Born on this day – Peter Ustinov:

Actor

Director

Writer

April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004

Born on this day – Spike Milligan:

Actor

Comedian

Writer

Musician

Writer

April 16, 1918 – February 27, 2002

Born on this day – Barry Nelson:

Actor

April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007

Credits:

A Guy Named Joe (1943); A Yank on the Burma Road (1942); Airborne Lifeboat (1945); Airport (1970); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Allen Ludden's Gallery (1969); Bataan (1943); Battlestar Galactica (1978); Ben Casey (1963); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (2003); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Cannon (1973); CBS Playhouse (1968); Circle of Fear (1973); Climax! (1954–1958); Climb an Angry Mountain (1972); Colgate Theatre (1950); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Command Decision (1948); Dallas (1981); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978); Don't Talk (1942); Dr. Kildare (1964); Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942); Eyes in the Night (1942); Fantasy Island (1983); Fitz and Bones (1981); Fools, Females and Fun (1974); Get the Message (1964); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978); Here's Boomer (1981); Hollywood Screen Test (1948); How to Get Killed in One Easy Lesson (1943); Hudson's Bay (1959); Island Claws (1980); I've Got a Secret (1952); J.J. Starbuck (1988); Johnny Eager (1941); Kaz (1978); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Kraft Theatre (1950); Kraft Theatre (1960); Living Easy with Dr. Joyce Brothers (1974); Longstreet (1971); Love, American Style / Love and the Militant (1969); Lux Playhouse (1958); Magnum, P.I. (1982); Mary, Mary (1963); Mason (1977); McLean and Company (1970); Monsters (1990); Murder, She Wrote (1988); My Favorite Husband (1953–1955); My Wives Jane (1971); Nero Wolfe (1981); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Password (1962–1967); Personality (1967–1968); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Producers' Showcase (1956); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Rio Rita (1942); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Salvage 1 (1979); Schlitz Playhouse (1955); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Seven in Darkness (1969); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Snap Judgment (1968); Starlight Theatre (1950); Stars for Israel (1967); Sucker Bait (1943); Suspense (1950–1951); Taxi (1981); Tenth Avenue Angel (1948); The 19th Annual Tony Awards (1965); The 20th Annual Tony Awards (1966); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Beginning or the End (1947); The Borgia Stick (1967); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948–1950); The David Frost Show (1970); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The DuPont Show of the Week (1963); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The F.B.I. (1969); The Face Is Familiar (1966); The First Traveling Saleslady (1956); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); The Fred Waring Show (1951); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Human Comedy (1943); The Hunter (1952); The Joan Rivers Show (1968); The Love Boat (1979); The Luckiest Guy in the World (1947); The Man with My Face (1951); The Match Game (1963); The Mike Douglas Show (1966); The Name of the Game (1969); The Ropers (1979); The Shining (1980); The Twilight Zone (1964); Thriller (1973); Time to Kill (1945); To Tell the Truth (1962–1981); Undercover Maisie (1947); Vacation Playhouse (1967); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1956 (1957); Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977); What's My Line? (1961); Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (1953); Winged Victory (1944); You're Putting Me On (1969); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Born on this day – Catherine Scorsese:

 

Actress

April 16, 1912 – January 6, 1997

Credits:

After Hours (1985); American Masters (1990); Cape Fear (1991); Casino (1995); China Girl (1987); Cinéma, de notre temps (1990); Easy Money (1983); Goodfellas (1990); Italianamerican (1974); It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964); Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block (1973); Mean Streets (1973); Men Lie (2004); Moonstruck (1987); Taxi Driver (1976); The Age of Innocence (1993); The Godfather Part III (1990); The King of Comedy (1982); The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984); Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967); Wise Guys (1986).

