Today XI

Birthdays:

• Felix Christian Klein, mathematician, April 25, 1849 - June 22, 1925


• Guglielmo Marconi, GCVO, engineer, April 25, 1874 – July 20, 1937


• Egbert Roscoe Murrow, aka Edward R. Murrow, KBE, journalist, April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965


• Ella Jane Fitzgerald, singer, April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996


• Albert King, blues musician, April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992


• George MEADOWLARK Lemon, Harlem Globe Trotter, 1935


• Jerry Leiber, songwriter, 1933


• Stuart STU Cook, bass player, 1945


• Hank Albert Azaria, actor and voice actor, 1964


• Gina Torres, actress, 1969

RIP:

• Leon Battista Alberti, painter, poet, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer, musician, architect, and general Renaissance polymath, February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472


• Anders Celsius, astronomer, November 27, 1701 – April 25, 1744


• Dexter Keith Gordon, musician, February 27, 1923 - April 25, 1990


• Ginger Rogers, actress and dancer, July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995


• Saul Bass, graphics designer, May 8, 1920 - April 25, 1996

Also:
Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 25 in 2006