Today in History - Famous Birthdays - April 1st

Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272) 

Ludwig IV of Baveria, Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor (1314-47) 

François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (d. 1626) 

William Harvey, England, physician (discovered blood circulation) 

Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter 

Thomas Simpson, composer 

Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (d. 1703) 

Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697) 

Christian Demelius, composer 

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680) 

Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (d. 1763) 

Abbé Prévost, Manon 

Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch violinist/organist/composer (Glees) 

Francois Bainville, composer 

Joseph Haydn, Catch Me If You Can 

Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821) 

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer (Fisiologia del Gusto) 

Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810) 

Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer 

Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831) 

J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter 

Hubert Reis, composer 

Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic 

Willem Ruys J Dz, Dutch ship owner 

Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor (1866-90) 

Otto von Bismarck, Film socialisme 

Johannes J van Oosterzee, Dutch theologist 

Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1914 

Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer 

Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872) 

Jorge Isaacs, María 

Ludwig Enneccerus, German jurist 

Gavriil Musicescu, composer 

Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America) 

Edward Austin Abbey, US, painter (Quest of the Holy Grail) 

Søren Nielsen, Kærlighed ved Hoffet 

Bill Traylor, American artist (d. 1949) 

Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933) 

Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life) 

Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite) 

Ivar Knudsen, Direktør Ivar Knudsen til prøvesejlads om bord paa et dieselskib, omgivet af repræsentanter for handel og industri, hvoriblandt admiral A. de Richelieu, etatsraad Martin Dessau, gehejmeetatsraad Julius Larsen, baron Blixen-Finecke og flere 

Mai Wells, The Pilgrim 

Marie Jungius, Dutch fairy tale writer 

Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925) 

Ferruccio D M B Busoni, Italy, pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino) 

Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar/teacher/social activist 

Ferruccio Busoni, Amour 

Edmond Rostand, France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac) 

Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac 

Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (De Droom) 

Frank Craig, When Giants Fought 

F Melius Christiansen, composer 

Béla Jenbach, Der Zarewitsch 

Tadeusz Joteyko, composer 

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Russia, composer (Prelude in C# Minor) 

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 

Edgar Wallace, England, novelist/playwright/journalist (Terror) 

Carrie DeMar, Foxy Grandpa Shows Boys He Is a Magician 

Dick Hunter, The Fatal Hour 

Edgar Wallace, King Kong 

Ernst Stern, The Wildcat 

James Young Deer, A Sioux Lover's Strategy 

Edith M. Ryan, The Best Man 

Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa) 

Carl Sternheim, Die Kassette 

Joseph Menchen, Das Mirakel 

Amelie Barleon, The Producers 

E. Lawrence Dudley, Voltaire 

Alexander Moissi, Kean 

Stanislaus Zbyszko, Night and the City 

Lionel Braham, A Christmas Carol 

Agha Petros, Assyrian general (d. 1932) 

Flora Zabelle, The Red Widow 

Louis Halberstadt, Konfirmanden 

Mowbray Berkeley, Fires of Faith 

Paul Anspach, Belgian Olympic champion fencer (d. 1991) 

Jack Cunningham, It's a Gift 

Julienne Paroli, Les Misérables 

Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor 

Lon Chaney, CO, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera) 

Edvard Drabløs, Nine Lives 

Frédéric Mariotti, L'étrange fiancée 

Lon Chaney, The Phantom of the Opera 

Laurette Taylor, [Helen LM Cooney], US actress (Broadway) 

Hubert F. Greenwood, The Prince and the Pauper 

Ilona Komlóssy, Lelki klinika 

Laurette Taylor, Peg o' My Heart 

Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones 

Gunhild Robertson, Rågens rike 

Rigmor Nathansen, Hotelværelse Nr. 13 

Clementine Churchill,  

Wallace Beery, Grand Hotel 

Casimir von Paszthory, composer 

Wallace Beery, KC MO, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8) 

Alberto Vacarezza, North Wind 

Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist 

Sol Michaels, Charlie Chan at the Opera 

Richard Christensen, Erik Ejegods pilgrimsfærd 

Ivan Kavaleridze, Koliivshchina [1767-1768] 

