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 provided not only his voice but his motion capture martial arts for the character in the video game Rise to Honor

Ritchie Blackmore

-Birth name: Richard Hugh Blackmore

-DOB: 4/14/1945

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

-He started playing guitar professionally at age 15, backing musicians such as Glenda Collins, The Outlaws and more

Peter Davison

-Birth name: Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett

-DOB: 4/13/1951

-Where: Streatham, London, England

-He is the father-in-law to Doctor Who #10 David Tennant

Paul Nicholls

-Birth name: Gerald Paul Greenhalgh

-DOB: 4/12/1979

-Where: Bolton, Manchester, England

-His parents were a roofer and a psychiatric nurse

Jeremy Clarkson

-Birth name: Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson

-DOB: 4/11/1960

-Where: Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England

-He is known for being incredibly outspoken, as seen on Top Gear

Jamie Bamber

-Birth name: Jamie St. John Bamber Griffith

-DOB: 4/3/1973

-Where: Hammersmith, London, England

-He has American and British citizenship because of his parents being from both nations

Eddie Murphy

-Birth name: Edward Regan Murphy

-DOB: 4/3/1961

-Where: Brooklyn, New York

-His mother was a telephone operator and his father was a transit police officer who also moonlighted as an amateur actor and stand up comic

Sebastian Bach

-Birth name: Sebastian Philip Bierk

-DOB: 4/3/1968

-Where: Freeport, The Bahamas

-He once stated that while in The Bahamas, he was the only white child in a class of 40 black children

Roddy Piper

-Birth name: Roderick George Toombs

-DOB: 4/17/1954

-Where: Saskatchewan, Canada

-DOD: 7/31/2015

-Where: Los Angeles, California

-His memoir, titled Rowdy, was finished by his son Colt Toombs, a professional MMA fighter and his daughter, Ariel, an actress