Celebrity Birthdays for April 26:
Architect I.M. Pei is 101.
Movie composer Francis Lai is 86.
Actress-comedian Carol Burnett is 85.
Guitarist-songwriter Duane Eddy is 80.
Singer Maurice Williams of Maurice and the Zodiacs is 80.
Record producer/songwriter Giorgio Moroder is 78.
'60s pop singer Claudine Clark is 77.
Singer Bobby Rydell is 76.
Singer Gary Wright is 75.
Playwright-broadcaster Erika Ritter is 70.
Singer Jimmy Hall (Wet Willie) is 69.
Actress Nancy Lenehan is 65.
Actor Giancarlo Esposito ("Revolution," ''Breaking Bad") is 60.
Drummer Roger Taylor of Duran Duran is 58.
Actress Joan Chen ("Twin Peaks") is 57.
Drummer Chris Mars of The Replacements is 57.
Actor-singer Michael Damian is 56.
Actor Jet Li is 55.
Guitarist Jimmy Stafford of Train is 54.
Actor-comedian Kevin James ("Paul Blart: Mall Cop," ''The King of Queens") is 53.
Keyboardist Jeff Huskins of Little Texas is 52.
Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste is 51.
Fiddler Joe Caverlee of Yankee Grey is 50.
Singer T-Boz of TLC is 48.
U.S. first lady Melania Trump is 48.
Actress Shondrella Avery ("Napoleon Dynamite") is 47.
Bassist Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts is 47.
Bassist Michael Jeffers of Pinmonkey is 46.
Drummer Jose Pasillas of Incubus is 42.
Actor Jason Earles ("Hannah Montana") is 41.
Actor Leonard Earl Howze ("Barbershop") is 41.
Actor Tom Welling ("Smallville") is 41.
Actor Pablo Schreiber ("Orange is the New Black," ''Weeds") is 40.
Actor Nyambi Nyambi ("Mike and Molly") is 39.
Singer Ariane Moffat is 39.
Actress Jordana Brewster ("The Fast and The Furious") is 38.
Actress Stana Katic ("Castle") is 38.
Actress Marnette Patterson ("Something So Right") is 38.
Actor Channing Tatum ("Step Up") is 38.
Actress Emily Wickersham ("NCIS") is 34.
Americana/roots singer-songwriter Lilly Hiatt is 34.
Actress Jemima Kirke ("Girls") is 32.
Also born on this date (death in parentheses):
In 1785, wildlife artist John James Audubon. (Jan. 27, 1851)
In 1886, pioneer blues singer Gertrude "Ma" Rainey. (Dec. 22, 1939)
In 1900, Charles Richter, co-inventor of the earthquake magnitude scale. (Sept. 30, 1985)
In 1904, Archbishop of Montreal Paul-Émile Léger. (Nov. 13, 1991)
In 1915, Delta blues guitarist and singer Johnny Shines. (April 20, 1992)
In 1922, Canadian journalist-politician-Governor General Jeanne Sauve. (Jan. 26, 1993)
In 1925, Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingmann. (March 21, 2015)
In 1931, Canadian film and television producer and author Paul Almond. (April 10, 2015)
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