating Jermain Taylor in 2007, and made three successful defenses before losing them to Sergio Martínez in 2010.
Matt Pickens, American soccer player
Matt Pickens is an American retired soccer player who is an assistant coach and goalkeeping coach for the Houston Dash of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
Alexandre Prémat, French race car driver
Alexandre Prémat is a French racing driver. He won the Pirtek Enduro Cup for Triple Eight Race Engineering alongside Shane van Gisbergen in 2016. He also won the 2019 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 with Scott McLaughlin, driving for DJR Team Penske.
Danylo Sapunov, Ukrainian-Kazakhstani triathlete
Danylo Sapunov, is a Kazakhstani and Ukrainian professional triathlete. From 2008 to 2010, Danylo Sapunov was married to the Ukrainian triathlete Yuliya Yelistratova.
Hubert Schwab, Swiss cyclist
Hubert Schwab is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer. In his final year as a professional he rode for UCI Continental team Price–Custom Bikes. He retired from cycling after 2011 in order to return to his studies.
Marcel Seip, Dutch former footballer
Marcel Seip is a Dutch former professional footballer who plays as a centre back for ACV in the Dutch Hoofdklasse. He previously played for Veendam, Heerenveen, Plymouth Argyle, Blackpool, Sheffield United, Charlton Athletic, Bradford City, VVV Venlo, Central Coast Mariners and FC Emmen.
05/04/1981
Matthew Emmons, American rifle shooter
Matthew D. Emmons is an American rifle shooter. He competed in various events at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics and won a gold, a silver, and a bronze medal.
Michael A. Monsoor, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2006)
Michael Anthony Monsoor was a United States Navy SEAL who was killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom during the Battle of Ramadi when he dove onto a grenade to shield his fellow SEALs, sacrificing his own life. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 2001 and graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL Training BUD/S class 250 in 2004. After further training he was assigned to Delta Platoon, SEAL Team 3.
Mariqueen Maandig, Filipino-American musician and singer-songwriter
Mariqueen Maandig Reznor is a Filipino-American singer, songwriter, and musician. She is the vocalist for How to Destroy Angels, and the former vocalist of Los Angeles–based rock band West Indian Girl.
Daba Modibo Keïta, Malian taekwondo athlete
Daba Modibo Keïta is a Malian taekwondo athlete. Keïta has competed in international competitions since 1996, and in 2007 became the heavyweight (+84 kg) division 2007 World Taekwondo Champion in Beijing, and competed in both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the +80 kg class.
Marissa Nadler, American musician
Marissa Nadler is an American singer-songwriter. Active since 2000, she is currently signed to Sacred Bones Records and Bella Union, and released her tenth full-length studio album, New Radiations, in August 2025. Her music has been characterized as blending "traditional folk, Gothic Americana, and dreamy pop into an original musical framework". Her music "is rooted in old-school country and folk but brings in elements of experimental and black metal". Sometimes the term "dream folk" has been invoked to describe her work.
Tom Riley, English actor and producer
Tom Riley is an English actor, producer, and director.
Mompati Thuma, Botswana footballer
Mompati Thuma is a Motswana former footballer. He currently plays for the Botswana Defence Force XI in the Botswana Premier League.
Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist
Pieter Weening is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2020 – for teams Rabobank (2004–2011), Orica–GreenEDGE (2012–2015), Roompot–Charles (2016–2019), and Trek–Segafredo (2020). During his career, Weening took a total of thirteen victories, including Grand Tour stage victories at the 2005 Tour de France, the 2011 Giro d'Italia and the 2014 Giro d'Italia. He also won the 2013 Tour de Pologne and 2016 Tour of Norway stage races.
05/04/1980
Matt Bonner, American basketball player
Matthew Robert Bonner, also known as the Red Rocket or Red Mamba, is an American former professional basketball player. Bonner played college basketball for the University of Florida before being selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 45th overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft. During his career Bonner played for the Toronto Raptors and the San Antonio Spurs with whom he won two NBA championships. He is the only player in NBA history to be born in New Hampshire.
Alberta Brianti, Italian tennis player
Alberta Brianti is a former professional tennis player from Italy. On 13 June 2011, Brianti achieved her career-high singles ranking of 55. On 13 February 2012, she peaked at No. 68 in the doubles rankings. She won one singles title on the WTA Tour defeating Simona Halep in her career, at Fes, Morocco in 2011.
Rafael Cavalcante, Brazilian mixed martial artist
Rafael Cavalcante, often known by his nickname of Feijão, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who fights in the light heavyweight division. He is currently competing for Bellator MMA. He trains with Anderson Silva and Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira as part of the Black House camp. He formerly competed in Strikeforce, where he was at one time Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion. His nickname means "bean" in Portuguese. He holds notable wins over Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal and Yoel Romero.
David Chocarro, Argentinian baseball player and actor
David Chocarro is an Argentine actor, model and former baseball player.
Mike Glumac, Canadian ice hockey player
Michael Glumac is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who last played as Captain for Croatian hockey club KHL Medveščak Zagreb in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He is of Croatian descent.
Mario Kasun, Croatian basketball player
Mario Kasun is a Croatian former professional basketball player. He played at the center position.
Lee Jae-won, South Korean DJ and singer
Lee Jae-won is a South Korean singer, rapper and DJ. He is the former member of Korean groups H.O.T. and jtL.
Joris Mathijsen, Dutch footballer
Joris Mathijsen is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is the director of football at Willem II.
Rasmus Quist Hansen, Danish rower
Rasmus Quist Hansen, also known as Rasmus Quist, is a Danish rower and double World Champion in the lightweight double sculls, with his partner Mads Rasmussen.
Odlanier Solís, Cuban boxer
Odlanier Solís Fonte is a Cuban former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to 2016. He challenged once for the WBC heavyweight title in 2011. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics; 2001, 2003, and 2005 World Championships; 1999, and 2003 Pan American; and 2001 Goodwill Games.
05/04/1979
Vlada Avramov, Serbian footballer
Vlada Avramov is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He works as David Suazo's goalkeeping coach for Brescia.
Josh Boone, American screenwriter and director
Josh Boone is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars (2014). Boone also wrote and directed the romantic comedy Stuck in Love (2012) and the superhero horror film The New Mutants (2020). In 2020, he directed the first and last episode of the miniseries The Stand.
Song Dae-nam, South Korean judoka
Song Dae-Nam is a former South Korean judoka.
Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
Timo Hildebrand is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Imany, French singer
Nadia Mladjao, better known by her stage name Imany, is a French pop-soul recording artist of Comorian descent. Her debut album, The Shape of a Broken Heart, which was released in 2011, reached platinum status in France, Greece and triple platinum in Poland.
Barel Mouko, Congolese footballer
Barel Morial Mouko is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Rostrenen FC.
Cesare Natali, Italian footballer
Cesare Natali is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
Mitsuo Ogasawara, Japanese footballer
Mitsuo Ogasawara is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for Japan national team.
Alexander Resch, German luger
Alexander Resch is a German former luger who competed from 1998 to 2010. Together with Patric Leitner, he won the men's doubles event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. They also competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing sixth. At their last race at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, they won bronze.
Andrius Velička, Lithuanian footballer
Andrius Velička is a Lithuanian retired professional association footballer who played as a striker for clubs in Russia, Kazakhstan, Scotland, England, Norway and Azerbaijan in addition to his homeland. He also played for the Lithuania national team.
Dante Wesley, American football player
Dante Julius Wesley is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL draft. He played college football for the Arkansas–Pine Bluff Golden Lions. Wesley was also a member of the Chicago Bears, New England Patriots and Detroit Lions.
Chen Yanqing, Chinese weightlifter
Chen Yanqing is a Chinese weightlifter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She won the gold medal in the 58 kg class in both competitions, making her the first woman to win gold medals in weightlifting in two consecutive Olympics.
05/04/1978
Dwain Chambers, British track sprinter
Dwain Anthony Chambers is a British track sprinter. He has won international medals at World and European levels and is one of the fastest European sprinters in the history of athletics. His primary event is the 100 metres, with a best of 9.97 seconds, which ranks him equal 9th on the British all-time list. He is the former European record holder for the 60 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay events with 6.42 seconds and 37.73 s respectively.
Marcone Amaral Costa, Qatari footballer
Marcone Amaral Costa Jr., known as Marcone, is a former footballer. Born in Brazil, he represented Qatar at international level.
Tarek El-Said, Egyptian footballer
Tarek El-Said Mohamed Aly Abdo is a former Egyptian footballer. He was a left winger who played for Al-Ahly, Zamalek, and Anderlecht in the Belgian First Division.
Jairo Patiño, Colombian footballer
Jairo Leonard Patiño Rosero is a Colombian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Sohyang, South Korean singer
Kim So-hyang, known mononymously as Sohyang, is a South Korean singer-songwriter.
Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
Stephen Jesse Jackson is an American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the New Jersey Nets, Atlanta Hawks, Indiana Pacers, Golden State Warriors, Milwaukee Bucks, Charlotte Bobcats, San Antonio Spurs, and Los Angeles Clippers. Jackson won an NBA championship with the Spurs in 2003. Jackson emerged as an activist and spokesman for civil rights during the Black Lives Matter movement.
Arnaud Tournant, French cyclist
Arnaud Tournant is a French track cyclist. He has won 14 World Championships and won a gold, silver and a bronze at the Summer Olympics. In track cycling, he is third behind Harrie Lavreysen (20) and Sir Chris Hoy (17) in the number of global gold medals in his palmares.
Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
Franziska van Almsick is a retired German swimmer, former world record holder in 200 metres freestyle. She was multiple World and European champion, in both Long and Short Course Championships.
Günther Weidlinger, Austrian long-distance runner
Günther Weidlinger is an Austrian long-distance runner who is a former 3000 metres steeplechase specialist but now competes in the marathon.
05/04/1977
Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player
Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich is an Israeli former professional tennis player. During his career, he was mainly a doubles specialist, having won the men's doubles title at the 2008 Australian Open with Andy Ram. He attained his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 5 in July 2008. Erlich has reached 44 doubles finals and won 22, mostly with partner Andy Ram; together, they are known in Israel as "Andyoni". His Davis Cup doubles record, as of 2018, was 22–12.
Trevor Letowski, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Trevor Letowski is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger and current assistant coach for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the seventh round, 174th overall, by the Phoenix Coyotes in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft. Letowski also played for the Vancouver Canucks, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Carolina Hurricanes. Following retirement from active play, he has served as head coach of the OHL's Sarnia Sting and Windsor Spitfires.
Daniel Majstorović, Swedish footballer
Daniel Majstorović is a Swedish former footballer who played as a centre back.
05/04/1976
Luis de Agustini, Uruguayan footballer
Luis Alejandro Rubén de Agustini Varela, known simply as Luis de Agustini, is a former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Born in Uruguay, he represented the Libya national team.
Péter Biros, Hungarian water polo player
Péter Biros is a Hungarian former water polo player, who played on the gold medal squads at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics, which makes him one of six male athletes who won three Olympic gold medals in water polo. He also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Sterling K. Brown, American actor
Sterling Kelby Brown is an American actor. He has received numerous accolades including three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. He was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018.
Aleksei Budõlin, Estonian judoka
Aleksei Budõlin is an Estonian former judoka and current coach. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's Half Middleweight (–81 kg) category, together with Nuno Delgado of Portugal.
Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer
Simone Inzaghi is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal. Nicknamed "Il demone di Piacenza" because of his ability to find unexpected tactical solutions and his verbal and non-verbal coaching communication style, Inzaghi is known for helping revive the 3–5–2 tactical setup.
Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer and coach
Fernando Morientes Sánchez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer
Natalia Yurievna Ragozina, better known as Natascha Ragosina, is an undefeated retired Russian professional boxer who spent much of her career ranked as the top female super middleweight in the world.
Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer
Henrik Olof Stenson is a Swedish professional golfer. In the late 1990s, Stenson turned pro and had much success on the European Tour, winning a number of events in the 2000s. In 2009, Stenson won the PGA Tour's flagship event, The Players Championship, and has primarily focused on the United States since then. Shortly thereafter, however, Stenson entered a drought where he fell out of the top 200 in the world. In 2013, however, Stenson had his most successful year, winning a number of significant worldwide titles and finishing runner-up at the Open Championship. Due to his success he won the season-ending titles for the PGA Tour, the FedEx Cup, and European Tour, the Race to Dubai. In 2016, Stenson won his only major championship, the Open Championship by three strokes over Phil Mickelson.
Valeria Straneo, Italian long-distance runner
Valeria Straneo is an Italian long-distance runner, winner of the silver medal at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics and Italian record holder in the marathon.
Indrek Tobreluts, Estonian biathlete
Indrek Tobreluts is an Estonian former biathlete and cross-country skier. He has competed at five Winter Olympics.
Anouska van der Zee, Dutch cyclist
Annuska Johanna Maria 'Anouska' van der Zee is a retired Dutch racing cyclist. She participated both on track and at the road.
05/04/1975
Sarah Baldock, English organist and conductor
Sarah Baldock is an English organist and choral conductor, formerly the Organist and Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral. She is notable as one of the earliest women to be appointed to the senior music post at a Church of England cathedral. She was married to counter-tenor David Hurley. Baldock has become known as a popular soloist in the UK and abroad.
