This Week's Birthdays - April 29, 2013

April 29, 1899 – Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big-band leader.

April 30, 1908 – Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990)

May 1, 1944 – Jay Cochrane, “The Prince of the Air,” has been called the greatest skywalker of our generation.

May 2, 1975 – David Beckham, English footballer.

May 3, 1933 – James Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist.

May 4, 1951 – Sigmund Esco “Jackie” Jackson is an American singer and musician, a member of The Jackson 5, and the second child in the Jackson family.

May 5, 1818 – Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.