F. Tennyson Jesse, San Demetrio London 

William Knight, Monsieur Verdoux 

Lucien Callamand, Fan-Fan the Tulip 

Bill Knight, The Circus 

Billy Mason, Baseball Bill -- Flirting with Marriage 

Augusto Bandini, Beauty Prize 

Cicely Courtneidge, Sydney Australia, actress (Double Exposure) 

Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues) 

Willem H van de Pol, Dutch theologist (Christian Dilemma) 

Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley], NYC, actress (Blood & Sand) 

Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish writer (Stolica) 

Roger Bastide, French sociologist 

William James Sidis, American genius (d. 1944) 

Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968) 

Robert McDowell, Mayor of Maryborough, Queensland (d. 1988) 

Boris Koutzen, composer 

Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor, and defector (d. 1961) 

L P Jai, cricketer (one Test India v England 1934, scored 19 & 0) 

Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930) 

Stepan Kevorkov, Mountainous March 

Elzbieta Dziewonska, Serce matki 

Joseph A. Neville, Home in Indiana 

Philip Hunter, Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers 

Juan Gil-Albert, poet 

Harry Webb, My Foolish Heart 

Eylla Jacobs, Mr. Sardonicus 

Juan Gil-Albert, El congreso Internacional de los escritores en defensa de la Cultura 

Seiroku Miyazawa, Gauche the Cellist 

Franz Hug, Swiss Miss 

Sherman Todd, For Whom the Bell Tolls 

Sid Field, London Town 

Holger Löwenadler, Lacombe, Lucien 

Clara "Mother" Hale, US social worker (Hale House) 

Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72) 

Winfried P I Zillig, German opera composer/conductor (Fantasia Irica) 

Torsten Nilsson, Himmel över Malmö 

Harry Grey, Winds of the Wasteland 

Mariya Smirnova, Povest o nastoyashchem cheloveke 

Winfried Zillig, Jonas 

Asker Ismailov, Kölgalar sürünür 

Oleg Zhakov, U ozera 

Rafael Ruiz Esparza, The Magnificent Seven 

Sammy Stein, Modern Times 

Ned Glass, Poland, actor (Sol-Julia, Uncle Moe-Bridget Loves Bernie) 

Sigve Lie, Norway, yachtsmans (Olympic-gold-1948, 52) 

Lester Cowan, Story of G.I. Joe 

John Buckler, Tarzan Escapes 

Ned Glass, West Side Story 

Walter Kaufmann, composer 

Walter Kaufmann, This Modern Age 

Craig Leitch, Sing Your Way Home 

Ted Andrews, Goofer Trouble 

Madalynne Field, Dancing Fools 

Abraham H Maslow, US psychologist (humanistic psychology) 

Nikolai Kulchitsky, Battle Beyond the Sun 

Robert Hugues-Lambert, Mermoz 

Lev Razgon, Maximum Penalty 

Richard Barstow, A Star Is Born 

Abner Biberman, Milwaukee Wisc, director/actor (Imhook-Kodiak) 

Eddie Duchin, Mass, society pianist/bandleader (Eddie Duchin Orch) 

Mariya Prizvan-Sokolova, Do budushchey vesny 

Robert Cormack, Bambi 

Pat Rooney Jr., Up in Lights 

Abner Biberman, Number 12 Looks Just Like You 

Harry Carney, Two Lovers 

Robert S. Quackenbush, The Secret Land 

Claudionor Cruz, Nelson Gonçalves 

Otto Meyer, Scandal in Fairyland 

Edmund Beloin, Road to Rio 

Jean Darcante, Two Men in Manhattan 

Peter Berneis, Portrait of Jennie 

Robert Pirosh, A Day at the Races 

Evert H "Bep" Bakhuys, Dutch soccer star/writer 

Ferdinand J Kranenburg, Dutch Secretary of Defense (soc dem) 

Gunther Rennert, Essen Germany, opera director/producer 

Richard Hauser, Zu Hause bei den Menuhins 

Gábor Goda, Volt egyszer egy család 

Maurice Tarplin, The Falls 

Harry Love, The Bugs Bunny Show 

Günther Rennert, Zwei oder drei Ehen 

Faujja Singh, 28 Days Later... 

