April 3rd Birthdays
If you were born on April 3rd you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Jane Goodall (nee Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall)
English anthropologist, primatologist, author, African wildlife conservationist (Jane Goodall Institute), chimpanzee researcher, expert and author (Hope For Animals and Their World; My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees; The Chimpanzees of Gombe), born April 3, 1934. (Jane Goodall 1986 Photo: Al Hartmann)
Jeff Barry (nee Joel Adelberg; ex of Ellie Greenwich)
Songwriters Hall of Fame American musician, songwriter (Be My Baby; Leader of the Pack; Sugar, Sugar; Look of Love, Da Doo Ron Ron, I Honestly Love You; Then He Kissed Me) & composer for movies (The Idolmaker; Hello Down There) and TV (The Jeffersons; One Day at a Time; Family Ties), born April 3, 1938.
Eric Braeden (nee Hans-Jörg Gudegast)
German-American Daytime Emmy Award-winning actor of TV (Captain Hans Dietrich on Rat Patrol; Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless; Hawaii Five-O; Combat!; Gunsmoke) and films (100 Rifles; Titanic; Dayton’s Devils; Meet the Deedles), born April 3, 1941. (Eric Braeden 1965 12 O’Clock High)
Marsha Mason (ex of Neil Simon)
American actress of stage, TV (Frasier; Love of Life; Where the Heart Is; Sibs), and movies (The Goodbye Girl; Cinderella Liberty; Only When I Laugh; Chapter Two; Heartbreak Ridge; The Cheap Detective; Audrey Rose; Nick of Time; Max Dugan Returns), born April 3, 1942. (Marsha Mason 1979 Photo)
Wayne Newton (nee Carson Wayne Newton; “Mr. Las Vegas“)
American Las Vegas act, singer (Danke Schoen; Daddy, Don’t You Walk So Fast; Red Roses for a Blue Lady), actor of TV (North & South: Book 2) and movies (Vegas Vacation; Stealing Chaplin), and Arabian horse breeder (Aramus Arabians), born April 3, 1942. (Wayne Newton 1960s Photo)
Tony Orlando (nee Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis)
American music producer, CBS record company executive, singer (Knock Three Times; Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree; Candida; He Don’t Love You) and TV host (The Tony Orlando and Dawn Show), born April 3, 1944. (Tony Orlando 1976 Chico and the Man Photo: NBC Television)
Alec Baldwin (nee Alexander Rae Baldwin III; ex of Kim Basinger)
Emmy-winning American actor of TV (30 Rock; Knots Landing; The Doctors) & movies (The Hunt for Red October; Beetlejuice; Married to the Mob; The Shadow; Pearl Harbor; The Departed; It’s Complicated), born April 3, 1958. Brother of Adam, Daniel, William & Stephen Baldwin. (Alec Baldwin 1983: CBS)
David Hyde Pierce (nee David Pierce)
Tony & Emmy Award-winning American comedian, voice artist, and actor of stage, TV (Dr. Niles Crane on Frasier; The Powers That Be; The Good Wife), & movies (The Fisher King; Down With Love; Sleepless in Seattle; Wolf; Nixon; The Perfect Host), born April 3, 1959. (David Hyde Pierce 1994 Photo: Alan Light)
Eddie Murphy (nee Edward Regan Murphy; ex-partner of Mel B.)
American comedian, singer (Party All the Time), voice actor (Mulan; Shrek) screenwriter & actor of TV (Saturday Night Live) and movies (Beverly Hills Cop; Trading Places; 48 Hrs.; Norbit; Coming to America; Dr. Dolittle; The Nutty Professor), born April 3, 1961. (Eddie Murphy 2010 Photo: David Shankbone)
Jennifer Rubin(ex of Elias Koteas)
American model (1984 Ford International Model of the Year) and actress of TV & movies (Bad Dreams; The Crush; Permanent Record; Blueberry Hill; Bitter Harvest; Saints and Sinners; Delusion; Sanctimony; Fatal Conflict; Falcon Down), born April 3, 1962. (Jennifer Rubin 2011 Photo: R. Paul Skeehan)
Jennie Garth (nee Jennifer Eve Garth; ex of Peter Facinelli)
American producer, host & actress of TV (Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, & 90210; Valerie Tyler on What I Like About You; Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country; Mystery Girls) and films (My Brother’s War; Power 98; Your Family or Your Life), born April 3, 1972. (Jennie Garth 1992 Photo: Alan Light)
American actor of TV (Ben Wyatt on Parks and Recreation; Severance; Big Little Lies) & films (The Aviator; Step Brothers; Krampus; My Blind Brother; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; Leap Year; Friends With Kids; The Overnight; The Vicious Kind; Our Idiot Brother), born April 3, 1973. (Adam Scott 2008: GDC Graphics)
(Marlon Brando: Lou Wolf | Doris Day: 1953)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on April 3rd!
