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This Week’s Birthdays – Week of April 7

April 7, 1954 – Anthony “Tony” Drew Dorsett is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos.

Tony Dorsett

April 8, 1875 – Albert I reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 through 1934.

Equestrian statue of King Albert I of Belgium

April 9, 1912 – Amácio Mazzaropi was a Brazilian actor and filmmaker.

Museu Mazzaropi

April 10, 1870 – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

Statue of Lenin

April 11, 1925 – Iola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo was 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 is an American television host and comedian.

David Letterman

April 13, 1973 – Mauro Mateus dos Santos, better known by his stage name Sabotage, was a Brazilian MC.

Mauro Mateus dos Santos "Sabotage" Brazilian Rapper