Ellis St. Joseph, Flesh and Fantasy 

Norbert Van Peperstraete, Monsieur Fantômas 

Louis Merrill, The Lady from Shanghai 

Gene Rizzi, The Outlaw 

Frank King, Gun Crazy 

Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist 

Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (d. 2002) 

Richard Korn, Karussell 

Willi Meinck, Hatifa 

Apurba Kumar Mitra, Sadhak Kamalakanta 

Kyû Sazanka, Yojimbo 

Pauline Henriques, All God's Chillun' Got Wings 

Pete Carpenter, Vanishing Point 

Philip Yordan, El Cid 

Art Lund, Salt Lake City Utah, singer (Ken Murray Show) 

Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004) 

Tibor Cseres, Hideg napok 

Archie Got, Lady from Chungking 

Robert Dwan, The Plot Thickens 

Art Lund, Black Caesar 

O.W. Fischer, Helden 

Zoltán Bán, Love 

Hubert de Malet, Endless Horizons 

Bernard Thomas, Easy Life 

John Drainie, The Incredible Journey 

Sid Davis, The Dangerous Stranger 

Johnny Andrews, Boston, singer/host (Songs at Twilight) 

Leon Janney, Ogden Ut, actor (Hawk) 

Sheldon Mayer, Video Comics 

Franz-Otto Krüger, Germany Year Zero 

Bonnie Baker, You're the One 

Robert Shield, Just Leave Me Alone 

Leon Janney, Another World 

Melville Shavelson, Yours, Mine and Ours 

Sydney Newman, Doctor Who 

Ib Henrik Cavling, The Castle 

Herb Klein, Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story 

Glenn Rose, Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir 

Ján Kadár, The Shop on Main Street 

Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel laureate, (d. 2012) 

Joseph Murray, Sichere Diagnosen 

Nicholas Henderson, Woolly Al Walks the Kitty Back 

Hans Fredblad, Kvinnan som försvann 

Ralph Kessler, Knight Rider 

Pío Ballesteros, Vampiresas 1930 

Joan Frances Will, actress 

Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun) 

Jørgen Hartmann-Petersen, Nu stiger den 

Susanna Östberg, Skanör-Falsterbo 

Erwin Walther, Mike Blaubart 

Mitsuo Murayama, Tômei ningen to hae otoko 

Günther Brackmann, Amico 

Yuri Medvedev, The Lady with the Dog 

Tom Vize, The Trial 

Liane Linden, The Arsenal Stadium Mystery 

Joan Francis, Episode #1.667 

Curley Myers, The Three Stooges Show 

Harry Lewis, Key Largo 

Toshirô Mifune, Seven Samurai 

Douglas Allenbrook, composer 

William L Bergsma, Oakland California, composer (Fortunate Island) 

Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player 

Charles K. Peck Jr., Seminole 

William Fishman, The Whitechapel Murders 

Rumen Grigorov, Toy ne umira 

André Stil, Le petit boxeur 

Ken Reardon, Maurice Richard 

Steve Race, Episode #7.13 

Beau Jack, Tony Rome 

Arthur Smith, Zombieland 

William Manchester, Attleboro Mass, historian (Death of a President) 

Martha Marbo, Das blaue Stück 

Duke Jordan, Les liaisons dangereuses 

Wolfgang Rennert, Simplicius Simplicissimus 

William Raymond Manchester, American Caesar 

Sonny King, Episode #1.14 

Semillita, Santa Cándida 

Bobby Jordan, NY, actor (Bowery Champs, Kid Dynamite, Flying Wild) 

Dan Lurie, Big Top 

Ingrid Östergren, Gay Old Time 

Robert H. Montgomery Jr., De-Lovely 

Bohdan Czeszko, A Generation 

Leslie Waller, Dog Day Afternoon 

Mario Vitale, Stromboli 

Bobby Jordan, Angels with Dirty Faces 

Leora Dana, Another World 

Gunther Becker, composer 

Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey 

Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (d. 2003) 

Birgitta Johansson, Kan doktorn komma? 

