Birthdays of Personalities on April 11
1915 : (Hanlon) Pat Clarke, cyclist
1984 : ?, 1st deep freeze baby, in Australia
1901 : Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer (typewriter)
1942 : Anatoly Nikolayevich Berezovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5)
1962 : Andr‚ Wasiman, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1922 : Antoine Blondin, writer
1661 : Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet
1910 : Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spˇnola, general/president Portugal
1904 : Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist
1972 : Avo Avetisyan, WLAF defensive linesman (Amsterdam Admirals)
1866 : Carla Ford, Henry's wife
1897 : Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist
1862 : Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41)
1954 : Chris Difford, rocker (Squeeze)
1722 : Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols)
1801 : Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
1930 : Clive Exton, scriptwriter & playwright
1856 : Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India
1934 : Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer (Dept of Health)
1941 : David Lyle Boren, (Sen-D-OK, 1979- )
1893 : Dean G Acheson, statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53)
1970 : Delroy Pearson, rock vocalist (Five Star-Between the Lines)
1972 : Dietrich Jells, wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1943 : E J Dommering, Dutch lawyer
1943 : Earl of Sandwich
1794 : Edward Everett, Dorchester Mass, (Gov-Mass), statesman/orator
1948 : Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist (or 1941)
1943 : Elmer R Wilsoe, Island mayor (Cura‡ao)
1837 : Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861
1925 : Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bobby
1932 : F Gregory Neubeck, USAF pilot
1825 : Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder (Allgemeiner)
1941 : Frederick "Rick" Hauck, Long Beach Ca, astr (STS-7, STS 51-A, STS-26)
1370 : Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony
1770 : George Canning, (C) British PM (1827)
1926 : Gervase de Peyer, clarinettist
1901 : Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens)
1910 : Henry William Collins, artist
1919 : Hugh Carey, (Gov-D-NY)
1930 : James Alan Ferman, secretary (British Board of Film Classification)
1936 : Janet Allen, Headmistress (Benenden School)
1918 : Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, journalist
1925 : Johan van Zonderen, painter
1893 : Johannes T Thijsse, Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft)
1944 : John Milius, writer (Red Dawn, 1941, Big Wednesday)
1867 : John P Lotsy, Dutch botanist/geneticist (Genetics)
1930 : Joseph Burnett-Stuart, CEO (Robert Fleming Holdings)
1908 : Karel Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto)
1815 : Klara Fey, German orch leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein)
1929 : Lawrence Coughlin, (Rep-R-PA, 1969- )
1879 : Leendert Round, Dutch sculptor (entrance Rotterdam Zoo)
1908 : Leo Rosten, writer/humourist
1961 : Lucky Vanous, Lincoln Nebraska, model (GQ, Diet Coke)
1772 : Manuel Jos‚ Quintana, Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo)
1934 : Mark Strand, American poet/editor/translator (Another Republic)
1920 : Marlen Haushofer, writer
1908 : Masura Ibuka, industrialist
1938 : Michael Deaver, politician/influence peddler (S&L scandal)
1947 : Michael Hindley, British MEP
1947 : Michael Wright, Vice-Chancello, (Aston University)
1930 : Nicholas F Brady, US Secretary of Treasury (1988-93)
1793 : Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist
1913 : Oleg Cassini, Paris France, fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy)
1925 : Oscar De Ville, CEO (Meyer International)
1899 : Percy L Julian, chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis)
1955 : Piers J Sellers, Sussex England, PhD/astronaut
1902 : Quentin Reynolds, NYC, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI)
1919 : Raymond Carr, Warden (St Antony's College Oxford)
1934 : Richard A Garland, artist/photographer
1935 : Richard Berry, musician
1918 : Richard Wainwright, MP
1959 : Richie Sambora, rocker (Bon Jovi)/boyfriend of Cher & Heather Locklear
1951 : Robbie House, rocker (Snuff)
1945 : Robert Fripp, guitarist (King Crimson)
1974 : Sascha van Wissen, Dutch soccer player (MVV)
1967 : Stefan Johnstown, Norwegian speed walker (world record 20 km)
1911 : Stella Walsh-Stanislawa-Walasiewicz, Poland, sprinter (Oly-gold-32)
1958 : Stuart Adamson, rock vocalist/guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1972 : Ted Johnson, linebacker (New England Patriots)
1933 : Tony Brown, Charleston WV, newsman (Tony Brown's Journal)
1947 : Uli Edel,
1978 : Victor Sikora, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1921 : Viscount Buckmaster
1930 : W G [Bill] Hefner, (Rep-D-NC, 1975- )
1907 : William Henry Swinburne, music teacher
1918 : William Perrie, British prison governor
1958 : William Stuart Adamson, Manchester, rock guitarist (Big Country)