Jack Buchanan

Walter John Buchanan was a Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director. He was known for three decades as the embodiment of the debonair man-about-town in the tradition of George Grossmith Jr., and was described by The Times as "the last of the knuts." He is best known in America for his role in the classic Hollywood musical The Band Wagon in 1953.

2 April 1891

Born on the same birth date (2 April 1891): Max Ernst • Tristão de Bragança Cunha

Born on the same birth day (2 April): Amr El Solia • Bill Malinchak • Calvin Davis • Delfo Cabrera • Donald Petrie • Gerald Bouey • Guy Fréquelin • Johnny Golden • Léon Gambetta • Mary of Jesus of Ágreda • Randy Livingston • Roshan Seth • Serge Gainsbourg • Shaul Ladany • Zane Lamprey

Born in the same month (April 1891): Arnold Jackson (British Army officer) • B. R. Ambedkar • Dave Bancroft • Françoise Rosay • George Adamski • Harold Jeffreys • Laura Gilpin • Laura Vicuña • Maurice Buckley • Nella Larsen • Ole Kirk Christiansen • Sacco and Vanzetti • Sergei Prokofiev • Tristão de Bragança Cunha • Vittorio Jano