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Jason Lee - 42 (Earl Hickey on "My Name is Earl". Before that, he was in the Kevin Smith movies "Mallrats", "Chasing Amy", "Dogma" and "Jay & Silent Bob
Strike Back" . . . AND he played Jeff Bebe, the lead singer of Stillwater, in "Almost Famous".)
Renée Zellweger - 43 (One of her earliest breaks was being cast as the female lead in 1994's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" . . . starring an equally unknown Texan by the name of Matthew McConaughey!!!)
Hank Azaria - 48 (The voice of Chief Wiggum, Moe, Apu and COMIC BOOK GUY on "The Simpsons". He was also Huff on Showtime's "Huff" . . . and he was ridiculously funny as the butler, Agador, in "The Birdca
ge". He used to schtupp Helen Hunt.)
Talia Shire - 66 (Adrian in the "Rocky" movies and Connie Corleone in the "Godfather" movies. You might also remember her as the therapist in those old Geico caveman commercials .)
BJÖRN ULVAEUS - 67 (ABBA) (Their biggest hits include . "Dancing Queen", "Take a Chance on Me", "Mamma Mia", "S.O.S.", "The Winner Takes It All", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Fernando" and "Waterloo".)
AL PACINO - 72 (He won an Oscar for "Scent of a Woman" but he'll always be Michael Corleone from the "Godfather" movies. He has two kids out of wedlock with Beverly D'Angelo.)
Meadowlark Lemon - 80 (Former leader of the Harlem Globetrotters.)
Ella Fitzgerald (1917 - 1996) (Legendary jazz great.)
Edward R. Murrow 4/25/1908 - 4/27/1965 American radio and television broadcaster.
1684 - A patent was granted for the THIMBLE.
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, the man who invented RADIO, was born in Bologna, Italy.
1928 - The FIRST SEEING-EYE DOG was presented to one Morris Frank, who was blinded during a young ruffian rumble in high school.
1945 Delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations.
1961 - Elvis Presley made his last stage appearance for nearly eight years at Bloch Arena, HI.
1967 - The Beatles recorded "All You Need Is Love" during a British TV broadcast. Marianne Faithfull sang in the chorus.
1968 - The Beatles refused to perform for the Queen of England at a British Olympic Appeal Fund show because "Our decision would be the same no matter what the cause. We don't do benefits."
1974 - Greg Allman played the last date of his solo tour. A 90-minute encore followed with the Allman Brothers Band.
1974 - Pam Morrison, Jim Morrison's widow, died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. .
1979 - The film "Rock & Roll High School" starring the Ramones premiered.
1985 - "Big River," the musical by Roger Miller, opened on Broadway.
2002 - In Honduras, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (TLC) was killed in a car crash.
2003 - Sinead O'Connor announced on her Web site that she was going to retire. Now she's a bipolar loon.
2007 The Dow Jones industrial average topped 13,000 for the first time, ending the day at 13,089.89.
2011 President Bashar Assad of Syria sent the military into the southern city of Daraa, where an anti-government uprising had begun the previous month
