April 22: actress Edith Atwater (1911), Facts of Life
star Charlotte Rae (1926), prolific TV producer Aaron Spelling
(1928), Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson (1937), musician Peter
Frampton (1950) and The Drew Carey Show’s Ryan Stiles
(1959)

April 23: legendary playwright/poet William Shakespeare
(1564), silver screen darling Shirley Temple Black (1928), musician
Roy Orbison (1936), six-million-dollar man Lee Majors (1939), teen
dream Sandra Dee (1942), Three’s Company’s Joyce Dewitt
(1949), comedian George Lopez (1961) and 7th Heaven’s Barry
Watson (1974)

April 24: director Richard Donner (1930), actress Shirley
MacLaine (1934), actress Jill Ireland (1936), songstress and Academy
Award winner Barbra Streisand (1942), Academy Award nominee Djimon
Hounsou and comedian Cedric the Entertainer (1964), journalist
Kevin Powell (1966), actress Reagan Gomez-Preston (1980) and
singer Kelly Clarkson (1982)

April 25: Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), jazz
legend Ella Fitzgerald (1917), NBA retiree Meadowlark Lemon
(1932), Oscar winner Al Pacino (1940), actor Hank Azaria
(1964), Oscar winner Renee Zellweger (1969) and actor Jason Lee
(1970)

April 26: comedienne Carol Burnett (1933), singer Bobby
Rydell (1942), actor Giancarlo Esposito (1958), action star Jet Li
(1963), actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste (1967), TLC frontwoman
Tionne ‘T-Boz’ Watkins (1970), Smallville’s Tom Welling
(1977) and actress Jordana Brewster (1980)

April 27: 18th U.S. President Ulysseys S. Grant (1822), civil
rights activist Coretta Scott King (1927), disc jockey Casey Kasem
(1932), The Main Ingredient’s lead singer Cuba Gooding Sr. (1944),
playwright August Wilson (1945), actress Marcella Lowery (1946),
80s pop sensation Sheena Easton (1959), actor James LeGros (1962)
and actor David Lascher (1972)

April 28: actor Lionel Barrymore (1878), former Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein (1937), late night talk show host Jay
Leno (1950), actress Simbi Khali (1971) and actress Penelope
Cruz (1974)