* 1971 – Nicholas Brendon, American actor

She grows faint at the sight of monsters, but quickly forms a friendship with Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) and is revealed to have grown up as friends with Xander ( Nicholas Brendon ).

She becomes best friends with Xander Harris ( Nicholas Brendon ) and Willow Rosenberg ( Alyson Hannigan ), and meets her new Watcher, Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head ).

As the series progresses, Giles increasingly becomes a father figure to Buffy and her friends Willow ( Alyson Hannigan ) and Xander ( Nicholas Brendon ).

After wrongly believing herself to be a Potential Slayer, Xander ( Nicholas Brendon ) explains to Dawn that being normal is perhaps the hardest burden of all, as nobody understands the pain of being overlooked – as he has been in Dawn's shoes.

He was developed by Joss Whedon and portrayed throughout the television series by Nicholas Brendon and his twin brother, Kelly Donovan.

Had the series been picked up by a network, it would have featured Xander ( voiced by Nicholas Brendon ) in more adventures set during Buffys first season.

Tara struggles with understanding her place among the Scoobies with Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), the leader ; Xander Harris ( Nicholas Brendon ), Willow's friend since childhood ; and Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head ), their mentor.

Nicholas Brendon was born Nicholas Brendon Schultz on April 12, 1971 in Los Angeles, three minutes after his identical twin brother, Kelly Donovan.

* Much of the cast has some connection to the Buffyverse: Benson and Marsters obviously played prominent characters on Buffy ; David Fury was a writer / producer and Rupert Cole was a production assistant on Buffy ; Jeff Ricketts guest starred on both Buffy and Angel as a Watchers ' Council member ; Andy Hallett starred on Angel as Lorne / The Host ; Grant Langston guest starred on an episode of Angel ; and Tressa di Figlia was married to Buffy cast member Nicholas Brendon.

Angel and Buffy's friend Xander ( Nicholas Brendon ), who have disobeyed her wishes and followed her, arrive after the Master has risen.

The fourth season, therefore, presents viewers with Buffy, her best friends Willow ( Alyson Hannigan ), Xander ( Nicholas Brendon ), and mentor Giles ( Anthony Head ) at a crossroads.

After moving to the fictional town of Sunnydale, she befriends Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris ( Nicholas Brendon ), who join her in the struggle against evil.

The gang's members vary but always include Xander Harris ( Nicholas Brendon ), a young man who is devoted and loyal to Buffy and her calling, and who often sees emotional truths to which the others are blind ; and Willow Rosenberg ( Alyson Hannigan ), a shy but academically gifted student who increasingly dabbles in magic, beginning late in the second season.

" Hush " serves as Alyson Hannigan's ( Willow ) favorite episode of the Buffy series, and the one Nicholas Brendon ( Xander ) considers the most frightening.

After moving with her mother, Joyce ( Kristine Sutherland ), to the fictional town of Sunnydale, she befriends Willow Rosenberg ( Alyson Hannigan ) and Xander Harris ( Nicholas Brendon ), who join her in the struggle against evil.

* Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris

The last episode of the season ," Restless ", explores the dreams of Willow, Xander Harris ( Nicholas Brendon ), Giles, and Buffy.

Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner was born in Paris to an Austrian Jewish father and a half-Turkish half-Greek mother, and spent his childhood in France, Switzerland, and North Africa.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York House near the Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne ( Cooke ) Bacon, the daughter of noted humanist Anthony Cooke.

The poet Nicholas Moore and the composer Timothy Moore were his sons, by Dorothy Moore, born 1892, died 1977.

Her first son Nicholas was born in 1937, followed by twin boys Sam and Andrew, born in 1939.

* 1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.

Pope Adrian IV ( c. 1100 – 1 September 1159 ), born Nicholas Breakspear or Breakspeare, was Pope from 1154 to 1159.

It is generally believed that Nicholas Breakspear was born at Breakspear Farm in the parish of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire and received his early education at the Abbey School, St Albans ( St Albans School ).

Tricky ( born Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, 27 January 1968 ) is an English musician and actor.

