April 13
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13 April 2018

Births


1951

Peter Davison

Age 67		 Peter Davison (born Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett)is an English actor with many credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He became famous as Tristan Farnon in the BBC's television adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small stories. His subsequent starring roles included the sitcoms Holding the Fort and Sink or Swim, the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, Dr. Stephen Daker in A Very Peculiar Practice and Albert Campion in Campion. He later played David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites, "Dangerous" Davies in The Last Detective and Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK.
1954

Jimmy Destri

Age 64		 Jimmy Destri (born James Mollica) is an American musician. He played keyboards in the rock band Blondie, and was one of the principal songwriters for the band along with Chris Stein and Deborah Harry. Destri ceased touring with the band in 2004, but remained an official member for several more years.
1970

Gerry Creaney

Age 48		 Gerard Thomas "Gerry" Creaney is a Scottish former footballer, who played as a striker.

Creaney played 69 times for Portsmouth scoring 36 goals between 1994 – 1995
1977

Leonardo Biagini

Age 41		 Leonardo Ángel Biagini is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a striker.

Biagini played 8 times for Portsmouth scoring 2 goals in 2002
1993

Hannah Marks

Age 25		 Hannah Gayle Marks is an American actress. She is best known for her role on the television series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
1994

Ariane Rinehart

Age 24		 Ariane Rinehart is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her performance in The Sound of Music Live! as the eldest von Trapp daughter, Liesl, which was described by critics as the standout performance in the production.
2003

Olivia Sanabia

Age 15

 Olivia Sanabia is a young actress who landed the starring role of Kelly Quinn in the Amazon Studios television pilot Just Add Magic. She has previously guest-starred in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn and Sam & Cat.

Deaths


1984

Richard Hurndall

(Born: 03 Nov 1920)

Died Aged 73		 Richard Gibbon Hurndall was an English actor. In 1983, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BBC television series Doctor Who, producer John Nathan-Turner planned a special event, The Five Doctors, a 90-minute episode to feature the four of the five actors who had played the role of the Doctor. William Hartnell, the actor who originated the role, had died in 1975. Hurndall eventually won the role of the First Doctor, playing him as acerbic and temperamental but in some ways wiser than his successors.

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