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This Week’s Birthdays – Week of April 11

April 11, 1925 – iola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo, a Unitarian Universalist civil rights activist from Michigan, who was murdered by Ku Klux Klan members after the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama

Viola Liuzzo Memorial

April 12, 1947 – David Michael Letterman, an American television host and comedian.

The Late Show with David Letterman

April 13, 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States.

Statue of Thomas Jefferson

April 14, 1975 – Anderson da Silva, a Brazilian mixed martial artist and UFC Middleweight Champion.

Anderson 'Spider' da Silva

April 15, 1961 – José Anigo, a French former football defender and caretaker manager at Olympique de Marseille.

José Anigo

April 16, 1867 – Wilbur Wright was the elder brother of Orville Wright, with whom he developed the world’s first successful airplane.

Wright brothers

April 17, 1816 – Emil Jens Baumann Adolf Jerichau, a Danish sculptor.

Jens Adolf Jerichau