Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : April 8

Check all the award winners born on April 8.
BirthDate
Winner
08-April-1988

Nithya Menen (India)

Nithya Menen is an Indian film actress and playback singer, who works in the South Indian film...
08-April-1986

Félix Hernández (Venezuela)

Félix Abraham Hernández García, nicknamed "King Félix", is a Venezuelan professional baseball...
08-April-1986

Erika Sawajiri (Japan)

Erika Sawajiri is a Japanese actress, also active as a model and singer. She became popular...
08-April-1984

Taran Noah Smith (United States of America)

Taran Noah Smith is a former American actor. He is best known for his role as Marcus "Mark"...
08-April-1984

Ananta Sriram (India)

Ananta Sriram Chegondi is an Indian lyricist, mainly writing lyrics for songs in Telugu language...
08-April-1983

Allu Arjun (India)

Arjun is the son of Ramesh Aravind.
08-April-1981

Gummy (South Korea)

Park Ji Yeon, better known by her stage name Gummy, is a South Korean recording artist formerly...
08-April-1980

Farah Quinn (Indonesia)

Farah Farhanah Quinn is an Indonesian celebrity chef, restaurateur, media personality, known for...
08-April-1979

Amit Trivedi (India)

Amit Trivedi is an Indian film composer, musician, singer and lyricist, working in Bollywood...
08-April-1974

Nnedi Okorafor (United States of America)

Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction.
08-April-1972

Chuck Todd (United States of America)

Charles David "Chuck" Todd is the Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News, as well as the...
08-April-1972

Paul Gray (United States of America)

Paul Dedrick Gray, also known as The Pig or by his number #2, was an American musician, best...
08-April-1968

Ian Ross (Canada)

Ian Ross the son of Grace and Raymond Ross; is a Métis Canadian playwright. Ross earned a...
08-April-1968

Patricia Arquette (United States of America)

Patricia T. Arquette is an American actress and director. Following her first major film role in...
08-April-1967

Yasuhiro Nightow (Japan)

Yasuhiro Nightow is a Japanese manga artist and game creator who created the anime and manga...
08-April-1966

Robin Wright (United States of America)

Robin Gayle Wright is an American actress and singer. She was previously credited as Robin...
08-April-1966

Charlotte Dawson (New Zealand)

Charlotte Dawson was a New Zealand–Australian television personality. She was known in New...
08-April-1966

Marten Henric van Kerkwijk (Canada, Netherlands)

Marten Henric van Kerkwijk is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship winner for the Natural Sciences.
08-April-1966

Iveta Bartosova (Czech Republic)

Iveta Bartošová is a Czech singer, actress and celebrity, three-time best female vocalist in the...
08-April-1964

Laurens Drillich (Netherlands)

Laurens Drillich is a television producer.
08-April-1963

Terry Porter (United States of America)

Terry Porter is an American professional basketball coach and former player in the National...
08-April-1960

Tom J. Astle (United States of America)

Tom J. Astle is a screenwriter and television producer.
08-April-1960

John Schneider (United States of America)

John Richard Schneider III is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal...
08-April-1957

Ariel Fernandez (Argentina, United States of America)

Ariel Fernandez is an Argentinian–American physical chemist.
08-April-1956

Jim Piddock (United Kingdom)

Jim Piddock is an actor, a screenwriter and a film producer.
08-April-1956

Yoshiko Tanaka (Japan)

Yoshiko Tanaka was a Japanese actress. She was also famous as a member of the pop group Candies...
08-April-1955

Barbara Kingsolver (United States of America)

Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky...
08-April-1954

Ann Hould-Ward (United States of America)

Ann Hould-Ward is an American costume designer, primarily for the theatre and dance. She has...
08-April-1954

Peter Rinearson (United States of America)

Peter Mark Rinearson is journalist.
08-April-1953

Charles L. Briggs (United States of America)

Charles Leslie Briggs is an anthropologist who works at the University of California, Berkeley,...
08-April-1952

Kaori Momoi (Japan)

Kaori Momoi is a Japanese actress.
08-April-1951

Bradford Morrow (United States of America)

Bradford Morrow is an American novelist, editor, essayist, poet, and children's book writer...
08-April-1951

Sara Botsford (Canada)

Sara Botsford is a Canadian television and film actress. She is probably best known for her role...
08-April-1951

Joan Sebastian (Mexico)

