National SuperHero Day

April 28
Yearly Date: Always April 28th

Who is your hero? A friend? Your parents? A co-worker? A teacher? Maybe even a spouse?

One National Superhero Day we celebrate more than just Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. We celebrate all heroes both real and fictional.

In 1995 a Marvel Comics employee created Superhero Day to honor everyone’s favorite hero. Reportedly, the day was initially designed to celebrate heroes who protect people and fight evil.

Our real-life superheroes may not have super powers or wear fancy capes, but they are ordinary people who, for whatever reasons, make themselves extraordinary.

You can commemorate this day by:

Dressing Up.
Have a superhero party and invite your other superhero loving friends. Or, let your kids or grandkids dress up and take them out to do some “good deeds.” Heck, every day I suit up for a run, I pretend I’m a superhero!

Watch or Read.
Watch your favorite superhero movie or read your favorite comic book.

Honor the Real Life Superheroes in Your Life.
Surprise your hero with a gift, a special dinner, or dedicate a social media post to them.

And…don’t forget…

You too, can be a Superhero.
You may be someone’s inspiration and not even know it, so it’s a great day to celebrate your own inner superhero!

Duck into that phone booth. Be a Hero!

Happy Superheroes Day!

 

Quote for the Day

“Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.” 

Batman

Famous People Born in April

 

April 1, 1815 – Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor, statesman

April 1, 1928 – Jane Powell, actress/singer

April 1, 1932 – Debbie Reynolds, actress

April 1, 1938 – Ali MacGraw, actress

April 1, 1947 – David Eisenhower, author, grandson of Pres. Dwight Eisenhower

April 2, 1805 – Hans Christian Anderson, children’s author

April 2, 1834 – Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, sculpted the Statue of Liberty

April 2, 1908 – Buddy Ebsen, actor

April 2, 1914 – Sir Alec Guinness, actor

April 2, 1920 – Jack Webb, actor, “Joe Friday “on TV series “Dragnet”

April 2, 1939 – Marvin Gaye, singer

April 2, 1955 – Dana Carvey, actor, comedian

April 3, 1783 – Washington Irving, author

April 3, 1924 – Marlon Brando, actor

April 3, 1924 – Doris Day, American actress, singer

April 3, 1926 – Virgil “Gus” Grissom, astronaut , died in a fire during a simulation aboard Apollo 1

April 3, 1942 – Wayne Newton, singer and actor

April 3, 1944 – Tony Orlando, singer

April 3, 1958 – Alec Baldwin, American actor

April 3, 1961 – Eddie Murphy, American actor, comedian

April 3, 1970 – Rick Schroder, actor

April 3, 1971 – Picabo Street, Olympic champion skier

April 4, 1895 – Arthur Murray, dance studio fame

April 4, 1906 – John Cameron Swayze, TV news anchorman

April 4, 1915 – Muddy Waters, blues singer

April 4, 1924 – Gil Hodges, baseball player, manager

April 4, 1926 – Cloris Leachman, actress

April 4, 1946 – Craig T. Nelson, actor

April 4, 1965 – Robert Downey Jr., actor

April 5, 1900 – Spencer Tracy, actor

April 5, 1908 – Bette Davis, actress

April 5, 1916 – Gregory Peck, actor

April 5, 1920 – Arthur Hailey, author

April 5, 1934 – Frank Gorshin, actor, comedian

April 5, 1937 – Colin Powell, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of State

April 5, 1941 – Michael Moriarty, actor

April 5, 1949 – Judith Resnick, astronaut, died in the Challenger space shuttle explosion

