Births on 1 April
2000s
Rhian Brewster
2000
English footballer (born 2000)
1900s
Gabe Davis
1999
American football player (born 1999)
King Combs
1998
American rapper (born 1998)
Mitchell Robinson
1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Asa Butterfield
1997
English actor (born 1997)
Álex Palou
1997
Spanish racing driver (born 1997)
Sophia Hutchins
1996
American socialite (1996–2025)
Jofra Archer
1995
Barbadian and English cricketer (born 1995)
Logan Paul
1995
American influencer and professional wrestler (born 1995)
Deng Linlin
1992
Chinese artistic gymnast
Duván Zapata
1991
Colombian footballer (born 1991)
Julia Harting
1990
German discus thrower
Jan Blokhuijsen
1989
Dutch speed skater
David Ngog
1989
French footballer (born 1989)
Christian Vietoris
1989
German racing driver (born 1989)
Brook Lopez
1988
American basketball player (born 1988)
Robin Lopez
1988
American basketball player (born 1988)
Vitorino Antunes
1987
Portuguese footballer
Ding Junhui
1987
Chinese snooker player (born 1987)
Gianluca Musacci
1987
Italian footballer
Oliver Turvey
1987
British race driver
Nikolaos Kourtidis
1986
Greek weightlifter (born 1986)
Hillary Scott
1986
American country singer (born 1986)
Daniel Murphy (baseball)
1985
American baseball player (born 1985)
Beth Tweddle
1985
English artistic gymnast (born 1985)
Gilberto Macena
1984
Brazilian footballer (born 1984)
Ólafur Ingi Skúlason
1983
Icelandic footballer
Sean Taylor
1983
American football player (1983–2007)
Taran Killam
1982
American actor, comedian, and writer
Andreas Thorkildsen
1982
Norwegian javelin thrower
Antonis Fotsis
1981
Greek basketball player (born 1981)
Bjørn Einar Romøren
1981
Norwegian former ski jumper (born 1981)
Dennis Kruppke
1980
German footballer (born 1980)
Randy Orton
1980
American professional wrestler (born 1980)
Bijou Phillips
1980
American actress (born 1980)
Ruth Beitia
1979
Spanish high jumper (born 1979)
Antonio de Nigris
1978
Mexican footballer (1978–2009)
Mirka Federer
1978
Swiss tennis player wife
Anamaria Marinca
1978
Romanian actress (born 1978)
Etan Thomas
1978
American basketball player (born 1978)
Vitor Belfort
1977
Brazilian-American mixed martial arts fighter
Haimar Zubeldia
1977
Spanish cyclist
Hazem El Masri
1976
Lebanese Australian rugby league footballer (born 1976)
David Gilliland
1976
American racing driver (born 1976)
Gábor Király
1976
Hungarian footballer (born 1976)
David Oyelowo
1976
British actor (born 1976)
Clarence Seedorf
1976
Dutch footballer (born 1976)
Yuka Kaneko
1976
Japanese tennis player (born 1976)
John Butler (musician)
1975
Australian musician, songwriter, record label owner and producer
Magdalena Maleeva
1975
Bulgarian tennis player (born 1975)
Hugo Ibarra
1974
Argentine footballer
Christian Finnegan
1973
American actor
Stephen Fleming
1973
New Zealand cricketer
Rachel Maddow
1973
American television host and commentator (born 1973)
Darren McCarty
1972
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1972)
Jesse Tobias
1972
American guitarist
Sonia Bisset
1971
Cuban javelin thrower
Shinji Nakano
1971
Japanese racing driver (born 1971)
Brad Meltzer
1970
American writer (born 1970)
Lev Lobodin
1969
Andrew Vlahov
1969
Australian basketball player (born 1969)
Dean Windass
1969
English footballer (born 1969)
Mike Baird
1968
Premier of New South Wales from 2014 to 2017
Andreas Schnaas
1968
German director and actor
Alexander Stubb
1968
President of Finland since 2024
Nicola Roxon
1967
Australian politician
