Famous Birthdays for April 5Thomas Hobbes 1588 Elihu Yale 1649 Joseph Lister 1827 - British surgeon, inventor (Listerine mouthwash) Robert Smalls 1839 Booker T. Washington 1856 - Educator, author (Up From Slavery) Walter Huston (Houghston) 1883 - Actor (Treasure of the Sierra Madre [1948]) Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy 1900 - Actor ("Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941]") Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg) 1901 - Actor ("Ghost Story", "Being There") Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis 1908 - Actress ("Dangerous", "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?") Jagjivan Ram 1908 - Political leader in India Gregory Peck 1916 - Actor ("To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]", "The Guns of Navarone", "Captain Horatio Hornblower") Arthur Hailey 1920 - Author (Airport, The Final Diagnosis) Robert Q. Lewis 1921 - Comedian, TV quiz show panelist ("What's My Line", "To Tell the Truth") Gale Storm (Josephine Cottle) 1922 - Singer ("Ivory Tower"), actress ("My Little Margie") Stan Levey 1925 - Drummer (in band with Charlie Parker), composer Roger Corman 1926 - Director Tony Williams 1928 - Singer (Platters) Nigel Hawthorne 1929 - Actor ("Richard III", "Demolition") Cowboy Jack Clement 1931 Billy Bland 1932 - Singer Frank Gorshin 1934 - Impressionist, actor ("Batman", "The Great Imposter") Stanley Turrentine 1934 - Saxophone player Colin Powell 1937 - U.S. Secretary of State, four-star general, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Ronnie White - Singer (The Miracles) Tommy Cash 1940 - Songwriter, country singer, brother of Johnny Cash David LaFlamme 1941 Michael Moriarty 1941 - Actor ("Windmills of the Gods") Peter Greenaway 1942 - Director, writer Allan Clarke 1942 - Singer (The Hollies) Maxwell Gail 1943 - Actor ("Barney Miller") Crispian St. Peters 1944 Dave Holland 1944 - Musician (Judas Priest) Doug Favell 1945 - Hockey player Jane Asher 1946 - Actress Dr. Judith A. Resnik 1949 - Electric engineer, astronaut Agnetha Faltskog 1950 - Singer (ABBA) Marv Bateman 1950 - Football player Rennie (Renaldo Antonio Porte) Stennett 1951 - Baseball player Brad Van Pelt 1951 - Football player Peter Greenaway 1952 - Director Peter Case 1954 - Musician (Plimsouls) Stan Ridgway 1954 - Musician (Wall of Voodoo) Mike McCready 1966 - Musician (Pearl Jam) Troy Gentry 1967 - Country singer Paula Cole 1968 - Singer Pharrell Williams 1973 - Rapper |
