Month: April

Famous people born in January are Adolf Hitler, Leonardo da Vinci, Vladimir Lenin, Elizabeth II, Thomas Jefferson,

April 1

Ireen Wüst

Dutch speed skater

Born: April 1, 1986

🎂 Turns 41 years

Mackenzie Davis

Canadian actress (born 1987)

Born: April 1, 1987

🎂 Turns 40 years

Matt Lanter

American actor

Born: April 1, 1983

🎂 Turns 44 years

April 2

Max Ernst

German artist (1891–1976)

Born: April 2, 1891

Died: April 1, 1976

Would be 136 years

Michael Fassbender

German-Irish actor (born 1979)

Born: April 2, 1977

🎂 Turns 50 years

Pedro Pascal

Chilean-American actor (born 1975)

Born: April 2, 1975

🎂 Turns 52 years

April 3

Fazlur Rahman Khan

Bangladeshi architect (1929–1982)

Born: April 3, 1929

Died: March 27, 1982

Would be 98 years

Dorothea Wierer

Italian biathlete and military athlete

Born: April 3, 1990

🎂 Turns 37 years

Marlon Brando

American actor (1924–2004)

Born: April 3, 1924

Died: July 1, 2004

Would be 103 years

April 4

Natasha Lyonne

American actress (born 1979)

Born: April 4, 1979

🎂 Turns 48 years

Shing-Tung Yau

American mathematician from Hong Kong

Born: April 4, 1949

🎂 Turns 78 years

Marguerite Duras

French writer and film director (1914-1996)

Born: April 4, 1914

Died: March 3, 1996

Would be 113 years

Serge Dassault

April 5

Judith Resnik

American engineer and astronaut (1949–1986)

Born: April 5, 1949

Died: January 28, 1986

Would be 78 years

Dean Kamen

American businessman

Born: April 5, 1951

🎂 Turns 76 years

Joseph Lister

British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912)

Born: April 5, 1827

Died: February 10, 1912

Would be 200 years

April 6

Paolo Nespoli

Italian astronaut

Born: April 6, 1957

🎂 Turns 70 years

Raphael

Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)

Born: April 6, 1483

Died: April 6, 1520

Would be 544 years

Michael Rooker

American actor

Born: April 6, 1955

🎂 Turns 72 years

April 7

Ole Kirk Christiansen

Danish businessman (1891-1958)

Born: April 7, 1891

Died: March 11, 1958

Would be 136 years

Teddy Riner

French judoka

Born: April 7, 1989

🎂 Turns 38 years

Kevin Alejandro

American actor and film director

Born: April 7, 1976

🎂 Turns 51 years

April 8

Mary Pickford

Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)

Born: April 8, 1892

Died: May 29, 1979

Would be 135 years

Nithya Menen

Indian actress (1987-)

Born: April 8, 1990

🎂 Turns 37 years

Patricia Arquette

American actress (born 1968)

Born: April 8, 1968

🎂 Turns 59 years

April 9

Eadweard Muybridge

English-American photographer (1830–1904)

Born: April 9, 1830

Died: May 8, 1904

Would be 197 years

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

British mechanical and civil engineer (1806-1859)

Born: April 9, 1806

Died: September 15, 1859

Would be 221 years

Kristen Stewart

American actress

Born: April 9, 1990

🎂 Turns 37 years

April 10

Aliko Dangote

Nigerian businessman (born 1957)

Born: April 10, 1957

🎂 Turns 70 years

Max von Sydow

Swedish-French actor (1929–2020)

Born: April 10, 1929

Died: March 8, 2020

Would be 98 years

Michael Pitt

American actor, model and musician

Born: April 10, 1981

🎂 Turns 46 years

April 11

Peter Riegert

American actor and director

Born: April 11, 1947

🎂 Turns 80 years

Peter Stöger

Austrian footballer

Born: April 11, 1966

🎂 Turns 61 years

Dev Patel

British actor (born 1990)

Born: April 11, 1990

🎂 Turns 37 years

April 12

Joschka Fischer

German politician

Born: April 12, 1948

🎂 Turns 79 years

Pierre-Étienne Flandin

French prime minister (1889-1958)

Born: April 12, 1889

Died: June 13, 1958

Would be 138 years

Henry Clay

American politician from Kentucky (1777-1852)

Born: April 12, 1777

Died: June 29, 1852

Would be 250 years

Jacob Zuma

April 13

Antonio Meucci

Italian inventor and telephone pioneer (1808–1889)

Born: April 13, 1808

Died: October 18, 1889

Would be 219 years

Richard Trevithick

British inventor and mining engineer (1771-1833)

Born: April 13, 1771

Died: April 22, 1833

Would be 256 years

James Ensor

Belgian painter (1860–1949)

Born: April 13, 1860

Died: November 19, 1949

Would be 167 years

April 14

Arianna Fontana

Italian short track speed skater

Born: April 14, 1990

🎂 Turns 37 years

Peter Capaldi

Scottish actor and filmmaker (born 1958)

Born: April 14, 1958

🎂 Turns 69 years

Christiaan Huygens

Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)

Born: April 14, 1629

Died: July 8, 1695

Would be 398 years

Adolphe Thiers

April 15

Soichi Noguchi

Japanese astronaut

Born: April 15, 1965

🎂 Turns 62 years

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

Born: April 15, 1452

Died: May 2, 1519

Would be 575 years

Arshile Gorky

Armenian-American painter (1904–1948)

