Jack Nicholson
An actor nominated twelve times for the Oscar who won it three times, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Terms of Endearment and As Good as It Gets. He worked his way up through Roger Corman's low-budget films to Easy Rider, Chinatown and The Shining. Only in 1974 did he learn that the woman he had always taken for his elder sister was his mother.
Born in Neptune City, New Jersey, on 22 April 1937 at 11:00 Eastern Standard Time: summer time began that year on 25 April. The hour is taken from the birth certificate.