page_title: 1956
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1956 / Births / April
caption_attribution_description: English: Eric Roberts at the 2015 Florida SuperCon
context_page_description: 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1956th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 956th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: April 3
  Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (d. 1996)
  Miguel Bosé, Panamanian-born musician and actor
  Boris Miljković, Serbian TV & theatre director and video artist
  April 4
  Kerry Chikarovski, Australian politician
  David E. Kelley, American writer and television producer
  April 5 – Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler
  April 6
  Sebastian Spreng, American-Argentinean visual artist
  Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer
  April 7 – Christopher Darden, African-American attorney, author, actor and lecturer
  April 9 – Edmund Chong Ket Wah, Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
  April 12
  Andy García, Cuban-American actor
  Herbert Grönemeyer, German musician and actor
  Yasuo Tanaka, Japanese politician, novelist
  April 13 – Possum Bourne, New Zealand rally car driver (d. 2003)
  April 14 – Barbara Bonney, American soprano
  April 16
  David M. Brown, American astronaut (d. 2003)
  Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
  April 18
  John James, American actor
  Melody Thomas Scott, American actress
  Karim Abdul Razak, Ghanaian footballer
  Eric Roberts, American actor
  April 19 – Sue Barker, British tennis player and television presenter
  April 21 – Phillip Longman, American demographer
  April 22 – Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Finnish conductor
  April 23 - Greg Colson, American artist
  April 26 – Koo Stark, British actress
  April 27 – Bryan Harvey, American musician (d. 2006)
  April 28
  Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-Australian singer and songwriter
  Hanka Paldum, Bosnian singer
  April 30 – Lars von Trier, Danish film director and screenwriter
caption: Eric Roberts
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