Happy 420 Day!

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Happy 420!

Here's some news for this year....

420 Meaning: Thousands Gather to Promote Marijuana, Many More Just Smoke It

420, 4:20 or 4/20, is a number used by many to denote smoking marijuana and pot smokers from Denver to Durango are gathering today, April 20, to say "Happy 420" and call for the drug's legalization. ..........

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Medical Marijuana Pioneer 420 Magazine Launches New Website on 4/20

420 Magazine is pleased to announce that at 4:20 AM on 4/20/10 we will be launching our newly redesigned website www.420Magazine.com. We invite all our members, friends, and guests to visit us this upcoming International Holiday to help celebrate and spread the positive message of Cannabis and Hemp awareness. We're debuting several new features, a dynamic new look, improved interactivity, and all while maintaining the same excellent 420 content.

History & Mission Since 1993, The 420 Magazine community has existed to promote the repeal of all Cannabis prohibition laws and penalties throughout the world. Not another person should suffer incarceration or stigma because of these unjust laws.


The 420 Magazine community believes Cannabis prohibition will end as more people become aware of the true benefits of the plant. 420 Magazine is the vehicle that provides the scientific and anecdotal advice of Cannabis experts in the areas of cultivation, medical, social, and legal matters. Our community provides support to those bringing Cannabis awareness to the world.



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Also of note this day:


HEMP - The Pot Conspiracy




Run From the Cure - Hemp Oil **MUST SEE** What Big Pharma doesn't want you to know!

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i am sittin here wishing i had me a big ol cup of merrijuana tea right now...chronic pain...need sleep......oh well.......wish people would realize that big pharma doesnt want it legal cause they cant have people off prozac well ya'ii know the story.....

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i am sittin here wishing i had me a big ol cup of merrijuana tea right now...chronic pain...need sleep......oh well.......wish people would realize that big pharma doesnt want it legal cause they cant have people off prozac well ya'ii know the story.....

Yeah, since they can't patent a natural substance, they want it banned. Big Pharma, with its toxic bounty of deadly many-colored pills, pretty much controls all the marbles!

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Happy 420 Day 2012 to all!!

For those not familiar, here you go:

How 420 came to be a marijuana day (the real story)


Today is April 20 and, perhaps not surprisingly, history is a little hazy about its origins as the high holidays of stoner culture.


At 4:20 p.m. on what is 4/20, thousands of people across North America will light up joints to celebrate getting high and advocate, for the 41st year, for the legalization of marijuana.

Related: Are you dressed for 420?



Why “four twenty”? Let’s ask the Allman Brothers Band guitarist Warren Haynes.


“I don’t know the real origin,” he tells Ryan Grim, who has written about the history of drugs in the U.S. “I know myths and rumours.”


Let’s try someone else.

“It has become a giant urban myth and it’s a lot of fun,” attorney Keith Stroup, executive director of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws, or NORML, told the San Francisco Chronicle.


“Folks who smoke have a lot of fun with this code word, and the rest of the country doesn’t know what the hell we’re talking about.”


The New York Times, which takes everything seriously, purports to have to real story.


Steven Hager, the creative director and former editor of High Times, “said the significance of April 20 dates to a ritual begun in the early 1970s in which a group of Northern California teenagers smoked cannabis every day at 4:20 p.m.

“Soon, cannabis aficionados were using “420” as a code for smoking and using it as a sign-off on flyers for concerts where the drug would be plentiful.”

Where else would you read “cannabis aficionados” and “the drug would be plentiful” in the same sentence?


This being 2012 and not 1971, a lot of URLs and domain names try to claim proprietorial rights.


A man called “Waldo Steve” who says he was part of that original 1971 San Rafael High School pot-smoking tribe, told the Chronicle, 420 was shorthand for the time they would meet at the statue of Louis Pasteur to light up.


“We have proof, we were the first,” Waldo Steve says. As further proof, they started the website waldo420.com.

From the Waldos, it spread through California counterculture to the Grateful Dead, where High Times magazine picked it up and popularized it. High Times bought the domain name 420.com in the 1990s.


