BIRTHDAYS FOR APRIL 26 Hello people,
We have ten (10) birthdays and an historical event today:five singers,a wife,a guitarist,an actor,an actress and a writer.
Let's start with the historical event.
historical event)The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday April 26,1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant,near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.
1) Born on Sunday,April 26,1942 in Philadelphia,USA (Died:Tuesday,April 5,2022 in Abington Township,Pennsylvania,USA) was a professional singer,mainly of rock and roll music.He made numerous appearances on American Bandstand.He never had a #1 single on the US Billboard Hot 100 but he had 8 songs that peaked at #11 or higher on the US Billboard Hot 100 between 1959 and 1964.One of those songs was a cover version of the song that Billboard and Cash Box Magazine's ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 1958.The 1958 recording was recorded with all lyrics in the Italian language.Our birthday boy in 1960 covered the song with all the lyrics in English. Another one of his songs,his highest charting song peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in March of 1960.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax-6U-KaBAY
 2) Born on Thursday,April 26,1962 in Bonsall,California,USA is a singer,an actor,
recording artist and producer,best known for his role as Danny Romalotti on the
soap opera "The Young And The Restless",which he played from 1981 to 1998 and again
in 2002,2003,2004,2008,2012 and 2013.
In 1989 he did a cover version of a David Essex song that he took to #1 on the US
Billboard Hot 100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2v-DMpgO7o 
3) Born on Tuesday,April 26,1949 in King's Lynn,United Kingdom is a singer, musician,songwriter and multi-instrumentalist,best known as the drummer for the rock band that had two #1 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100. As a drummer,he was recognized early in his career for his unique sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ 
4) Born on Monday,April 26,1943 in Cresskill,New Jersey,U.S.A. (Died:September 4,2023 in Palos Verdes Estates,California,U.S.A.)was a singer,best known as the a singer who had a song that peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100.The same song Peaked at #1 on the Cash Box Magazine Weekly Singles Chart and at #1 in Canada on the RPM National chart.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKuzwPOefs
5) Born on Sunday,April 26,1970 in Des Moines,Iowa,USA better known by her stage name T-Boz,is a singer,songwriter,actress,author and executive producer.She rose to fame in the early 1990s as a member of a very popular girl-group.She has won four Grammy Awards for her work with the girl-group.The group had four (4) #1 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 in the decade of the 1990s with one spending seven (7) weeks at #1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEtxJ4-sh4
6) Also born on Sunday,April 26,1970 but in Novo Mesto,Slovenia is the wife of the 45th U.S. President.  7) Born on Tuesday,April 26,1938 in Corning,New York,USA is a guitarist.In July of 1960 one of his songs peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKm2_67xtVs 8) Born on Monday,April 26,1965 in Mineola,New York,USA is an actor,comedian,
screenwriter and producer.He is best known for playing Doug Heffernan on the CBS
sitcom "The King Of Queens". 
9) Born on Wednesday,April 26,1933 in San Antonio,Texas,USA is an actress, comedian,singer and writer,whose career spans seven decades of television.She is best known for her TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show (1967-78),originally aired on CBS.Her film roles include "Pete 'n' Tillie" (1972),"The Front Page" (1974),"The Four Seasons" (1981),"Annie" (1982),"Noises Off" (1992) and "Horton Hears a Who!" (2008). 
10)Born on Sunday,April 26,1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon,United Kingdom
(Died:April 23,1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon,United Kingdom) was an English poet,
playwright and actor,widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
Until about 1608,he wrote mainly tragedies,among them "Hamlet","Othello","King
Lear" and "Macbeth",all considered to be among the finest works in the English
language. 
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