John Hartson, Welsh footballer and coach
John Hartson is a Welsh former professional footballer, coach and sports television pundit for S4C, Sky Sports, Premier Sports TV and TNT Sports.
Juicy J, American rapper and producer
Jordan Michael Houston III, known professionally as Juicy J, is an American rapper and record producer. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, he is a founding member of the Southern hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, established in 1991. He released ten studio albums with the group, which began as an underground act until attaining mainstream recognition and signing with Loud Records, an imprint of Columbia Records in 2000. The group's 2005 single, "Stay Fly", yielded their furthest commercial success, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. That same year, they recorded the song "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" for the film Hustle & Flow, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Serhiy Klymentiev, Ukrainian ice hockey player
Serhiy Volodomyrovych Klymentiev is a Ukrainian former professional ice hockey defenceman.
Caitlin Moran, English journalist, author, and critic
Catherine Elizabeth Moran is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author at The Times, where she writes two columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, and the satirical Friday column "Celebrity Watch".
Marcos Vales, Spanish footballer
Marcos Vales Illanes is a Spanish former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Shammond Williams, American basketball player and coach
Shammond Omar Williams is an American-born naturalized Georgian former professional basketball player. Standing at 1.85 m, he played at both point guard and shooting guard positions. During his career he played in the NBA and in Europe. He most recently served as the interim head coach for the Denver Pioneers men's basketball team after head coach Jeff Wellbrun was placed on leave for the remainder of the 2024-25 season. He was not retained on Tim Bergstraser's staff.
05/04/1974
Sandra Bagarić, Croatian opera singer and actress
Sandra Bagarić is a Bosnian and Croatian opera singer and actress. She was born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina where she attended the High School for Music. She continued her musical studies in Sarajevo, but due to the Bosnian War moved to Zagreb in 1992. In Zagreb she attended the Music Academy. She sang in many operas including Madame Troubadour, Countess Maritza, Die Fledermaus, Boccaccio and One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away. She participated in Dora 2007, together with Kraljevi ulice. They performed "Pjesma za novčić" and finished second overall.
Julien Boutter, French tennis player
Julien Boutter is a former professional male tennis player from France.
Katja Holanti, Finnish biathlete
Katja Minna Marita Holanti is a Finnish biathlete. She competed at the 1994, 1998 and the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Oleg Khodkov, Russian handball player
Oleg Khodkov is a former Russian handball player. He is the current head coach of HBC CSKA Moscow.
Ariel López, Argentine footballer
Ariel Maximiliano López is a former Argentine football player.
Lukas Ridgeston, Slovak actor and director
Lukas Ridgeston is a Slovak actor and director in gay erotic movies and model in Bel Ami gay erotic magazines and books. He was born in Bratislava, then part of the former Czechoslovakia, now capital of Slovakia. Lukas Ridgeston is best known as "The King of Gay Porn" or just "The King".
Vyacheslav Voronin, Russian high jumper
Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin is a Russian track and field athlete who specialised in the high jump.
05/04/1973
Élodie Bouchez, French-American actress
Élodie Bouchez is a French actress. She became internationally known for her role as Renée Rienne on the fifth and final season of the television show Alias and for playing Maïté Alvarez in the film Wild Reeds.
Brendan Cannon, Australian rugby player
Brendan Cannon is a former Australian rugby union footballer who played for the national team, The Wallabies and three Australian teams in the Super 12 and Super 14 competitions.
Lidia Trettel, Italian snowboarder
Lidia Trettel is an Italian snowboarder and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Pharrell Williams, American singer, songwriter and rapper
Pharrell Lanscilo Williams, is an American musician, record producer and fashion designer. He initially became known as one half of the music production duo the Neptunes, which he established alongside Chad Hugo in 1992. Fifteen of their productions have peaked within the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100, which includes four songs that peaked atop the chart. The two also formed the rock and hip-hop band N.E.R.D. with Shay Haley in 1999, for which Williams served as lead vocalist. He has been regarded as one of the most influential producers in modern popular music. He has also contributed on all the Despicable Me films as a musical contributor.
05/04/1972
Nima Arkani-Hamed, American-Canadian theoretical physicist
Nima Arkani-Hamed is an Iranian-American-Canadian theoretical physicist, with interests in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, string theory, cosmology and collider physics. Arkani-Hamed is a member of the permanent faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is also director of the Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation. He is also director of The Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP) in Beijing, China.
Tom Coronel, Dutch race car driver
Tom Romeo Coronel is a Dutch professional racing driver. Tom's twin brother Tim is also a racer, just like their father Tom Coronel Sr. His most important results are winning the Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 race in 1997, the Formula Nippon championship in 1999, and the 2006 and 2009 World Touring Car Championship Independents' Trophy. As of September 2016, Tom Coronel has driven over 1,000 races.
Paul Okon, Australian footballer and manager
Paul Michael Okon is an Australian former soccer player who played as a defender or midfielder.
Duncan Spencer, English cricketer
Duncan Spencer is an English former cricketer.
Yasuhiro Takemoto, Japanese animator and director (died 2019)
Yasuhiro Takemoto was a Japanese animator and television and film director. He worked at Kyoto Animation for almost his entire animation career after joining the company in 1996 until his death in 2019.
Junko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
Junko Takeuchi is a Japanese actress and voice actress employed by Ogipro The Next Co. Inc. & BQMAP. Taking a well-trod path by many voice actresses, she often voices young male characters, with generally very quirky and goofy personalities. One of her most well-known roles includes Naruto Uzumaki in the popular anime series Naruto. She has played Takuya Kanbara in Digimon Frontier, Rin Natsuki/Cure Rouge in Yes! PreCure 5, Metabee in Medabots, Mamoru Endou in Inazuma Eleven and Inazuma Eleven GO, Gon Freecss in the 1999 version of Hunter × Hunter, MrBeast in the Japanese dub of MrBeast, and GingerBrave in the Japanese dub of Cookie Run: Kingdom.
05/04/1971
Dong Abay, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist
Westdon Martin Abay, popularly known as Dong Abay, is a poet and a Pinoy rock musician. He was the founding member, songwriter and lead vocalist of the bands Yano, Pan, and dongabay, which are now all defunct. In 2005, he pursued a solo career as an independent artist by releasing an album entitled Sampol. In 2017, he formed a rock band named Dong Abay Music Organization or D.A.M.O. while having other endeavors such as a songwriting school.
Krista Allen, American actress
Krista Allen is an American actress and model. Allen is known for playing soap opera roles, including Billie Reed on Days of Our Lives (1996–1999) and Taylor Hayes on The Bold and the Beautiful (2021–2023), earning a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for the latter.
Austin Berry, Costa Rican footballer
Austín Gerardo Berry Moya is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Simona Cavallari, Italian actress
Simona Cavallari is an Italian actress of the cinema, theatre, and television.
Victoria Hamilton, English actress
Victoria Hamilton is an English actress known for her roles in theatre and period dramas. Training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Hamilton began appearing in productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. She starred alongside Clive Owen, and later Eddie Izzard, in the London stage play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (2002), making her Broadway debut a year later, and earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.
Nelson Parraguez, Chilean footballer
Nelson Rodrigo Parraguez Riveros is a retired Chilean football midfielder who was capped 52 times for the Chile national team between 1991 and 2001, including three games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Kim Soo-nyung, South Korean archer
Kim Soo-nyung is a former member of the South Korean Olympic archery team in 1988, 1992, and 2000.
05/04/1970
Soheil Ayari, French race car driver
Soheil Ayari is a French-Iranian race car driver born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, from an Iranian father and a French mother. He won the French Formula Ford championship of 1994, Formula Three championship of 1996 and the Macau Grand Prix of 1997. From 1997 until 2000, he competed in Formula 3000 where he won two races before moving on to the French Supertouring Championship in 2001 where he became champion in 2002, 2004 and 2005.
Valérie Bonneton, French actress
Valérie Bonneton is a French actress.
Diamond D, American hip hop producer
Joseph Kirkland, better known by his stage name Diamond D, is an American hip hop MC and record producer from The Bronx, New York City, and one of the founding members of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew, abbreviated as D.I.T.C.
Petar Genov, Bulgarian chess grandmaster
Petar Genov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster (2002).
Thea Gill, Canadian actress
Thea Louise Gill is a Canadian actress best known for her starring role as Lindsay Peterson in the Showtime television series Queer as Folk.
Miho Hatori, Japanese singer-songwriter
Miho Hatori is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician. She is best known as a solo artist, co-founder of New York City band Cibo Matto, and as the first person to provide the voice of Noodle in the virtual band Gorillaz, as well as for her work with the Beastie Boys, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Smokey Hormel, John Zorn, and many more.
Irina Timofeyeva, Russian long-distance runner
Irina Nikolayevna Timofeyeva is a Russian former long-distance runner who specialized in running the marathon.
05/04/1969
Dinos Angelidis, Greek basketball player
Konstantinos "Dinos" Angelidis is an Austrian-born former Greek professional basketball player of mixed Greek-Austrian descent. Born in Vienna, he played professionally in the Greek Basket League, and he also represented the Greek national team at the senior level. He played as either a power forward or center.
Viatcheslav Djavanian, Russian cyclist
Viatcheslav Djavanian is a Russian former professional road cyclist. He won the Tour de Pologne 1996.
Pontus Kåmark, Swedish footballer
Sven Pontus Kåmark is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played for Västerås SK, IFK Göteborg, Leicester City and AIK, and won 57 caps for the Sweden national team. He was part of the Swedish team that finished third at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
Pavlo Khnykin, Ukrainian swimmer
Pavlo Khnykin is a retired freestyle swimmer from Vinnytsia, Ukraine. He was born in Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR.
Tomislav Piplica, Bosnian footballer and manager
Tomislav Piplica is a Bosnian football manager who formerly played as goalkeeper. His nickname is "Pipi" and he is considered to be a cult-goalkeeper, in Germany as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ravindra Prabhat, Indian writer and journalist
Ravindra Prabhat is a Hindi-language novelist, journalist, poet, and short story writer from India.
05/04/1968
Paula Cole, American singer-songwriter and pianist
Paula Dorothy Cole is an American singer and songwriter. After gaining attention for her performances as a vocalist on Peter Gabriel's 1993–1994 Secret World Tour, she released her first album, Harbinger, which suffered from a lack of promotion when the label, Imago Records, folded shortly after its release. Her second album, This Fire (1996), brought her worldwide acclaim, peaking at number 20 on the Billboard 200 album chart and producing two hit singles, the triple-Grammy nominated "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?", which reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and "I Don't Want to Wait", which was used as the theme song of the television show Dawson's Creek. Cole was a featured performer in the 1996 prototype mini-tour for Lilith Fair, and also was a headliner for Lilith Fair in 1997 and 1998. She won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1998, and that same year became the first woman to be nominated for "Producer of the Year" without a male collaborator.
05/04/1967
Troy Gentry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)
Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo/solo act founded by singers Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry, both Kentucky natives. They began performing together in the 1990s as part of two different bands with Montgomery's brother, John Michael Montgomery. Although Gentry won a talent contest in 1994, he reunited with Eddie Montgomery after Gentry was unable to find a solo record deal, and Montgomery Gentry was formed in 1999. The duo is known for its Southern rock influences, and has collaborated with Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith, Five for Fighting, and members of The Allman Brothers Band.
Franck Silvestre, French footballer
Franck Claude Silvestre is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
Erland Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
Erland Johnsen is a Norwegian football manager and former professional footballer who is director of youth at Sarpsborg 08 FF.
Laima Zilporytė, Soviet cyclist
Laima Zilporytė is a retired female cyclist, who trained at Dynamo sports society in Panevėžys and represented the USSR at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There she won the bronze medal in the women's individual road race, after being defeated in the sprint by the Netherlands' Monique Knol and West Germany's Jutta Niehaus.
05/04/1966
Yoon Hyun, South Korean judoka
Yoon Hyun is a South Korean judoka.
Mike McCready, American guitarist and songwriter
Michael David McCready is an American musician known for being a founding member and lead guitarist of Pearl Jam. McCready was also a member of the side project bands Flight to Mars, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, and The Rockfords. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a part of Pearl Jam in 2017 alongside the four other founding members, and former member Matt Cameron.
Peter Overton, English-Australian journalist and television host
Peter John Overton, is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.
05/04/1965
Aykut Kocaman, Turkish footballer and manager
Aykut Kocaman is a former Turkish footballer, who played as a striker. Before he made his debut 1980 with the amateur club Kabataş Altınmızrak in Istanbul, Kocaman performed gymnastics at the club Eczacıbaşı, winning 40 medals and reaching second place at the national level. 1984, he moved to Sakaryaspor in Adapazarı, Sakarya and turned professional. In 1988, Kocaman signed a contract with Fenerbahçe, where he played and contributed much to the success of his club until he was transferred to Istanbulspor in 1996.
Lang Tzu-yun, Taiwanese actress
Lang Tzu-yun is a Taiwanese actress.
Elizabeth McIntyre, American freestyle skier
Elizabeth Geary McIntyre, sometimes known as Liz McIntyre, is an American freestyle skier and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, in moguls. She finished 8th at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
Svetlana Paramygina, Belarusian biathlete
Svetlana Paramygina is a former Belarusian biathlete. Her international biathlon career began in 1983. In the 1993/1994 season she won the overall World Cup. The following year she finished second overall. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer she won a silver medal in the sprint event. After the 2000/2001 season she retired as a biathlete.
