National Siblings Day
April 10, 2021
Yearly Date: always April 10th
You live with them. You grow up with them. You fight with them, and then you’d fight anybody that messes with them.
Today we celebrate the sweet little monsters that are our siblings.
I’m the oldest of four kids. My parents spread us out. My oldest little brother is 13 months younger than me, my little sister is 11 years younger than me, and my baby brother is 15 years younger than me. Same parents for all four of us. In fact, my mom and dad were pretty cagey with the spacing of the four of us, by planning it so that there were built-in baby sitters for the younger two.
Siblings Day was created by Claudia Evart in 1996. She lost both her older brother and older sister when they were young, and started Siblings Day in their memory.
Here are a few things about siblings that might surprise you:
1. Firstborns are generally smarter. Oldest children do have an IQ and linguistic advantage. So there.
2. According to a Harvard study, younger siblings have a better sense of humor than their older sibs, and tend to be extroverts.
3. Men who have sisters are better at talking to girls when dating.
4. Even though you sometimes feel like your sibling is from another planet, you share about 50% of the same DNA genetic makeup as them.
5. Generally younger siblings seek a career completely different than their older sibs.
6. Middle sibs are compromisers and are usually the peacemakers of the family.
If you are lucky enough to still have your siblings, today is the perfect day to let them know how much they mean to you. I sure am lucky to have mine. Family is everything.
Happy Siblings Day!
Quote for the Day
“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”
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