Enriko Josif, Stefan Decanski 

Ole Mortensen, Andre folks børn 

Juraj Cervik, The Sun in a Net 

Nadezhda Marusalova, Portret Doriana Greya 

Jared Reed, The Big Fun Carnival 

Danny Aredas, Around the World in Eighty Days 

Evan MacNeil, The Pied Piper of Dodge City 

Teddi Sherman, The Virginian 

Roger Riffard, Buffet Froid 

John Gay, Separate Tables 

Mary Morter, Wicker Park 

Carter Mullally Jr., Where Is Everybody? 

Miodrag 'Ckalja' Petrovic, Kamiondzije opet voze 

Sala Burton, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- ) 

Kathy Stobart, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells 

Shmulik Rozen,  

Józefa Hennelowa,  

Stevan Maksic, Bezanje 

Jack M. Bohrer, Last Resort 

Jack Sevier, Lovesick 

Don Juhlin, Wonder 

Jean-Paul Guibert, Inspector Maigret 

Marvin Roy, Episode #17.16 

Secondo Bignardi, To Want to Fly 

Jack Bohrer, The Terror 

Piero Livi, Sos Laribiancos - I dimenticati 

Ernest Kinoy, Buck and the Preacher 

Walter Carr, The Wicker Man 

Wojciech Has, The Hourglass Sanatorium 

Anne [Inez] McCaffrey, US, sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums) 

Lyndon Brook, actor (Invasion, Reach for the Sky) 

Charles Bressler, American tenor 

John Fabild, Over gaden - Neden vandet 

Vera Koktová, Barnabásek 

Xuexian Bai, Dinü hua 

Rolf Rønne, Going for Broke 

Alberto Gallitti, Scent of a Woman 

Marek T. Nowakowski, Dwie brygady 

Fabio Mauri, A Spiral of Mist 

Thomas E. Spalding, The Blob 

Anne McCaffrey, Dragonriders of Pern 

Reha Yurdakul, Bekçiler Krali 

Jack Grimes, Battle at Barnard's Star 

John Scott Martin, Little Shop of Horrors 

Amos Milburn, rocker 

Oscar Denenberg, The Secret of Santa Vittoria 

Maria Eugênia, Parceiros da Aventura 

Robert Myhrum, Love of Life 

Maria Eugénia, O Leão da Estrela 

Peter Cundall, Episode #18.21 

Amos Milburn, Gangster Squad 

Ferenc Puskás, Aranycsapat 

Leonid Bashmakov, Kevätiltana kepeästi 

Bob Arbogast, The Adventures of the American Rabbit 

Thomas Holtzmann, The Trial 

Jacques Mayol, The Big Blue 

Ross Bowman, My Brother's Keeper 

Dimitri Frenkel Frank, Dutch writer/director (Hadimassa) 

George Grizzard, NC, actor (Wrong is Right, Bachelor Party, Attica) 

Herbert Klein, newscaster/press secretary 

Jane Powell, Portland Oregon, singer/actress (7 Brides for 7 Brothers) 

Lidia Luludis, The Graduates 

Jørgen Bidstrup, To 

Éva Bányai, Love 

Kerstin Lokrantz, Hip Hip Hurrah! 

Tony Hilton, The Hand 

Toki Shiozawa, Dodes'ka-den 

William Hairston, Take the High Ground! 

