On This Day April 22
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1884 – First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (d. 1962)
1925 – Crime novelist Elmore Leonard (“Get Shorty,” “Freaky Deaky,” “Glitz”) (d. 2013)
1946 – Singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Daryl Hall of the duo Hall & Oates
1966 – Actor Luke Perry, best known for the 1990s TV series “Beverly Hills, 90210” (d. 2019)
1985 – Actress Michelle Trachtenberg (“Harriet the Spy,” “Weeds,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)
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1909 – Australian actor Errol Flynn, best known for his romantic swashbuckler movie roles (d. 1959)
1924 – Grammy-winning country music (“Nashville sound”) guitarist Chet Atkins (d. 2001)
1942 – Grammy-winning Beach Boys founder and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Brian Wilson
1945 – Grammy-winning pop-country vocalist Anne Murray (“Snowbird,” “I Just Fall in Love Again”)
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1937 – Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates
1943 – Actress Joan Van Ark (“Dallas,” “Knots Landing”)
1955 – Emmy-winning actress Laurie Metcalf, best known for her role as Jackie on TV’s “Roseanne”
1970 – World Golf Hall of Famer Phil Mickelson
1971 – Iconic hip-hop artist, actor and poet Tupac Shakur (d. 1996)
1972 – Actor John Cho (the “Harold & Kumar” movies, “American Pie,” the 2009 “Star Trek” movie)
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1908 – Beautician-business executive Estée Lauder (d. 2004)
1934 – Actor Jamie Farr, who played Klinger in the hit TV sitcom “M*A*S*H”
1939 – Actress Karen Black (“Easy Rider,” “Five Easy Pieces,” ”Family Plot”) (d. 2013)
1961 – U.S. Olympic track and field champion Carl Lewis
1961 – Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997)
1967 – Actress-model Pamela Anderson (“Baywatch,” “Dancing with the Stars”)
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1867 – Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (d. 1959)
1918 – Actor Robert Preston (“The Music Man,” “Victor Victoria,” “The Last Starfighter”) (d. 1987)
1925 – Former First Lady Barbara Bush (d. 2018)
1933 – Comedian-TV host Joan Rivers (d. 2014)
1944 – Singer-songwriter Boz Skaggs (“Lowdown,” “Lido Shuffle”)