APRIL
26 – Tom Welling – 32 – Putnam Valley, NY
26 – Carol Brunett – 76 – San Antonio, TX
27 – Casey Kasem – 76 – Detroit, MI
28 – Penelope Cruz – 35 – Madrid, SPAIN
28 – Jay Leno – 59 – Andover, MA
28 – Ann Margret – 68 – Jamtlands Ian, SWEDEN
29 – Uma Thurman – 39 – Boston, MA
29 – Michelle Pfeiffer – 51 – Santa Ana, CA
29 – Jerry Seinfeld – 55 – Brooklyn, NY
30 – Willie Nelson – 76 – Abbott, TX
30 – Cloris Leachman – 83 – Des Moines, IA
MAY
>01 – Tim McGraw – 42 – Delhi, LA
02 – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson – 47 – Hayward, CA
02 – Engelbert Humperdinck – 73 – Madras, India
Trivia
ANN-MARGRET
Ann-Margret and her mother moved to the United States in November 1946, and her father took her to Radio City Music Hall on the day they arrived. They settled just outside of Chicago in Wilmette, IL. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1949. She took her first dance lessons at the Marjorie Young School of Dance, and showed natural ability from the start, easily mimicking all the steps. Her parents were supportive and her mother handmade all her costumes. Ann-Margret's mother worked as a funeral parlour receptionist after her husband suffered a severe injury on his job. While a teenager, Ann-Margret appeared on the Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour, Don McNeill's Breakfast Club and Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour.
Through high school, she continued to star in theatricals and she attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta but did not graduate. As part of a group known as the "Suttletones," they performed at the Mist, a Chicago nightclub, and went to Las Vegas for a promised club date which fell through after they arrived. They plugged ahead to Los Angeles and, through agent Georgia Lund, secured club dates in Newport Beach and Reno, where Ann-Margret had a chance encounter with Marilyn Monroe, who was on location for The Misfits. Monroe noticed the striking girl in a crowd of onlookers, then chatted privately with her, offering her encouragement.
The group finally arrived at The Dunes in Las Vegas, which also headlined Tony Bennett and Al Hirt at that time. George Burns heard of her performance and she auditioned for his annual holiday show, in which she and Burns did a soft-shoe routine. Variety proclaimed, "George Burns has a gold mine in Ann-Margret...she has a definite style of her own, which can easily guide her to star status". She has been married to Roger Smith since May 8, 1967.
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