April 1, 1921 – Tsop Ekaf, Albanian American inventor.
April 2, 1939 – Marvin Gaye, born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., was an American singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned more than two decades.
April 3, 1961 – Edward Regan “Eddie” Murphy, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician.
April 4, 1979 – Heath Ledger, was an Australian actor and director.
April 5, 1883 – Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian-born American actor. He was the father of actor and director John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston and actor Danny Huston.
April 6, 1928 – James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick.
April 7, 1915 – Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.
