Births on 21 April
2000s
Hyein
2008
South Korean singer (born 2008)
Princess Isabella of Denmark
2007
Danish princess (born 2007)
Xavi Simons
2003
Dutch footballer (born 2003)
1900s
Choi Hyun-suk
1999
South Korean rapper (born 1999)
Jarrett Allen
1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Mikel Oyarzabal
1997
Spanish footballer (born 1997)
Arianne Hartono
1996
Dutch tennis player (born 1996)
Ludwig Augustinsson
1994
Swedish footballer (born 1994)
Isco
1992
Spanish footballer (born 1992)
Joc Pederson
1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Nikki Cross
1989
Scottish professional wrestler (born 1989)
Ricky Berens
1988
American swimmer (born 1988)
Jencarlos Canela
1988
American actor (born 1988)
Tarvaris Jackson
1983
American football player (1983–2020)
Kim Wall (sprinter)
1983
British sprinter (born 1983)
Tony Romo
1980
American football player and television analyst (born 1980)
Virginie Basselot
1979
French chef (born 1979)
James McAvoy
1979
Scottish actor (born 1979)
Gyula Koi
1977
Hungarian legal scholar and lecturer (born 1977)
Jamie Salé
1977
Canadian pair skater (born 1977)
Petero Civoniceva
1976
Former Australia & Fiji international rugby league footballer
David Peachey
1974
Australia international rugby league footballer
Steve Backshall
1973
English naturalist (born 1973)
Michael Turner (comics)
1971
American comics artist (1971–2008)
Rob Riggle
1970
American actor, comedian and former Marine Corps officer (born 1970)
Toby Stephens
1969
English actor (born 1969)
Fiona Kelleghan
1965
American academic and critic (born 1965)
Ken Caminiti
1963
American baseball player (1963–2004)
David Servan-Schreiber
1961
French physician, neuroscientist and author
Tim Jacobus
1959
American artist (born 1959)
Robert Smith (musician)
1959
English rock musician (born 1959)
Andie MacDowell
1958
American actress and model (born 1958)
Yoshito Usui
1958
Japanese manga artist (1958-2009)
Michael Zarnock
1958
American actor (born 1958)
Hervé Le Tellier
1957
French author; winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt
Herbert Wetterauer
1957
German painter and author
Peter Kosminsky
1956
British writer, director and producer (born 1956)
Phillip Longman
1956
American demographer and author
Murathan Mungan
1955
Turkish author, short story writer, playwright, and poet (born 1955)
Ebiet G. Ade
1954
Indonesian singer-songwriter and guitarist
James Morrison (actor)
1954
American actor (born 1954)
Mike Wingfield
1954
South African professor of forestry
John Brumby
1953
Australian politician (born 1953)
Gerald Early
1952
American essayist and professor (born 1952)
Cheryl Gillan
1952
British politician (1952–2021)
Tony Danza
1951
American boxer and actor (born 1951)
Michael Freedman
1951
American mathematician (born 1951)
Bob Varsha
1951
American broadcast journalist (born 1951)
Steve Vickers (ice hockey)
1951
Canadian ice hockey player
Shivaji Satam
1950
Indian actor (born 1950)
Patti LuPone
1949
American actress and singer (born 1949)
Gary Condit
1948
American politician (born 1948)
Paul Davis (singer)
1948
Musical artist
Josef Flammer
1948
Swiss ophthalmologist (born 1948)
Dieter Fromm
1948
Al Bumbry
1947
American baseball player (born 1947)
Iggy Pop
1947
American rock musician (born 1947)
John Weider
1947
British musician (1947–2025)
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
1945
Indian cricketer
Mark Wainberg
1945
Canadian AIDS researcher
Diana Darvey
1945
British actor, singer and dancer (1945–2000)
Geoffrey Palmer (New Zealand politician)
1942
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1989 to 1990
David Boren
1941
American lawyer and politician (1941–2025)
Jacques Caron
1940
Ice hockey player
Souleymane Cissé (film director)
1940
Malian film director (1940–2025)
John McCabe (composer)
1939
English composer and pianist
Helen Prejean
1939
American nun and advocate (born 1939)
Reni Santoni
1939
American actor (1938–2020)
Gary Peters (baseball)
1937
American baseball player (1937–2023)
Ben Zinn
1937
Israeli-American soccer player and academic
James Dobson
1936
American evangelical Christian psychologist and author (1936–2025)
Reg Fleming
1936
Ice hockey player
Charles Grodin
1935
American actor (1935–2021)
Thomas Kean
1935
Governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990
Edelmiro Amante
1933
Filipino politician
Easley Blackwood Jr.