Hager used to think it was police code for “marijuana smoking in progress.” After a delegation of Waldos told him he was wrong, he’s changed his mind, he told ABC-TV in 2002.


Now, he says, it separates the “smart stoners” from the “stupid stoners.”


“It points us in a direction for the responsible use of cannabis. The stupid stoners wake and bake on exam days. The smart stoners are the ones who use cannabis as a creative tool to enhance their lives.

“It means it’s better to wait to start smoking pot until 4:20 p.m.”

For the thousands who annually congregate at the University of Colorado at Boulder to light up, authorities have said they intend to spread fish manure on the gathering grounds to discourage them.


In Toronto, the Yonge-Dundas Square is again the ritual gathering spot for the 420 “hash mob.”


Although the traditional 420 smoke-in is expected on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, it’s scheduled this year for 12:30 p.m.


In Vancouver, where it’s been an annual ritual since 1995, there’s a map and a website, 420vancouver.com to get people to the Art Gallery in time.

Coincidentally, April 20 is a “noninstructional day” of the Vancouver School Board.

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lol nice 4/20 is a holiday in Vancouver schools? We should make it a national holiday!

Happy 4/20 all!

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I always thought it was because 4/20 is Hitler's birthday.

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I always thought it was because 4/20 is Hitler's birthday.

...and hitler and pot has what connection?

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...and hitler and pot has what connection?

I don't know. I just meant that some people make a big deal out of that date because it is Hitler's birthday. Not saying I support that either.


