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Notable Birthdays for April 22

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Those born on this date include:

- Spanish Queen Isabella I, who funded the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World, in 1451
- English novelist Henry Fielding in 1707
- German philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1724
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of Russia's 1917 Communist revolution, in 1870
- novelist Vladimir Nabokov in 1899
- pioneer nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1904
- actor Eddie Albert in 1906
- violin virtuoso Yehudi Menhin in 1916
- jazz bass player Charles Mingus in 1922
- actress Charlotte Rae in 1926 (age 88)
- TV producer Aaron Spelling in 1923
- singer Glen Campbell in 1936 (age 78)
- actor Jack Nicholson in 1937 (age 77)
- businessman and balloon-flight record setter Steve Fossett in 1944
- filmmaker John Waters in 1946 (age 68)
- rock guitarist and singer Peter Frampton in 1950 (age 64)
- actors Marilyn Chambers in 1952 and Ryan Stiles in 1959 (age 55)
- comedian/TV host Byron Allen in 1961 (age 53)
- and actor Chris Makepeace in 1964 (age 50).

 


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