| Birthday |
Name |
|
| 1883-04-01 |
Lon Chaney |
man of a thousand faces |
| 0742-04-02 |
Emperor Charlemagne |
|
| 1875-04-02 |
Walter Chrysler |
founded a car company. |
| 4/2/1914 |
Sir Alec Guiness |
thespian |
| 4/2/1920 |
Jack Webb |
dum-de-dum-dum |
| 4/2/1924 |
Doris Day |
girl next door |
| 4/3/1924 |
Marlon Brando |
godfather |
| 1792-04-04 |
Thaddeus Stevens |
|
| 1802-04-04 |
Dorothea Dix |
social reformer |
| 1856-04-05 |
Booker T. Washington |
|
| 4/5/1908 |
Bette Davis |
|
| 4/5/1954 |
Michael W. Butler |
creator of the archive files used in this program. |
| 1810-04-06 |
Philip Henry Gosse |
invented the institutional aquarium |
| 1866-04-06 |
Lincoln Steffens |
muckraker. |
| 1890-04-06 |
Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker |
pioneer aircraft manufacturer |
| 1892-04-06 |
Donald Wills Douglas |
founded an aircraft company. |
| 1892-04-06 |
Lowell Thomas |
journalist |
| 1860-04-07 |
W.K. Kellogg |
founded the cereal company. |
| 4/7/1915 |
Billie Holiday |
blues singer |
| 4/7/1932 |
Mark Russell |
satirist |
| 1889-04-08 |
Sir Adrian Boult |
conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra |
| 1830-04-09 |
Eadweard Muybridge |
pioneered study of motion in photography. |
| 1865-04-09 |
Charles Proteus Steinmetz |
| 1879-04-09 |
W.C. Fields |
Philadelphian |
| 4/9/1919 |
John Presper Eckert |
co-inventor of 1st electronic computer ENIAC |
| 1777-04-12 |
Henry Clay |
The Great Compromiser |
| 1791-04-12 |
Francis P. Blair |
helped found the Republican Party. |
| 4/12/1913 |
Lionel Hampton |
orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor |
| 1721-04-13 |
John Hanson |
1st US President under the Articles of Confederation |
| 1743-04-13 |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd President 1801-1809 |
| 1852-04-13 |
F.W. Woolworth |
the “five-and-ten” king. |
| 1889-04-14 |
Arnold Toynbee |
historian |
| 1452-04-15 |
Leonardo da Vinci |
factotum |
| 1707-04-15 |
Leonhard Euler |
mathematician |
| 1867-04-16 |
Wilbur Wright |
of aeroplane fame |
| 1889-04-16 |
Charlie Chaplin |
tramp |
| 4/16/1947 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
tall person |
| 1837-04-17 |
J.P. Morgan |
financed the US. |
| 1897-04-17 |
Thornton Wilder |
American novelist |
| 1857-04-18 |
Clarence Darrow |
lawyer |
| 1877-04-19 |
Ole Evinrude |
invented the outboard marine engine. |
| 4/21/1926 |
Queen Elizabeth II |
|
| 1838-04-21 |
John Muir |
naturalist. |
| 4/22/1904 |
J. Robert Oppenheimer |
|
| 1564-04-23 |
William Shakespeare |
bard |
| 1791-04-23 |
James Buchanan |
15th President 1857-1861 |
| 1813-04-23 |
Stephen Douglas |
the “Little Giant” |
| 4/23/1928 |
Shirley Temple |
child |
| 1620-04-24 |
John Graunt |
statistician |
| 4/24/1942 |
Barbra Streisand |
profile |
| 1874-04-25 |
Guglielmo Marconi |
made radio possible |
| 4/25/1908 |
Edward R. Murrow |
set the standard for TV correspondents. |
| 1785-04-26 |
John James Audubon |
birdwatcher |
| 4/26/1900 |
Charles Richter |
he tells us how bad the quakes are. |
| 1791-04-27 |
Samuel F. B. Morse |
|
| 1822-04-27 |
Ulyssses S. Grant |
18th President 1869-1877 |
| 1896-04-27 |
Wallace Hume Carothers |
invented nylon. |
| 1758-04-28 |
James Monroe |
5th President 1816-1824 |
| 1830-04-29 |
Adolph Sutro |
SF mayor |
| 1863-04-29 |
William Randolph Hearst |
newspaper publisher SF Examiner |
| 1899-04-29 |
Duke Ellington |
|
| 1777-04-30 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss |
one of the greatest mathematician of all time. |
| 4/30/1912 |
Eve Arden |
Our Miss Brooks |
