Celebrity birthdays for April 18:
Talk show host Conan O’Brien is 55.
Actor James Woods is 71.
Actress Cindy Pickett (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) is 71.
Actor Eric McCormack (Will and Grace) is 55.
Actress Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) is 42.
Actor Sean Maguire is 42.
TV personality Kourtney Kardashian is 39.
Actor Clive Revill is 88.
Actor James Drury is 84.
Actor Robert Hooks is 81.
Mike Vickers, saxophone player and guitarist of Manfred Mann, is 78.
Soprano Barbara Shuttleworth is 74.
Actress Hayley Mills is 72.
Keyboardist Walt Richmond of The Tractors is 71.
Actress-director Dorothy Lyman is 71.
Retired race car diver Geoff Bodine is 69.
Bassist Jim Scholten of Sawyer Brown is 66.
Actor Rick Moranis is 65.
Actor Eric Roberts is 62.
Actress Melody Thomas Scott (“Young and the Restless”) is 62.
Actor John James (“Dynasty,” “The Colbys”) is 62.
Bassist Les Pattinson of Echo and the Bunnymen is 60.
Author-journalist Susan Faludi is 59.
Actress Jane Leeves (“Hot In Cleveland,” “Fraiser”) is 57.
Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is 56.
Bluegrass singer-musician Terry Eldredge is 55.
Actress Maria Bello is 50.
Actress Mary Birdsong (“Reno 911!”) is 50.
Actor David Hewlett (“Stargate: SG-1”) is 50.
Actress Lisa Locicero is 48.
Rock musician Greg Eklund (The Oolahs) is 48.
Actor David Tennant (“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”) is 47.
TV chef Ludovic Lefebvre is 47.
Guitarist Mark Tremonti of Creed and of Alter Bridge is 44.
Singer Trina of Trina and Tamara is 44.
Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux is 44.
Singer-songwriter Joel Plaskett is 43.
Actor Kevin Rankin is 42.
Actor Bryce Johnson (“Pretty Little Liars”) is 41.
Singer-songwriter Karl Wolf is 39.
Singer Marie-Elaine Thibert is 36.
Actress America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty”) is 34.
Actress Ellen Woglom (“Marvel’s Inhumans”) is 31.
Actress-model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is 31.
Actress Vanessa Kirby (“The Crown”) is 30.
Actress Alia Shawkat (“Arrested Development”) is 29.
Actress Britt Robertson (“Under the Dome”) is 28.
Actress Chloe Bennet (“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Nashville”) is 26.
Singer Nathan Sykes of The Wanted is 25.
Actor Moises Arias (“Hannah Montana”) is 24.
Also born on this date (death in parentheses):
In 1839, violinist Frantz Jehin-Prume. (May 29, 1899)
In 1857, attorney Clarence Darrow. (March 13, 1938)
In 1882, conductor Leopold Stokowski. (Sept. 13, 1977)
In 1905, G. Sydney Halter, the first commissioner of the CFL. (Oct. 24, 1990)
In 1907, Academy Award-winning composer Miklos Rozsa. (July 27, 1995)
In 1918, guitarist Tony Mottola. (Aug. 9, 2004)
In 1922, Grand Master of calypso Lord Kitchener. (Feb. 11, 2000)
In 1922, actress Barbara Hale (“Perry Mason”). (Jan. 26, 2017)
In 1924, musician Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown. (Sept. 10, 2005)
In 1927, Canadian composer and pianist Marian Grudeff. (Nov. 4, 2006)
In 1935, music producer Paul Rothchild. (March 30, 1995)
In 1946, drummer Skip Spence (Jefferson Airplane). (April 16, 1999)
In 1946, Lenny Baker, formerly of the rock ‘n’ roll revival group Sha Na Na. (Feb. 24, 2016)