Celebrity Birthdays for April 18:
Actor Robert Hooks is 88.
Mike Vickers, saxophone player and guitarist of Manfred Mann, is 85.
Music critic Robert Christgau is 83.
Soprano Barbara Lowin (formerly Barbara Shuttleworth) is 81.
Actress Hayley Mills is 79.
Actor James Woods is 78.
Actress Cindy Pickett ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off") is 78.
Actress-director Dorothy Lyman is 78.
Retired race car driver Geoff Bodine is 76.
Bassist Jim Scholten of Sawyer Brown is 73.
Actor Rick Moranis is 72.
Actor Eric Roberts is 69.
Actress Melody Thomas Scott ("Young and the Restless") is 69.
Actor John James ("Dynasty," ''The Colbys") is 69.
Bassist Les Pattinson of Echo and the Bunnymen is 67.
Author-journalist Susan Faludi is 66.
Actress Jane Leeves ("Hot In Cleveland," ''Fraiser") is 64.
Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is 63.
Talk show host Conan O'Brien is 62.
Actor Eric McCormack ("Will and Grace") is 62.
Bluegrass singer-musician Terry Eldredge is 62.
Historian-author Niall Ferguson is 61.
Actress Maria Bello is 58.
Actress Mary Birdsong ("Reno 911!") is 57.
Actor David Hewlett ("Stargate: SG-1") is 57.
Actress Lisa Locicero is 55.
Rock musician Greg Eklund (The Oolahs) is 55.
Actor David Tennant is 54.
TV chef Ludovic Lefebvre is 54.
Singer Trina of Trina and Tamara is 51.
Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux is 51.
Singer-songwriter Joel Plaskett is 50.
Actress Melissa Joan Hart ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch") is 49.
Actor Sean Maguire is 49.
Actor Kevin Rankin is 49.
Actor Bryce Johnson ("Pretty Little Liars") is 48.
TV personality Kourtney Kardashian is 46.
Singer-songwriter Karl Wolf is 46.
Singer Marie-Élaine Thibert is 43.
Actress America Ferrera ("Ugly Betty," “Superstore”) is 41.
Actress Ellen Woglom ("Marvel's Inhumans") is 38.
Actress-model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is 38.
Actress Vanessa Kirby ("The Crown") is 37.
Actress Alia Shawkat ("Arrested Development") is 36.
Actress Britt Robertson ("Under the Dome") is 35.
Actress Chloe Bennet ("Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," ''Nashville") is 33.
Singer Nathan Sykes of The Wanted is 32.
Actor Moises Arias ("Hannah Montana") is 31.
Also born on this date (death in parentheses):
In 1839, violinist Frantz Jehin-Prume. (May 29, 1899)
In 1857, attorney Clarence Darrow. (March 13, 1938)
In 1882, conductor Leopold Stokowski. (Sept. 13, 1977)
In 1905, G. Sydney Halter, the first commissioner of the CFL. (Oct. 24, 1990)
In 1907, Academy Award-winning composer Miklos Rozsa. (July 27, 1995)
In 1918, guitarist Tony Mottola. (Aug. 9, 2004)
In 1922, Grand Master of calypso Lord Kitchener. (Feb. 11, 2000)
In 1922, actress Barbara Hale ("Perry Mason"). (Jan. 26, 2017)
In 1924, musician Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. (Sept. 10, 2005)
In 1927, Canadian composer and pianist Marian Grudeff. (Nov. 4, 2006)
In 1930, actor Clive Revill. (March 11, 2025)
In 1934, actor James Drury. (Apr. 6, 2020)
In 1935, music producer Paul Rothchild. (March 30, 1995)
In 1946, drummer Skip Spence (Jefferson Airplane). (April 16, 1999)
In 1946, Lenny Baker, formerly of the rock 'n' roll revival group Sha Na Na. (Feb. 24, 2016)
In 1947, writer Kathy Acker. (Nov. 30, 1997)
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