April

March - April - May

April 1

1938 - George McFly is born.

1950 - Samuel Alito is born.

April 2

1914 - Alec Guinness is born.

1941 - Don Webb is born.

April 3

1926 - Gus Grissom is born.

1961 - Eddie Murphy is born.

April 4

1922 - Elmer Bernstein is born.

1932 - Dick Lugar is born.

1944 - Craig T. Nelson is born.

1960 - Hugo Weaving is born.

1964 - David Cross is born.

April 5

1952 - Mitch Pileggi is born.

1955 - Akira Toriyama is born.

2008 - Charlton Heston dies.

2009 - Nintendo DSi launches in North America.  Joshua J. Slone gets his DSi.

2063 - First contact between humans and Vulcans.

April 6

1937 - Billy Dee Williams is born.

April 7

1930 - Andrew Sachs is born.

1954 - Jackie Chan is born.

April 9

2841 - Hubert Farnsworth is born.

April 10

1951 - Steven Seagal is born.

1988 - Haley Joel Osment is born.

April 11

1890 - Joseph Merrick dies.

1931 - Koichi Sugiyama is born.

2007 - Kurt Vonnegut dies.

April 12

1861 - Fort Sumter is fired upon, beginning the Civil War.

1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt dies.

1946 - Ed O'Neill is born.

1947 - David Letterman is born.

1961 - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to go to space.

April 14

1935 - Erich von Däniken is born.

April 15

1452 - Leonardo da Vinci is born.

1912 - RMS Titanic sinks.

1942 - Ken Lay is born.

1959 - Thomas F. Wilson is born.

April 16

1927 - Benedict XVI is born.

1952 - Billy West is born.

April 17

2006 - Stephen Jr. is born.

April 18

1953 - Rick Moranis is born.

1955 - Albert Einstein dies.

1963 - Conan O'Brien is born.

1971 - David Tennant is born.

1974 - Edgar Wright is born.

April 19

1882 - Charles Darwin dies.

1981 - Hayden Christensen is born.

April 20

1889 - Adolf Hitler is born.

1937 - George Takei is born.

1964 - Crispin Glover is born.

April 21

1951 - Tony Danza is born.

April 22

1937 - Jack Nicholson is born.

1994 - Richard Nixon dies.

Earth Day

April 23

1954 - Michael Moore is born.

1981 - Conor Lastowka is born.

April 25

2009 - Bea Arthur dies.

April 26

1865 - John Wilkes Booth dies.

1982 - Chad Heck is born.

1989 - Lucille Ball dies.

April 27

1822 - Ulysses S. Grant is born.

1963 - Russel T. Davies is born.

April 28

1937 - Saddam Hussein is born.

April 29

1954 - Jerry Seinfeld is born.

1955 - Kate Mulgrew is born.

1980 - Alfred Hitchcock dies.

April 30

1926 - Cloris Leachman is born.

1933 - Willie Nelson is born.

1938 - Larry Niven is born.

1945 - Adolf Hitler dies.

2006 - Stephen Colbert performs at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, roasting the president and press with truthiness.