April 6, 1483 – Raphael (Sanzio), Italian painter, architect

April 6, 1870 – Oskar Straus,  Austrian composer

April 6, 1892 – Lowell Thomas, broadcaster, journalist

April 6, 1928 – James D. Watson, biochemist, co-discovered the structure of DNA

April 6, 1937 – Merle Haggard, singer, songwriter

April 6, 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, actor

April 6, 1947 – John Ratzenberger, actor

April 6, 1952 – Marilu Henner, actress

April 6, 1976 – Candace Cameron, actress

April 7, 742 – Charlemagne, King of the Franks

April 7, 1770 – William Wordsworth, poet, philosopher

April 7, 1897 – Walter Winchell, journalist, broadcaster

April 7, 1915 – Billie Holiday, jazz singer

April 7, 1928 – James Garner, actor

April 7, 1933 – Wayne Rogers, actor

April 7, 1939 – Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker

April 7, 1951 – Janis Ian, singer, songwriter

April 7, 1954 – Jackie Chan, actor

April 7, 1964 – Russell Crowe, actor

April 8, 563 BC – Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), religious leader, founded of Buddhism

April 8, 1918 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States

April 8, 1928 – John Gavin, actor

April 8, 1938 – Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General

April 8, 1940 – John Havlicek, basketball player

April 8, 1962 – Julian Lennon, singer, musician, son of John & Cynthia Lennon

April 9, 1879 – W. C. Fields, actor

April 9, 1883 – Frank King, cartoonist, created “Gasoline Alley”

April 9, 1926 – Hugh Hefner, publisher of Playboy

April 9, 1928 – Tom Lehrer, songwriter

April 9, 1939 – Michael Learned, actress

April 9, 1954 – Dennis Quaid, actor

April 9, 1957 – Steve Ballesteros, golfer

April 10, 1794 – Commodore Matthew Perry, opened naval relations with Japan

April 10, 1847 – Joseph Pulitzer, journalist, publisher

April 10, 1882 – Frances Perkins, first U.S. woman cabinet member- Secretary of Labor

April 10, 1915 – Harry Morgan, actor

April 10, 1921 – Chuck Connors, actor

April 10, 1932 – Omar Sharif, actor

April 10, 1936 – John Madden, football coach, sportscaster

April 10, 1938 – Don Meredith, football player, sportscaster

April 10, 1952 – Steven Seagal, actor

April 11, 1913 – Oleg Cassini, fashion designer

April 11, 1928 – Ethel Kennedy, wife of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy

April 11, 1932 – Joel Grey, actor

April 11, 1939 – Louise Lasser, actress , “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”

April 11, 1950 – Bill Irwin, actor, choreographer

April 12, 1777 – Henry Clay, statesman, Speaker of the House

April 12, 1916 – Beverly Cleary, children’s author

April 12, 1919 – Ann Miller, actress, dancer

April 12, 1926 – Jane Withers, actress

April 12, 1930 – Tiny Tim, actor, musician, “Tip Toe through the Tulips”

April 12, 1947 – Tom Clancy, author

April 12, 1947 – David Letterman, TV personality, comedian

April 12, 1949 – Scott F. Turow, author

April 12, 1950 – David Cassidy, singer, actor

April 12, 1956 – Andy Garcia, actor

April 12, 1971 – Shannon Doherty, actress, “Beverly Hills 90210”  

April 12, 1979 –  Claire Danes, actress

April 13, 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U. S. President (1801-1809)

April 13, 1866 – Butch Cassidy, Wild West outlaw

April 13, 1899 – Alfred Butts, invented the board game “Scrabble”

April 13, 1923 – Don Adams, TV Actor, “Maxwell Smart” on “Get Smart”

April 13, 1950 – Ron Perlman, actor

April 13, 1951 – Peabo Bryson, singer

April 13, 1963 – Gary Karsparov, Russian Chess Master

April 14, 1866 – Anne Sullivan, taught Helen Keller

April 14, 1925 – Rod Steiger, actor

April 14, 1935 – Loretta Lynn, country western singer

April 14, 1940 – Julie Christie, actress

April 14, 1941 – Pete Rose, baseball player, manager

April 14, 1960 – Brad Garrett, Actor, “Robert “on TV series “Everybody Loves Raymond”

April 14, 1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

April 15, 1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, artist, sculptor, inventor

April 15, 1741 – Charles Wilson Peale, portrait painter

April 15, 1843 – Henry James, novelist, short story writer, critic

April 15, 1894 – Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of Soviet Union, Famous Cold War Quote to U.S.: “We will bury You”

April 15, 1933 – Elizabeth Montgomery, Actress, “Samantha Stevens” on TV series “Bewitched”

