Some famous birthdays today:

• Gregory Peck (film actor, stage actor, film producer, character actor, born April 5, 1916)
• Bette Davis (autobiographer, musician, actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, character actor, born April 5, 1908)
• Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (politician, economist, university teacher, born April 5, 1947)
• Colin Powell (politician, soldier, diplomat, born April 5, 1937)
• Spencer Tracy (actor, film actor, stage actor, born April 5, 1900)
• Pharrell Williams (singer, singer-songwriter, record producer, composer, producer, rapper, born April 5, 1973)
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard (painter, drawer, printmaker, born April 5, 1732)
• Roger Corman (screenwriter, film director, actor, film actor, television actor, film producer, born April 5, 1926)
• Roman Herzog (politician, jurist, university teacher, judge, born April 5, 1934)
• Alexander of Battenberg (military officer, born April 5, 1857)
• Hugo Claus (playwright, screenwriter, writer, painter, poet, translator, author, film director, journalist, librettist, born April 5, 1929)
• Louis Spohr (composer, conductor, music pedagogue, musicologist, born April 5, 1784)
• Nguyen Van Thieu (politician, military personnel, born April 5, 1923)
• Booker T. Washington (writer, autobiographer, businessperson, pedagogue, educator, born April 5, 1856)
• Peter Greenaway (screenwriter, writer, painter, film director, actor, film editor, theatre director, cinematographer, television director, experimental artist, born April 5, 1942)
• Robert Bloch (screenwriter, novelist, science fiction writer, writer, born April 5, 1917)
• Takuro Yoshida (singer, singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, composer, lyricist, born April 5, 1946)
• Albert R. Broccoli (film producer, born April 5, 1909)
• Emperor Shizong of Jin (aristocrat, born March 29, 1123)
• Melvyn Douglas (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born April 5, 1901)
• Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (feudatory, born April 5, 1604)
• Stanley Turrentine (composer, jazz musician, saxophonist, born April 5, 1934)
• István Örkény (playwright, writer, author, pharmacist, born April 5, 1912)
• Petko Karavelov (politician, born April 5, 1843)
• Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (lady-in-waiting, born April 5, 1863)
• Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (military leader, born April 5, 1691)
• Charles of Lorraine, duke of Mayenne (aristocrat, born March 26, 1554)
• George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Margrave, born March 26, 1539)
• Albert III, Duke of Bavaria (sovereign, born March 27, 1401)
• John Le Mesurier (autobiographer, film actor, stage actor, born April 5, 1912)
• Jane Asher (novelist, writer, actor, film actor, stage actor, born April 5, 1946)