José Manuel Figueroa Sr. better known as Joan Sebastian is a popular Mexican multi Grammy award...
08-April-1950

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (United States of America, Poland)

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the...
08-April-1947

Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan)

Hou Hsiao-Hsien is a Taiwanese actor, singer, producer and director. He is a leading figure of...
08-April-1946

Raymond Wong Bak-Ming (Hong Kong)

Raymond Wong Pak-Ming is a Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, screenwriter and presenter...
08-April-1946

Catfish Hunter (United States of America)

James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter was a professional baseball player in Major League Baseball...
08-April-1946

Moisés Selman-Lama (Mexico)

Moisés Selman-Lama is a 1993 Guggenheim fellow in Natural Sciences.
08-April-1944

Michael Aschbacher (United States of America)

Michael George Aschbacher is an American mathematician best known for his work on finite groups...
08-April-1944

Julissa (Mexico)

Julia Isabel de Llano Macedo, better known as simply Julissa is a Mexican actress and producer...
08-April-1943

Bill Burke (United States of America)

Bill Burke is a 1978 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
08-April-1943

Michael Bennett (United States of America)

Michael Bennett was an American musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. He...
08-April-1942

Douglas Trumbull (United States of America)

Douglas Huntley Trumbull is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor...
08-April-1942

Stuart Diamond (United States of America)

Stuart Diamond is a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
08-April-1942

Leon Huff (United States of America)

Leon Huff is part of the songwriting duo known as Gamble and Huff.
08-April-1941

Michael Kassler (United States of America, Australia)

Michael Kassler is a 1974 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-April-1940

John Havlicek (United States of America)

John J. "Hondo" Havlicek is a retired American professional basketball player who competed for...
08-April-1939

Trina Schart Hyman (United States of America)

Trina Schart Hyman was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150...
08-April-1938

Kofi Annan (Ghana)

Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United...
08-April-1937

Seymour Hersh (United States of America)

Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh is an American investigative journalist and author based in Washington,...
08-April-1936

Klaus Löwitsch (Germany)

Klaus Löwitsch was a German actor, best known in Germany for his starring role in the television...
08-April-1935

Victor E. Viola (United States of America)

Victor E. Viola is a 1980 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
08-April-1934

Vartan Gregorian (United States of America, Armenia)

Vartan Gregorian is an Irani-born Armenian-American academic, serving as the president of...
08-April-1933

James Lockhart (United States of America)

James Marvin Lockhart was a U.S. historian specializing in the history of colonial Latin...
08-April-1933

Dale Johnston (United States of America)

Dale Johnston was a sound editor.
08-April-1933

Richard Rose (United States of America)

Richard Rose is an American political scientist who is currently Director of the Centre for the...
08-April-1932

Jean-Paul Rappeneau (France)

Jean-Paul Rappeneau is a French film director and screenwriter. He started out in film as an...
08-April-1932

Michael Batterberry (United States of America)

Michael Carver Batterberry was an American food writer who founded and edited Food & Wine and...
08-April-1931

John Gavin (United States of America)

John Gavin is an American film actor and a former United States Ambassador to Mexico. Gavin is...
08-April-1930

Rafael Cadenas (Venezuela)

Rafael Cadenas is a Venezuelan poet, and essayist. He taught for many years at the Central...
08-April-1930

Dorothy Tutin (England)

Dame Dorothy Tutin CBE was an English actress of stage, film and television. An obituary in The...
08-April-1930

Miller Williams (United States of America)

Miller Williams is an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He has...
08-April-1929

Betty Paraskevas (United States of America)

Rita E. "Betty" Paraskevas was a New York writer and lyricist best known for her work on Maggie...
08-April-1928

Eric Porter (United Kingdom)

Eric Richard Porter was an English actor of stage, film and television.
08-April-1928

Fred Ebb (United States of America)

Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with...
08-April-1927

Phyllis Webb (Canada)

Phyllis Webb, OC is a Canadian poet and radio broadcaster. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes...
08-April-1924

Jim Martin (United States of America)

James Richard "Jungle Jim" Martin was an American football guard, linebacker and placekicker who...
08-April-1924

Frédéric Back (Canada, Germany)

Frédéric Back is a film director, producer and screenwriter.
08-April-1924

Thoppil Bhasi (India)

Thoppil Bhasi was a Malayalam playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He was associated...
08-April-1922

