Celebrity Birthdays for April 26:
Actress-comedian Carol Burnett is 91.
Guitarist-songwriter Duane Eddy is 86.
Singer Maurice Williams of Maurice and the Zodiacs is 86.
Record producer/songwriter Giorgio Moroder is 84.
'60s pop singer Claudine Clark is 83.
Playwright-broadcaster Erika Ritter is 76.
Singer Jimmy Hall (Wet Willie) is 75.
Actress Nancy Lenehan is 71.
Actor Giancarlo Esposito ("Revolution," ''Breaking Bad") is 66.
Drummer Roger Taylor of Duran Duran is 64.
Actress Joan Chen ("Twin Peaks") is 63.
Drummer Chris Mars of The Replacements is 63.
Actor-singer Michael Damian is 62.
Actor Jet Li is 61.
Guitarist Jimmy Stafford of Train is 60.
Actor-comedian Kevin James ("Paul Blart: Mall Cop," ''The King of Queens") is 59.
Keyboardist Jeff Huskins of Little Texas is 58.
Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste is 57.
Fiddler Joe Caverlee of Yankee Grey is 56.
Singer T-Boz of TLC is 54.
Former U.S. first lady Melania Trump is 54.
Actress Shondrella Avery ("Napoleon Dynamite") is 53.
Bassist Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts is 53.
Drummer Jose Pasillas of Incubus is 48.
Actor Jason Earles ("Hannah Montana") is 47.
Actor Tom Welling ("Smallville") is 47.
Actor Pablo Schreiber ("Orange is the New Black," ''Weeds") is 46.
Actress Stana Katic ("Castle") is 46.
Actor Nyambi Nyambi ("Mike and Molly") is 45.
Singer Ariane Moffat is 45.
Actress Jordana Brewster ("The Fast and The Furious") is 44.
Actress Marnette Patterson ("Something So Right") is 44.
Actor Channing Tatum ("Step Up") is 44.
Actress Emily Wickersham ("NCIS") is 40.
Americana/roots singer-songwriter Lilly Hiatt is 40.
Actress Jemima Kirke ("Girls") is 39.
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 1917, architect I.M. Pei. (May 16, 2019)
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)
In 1932, movie composer Francis Lai. (Nov. 7, 2018)
In 1942, singer Bobby Rydell. (Apr. 5, 2022)
In 1943, singer Gary Wright. (Sept. 4, 2023)
The Canadian Press