Famous people born in April include Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 1952 to her death in 2022, Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr., and Israeli actress Gal Gadot who is famous as Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe films.
Kourtney Kardashian the American TV personality famous in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Pope Benedict XVI who was head of the Catholic Church from 2005 until his resignation in 2013, U.S. first Lady Melania Trump, and the late Marvin Gaye, the R&B & soul singer famous for the hits Sexual Healing and Let’s Get It On are other famous people born in April.
Celebs with birthday in April
American actor who starred in A Few Good Men (1992), Psych-Out (1968), Carnal Knowledge (1971), Batman (1989)
English actress famous as Arya Stark in HBO medieval fantasy TV series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), & The Falling (2014)
English playwright, poet and actor, one of the most influential writer in the English language whose work includes Hamlet, Othello, King Lear
President of Iraq from 1979 until 2003 when he was overthrown during the U.S. invasion of Iraq
Dutch former football manager & player who played as midfielder & won UEFA Champions League with Ajax, Real Madrid, AC Milan
American actress famous as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit (2020), and stars in The Witch (2015), Glass (2019), Emma (2020)
American actress famous as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Beninese-American actor famous as wizard Shazam in Shazam! (2019), Black Adam (2022) & Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
American Founding Father, 3rd president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 & primary author of the Declaration of Independence
American actor famous in NBC miniseries Holocaust (1978), Contact (1997), The Specialist (1994), White House Down (2013)
April Historical Events
4th April 1975: American Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft (short for micro-computer software), the leading PC operating system manufacturer that is famous for their Microsoft Windows Operating system. Gates was the CEO of the new company. He and Allen were childhood friends who had skills in computer programming.4th April 1968: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the famous American minister and civil rights activist, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, United States by James Earl Ray. King was standing on a balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel.5th April 1955: Sir Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Britain due to his increasing health problems. But Churchill continued to serve as MP for Woodford in east London until 1964 when he retired from politics. He was the British PM twice, from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. 5th April 1879: Chile declared war on Bolivia and Peru, the War of the Pacific or the Saltpeter War that was fought until 1883. The war resulted in Chile annexing the mineral-rich territories of Tarapacá in Peru and the Department of the Litoral in Bolivia, and Bolivia became a landlocked country.6th April 1994: Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of neighboring Burundi were killed when a rocket downed their plane over the capital of Rwanda, Kigali. About 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis, were killed during the ensuing Rwandan genocide that lasted about 100 days.6th April 1917: The United States, under President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, officially entered World War I after declaring war on Germany. This was after Germany sunk several U.S. and British passenger and merchant ships. The war ended with victory for the Allies (France, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, Italy, and the United States) on November 11, 1918.7th April 1948: The World Health Organization was established by the United Nations. It's mission is to promote global good health and thereby keep the world safe. The WHO also directs and coordinates global response to health emergencies caused by wars and diseases such as Ebola and the COVID-19 pandemic.7th April 1933: The Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted after being signed into law, 2 weeks earlier, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The new legislation allowed the manufacturing and selling of low-alcohol beer in the U.S. As a result, April 7 is celebrated every year in the U.S where it is known as The National Beer Day.8th April 1953: Kenya's founding president Jomo Kenyatta was sentenced to seven years with hard labor, together with five associates, for being associated with the Mau Mau rebellion. The Mau Mau movement was formed to free the East African country from domination by the British colonialists who had seized land in the fertile regions of the country.8th April 1986: American actor, movie producer and director Clinton Eastwood Jr. became the mayor of Carmel, a city in Monterey County in California. He won by a landslide, defeating Charlotte Townsend who was seeking a third term. Clint served as mayor for a single two-year term.Share this!