april

• 1 William Harvey, physician, b. Folkestone, Kent 1578
• 2 Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, b. 742
• 3 Doris Day, singer and actor, b. Ohio 1924
• 4 Maurice Vlaminck, painter, b. Paris 1876
• 5 Bette Davis, actress, b. Massachusetts 1908
• 6 Harry Houdini, escapologist, b. Wisconsin 1874
• 7 Billie Holliday, singer, b. Baltimore, Maryland 1915
• 8 Mary Pickford, actress, b. Toronto, Canada 1893
• 9 Paul Robeson, actor and singer, b. Princeton, New Jersey 1898
• 10 Clair Booth Luce, playwright, b. New York 1903
• 11 Sir Charles Halle, pianist and conductor, b. Hagen, Germany 1819
• 12 Johanna Spyri, writer, b. Hitzel, Canto Zürich 1827
• 13 Eudora Welty, writer, b. Jackson, Mississippi 1909
• 14 Anthony Perkins, actor, b. New York 1932
• 15 Bliss Carman, poet, b. 1861
• 16 Charlie Chaplin, actor, b. London 1889
• 17 Sir leonard Woolley, archaologist, b. London 1880
• 18 Lucrezia Borgia, alleged poisoner, b. Rome 1480
• 19 Richard Hughes, novelist, b. Surrey 1900
• 20 Joan Miro, painter, b. Barcelona 1893
• 21 Charlotte Bronte, novelist, b. Yorkshire 1816
• 22 Kathleen Ferrier, singer, b. Lancashire 1912
• 23 Dame Ngaio Marsh, writer, b. New Zealand 1899
• 24 Barbra Streisand, singer, Brooklyn, New York 1942
• 25 Ella Fitzgerald, singer, b. Virginia 1918
• 26 Bernad Malamud, novelist, b. Brooklyn, New York 1914
• 27 C. Day Lewis, writer and Poet laureate, b. Sligo, Ireland 1904
• 28 Frances Hodgkins, painter, b. 1869
• 29 Duke Ellington, composer and pianist, b. Washington DC 1899
• 30 Jaroslav Hasek, novelist, b. Prague 1883