05/04/1964
Neil Eckersley, British judoka
Neil Eckersley is a retired judoka from the United Kingdom, who represented Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he won a bronze medal in the men's extra-lightweight division (–60 kg), alongside USA's Edward "Ed" Liddie.
Vakhtang Iagorashvili, Soviet modern pentathlete
Vakhtang "Vaho" Iagorashvili is a Soviet modern pentathlete, who has been a member of three different Olympic teams during his sporting career.
Levon Julfalakyan, Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler
Levon Julfalakyan is a former Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is an Olympic, World, and European Champion and was merited Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1988. Julfalakyan is the current head coach of the Armenian national Greco-Roman wrestling team and President of the Union of Armenian Olympians, as well as a member of the executive committee of the NOC.
Marius Lăcătuș, Romanian footballer and coach
Marius Mihai Lăcătuș is a Romanian professional football manager and former player.
05/04/1963
Arthur Adams, American comic book artist and writer
Arthur Adams is an American comic book artist and writer. He first broke into the American comic book industry with the 1985 Marvel Comics miniseries Longshot. His subsequent interior comics work includes a number of Marvel's major books, including The Uncanny X-Men, Excalibur, X-Factor, Fantastic Four, Hulk, and Ultimate Comics: X, as well as books by various other publishers, such as Action Comics, Vampirella, The Rocketeer, and The Authority. Adams has also illustrated books featuring characters for which he has a personal love, such as Godzilla, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Gumby, the latter of which garnered him a 1988 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue.
05/04/1962
Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (died 2003)
Lana Jean Clarkson was an American actress and fashion model. During the 1980s, she rose to prominence in several sword and sorcery films. In 2003, record producer and songwriter Phil Spector shot and killed Clarkson inside his home; he was charged with second-degree murder and convicted in 2009.
Sara Danius, Swedish scholar of literature and aesthetics (died 2019)
Sara Maria Danius was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University.
Richard Gough, Swedish born Scottish international footballer
Charles Richard Gough is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Arild Monsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
Arild Monsen is a former Norwegian cross-country skier who competed at international level from 1982 to 1989. He won the 4 × 10 km gold at the 1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld and finished seventh in the 15 km event at same championship.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Russian businessman and politician, 1st President of Kalmykia
Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov is a Russian oligarch, administrator and politician. He was President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and was president of FIDE, the chess international governing body, from 1995 to 2018. He has also been at the forefront of promoting chess in schools in Russia and overseas. He is the founder of Novy Vzglyad publishing house.
05/04/1961
Andrea Arnold, English filmmaker and actress
Andrea Patricia Arnold OBE is an English filmmaker and former actress. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005. Her feature films include Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009) and American Honey (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, while her first documentary feature Cow premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian soprano
Anna Caterina Antonacci is an Italian soprano known for roles in the bel canto and Baroque repertories. She performed as a mezzo-soprano for several years, particularly performing the Rossini canon.
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Bahraini-Danish human rights activist
Abdulhadi Abdulla Hubail al-Khawaja is a Bahraini political activist. On 22 June 2011, al-Khawaja and eight others were sentenced to life imprisonment following the suppression of pro-democracy protests against the Bahraini government. Al-Khawaja has previously gone on a series of hunger strikes while serving his life sentence, in protest of the political conditions in Bahrain.
Lisa Zane, American actress and singer
Lisa Zane is an American actress, singer, and songwriter.
05/04/1960
Asteris Koutoulas, Romanian-German record producer, manager, and author
Asteris Koutoulas is a Greek-Romanian event and music producer, publicist, translator, filmmaker and author. He was the manager of Mikis Theodorakis and the event producer of Gert Hof. Koutoulas rose to prominence as a director when his documentary fiction film "Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film" won the Cinema for Peace Most Valuable Documentary Film Award in 2014.
Larry McCray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Larry McCray, is an American blues guitarist and singer from Magnolia, Arkansas.
Ian Redford, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2014)
Ian Petrie Redford was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a midfielder or forward. He played for Dundee before joining Rangers for a then Scottish record transfer fee. At Rangers he won in three domestic cup finals. He then joined Dundee United where he scored in the 1987 UEFA Cup semi final win against Borussia Mönchengladbach. He then played for Ipswich Town, St Johnstone and Brechin City before wrapping up his career with two winners medals at Raith Rovers.
Hiromi Taniguchi, Japanese long-distance runner
Hiromi Taniguchi is a former Japanese long-distance runner, best known from winning the gold medal in the marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo. The favourite to win the race, Olympic champion Gelindo Bordin, only finished eighth. The marathon was run under extremely adverse conditions of heat and humidity, which are reflected in the slow winning time of 2:14:57h. Taniguchi is the only male Japanese runner ever to have won a gold medal at World Championships.
Adnan Terzić, Bosnian politician
Adnan Terzić is a Bosnian politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2007. He was a longtime member of the Party of Democratic Action, until he left it to join the Union for a Better Future.
05/04/1959
Paul Chung, Hong Kong actor and host (died 1989)
Paul Chung Po Lo was a Hong Kong actor, MC and a DJ in the early 1980s. He committed suicide on 1 September 1989.
05/04/1958
Kevin Dann, Australian rugby league player (died 2021)
Kevin George Dann was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played his entire club football career with the Penrith Panthers, as a fullback.
Henrik Dettmann, Finnish basketball coach
Henrik Dettmann is a Finnish professional basketball coach who last served as head coach of the French LNB Pro A team SIG Strasbourg and the Finnish national basketball team. He was the head coach of German national basketball team from 1997 to 2003, winning the bronze medal at the 2002 FIBA World Championship. In 2004, Dettman won FIBA EuroCup Challenge with Mitteldeutscher. He coached Finland national team on two occasions, for 23 years in total.
Ryoichi Kawakatsu, Japanese footballer
Ryoichi Kawakatsu is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.
Johan Kriek, South African-American tennis player
Johan Christiaan Kriek is a South African–American former professional tennis player. He won two Australian Open titles, beating Steve Denton in four sets in the 1981 final and the same opponent in the 1982 final in straight sets, when he tamed Denton's cannonball serve and "relentlessly whipped winners past him from all angles of the court". He reached the semifinals at the French Open and US Open, as well as the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships. Kriek won 14 professional singles and eight doubles titles, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 7 in September 1984.
Daniel Schneidermann, French journalist
Daniel Schneidermann is a French journalist who focuses on the analysis of televised media. He is mainly active in weekly columns—in the past in Le Monde and presently in Libération and on a video channel: Arrêt sur images (Freeze-frame), formerly broadcast by the public TV channel France 5, but currently financed by subscription. The television show was canceled in 2007 by France 5 direction, an incident that led to the creation of the Arret Sur Images web site.
Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan lawyer and journalist (died 2009)
Lasantha Manilal Wickrematunge was a high-profile Sri Lankan journalist, politician, broadcaster, and human rights activist who was assassinated in January 2009.
05/04/1957
Sebastian Adayanthrath, Indian bishop
Sebastian Adayantharath is a Syro-Malabar Catholic bishop. He is the current bishop of Mandya and also a former auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly.
Karin Roßley, German hurdler
Karin Roßley, is a retired East German hurdler, who represented the sports team SC Cottbus. She was born in Cottbus.
05/04/1956
Diamond Dallas Page, American wrestler and actor
Dallas Page, is an American fitness instructor, actor, and retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE under a Legends contract, under the ring name Diamond Dallas Page. In the course of his wrestling career Page has wrestled for mainstream wrestling promotions World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
Leonid Fedun, Russian businessman
Leonid Arnoldovich Fedun is a Ukrainian-born Russian billionaire businessman known for co-founding Russian oil company Lukoil. Until retiring in 2022, Fedun was vice president of Lukoil. He formerly served as president of FC Spartak Moscow before selling 100% of his shares to Lukoil.
Reid Ribble, American politician
Reid James Ribble is an American businessman and Republican politician from the Fox Cities region of Wisconsin. He served three terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 8th congressional district from 2011 to 2017.
T. V. Smith, English singer-songwriter
Timothy "T. V." Smith is an English singer-songwriter who was part of punk band The Adverts in the late 1970s. Since then he has fronted other bands, as well as pursuing a solo career.
05/04/1955
Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer, and screenwriter
Anne-Charlotte de Turckheim is a French actress, screenwriter, comedian and film producer.
Ricardo Ferrero, Argentine footballer (died 2015)
Ricardo Ferrero was an Argentine professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Cruz Azul, Barcelona, and Racing de Santander. He later became a manager with Deportivo Toluca.
Christian Gourcuff, French footballer and manager
Christian Jean Gourcuff is a French former professional football player and manager. He spent a majority of his managerial career at Lorient, where he was the head coach for 25 years across three different spells.
Anthony Horowitz, English author and screenwriter
Anthony John Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the Alex Rider series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, The Power of Five series, and The Diamond Brothers series.
Bernard Longley, English prelate
Bernard Longley is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was named the Archbishop of Birmingham on 1 October 2009, and installed on 8 December 2009.
Akira Toriyama, Japanese illustrator (died 2024)
Akira Toriyama was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors in the history of manga and created numerous highly influential and popular series, with his most famous being Dragon Ball.
Takayoshi Yamano, Japanese footballer
Takayoshi Yamano is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
05/04/1954
Guy Bertrand, Canadian linguist and radio host
Guy Bertrand is a Canadian linguist and broadcast personality.
Peter Case, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Peter Case is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His career is wide-ranging, from rock n' roll and blues, to folk rock and solo acoustic performance.
Mohamed Ben Mouza, Tunisian footballer
Mohamed Ali Ben Moussa was a Tunisian footballer who played as a forward for Club Africain and the Tunisia national team. He was part of Tunisia's 1978 FIFA World Cup. Ben Moussa died on 6 November 2025, at the age of 71.
Stan Ridgway, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Stanard "Stan" Ridgway is an American singer-songwriter, and film and television composer known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums. He was the original lead singer and a founding member of the band Wall of Voodoo.
Yoshiichi Watanabe, Japanese footballer
Yoshiichi Watanabe is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
05/04/1953
Frank Gaffney, American journalist and radio host
Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is an American defense policy analyst and founder of the Center for Security Policy (CSP). He founded the CSP in 1988, serving as its president until 2023, and thereafter as executive chairman. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked for the federal government in multiple posts, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy from 1983 to 1987, and seven months as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan administration. He was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1987. In later years, he has been described as an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist.
Keiko Han, Japanese actress
Keiko Han is a Japanese actress and voice actress. She sang the theme songs in productions, such as Story of the Alps: My Annette and The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island. She is also a fortune teller of western horoscopes. She wrote books on the subject, and is employed by talent agency Never Land Arts. She was a former member of Aoni Production and 81 Produce.
Tae Jin-ah, South Korean singer
Jo Bang-heon, better known by his stage name, Tae Jin-ah (태진아), is a South Korean trot singer and entertainer. He debuted in 1973 with the song, "My Heart Express Train," and rose to fame soon after with the song, "Memory of a Blue Hill." Since 2002, he has hosted a radio program on KBS Radio 2 called the Tae Jin Ah Show Show Show. He often appears on the KBS 1TV 'Golden Oldies(Korean: 가요무대)'.
Raleb Majadele, Israeli politician
Raleb Majadele is an Israeli Arab politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party in three spells between 2004 and 2015, and became the country's first Muslim minister when appointed Minister without Portfolio on 28 January 2007. Between March 2007 - March 2009 he served as Minister of Science, Culture and Sport, the first Muslim minister in Israeli history.
Ian Swales, English accountant and politician
Ian Cameron Swales is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Redcar in England. He is the only person ever to gain a North East Region Commons seat for the Liberal Democrats. Swales took Redcar from Labour incumbent Vera Baird for the Liberal Democrats at the 2010 general election, with a 21.8% swing adding over 11,000 votes to his 2005 general election total. This was the biggest swing against any Labour candidate in the election and was also the biggest majority overcome by any Liberal Democrat, until the 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election. He stood down at the 2015 general election.
05/04/1952
Alfie Conn, Scottish international footballer
Alfred James Conn is a Scottish former professional footballer, who was the first post-World War II player to play for both Old Firm rivals Rangers and Celtic.
John C. Dvorak, American author and editor
John C. Dvorak is an American writer and broadcaster in the areas of technology and personal computing. He has been a columnist for multiple magazines since the 1980s and has written or co-authored over a dozen how-to books on software and technology. He was vice president of Mevio, and has been a host on TechTV and TWiT.tv. He is currently a co-host of the No Agenda podcast.
Sandy Mayer, American tennis player
Alexander Mayer is a former tennis player from the United States. He won twelve titles in singles and twenty-four titles in doubles in his professional career, and was part of the winning tennis squad at Stanford University in 1973.
Dennis Mortimer, English footballer
Dennis George Mortimer is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder and captained Aston Villa. He made nearly 600 appearances in the Football League playing for Coventry City, Aston Villa, Sheffield United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Birmingham City.
Mitch Pileggi, American actor
Mitchell Pileggi is an American actor. He played Horace Pinker in Shocker, Walter Skinner on The X-Files, Colonel Steven Caldwell on Stargate Atlantis, Ernest Darby in Sons of Anarchy, and Harris Ryland in the TNT revival of Dallas (2012–2014).
