Tom Lehrer

Thomas Andrew Lehrer is an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater. He recorded pithy and humorous songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. His songs often parodied popular musical forms, though they usually had original melodies. An exception is "The Elements", in which he set the names of the chemical elements to the tune of the "Major-General's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance.

9 April 1928

Born on the same birth date (9 April 1928): Paul Arizin

Born on the same birth day (9 April): Antonio Nocerino • Habiba Ghribi • Keshia Knight Pulliam • Margaret Peterson Haddix • Paul Robeson • Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood • Tiny Hill (rugby union) • Yitzhak Navon • Étienne Aignan

Born in the same month (April 1928): Alan Clark • Don Gibson • Estelle Harris • Ethel Kennedy • Gianni Marzotto • Heinz Putzl • Jimmy Logan • John Horlock • Johnny Griffin • Otto Piene • Robert Byrne (chess player) • Shirley Temple • Victor Lownes