“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.”
🌹Remembering #TonyBenn, English Labour politician and author, who was #BOTD 3 April 1925. #Politics
"An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer."
🎭 Remembering Hollywood and #Theatre legend #MarlonBrando, #BOTD 3 April 1924. #Film #Filmmaking
"Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children."
🌹🎭 Remembering Hollywood legend #DorisDay, American singer, animal welfare activist, and actor, #BOTD 3 April 1922. #Film #Filmmaking
A white peacock
opens its crystalline fan —
Triumphant!
✒️ #JoseJuanTablada, Mexican poet, was #BOTD 3 April 1871. #Poetry #Literature
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
✒️ #FrederikWillemVanEeden, Dutch psychiatrist and writer, was #BOTD 3 April 1860. #Literature
✒️ #JohnBurroughs, American writer and naturalist (Burroughs Medal namesake), was #BOTD 3 April 1837. #Literature #Nature
Works: www.gutenberg.org/files/4279/4...
✒️ #IvanKireyevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher, was #BOTD 3 April 1806. #Philosophy #Literature
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
✒ American #shortstory writer, essayist, biographer, and historian #WashingtonIrving was #BOTD 3 April 1783. #Literature #History #Writing
🎨 #PhilippeLambertJosephSpruyt, Flemish painter and engraver, was #BOTD 3 April 1727. #Art #Painting
"Living well is the best revenge."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/george...
✒️ #GeorgeHerbert, English clergyman and poet, was #BOTD 3 April 1593. #Poetry #Literature
Marvin Gaye ~ I Want You
(from I Want You, 1976)
#MarvinGaye #BOTD #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGob...
Marvin Gaye ~ Try It Baby
(Tamla 45, 1964)
#MarvinGaye #BOTD #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj78...
Marvin Gaye - Hanging On
#MarvinGaye #BOTD #MusicSky
A rare one for you 🌟
youtu.be/4GoIy1Jc8RU
Marvin Gaye ~ Hitch Hike
#NowPlaying #MarvinGaye #BOTD
Live and spectacular on The T.A.M.I. Show, 1964
youtu.be/6-USBFIzNis
via @YouTube
🎧 Emmylou Harris 🎂 - Bad Moon Rising [Live]
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947)
#musicsky
#nowspinning
#botd
music.youtube.com/watch?v=rL6u...
Released in 1971, "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" by Marvin Gaye, #BOTD.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRLw...
Released in 1971, "The Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen" by Leon Russell, #BOTD.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWC9...
Also born today…
Gloria Henry, best known for playing Dennis the Menace’s mother on the TV sitcom from 1959 to 1963.
Rita Gam, actor and filmmaker.
#botd
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICHAEL!
"I have a theory that everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial."
#MichaelFassbinder #BOTD
John le Carré talking about Alec Guinness - #BOTD - and his role as George Smiley.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2002...
Ernst Hölder zbmath.org/authors/hold..., known for his work in mathematical physics, was #botd 125 years ago. "Über die unbeschränkte Fortsetzbarkeit einer stetigen ebenen Bewegung in einer unbegrenzten inkompressiblen Flüssigkeit"was reviewed in zbmath.org/0008.06902 and zbmath.org/59.1448.01
Zach Bryan performs onstage during BST Hyde Park at Hyde Park on June 29, 2025 in London, England. Photo by James Smith/Sam Snap/Getty Images.
Country singer-songwriter Zach Bryan (born April 2, 1996) #BOTD
Das Glück hinter der Maske (german edition of Blessings in Disguise), Knaur, 1988 Illustration by caricaturist and actor Clive Francis
Alec Guinness #botd
Das Glück hinter der Maske
(german edition of Blessings in Disguise), Knaur, 1988
Illustration by caricaturist and actor Clive Francis
#AlecGuinness #Illustration #CliveFrancis #FilmSky
Robert Newton as Horatio, Laurence Olivier as Hamlet,
and Alec Guiness #BOTD as Osric in Hamlet
1936 - 1937 Season at the Old Vic Theatre, London
Jack Webb born April 2, in 1920.
Over 30 roles incl Pete Kelly's Blues, Sunset Blvd, He Walked by Night, Appointment with Danger - & of course Creator, Writer & Star of Dragnet!
Did You Know? Webb was co-creator of TV series Adam-12 & Emergency!
#botd
http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/jack-webb/