05/04/1951
Les Binks, Irish drummer and songwriter
James Leslie Binks was a Northern Irish heavy metal drummer. He is best-known for being the drummer for Judas Priest, where he was a member from 1977 to 1979.
Yevgeniy Gavrilenko, Belarusian hurdler
Yevgeniy Mikhailovich Gavrilenko is a former Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metre hurdles. He trained at Dynamo in Gomel.
Nedim Gürsel, Turkish writer
Nedim Gürsel is a Turkish writer. In the late 1960s, he published novellas and essays in Turkish magazines. After graduating from Galatasaray High School in 1970, he studied at the Sorbonne. In 1974, he graduated from the Sorbonne's Department of Modern French Literature. In 1979, he received his doctorate in comparative literature after completing his dissertation on Louis Aragon and Nazim Hikmet. He returned to Turkey, but the unrest there in 1980 persuaded him to go back to France.
Dean Kamen, American inventor and businessman, founded Segway Inc.
Dean Lawrence Kamen is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers. Kamen holds over 1,000 patents.
Dave McArtney, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
David Ewan McArtney was a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s with the band Hello Sailor and his band Dave McArtney & The Pink Flamingos.
Ubol Ratana, Thai Princess
Ubol Ratana is a member of the Thai royal family. She is the eldest child of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit, and the elder sister of King Vajiralongkorn.
05/04/1950
Ann C. Crispin, American writer (died 2013)
Ann Carol Crispin was an American science fiction writer and the author of 23 published novels. She wrote several Star Trek and Star Wars novelizations; she also created an original science fiction series called StarBridge.
Franklin Chang Díaz, Costa Rican-Chinese American astronaut and physicist
Franklin Ramon Chang-Díaz is a Costa Rica born mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut. He is the sole founder and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company as well as a member of the Cummins' board of directors. He became a U. S. citizen in 1977.
Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
Agneta Åse "Agnetha" Fältskog is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and a member of the pop group ABBA. She first achieved success in Sweden with the release of her 1968 self-titled debut album. She rose to international stardom in the 1970s as a member of ABBA, which is one of the best-selling music acts in history.
Toshiko Fujita, Japanese actress, singer and narrator (died 2018)
Toshiko Fujita was a Japanese actress, singer and narrator. She was affiliated with Aoni Production at the time of her death.
Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor
Predrag "Miki" Manojlović is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he successfully branched out into movies made outside the Balkans and became active in productions all over Europe.
05/04/1949
Stanley Dziedzic, American wrestler
Stanley Joseph Dziedzic Jr. is an American former welterweight freestyle wrestler.
Larry Franco, American film producer
Larry Joseph Franco is an American film producer. He has also served as an actor, second unit director and assistant director. He is the father of former Atlanta Braves baseball player Matt Franco and Phronsie Franco. He is the ex-brother-in-law of actor Kurt Russell and the ex-son-in-law of actor Bing Russell. Franco attended UCLA film school.
Judith Resnik, American engineer and astronaut (died 1986)
Judith Arlene Resnik was an American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. She was the fourth woman, the second American woman and the first Jewish woman of any nationality to fly in space, logging 145 hours in orbit.
05/04/1948
Pierre-Albert Chapuisat, Swiss footballer
Pierre-Albert 'Gabet' Chapuisat is a Swiss retired football defender and manager.
Dave Holland, English drummer (died 2018)
David Holland was an English drummer, best remembered for his time with the rock band Trapeze from 1969 to 1979 and Judas Priest from 1979 to 1989.
Roy McFarland, English footballer and manager
Roy Leslie McFarland is an English former football manager and player. With Derby County, he played 442 league games, helping him to earn 28 caps for England.
05/04/1947
Đurđica Bjedov, Yugoslav swimmer
Đurđa "Đurđica" Bjedov is a retired Croatian swimmer and the only Yugoslav Olympic champion in swimming.
Willy Chirino, Cuban-American musician
Willy Chirino is a Cuban singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Filipino academic and politician, 14th President of the Philippines
Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal-Arroyo, often referred to as PGMA or GMA, is a Filipino academic and politician who served as the 14th president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010. She is the longest-serving president since Ferdinand Marcos. Before her presidency, she was the 10th vice president of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001 under President Joseph Estrada, becoming the first female vice president. She was also a senator from 1992 to 1998. After her presidency, she was elected as the representative of Pampanga's 2nd district in 2010 and continues to serve in this role. She also served as the speaker of the House from 2018 to 2019, and as deputy speaker from 2016 to 2017 and 2022 to 2023. Alongside former president Sergio Osmeña, she is one of only two Filipinos to hold at least three of the four highest offices: vice president, president, and house speaker.
Ramón Mifflin, Peruvian footballer
Ramón Antonio Mifflin Páez is a former Peruvian football player.
Virendra Sharma, Indian-English lawyer and politician
Virendra Kumar Sharma is a British-Indian Labour Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Southall from 2007 to 2024.
05/04/1946
Jane Asher, English actress
Jane Asher is an English actress and author. She achieved early fame as a child actress. She has worked extensively in film and television.
Julio Ángel Fernández, Uruguayan astronomer
Julio Ángel Fernández Alves is a Uruguayan astronomer and teacher, member of the department of astronomy at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo. He is also a member of PEDECIBA,, and the Uruguayan Society of Astronomy. From 2005 to 2010, he was the Dean of the Universidad de la Republica's Faculty of Sciences. The asteroid 5996 Julioangel, discovered in 1983, was named after him.
Björn Granath, Swedish actor (died 2017)
Björn Gösta Tryggve Granath was a Swedish actor who appeared in over 100 films and television shows.
Georgi Markov, Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler
Georgi Markov is a retired Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler. He was born in 1946, in Gorno Vyrshilo, Pazardzhik province.
05/04/1945
Ove Bengtson, Swedish tennis player
Ove Nils Bengtson is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won five doubles titles. Bengtson was a member of the Swedish Davis Cup team from 1967 to 1979, posting a 7–14 record in singles and a 15–14 record in doubles. He was part of the Swedish team winning the 1975 Davis Cup, defeating Czechoslovakia in the final in Stockholm.
Steve Carver, American director and producer (died 2021)
Steve Carver was an American film director, producer, and photographer.
Cem Karaca, Turkish musician (died 2004)
Muhtar Cem Karaca was a Turkish rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement. He was a graduate of Robert College. He worked with various Turkish rock bands such as Apaşlar, Kardaşlar, Moğollar and Dervişan. With these bands, he brought a new understanding and interpretation to Turkish rock.
Tommy Smith, English footballer (died 2019)
Thomas Smith was an English footballer, who played as a defender at Liverpool for 16 years from 1962 to 1978. Known for his uncompromising defensive style, manager Bill Shankly once said of him: "Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried". A central defender for most of his career, Smith's most memorable moment for the club probably came when he scored Liverpool's second goal in the 1977 European Cup Final against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Smith played once for England in 1971, and also played at club level for Tampa Bay Rowdies, Los Angeles Aztecs and Swansea City.
05/04/1944
Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dutch actress and director
Willy Geertje van Ammelrooij, known as Willeke van Ammelrooy, is a Dutch actress.
János Martonyi, Hungarian politician
János Martonyi is a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2002 and from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union party. He was part of the Amato Group that unofficially drafted a new treaty for the European Union after the European Constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch voters.
Evan Parker, British musician
Evan Shaw Parker is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation.
Douangchay Phichit, Laotian politician (died 2014)
Lieutenant general Douangchay Phichit was a Laotian politician from Attapeu and a Politburo member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense.
Willy Planckaert, Belgian cyclist
Willy Planckaert is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. His brothers, Eddy and Walter Planckaert, as well as his son Jo Planckaert, are also former professional road bicycle racers.
Pedro Rosselló, Puerto Rican physician and politician, 7th Governor of Puerto Rico
Pedro Juan Rosselló González is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served two consecutive terms as the seventh democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001. Rosselló was president of the New Progressive Party (PNP) from 1991 to 1999 and 2003 to 2008. He was also a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico for the district of Arecibo from 2005 to 2008. His son, Ricardo, was governor of Puerto Rico from 2017 to 2019.
Peter T. King, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
Peter Thomas King is an American former politician and novelist who represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he represented a South Shore Long Island district that includes parts of Nassau County and Suffolk County and was numbered as the 3rd and later the 2nd district.
05/04/1943
Dean Brown, Australian politician, 41st Premier of South Australia
Dean Craig Brown, AO is a politician who served as the Premier of South Australia between 14 December 1993 and 28 November 1996, and also served as 10th Deputy Premier of South Australia between 22 October 2001 and 5 March 2002, representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. He became premier when he led the party to a landslide win at the 1993 state election, and lost the office when he lost a leadership challenge to John Olsen in November 1996.
Max Gail, American actor and director
Maxwell Trowbridge Gail Jr. is an American actor who has starred on stage, and in television and film roles. He is best known for his role as Detective Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz on the sitcom Barney Miller (1975–1982), which earned him two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nominations. Gail also won the 2019 and 2021 Daytime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Mike Corbin on the soap opera General Hospital.
Fighting Harada, Japanese boxer
Masahiko Harada, better known as Fighting Harada, is a Japanese former professional boxer. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the NYSAC, WBA, and The Ring undisputed flyweight titles from 1962 to 1963 and the WBA, WBC, and The Ring undisputed bantamweight titles from 1965 and 1968. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing association.
Miet Smet, Belgian politician
Miet Smet was a Belgian politician for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V).
Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (died 2018)
Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. When he died, he had been the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue since 2007 and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church since the end of 2014. He was made a cardinal in 2003 and was the Cardinal Protodeacon from 2011 to 2014. His earlier career included almost thirty years in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and several years as the Vatican's chief archivist and librarian.
05/04/1942
Allan Clarke, English singer-songwriter
Harold Allan Clarke is an English singer and musician who was one of the founding members and the original lead singer of the Hollies. He achieved international hit singles with the group and is credited as co-writer on several of their best-known songs, including "On a Carousel", "Carrie Anne", "Jennifer Eccles" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress". He retired from performing in 2000, but returned to the music industry in 2019. Clarke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of the Hollies.
Pascal Couchepin, Swiss politician
Pascal Couchepin is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1998 to 2009. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD), he was President of the Swiss Confederation twice, in 2003 and 2008. Couchepin headed the Federal Department of Economic Affairs from 1998 to 2002 and Federal Department of Home Affairs from 2003 until 2009.
Juan Gisbert Sr., Spanish tennis player
Juan Gisbert Sr. is a retired Spanish professional tennis. He was ranked world No. 14 in 1967. He was active from 1956 to 1976 and won 14 career singles titles.
Peter Greenaway, Welsh director and screenwriter
Peter Greenaway, is a British filmmaker and visual artist.
05/04/1941
Michael Moriarty, American-Canadian actor
Michael Moriarty is an American actor. He received an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for his role as a Nazi SS officer in the 1978 miniseries Holocaust and a Tony Award in 1974 for his performance in the play Find Your Way Home. He starred as Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone for the first four seasons (1990–1994) of the television show Law & Order. Moriarty is also known for his roles in films such as Bang the Drum Slowly, Who'll Stop the Rain, Q: The Winged Serpent, The Stuff, Pale Rider, Troll, Courage Under Fire, and Shiloh.
Dave Swarbrick, English singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 2016)
David Cyril Eric Swarbrick was an English traditional folk musician and songwriter who primarily played the violin. He was one of the most highly regarded musicians produced by the second British folk revival, contributing to some of the most important groups and projects of the 1960s, and he became a much sought-after session musician, which led him throughout his career to work with many of the major figures in folk and folk rock music.
05/04/1940
Tommy Cash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)
Tommy Cash was an American country musician. His elder brother was Johnny Cash.
Gilles Proulx, Canadian journalist, historian, and radio host
Gilles Proulx is a Canadian radio and television host in the province of Quebec. His radio career began in 1962, notably working for CHMP-FM and currently for Quebecor and Radio Ville-Marie. A strong Quebec nationalist, known for his conservative views and criticism of the anglophone community, he’s published 153 opinion columns in the Le Journal de Montréal as of 2020.
05/04/1939
Leka I, Crown Prince of Albania (died 2011)
Leka, Crown Prince of Albania was the only son of King Zog I and Queen Geraldine of Albania. He was called Crown Prince Skander at birth. After his father's death in 1961, Leka was the pretender to the Albanian throne, and his supporters referred to him as King Leka I.
Crispian St. Peters, English singer-songwriter (died 2010)
Crispian St. Peters was an English pop singer-songwriter, best known for his work in the 1960s, particularly hit songs written by the duo The Changin' Times, including "The Pied Piper", and Ian & Sylvia's "You Were on My Mind". His popularity waned after he claimed he was a better performer than other well known singers and declared that he was a better songwriter than the Beatles.
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Prime Minister of Yemen
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas is a Yemeni politician. He was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 to form present-day Yemen. Al-Attas served until 1994. He is a member of the Yemeni Socialist Party.
Ronald White, American singer-songwriter (died 1995)
Ronald Anthony White was an American baritone singer, best known as the co-founder of the Miracles and its only consistent original member. White was also known for bringing Stevie Wonder to the attention of Motown Records, and writing several hit singles for the Miracles as well as other artists including the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and Mary Wells. White died of leukemia in 1995, at 57 years old. In 2012, White was a posthumous inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Miracles.