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• 702 – Jafar Sadiq, Islamic scholar (d. 765)
• 1492 – Pietro Aretino, Italian writer and poet (d.1556)
• 1494 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
• 1586 – Saint Rose of Lima (d. 1617)
• 1633 – Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
• 1646 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704)
• 1650 – William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
• 1718 – David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
• 1723 – Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and statesman (d. 1781)
• 1727 – Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
• 1745 – Philippe Pinel, French physician (d. 1826)
• 1748 – Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian (d. 1831)
• 1808 – Napoleon III of France (d. 1873)
• 1816 – Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (d. 1895)
• 1818 – Heinrich Göbel, German mechanic and inventor (d. 1893)
• 1826 – Dinah Craik, English author (d. 1887)
• 1850 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (d. 1931)
• 1851 – Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
• 1870 – Maulvi Abdul Haq, Pakistani scholar (d. 1961)
• 1871 – Sydney Chapman, British economist and civil servant (d. 1951)
• 1875 – Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet (d. 1909)
• 1879 – Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)
• 1882 – Holland Smith, American General (d. 1967)
• 1884 – Daniel Varujan, Armenian poet (d. 1915)
• 1884 – Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
• 1889 – Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish rabbi, businessman, lawyer and activist (d. 1996)
• 1889 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician and author, Dictator of Nazi Germany (d. 1945)
• 1890 – Maurice Duplessis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Quebec (d. 1959)
• 1893 – Harold Lloyd, American actor (d. 1971)
• 1893 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (d. 1983)
• 1893 – Edna Parker, American teacher and super-centenarian (d. 2008)
• 1895 – Emile Christian, American jazz musician (d. 1973)
• 1895 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (d. 1972)
• 1896 – Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
• 1904 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972)
• 1904 – George Stibitz, American scientist (d. 1995)
• 1907 – Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek Orthodox bishop of Florina (d. 2010)
• 1908 – Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician, bandleader, and actor (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (d. 1986)
• 1914 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1915 – Joseph Wolpe, South African psychotherapist (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Edward L. Beach, Jr., American naval officer and author (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (d. 1943)
• 1920 – Ronald Speirs, American army officer (d. 2007)
• 1920 – John Paul Stevens, American jurist
• 1920 – Clement Isong, Nigerian politician (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Janine Sutto, French-Canadian actress
• 1923 – Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster
• 1923 – Irene Lieblich, Polish painter (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Tito Puente, American jazz musician and producer (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Leslie Phillips, English actor
• 1924 – Guy Rocher, Canadian academic and sociologist
• 1925 – Ernie Stautner, German-American football player (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Bud Cullen, Canadian politician and judge (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1928 – Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (d. 2003)
• 1929 – Harry Agganis, Greek-American baseball and football player (d. 1955)
• 1931 – John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, British businessman and Peer
• 1936 – Pat Roberts, American politician
• 1937 – George Takei, American actor
• 1937 – Antonios Kounadis, Greek discus thrower
• 1937 – Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Johnny Tillotson, American singer and songwriter
• 1938 – Tamási Eszter, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
• 1939 – Peter S. Beagle, American author
• 1939 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian politician, diplomat, and physician, Prime Minister of Norway
• 1940 – James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1941 – David L. Boren, American politician
• 1941 – Ryan O'Neal, American actor
• 1942 – Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer
• 1943 – John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
• 1943 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1945 – Michael Brandon, American actor
• 1945 – Judith O'Dea, American actress
• 1945 – Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
• 1945 – Thein Sein, Burmese politician, President of Burma
• 1946 – Tommy Hutton, American baseball player and analyst
• 1946 – Julien Poulin, French-Canadian actor
• 1946 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (d. 1982)
• 1947 – Rita Dionne-Marsolais, Canadian politician
• 1947 – David Leland, British actor, director and screenwriter
• 1947 – Ken Scott, English record producer and engineer
• 1947 – Björn Skifs, Swedish singer-songwriter, actor, and screenwriter (Blue Swede and Slam Creepers’)
• 1947 – Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author
• 1948 – Craig Frost, American musician (Grand Funk)
