List of Famous people born in April
Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer, songwriter, actress, model, and activist. She was born and raised in the London Borough of Islington, where she attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. Lewis achieved national recognition when she won the third series of The X Factor in 2006, winning a £1 million recording contract with Syco Music. Her winner's single, a cover of Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment Like This", peaked at number one for four weeks on the UK Singles Chart and broke a world record for reaching 50,000 digital downloads within 30 minutes. In February 2007, Lewis signed a five-album contract in the United States with Clive Davis's record label, J Records.
Damian Hurley
Damian Charles Hurley is an English actor and model. He is the son of actress Elizabeth Hurley and American businessman Steve Bing.
Ayumi Itō
Ayumi Ito is a Japanese actress from Tokyo, Japan.
Yoichi Miyazawa
Yoichi Miyazawa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Fukuyama, Hiroshima and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1974, receiving a MPA from Harvard University in the United States while in the ministry. Leaving the ministry in 1993, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000.
Olga Drozdova
Olga Borisovna Drozdova is a Russian theater and film actress, director. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2015).
Nicolas Bedos
Nicolas Simon Bedos is a French comedian, writer, director and actor. The son of Guy Bedos, he became known in 2004 as a playwright. In 2013, he joined Laurent Ruquier's late-night On n'est pas couché television talk show as a satirist, which he left two years later. His first film, Mr. & Mrs. Adelman, premiered in 2017.
Steve Spurrier
Stephen Orr Spurrier is a former American football player and coach often referred to by his nickname, "Head Ball Coach". Steve Spurrier was born in Miami Beach, Florida and grew up in Tennessee, where he was a multi-sport all-state athlete at Science Hill High School in Johnson City. He attended the University of Florida, where he won the 1966 Heisman Trophy as a college football quarterback with the Florida Gators. The San Francisco 49ers picked him in the first round of the 1967 NFL draft, and he spent a decade playing professionally in the National Football League (NFL), mainly as a backup quarterback and punter. Spurrier was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1986.
Futoshi Matsunaga
Futoshi Matsunaga was a Japanese serial killer who both defrauded and tortured his victims in what is collectively known as the Kitakyūshū Serial Murder Incident (北九州連続殺人事件). Matsunaga was convicted of six counts of murder and one count of manslaughter between 1996 and 1998 and sentenced to death by hanging. He murdered his victims with an accomplice, Junko Ogata, who received a life sentence.
David Raum
David Raum is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. He is mainly utilised in as a left midfielder and has represented Germany at youth level.
Babyface
Kenneth Brian Edmonds, better known by his stage name Babyface, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He has written and produced over 26 number-one R&B hits throughout his career and has won 11 Grammy Awards. He was ranked number 20 on NME's 50 of The Greatest Producers Ever list.