David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer and producer (died 2019)
David Winters was an English-born American actor, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. At a young age, he acted in film and television projects such as Lux Video Theatre, Naked City; Mister Peepers, Rock, Rock, Rock, and Roogie's Bump. He received some attention in Broadway musicals for his roles in West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959). In the film adaptation of West Side Story (1961) he was one of the few actors to be re-cast in a different role than what he performed in the original stage version. West Side Story became the highest grossing motion picture of that year, and won 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
05/04/1938
Colin Bland, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (died 2018)
Kenneth Colin Bland was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in 21 Test matches for South Africa in the 1960s. He is regarded as one of the greatest fielders in the history of Test cricket.
Mal Colston, Australian educator and politician (died 2003)
Malcolm Arthur Colston was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1975 to 1999. He was a member of the Labor Party until 1996, when he resigned to sit as an independent following a dispute over his candidacy for Deputy President of the Senate. Colston was a schoolteacher before entering politics, and held a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Queensland.
Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (died 2014)
Nancy Holt was an American artist most known for her public sculpture, installation art, concrete poetry, and land art. Throughout her career, Holt also produced works in other media, including film and photography. Since 2018, her legacy has been cared for by Holt/Smithson Foundation.
Natalya Kustinskaya, Soviet actress (died 2012)
Natalya Nikolayevna Kustinskaya was a Soviet actress, who was a Meritorious Artist of Russia from 1999.
Giorgos Sideris, Greek footballer
Giorgos Sideris is a Greek former footballer, who played as striker.
05/04/1937
Joseph Lelyveld, American journalist and author (died 2024)
Joseph Salem Lelyveld was an American journalist. He was executive editor of The New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines. He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author, and a contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Colin Powell, American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State (died 2021)
Colin Luther Powell was an American Army general, diplomat, and statesman who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005, being the first Black American to hold the office, and was the highest-ranking Black American in the federal executive branch in American history until the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008. Initially politically independent, Powell joined the Republican Party in 1995. He was the 15th national security advisor from 1987 to 1989, and the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993.
Andrzej Schinzel, Polish mathematician (died 2021)
Andrzej Bobola Maria Schinzel was a Polish mathematician studying mainly number theory.
Arie Selinger, Israeli volleyball player and manager
Arie Selinger is an Israeli volleyball coach and former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest volleyball coaches of all time. He is credited with transforming the United States women's national volleyball team into a powerhouse in the 1980s.
Juan Vicente Lezcano, Paraguayan footballer (died 2012)
Juan Vicente Lezcano López was a Paraguayan football defender.
05/04/1936
Ronnie Bucknum, American race car driver (died 1992)
Ronald James Bucknum was an American race car driver, born in Alhambra, California.
Glenn Jordan, American director and producer
Glenn Jordan is a retired American television director and producer.
Dragoljub Minić, Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster (died 2005)
Dragoljub Minić was a Yugoslav Grandmaster of chess. He won the championship of Yugoslavia in 1962.
05/04/1935
Giovanni Cianfriglia, Italian actor (died 2024)
Giovanni Cianfriglia, also known as Ken Wood, was an Italian film actor and stuntman. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1958 to 2000.
Peter Grant, English talent manager (died 1995)
Peter Grant was an English music manager, best known as the manager of Led Zeppelin from their creation in 1968 to their breakup in 1980. With his intimidating size and weight, confrontational manner, knowledge and experience, Grant was able to procure strong and unprecedented deals for Led Zeppelin, and is widely credited with improving pay and conditions for all musicians in dealings with concert promoters. Grant has been described as "one of the shrewdest and most ruthless managers in rock history".
Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist and astronomer (died 2018)
Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS was a British theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars. Lynden-Bell was President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985–1987) and received numerous awards for his work, including the inaugural Kavli Prize for Astrophysics. He worked at the University of Cambridge for his entire career, where he was the first director of its Institute of Astronomy.
Frank Schepke, German rower (died 2017)
Frank Schepke was a German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
05/04/1934
John Carey, English author and critic
John Carey was a British literary critic, and post-retirement (2002) emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He was a scholar on John Milton and he also published a number of books on various literary figures. He became known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books such as The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts? Carey twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2003, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005.
Roman Herzog, German lawyer and politician, 7th President of Germany (died 2017)
Roman Herzog was a German politician, judge and legal scholar, who served as President of Germany from 1994 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he was the first president to be elected after German reunification. He previously served as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, and he was president of the court from 1987 to 1994. Before his appointment as a judge, he was a professor of law. He received the 1997 Charlemagne Prize.
Moise Safra, Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Banco Safra (died 2014)
Moise Yacoub Safra was a Lebanese-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist of Syrian descent. He co-founded Banco Safra with his brothers Edmond Safra and Joseph Safra.
Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist and composer (died 2000)
Stanley William Turrentine, nicknamed Mr. T, was an American Grammy nominated jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note label from 1960, touching on jazz fusion during a stint on CTI in the 1970s. He was described by critic Steve Huey as "renowned for his distinctively thick, rippling tone [and] earthy grounding in the blues." In the 1960s Turrentine was married to organist Shirley Scott, with whom he frequently recorded, and he was the younger brother of trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, with whom he also recorded.
05/04/1933
Feridun Buğeker, Turkish footballer (died 2014)
Feridun İsmail Buğeker was a Turkish football forward who played for Turkey in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Fenerbahçe S.K. between 1950–55 and 1961–63.
Frank Gorshin, American actor (died 2005)
Frank John Gorshin Jr. was an American actor, comedian and impressionist. He made many guest appearances on television variety and talk shows, including The Ed Sullivan Show, Tonight Starring Steve Allen, The Dean Martin Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Barbara Holland, American author (died 2010)
Barbara Murray Holland was an American author who wrote in defense of such modern-day vices as cursing, drinking, eating fatty food and smoking cigarettes, as well as a memoir of her time spent growing up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
K. Kailasapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and academic (died 1982)
Kanagasabapathy Kailasapathy was a Sri Lankan journalist and academic. He was the first president of the Jaffna Campus of the University of Sri Lanka.
05/04/1931
Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013)
Jack Henderson Clement was an American musician, songwriter, record producer, film producer, and music executive.
Héctor Olivera, Argentine director, producer and screenwriter
Héctor Emilio Olivera is an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter. Olivera worked mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but also has directed or contributed to several films made for the United States market.
05/04/1930
Mary Costa, American singer and actress
Mary Costa is an American retired actress and singer. Her most notable film credit is providing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty. She is the last surviving voice actress of the three Disney Princesses created in Walt Disney's lifetime and was named a Disney Legend in 1999. She is a recipient of the 2020 National Medal of Arts.
Pierre Lhomme, French director of photography (died 2019)
Pierre Lhomme was a French cinematographer and filmmaker.
05/04/1929
Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and painter (died 2008)
Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, novels, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English. He won the 2000 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Ivar Giaever, Norwegian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
Ivar Giaever was a Norwegian-American experimental physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson. One half of the prize was jointly awarded to Esaki and Giaever "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively."
Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer (died 2001)
Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne was an English actor. He is known for his stage acting and his portrayal of Sir Humphrey Appleby, the permanent secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. For this role, he won four for British Academy Television Awards for Best Entertainment Performance.
Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (died 1967)
Robert George "Joe" Meek was an English record producer and songwriter considered one of the most influential sound engineers of all time, being one of the first to develop ideas such as the recording studio as an instrument, and becoming one of the first producers to be recognised for his individual identity as an artist. Meek pioneered space age and experimental pop music, and assisted in the development of recording practices like overdubbing, sampling and reverberation.
Mahmoud Mollaghasemi, Iranian wrestler
Mahmoud Mollaghasemi Tabrizi is a retired Iranian freestyle wrestler. He won a silver medal at the 1951 World Championships and a bronze medal at the 1952 Olympics.
05/04/1928
Enzo Cannavale, Italian actor (died 2011)
Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including Cinema Paradiso, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990. He was awarded the Nastro d’Argento for Best Supporting Actor in 32 dicembre by Luciano De Crescenzo.
Tony Williams, American singer (died 1992)
Samuel Edward "Tony" Williams was an American R&B singer. From 1953 to 1960, he was the lead vocalist of the Platters.
05/04/1927
Thanin Kraivichien, Thai lawyer and politician, 14th prime minister of Thailand (died 2025)
Thanin Kraivichien was a Thai judge, politician and law professor. He was the prime minister of Thailand between 1976 and 1977. He was then appointed to the Privy Council and became its president in 2016. With the death of Prem Tinsulanonda in May 2019, he became the oldest living former Thai Prime Minister.
Arne Hoel, Norwegian ski jumper (died 2006)
Arne Hoel was a Norwegian ski jumper who competed in the 1940s and 1950s. He won the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen ski festival three times. Because of his successes, Hoel was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1956. He also finished sixth and eleventh in the individual large hill event at the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics, respectively.
05/04/1926
Roger Corman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)
Roger William Corman was an American film director, producer, and actor. Known under various monikers such as "The Pope of Pop Cinema", "The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood", and "The King of Cult", he was known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film.
Liang Yusheng, Chinese writer (died 2009)
Chen Wentong, better known by his pen name Liang Yusheng, was a Chinese-born Australian novelist best known for being a pioneer of the "new school" of the wuxia genre in the 20th century. Along with Jin Yong and Gu Long, he was one of the best known wuxia writers in the later half of the 20th century. Throughout his career, he published a total of 35 wuxia novels. The more notable ones include Baifa Monü Zhuan, Yunhai Yugong Yuan, Qijian Xia Tianshan and Pingzong Xiaying Lu. Some of them have been adapted into films and television series, including The Bride with White Hair (1993) and Seven Swords (2005).
05/04/1925
Janet Rowley, American human geneticist (died 2013)
Janet Davison Rowley was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease. Rowley spent the majority of her life working in Chicago and received many awards and honors throughout her life, recognizing her achievements and contributions in the area of genetics.
Pierre Nihant, Belgian cyclist (died 1993)
Pierre Nihant was a Belgian cyclist. He was born in Trembleur, in the province of Liège. He won a silver medal in the 1000m time trial at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
05/04/1924
Igor Borisov, Soviet rower (died 2003)
Igor Anddreyevich Borisov was a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
05/04/1923
Ernest Mandel, German-born Belgian Marxist economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist (died 1995)
Ernest Ezra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter, was a Belgian Marxian economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist, and Holocaust survivor. He fought in the underground resistance against the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium.
Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (died 1995)
Michael Vincenzo Gazzo was an American playwright who later in life became a movie and television actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Godfather Part II (1974).
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (died 2001)
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He was a general in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF), became head of a military junta in 1965, and then president after winning a rigged election in 1967. He headed the government of South Vietnam until he resigned and left the nation and relocated to Taipei a few days before the fall of Saigon and the ultimate North Vietnamese victory.
05/04/1922
Tom Finney, English footballer (died 2014)
Sir Thomas Finney was an English international footballer who played from 1946 to 1960 as a outside left for Preston North End and England. He is widely acknowledged to have been one of England's greatest ever players. He was noted for his loyalty to Preston, for whom he made 433 Football League and 39 FA Cup appearances, scoring a total of 210 goals. He played for England 76 times, scoring 30 goals.
Harry Freedman, Polish-Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (died 2005)
Harry Freedman , was a Canadian composer, English hornist, and music educator of Polish birth. He wrote a significant amount of symphonic works, including the scores to films such as The Bloody Brood (1959), Isabel (1968), The Act of the Heart (1970), The Pyx (1973) and The Courage of Kavik the Wolf Dog (1980), and composed a substantial amount of chamber music. He also composed music for six ballets, an opera, some incidental music for the theatre, and a few vocal art songs and choral works. He was awarded a Juno Award in 1996 for his symphonic work Touchings, which was recorded by the Esprit Orchestra on the Nexus label. He won the 1998 composition prize at the International Rostrum of Composers for Borealis, a symphonic work co-commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Soundstreams Canada, and CBC Radio. In 2002 the Canadian Music Centre released a commercial recording dedicated to his music, Canadian Composers Portraits: Harry Freedman.
Andy Linden, American race car driver (died 1987)
Andrew Logan Linden was an American racecar driver.
Gale Storm, American actress and singer (died 2009)
Josephine Owaissa Cottle, known professionally as Gale Storm, was an American actress and singer. After a film career from 1940 to 1952, she starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show. Six of her songs were top ten hits. Storm's greatest recording success was a cover version of "I Hear You Knockin'," which hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1955.
05/04/1921
Christopher Hewett, English actor and theatre director (died 2001)
Christopher George Hewett was an English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere on the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere.
05/04/1920
Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2001)
Barend Willem Biesheuvel was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 6 July 1971 until 11 May 1973.
Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian soldier and author (died 2004)
Arthur Frederick Hailey, AE was a British-Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries. His books, which include such best sellers as Hotel (1965), Airport (1968), Wheels (1971), The Moneychangers (1975), and Overload (1979), have sold 170 million copies in 38 languages.
Alfonso Thiele, Turkish-Italian race car driver (died 1986)
Alfonso Thiele was an Italian and American racing driver. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on 4 September 1960. He scored no championship points. Most of his career was spent in sports car racing.
