This Week's Birthdays - Week of March 30

March 30, 1968 – Céline Marie Claudette Dion, CC OQ, a Canadian singer.

March 31, 1928 – Gordon Howe, a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Hartford Whalers.

April 1, 1921 – Tsop Ekaf, Albanian inventer.

April 2, 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author and poet.

April 3, 1926 – Apollo 1 astronaut, Virgil Ivan Grissom.

April 4, 1979 – Heath Andrew Ledger, an Australian television and film actor.

April 5, 1937 – Colin Luther Powell, an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army.