April 15, 1933 – Roy Clark, singer, musician

April 15, 1957 – Evelyn Ashford, Olympic champion, sprinter

April 15, 1959 – Emma Thompson, actress

April 15, 1971 – Selena Quintanilla, U.S. award winning singer

April 15, 1982 – Seth Rogen, actor

APril 15, 1990 – Emma Watson, French actress, Harry Potter films, Beauty and the Beast

April 16, 1867 – Wilbur Wright, pioneer aviator

April 16, 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, comic actor, filmmaker

April 16, 1921 – Peter Ustinov, actor

April 16, 1924 – Henry Mancini, composer

April 16, 1929 – Edie Adams, singer, actress

April 16, 1930 – Herbie Mann, jazz musician

April 16, 1935 – Bobby Vinton, singer

April 16, 1939 – Dusty Springfield, British pop star

April 16, 1947 – Kareem Abdul Jabbar, one of the greatest players in NBA history. Born Frederick Lewis Alcindor Jr.

April 16, 1952 – Bill Belichick, Head Coach, New England Patriots Superbowl teams.

April 16, 1955 – Ellen Barkin, actress

April 16, 1971 – Selena Quintanilla, popular Hispanic singer, tragically murdered at peak of career

April 17, 1837 – John Pierpont Morgan, financier, philanthropist

April 17, 1894 – Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader, famous quote: “We will bury you!”

April 17, 1897 – Thornton Wilder, playwright, novelist

April 17, 1918 – William Holden, actor

April 17, 1923 – Harry Reasoner, TV anchorman, journalist

April 17, 1961 – Norman “Boomer” Esiason, NFL Quarterback

April 17, 1972 – Jennifer Garner, Actress, “Sidney Bristow” on TV series “Alias”

April 17, 1974 – Victoria Addams, singer, “Posh Spice” of Spice Girls

April 18, 1857 – Clarence Darrow, attorney

April 18, 1922 – Barbara Hale, actress

April 18, 1946 – Jim “Catfish” Hunter, baseball pitcher

April 18, 1946 – Hayley Mills, actress

April 18, 1947 – Dorothy Lyman, actress

April 18, 1953 – Rick Moranis, actor, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”

April 18, 1963 – Conan O’Brien, TV late night talk show

April 18, 1992 – Cloe Bennet, actress played in “Agents of “S.H.I.E.L.D.”

April 19, 1903 – Eliot Ness, American Lawman

April 19, 1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, chemist, discovered plutonium

April 19, 1925 – Hugh O’Brien, actor

April 19, 1935 – Dudley Moore, actor

April 19, 1962 – Al Unser Jr., auto racer

April 19, 1968 – Ashley Judd, actress

April 19, 1979 – Kate Hudson, actress

April 20, 1889 – Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator of Germany

April 20, 1908 – Lionel Hampton, bandleader, musician

April 20, 1941 – Ryan O’Neal, actor

April 20, 1949 – Jessica Lange, actress

April 20, 1951 – Luther Vandross, singer, songwriter

April 20, 1973 – Carmen Electra, actress

April 21, 1915 – Anthony Quinn, actor

April 21, 1926 – Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of England

April 21, 1935 – Charles Grodin, actor

April 21, 1951 – Tony Danza, actor

April 21, 1782  – Friedrich Froebel, started the first Kindergarten in Germany in 1837

April 21, 1958 – Andie MacDowell, actress, model

April 21, 1961 – Don Mattingly, baseball player

April 22, 1908 – Eddie Albert, actor

April 22, 1928 – Aaron Spelling, TV writer, producer

April 22, 1936 – Glen Campbell, singer

April 22, 1936 – Jack Nicholson, Oscar winning actor, director, producer, writer

April 22, 1939 – Jason Miller, playwright, actor

April 22, 1950 – Peter Frampton, singer

April 23, 1564 – William Shakespeare, playwright, poet. Died: April 23, 1616.