John Willem Gran, Swedish bishop (died 2008)
Willem Nicolaysen Gran was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo from 1963 to 1983.
05/04/1919
Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan director, screenwriter, and producer (died 2018)
Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peries was a Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered as the father of Sri Lankan cinema, Lester worked as a filmmaker from 1949 to 2006, and was involved in over 28 films, including shorts and documentaries.
05/04/1917
Robert Bloch, American author (died 1994)
Robert Albert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror, and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction. His writing career lasted 60 years, including more than 30 years in television and film. He began his professional writing career immediately after graduation from high school, aged 17. He is best known as the writer of the novel Psycho (1959), the basis for the 1960 film Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a protégé of H. P. Lovecraft, who was the first to seriously encourage his talent. However, while he started emulating Lovecraft and his brand of cosmic horror, he later specialized in crime and horror stories, often emphasizing psychological aspects of the characters within.
Frans Gommers, Belgian footballer (died 1996)
François Gommers was a Belgian footballer. He was a defender for Beerschot VAC with whom he was twice Belgian Champion in 1938 and 1939.
05/04/1916
Gregory Peck, American actor, political activist, and producer (died 2003)
Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
05/04/1914
Felice Borel, Italian footballer (died 1993)
Felice Placido Borel was an Italian football player who played as a striker. He was a member of the Italy national football team that won the 1934 FIFA World Cup.
05/04/1913
Antoni Clavé, Catalan artist (died 2005)
Antoni Clavé was a Catalan master painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer and costume designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his work on the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen.
Nicolas Grunitzky, 2nd President of Togo (died 1969)
Nicolas Grunitzky was the second president of Togo and its third head of state. He was President from 1963 to 1967. Grunitzky was Prime Minister of Togo from 1956 to 1958 under the French Colonial loi cadre system, which created a limited "national" government in their colonial possessions. He was elected Prime Minister of Togo —still under French administration— in 1956. Following the 1963 coup which killed his nationalist political rival and brother-in-law Sylvanus Olympio, Grunitzky was chosen by the military committee of coup leaders to be Togo's second President.
Ruth Smith, Faroese artist (died 1958)
Ruth Smith Nielsen was a Faroese artist.
05/04/1912
Jehan Buhan, French fencer (died 1999)
Jehan Buhan was a French fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition.
Habib Elghanian, Iranian businessman (died 1979)
Habib (Habibollah) Elghanian was a prominent Iranian Jewish businessman and philanthropist who served as the president of the Tehran Jewish Society and acted as the symbolic head of the Iranian Jewish community in the 1970s. He was arrested and sentenced to death by an Islamic revolutionary tribunal shortly after the Iranian Revolution for charges including corruption, contacts with Israel and Zionism, and "friendship with the enemies of God", and was executed by firing squad on 9 May 1979 in Tehran, Iran. He was the first Jew and businessman to be executed by the Council of the Islamic Revolution.
Antonio Ferri, Italian scientist (died 1975)
Antonio Ferri was an Italian scientist, prominent in the field of aerodynamics, with a specialization in hypersonic and supersonic flight.
Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (died 2000)
Carlos Guastavino was an Argentine composer, considered one of the foremost composers of his country. His production amounted to over 500 works, most of them songs for piano and voice, many still unpublished. His style was quite conservative, always tonal and lushly romantic. His compositions were clearly influenced by Argentine folk music. His reputation was based almost entirely on his songs, and Guastavino has sometimes been called "the Schubert of the Pampas". Some of his songs, for example Pueblito, mi pueblo, La rosa y el sauce and Se equivocó la paloma, became national favorites. Unlike most other composers, at any time or place, Guastavino earned enough from his royalties and performing rights that he had little need for other income.
Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 1997)
Makar Mykhaylovych Honcharenko, was a Ukrainian football player and coach. During his career, he played as a forward for a number of clubs, but most noticeably for Dynamo Kyiv. Honcharenko is best known for being the last surviving player of The Death Match.
John Le Mesurier, English actor (died 1983)
John Le Mesurier was an English actor. He is probably best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the BBC television situation comedy Dad's Army (1968–1977). A self-confessed "jobbing actor", Le Mesurier appeared in more than 120 films across a range of genres, normally in smaller supporting parts.
István Örkény, Hungarian author and playwright (died 1979)
István György Örkény was a Hungarian writer whose plays and novels often featured grotesque situations. He was a recipient of the Kossuth Prize in 1973.
Bill Roberts, English sprinter and soldier (died 2001)
William Roberts was an English sprinter and winner of gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay for Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
05/04/1911
Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician (died 1993)
Hédi Amara Nouira was a Tunisian politician. He served as the second prime minister of Tunisia between 1970 and 1980.
Johnny Revolta, American golfer (died 1991)
John F. Revolta was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. He won a major title, the 1935 PGA Championship, and had 20 career wins on tour.
05/04/1910
Sven Andersson, Swedish politician (died 1987)
Sven Olof Morgan Andersson was a Swedish Social Democratic politician. He served as Minister for Defence from 1957 to 1973, and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1973 to 1976. Andersson also served as Minister for Communications (Transport) from 1951 to 1957.
Oronzo Pugliese, Italian football manager (died 1990)
Oronzo Pugliese was an Italian football manager from Turi in the Province of Bari.
05/04/1909
Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer, co-founded Eon Productions (died 1996)
Albert Romolo Broccoli, nicknamed "Cubby", was an American film producer who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career. Most of the films were made in the United Kingdom and often filmed at Pinewood Studios. Co-founder of Danjaq, LLC and Eon Productions, Broccoli is most notable as the producer of many of the James Bond films. He and Harry Saltzman saw the films develop from relatively low-budget origins to large-budget, high-grossing extravaganzas. Broccoli's heirs Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson continued to produce new Bond films until 2025 when the franchise rights were sold to Amazon.
Giacomo Gentilomo, Italian film director and painter (died 2001)
Giacomo Gentilomo was an Italian film director and painter.
Károly Sós, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 1991)
Károly Sós, was a Hungarian footballer and manager. After playing for various clubs as a midfielder he became a coach, most notably with Ferencvárosi TC, Bp. Honvéd SE, East Germany and Hungary.
Erwin Wegner, German hurdler (died 1945)
Erwin Wegner was a German athlete, born in Stettin. Wegner won the silver medal at the 1934 European Championships in the 110 metres hurdles and competed in the Olympic Games as both a hurdler and a decathlete.
05/04/1908
Bette Davis, American actress (died 1989)
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was known for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
Kurt Neumann, German director (died 1958)
Kurt Neumann was a German film director, screenwriter, and producer who spent much of his career in the United States. He was a prolific director of genre films from the 1930s through the 1950s, totaling over 60 feature film credits during that time. He was the principal director of the Tarzan films for many years, and specialized in science fiction films in his later career.
Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (died 1986)
Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji, was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as a minister with various portfolios for over 30 years, making him the longest-serving Union Cabinet minister in Indian history. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India from January to July 1979. He played a pivotal role as the Defence Minister of India during the Indo-Pak War of 1971. As Union Agriculture Minister during two separate tenures, he contributed significantly to the Green Revolution and the modernization of Indian agriculture, particularly during the 1974 drought when he was entrusted with addressing a severe food crisis.
Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (died 1989)
Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and during World War II he conducted at the Berlin State Opera. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he was a controversial but dominant figure in European classical music from the mid-1950s until his death. Part of the reason for this was the large number of recordings he made and their prominence during his lifetime. By one estimate, he sold 200 million records.
05/04/1907
Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai jurist (died 2002)
Sanya Dharmasakti was a Thai jurist, university professor and politician. He served as the 12th Prime Minister of Thailand from 1973 to 1975.
05/04/1906
Albert Charles Smith, American botanist (died 1999)
Albert Charles Smith was an American botanist who served as director of the National Museum of Natural History and Arnold Arboretum and was the former president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
Fernando Germani, Italian organist (died 1998)
Fernando Germani was an Italian organist of the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome during the reign of Pope Pius XII.
Ted Morgan, New Zealand boxer (died 1952)
Edward "Ted" Morgan was a New Zealand boxer. He won the gold medal in the welterweight division at the 1928 Summer Olympics, despite competing throughout the tournament with a dislocated knuckle in his left hand. This was the first gold medal won for an athlete representing New Zealand.
05/04/1904
Richard Eberhart, American poet and academic (died 2005)
Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. "Richard Eberhart emerged out of the 1930s as a modern stylist with romantic sensibilities." He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1930–1965 and the 1977 National Book Award for Poetry for Collected Poems, 1930–1976. He was the grandfather of Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Ben Cherington.
05/04/1903
Marion Aye, American actress (died 1951)
Marion Aye was an American actress of screen and stage who starred in several films during the 1920s, mostly comedies. She was sometimes credited as Maryon Aye.
05/04/1902
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi (died 1994)
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an Orthodox rabbi and the Rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.
05/04/1901
Curt Bois, German actor (died 1991)
Curt Bois was a German actor with a career spanning over 80 years. He is best remembered for his performances as the pickpocket in Casablanca (1942) and the poet Homer in Wings of Desire (1987).
Chester Bowles, American diplomat and ambassador (died 1986)
Chester Bliss Bowles was an American diplomat and ambassador, governor of Connecticut, congressman and co-founder of a major advertising agency, Benton & Bowles, now part of Publicis Groupe. Bowles is best known for his influence on American foreign policy during Cold War years, when he argued that economic assistance to the Third World was the best means to fight communism, and even more important, to create a more peaceable world order. During World War II, he held high office in Washington as director of the Office of Price Administration, and control of setting consumer prices. Just after the war, he was the chief of the Office of Economic Stabilization, but had great difficulty controlling inflation. Moving into state politics, he served a term as governor of Connecticut from 1949 to 1951. He promoted liberal programs in education and housing, but was defeated for reelection by conservative backlash.
Melvyn Douglas, American actor (died 1981)
Melvyn Douglas was an American actor, whose stage and screen careers spanned from the late 1920s until the early 1980s. He was one of 24 performers to win the Triple Crown of Acting - winning two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award.
Doggie Julian, American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach (died 1967)
Alvin Fred "Doggie" Julian was an American college football coach, a college basketball player and coach, and an National Basketball Association (NBA) coach.
05/04/1900
Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, and photographer (died 1985)
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect. He served as a design consultant to and then Chairman of the Department of Design at the Container Corporation of America. He helped design the campus of The Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado, where his seminal earthwork Grass Mound (1955) is located. He was also instrumental in the development of the Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate art collection until his death in 1985.
Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (died 1939)
Roman Steinberg, was an Estonian Greco-Roman wrestling bronze medal winner in middleweight class at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Steinberg was also three times Estonian wrestling champion 1921–1923, coached by Robert Oksa. He died after contracting tuberculosis, age 39, and was buried at Alexander Nevsky Cemetery, Tallinn.
Spencer Tracy, American actor (died 1967)
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American actor. He was known for his natural performing style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy was the first actor to win two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, from nine nominations. During his career, he appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen's greatest actors. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the ninth greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
05/04/1899
Alfred Blalock, American surgeon and academic (died 1964)
Alfred Blalock was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as tetralogy of Fallot – commonly known as blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from his research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig, the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt, a surgical procedure to relieve the cyanosis from tetralogy of Fallot. This operation ushered in the modern era of neonatal cardiac surgery. He worked at both Vanderbilt University and Johns Hopkins University, where he studied medicine and later served as chief of surgery. He is known as a medical pioneer who won various awards, including Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award. Blalock was also nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
05/04/1898
Solange d'Ayen, French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (died 1976)
Solange Marie Christine Louise de Labriffe, Duchess of Ayen, known professionally as Solange d'Ayen, Solange de Noailles, and Solange de Labriffe, was a French noblewoman and journalist, known for being the fashion editor of French Vogue magazine from the 1920s until the 1940s. She also wrote for American Vogue. She was born into the House of Labriffe and was named Duchess of Ayen by marrying Jean Maurice Paul Jules de Noailles, the 6th Duke of Ayen in 1919, with whom she had two children.
05/04/1897
Hans Schuberth, German politician (died 1976)
Hans Schuberth was a German politician who from 1949 to 1953 was the first Federal Minister of Post and Telecommunications in Konrad Adenauer's first cabinet.
05/04/1896
Einar Lundborg, Swedish aviator (died 1931)
Einar Paul Albert Muni Lundborg was a Swedish aviator.
05/04/1895
Mike O'Dowd, American boxer (died 1957)
Michael Joseph O'Dowd was an American boxer who held the World Middleweight Championship from 1917 to 1920.
05/04/1894
Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (died 1956)
Lawrence Dale "Larry" Bell was an American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation.
Hans Hüttig, German SS officer (died 1980)
Hans Benno Hüttig was a German SS functionary and Nazi concentration camp commandant.
Carl Rudolf Florin, Swedish botanist (died 1965)
Carl Rudolf Florin was a Swedish biologist botanist, specialising in gymnosperms, including both modern and fossil material.
05/04/1893
Frithjof Andersen, Norwegian wrestler (died 1975)
Frithjof Andersen is a Norwegian wrestler and Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling, from Oslo.
Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (died 1973)
Arnold Clas ("Classe") Robert Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz. He was the most successful athlete at both of these Winter Olympics, sharing the honour for 1928 Winter Olympics with Johan Grøttumsbraaten of Norway. No other athlete ever won such a high fraction of all Olympic events at a single Games. He was born and died in Helsinki.
