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.”
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