Remember These April 3rd Famous Birthdays
Doris Day (nee Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; married Martin Melcher)
Grammy-winning American singer (Que Sera Sera; Secret Love; Sentimental Journey), actress of TV (The Doris Day Show) & movies (Calamity Jane; Pillow Talk; Storm Warning; The Glass Bottom Boat; The Man Who Knew Too Much; That Touch of Mink; Midnight Lace) (born Apr. 3, 1922 – died May 13, 2019; age 97). Ex of George Weidler; mother of Terry Melcher. (Doris Day 1960)
Jan Merlin (nee Jan Wasylewski)
Daytime Emmy Award-winning American screenwriter (Another World), character actor of TV (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet; The Rough Riders; Laramie; Perry Mason; The Virginian; The F.B.I.; Combat!) and movies (Screaming Eagles; The Peacemaker) (born April 3, 1925 – died Sept. 30, 2019; age 94). Cause of death for Jan Merlin is unknown. (Jan Merlin 1966 12 O’Clock High)
Marlon Brando (nee Marlon Brando Jr.; ex of Anna Kashfi; Movita)
Oscar-winning American movie actor (On the Waterfront; Mutiny on the Bounty; Apocalypse Now; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Godfather; Guys and Dolls; A Dry White Season; Sayonara; The Chase; Last Tango in Paris; The Young Lions) (born Apr. 3, 1924 – died July 1, 2004; age 80). Brother of Jocelyn Brando. Ex-partner of Rita Moreno, Jill Banner. (Marlon Brando: Lou Wolf)
Billy Joe Royal
American singer (Down in the Boondocks; I Knew You When; I’ve Got to Be Somebody; Cherry Hill Park; Tell It Like It Is; Love Has No Right; Till I Can’t Take It Anymore; I Knew You When; Hush; Yo-Yo; Burned Like a Rocket; I Miss You Already; I’ll Pin a Note on Your Pillow; Out of Sight and On My Mind) (born Apr. 3, 1942 – died Oct. 6, 2015; age 73). (Billy Joe Royal 1988 Photo)
Iron Eyes Cody (nee Espera Oscar de Corti; married Bertha Parker)
Native American actor of TV (Bonanza; Gunsmoke; Daniel Boone) and movies (Sitting Bull; The Paleface; The Great Sioux Massacre; Grayeagle; Custer’s Last Stand; Train to Alcatraz; Fort Defiance; Black Gold; Massacre River; Saddlemates) (born Apr. 3, 1904 – died Jan. 4, 1999; age 94). Iron Eyes Cody died of mesothelioma. (Iron Eyes Cody 1970 The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County)
Sally Rand (nee Helen Gould Beck; aka Billie Beck)
American burlesque dancer (fan dance, balloon bubble dance), singer, & film actress (Golf Widows; The Fighting Eagle; Bolero; Sunset Murder Case; The Texas Bearcat; Braveheart; Heroes in Blue; Man Bait; The Night of Love) (born Apr. 3, 1904 – died Aug. 31, 1979; age 75). Sally Rand died of congestive heart failure. (Sally Rand 1937 Photo: New York World-Telegram and the Sun)
Leslie Howard (nee Leslie Howard Steiner)
English actor of stage & movies (Gone With the Wind; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Berkeley Square; The Petrified Forest; Of Human Bondage; Pygmalion; British Agent; Intermezzo; The Lady is Willing; The 49th Parallel) (born Apr. 3, 1893 – died June 1, 1943; age 50). Leslie Howard died when his flight was shot down by a Luftwaffe fighter. (Leslie Howard Gone With the Wind Photo: Photofest)
Jan Berry (nee William Jan Berry)
American record producer, music arranger, songwriter (I Adore Him; Ride the Wild Surf) & singer for Jan and Dean (Baby Talk; Surf City; Dead Man’s Curve; The Little Old Lady from Pasadena; I Found a Girl), and inspiration for the 1978 TV movie Deadman’s Curve (born Apr. 3, 1941 – died Mar. 26, 2004; age 62). Jan Berry had a seizure before he died. (Jan Berry 1964 Photo: WWDC Radio)
