Today in History and Celebrity Birthdays

Celebrity Birthdays for April 9: Satirical songwriter and mathematician Tom Lehrer is 97. Actress Michael Learned ("The Waltons") is 86. Jazz and rock drummer Steve Gadd is 80. Country singer Con Hunley is 80.

Celebrity Birthdays for April 8: Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh is 88. Original Mouseketeer Darlene Gillespie is 84. Singer Peggy Lennon of the Lennon Sisters is 84. Songwriter-producer Leon Huff of Gamble and Huff is 83.

Celebrity Birthdays for April 10: Actor Steven Seagal is 73. Singer Terre Roche of The Roches is 72. Actor Peter MacNicol ("Numb3rs," ''Ally McBeal") is 71. Singer-producer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds is 67. Musician Brian Setzer is 66.

Celebrity Birthdays for April 12: Playwright Alan Ayckbourn is 86. Jazz musician Herbie Hancock is 85. Rock singer John Kay of Steppenwolf is 81. Actor Ed O'Neill ("Modern Family," ''Married...With Children") is 79.

Celebrity Birthdays for April 6: Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson is 97. Actor Billy Dee Williams is 88. Actor Roy Thinnes ("The Invaders") is 87. Movie director Barry Levinson is 83. British singer Julie Rogers is 82.

Celebrity Birthdays for April 11: Actor Joel Grey is 93. Actress Louise Lasser is 86. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman is 84. Movie writer-director John Milius is 81. Actor Peter Riegart ("Animal House") is 78.

Celebrity Birthdays for April 7: Country singer Bobby Bare is 90. Movie director Francis Ford Coppola is 86. Actress Roberta Shore ("The Virginian") is 82. Guitarist Mick Abrahams (Jethro Tull) is 82. Singer Patricia Bennett of The Chiffons is 78.

Today in Music History for April 15: In 1729, composer J.S. Bach conducted the premiere performance of his ``St. Matthew Passion'' at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany.

Today in History for April 19: In 1529, eight years after the Diet of Worms was convened by the Holy Roman Emperor, a protestation was published against it by several cities including Strasbourg, Nuremberg and Ulm, and from that evolved the term Prot

Today in History for April 16: In 556, Roman-born Pope Pelagius I became the 60th successor of St. Peter. He built the Church of the Twelve Apostles. In 1189, St. Drogo, also called Druon, a Flemish saint who became a hermit in Sebourg, France, died.