Pigmeat Markham

Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham was an African American entertainer. Though best known as a comedian, Markham was also a singer, dancer, and actor. His nickname came from a stage routine, in which he declared himself to be "Sweet Poppa Pigmeat". He was sometimes credited in films as Pigmeat "Alamo" Markham.

18 April 1904

Born on the same birth day (18 April): George H. Hitchings • Ippolita Maria Sforza • Isaac Babalola Akinyele • Jean Richard (actor) • Jean-Féry Rebel • Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg • Leopold Berchtold • Malcolm Marshall • Mika Zibanejad • Niall Ferguson • Roger Graef • Tina Bru

Born in the same month (April 1904): Bruce Cabot • Cecil Day-Lewis • Chancellor of Germany • David Robinson (philanthropist) • Duncan Renaldo • Erwin Komenda • Fifi D'Orsay • Hirsch Jacobs • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Jean Hélion • John Hicks • K. L. Saigal • Louis Muhlstock • Nikos Zachariadis • Odilo Globocnik • Richard Eberhart • Roland Wilson (economist) • Russel Wright • Sally Rand • Willem de Kooning • Xenophon Zolotas