April Birthdays

Since it's April, it's time to say Happy Birthday

Jet Li

-Birth name: Li Lian Jie

-DOB: 4/26/1963

-Where: Beijing, China

-He not only did the voice overs for the character Kit  Yun in the video game Rise to Honor, he also did the motion capture work for the fight scenes, working closely with Corey Yuen.

Ritchie Blackmore

-Birth name: Richard Hugh Blackmore

-DOB: 4/14/1945

-Where: Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England

-He quit Deep Purple for good in 1994 because he felt Ian Gillan, the vocalist for Deep Purple, wasn't taking the tour very seriously and the old tensions between him and Gillan were starting to fire back up

Jeremy Clarkson

-Birth name: Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson

-DOB: 4/11/1960

-Where: Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England

-He provided notes for the sleeve of the re-issued Genesis album Selling England by the Pound

Eddie Murphy

-Birth name: Edward Regan Murphy

-DOB: 4/3/1961

-Where: Brooklyn, New York

-Prior to entering the world of acting, he performed stand up comedy at the same comedy club, the Bay Area Comedy Club, as Robin Williams and Caryn Johnson, who would later go on to fame as Whoopi Goldberg

Roddy Piper

-Birth name: Roderick George Toombs

-DOB: 4/17/1954

-Where: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

-DOD: 7/30/2015

-Where: Hollywood, California

-He holds a black belt in judo

Sebastian Bach

-Birth name: Sebastian Phillip Bierk

-DOB: 4/3/1968

-Where: Freeport, The Bahamas

-He himself said that when he was a child and attending school in The Bahamas, he was the only white child in a class of close to forty black children