1933
American classical composer (1933–2023)
Ignatius Zakka I
1933
122nd Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (1980–2014)
Slide Hampton
1932
American trombonist (1932–2021)
Elaine May
1932
American actress, writer, and comedian (born 1932)
Angela Mortimer
1932
British tennis player (1932–2025)
Morgan Wootten
1931
American basketball coach (1931–2020)
Hilda Hilst
1930
Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright
Silvana Mangano
1930
Italian actress (1930–1989)
Dieter Roth
1930
Swiss artist (1930–1998)
Jack Taylor (referee)
1930
English association football referee
Jack Evans (ice hockey)
1928
Canadian ice hockey player (1928–1996)
Ahmed Arif
1927
Turkish poet
Elizabeth II
1926
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022
Arthur Rowley
1926
English football player and cricketer
Anthony Mason (judge)
1925
Australian judge (1925–2026)
John Swinton of Kimmerghame
1925
British Army officer (1925–2018)
Ira Louvin
1924
American singer-songwriter (1924–1965)
John Mortimer
1923
British barrister and author (1923–2009)
Alistair MacLean
1922
Scottish writer (1922–1987)
Allan Watkins
1922
Welsh cricketer
Don Cornell
1919
American singer (1919–2004)
Roger Doucet
1919
Canadian opera singer
Licio Gelli
1919
Italian financier and Master of Propaganda Due (1919–2015)
Eddy Christiani
1918
Estella B. Diggs
1916
American politician
Garrett Hardin
1915
American ecologist (1915–2003)
Anthony Quinn
1915
Mexican-American actor (1915–2001)
Angelo Savoldi
1914
Italian/American professional wrestler
Norman Parkinson
1913
English portrait and fashion photographer
Eve Arnold
1912
American photojournalist (1912–2012)
Marcel Camus
1912
French film director (1912–1982)
Ivan Combe
1911
Kemal Satır
1911
Turkish politician
Pat Brown
1905
Governor of California from 1959 to 1967
Jean Hélion
1904
French painter (1904–1987)
Odilo Globocnik
1904
Austrian Nazi, SS officer, and Holocaust perpetrator (1904–1945)
Luis Saslavsky
1903
Argentine film director
1800s
Randall Thompson
1899
American composer and educator (1899–1984)
Maurice Wilson
1898
British soldier, mystic, and aviator
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen
1897
Norwegian military officer and war historian
Romeo Bertini
1893
Italian athlete
Freddie Dixon
1892
English motorcycle racer and racing car driver
Marcel Boussac
1889
French businessman
Paul Karrer
1889
Swiss organic chemist (1889–1971)
Efrem Zimbalist
1889
Russian violinist, composer, and conductor (1889–1985)
Joe McCarthy (baseball manager)
1887
American baseball manager (1887–1978)
Tatu Kolehmainen
1885
Finnish long-distance runner
Percy Williams Bridgman
1882
American physicist (1882–1961)
Vincent Scotto
1874
French composer (1874–1952)
Edwin S. Porter
1870
American film pioneer (1870–1941)
Alfred Henry Maurer
1868
American painter
Mary Rogers Miller
1868
American author and educator
Max Weber
1864
German sociologist, jurist, and political economist (1864–1920)
William Stang
1854
German-born American prelate
John Muir
1838
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
Fredrik Bajer
1837
Danish politician (1837–1922)
Charlotte Brontë
1816
English novelist and poet (1816–1855)
Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts
1814
British peeress and philanthropist (1814–1906)
Alson Sherman
1811
American politician (1811–1903)
John Putnam Chapin
1810
American politician
Before 1800
Manuel Blanco Encalada
1790
First President of Chile
Reginald Heber
1783
English clergyman and man of letters
Alexander Anderson (illustrator)
1775
American physician and illustrator
Jean-Baptiste Biot
1774
French physicist (1774–1862)
Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait
1752
French shipwright, hydrographer and politician (1752–1807)
Humphry Repton
1752
British landscape designer
Antonín Kammel
1730
Bohemian composer and violinist
Louis de Noailles, 4th Duke of Noailles
1713
French peer and Marshal of France (1713–1793)
Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1673
Holy Roman Empress from 1705 to 1711
John Law (economist)
1671
Scottish-French economist and financier (1671–1729)
Michel Rolle
1652
French mathematician (1652–1719)
Joseph Vaz
1651
Oratorian priest and missionary (1651–1711)
Simon de la Loubère
1642
French diplomat, writer and mathematician (1642–1729)
Francesco Maidalchini
1631
Italian Catholic cardinal (1631–1700)
Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten
1630
Dutch painter
Jan van Riebeeck
1619
Dutch colonial administrator (1619–1677)
Ludovico Carracci
1555
Bolognese painter of the Baroque (1555–1619)
Marco Antonio Bragadin
1523
Venetian lawyer and soldier (1523–1571)
Ulrich von Hutten
1488
German scholar, poet and reformer (1488-1523)
Sancho VI of Navarre
1132
King of Navarre from 1150 to 1194