English crime writer, author of Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe mystery novels (A Clubbable Woman; Ruling Passion; An April Shroud; A Pinch of Snuff; A Killing Kindness; Blood Sympathy; Born Guilty; Killing the Lawyers) (born Apr. 3, 1936 – died Jan. 12, 2012; age 75). Reginald Hill died of a brain tumour. (Reginald Hill 2009 Photo: © Martin Edwards, used by permission)
Kevin Hagen (married Suzanne Cramer)
American actor of movies & TV (Little House on the Prairie; Yancy Derringer; Mannix; Land of the Giants; The Big Valley; Mission: Impossible; Daniel Boone; Bonanza; The Time Tunnel; Perry Mason; Laramie; The Twilight Zone; Ironside; M*A*S*H; Simon & Simon) (born Apr. 3, 1928 – died July 9, 2005; age 77). Kevin Esophageal cancer before he died. (Kevin Hagen 1962 Thriller)
American silent film actress (The Immortal Alamo; The Fall of a Nation; Old and New Tahiti; The Way of a Mother; The Pride of the South; Molly’s Mistake; The Kiss of Salvation; The Rustler’s Daughter; Judgment of the Sea), second wife of Bertram Bracken (born Apr. 3 1896 – died Feb. 24, 1964; age 67). Cause of death for Mildred Bracken is unknown. (Mildred Bracken Photo: Méliès)
Allan Dwan (nee Joseph Aloysius Dwan; ex of Pauline Bush)
Canadian film producer, Flying A Studios founder, & director (Heidi; Brewster’s Millions; Sands of Iwo Jima; Wild Blue Yonder; Escape to Burma; Hold Back the Night; he Restless Breed; Stage Struck; Robin Hood;Mr. Fix-It; Getting Mary Married) (born Apr. 3, 1885 – died Dec. 28, 1981; age 96). Allan Dwan died of heart failure. (Allan Dwan 1915 Photo: Motion Picture News)
George Jessel (ex of Norma Talmadge, Lois Andrews)
American singer, songwriter (The Toastmaster), film producer, writer, announcer, host, & actor of stage, TV (George Jessel Show; The Mike Douglas Show), & movies (Nightmare Alley; Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie; Bloodhounds of Broadway; Anne of the Indies; I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now; The Dolly Sisters) (born Apr. 3, 1898 – died May 23, 1981; age 83). (George Jessel 1945)
Jan Sterling (nee Jane Sterling Adriance; married Paul Douglas)
American actress of TV (The Guiding Light) & films (The High and the Mighty; Ace in the Hole; The Harder They Fall; Rhubarb; 1984; Kathy O’; Slaughter on 10th Avenue; Man With The Gun; First Monday in October; Split Second; Flesh and Fury; Johnny Belinda; Caged) (born Apr. 3, 1921 – died Mar. 26, 2004; age 82). Ex of John Merivale. Ex-partner of Sam Wanamaker. (Jan Sterling 1951)
Don Gibson (nee Donald Eugene Gibson; “The Sad Poet”)
Nashville Songwriters and Country Music Halls of Fame American singer & songwriter (Sweet Dreams; Oh Lonesome Me; I Can’t Stop Loving You; Blue Blue Day; Woman [Sensuous Woman]; Give Myself a Party; Sea of Heartbreak; I Can Mend Your Broken Heart; Lonesome Number One; Just One Time; I’m Movin’ On) (born Apr. 3, 1928 – died Nov. 17, 2003; age 75). (Don Gibson 1970)
Washington Irving (aka Diedrich Knickerbocker)
American biographer (A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus), short story writer (Rip Van Winkle; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) & novelist (A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty; Tales from the Alhambra) (born Apr. 3, 1783 – died Nov. 28, 1859; age 76). (Washington Irving 1809: John Wesley Jarvis)
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