Celebrity Birthdays for April 26:
Actress-comedian Carol Burnett is 92.
Record producer/songwriter Giorgio Moroder is 85.
'60s pop singer Claudine Clark is 84.
Playwright-broadcaster Erika Ritter is 77.
Singer Jimmy Hall (Wet Willie) is 76.
Actress Nancy Lenehan is 72.
Actor Giancarlo Esposito ("Revolution," ''Breaking Bad") is 67.
Drummer Roger Taylor of Duran Duran is 65.
Actress Joan Chen ("Twin Peaks") is 64.
Drummer Chris Mars of The Replacements is 64.
Actor-singer Michael Damian is 63.
Actor Jet Li is 62.
Guitarist Jimmy Stafford of Train is 61.
Actor-comedian Kevin James ("Paul Blart: Mall Cop," ''The King of Queens") is 60.
Keyboardist Jeff Huskins of Little Texas is 59.
Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste is 58.
Fiddler Joe Caverlee of Yankee Grey is 57.
Singer T-Boz of TLC is 55.
Former U.S. first lady Melania Trump is 55.
Actress Shondrella Avery ("Napoleon Dynamite") is 54.
Bassist Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts is 54.
Drummer Jose Pasillas of Incubus is 49.
Actor Jason Earles ("Hannah Montana") is 48.
Actor Tom Welling ("Smallville") is 48.
Actor Pablo Schreiber ("Orange is the New Black," ''Weeds") is 47.
Actress Stana Katic ("Castle") is 47.
Actor Nyambi Nyambi ("Mike and Molly") is 46.
Singer Ariane Moffat is 46.
Actress Jordana Brewster ("The Fast and The Furious") is 45.
Actress Marnette Patterson ("Something So Right") is 45.
Actor Channing Tatum ("Step Up") is 45.
Actress Emily Wickersham ("NCIS") is 41.
Americana/roots singer-songwriter Lilly Hiatt is 41.
Actress Jemima Kirke ("Girls") is 40.
Also born on this date (death in parentheses):
In 1785, wildlife artist John James Audubon. (Jan. 27, 1851)
In 1886, pioneer blues singer Gertrude "Ma" Rainey. (Dec. 22, 1939)
In 1900, Charles Richter, co-inventor of the earthquake magnitude scale. (Sept. 30, 1985)
In 1904, Archbishop of Montreal Paul-Émile Léger. (Nov. 13, 1991)
In 1915, Delta blues guitarist and singer Johnny Shines. (April 20, 1992)
In 1917, architect I.M. Pei. (May 16, 2019)
In 1922, Canadian journalist-politician-Governor General Jeanne Sauve. (Jan. 26, 1993)
In 1925, Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingmann. (March 21, 2015)
In 1931, Canadian film and television producer and author Paul Almond. (April 10, 2015)
In 1932, movie composer Francis Lai. (Nov. 7, 2018)
In 1938, guitarist-songwriter Duane Eddy. (Apr. 30, 2024)
In 1938, singer Maurice Williams of Maurice and the Zodiacs. (Aug. 6, 2024)
In 1942, singer Bobby Rydell. (Apr. 5, 2022)
In 1943, singer Gary Wright. (Sept. 4, 2023)
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