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Birthdays of Personalities on April 26

1912 : A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt, Canada, sci-fi author (Wizard of Linn)
1888 : Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR, astronomer
1812 : Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant
1820 : Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)
1860 : Alphonse M A J Ari‰ns, Dutch pastor
1893 : Anita Loos, author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
1926 : Anton PO Ekstr”m, Swedish writer (Summer Dances)
1863 : Arno Holz, writer
1834 : Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist
1914 : Bernard Malamud, US, novelist (Fixer, Natural, Pulitizer 1967)
1948 : Boyd Matson, TV host/correspondent (National Geographic Explorer)
1944 : Bruce Johnston, US pop musician (Beach Boys-God Only Knows) [or 6/24]
1827 : Charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1863 : Charles Haslewood Shannon, lithographer/painter
1900 : Charles Richter, Ohio, Earthquakes seismologist (Richter scale)
1914 : Charlie Chester, British comedian (Never Say Die)
1839 : Cyrus Hamblin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1926 : David Coleman, sports commentator
1711 : David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature)
1944 : David O'B Martin, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
1936 : Edward Cazalet, British High Court Judge
1898 : Edward PF Eagan, Denver, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32)
1836 : Erminnie Adelle Platt, US, ethnologist (Iriquois-English Dictionary)
1718 : Esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)
1918 : Fanny Blankers-Koen, Holland, 100m/200m dash, hurdler (Olym-gold-1948)
1798 : Ferdinand EugŠne Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal)
1822 : Frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park)
1903 : Geoffrey Worthington, Air vice-marshall
1948 : Gerry Sikorski, (Rep-D-MN, 1983- )
1947 : Gervase Frank Ashworth Jackson-Stops, architectural adviser
1538 : Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato)
1928 : Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep (Independent)
1906 : Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns, comedienne (George Burns Show)
1962 : Graham "Skin" Skinner, rocker (Hipsway)
1868 : Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher
1921 : Harry Knutton, Maj-Gen/dir-general (London City & Guilds Institute)
1928 : Hertha Kr„ftner, writer
1914 : Horace Leonard Gold, Sci-Fi writer/editor
1950 : Howard "Leon" Reeder, rock guitarist (Champaign)
1917 : I[eoh] M[ing] Pei, Canton, China, architect (1961 Brunner Prize)
1934 : J Micheal McCloskey, environmentalist/chairman (Sierra Club)
1975 : Jabbar Threats, defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1927 : Jack Douglas, comedian (My Brother Was an Only Child, Jack Paar Show)
1918 : Jack Morpurgo, American Literature scholar (Leeds University)
xxxx : Jamal, [Taleeb Sajada Phillips], Newark NJ, rapper (Illegal)
1922 : James Holt, medieval historian
1914 : James William Rouse, US builder (shopping malls/Columbia, Maryland)
1319 : Jean II, the Good, king of France (1350-64)
1922 : Jeanne Sauv‚, 1st female Governor-General (Canada, 1984-90)
1921 : Jimmy Giuffre, jazz musician
1949 : Jimmy Hall, rocker (Wet Willie)
1776 : Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book)
1910 : Johan Doorn, Dutch journalist/resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper)
1941 : John Battle, MP
1898 : John Grierson, documentary film maker
1785 : John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist
1958 : Johnny "Earl of" Dumfries, racing driver
1930 : Justin Gosling, principal (St Edmund Hall Oxford)
1787 : Ludwig Uhland, writer
1889 : Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria, philosopher (Tractatus)
1951 : Lynne Jones, MP
1921 : Margaret Gowing, professor (history, science)
1922 : Margaret Scott, founder (Australian Ballet School)
1782 : Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria
1911 : Marianne Hoppe, Rostock Germany (Bei Thea, Liebrauen)
1573 : Marie de'Medici, Queen of France
1808 : Martha Finley, children's book author
1944 : Martha Rockwell, Providence RI, skier (Mount Washington)
1938 : Maurice Williams, rocker
1926 : Michael Joughin, CEO (Scottish Hydro-Electric)
1880 : Mikhail Fokine, Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance
1916 : Morris L West, Australia, novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman)
1903 : Niven Busch, US screenwriter (Postman Always Rings Twice)
1923 : Oliver Millar, Surveyor (Queen's Pictures)
1873 : Otto zur Linde, German author (Charon)
1879 : Owen Williams Richardson, England, physicist (Nobel 1928)
1726 : Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter
1904 : Paul E "Cardinal" Leger, archbishop (Montreal)
1648 : Pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706)
1637 : Philip J van Lichtenbergh, Governor of Suriname, baptized
1922 : Pol Bury, Belgian sculptor
1952 : Popo Simon Molefe, secretary-general (South Africa UDF)
1868 : Robert Herrick, US writer (Common lot)
1939 : Roger Buckley, British High Court Judge
1960 : Roger Taylor, rock drummer (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1894 : Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy Fhrer, only prisoner at Spandau
1875 : Syngman Rhee, South Korea, pres of South Korea (1948-60) [or Mar 26]
1907 : Theun de Vries, writer (February; PC Hooft prize 1981)
1898 : Vicente Aleixandre, Spain, writer (Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977)
1942 : Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1841 : Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian
1904 : William "Count" Basie, jazz pianist (Policy Man, Blazing Saddles)
1564 : William Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, playwright (Hamlet)
1938 : Willie Wood, bowler

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