April 8: jazz singer/actress Carmen McRae (1922), UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan (1938), musician Brenda Russell
(1944), Smallville’s John Schneider (1960), actress Robin
Wright Penn (1966), actress Patricia Arquette (1968), Buffy’s
Emma Caufield (1973), The O.C.’s Adam Brody and actress
Kirsten Storms (1984)

April 9: actor/singer/activist Paul Robeson (1898),
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (1926), The Waltons’ Michael
Learned (1939), actor Dennis Quaid (1954), Sex & the
City’s Cynthia Nixon (1966), Keshia Knight Pulliam of The
Cosby Show fame (1979) and actress Elle Fanning (1998)

April 10: M*A*S*H* star Harry Morgan (1915), actor
Max von Sydlow (1929), actor Omar Sharif (1932), action star
Steven Seagal (1951), Ally McBeal’s Peter MacNicol (1954),
music mogul/film producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds (1958), musician
Brian Setzer (1959), comedian/actor Orlando Jones (1968), blues
singer Shemekia Copeland (1979), actress Chyler Leigh (1982),
actor Ryan Merriman (1983), Chasing Liberty’s Mandy Moore
(1984) and Academy Award nominee Haley Joel Osment (1988)

April 11: actor Meshach Taylor (1947), novelist Dorothy
Allison (1949), actor Vincent Gallo (1962), singer Lisa
Stansfield (1966), actress Jennifer Esposito (1973) and singer
Joss Stone (1987)

April 12: writer/creator of foley art Jack Foley (1891),
writer Beverly Cleary (1916), actress Ann Miller (1923),
musician/composer Herbie Hancock (1940), poet/author Toi
Derricotte (1941), actor Ed O’Neill (1946), late night talk show host
David Letterman (1947), writer Tom Clancy (1947), actor Dan
Lauria (1947), Ocean’s 11’s Andy Garcia (1956), actress
Suzanne Douglass (1957), actress Shannen Doherty (1971) and
actress Claire Danes (1979)

April 13: 3rd U.S. President Thomas Jefferson (1743), writer
Samuel Beckett (1906), novelist Eudora Welty (1909), Leave It
To Beaver’s Tony Dow (1945), Hellboy’s Ron Perlman
(1950), singer Peabo Bryson (1951), comedienne Caroline Rhea
(1964), NYPD Blue’s Rick Schroeder (1970), Grammy winner Jill
Scott (1972), actor Bokeem Woodbine (1973), actor Jonathan
Brandis (1976) and Run of the House’s Kyle Howard
(1978)

April 14: country songstress Loretta Lynn (1935), ex-MLB
player Pete Rose (1941), Everybody Loves Raymond’s Brad
Garrett (1960), MLB player David Justice (1966), The Dead
Zone’s Anthony Michael Hall (1968), Oscar winner Adrien Brody
(1973), Scooby-Doo 2’s Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977)