• 1948 – Gregory Itzin, American actor
• 1948 – Rémy Trudel, French-Canadian politician
• 1949 – Veronica Cartwright, American actress
• 1949 – Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater and artist
• 1949 – Massimo D'Alema, Italian journalist and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Italy
• 1949 – Jessica Lange, American actress
• 1950 – Steve Erickson, American novelist
• 1950 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (d. 2002)
• 1950 – Chandra Babu Naidu, Indian politician
• 1951 – Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (d. 2005)
• 1952 – Louka Katseli, Greek politician, Minister for Labour and Social Security
• 1952 – Božidar Maljković, Serbian basketball coach
• 1953 – Robert Crais, American author
• 1953 – Sebastian Faulks, British novelist
• 1954 – Gilles Lupien, French-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1955 – Don Pettit, American astronaut and engineer
• 1956 – Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician
• 1957 – Geraint Wyn Davies, Welsh-Canadian actor
• 1958 – Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1959 – Clint Howard, American actor
• 1960 – Rodney Holman American football player
• 1961 – Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
• 1961 – Don Mattingly, American baseball player
• 1961 – Corrado Micalef, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Barry Smolin, American radio host, teacher, writer, and composer
• 1961 – Nicholas Lyndhurst, British actor
• 1962 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (d. 2001)
• 1963 – Aubrey de Grey, British biomedical gerontologist
• 1963 – Maurício Gugelmin, Brazilian race car driver
• 1964 – Crispin Glover, American actor
• 1964 – Andy Serkis, English actor
• 1964 – Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
• 1964 – John Carney American football player
• 1965 – Adrian Fernández, Mexican race car driver
• 1965 – Kostas Hatzidakis, Greek politician
• 1965 – April March, American singer-songwriter and animator
• 1966 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
• 1966 – Vincent Riendeau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
• 1967 – Lara Jill Miller, American actress
• 1967 – Mike Portnoy, American musician (Dream Theater, Transatlantic, Liquid Tension Experiment, and Flying Colors)
• 1968 – J. D. Roth, American television host and actor
• 1968 – Yelena Välbe, Russian cross-country skier
• 1968 – Julia Morris, Australian comedian, actress, writer and producer
• 1970 – Sarantuya, Mongolian soprano
• 1970 – Shemar Moore, American actor
• 1970 – Adriano Moraes, Brazilian bull rider
• 1971 – Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
• 1971 – Allan Houston, American basketball player
• 1971 – Nikos Kyzeridis, Greek footballer
• 1972 – Le Huynh Đuc, Vietnamese footballer
• 1972 – Carmen Electra, American actress
• 1972 – Željko Joksimović, Serbian singer-songwriter, and producer
• 1972 – Marko Kon, Serbian singer and songwriter
• 1972 – Stephen Marley, American singer and musician
• 1973 – Geoff Lloyd, English radio presenter
• 1973 – Todd Hollandsworth American baseball player
• 1973 – Lamond Murray, American basketball player
• 1974 – Tina Cousins, English singer-songwriter and model
• 1975 – Benjamin Butler, American artist
• 1976 – Aldo Bobadilla, Paraguayan footballer
• 1976 – Shay Given, Irish footballer
• 1976 – Joey Lawrence, American actor
• 1976 – Chris Mason, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Lenka Němečková, Czech tennis player
• 1977 – John Hugger, American wrestler
• 1978 – Mirei Kuroda, Japanese model
• 1978 – Clayne Crawford, American actor
• 1979 – Ludovic Magnin, Swiss footballer
• 1979 – Nathan Marquardt, American mixed martial artist
• 1979 – Quinn Weng, Taiwanese singer (Seraphim)
• 1980 – Chris Duffy, American baseball player
• 1980 – Arin Paul, Indian director
• 1980 – Jasmin Wagner, German singer, actress, and model
• 1981 – Saša Tabaković, Slovenian actor
• 1982 – Jacqueline Govaert, Dutch singer-songwriter and pianist (Krezip)
• 1982 – Sayaka Kamiya, Japanese actress and model
• 1982 – Dario Knežević, Croatian football player
• 1983 – Danny Granger, American basketball player
• 1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian model
• 1983 – Sebastian Ingrosso, Swedish DJ and producer (Swedish House Mafia)
• 1983 – Joanne King, Irish-English actress
• 1983 – Patrice M'Bock, Cameroonian footballer
• 1983 – Erik Segerstedt, Swedish singer (E.M.D.)
• 1983 – Fabio Staibano, Italian rugby player
• 1983 – Yuri van Gelder, Dutch gymnast
• 1984 – Nelson Évora, Portuguese athlete
• 1984 – Anthony Fasano, American football player
• 1984 – Tyson Griffin, American mixed martial artist
• 1984 – Jenna Shoemaker, American triathlete
• 1984 – Edixon Perea Valencia, Colombian football player
• 1984 – Harris Wittels, American actor, comedian, and writer
• 1985 – Amanda Fahy, English actress
• 1985 – Ehsan Jami, Dutch-Iranian politician and activist
• 1985 – Billy Magnussen, American actor
• 1985 – Jadyn Maria, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Brent Seabrook, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (d. 2003)
• 1987 – John Patrick Amedori, American actor
• 1987 – Thorsten Kirschbaum, German footballer
• 1987 – Michael Klauß, German footballer
• 1987 – Anna Rossinelli, Swiss singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Alex Black, American actor
• 1991 – Thomas Curtis, American actor
• 1991 – Marissa King, English gymnast
• 1991 – Ondřej Kraják, Czech footballer

