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On This Day April 21
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History Highlights
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1751 – Fourth U.S. President and “Father of the Constitution,” James Madison (d. 1836)
1912 – Former First Lady Pat Nixon (d. 1993)
1941 – TV game show host Chuck Woolery (“Wheel of Fortune,” “Love Connection,” “Scrabble”)
1949 – Actor Erik Estrada, who rose to fame in the NBC police drama “CHiPs”
1949 – Actor Victor Garber (“Titanic,” “Alias” “Assassins,” “Argo”)
1954 – Singer-songwriter Nancy Wilson of the sibling rock duo Heart
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1756 – Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1791)
1944 – Pink Floyd founding member-drummer and auto racer Nick Mason
1948 – Dancer-actor Mikhail Baryshnikov (“The Turning Point,” “White Nights,” “Sex and the City”)
1959 – TV host and political commentator Keith Olbermann
1964 – Actress Bridget Fonda (“Single White Female,” “Point of No Return,” “Jackie Brown”)
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1913 – Actor Lloyd Bridges (“Sea Hunt,” “Airplane!” “East of Eden”) (d. 1998)
1937 – Oscar-winning actress Margaret O’Brien (“Jane Eyre,” “Meet Me in St. Louis”)
1957 – Actor-director Mario Van Peebles (“21 Jump Street,” “New Jack City,” “Baadasssss!”)
1968 – Emmy-winning actor Chad Lowe (“ER,” “Melrose Place,” “Life Goes On,” “Pretty Little Liars”)
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1922 – Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (d. 2000)
1933 – Grammy, Tony and Emmy-winning singer-actor Robert Goulet (d. 2007)
1938 – Impressionist-comedian Rich Little, known as “the man of a thousand voices”
1981 – British pop star Natasha Bedingfield (“Unwritten,” “Soulmate,” “I Wanna Have Your Babies”)
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1734 – American pioneer-explorer-frontiersman Daniel Boone (d. 1820)
1914 – Actor Ray Walston (“My Favorite Martian,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”) (d. 2001)
1938 – Journalist and conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan
1942 – Actress Stefanie Powers (“Hart to Hart”)
1961 – Grammy-winning singer-songwriter k.d. lang (“Constant Craving,” “Miss Chatelaine”)
1966 – Actor David Schwimmer, best known for playing Ross Geller in the popular NBC sitcom “Friends”
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1822 – 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes (d. 1893)
1861 – American West artist-sculptor Frederic Remington (d. 1909)
1880 – Journalist-writer Damon Runyon (d. 1946)
1895 – Silent film icon Buster Keaton (“The General”) (d. 1966)
1941 – Gothic novelist Anne Rice (“The Vampire Chronicles”)
1976 – Actress-producer and author Alicia Silverstone (“The Crush,” “Clueless,” “Batman & Robin”)
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1928 – Actor Adam West, best known for playing Batman in the 1960s TV series (d. 2017)
1949 – Lesley Hornby, a.k.a. “Twiggy,” the 60s British fashion icon
1964 – Grammy-winning country music singer Trisha Yearwood
1974 – Emmy-winning “The Tonight Show” host and “Saturday Night Live” alum Jimmy Fallon
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