Gerald Green (United States of America)

Gerald Green was an American author, journalist, producer and director.
08-April-1921

Jay McMullen (United States of America)

Jay Latimer McMullen was an award-winning investigative journalist for CBS News.
08-April-1920

Hans Bielenstein (Sweden)

Hans Bielenstein is a Swedish sinologist and Professor Emeritus from Columbia University...
08-April-1920

Carmen McRae (United States of America)

Carmen Mercedes McRae was an American jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered...
08-April-1919

Norman Cyril Jackson (United Kingdom)

Norman Cyril Jackson VC was a sergeant in the Royal Air Force who earned the Victoria Cross...
08-April-1919

Louis Hartz (United States of America)

Louis Hartz was an American political scientist and influential liberal proponent of the idea of...
08-April-1918

Heidemarie Hatheyer (Austria)

Heidemarie Hatheyer was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1938 and 1988.
08-April-1918

Betty Ford (United States of America)

Betty Ford was an actress and a writer
08-April-1918

Glendon Swarthout (United States of America)

Glendon Fred Swarthout was an American writer. One of his best known novels was made into a film...
08-April-1915

Aranmula Ponnamma (India)

Aranmulla Ponnamma was an actor.
08-April-1914

Robert Giroux (United States of America)

Robert Giroux was an influential American book editor and publisher. Starting his editing career...
08-April-1914

Robert Worth Frank Jr. (United States of America)

Robert Worth Frank Jr. is a 1970 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-April-1914

María Félix (Mexico)

María Félix was a Mexican actress, considered by many to be the most iconic leading lady of the...
08-April-1912

John Carnell (United Kingdom)

Edward John Carnell, known to his friends as either Ted or John, was a British science fiction...
08-April-1911

Robert E. Johnson (United States of America)

Robert E. Johnson is a 1964 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
08-April-1911

Melvin Calvin (United States of America)

Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along...
08-April-1910

Harriet Doerr (United States of America)

Harriet Huntington Doerr was an American author whose debut novel was published at the age of 74.
08-April-1910

Grant Gilmore (United States of America)

Grant Gilmore was an American law professor who taught at Yale Law School, University of Chicago...
08-April-1908

Don Whitehead (United States of America)

Don Whitehead is a film story contributor.
08-April-1904

Sir John Richard Hicks (United Kingdom)

Sir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and one of the most important and influential...
08-April-1903

Eugène Lourié (France, Russia)

Eugène Lourié was a French film director, art director, production designer, set designer and...
08-April-1903

Marshall Harvey Stone (United States of America)

Marshall Harvey Stone was an American mathematician who contributed to real analysis, functional...
08-April-1900

Ilka Chase (United States of America)

Ilka Chase was an American actress and novelist.
08-April-1897

Jo Swerling (United States of America)

Jo Swerling was an American theatre writer, lyricist and screenwriter. Born in Berdichev,...
08-April-1897

Louis Skidmore (United States of America)

Louis Skidmore was an American architect, co-founder of the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings...
08-April-1896

Yip Harburg (United States of America)

Yip Harburg was a lyricist, screenwriter, and film score composer.
08-April-1894

Baynard Kendrick (United States of America)

Baynard Hardwick Kendrick wrote whodunit mystery novels about Duncan Maclain, a blind private...
08-April-1894

Erik Charell (Germany)

Erik Charell, born as Erich Karl Löwenberg, was a German theatre and film director, dancer and...
08-April-1892

Richard Neutra (Austria, United States of America)

Richard Joseph Neutra was an Austrian American architect. Living and building for the majority...
08-April-1892

Mary Pickford (United States of America, Canada)

Mary Pickford was a Canadian-American motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio...
08-April-1891

Julia Sauer (United States of America)

Julia L. Sauer is a writer.
08-April-1891

Arthur Evans (United Kingdom)

Arthur Walter Evans VC, DCM, was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and...
08-April-1886

Margaret Ayer Barnes (United States of America)

Margaret Ayer Barnes was an American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. She was...
08-April-1884

John Hogan (United Kingdom)

John Hogan VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious...
08-April-1869

Harvey Williams Cushing (United States of America)

Harvey Williams Cushing was an American neurosurgeon. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the...
08-April-1818

August Wilhelm von Hofmann (Germany)

August Wilhelm von Hofmann was a German chemist.