Quite a lot happened on that day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_20

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• 702 – Jafar Sadiq, Islamic scholar (d. 765)
• 1492 – Pietro Aretino, Italian writer and poet (d.1556)
• 1494 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
• 1586 – Saint Rose of Lima (d. 1617)
• 1633 – Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
• 1646 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704)
• 1650 – William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
• 1718 – David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
• 1723 – Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and statesman (d. 1781)
• 1727 – Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
• 1745 – Philippe Pinel, French physician (d. 1826)
• 1748 – Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian (d. 1831)
• 1808 – Napoleon III of France (d. 1873)
• 1816 – Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (d. 1895)
• 1818 – Heinrich Göbel, German mechanic and inventor (d. 1893)
• 1826 – Dinah Craik, English author (d. 1887)
• 1850 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (d. 1931)
• 1851 – Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
• 1870 – Maulvi Abdul Haq, Pakistani scholar (d. 1961)
• 1871 – Sydney Chapman, British economist and civil servant (d. 1951)
• 1875 – Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet (d. 1909)
• 1879 – Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)
• 1882 – Holland Smith, American General (d. 1967)
• 1884 – Daniel Varujan, Armenian poet (d. 1915)
• 1884 – Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
• 1889 – Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish rabbi, businessman, lawyer and activist (d. 1996)
• 1889 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician and author, Dictator of Nazi Germany (d. 1945)
• 1890 – Maurice Duplessis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Quebec (d. 1959)
• 1893 – Harold Lloyd, American actor (d. 1971)
• 1893 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (d. 1983)
• 1893 – Edna Parker, American teacher and super-centenarian (d. 2008)
• 1895 – Emile Christian, American jazz musician (d. 1973)
• 1895 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (d. 1972)
• 1896 – Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
• 1904 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972)
• 1904 – George Stibitz, American scientist (d. 1995)
• 1907 – Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek Orthodox bishop of Florina (d. 2010)
• 1908 – Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician, bandleader, and actor (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (d. 1986)
• 1914 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1915 – Joseph Wolpe, South African psychotherapist (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Edward L. Beach, Jr., American naval officer and author (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (d. 1943)
• 1920 – Ronald Speirs, American army officer (d. 2007)
• 1920 – John Paul Stevens, American jurist
• 1920 – Clement Isong, Nigerian politician (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Janine Sutto, French-Canadian actress
• 1923 – Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster
• 1923 – Irene Lieblich, Polish painter (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Tito Puente, American jazz musician and producer (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Leslie Phillips, English actor
• 1924 – Guy Rocher, Canadian academic and sociologist
• 1925 – Ernie Stautner, German-American football player (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Bud Cullen, Canadian politician and judge (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1928 – Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (d. 2003)
• 1929 – Harry Agganis, Greek-American baseball and football player (d. 1955)
• 1931 – John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, British businessman and Peer
• 1936 – Pat Roberts, American politician
• 1937 – George Takei, American actor
• 1937 – Antonios Kounadis, Greek discus thrower
• 1937 – Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Johnny Tillotson, American singer and songwriter
• 1938 – Tamási Eszter, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
• 1939 – Peter S. Beagle, American author
• 1939 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian politician, diplomat, and physician, Prime Minister of Norway
• 1940 – James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1941 – David L. Boren, American politician
• 1941 – Ryan O'Neal, American actor
• 1942 – Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer
• 1943 – John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
• 1943 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1945 – Michael Brandon, American actor
• 1945 – Judith O'Dea, American actress
• 1945 – Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
• 1945 – Thein Sein, Burmese politician, President of Burma
• 1946 – Tommy Hutton, American baseball player and analyst
• 1946 – Julien Poulin, French-Canadian actor
• 1946 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (d. 1982)
• 1947 – Rita Dionne-Marsolais, Canadian politician
• 1947 – David Leland, British actor, director and screenwriter
• 1947 – Ken Scott, English record producer and engineer
• 1947 – Björn Skifs, Swedish singer-songwriter, actor, and screenwriter (Blue Swede and Slam Creepers’)
• 1947 – Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author
• 1948 – Craig Frost, American musician (Grand Funk)
