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On This Day April 2
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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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1784 – Zachary Taylor, 12th U.S. president (d. 1850)
1868 – Ragtime composer and pianist Scott Joplin (“The Maple Leaf Rag,” “The Entertainer”) (d. 1917)
1925 – Conservative author-commentator William F. Buckley, Jr. (d. 2008)
1938 – Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar “Big O” Robertson
1941 – Original Beatles drummer Pete Best
1978 – Emmy-winning actress Katherine Heigl (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Knocked Up,” “State of Affairs”)
1990 – Actress Sarah Hyland (“Private Parts,” “Modern Family,” “Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters”)
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1924 – “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood” author Truman Capote (d. 1984)
1928 – Nobel Peace Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (d. 2016)
1931 – Actress Angie Dickinson, who starred in the 1970s TV crime drama “Police Woman”
1943 – Singer Marilyn McCoo, formerly of the band the 5th Dimension
1954 – Actor Barry Williams, born Barry William Blenkhorn, who played Greg on TV’s “The Brady Bunch”
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1860 – Folk artist Grandma Moses (d, 1861)
1936 – Rock and roll legend Buddy Holly (d. 1959)
1949 – Singer Gloria Gaynor, best known for her disco smash “I Will Survive”
1950 – Actress and voice artist Julie Kavner, best recognized as the voice of TV’s Marge Simpson
1951 – Pretenders founder and lead singer Chrissie Hynde
1954 – Actor Corbin Bernsen (“L.A. Law,” “Psych”)
1956 – Singer-pianist Michael Feinstein, known for his interpretation of the Great American Songbook
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1912 – Actor-dancer-singer Gene Kelly (d. 1996)
1929 – Actress Vera Miles, best known for her role as Lila Crane in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”
1931 – Actress Barbara Eden, who starred in TV’s “I Dream of Jeannie” from 1965-1970
1946 – The Who drummer Keith Moon (d. 1978)
1949 – Actress Shelley Long (“Cheers,” “The Money Pit,” “The Brady Bunch Movie”)
1970 – Actor River Phoenix (“Explorers,” “Stand By Me,” “Running On Empty”) (d. 1993)
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1964 – The Beatles’ first film, “A Hard Day’s Night,” opens in 500 U.S. theaters to rave reviews.
1978 – “Three Times a Lady,” by the Commodores featuring Lionel Richie, is the No. 1 single.
1995 – TLC is in the midst of a seven-week domination of the singles chart with “Waterfalls.”
2000 – “Incomplete,” by Sisqó, begins a two-week run on top of the Billboard Hot 100.