05/04/1892
Raymond Bonney, American ice hockey player (died 1964)
Raymond Leroy Bonney was an American ice hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was born in Phoenix, New York. He was the goaltender who competed in 1920 for the American ice hockey team, which won the silver medal.
05/04/1891
Arnold Jackson, English runner, soldier, and lawyer (died 1972)
Brigadier General Arnold Nugent Strode Strode-Jackson, was a British athlete, British Army officer, and a barrister. He was the winner of the 1500 m at the 1912 Summer Olympics, in what was hailed at the time as "the greatest race ever run". He was a brigadier general and amongst the most highly decorated British general officers of the First World War.
Laura Vicuña, Chilean nun (died 1904)
Laura del Carmen Vicuña Pino was a Chilean child who was noted for her religious devotion. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988 as the patron of abuse victims, having herself experienced physical abuse.
05/04/1890
Karl Kirk, Danish gymnast (died 1955)
Karl Kirk was a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Danish team, which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's team, Swedish system event.
William Moore, British track and field athlete (died 1956)
William Craig Moore was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
05/04/1889
Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, Brazilian martial artist (died 1981)
Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, known as Mestre Pastinha, was a mestre of the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira and a codifier of the traditional capoeira Angola style.
05/04/1887
William Cowhig, British gymnast (died 1964)
William Cowhig was a British gymnast who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics, the 1912 Summer Olympics and the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was part of the British team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1912. In the individual all-around competition he finished 29th. As a member of the British team in 1920 he finished fifth in the team, European system competition.
05/04/1886
Gotthelf Bergsträsser, German linguist (died 1933)
Gotthelf Bergsträsser was a German linguist specializing in Semitic studies, generally considered to be one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Bergsträsser was initially a teacher of classical languages before deciding to approach Semitic.
Frederick Lindemann, British physicist (died 1957)
Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, was a British physicist who was prime scientific adviser to Winston Churchill in World War II.
Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (died 1933)
Gustavo Jiménez was a Peruvian colonel who served as Interim President of Peru, officially as the President of the Provisional Government Junta, in 1931.
05/04/1885
Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian composer (died 1978)
Dimitrie Cuclin was a Romanian classical music composer, musicologist, philosopher, translator, and writer.
05/04/1884
Ion Inculeț, Bessarabian academic and politician, President of Moldova (died 1940)
Ion Inculeț was a Bessarabian and Romanian politician. He served as President of the Country Council of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, Minister of the Interior of Romania, and, from 1918, a full member of the Romanian Academy.
05/04/1883
Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1950)
Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son John Huston. He is the patriarch of the four generations of the Huston acting family, including his son John, grandchildren Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston, as well as great-grandchild Jack Huston.
05/04/1882
Song Jiaoren, Chinese revolutionary (died 1913)
Song Jiaoren was a Chinese republican revolutionary, political leader and a founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). Song Jiaoren led the KMT to electoral victories in China's first democratic election. He based his appeal on the upper class gentry, landowners, and merchants. Historians have concluded that provisional president Yuan Shikai was responsible for his assassination on 22 March 1913.
Natalia Sedova, 2nd wife of Leon Trotsky (died 1962)
Natalia Ivanovna Sedova was a Russian revolutionary and author known as the second wife of Leon Trotsky. She wrote on cultural matters pertaining to Marxism.
05/04/1880
Eric Carlberg, Swedish Army officer, diplomat, shooter, fencer and modern pentathlete (died 1963)
Gustaf Eric Carlberg was a Swedish Army officer, diplomat, sport shooter, fencer, and modern pentathlete who competed at the 1906, 1908, 1912 and 1924 Olympics alongside his twin brother Vilhelm.
Vilhelm Carlberg, Swedish Army officer and shooter (died 1970)
Gustaf Vilhelm Carlberg was a Swedish Army officer and sports shooter. He competed at the 1908, 1912, and 1924 Olympics and won three gold and four silver. With three gold and two silver medals he was the most successful athlete at the 1912 Olympics. In 1913, he won two medals at the ISSF World Shooting Championships. His twin brother Eric competed alongside Gustaf at all those four Olympics.
05/04/1879
Arthur Berriedale Keith, Scottish lawyer (died 1944)
Arthur Berriedale Keith, FBA was a Scottish constitutional lawyer, scholar of Sanskrit and Indologist. He became Regius Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology and Lecturer on the Constitution of the British Empire in the University of Edinburgh. He served in this role from 1914 to 1944.
Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, German naval officer and author (died 1956)
Nikolaus Burggraf und Graf zu Dohna-Schlodien was a German naval officer and author.
05/04/1878
Albert Champion, French cyclist (died 1927)
Albert Champion was a French track bicycle racer and later an industrialist who won the 1899 Paris–Roubaix. In 1905 he incorporated the Albert Champion Company in Boston to make porcelain spark plugs with his name on them. Three years later founded the Champion Ignition Company in Flint, Michigan. In 1922 he changed the name to AC Spark Plug Company, after his initials, to settle out of court with his original partners in the Albert Champion Company. The company is now known as ACDelco and is owned by General Motors.
Georg Misch, German philosopher (died 1965)
Georg Misch was a German philosopher.
Paul Weinstein, German high jumper (died 1964)
Paul Weinstein was a German athlete who competed in the early twentieth century. He was born in Wallendorf.
05/04/1874
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French Cardinal of the Catholic Church (died 1949)
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1940 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. He was instrumental in the founding of the Mission of France and the worker-priest movement, to bring the clergy closer to the people.
Manuel María Ponce Brousset, President of Peru (died 1966)
Manuel María Ponce Brousset briefly served as the President of Peru in August 1930.
05/04/1873
Joseph Rheden, Austrian astronomer (died 1946)
Joseph Rheden was an Austrian astronomer, born in Amlach, East Tyrol, known for his astrographic observations of planets, minor planets and comets, and for the asteroids 744 Aguntina, 771 Libera, and 844 Leontina, which he discovered in 1913 and 1916, respectively.
05/04/1872
Samuel Cate Prescott, American microbiologist and chemist (died 1962)
Samuel Cate Prescott was an American food scientist and microbiologist who was involved in the development of food safety, food science, public health, and industrial microbiology.
05/04/1871
Stanisław Grabski, Polish economist and politician (died 1949)
Stanisław Grabski was a Polish economist and politician associated with the National Democracy political camp. As the top Polish negotiator during the Peace of Riga talks in 1921, Grabski greatly influenced the future of Poland and the Soviet Union.
05/04/1870
Motobu Chōki, Japanese karateka (died 1944)
Motobu Chōki was an Okinawan karate master and founder of Motobu-ryū. He was born into a branch of the Ryukyuan royal family, and at the age of 12, he and his older brother Motobu Chōyū were invited by Ankō Itosu to be taught karate.
05/04/1869
Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (died 1942)
Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin was a Russian and Soviet physicist, mathematician, and mechanical engineer. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
Albert Roussel, French composer (died 1937)
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His early works were strongly influenced by the Impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, while he later turned toward neoclassicism.
05/04/1867
Ernest Lewis, British tennis player (died 1930)
Ernest Wool Lewis was a British lawn tennis player who was active at the end of the 19th century. He twice won the Irish Championships in 1890 and 1891, and was a four time losing finalist in singles at the Wimbledon Championships in 1886, 1888, 1892 and 1894. He won the men's doubles championship title in 1892 partnered with Harry S. Barlow.
05/04/1863
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1950)
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, later Princess Louis of Battenberg and then Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.
05/04/1862
Louis Ganne, French conductor (died 1923)
Louis-Gaston Ganne was a conductor and composer of French operas, operettas, ballets, and marches.
Leo Stern, English cellist (died 1904)
Leo Stern was an English cellist, best remembered for being the soloist in the premiere performance of Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor in London in 1896.
05/04/1860
Harry S. Barlow, British tennis player (died 1917)
Harry Sibthorpe Barlow was a British amateur lawn tennis player, active at the end of the 19th century.
05/04/1859
Reinhold Seeberg, German theologian (died 1935)
Reinhold Seeberg was a German Lutheran theologian. He was a professor of theology at Erlangen, where he had studied, and then in 1893 a professor of dogmatic theology at Friedrich Wilhelm University .
05/04/1858
Washington Atlee Burpee, Canadian businessman, founded Burpee Seeds (died 1915)
Washington Atlee Burpee was the founder of the W. Atlee Burpee & Company, now more commonly known as Burpee Seeds.
05/04/1857
Alexander of Battenberg (died 1893)
Alexander Joseph, known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince (knyaz) of the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria from 1879 until his abdication in 1886.
05/04/1856
Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, essayist and historian (died 1915)
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
05/04/1852
Émile Billard, French sailor (died 1930)
François Alexandre Émile Billard was a French sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Billard took the gold in the 10 to 20 ton.
Walter W. Winans, American marksman and sculptor (died 1920)
Walter W. Winans was an American marksman, horse breeder, sculptor, and painter who participated in the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. He won two medals for shooting: a gold in 1908 and a silver in 1912, as well as demonstrating the sport of pistol duelling in the 1908 Games. He also won a gold medal for his sculpture An American Trotter at Stockholm in 1912. In addition, Winans wrote ten books.
Franz Eckert, German composer and musician (died 1916)
Franz Eckert was a German composer and musician who composed the harmony for Japan's national anthem, "Kimigayo" and the national anthem of the Korean Empire, "Aegukga".
05/04/1850
Enrico Mazzanti, Italian engineer and cartoonist (died 1910)
Enrico Mazzanti was an Italian engineer and cartoonist, who illustrated the first edition of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio.
05/04/1848
Thure de Thulstrup, American illustrator (died 1930)
Thure de Thulstrup was a Swedish-born American illustrator with contributions for numerous magazines, including three decades of work for Harper's Weekly. He primarily illustrated historical military scenes.
Ulrich Wille, Swiss army general (died 1925)
Conrad Ulrich Sigmund Wille was a Swiss military officer who served as General of the Swiss Army during the First World War. Inspired by the Prussian techniques that he had been able to observe at the time of his studies in Berlin, he attempted to impress the Swiss Army with a spirit based on instruction, discipline and technical control.
05/04/1846
Sigmund Exner, Austrian physiologist (died 1926)
Sigmund Exner was an Austrian physiologist born in Vienna.
Henry Wellesley, British peer and politician (died 1900)
Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington was a British peer and Conservative Party politician.
05/04/1845
Friedrich Sigmund Merkel, German anatomist and histopathologist (died 1919)
Friedrich Sigmund Merkel was a leading German anatomist and histopathologist of the late 19th century. In 1875, he provided the first full description of Tastzellen, which occur in the skin of all vertebrates. They were subsequently given the eponym "Merkel cells" in 1878 by Robert Bonnet (1851–1921).
Jules Cambon, French diplomat (died 1935)
Jules-Martin Cambon was a French diplomat and brother of Paul Cambon. As the ambassador to Germany (1907–1914), he worked hard to secure a friendly détente. He was frustrated by French leaders such as Raymond Poincaré, who decided that Berlin was trying to weaken the Triple Entente of France, Russia and Britain and was not sincere in seeking peace. The French consensus was that war was inevitable.
05/04/1842
Hans Hildebrand, Swedish archaeologist (died 1913)
Hans Olof Hildebrand Hildebrand was a Swedish archeologist. He is internationally known as one of the pioneers of the archaeological technique of typology.
05/04/1840
Ghazaros Aghayan, Armenian historian and linguist (died 1911)
Ghazaros (Lazarus) Aghayan was an Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist and public figure.
05/04/1839
Robert Smalls, African-American ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician (died 1915)
Robert Smalls was an American politician who was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina. During the American Civil War, the still enslaved Smalls commandeered a Confederate transport ship in Charleston Harbor and sailed it from the Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it. He then piloted the ship to the Union-controlled enclave in Beaufort–Port Royal–Hilton Head area, where it became a Union warship. In the process, he freed himself, his crew, and their families. His example and persuasion helped convince President Abraham Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers into the Union Army.
05/04/1837
Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (died 1909)
Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He was a major contributor to the Pre-Raphaelite movement in poetry, along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. His greatest works are the verse drama Atalanta in Calydon (1865), written in the form of an Ancient Greek tragedy, and his Pre-Raphaelite Poems and Ballads (1866).
05/04/1835
Vítězslav Hálek, Czech poet, writer, journalist, dramatist and theatre critic. (died 1874)
Vítězslav Hálek was a Czech poet, writer, journalist and dramatist. He was known for his optimistic work, which earned him fame and recognition during his lifetime.
05/04/1834
Prentice Mulford, American humorist and author (died 1891)
Prentice Mulford was an American literary humorist, philosopher, and early figure in the development of the New Thought movement. Many of the principles that would become standard in the movement, including the Law of Attraction, the power of thought, spiritual autonomy, and mental healing, were clearly laid out in his Your Forces and How to Use Them, released as a series of essays during 1886–1892. Mulford’s writings laid foundational concepts that shaped later metaphysical and psychological systems, including auto-suggestion and personal magnetism. He is recognized as one of the earliest voices to articulate the idea that thought itself is a creative force that influences both personal health and external circumstances.