Born: April 15, 1904

Died: July 21, 1948

Would be 123 years

April 16

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

French portrait painter (1755–1842)

Born: April 16, 1755

Died: March 30, 1842

Would be 272 years

Pope Benedict XVI

265 pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013 (1927–2022)

Born: April 16, 1927

Died: December 31, 2022

Would be 100 years

Martin Lawrence

American actor and comedian (born 1965)

Born: April 16, 1965

🎂 Turns 62 years

April 17

Andrey Borisenko

Russian cosmonaut

Born: April 17, 1964

🎂 Turns 63 years

Alexander II of Russia

The 12th Emperor of Russia (1855–1881)

Born: April 17, 1818

Died: March 1, 1881

Would be 209 years

Phoebe Dynevor

English actress

Born: April 17, 1995

🎂 Turns 32 years

April 18

Haile Gebrselassie

Ethiopian long-distance runner and businessman (born 1973)

Born: April 18, 1973

🎂 Turns 54 years

Maria Bello

American actress

Born: April 18, 1967

🎂 Turns 60 years

Moisés Arias

American actor

Born: April 18, 1994

🎂 Turns 33 years

April 19

Kate Hudson

American actress and singer (born 1979)

Born: April 19, 1979

🎂 Turns 48 years

Gad Elmaleh

Moroccan-Canadian comedian and actor

Born: April 19, 1971

🎂 Turns 56 years

Getúlio Vargas

President of Brazil (1930–1945, 1951–1954)

Born: April 19, 1882

Died: August 24, 1954

Would be 145 years

April 20

Donald Pettit

American astronaut

Born: April 20, 1955

🎂 Turns 72 years

Gregory Olsen

American astronaut and businessman

Born: April 20, 1945

🎂 Turns 82 years

Marc Seguin

French engineer

Born: April 20, 1786

Died: February 24, 1875

Would be 241 years

April 21

Nicole Sullivan

American actress

Born: April 21, 1970

🎂 Turns 57 years

Patti LuPone

American actress and singer

Born: April 21, 1949

🎂 Turns 78 years

Charlotte Brontë

British novelist and poet (1816-1855)

Born: April 21, 1816

Died: March 31, 1855

Would be 211 years

April 22

Sam Altman

American venture-capitalist in Silicon Valley (born 1985)

Born: April 22, 1985

🎂 Turns 42 years

103

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Italian neurologist (1909-2012)

Born: April 22, 1909

Died: December 30, 2012

Would be 118 years

April 23

J. M. W. Turner

English painter and draftsman (c.1775–1851)

Born: April 23, 1775

Died: December 19, 1851

Would be 252 years

Sven Kramer

Dutch speed skater

Born: April 23, 1986

🎂 Turns 41 years

Lee Majors

American actor (born 1939)

Born: April 23, 1939

🎂 Turns 88 years

April 24

Laura Kenny

British cyclist (1992-)

Born: April 24, 1992

🎂 Turns 35 years

Jean Paul Gaultier

French fashion designer (born 1952)

Born: April 24, 1952

🎂 Turns 75 years

Philippe Pétain

French military and political leader (1856–1951)

Born: April 24, 1856

Died: July 23, 1951

Would be 171 years

April 25

Frank De Winne

Belgian astronaut

Born: April 25, 1961

🎂 Turns 65 years

Guglielmo Marconi

Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)

Born: April 25, 1874

Died: July 20, 1937

Would be 152 years

Marc Isambard Brunel

French engineer (1769-1849)

Born: April 25, 1769

Died: December 12, 1849

Would be 257 years

April 26

Samantha Cristoforetti

Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer (1977)

Born: April 26, 1977

🎂 Turns 49 years

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Finnish painter (1865-1931)

Born: April 26, 1865

Died: March 7, 1931

Would be 161 years

Eddie Eagan

American boxer and bobsledder (1897-1967)

Born: April 26, 1897

Died: June 14, 1967

Would be 129 years

April 27

Valeri Polyakov

Soviet and Russian cosmonaut

Born: April 27, 1942

Died: September 7, 2022

Would be 84 years

Samuel Morse

American inventor and painter (1791–1872)

Born: April 27, 1791

Died: April 2, 1872

Would be 235 years

Kazuyoshi Funaki

Japanese ski jumper

Born: April 27, 1975

🎂 Turns 51 years

Mary Wollstonecraft

April 28

Jessica Alba

American actress (born 1981)

Born: April 28, 1981

🎂 Turns 45 years

Léopold Eyharts

French astronaut

Born: April 28, 1957

🎂 Turns 69 years

Émile Bernard

French painter (1868-1941)

Born: April 28, 1868

Died: April 16, 1941

Would be 158 years

April 29

Frank Auerbach

German-born British painter (1931–2024)

Born: April 29, 1931

Died: November 11, 2024

Would be 95 years

Megan Boone

American actress

Born: April 29, 1983

🎂 Turns 43 years

Michelle Pfeiffer

American actress

Born: April 29, 1958

🎂 Turns 68 years

April 30

Perry King

American actor

Born: April 30, 1948

🎂 Turns 78 years

Kunal Nayyar

British actor

Born: April 30, 1981

🎂 Turns 45 years

Joachim von Ribbentrop

German Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)

Born: April 30, 1893

Died: October 16, 1946

Would be 133 years

Stephen Harper