Celebrity Birthdays

for April 19th:

1933 Jayne Mansfield (was an American actress working both on Broadway and in Hollywood.) Mansfield died in an automobile accident at the age of 34.

1935 Dudley Moore (was an Academy-Award nominated and Golden Globe-winning English actor, comedian and musician.) He died, aged 66, on March 27, 2002, as a result of pneumonia, secondary to immobility caused by a degenerative brain disorder Progressive Supranuclear Palsy palsy, in Watchung, New Jersey.

1946 Tim Curry 62 (Emmy Award-winning English actor, singer, and composer, perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show).

1979 Kate Hudson 29 (is an American film actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after receiving an Oscar nomination for her role in the drama Almost Famous, and has since established herself as a Hollywood lead actress, starring in several films, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Skeleton Key, and You, Me, and Dupree.) Hudson was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, an actor, comedian, and musician.

1981 Hayden Christensen 27 (is a Golden Globe Award-nominated Canadian actor. He appeared in Canadian television programs when he was young, then diversified into American television in the late 1990s. He moved on to minor acting roles before being praised for his role of Sam in Life as a House. He gained international fame playing the young adult Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader) in the Star Wars films.)

1987 Maria Sharapova 21 (is a Russian professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1. As of April 14, 2008, she is the fourth-ranked female player in the world.)


for April 20th:

1889 Adolf Hitler (was an Austrian-born politician who led the National Socialist German Workers Party. He became Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933 and Führer in 1934. He ruled until 1945.) During the final days of the war in 1945, as Berlin was being invaded and destroyed by the Red Army, Hitler married Eva Braun. Less than 24 hours later, the two committed suicide in the Führerbunker.

1937 Georgw Takei 71 (is an American actor best known for his role in the TV series Star Trek, in which he played the helmsman Hikaru Sulu on the USS Enterprise. Most recently, he played Hiro Nakamura's father Kaito Nakamura on the NBC television show Heroes.)

1941 Ryan O'Neal 66 (is an Oscar and Golden Globe nominated American actor.)

1949 Jessica Lange 59 (is an American stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards to her credit.)

1964 Crispin Glover 44 (is primarily known as a film actor, but is also a painter, filmmaker, author, musician, and collector and archivist of esoterica. Glover is known for portraying eccentric people on screen, such as George McFly in Back to the Future, Layne in River's Edge, the "Creepy Thin Man" in the big screen adaptation of Charlie's Angels and Willard Stiles in Willard. In the early 2000s, Glover started his own production company, Volcanic Eruptions.)

1972 Carmen Electra 36 (is an American glamour model, television personality, dancer, singer, actress and sex symbol. She gained fame for her appearances in Playboy magazine, on the MTV game show Singled Out, and on the TV series Baywatch, and has since become recognizable for her roles in the films Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans.)

1976 Joey Lawrence 32 (is an American actor. He became successful through the TV show Gimme A Break and followed that up with the TV series Blossom in the 1990s, in which he played the character Joey Russo, a dim-witted young man who frequently uttered the phrase "WHOA!" At that time he used his nickname Joey. In the wake of his acting success, he started a recording career, releasing two albums during the 1990s. In later years he went back to using his given name Joseph. Most recently he competed in the 2006 season of Dancing With the Stars competition, but was eliminated from the competition on November 9, 2006.)