Born on this day – Christine McIntyre:

 

Actress

Singer

April 16, 1911 – July 8, 1984

Credits:

A Blunderful Time (1950); A Knight and a Blonde (1944); A Modern Marriage (1950); A Pinch in Time (1948); All Gummed Up (1947); Back from the Front (1944); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Behind the Mask (1946); Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939); Border Buckaroos (1943); Boston Blackie (1951); Bride and Gloom (1947); Brideless Groom (1947); Bubble Trouble (1953); Cinderella Swings It (1943); Clunked in the Clink (1949); Colorado Ambush (1951); Community Sing: Strauss Waltzes (1939); Crazy Like a Fox (1944); Crime on Their Hands (1948); Dawn on the Great Divide (1942); Defective Detectives (1944); Doctor, Feel My Pulse (1944); Doggie in the Bedroom (1954); Dopey Dicks (1950); Flung by a Fling (1949); Forbidden Trails (1941); French Fried Frolic (1949); From Rogues to Riches (1951); Frontier Feud (1945); Fuelin' Around (1949); Garden of Eatin' (1943); Gasoline Alley (1951); Get Along Little Zombie (1946); Gun Talk (1947); Hectic Honeymoon (1947); He's in Again (1949); His Baiting Beauty (1950); His Hotel Sweet (1944); His Tale Is Told (1944); Honeymoon Blues (1946); Hot Heir (1947); Hot Water (1946); Hugs and Mugs (1950); Innocently Guilty (1950); Jiggers, My Wife (1946); Jitter Bughouse (1948); Kansas City Kitty (1944); Knutzy Knights (1954); Land of the Lawless (1947); Louisiana Hayride (1944); Love at First Bite (1950); Man from Headquarters (1942); Mark Saber (1952); Meet Mr. Mischief (1947); Men in Her Diary (1945); Micro-Phonies (1945); Microspook (1949); Missing Daughters (1939); Mopey Dope (1944); Mr. Wright Goes Wrong (1946); News Hounds (1947); No Dough Boys (1944); Of Cash and Hash (1955); Off Again, on Again (1945); Oh, Say Can You Sue (1953); Open Season for Saps (1944); Out West (1947); Pals and Gals (1954); Pardon My Terror (1946); Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath (1948); Partners of the Trail (1944); Pistol Packin' Nitwits (1945); Punchy Cowpunchers (1950); Racket Squad (1951); Radio Romeo (1947); Riders of the West (1942); Rock River Renegades (1942); Rolling Down to Reno (1947); Scotched in Scotland (1954); Sea Racketeers (1937); She Took a Powder (1951); Shivering Sherlocks (1948); Should Husbands Marry? (1947); Slappily Married (1946); Society Mugs (1946); Squareheads of the Round Table (1948); Studio Stoops (1950); Super Wolf (1949); Swing Fever (1937); Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1948); The Blonde Stayed On (1946); The Blue Danube (1941); The Crimson Canary (1945); The Fire Chaser (1954); The Gentleman from Texas (1946); The Gink at the Sink (1952); The Gunman from Bodie (1941); The Hot Scots (1948); The Mayor's Husband (1945); The Power of God (1942); The Range Rider (1951–1952); The Rangers' Round-Up (1938); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Sheepish Wolf (1948); The Stranger from Pecos (1943); The Three Troubledoers (1946); They Stooge to Conga (1943); Three Hams on Rye (1950); Three Little Pirates (1946); To Heir Is Human (1944); Trapped by a Blonde (1949); Two Jills and a Jack (1947); Two Nuts in a Rut (1948); Vagabond Loafers (1949); Valley of Fear (1947); Waiting in the Lurch (1949); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1951); Wedded Bliss (1944); Wedding Belle (1947); Wedlock Deadlock (1947); West of the Rio Grande (1944); When the Wife's Away (1946); Where the Pest Begins (1945); Who Done It? (1949); Who's Hugh? (1943); Wife Decoy (1945); Wife to Spare (1947); Wine, Women and Bong (1951); Woo, Woo! (1945).

W. Somerset Maugham, on reading:

 

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
- W. Somerset Maugham.

On this day in music history - Trialogue, by Sherry Finzer, Darin Mahoney & Will Clipman (2016)

Trialogue

by Sherry Finzer, Darin Mahoney & Will Clipman,

was released on April 15, 2016.