Today IV

Birthdays:

• Leonardo da Vinci, April 15, 1492 - May 2, 1519


• Leonhard Euler, mathematician, April 15, 1707 - September 18, 1783


• Bessie Smith, blues singer, April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937


• Hans Conried, comic character actor and voice actor, April 15, 1917 - January 5, 1982


• Michael Ansara, stage, screen and voice actor, 1922. He played Kang in Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. He also provided the voice of Q's supervisor in the Next Generation episode True Q and played Lwaxana Troi's husband Jeyal on the Deep Space Nine episode The Muse. He also played the "Technomage" Elric in Babylon 5, and "Killer Kane" in the 1979-1980 season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century


• Sir Neville Mariner, conductor and musician, 1924


• Roy Linwood Clark, musician, 1933


• Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery, movie and television actress [Bewitched], April 15, 1933 – May 18, 1995


• Claude Josephine Rose Cardin, aka Claudia Cardinale, actress, 1938


• Allan Clarke, musician, one of the founding members of The Hollies, 1942


• Dave Edmunds, musician, 1944


• Emma Thompson, actress, 1959


• Emma Watson, actress, 1990

RIP:

• Noah Webster, lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, and editor, October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843


• Abraham Lincoln, US president, February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865


• Wallace Fitzgerald Beery actor, April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949


• Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, aka Greta Garbo, actress, September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990


• Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist, and critic, awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, which he declined, June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980


• Nicholas Conte, aka Richard Conte actor, March 24, 1910 – April 15, 1975


• Damon Knight, author, September 19, 1922 - April 15, 2002

Also:
Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line, April 15, 1947. Major League Baseball celebrates "Jackie Robinson Day" each April 15 in all MLB ballparks.