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Famous birthdays for April 22: John Waters, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Debbie Harry (L) and director John Waters arrive for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 2, 2025. Waters turns 80 on April 22. File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI
Debbie Harry (L) and director John Waters arrive for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 2, 2025. Waters turns 80 on April 22. File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI

April 22 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus.

They include:

-- Spanish Queen Isabella I, who funded the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World, in 1451

-- Pope Alexander VIII in 1610

-- Writer Henry Fielding in 1707

-- Philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1724

-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of Russia's 1917 Communist revolution, in 1870

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-- Writer Vladimir Nabokov in 1899

-- Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1904

-- Artist Richard Diebenkorn in 1922

-- TV producer Aaron Spelling in 1923

-- Actor Charlotte Rae in 1926

-- Actor Estelle Harris in 1928

-- Musician Glen Campbell in 1936

-- Actor Jack Nicholson in 1937 (age 89)

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-- Writer Janet Evanovich in 1943 (age 83)

-- Businessman/adventurer Steve Fossett in 1944

-- Filmmaker John Waters in 1946 (age 80)

-- Musician Peter Frampton in 1950 (age 76)

-- Actor Marilyn Chambers in 1952

-- Actor Ryan Stiles in 1959 (age 67)

-- Comedian/TV personality Byron Allen in 1961 (age 65)

-- Actor Chris Makepeace in 1964 (age 62)

-- Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan in 1966 (age 60)

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-- Actor Sherri Shepherd in 1967 (age 59)

-- Actor Eric Mabius in 1971 (age 55)

-- Musician Shavo Odadjian (System of a Down) in 1974 (age 52)

-- Musician Daniel Johns (Silverchair) in 1979 (age 47)

-- Actor Amber Heard in 1986 (age 40)

-- Musician Machine Gun Kelly in 1990 (age 36)

-- Actor Violet McGraw in 2011 (age 15)

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File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI

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