BIRTHDAYS FOR APRIL 25

Hello people,
    we have five (5) birthdays today:two singers,an actor,an actress and a politician.
     Let's start with the singer.

1) Born on Wednesday,April 25,1917 in Newport News,Virginia,USA (Died:June 15,1996
in Beverly Hills,California,USA) was a jazz singer often referred to as the First
Lady of Song and Queen of Jazz.She was noted for her purity of tone,impeccable
diction,phrasing and intonation and a "horn-like" improvisational ability,particularly in her scat singing.
    In 1944 she had a #1 song on the Billboard singles chart.
    While she appeared in movies and as a guest on popular television shows in the
second half of the twentieth century,her musical collaborations with Louis
Armstrong,Duke Ellington and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts
outside of her solo career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWmHRI-g9OY

2) Born on Wednesday,April 25,1945 in Gothenburg,Sweden is a singer-songwriter,producer
and a member of a very popular Swedish musical group that had a #1 single on the US
Billboard Hot 100 in 1977.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s
 

3) Born on Thursday,April 25,1940 in New York City is an actor and filmmaker.He has
had a career spanning over five decades,during which time he has received numerous
accolades and honors both competitive and honorary,among them an Academy Award, 
two Tony Awards,two Primetime Emmy Awards,a British Academy Film Award,four Golden 
Globe Awards,the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute,the 
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts.He is also one 
of few performers to have won a competitive Oscar,an Emmy and a Tony Award for 
acting,dubbed the "Triple Crown of Acting".
   He received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for "Serpico" (1973);he was 
also nominated for The "Godfather Part II,Dog Day Afternoon" (1975) and "...And
Justice for All" (1979) and won the award in 1993 for his performance as the blind 
Lieutenant Colonel Slade in "Scent Of A Woman" (1992). 

4) Born on Friday,April 25,1969 in Katy,Texas,USA is an actress and producer.She has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades,including an Academy Award,a BAFTA Award,three Golden Globe Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.She won the Academy Award,the BAFTA Award, the Golden Globe Award,and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress for the epic war drama "Cold Mountain" (2003).She later reprised her title role in "Bridget Jones:The Edge of Reason" (2004).

5) Born on Thursday,April 25,1946 in Almaty,Kazakhstan is a Russian politician and
leader of the LDPR party. He is fiercely nationalist and has been described as "a
showman of Russian politics,blending populist and nationalist rhetoric,anti-Western invective and a brash, confrontational style"