April Birthdays

Since it's April, time to say Happy Birthday

Jet Li

-Birth name: Li Lian Jie

-DOB: 4/26/1963

-Where: Beijing, China

-He's known for his incredibly lightning fast martial arts

Ritchie Blackmore

-Birth name: Richard Hugh Blackmore

-DOB: 4/14/1945

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

-Even as a teenager, when he played guitar, he felt the need to play incredibly fast

Jeremy Clarkson

-Birth name: Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson

-DOB: 4/11/1960

-Where: Doncaster, United Kingdom

-He's known for his outspoken nature

Eddie Murphy

-Birth name: Edward Regan Murphy

-DOB: 4/3/1951

-Where: Brooklyn, New York

-His mother was a telephone operator and his father was a transit police officer who also did amateur stand up comedy and acting in his spare time

Roddy Piper

-Birth name: Roderick George Toombs

-DOB: 4/17/1954

-Where: Saskatoon, Canada

-DOD: 7/31/2015

-Where: Los Angeles, California

-He earned his nickname "The Piper" from his talent at playing the bagpipes

Sebastian Bach

-Birth name: Sebastian Philip Bierk

-DOB: 4/3/1968

-Where: Freeport, The Bahamas

-When growing up in The Bahamas, he was the only Caucasian child in a class of predominantly black children

Federico Castellucio

-DOB: 4/29/1964

-Where: Naples, Campania, Italy

-Because of his role as Furio on The Sopranos, with his very convincing Italian accent, people thought he was an actual Italian actor who spoke broken English when he in fact he was born in Naples, Italy, but grew up in Paterson, New Jersey