Whose Birthday Today

Famous Birthdays

Day- 01 Month- 04
• Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces



Day- 02 Month- 04
• Emperor Charlemagne
• Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
• Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
• Jack Webb, dum-de-dum-dum
• Doris Day, girl next door



Day- 03 Month- 04
• Marlon Brando, godfather



Day- 04 Month- 04
• Thaddeus Stevens
• Dorothea Dix, social reformer



Day- 05 Month- 04
• Booker T. Washington
• Bette Davis
• Michael W. Butler, creator of the archive files used in this program.



Day- 06 Month- 04
• Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
• Lincoln Steffens, muckraker.
• Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
• Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
• Lowell Thomas, journalist



Day- 07 Month- 04
• W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
• Billie Holiday, blues singer
• Mark Russell, satirist



Day- 08 Month- 04
• Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)



Day- 09 Month- 04
• Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
• Charles Proteus Steinmetz
• W.C. Fields, Philadelphian
• John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC)



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Day- 12 Month- 04
• Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
• Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
• Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor



Day- 13 Month- 04
• John Hanson, 1st US President under the Articles of Confederation
• Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809)
• F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.



Day- 14 Month- 04
• Arnold Toynbee, historian



Day- 15 Month- 04
• Leonardo da Vinci, factotum
• Leonhard Euler, mathematician



Day- 16 Month- 04
• Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
• Charlie Chaplin, tramp
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person



Day- 17 Month- 04
• J.P. Morgan, financed the US.
• Thornton Wilder, American novelist



Day- 18 Month- 04
• Clarence Darrow, lawyer



Day- 19 Month- 04
• Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.



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Day- 21 Month- 04
• Queen Elizabeth II
• John Muir, naturalist.



Day- 22 Month- 04
• J. Robert Oppenheimer



Day- 23 Month- 04
• William Shakespeare, bard
• James Buchanan, 15th President (1857-1861)
• Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln
• Shirley Temple, child



Day- 24 Month- 04
• John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
• Barbra Streisand, profile



Day- 25 Month- 04
• Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible
• Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.



Day- 26 Month- 04
• John James Audubon, birdwatcher
• Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.



Day- 27 Month- 04
• Samuel F. B. Morse
• Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877)
• Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.



Day- 28 Month- 04
• James Monroe, 5th President (1816-1824)



Day- 29 Month- 04
• Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
• William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)
• Duke Ellington



Day- 30 Month- 04
• Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematician of all time.
• Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks



Day- 31 Month- 04