After this, little is heard, spare that a grandson, Nicholas, was born to Robert.

* March 1 – King Nicholas I of Montenegro ( born 1841 )

* March 27 – The first English child is born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.

Chaim Rickover was born to Abraham Rickover and Rachel ( née Unger ) Rickover, a Jewish family in Maków Mazowiecki of Poland, at that time ruled by the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II.

He then married Benvin, he had two children, Antonia Quinn ( born July 23, 1993 ) and Ryan Nicholas Quinn ( born July 5, 1996 ).

Pope Nicholas V ( Italian: Niccolò V ) ( 15 November 1397 – 24 March 1455 ), born Tommaso Parentucelli, was Pope from 6 March 1447 until his death in 1455 .. The Pontificate of Nicholas saw the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.

Nicholas V, born Pietro Rainalducci ( c. 1260 – 16 October 1333 ) was an antipope in Italy from 12 May 1328 to 25 July 1330 during the pontificate of Pope John XXII ( 1316 – 34 ) at Avignon.

Pope Nicholas III ( c. 1210 / 1220 – 22 August 1280 ), born Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, was Pope from 25 November 1277 until his death.

Pope Nicholas IV ( 30 September 1227 – 4 April 1292 ), born Girolamo Masci, was Pope from 22 February 1288 until his death.

Moore was married and divorced four times: to actresses Suzy Kendall, Tuesday Weld ( by whom he had a son, Patrick, in 1976 ), Brogan Lane and Nicole Rothschild ( one son, Nicholas, born in 1995 ).

Nicholas was born in Gatchina to Emperor Paul I and Empress Maria Feodorovna.

Nicholas and Charlotte were third cousins, as they were both great-great-grandchildren of Frederick William I of Prussia. Emperor Alexander II, born 17 April 1818, successor of father Nicholas I, assassinated 13 March 1881, married 1841, Marie of Hesse and by Rhine

* St Nicholas Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 1188 was consecrated on the 30 March 1955, it currently meets on the third Thursday in February, April, June, August & October

The cardinals assembled at Perugia after the death of Pope Nicholas IV in April 1292.

* April 9 – Nicholas Longworth, American politician, Speaker of the House ( b. 1869 )

* April 24 – Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia ( b. 1843 )

* April 21 – The death of Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich of Russia results in a succession dispute between Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia and Vladimir's daughter Maria for the leadership of the Imperial Family of Russia.

* April 2 – Nicholas M. Butler, president of Columbia University and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1947 )

* April 4 – Edward Nicholas, English statesman ( d. 1669 )

* April 19 – Nicholas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician ( b. 1682 )

* April 19 – Premiere of the first Leipzig version of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche BWV deest BC D 5b at the St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig

* April 7 – Premiere performance of the St. John Passion BWV 245 of Johann Sebastian Bach at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

* April 24 – Pope Nicholas I succeeds Pope Benedict III as the 105th pope.

* April 28 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat ( b. 1461 )

* April 8 – Pope Calixtus III succeeds Pope Nicholas V as the 209th pope.

* April 19 – Pope Nicholas V is elected by the Council of Basel.

* April – Antipope Nicholas V is excommunicated by Pope John XXII.

* April 4 – Pope Nicholas IV ( b. 1227 )

Nicholas V was excommunicated by John XXII in April 1329, and sought refuge with Count Boniface of Donoratico near Piombino.

The city was the site of one of the key battles between the Ottoman and Russian armies during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I which resulted in the capture of Trabzon by the Russian Caucasus Army under command of Grand Duke Nicholas and Nikolai Yudenich in April 1916.

* Kristof, Nicholas D. " Hu Yaobang, Ex-Party Chief in China, Dies at 73 " ( Obituary ), New York Times, 16 April 1989.

In April 1918 the Bolsheviks moved Nicholas, Alexandra and Maria to Yekaterinburg.

* Fuhrmann, Joseph T. The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Nicholas and Alexandra: April 1914 – March 1917.

Pope Nicholas I ( c. 800 – 13 November 867 ), or Saint Nicholas the Great, reigned from 24 April 858 until his death.