Wilhelm Olbers Focke, German medical doctor and botanist (died 1922)
Wilhelm Olbers Focke was a medical doctor and botanist who in 1881 published a significant work on plant breeding entitled Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge, Ein Beitrag zur Biologie der Gewächse which briefly mentioned Gregor Mendel's discoveries on hybridization. Although Charles Darwin had a copy of Focke's book he passed it along to a colleague apparently without reading this particular section. The rediscovery of Mendel's work is generally considered to have taken place in the first years of the 20th century, however in Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge, Mendel is mentioned about 18 times - although Focke did not apparently take Mendel's work all that seriously. Along with hybridization, Focke analyzed the non-Mendelian phenomena of graft hybrids, pseudogamy, and xenia.
Frank R. Stockton, American writer and humorist (died 1902)
Frank Richard Stockton was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.
05/04/1832
Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (died 1893)
Jules François Camille Ferry was a French statesman and republican philosopher. He was one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans and served as Prime Minister of France from 1880 to 1881 and 1883 to 1885. He was a promoter of laicism and colonial expansion. Under the Third Republic, Ferry made primary education free and compulsory through several new laws. However, he was forced to resign following the Sino-French War in 1885 due to his unpopularity and public opinion against the war.
05/04/1827
Joseph Lister, English surgeon and academic (died 1912)
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, was an English surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare. Lister revolutionised the craft of surgery by the use of close anatomical observation, in the same manner that John Hunter revolutionised the science of surgery.
05/04/1822
Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, Belgian economist (died 1892)
Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye was a Belgian economist. He was one of the co-founders of the Institut de Droit International in 1873.
05/04/1814
Felix Lichnowsky, Czech soldier and politician (died 1848)
Felix (von) Lichnowsky, fully Felix Maria Vincenz Andreas Fürst von Lichnowsky, Graf von Werdenberg was a son of the historian Eduard Lichnowsky who had written a history of the Habsburg family.
05/04/1811
Jules Dupré, French painter (died 1889)
Jules Louis Dupré was a French painter, one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters.
05/04/1810
Sir Henry Rawlinson, British East India Company army officer and politician (died 1895)
Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, KLS was a British East India Company army officer, politician, and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology. His son, also Henry, was to become a senior commander in the British Army during the First World War.
05/04/1809
Karl Felix Halm, German scholar and critic (died 1882)
Karl Felix Halm, was a German classical scholar and critic.
05/04/1804
Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist (died 1881)
Matthias Jakob Schleiden was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow. He published some poems and non-scientific work under the pseudonym Ernst.
05/04/1801
Félix Dujardin, French biologist (died 1860)
Félix Dujardin was a French biologist born in Tours. He is remembered for his research on protozoans and other invertebrates.
Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher, publicist and politician (died 1852)
Vincenzo Gioberti was an Italian Catholic priest, philosopher, publicist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Sardinia from 1848 to 1849. He was a prominent spokesman for liberal Catholicism.
05/04/1799
Jacques Denys Choisy, Swiss clergyman and botanist (died 1859)
Jacques Denys (Denis) Choisy was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and botanist.
05/04/1795
Henry Havelock, British general (died 1857)
Major-General Sir Henry Havelock was a British general who is particularly associated with India and his recapture of Cawnpore during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
05/04/1793
Casimir Delavigne, French poet and dramatist (died 1843)
Jean-François Casimir Delavigne was a French poet and dramatist.
Felix de Muelenaere, Belgian politician (died 1862)
Félix Amandus, Count de Muelenaere was a Belgian Roman Catholic politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1831 to 1832
05/04/1788
Franz Pforr, German painter (died 1812)
Franz Pforr was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.
05/04/1784
Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1859)
Louis Spohr, baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conductor.
05/04/1782
Wincenty Krasiński, Polish nobleman (died 1858)
Count Wincenty Krasiński was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), political activist and military leader.
05/04/1777
Marie Jules César Savigny, French zoologist (died 1851)
Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny was a French zoologist and naturalist who served on Emperor Napoleon's Egypt expedition in 1798. He published descriptions of numerous taxa and was among the first to propose that the mouth-parts of insects are derived from the jointed legs of segmented arthropods.
05/04/1774
David Gillespie, American politician and surveyor (died 1829)
David B. Gillespie was an American land surveyor and politician. He was the first person granted a document in the nature of a diploma from what is today the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received the document prior to leaving the university in 1796 to assist the astronomer Andrew Ellicott with determining the Southern boundary of the United States after the 1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo with Spain. Gillespie was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons from Bladen County, served on the North Carolina Council of State, and in the North Carolina militia as a second major in the War of 1812.
05/04/1773
José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (died 1844)
José María Coppinger was a Spanish soldier who served in the infantry of the Royal Spanish Army (Ejército de Tierra) and governed East Florida (1816–1821) and several areas in Cuba including Pinar Del Río, Bayamo, the Cuatro Villas and Trinidad at various times between 1801 and 1834. He was also a member of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Ferdinand and San Hermenegildo.
Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1839)
Duchess Therese Mathilde Amalie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a Duchess of Mecklenburg. Through her marriage to Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Therese was also a member of the House of Thurn and Taxis.
05/04/1769
Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (died 1839)
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, 1st Baronet, GCB was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He took part in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797, the Battle of the Nile in August 1798 and the Battle of Copenhagen in April 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars. Hardy served as flag captain to Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, and commanded HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars. Nelson was shot as he paced the decks with Hardy, and as he lay dying, Nelson's famous remark of "Kiss me, Hardy" was directed at him. Hardy went on to become First Naval Lord in November 1830 and in that capacity refused to become a Member of Parliament and encouraged the introduction of steam warships.
05/04/1761
Sybil Ludington, American figure of the American Revolutionary War (died 1839)
Sybil Ludington was an alleged heroine of the American Revolution and daughter of Patriot colonel Henry Ludington. Relatives of Ludington have claimed that on April 26, 1777, at age 16, she made an all-night horseback ride 40 miles (64 km) to stir American militiamen to attack British forces near Danbury, Connecticut, though scholars largely reject this story. According to the legend, Ludington rode near the Connecticut–New York border after British forces raided and burned Danbury, rallying combatants for the Battle of Ridgefield the following day.
05/04/1752
Sébastien Érard, French instrument maker (died 1831)
Sébastien Érard was a French instrument maker who specialised in the production of pianos and harps, developing the capacities of both instruments and pioneering the modern piano.
05/04/1739
Philemon Dickinson, American lawyer and politician (died 1809)
Philemon Dickinson was an American lawyer and politician from Trenton, New Jersey. As a brigadier general of the New Jersey militia, he was one of the most effective militia officers of the American Revolutionary War. He was also a Continental Congressman from Delaware and a United States Senator from New Jersey.
05/04/1735
Franziskus Herzan von Harras, Czech Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1804)
Franziskus von Paula Herzan von Harras or František de Paula Hrzán z Harasova was a Roman Catholic cardinal from what is now the Czech Republic.
05/04/1732
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and etcher (died 1806)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings, of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.
05/04/1730
Jean Baptiste Seroux d'Agincourt, French archaeologist and historian (died 1814)
Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt was a French archaeologist and historian.
05/04/1729
Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1809)
Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was a member of the House of Guelph. He was a Danish field marshal and also the last Duke of Brunswick-Bevern.
05/04/1727
Pasquale Anfossi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1797)
Pasquale Anfossi was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Republic of Genoa, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome.
05/04/1726
Benjamin Harrison V, American politician, planter and merchant (died 1791)
Benjamin Harrison V was an American planter, merchant, and politician who was a Founding Father of the United States. He served as a delegate to the United States Continental Congress, and was a signer of the Continental Association and the Declaration of Independence. He also served as Virginia's governor (1781–1784), affirming a tradition of public service in the Harrison family.
05/04/1719
Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician, Lord Marshal of Sweden (died 1794)
Count Fredrik Axel von Fersen was a Swedish statesman and soldier of Baltic German descent. He served as Lord Marshal of the Riksdag of the Estates, and although he worked closely with King Gustav III before and through the Revolution of 1772, he later opposed the king.
05/04/1692
Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (died 1730)
Adrienne Lecouvreur was a French actress, considered by many as the greatest of her time. Born in Damery, Champagne, she first appeared professionally on the stage in Lille. After her Paris debut at the Comédie-Française in 1717, she was immensely popular with the public. Together with Michel Baron, she was credited for having developed a more natural, less stylized, type of acting.
05/04/1691
Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1768)
Louis VIII was the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1739 to 1768. He was the son of Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and Margravine Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
05/04/1674
Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (died 1748)
Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, was a Duchess consort of Courland by marriage to Duke Frederick Casimir Kettler of Courland, a Margravine consort of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by marriage to Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and a Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen by marriage to Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. She was joint regent in Courland during the minority of her son Frederick William, Duke of Courland from 1698 until 1701.
05/04/1664
Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, French noblewoman and Princess of Epinoy (died 1748)
Élisabeth of Lorraine was a French noblewoman and the Princess of Epinoy by marriage. She is often styled as the princesse de Lillebonne. She was the mother of Louis de Melun, Duke of Joyeuse and of Anne Julie de Melun, princesse de Soubise.
05/04/1656
Nikita Demidov, Russian industrialist (died 1725)
Nikita Demidov, was a Russian industrialist who founded the Demidov industrial dynasty.
05/04/1649
Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (died 1721)
Elihu Yale was a British-American colonial administrator.
05/04/1622
Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (died 1703)
Vincenzo Viviani was an Italian mathematician and scientist. He was a pupil of Torricelli and Galileo.
05/04/1616
Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (died 1661)
Frederick was the Duke of Zweibrücken from 1635 until 1661.
05/04/1604
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (died 1675)
Charles IV was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis.
05/04/1595
John Wilson, English composer and educator (died 1674)
John Wilson was an English composer, lutenist and teacher. Born in Faversham, Kent, he moved to London by 1614, where he succeeded Robert Johnson as principal composer for the King's Men, and entered the King's Musick in 1635 as a lutenist. He received the degree of D.Mus from Oxford in 1644, and he was Heather Professor of Music there from 1656 to 1661. Following the Restoration, he joined the Chapel Royal in 1662. He died at Westminster.
05/04/1591
Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (died 1634)
Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was prince of Wolfenbüttel from 1613 until his death.
05/04/1588
Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (died 1679)
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
05/04/1568
Pope Urban VIII (died 1644)
Pope Urban VIII, born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644. As pope, he expanded the papal territory by force of arms and advantageous politicking, and was also a prominent patron of the arts, commissioning works from artists like Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and a reformer of Church missions. His papacy also covered 21 years of the Thirty Years' War.
05/04/1549
Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (died 1597)
Princess Elizabeth of Sweden, was a Swedish princess, and a duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Gadebusch by marriage to Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg-Gadebusch. She was a daughter of King Gustav I of Sweden and his second spouse, Queen Margaret.
05/04/1539
George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1603)
George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach was Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth, as well as Regent of Prussia. He was the son of George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and a member of the House of Hohenzollern. He married firstly, in 1559, Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin. He married secondly, in 1579, Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, daughter of William of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Dorothea of Denmark.
05/04/1533
Giulio della Rovere, Italian Catholic Cardinal (died 1578)
Giulio della Rovere, also known as Giulio Feltrio della Rovere, was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church and a member of the della Rovere family.
05/04/1523
Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer and diplomat (died 1596)
Blaise de Vigenère was a French diplomat, cryptographer, translator and alchemist.
05/04/1521
Francesco Laparelli, Italian architect (died 1570)
Francesco Laparelli da Cortona was an Italian architect. He was an assistant of Michelangelo, and later was sent by the Pope to supervise the construction of Valletta in Malta.
05/04/1472
Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1510)
Bianca Maria Sforza was Queen of Germany and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire as the third spouse of Maximilian I. She was the eldest legitimate daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan by his second wife, Bona of Savoy.
05/04/1365
William II, Duke of Bavaria (died 1417)
William II of Bavaria was Duke of Bavaria-Straubing and count of Holland, Hainaut and Zeeland. He ruled from 1404 until 1417, when he died from an infection caused by a dog bite.
05/04/1315
James III of Majorca (died 1349)
James III, known as James the Rash, was King of Majorca from 1324 to 1344. He was the son of Ferdinand of Majorca and Isabella of Sabran.
05/04/1288
Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (died 1336)
Emperor Go-Fushimi was the 93rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1298 to 1301.
05/04/1279
Al-Nuwayri, Egyptian Muslim historian (died 1333)
Al-Nuwayrī, full name Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad bin ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Nuwayrī was an Egyptian Muslim historian and civil servant of the Bahri Mamluk dynasty. He is most notable for his compilation of a 9,000-page encyclopedia of the Mamluk era, titled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, which pertained to zoology, anatomy, history, chronology, amongst others. He is also known for his extensive work regarding the Mongols' conquest of Syria. Al-Nuwayri started his encyclopedia around the year 1314 and completed it in 1333.
05/04/1219
Wonjong of Goryeo, 24th ruler of Goryeo (died 1274)
Wonjong, personal name Wang Chŏng, was the 24th ruler of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea, reigning from 1260 to 1274. His rule was briefly interrupted by that of King Yeongjong in 1269, although the legitimacy of the latter is disputed by scholars.
05/04/1170
Isabella of Hainault (died 1190)
Isabella of Hainault was a Queen of France as the first wife of King Philip II. She was also formally ruling Countess of Artois de jure between 1180 and 1190.