Chris Evans (presenter)
1966
English television presenter (born 1966)
Mehmet Özdilek
1966
Turkish footballer and manager
Jane Adams (actress, born 1965)
1965
American actress (born 1965)
Mark Jackson
1965
American basketball player and coach (born 1965)
Erik Breukink
1964
Dutch cyclist (born 1964)
Kevin Duckworth
1964
American basketball player (1964–2008)
John Morris (cricketer, born 1964)
1964
English cricketer
José Rodrigues dos Santos
1964
Portuguese journalist and novelist
Teddy Diaz
1963
Musical artist
Aprille Ericsson
1963
African American mechanical engineer
Mark Shulman (author)
1962
American children's author
Chris Grayling
1962
British politician (born 1962)
Samboy Lim
1962
Filipino basketball player (1962–2023)
Phillip Schofield
1962
English television personality (born 1962)
Susan Boyle
1961
Scottish singer (born 1961)
Sergio Scariolo
1961
Italian basketball coach (born 1961)
Mark White (British musician)
1961
English singer-songwriter (born 1961)
Helmut Duckadam
1959
Romanian footballer (1959–2024)
D. Boon
1958
American guitarist and singer (1958–1985)
John Farragher
1957
Australian rugby league player (1957–2025)
David Gower
1957
English cricket player (born 1957)
Denise Nickerson
1957
American actress (1957–2019)
Don Hasselbeck
1955
American football player (1955–2025)
Humayun Akhtar Khan
1955
Pakistani politician
Jeff Porcaro
1954
American drummer (1954–1992)
Barry Sonnenfeld
1953
American film director and cinematographer (born 1953)
Alberto Zaccheroni
1953
Italian association football player (born 1953)
Annette O'Toole
1952
American actress (born 1952)
Bernard Stiegler
1952
French philosopher (1952–2020)
John Abizaid
1951
American military leader & diplomat (born 1951)
Samuel Alito
1950
US Supreme Court justice since 2006
Loris Kessel
1950
Swiss racing driver (1950–2010)
Daniel Paillé
1950
Canadian politician
Gérard Mestrallet
1949
French businessman (born 1949)
Paul Manafort
1949
American political consultant (born 1949)
Sammy Nelson
1949
Northern Irish footballer
Gil Scott-Heron
1949
American soul and jazz poet, musician and author (1949–2011)
Javier Irureta
1948
Spanish footballer and manager
Peter Law
1948
Welsh politician
Alain Connes
1947
French mathematician (born 1947)
Nikitas Kaklamanis
1946
Greek politician (born 1946)
Ronnie Lane
1946
English rock musician (1946–1997)
Arrigo Sacchi
1946
Italian association football manager
Dafydd Wigley
1943
Welsh politician (born 1943)
Titina Silá
1943
Bissau-Guinean resistance fighter (1943–1973)
Samuel R. Delany
1942
American author, critic, and academic (born 1942)
Richard D. Wolff
1942
American Marxian economist (born 1942)
Gideon Gadot
1941
Israeli journalist and politician
Ajit Wadekar
1941
Indian cricketer (1941–2018)
Wangarĩ Maathai
1940
Kenyan environmental activist (1940–2011)
Ali MacGraw
1939
American actress (born 1939)
Phil Niekro
1939
American baseball player (1939–2020)
Jordan Charney
1937
American character actor
Yılmaz Güney
1937
Kurdish filmmaker (1937–1984)
Lynn Garrison
1937
Canadian pilot and political adviser (born 1937)
Peter Collinson (film director)
1936
British film director (1936–1980)
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz
1936
Swiss politician
Tarun Gogoi
1936
13th Chief minister of Assam (1936–2020)
Abdul Qadeer Khan
1936
Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936–2021)
Cyril Karabus
1935
South African oncologist (born 1935)
Larry McDonald
1935
American politician (1935–1983)
Vladimir Pozner Jr.
