Birthdays Date 1927 April | History by KabAstro

Apr 11 Domenico Guaccero, Italian composer, born in Palo de Colle, Italy (d. 1984)
Apr 12 Patrick Meehan, Scottish petty criminal, wrongly convicted of murder and later given a royal pardon, born in Scotland (d. 1994) [1]
Apr 13 Bill Wedderburn, Baron Wedderburn of Charlton, British politician and academic, born in London (d. 2012)
Apr 13 George Washington, American boxing trainer (Riddick Bowe and Mark Breland), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2006)
Apr 13 Joyce Plesters, British conservation scientist, born in Studley, Warwickshire (d. 1996)
Apr 13 Maurice Ronet, French film actor, director, and writer (Frantic, Sphinx, Circle of Love), born in Nice, France (d. 1983)
Apr 14 Dany Robin, French actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Jupiter, Julietta), born in Clamart, France (d. 1995)
Apr 15 Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi (d. 1995)
Apr 15 Annapurna Devi [Roshanara Khan], Indian classical surbahar (bass sitar) player, and music teacher, born in Maihar, British India (now part of Madhya Pradesh, India) (d. 2018)
Apr 15 Robert Mills, American physicist (quantum field theory), born in Englewood, New Jersey (d. 1999)

Benedict XVI (1927-2022)

Apr 16 German Catholic Pope (2005-13), born in Marktl, Bavaria, Germany [1]

Apr 16 Edie Adams [Edith Enke], American businesswoman, singer, actress and comedian (Murial Cigar), born in Kingston, Pennsylvania (d. 2008)
Apr 16 Peter Mark Richman {Marvin Jack Richman], American character actor (Three's Company - "Rev. Snow"; Dynasty - "Andrew"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2021)
Apr 17 Christopher Whelen, British composer and conductor, born in London, England (d. 1993)
Apr 17 Graziella Sciutti, Italian operatic soprano, teacher, and opera producer, born in Turin, Italy (d. 2001) [1]
Apr 18 Jim De Courcy, Australian cricketer (Australian batsman 1953), born in Newcastle, New South Wales (d. 2000)

Samuel P. Huntington (1927-2008)

Apr 18 American political scientist (The Clash of Civilizations) and presidential adviser, born in New York City

Apr 18 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1st Prime Minister of Poland (1989-90), born in Płock, Poland (d. 2013)
Apr 19 Don Barbour, American singer (The Four Freshmen), born in Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana (d. 1961)
Apr 20 Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987), born in Basel. Switzerland (d. 2023)
Apr 20 Phil Hill, American auto racer (F1 world champion 1961; 24 Hours of Le Mans 1958, 61, 62), born in Miami, Florida (d. 2008)
Apr 21 Gerald Flood, British actor (Doctor Who, Patton), born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (d. 1989)
Apr 21 Robert Brustein, American theater critic, playwright and writer, born in New York City (d. 2023)
Apr 22 (Lorenzo) "Laurel" Aitken, Cuban-Jamaican singer and one of the pioneers of Caribbean pop and ska music, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 2005)
Apr 22 Pascal Bentoiu, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 2016)
Apr 23 Russell Smith, American composer, born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (d. 1998)
Apr 24 "Fatty" George [Pressler], Austrian swing jazz clarinettist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1982)
Apr 24 Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish 1500m runner (Olympic gold 1952), born in Mamer, Luxembourg (d. 1992)
Apr 24 Pasqualino de Santis, Italian cinematographer, born in Fondi, Latina, Italy (d. 1996)
Apr 24 Seymour Bernstein, American concert pianist, teacher, and composer, born in Newark, New Jersey

Albert Uderzo (1927-2020)

Apr 25 French cartoonist and script writer (Asterix comic books), born in Fismes, Marne, France

Apr 25 Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist, sold the most books in Spanish (400 million), born in El Franco, Spain (d. 2009)
Apr 25 Ernst Widmer, Swiss-Brazilian composer, born in Aarau, Switzerland (d. 1990)
Apr 26 Dame Anne McLaren, British biologist and leading researcher on human in vitro fertilisation (IVF), born in London, England (d. 2007)
Apr 26 Jack Douglas, English comedian (My Brother Was an Only Child, Jack Paar Show), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1989)
Apr 26 John Ralston, American College Football Hall of Fame linebacker, coach and executive (Cal, Stanford, Denver Broncos), born in Oakland, California (d. 2019)
Apr 27 Connie Kay, American jazz drummer (Modern Jazz Quartet, 1955-94), born in Tuckahoe, New York (d. 1994)
Apr 27 Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., born in Heiberger, Alabama (d. 2006)
Apr 27 Gerard Cieślik, Polish soccer striker (45 caps, 27 goals; Ruch Chorzów 237 games) and manager (Ruch Chorzów), born in Hajduki, Poland (d. 2013)
Apr 27 Joe Moakley, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1973-2001), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2001)
Apr 28 Garry Weston, English businessman (Associated British Foods), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2002)
Apr 29 (Cecil James) "Big Jay" McNeely, American R&B saxophonist, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2018)
Apr 29 Betsy Ancker-Johnson, American physicist (plasmas), inventor (high-frequency signal generator), first woman Presidential appointee to the Department of Commerce and first woman VP in the automotive industry, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2020) [1]
Apr 29 Dorothy Manley, British 100m sprinter (Olympic silver, 1948), born in Manor Park, London (d. 2021)
Apr 30 Lars Hall, Swedish pentathlete (Olympic gold 1952), born in Karlskrona, Sweden (d. 1991)