April 23, 1791 – James Buchanan, 15th  U.S. President (1857-1861)

April 23, 1928 – Shirley Temple Black, child actress, diplomat

April 23, 1936 – Roy Orbison, singer

April 23, 1940 – Lee Majors, actor, “Six Million Dollar Man”

April 23, 1942 – Sandra Dee, actress

April 23, 1960 – Valerie Bertinelli, actress

April 23, 1961 – George Lopez, actor and comedian

April 24, 1766 – Robert Bailey Thomas, founder & editor of “The Farmer’s Almanac”

April 24, 1884 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Naval Commander who led invasion of Pearl Harbor, starting WWII.

April 24, 1905 – Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist

April 24, 1934 – Shirley MacLaine, actress, dancer

April 24, 1942 – Barbra Streisand, actress, director, singer

April 24, 1955 – Michael O’Keefe, actor

April 24, 1982 – Kelly Clarkson, First “American Idol” winner

April 25, 1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, inventor, wireless telegraphy

April 25, 1906 – William J. Brennan Jr., Supreme Court justice

April 25, 1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer

April 25, 1932 – Meadowlark Lemon, basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters

April 25, 1940 – Al Pacino, actor

April 25, 1969 – Renee Zellweger, actress

April 26, 1564 – William Shakespeare, English writer and actor

April 26, 1785 – John James Audubon, artist, naturalist

April 26, 1798 –  Eugene Delacroix, painter

April 26, 1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, park designer

April 26, 1894 – Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader

April 26, 1900 – Charles Francis Richter, physicist, seismologist, developed Richter scale

April 26, 1936 – Carol Burnett, actress, comedian

April 26, 1942 – Bobby Rydell, singer

Aoruk 26, 1965 – Kevin James, U.S. actor, starred in “King of Queens”

April 26, 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian super model, former First Lady of the United States of America

April 27, 1521 – Ferdinand Magelan, Portugese explorer

April 27, 1791 – Samuel Morse, invented magnetic telegraph

April 27, 1822 – Ulyddrd S. Grant, 18th U.S. President, Civil War general (1869-1877)

April 27, 1896 – Rogers Hornsby, baseball player

April 27, 1922 – Jack Klugman, actor

April 27, 1927 – Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader, wife of Martin Luther King Jr.

April 27, 1932 – Casey Kasem, radio personality

April 27, 1937 – Sandy Dennis, actress

April 27, 1959 – Sheena Easton, singer

April 28, 1758 – James Monroe, 5th U.S. President (1817-1825)

April 28, 1878 – Lionel Barrymore, actor

April 28, 1937- Saddam Hussein, Iraqi president

April 28, 1941 – Ann-Margret, actress, singer

April 28, 1950 – Jay Leno, TV comedian, “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”

April 28, 1981 – Jewsica Alba, actress, “Sin City”.

April 29, 1727 –Jean-Georges Noverre, creator of the modern ballet.

April 29, 1863 – William Randolph Hearst, newspaper editor, publisher

April 29, 1899 – Duke Ellington, jazz musician, bandleader

April 29, 1901 – Emperor Hirohito, emperor of Japan during World War II

April 29, 1915 – Donald Mills, singer and member of the Mills Brothers

April 29, 1938 – Bernie Madoff, American businessman, investor, stock broker, convicted of major Ponzi scheme, bilking thousands of people.

April 29, 1951 – Dale Earnhardt, auto racer

April 29, 1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, actor, comedian

April 29,  1958- Michelle Pfeiffer, actress

April 29, 1970 – Andre Agassi, tennis champion

April 29,  1970 –Uma Thurman, actress, “Pulp Fiction”

April 30, 1933 – Willie Nelson, country singer

April 30, 1938 – Gary Collins, actor

April 30, 1945 – Michael J. Smith, astronaut, died in Challenger space shuttle explosion

April 30, 1961 – Isiah Thomas, NBA basketball player

April 30, 1975 – John Galecki, actor, played son Rusty in Christmas Vacation movie, Leonard on TV series “Big Bang Theory”

April 30, 1981 – Kunal Nayyar, Indian-English actor, played “Raj Koothrappali” on TV series “Big Bang Theory”

April 30, 1982 – Kirsten Dunst, actress

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