Spike Milligan — Irish Comedian born on April 16, 1918, died on February 27, 2002
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE was a British comedian, writer and actor. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, his early life was spent in India where he was born. The majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He disliked his first name and began to call himself "Spike" after hearing a band on Radio Luxembourg called Spike Jones and his City Slickers... (wikipedia)