• 1948 – Gregory Itzin, American actor
• 1948 – Rémy Trudel, French-Canadian politician
• 1949 – Veronica Cartwright, American actress
• 1949 – Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater and artist
• 1949 – Massimo D'Alema, Italian journalist and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Italy
• 1949 – Jessica Lange, American actress
• 1950 – Steve Erickson, American novelist
• 1950 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (d. 2002)
• 1950 – Chandra Babu Naidu, Indian politician
• 1951 – Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (d. 2005)
• 1952 – Louka Katseli, Greek politician, Minister for Labour and Social Security
• 1952 – Božidar Maljković, Serbian basketball coach
• 1953 – Robert Crais, American author
• 1953 – Sebastian Faulks, British novelist
• 1954 – Gilles Lupien, French-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1955 – Don Pettit, American astronaut and engineer
• 1956 – Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician
• 1957 – Geraint Wyn Davies, Welsh-Canadian actor
• 1958 – Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1959 – Clint Howard, American actor
• 1960 – Rodney Holman American football player
• 1961 – Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
• 1961 – Don Mattingly, American baseball player
• 1961 – Corrado Micalef, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Barry Smolin, American radio host, teacher, writer, and composer
• 1961 – Nicholas Lyndhurst, British actor
• 1962 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (d. 2001)
• 1963 – Aubrey de Grey, British biomedical gerontologist
• 1963 – Maurício Gugelmin, Brazilian race car driver
• 1964 – Crispin Glover, American actor
• 1964 – Andy Serkis, English actor
• 1964 – Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
• 1964 – John Carney American football player
• 1965 – Adrian Fernández, Mexican race car driver
• 1965 – Kostas Hatzidakis, Greek politician
• 1965 – April March, American singer-songwriter and animator
• 1966 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
• 1966 – Vincent Riendeau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
• 1967 – Lara Jill Miller, American actress
• 1967 – Mike Portnoy, American musician (Dream Theater, Transatlantic, Liquid Tension Experiment, and Flying Colors)
• 1968 – J. D. Roth, American television host and actor
• 1968 – Yelena Välbe, Russian cross-country skier
• 1968 – Julia Morris, Australian comedian, actress, writer and producer
• 1970 – Sarantuya, Mongolian soprano
• 1970 – Shemar Moore, American actor
• 1970 – Adriano Moraes, Brazilian bull rider
• 1971 – Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
• 1971 – Allan Houston, American basketball player
• 1971 – Nikos Kyzeridis, Greek footballer
• 1972 – Le Huynh Đuc, Vietnamese footballer
• 1972 – Carmen Electra, American actress
• 1972 – Željko Joksimović, Serbian singer-songwriter, and producer
• 1972 – Marko Kon, Serbian singer and songwriter
• 1972 – Stephen Marley, American singer and musician
• 1973 – Geoff Lloyd, English radio presenter
• 1973 – Todd Hollandsworth American baseball player
• 1973 – Lamond Murray, American basketball player
• 1974 – Tina Cousins, English singer-songwriter and model
• 1975 – Benjamin Butler, American artist
• 1976 – Aldo Bobadilla, Paraguayan footballer
• 1976 – Shay Given, Irish footballer
• 1976 – Joey Lawrence, American actor
• 1976 – Chris Mason, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Lenka Němečková, Czech tennis player
• 1977 – John Hugger, American wrestler
• 1978 – Mirei Kuroda, Japanese model
• 1978 – Clayne Crawford, American actor
• 1979 – Ludovic Magnin, Swiss footballer
• 1979 – Nathan Marquardt, American mixed martial artist
• 1979 – Quinn Weng, Taiwanese singer (Seraphim)
• 1980 – Chris Duffy, American baseball player
• 1980 – Arin Paul, Indian director
• 1980 – Jasmin Wagner, German singer, actress, and model
• 1981 – Saša Tabaković, Slovenian actor
• 1982 – Jacqueline Govaert, Dutch singer-songwriter and pianist (Krezip)
• 1982 – Sayaka Kamiya, Japanese actress and model
• 1982 – Dario Knežević, Croatian football player
• 1983 – Danny Granger, American basketball player
• 1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian model
• 1983 – Sebastian Ingrosso, Swedish DJ and producer (Swedish House Mafia)
• 1983 – Joanne King, Irish-English actress
• 1983 – Patrice M'Bock, Cameroonian footballer
• 1983 – Erik Segerstedt, Swedish singer (E.M.D.)
• 1983 – Fabio Staibano, Italian rugby player
• 1983 – Yuri van Gelder, Dutch gymnast
• 1984 – Nelson Évora, Portuguese athlete
• 1984 – Anthony Fasano, American football player
• 1984 – Tyson Griffin, American mixed martial artist
• 1984 – Jenna Shoemaker, American triathlete
• 1984 – Edixon Perea Valencia, Colombian football player
• 1984 – Harris Wittels, American actor, comedian, and writer
• 1985 – Amanda Fahy, English actress
• 1985 – Ehsan Jami, Dutch-Iranian politician and activist
• 1985 – Billy Magnussen, American actor
• 1985 – Jadyn Maria, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Brent Seabrook, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (d. 2003)
• 1987 – John Patrick Amedori, American actor
• 1987 – Thorsten Kirschbaum, German footballer
• 1987 – Michael Klauß, German footballer
• 1987 – Anna Rossinelli, Swiss singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Alex Black, American actor
• 1991 – Thomas Curtis, American actor
• 1991 – Marissa King, English gymnast
• 1991 – Ondřej Kraják, Czech footballer

Quite a lot happened on that day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_20