april fools day

Everyone thinks of April 1st as April fools day
But little does one know that many great personalities were born on this day starting from the 13th century..

So here goes

• 1220 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan


• 1543 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France


• 1578 - William Harvey, English physician


• 1856 - Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician


• 1865 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate


• 1866 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer


• 1868 - Edmond Rostand, French dramatist


• 1873 (N.S.) - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor


• 1875 - Edgar Wallace, English writer


• 1880 - Agha Petros, Assyrian general


• 1882 - Paul Anspach, Belgian Olympic champion fencer


• 1883 - Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor


• 1885 - Wallace Beery, American actor


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• 1914 - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor


• 1915 - Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor


• 1917 - Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer and screenwriter


• 1919 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel laureate


• 1920 - Toshir Mifune, Japanese actor


• 1921 - Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player


• 1922 - William Manchester, American historian


• 1924 - Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey


• 1924 - Miodrag Petrovi?, Serbian actor


• 1926 - Charles Bressler, American tenor


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• 1929 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach


• 1930 - Grace Lee Whitney, American actress


• 1931 - Rolf Hochhuth, German writer


• 1931 - Ita Ever, Estonian actress


• 1932 - Gordon Jump, American actor


• 1932 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress


• 1978 - Miroslava Vavrinec, Swiss tennis player


• 1979 - Ivano Bali?, Croatian handballer


• 1980 - Randy Orton, American professional wrestler


• 1980 - Bijou Phillips, American actress


• 1980 - Yko Takeuchi, Japanese actress


• 1981 - Antonis Fotsis, Greek basketball player


• 1981 - Hannah Spearritt, British singer


• 1981 - Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist


• 1981 - Aimee Chan, Miss Hong Kong 2006


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• and finally me too was born on April 1st :-)

you want more personalities..

then check this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1#Births

and dont forget to wish me Happy Birthday..;-)