April 25

April 25 – Famous Birthdays

1214 Louis IX king of France (1226-70)
1228 Koenraad IV Roman Catholic German king (1237-54)
1284 Edward II king of England (1307-27)
1567 Aurelio Signoretti composer
1599 Oliver Cromwell Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58)
1608 Jean duke of Orléans brother of French King Louis XIII/General
1614 Hieronymus van Beverningk chief Dutch treasurer/maecenas
1614 Marc’Antonio Pasqualini composer
1666 Johann Heinrich Buttstett composer
1677 Guillaume Coustou Sr French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly)
1690 Gottlieb Theophil Muffat composer
1710 James Ferguson astronomer
1723 Giovanni Marco Rutini composer
1730 Fedele Fenaroli composer
1769 Mark Isambard Brunel engineer/inventor
1792 John Keble Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement)
1818 Marek Konrad Sokolowski composer
1824 Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger painter
1825 Charles Ferdinand Dowd US, standardized time zones
1837 William Charles Levey composer
1840 James Dearing Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1841 Pauline Lucca soprano
1842 Antonio Fogazzarro Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila)
1849 Felix Klein German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium)
1862 Edward Grey English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs
1867 Jean Demoor Belgian physician/physiologist
1869 Karl Prohaska composer
1871 Sara Amsel Indonesian/Dutch actress
1872 Charles Burgess Fry cricketer/world record long jumper
1873 Walter De la Mare English poet/anthologist (Behold the Dreamer)
1874 Guglielmo Marconi Bologna Italy, inventor (radio/Nobel 1909)
1876 Ruben Marcos Campos composer
1881 Hans Windisch German new testament expert
1883 Elsa Maxwell Keokuk IA, writer (Jack Paar Show)
1889 Charles Kellaway cricketer (great Australian all-rounder of 1920’s)
1895 Stanley Rous British soccer official
1897 Haro Levoni Step’anyan composer
1897 VAA Mary English princess
19– Pamela Brull Monterey Park CA, actress (Princess Maya-Secret Empire)
1900 Lord [Hubert Miles] Gladwyn [Jebb] MP (Liberal)
1900 Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Austria, physicist (Pauli inhibition/Nobel 1945)
1901 Ernst Gernot Klussmann composer
1903 Camilla Horn actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Polterabend, Matinee Idol)
1903 Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen composer
1905 Hugh Willatt solicitor/public servant
1905 Walter Hassan engineer
1906 Sally Salminen writer
1906 William J Brennan Jr Newark NJ, 92nd Supreme Court judge (1956-90)
1906 Zoltan Gardonyi composer
1907 Paula Trueman New York NY, actress (Gran-Billy)
1907 Vasily Pavlovich Solov’yov-Sedoy composer
1908 Edward R Murrow Pole Creek NC, newscaster (Person to Person)
1909 Jaroslav Doubrava composer
1912 Gladys L Presley mother of Elvis
1913 Earl Bostic Tulsa OK, alto sax player (Flamingo, Temptation)
1913 Russ Conway Brandon Manitoba, actor (Richard Diamond Private Eye)
1914 Claude Mauriac writer
1914 Marcos Perez Jimenez President/dictator Venezuela
1915 A J A Quintus Bosz Indonesian/Suriname lawyer
1915 William Goyen writer
1918 Astrid Varnay Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Metropolitan Opera 1941-56)
1918 [Ibolyka] Astridm Varnay Hungarian/US singer (Walküre)
1918 Ella Fitzgerald Newport News VA, jazz singer (The First Lady of Song, Is it live or Memorex, A-Tisket A-Tasket)
1919 Heinz Wunderlich composer
1920 Jean Carmet actor (Cache Cash, Miss Mona, Night Magic)
1920 Marre reformer of the bar
1921 Jean Mogin Belgian poet
1921 Karel Appel painter (Vragende Children)
1923 Albert King Indianola MS, blues singer/guitarist (Bad Look Blues)
1923 Anita Bjorak actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People)
1923 Melissa Hayden Toronto Ontario Canada, ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl)
1923 Aafje J R Bouber [Blom] actress (Traveller Without Baggage)
1923 Francis Graham-Smith British astronomer
1924 Erzsebet Szonyi composer
1924 Franco Mannino composer
1925 Flannery O’Connor short story writer (or 03/25)
1925 Anthony Christopher British trade unionist
1926 Paul Walter Furst composer
1927 Ernst Widmer composer
1929 José Angel Valente Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza)
1929 Yvette Corlett athlete
1929 Yvette Williams New Zealand, long jumper (Olympics-gold-52)
1930 Dotty Mack Cincinatti OH, actress (Paul Dixon Show)
1930 Lynn Hamilton Yazoo City MS, actress (Alice Morgan-Port Charles, Donna-Sanford & Son)
1930 Paul Mazursky Brooklyn NY, writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson)
1930 Roy Marshall cricket opener (prolific Hampshire only 4 Tests for West Indies)
1931 David Shepherd painter
1932 Lia Manoliu Romania, discus thrower (Olympics-gold-1968)
1932 Meadowlark [George] Lemon basketball star (Harlem Globetrotter)
1932 William Roache England, actor (Ken Barlow-Coronation Street)
1933 Helen Paling British circuit judge
1933 Jerry Leiber songwriter (Leiber & Stoller)
1934 Denny “Scott” Miller Bloomington IN, actor (Wagon Train)
1934 David de Peyer cancer research campaigner
1937 Bo Brundin Stockholm Sweden, actress (Rhinemann Exchange)
1937 Thomas Faber publisher