1934
French-born Russian-American journalist (born 1934)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1933
French physicist (born 1933)
Dan Flavin
1933
American minimalist artist (1933 - 1996)
Bengt Holbek
1933
Danish folklorist (1933–1992)
Debbie Reynolds
1932
American actress and singer (1932–2016)
George Baker (British actor)
1931
English actor and writer (1931–2011)
Rolf Hochhuth
1931
German author and playwright (1931–2020)
Grace Lee Whitney
1930
American actress and singer (1930–2015)
Ásta Sigurðardóttir
1930
Icelandic writer and visual artist
Jonathan Haze
1929
American actor (1929–2024)
Milan Kundera
1929
Czech and French novelist (1929–2023)
Payut Ngaokrachang
1929
Thai cartoonist and animator
Jane Powell
1929
American actress (1929–2021)
Walter Bahr
1927
American soccer player
Amos Milburn
1927
American R&B singer and pianist (1927–1980)
Ferenc Puskás
1927
Hungarian footballer (1927–2006)
Anne McCaffrey
1926
Irish science fiction writer (1926–2011)
Brendan Byrne
1924
American politician (1924–2018)
Duke Jordan
1922
American jazz pianist
William Manchester
1922
American author, journalist and historian (1922–2004)
William Bergsma
1921
American composer (1921–1994)
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith
1921
American composer, musician, and record producer (1921–2014)
Toshiro Mifune
1920
Japanese actor (1920–1997)
Joseph E. Murray
1919
American plastic surgeon (1919–2012)
Sydney Newman
1917
Canadian film and television producer (1917–1997)
Melville Shavelson
1917
American screenwriter
Sheila May Edmonds
1916
English academic
O. W. Fischer
1915
Austrian actor
Memos Makris
1913
Augusta Braxton Baker
1911
American librarian and storyteller
Harry Carney
1910
American jazz saxophonist and clarinettist (1910–1974)
Bob Van Osdel
1910
American high jumper
Abner Biberman
1909
American actor, director, and screenwriter (1909–1977)
Eddy Duchin
1909
American jazz pianist and bandleader (1909–1951)
Abraham Maslow
1908
American psychologist (1908–1970)
Harlow Rothert
1908
American shot putter (1908–1997)
Shivakumara Swami
1907
Indian humanitarian, spiritual leader and educator (1907–2019)
Alexander Yakovlev (engineer)
1906
Soviet aeronautical engineer
Gaston Eyskens
1905
Belgian prime minister (1905–1988)
Paul Hasluck
1905
Australian politician (1905–1993)
Maria Polydouri
1902
Greek poet
Whittaker Chambers
1901
American defected communist spy, writer, editor (1901–1961)
Stefanie Clausen
1900
Danish diver
1800s
Gustavs Celmiņš
1899
Latvian politician (1899–1968)
William James Sidis
1898
American mathematician, polyglot, and child prodigy (1898–1944)
Alberta Hunter
1895
American jazz-blues singer-songwriter (1895–1984)
Cicely Courtneidge
1893
British actress (1893–1980)
K. B. Hedgewar
1889
Indian activist and physician (1889–1940)
Wallace Beery
1885
American actor (1885–1949)
Clementine Churchill
1885
Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer (1885–1977)
Lon Chaney
1883
American actor (1883–1930)
Edvard Drabløs
1883
Norwegian actor and director
Laurette Taylor
1883
American actress
Octavian Goga
1881
Romanian politician and poet (1881–1938)
Stanislaus Zbyszko
1879
Polish strongman and professional wrestler (1880-1967)
C. Ganesha Iyer
1878
Ceylonese Tamil philologist
Edgar Wallace
1875
British writer (1875–1932)
Ernest Barnes
1874
British mathematician (1874–1953)
Prince Karl of Bavaria (1874–1927)
1874
German general (1874–1927)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1873
Russian composer and pianist (1873–1943)
F. Melius Christiansen
1871
American conductor (1871–1955)
Edmond Rostand
1868
French poet and dramatist (1868–1918)
Walter Mead (cricketer)
1868
English cricketer
William Blomfield
1866
New Zealand cartoonist and local politician
Ferruccio Busoni
1866
Italian composer, pianist, and conductor (1866–1924)
Ève Lavallière
1866
French actress
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
1865
Austrian-born chemist (1865–1929)
Columba Marmion
1858
Irish abbot (1858–1923)
Edwin Austin Abbey
1852
American painter (1852–1911)
James Fisk (financier)
1834
American businessman (1835–1872)
Louis-Zéphirin Moreau
1824
Canadian Roman Catholic prelate
Simon Bolivar Buckner
1823
Confederate Army general and American politician (1823–1914)
Otto von Bismarck
1815
Chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890
Edward Clark (governor)
1815
Governor of Texas in 1861
Before 1800
William Mulready
1786
Irish genre painter (1786–1863)
Sophie Germain
1776
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
Luigi Schiavonetti
1765
Italian engraver
Joseph de Maistre
1753
Savoyard political philosopher (1753–1821)
George Dance the Younger
1741
English architect (1741–1825)
Pieter Hellendaal
1721
Dutch composer, organist and violinist (1721–1799)
Abbé Prévost
1697
French novelist (1697–1763)
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
1647
English poet and courtier (1647–1680)
Georg Mohr
1640
Danish mathematician
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert
1629
French composer, harpsichordist and organist
Charles de Saint-Évremond
1610
French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic
William Harvey
1578
English physician (1578–1657)
François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières
1543
Last Constable of France
Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans
1328
French princess (1328–1393)
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
1282
Holy Roman Emperor from 1328 to 1347
Emperor Go-Saga
1220
Emperor of Japan from 1242 to 1246