Birthdays Date 1929 April | History by KabAstro

Apr 6 Edison Vasalievich Denisov, Russian avant-garde composer (Sun of the Incas), born in Tomsk, Siberia (d. 1996)
Apr 6 Joi Lansing [Joyce Brown], American model, film and television actress (Touch Of Evil; Bob Cummings Show), and nightclub singer, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1972)
Apr 6 Li Yuan-chia, Chinese artist (Ton Fan group), born in Guangxi, China (d. 1994)
Apr 6 Willis Hall, British screenwriter and dramatist (Torn Curtain; Billy; Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure), born in Hunslet, Leeds, England (d. 2005)

Joe Gallo (1929-1972)

Apr 7 American mobster, born in Brooklyn, New York

Apr 7 Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
Apr 8 Eiji Kitamura, Japanese jazz clarinetist, born in Tokyo, Japan

Jacques Brel (1929-1978)

Apr 8 Belgian singer, songwriter, actor, director and composer (Le Far West; Pain in the A--), born in Schaerbeek, Belgium

Apr 8 Renzo de Felice, Italian historian of Fascism, born in Rieti, Italy (d. 1996)
Apr 8 Walter Berry, Austrian lyric bass-baritone singer, ex-husband of Christa Ludwig, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2000)
Apr 8 WIlliam K. Everson, English American film historian, born in Yeovil, England (d. 1996)
Apr 9 Harvey Lichtenstein, American head of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2017)
Apr 10 Duje Bonačić, Croatian rower (Olympic gold coxless four 1952), born in Split, Croatia (d. 2020)
Apr 10 Dušan Radić, Serbian composer, born in Sombor, Serbia (d. 2010)

Max Von Sydow (1929-2020)

Apr 10 Swedish actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Game of Thrones), born in Lund, Sweden

Apr 10 Mike Hawthorn, English auto racer (F1 world champion 1958), born in Mexborough, England (d. 1959)
Apr 11 Lawrence Coughlin, American lawyer and politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
Apr 12 Elspet Gray, Lady Rix, Scottish actress (4 Weddings & a Funeral, Solo, Tenko), born in Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland (d. 2013)
Apr 13 Marilynn Smith, American golfer (Titleholders Championship 1963-64), born in Topeka, Kansas (d. 2019)
Apr 14 Gerry Anderson, English television producer (Thunderbirds; Space:1999), born in Bloomsbury, London (d. 2012)
Apr 14 Paavo Berglund, Finnish violinist and conductor (Helsinki Chamber Orchestra; Finnish RSO, 1956-72), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 2012)
Apr 14 William Edgar Thornton, American medical doctor, USAF officer, and NASA astronaut (STS-8; STS-51-B), born in Faison, North Carolina (d. 2021)
Apr 15 Adrian Cadbury, British confectionery manufacturer (Cadbury) and author of report on Corporate Governance (d. 2015)
Apr 15 Jocelyn Barrow, British race relations campaigner (Card) and 1st black female governor of the BBC, born in Port of Spain, Trinidad (d. 2020)
Apr 16 Ed Townsend, American doo-wop singer, songwriter, and producer ("For Your Love"; Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On"), born in Fayetteville, Tennessee (d. 2003)
Apr 16 Roy Hamilton, American singer (You'll Never Walk Alone), born in Leesburg, Georgia (d. 1969)
Apr 17 James Last, German-born composer and big band bandleader, born in Bremen, Germany (d. 2015)
Apr 18 Peter Hordern, British Conservative Party politician
Apr 18 Peter Jeffrey, British character actor (Dr Phibes Rides Again, Twinsanity), born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, (d. 1999)
Apr 19 Eddie Crook Jr., American boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1960), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2005)
Apr 20 Bob Braun, American TV and radio personality (Dotty Mack Show), born in Ludlow, Kentucky (d. 2001)
Apr 22 Margaret Pereira, English forensic scientist (Nicholls and Pereira method), born in Bexley, England (d. 2016)
Apr 22 Michael Atiyah, English mathematician (Atiyah-Singer Index, Fields Medal 1966), born in London, England (d. 2019)
Apr 22 Robert Wade-Gery, British diplomat (High Commissioner to India 1982–87), born in Oxford (d. 2015)
Apr 23 George Steiner, French-American literary critic and educator, born in Paris (d. 2020)
Apr 23 Len Barnard, Australian jazz drummer ("The Naked Dance"; Galapagos Duck), born in Melbourne Australia (d. 2005)
Apr 24 Ferit Tüzün, Turkish composer (Esintiler - Inspirations; The Ears of Midas), and conductor (Turkish State Opera and Ballet Orchestra, 1959-77), born in Istanbul (d. 1977)
Apr 24 Rajkumar [Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju], Indian actor and singer in Kannada cinema and cultural icon, born in Gajanur, Madras, India (d. 2006)
Apr 24 Shammi [Nargis Rabadi], Indian actress (Half Ticket, Dekh Bhai Dekh), born in Bombay, British India (d. 2018)
Apr 25 Dotty Mack, American TV personality known as the "Queen of Pantomime" (The Paul Dixon Show; The Dotty Mack Show), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 2019)
Apr 25 José Ángel Valente, Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza), born in Orense, Spain (d. 2000)
Apr 25 Yvette Williams, New Zealand long jumper (Olympic gold, 1952), born in Dunedin, New Zealand (d. 2019)
Apr 26 Richard Mitchell, American professor and author (The Underground Grammarian), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2002)
Apr 27 Nina Ponomaryova, Russian athlete (Olympic gold USSR discus 1952, 60; bronze 1956), born in Smychka, Russia (d. 2016)
Apr 29 April Stevens [Caroline LoTempio], American vocalist ("Deep Purple" - the song, not the band), born in Niagara Falls, New York (d. 2023)
Apr 29 Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (d. 2003)
Apr 29 Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer (Kakadu), born in Launceston, Tasmania (d. 2014)
Apr 29 Ray Barretto, American percussionist and Latin jazz bandleader (Charanga Moderna - "El Watusi"), born in New York City (d. 2006)
Apr 29 Václav Kučera, Czech composer (Concierto imaginativo; Homenaje a Salvador Dalí), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2017)
Apr 29 Walter Kempowski, German writer (German Chronicle), born in Rostock (d. 2007)
Apr 29 [John] Jeremy Thorpe, British politician, Leader of the Liberal Party (Norman Scott scandal), born in London (d. 2014)