Famous birthdays for April 22: Sherri Shepherd, Jack Nicholson

Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus.

They include:

-- Spanish Queen Isabella I, who funded the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World, in 1451

-- Pope Alexander VIII in 1610

-- British novelist Henry Fielding in 1707

-- German philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1724

-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of Russia's 1917 Communist revolution, in 1870

-- Novelist Vladimir Nabokov in 1899

-- Pioneer nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1904

-- Jazz bass player Charles Mingus in 1922

-- Painter Richard Diebenkorn in 1922

-- TV producer Aaron Spelling in 1923

-- Actress Charlotte Rae in 1926

-- Actor Estelle Harris in 1928

-- Singer Glen Campbell in 1936

-- Actor Jack Nicholson in 1937 (age 87)

-- Author Janet Evanovich in 1943 (age 81)

-- Businessman/balloon-flight record-setter Steve Fossett in 1944

-- Filmmaker John Waters in 1946 (age 78)

-- Rock guitarist/singer Peter Frampton in 1950 (age 74)

-- Actor Marilyn Chambers in 1952

-- Actor Ryan Stiles in 1959 (age 65)

-- Comedian/TV host Byron Allen in 1961 (age 63)

-- Actor Chris Makepeace in 1964 (age 60)

-- Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan in 1966 (age 58)

-- Actor Sherri Shepherd in 1967 (age 57)

-- Actor Eric Mabius in 1971 (age 53)

-- Musician Shavo Odadjian (System of a Down) in 1974 (age 50)

-- Musician Daniel Johns (Silverchair) in 1979 (age 45)

-- Actor Amber Heard in 1986 (age 38)

-- Musician Machine Gun Kelly, born Colson Baker, in 1990 (age 34)

-- Actor Violet McGraw in 2011 (age 13)