April 1 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 1, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#355 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 1 birthdays
Otto von Bismarck · German statesman and Chancellor1815
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Russian composer, pianist and conductor1873
Lon Chaney · American actor1883
Wallace Beery · American actor1885
Leonard Bloomfield · American linguist1887
William James Sidis · American child prodigy1898
Abraham Maslow · American psychologist1908
Toshiro Mifune · Japanese actor1920
Alan Perlis · American computer scientist1922
Ferenc Puskás · Hungarian association football player1927
Milan Kundera · Franco-Czechoslovak poet and novelist1929
Debbie Reynolds · American actress, singer, and dancer1932
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji · French physicist1933
Ali MacGraw · American actress1939
Wangarĩ Maathai · Kenyan environmentalist and politician1940
Susan Boyle · British singer1961
Alexander Stubb · Finnish politician and the 13th President of Finland1968
Rachel Maddow · American television news host and political commentator1973
Randy Orton · American professional wrestler1980
Logan Paul · American YouTuber and Internet personality1995
On this day in history
1865American Civil War: The Union Army under Major General Philip Sheridan inflicted more than 2,900 casualties on the Confederates at the Battle of Five Forks.
1970U.S. president Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring that a prominent warning by the surgeon general be placed on cigarette packages.
1976Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer, Inc. (first logo pictured).
2001An American Lockheed EP-3 and a Chinese Shenyang J-8 collided in mid-air off Hainan, resulting in an international dispute between the two countries.
1954United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1963On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the tenth novel of Ian Fleming's James Bond series, was released in the United Kingdom.
1969The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with V/STOL capabilities, entered service with the Royal Air Force.
1974A man ignited tires in the crater of Mount Edgecumbe, prompting a false eruption scare later revealed as an April Fools' hoax.
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