April 1

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2006 Calendar

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1578 - William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657)
1732 - Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1776 - Sophie Germain, mathematician (d. 1831)
1815 - Otto von Bismarck, German politician (d. 1898)
1815 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (d. 1880)
1834 - James Fisk, entrepreneur (d. 1872)
1865 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
1866 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924)
1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
1875 - Edgar Wallace, writer (d. 1932)
1883 - Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (d. 1930)
1885 - Wallace Beery, actor (d. 1949)
1895 - Alberta Hunter, singer (d. 1984)
1899 - Gustavs Celmins, politician (d. 1968)
1901 - Whittaker Chambers, Hiss case witness (d. 1961)
1906 - Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)
1908 - Abraham Maslow, psychologist (d. 1970)
1914 - Jerome L. Walton. author
1915 - Otto Wilhelm Fischer, actor
1920 - Toshiro Mifune, actor (d. 1997)
1922 - William Manchester, writer (d. 2004)
1924 - Brendan Byrne, governor of New Jersey
1926 - Charles Bressler, American tenor
1926 - Anne McCaffrey, American author
1929 - Jane Powell, dancer, actress, singer
1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech writer
1929 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach
1930 - Grace Lee Whitney, American actress
1931 - Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
1932 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (d. 2003)
1932 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress
1934 - Rod Kanehl, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
1934 - Jim Ed Brown, American country music singer
1934 - Don Hastings, American actor
1935 - Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983)
1938 - Ali MacGraw, American actress
1939 - Phil Niekro, American baseball pitcher
1940 - Wangari Maathai, environmentalist
1942 - Samuel R. Delany, science fiction author
1942 - Annie Nightingale, British disc jockey
1946 - Ronnie Lane, British musician (The Small Faces, The Faces) (d. 1997)
1947 - Alain Connes, French mathematician
1948 - Jimmy Cliff, musician
1949 - Gil Scott-Heron, musician, composer
1952 - Annette O'Toole, American actress
1953 - Barry Sonnenfeld, producer, director
1955 - Ronnie Burk, artist and AIDS activist (d. 2003)
1965 - Mark Jackson, basketball player
1970 - Sung Hi Lee, model
1971 - Method Man, musician
1972 - Allen and Albert Hughes, American film directors
1980 - Randy Orton, professional wrestler