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): Anis Fuleihan • Brenda Fruhvirtová • Cornelis de Houtman • Donald Jackson (figure skater) • Gerald Bouey • Gloria Henry • Hans Christian Andersen • Jim Allister • Joseph Bernardin • Kapil Sharma • Keshorn Walcott • Roald Als • Tayfun Korkut • Zane Lamprey

Born in the same month (April 1891): Arnold Jackson (British Army officer) • Dave Bancroft • Dorothy P. Lathrop • Frank Barson • Françoise Rosay • Harold Jeffreys • Maurice Buckley • Max Ernst • Nella Larsen • Ole Kirk Christiansen • Otto Lasanen • Robert Scholl • Sacco and Vanzetti • Sergei Prokofiev • Tristão de Bragança Cunha