1939 Richard Earl of Lichfield English photographer
1939 Veronica Sutherland British diplomat
1940 Al Pacino New York NY, actor (And Justice For All, Godfather, Scorpio)
1940 Marian Norrie
1940 O B McClinton [Burnett] Senatobia MS, country singer (Keep your arms around me) 
1941 Bertrand Tavernier actor (Captain Conan, L627, Daddy Nostalgie) 
1941 Chris Augustine rocker (Every Mother’s Son)
1941 Lawrence J Smith (Representative-Democrat-FL, 1983- )
1942 John Martin Dalby composer
1942 Jon Kyl (Representative-Republican-AZ)
1944 John Bryant editor (Europeans)
1945 Björn Ulvaeus Gothenburg Sweden, guitarist/songwriter (ABBA-Waterloo, Dancing Queen)
1945 Stu Cook Oakland CA, rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
1945 Walt Wesley NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers)
1945 Michael Kogel rocker
1946 Talia [Rose Coppola] Shire Jamaica NY, actress (Adrian-Rocky, Constanzia Corleone-Godfather)
1946 Digby Fairweather jazz trumpeter
1946 Peter Sutherland CEO (Allied Irish Banks)
1946 Ronnie Gilbert rocker (Lifeline, Harp)
1946 Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky Russian ultra nationalist/anti semite
1947 Bill Fontana composer
1947 Jeffrey DeMunn Buffalo NY, actor (Blaze, Frances, Windy City)
1947 Johan Cruyff Dutch soccer player/coach (Ajax/Barcelona)
1948 Mike Selvey cricketer (England pace bowler of late 70’s)
1949 Michael Brown New York NY, keyboardist/songwriter (The Left Banke-Walk Away Renee)
1950 Steve Ferrone Brighton England, drummer (Average White Band)
1951 Ian McCartney MP
1951 Linda Stone pharmacist
1952 Cory Day Bronx NY, rock vocalist
1952 Vladislav Tretiak USSR hockey player (Olympics-gold-1972, 76)
1953 Gary Cosier cricketer (Australian batsman 1975-78, 109 on debut vs West Indies)
1954 Rob Crosby Sumter SC, country singer (She’s a Natural)
1955 Buster Mottram tennis player
1955 Joanne Abbott Sarnia Ontario Canada, yachter (Olympics-96)
1955 John Nunn British chess player
1957 Eric “The Crafty Cockney” Bristow London England, dart thrower (5 World Masters titles)
1958 Fish [Derek William Dick] Edinburgh Scotland, rock vocalist (Marillion-Real to Reel)
1958 Chris Johnson Arcata CA, LPGA golfer (1990 Atlantic City Classic)
1958 Flab rocker
1959 Billy Rankin Glasgow, Scotland, rocker
1959 Tony Phillips Atlanta GA, baseballoutfielder Chicago White Sox
1964 Andy Bell rocker (Erasure-Oh L’Amour)
1964 Jackie Campbell Los Angeles CA, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-5th-1993)
1964 Jamie Siddons cricketer (Victorian & SA batsman ODI for Australia 1988)
1965 Denis Perez hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1965 Mark Bryant NBA forward/center (Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets)
1966 Darren Holmes Asheville NC, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1966 Isabelle Pasco France, actress (Ave Maria)/model (Elle, Vogue)
1967 Angel Martino Americus GA, 50 meter/100 meter freestyle (Olympics-gold/2 bronze-92, 96)
1969 Darren Woodson NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 Gavin Bruk-Jackson cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman 1993)
1969 Jon Olsen US, 100 meter freestyle/400 meter/800 meter medley (Olympics-gold-1992, 96)
1969 Marisa Pedulla Bellefonte PA, half-lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1969 Nir Shental Israel, Men’s 470 yachter (Olympics-15th-1996)
1969 Sanjeeva Ranatunga cricketer (Sri Lankan Test batsman 1994- )
1969 Travis Fryman Lexington KY, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1970 Corwin Brown NFL safety (New York Jets, New England Patriots)
1970 Steve Tovar NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 Andrew Grigg CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 Brad Clontz Stuart VA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1971 Eric England NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 Joël Bourgeois Moncton New Brunswick, 3000 meter Steeplechase (Olympics-96)
1971 Michelle Harris Newark DE, Miss Delaware-America (1996)
1971 Pam Schaffrath Chicago IL, female catcher (Colorado Silver Bullets)
1972 Percell Gaskins linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1973 Alek Stojanov Windsor, NHL right wing (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1973 Barbara Rittner Krefeld German Federal Republic, tennis star (1992 Schenectady)
1973 Paige Gordon North Vancouver British Columbia Canada, diver (Olympics-16-92, 96)
1973 Wes Martin Calgary Alta, golfer (1990 Alberta Jr Masters-2nd)
1974 Brad Hassell Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1974 Libor Prochazka hockey defenseman (Team Czechoslovakia Olympics-gold-1998)
1974 Tricia Dunn ice hockey forward (USA, Olympics-98)
1974 Twan Russell linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1975 Ruben Gomez rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
1975 Jacque Jones San Diego CA, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 Tim Duncan NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1977 Jonathan Angel San Francisco CA, actor (Tommy Delucca-Saved By The Bell)
1977 Marguerite Moreau actress (Connie-Mighty Ducks, D2, D3)
1985 Jonathan Halyalkar Ramsey NJ, actor (Billy-Who’s the Boss)