Tony Hall, Episode #1.38 

Karlo Sakandelidze, Gvinis qurdebi 

Peter Maddocks, The Family-Ness 

Patrick Sexton, The Yellow Tomahawk 

Robert Stambler, Hang 'Em High 

Eddie Pequenino, Don Carmelo il capo 

Dimitri Frenkel Frank, Hoge hakken, echte liefde 

Michael O'Herlihy, Tomorrow Is Yesterday 

George Grizzard, Bachelor Party 

Milan Kundera, Czech poet/writer (Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being) 

Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator 

Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006) 

Ila Erdélyi, In Soldier's Uniform 

Richard Marks, Molokai 

Payut Ngaokrachang, The Adventure of Sudsakorn 

Alpo Jaakola, Miesten koulu 

Marcel Amont, Marcel Amont 

Rita Smets, Episode #1.5 

Bo Schembechler, The Program 

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being 

Jonathan Haze, The Little Shop of Horrors 

Jane Powell, Royal Wedding 

Grace Lee Whitney, Ann Arbor Mich, actress (Yeoman Rand-Star Trek) 

Joan Franks-Williams, composer 

Dina Kuple, Elpojiet dzili 

Aurelia Lopatowska, Noce i dnie 

Khoren Abrahamyan, Arajin siro yerge 

Larry Stewart, The New Lassie 

Betsy Jones-Moreland, Creature from the Haunted Sea 

Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek: The Motion Picture 

George Baker, Bulgaria, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Curse of the Fly) 

Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright (Deputy) 

Ita Ever, Estonian actress 

Charles Price, Kansas City, Missouri, American Businessman and diplomat, (d. 2012) 

Fernando Puig Rosado, Silence la violence! 

Jean-Roch Simard, Episode dated 4 March 2007 

Peter Fenn, Episode #10.13 

Nadine Basile, Tintin and the Lake of Sharks 

Dragoljub Ivkov, WR: Mysteries of the Organism 

Vibeke Stenthal, Roser og persille 

Rolf Hochhuth, Amen. 

Audrey Larkins, Episode #1.664 

Mualla Kaynak, Firtina geçti 

Ita Ever, Tayna chyornykh drozdov 

Joanne Arnold, Girl Gang 

George Baker, The Spy Who Loved Me 

Alexander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka Tetteh-Lartey, actor 

Debbie Reynolds, El Paso Texas, actress (Singin' in the Rain) 

Gordon Jump, Dayton Ohio, actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP, Growing Pains) 

Jiri Smutny, composer 

Tadeusz Hanusek, Reverted 

Yuri Bogatyrenko, Opasnye gastroli 

Georges Garvarentz, Eyes Wide Shut 

Avril Elgar, Betrayal 

Debbie Reynolds, Singin' in the Rain 

Gordon Jump, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 

Dan Flavin, US minimalist sculptor 

Mário Chamie, Bebel, Garota Propaganda 

Ian Sullivan, Christmas Snow 

Heiko Engelkes, Episode dated 26 April 2002 

Ed Riley, A Look Inside 'Intolerable Cruelty' 

Brianne Murphy, Square Pegs 

Don Hastings, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Capt Video, Bob-As the World Turns) 

Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (d. 2004) 

Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist 

Rod Kanehl, Don Larsen 

Georg Kranz, Apprehension 

Darrell Milstead, Hollywood Stunts 

Ken Costigan, As the World Turns 

Ion Teodorescu, Foul Play 

Vladimir Pozner, How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin 

Peter Lorre Jr., Sons of Sassoun 

Jim Ed Brown, Temple Grandin 

Don Hastings, The Edge of Night 

Hans H Boswinkel, actor/director (Surprise Attack, Tutorials in Love) 

John Murray, cricketer (Eng 1961-67, 1st wk called Murray to play Tests) 

Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983) 

Lionel Schaen, Irish Christmas 

Alfred D. Nokwe, Kill Slade 

Hans Boswinkel, Laat de dokter maar schuiven 

Jozef Topol, Radúz a Mahulena 

Alan Haven, The Knack... and How to Get It 

Hanne Winther-Jørgensen, Den sidste vinter 

Taito Vainio, Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä 

Roger Rowland, An American Werewolf in London 

Vojislav 'Kokan' Rakonjac, Kapi, vode, ratnici 

Ena Hartman, Airport 

Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician, president of the Confederation in 1989 and 1996 (d. 1998) 

Branko Sömen, The Melody Haunts My Memory 

Kydyrzhan Kydyraliyev, Altyn Kyrghol 

Bill Foster, Episode #18.142