Famous peoples Birthdays for the 16th April

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Below are some very famous celebrities, Past and present, who have their Birthday today. Some you will have heard of and others you may not have.

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Jimmy Osmond was born on April 16, 1963 in Canoga Park, California...He is a singer, actor, and businessman....Jimmy Osmond is the youngest of his siblings and an occasional member of their musical group, The Osmonds. He is the youngest child of George and Olive Osmond.

Spike Milligan KBE was born16 April 1918 in Ahmednagar, India...he was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright. He played the piano, trumpet, guitar and saxophone and was the creator, the principal writer and a performing member of The Goon Show... He died from liver disease, at the age of 83, on 27 February 2002.

Selena Quintanilla was born April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas, U.S. She was a Mexican American singer who has been called "the queen of Tejano music". Her album Selena Live! won Best Mexican-American Album at the 36th Grammy Awards and her 1994 album Amor Prohibido, which was nominated for another Grammy, produced four number one Spanish hits......She died in Texas, U.S. from gun shot wounds at 1:05 p.m., at the age of 23.

Herbie Mann was born April 16, 1930 he was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. n was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was perhaps jazz music's preeminent flautist during the 1960s....Herbie died at age 73 on July 1, 2003 after a long battle with prostate cancer.

Barry Nelson was born April 16, 1917..He was an American actor and the first actor (and, to date, the only American) to play James Bond on screen, in a 1954 adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale on the TV anthology series Climax! (preceding Sean Connery's interpretation in Dr. No by eight years)...He died on April 7, 2007 nine days before his 90th birthday.

Merce Cunningham was born April 16, 1919 in Centralia, Washington, United States..He is an American dancer and choreographer who has worked extensively in film and video, first in collaboration with Charles Atlas and later with Elliot Caplan. He received the Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo. Other honors and awards include, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize 2000 the Handel Medallion from the Mayor of New York City 1999.

Charlie Chaplin KBE was born 16 April 1889..He was an Academy Award-winning English comedy actor. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable director, composer and musician in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era. He is considered to have been one of the finest mimes and clowns ever caught on film and has greatly influenced performers in this field...He died in his sleep on Christmas Day, 1977, in Vevey, Switzerland, aged 88.

Edie Adams was born on April 16, 1927 in Kingston, Pennsylvania, U.S. She is an American singer, Broadway, television and film actress who began her career in television working with comedian Ernie Kovacs and talk show pioneer Jack Paar. Kovacs and married and remained together until his death in a car accident on January 13, 1962is one of the few surviving headliners from the all-star movie, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and in 2003, she joined actors Marvin Kaplan and Sid Caesar at 40th anniversary celebrations of the movie.

Pope Benedict XVI on was born 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany..He is the 265th and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the spiritual head of the Roman Catholic Church, and as such, Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005.

Henry Mancini was born April 16, 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio He was an Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. His best-known works are the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series and Moon River...He died at the age of 70 June 14, 1994 of pancreatic cancer.

Sir Peter Ustinov was born 16 April 1921 in Swiss Cottage, London. He was an Academy Award-winning English actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur of French, Italian, Swiss, Russian and Ethiopian ancestry.....He died on 28 March 2004 of natural causes in a clinic in Genolier.

Martin Lawrence was born April 16, 1965 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany..He was given his first name after Martin Luther King Jr. and his middle name after that of John F. Kennedy. He is an American actor, comedian, director and producer. He came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor. Big Momma's House 2 2006 Open Season, as Boog. Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins 2008 College Road Trip 2008 to name a few.

Ellen Barkin was born April 16, 1954 in the Bronx, New York..She is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress who has done work in made-for-television films and has appeared in several successful films, including the thrillers Sea of Love, opposite Al Pacino 1989, and The Big Easy 1987, opposite Dennis Quaid.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar was born on April 16, 1947 in Harlem, New York City. He is an American athlete and retired professional basketball player, widely considered one of the greatest NBA players of all time. During his 20 years in the NBA from 1969 to 1989, he scored 38,387 points - the highest total of any player in league history - in addition to winning a record six Most Valuable Player Awards.

Dusty Springfield OBE was born April 16, 1939 Ealing, London, U.K. She was an English singer. Of the female artists of British invasion, Dusty Springfield made the biggest impression on the US market From 1963 to 1970 she scored 18 singles in Billboard Hot 100. She was voted the Top British Female Artist by the readers of the New Musical Express in 1964, 1965 and 1968...On March 2, 1999 aged 59 She died of breast cancer on the day she had been due to go to Buckingham Palace to receive her Order of the British Empire.

Wilbur Wright was born 16 April 1867 in Dayton, Ohioand..He was part of the Wright brothers. His Bother (Orville Wright) who were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier than air human flight on 17 December 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft...He was diagnosed with typhoid fever and died, age 45 on 30 May.

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