April 30th Birthdays

American singer, Bobby Vee, was born on this day in 1943, as Robert Thomas Veline, in Fargo, ND. Bobby was a major teen idol in the early 1960s. He racked up 5 gold records before the British Invasion and came back with another one: “Come Back When You Grow Up” in 1967. Bobby passed away at age 73 on October 24, 2016 from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Also born on April 30th:

• 1933
  Willie Nelson, American musician
• 1941
  Johnny Farina, American musician, composer
• 1944
  Jill Clayburgh, American actress
• 1946
  King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
• 1947
  Leslie Grantham, British actor
• 1948
  Perry King, American actor
• 1949
  Phil Garner, baseball manager
• 1953
  Merrill Osmond, American musician
• 1959
  Paul Gross, Canadian actor, director
• 1961
  Isiah Thomas, American basketball player
• 1964
  Barrington Levy, Jamaican musician
• 1965
  Adrian Pasdar, American actor
• 1967
  Steven Mackintosh, British actor
• 1969
  Warren Defever, American musician, composer
• 1972
  JR Richards, American musician, composer, actor
• 1973
  Jeff Timmons, American singer
• 1975
  Mike Chat, American actor
  Johnny Galecki, American actor
• 1976
  Amanda Palmer, American musician
• 1977
  Pell James, American actress
• 1981
  Emma Pierson, British actress
  Kunal Nayyar, Indian/British actor
• 1982
  Lloyd Banks, American rapper
  Kirsten Dunst, American actress
  Cleo Higgins, British singer, actress
  Drew Seeley, Canadian actor, singer
• 1983
  Troy Williamson, American football player
• 1984
  Shawn Daivari, American wrestler, manager
• 1986
  Dianna Agron, American actress
• 1987
  Nikki Webster, Australian entertainer
• 2002
  Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish prince

April Birthday Calendar

Died on April 30th:

• 1883
  Édouard Manet, French painter (age 51)
• 1900
  Casey Jones, American engineer (age 37)
• 1936
  A. E. Housman, English poet, scholar (age 77)
• 1945
  Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator (age 56)
• 1956
  Alben W. Barkley, 35th U.S. Vice President (age 78)
• 1970
  Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (age 35)
• 1974
  Agnes Moorehead, American actress (age 1900)
• 1983
  Muddy Waters, American singer, guitarist (age 70)
• 1986
  Robert Stevenson, English director, screenwriter (age 81)
• 1989
  Sergio Leone, Italian director, screenwriter (age 60)
• 1994
  Richard Scarry, American author, illustrator (age 74)
• 2007
  Tom Poston, American actor, comedian (age 85)
  Gordon Scott, American actor (age 80)
• 2015
  Ben E. King, American singer, songwriter (age 76)
• 2019
  Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (age 74)
• 2020
  Sam Lloyd, American actor (age 56)
• 2022
  Naomi Judd, American singer (age 76)
• 2024
  Duane Eddy, American musician (age 86)