Birthdays today; astronomer William Gilbert 1544, composer Giovanni Battista Chinelli 1610, politician John Maitland 1616, painter Philips Wouwerman 1619, duke Gian Gastone de Medici of Tuscany 1671, composer Alexandre de Villenueve 1677, politician Daniel Finch 1689, composer Juan Sesse Balaguer 1736, physician Jean-Paul Marat 1746, king Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia 1751, composers Giacomo Conti 1754, Joseph Ignaz Schnabel 1767 & Louis Francois Dauprat 1781, geologist Edward Hitchcock 1793, philosopher William Whewell 1794, biologist Alexander von Nordmann 1803, painter Thomas Duncan & writer Cornelis Eliza van Koetsveld 1807, politician Charles Clark 1811, painter Emanuel Leutze 1816, queen Alexandrine Victoria of Britain 1819, painter Alexei Savrsov 1830, composer Richard Hoffman 1831, chocolatier Joseph Rowntree1836, lawyer Paul Laband 1838, painter Charles Napier Henry & composer Tito Mattei 1841, politician Arnold Kerdijk 1846, painter Ernest Waterlow 1850, politician Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham 1852, cowboy John Riley Banister 1854, playwright Arthur Wing Pinero 1855, painter Johann Braakensiek 1858, sculptor George Grey Barnard 1863, mechanic Charlie Taylor 1868, judge Benjamin Cardozo & politician Jan Smuts 1870, engineer Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1878, chocolatier H B Reese 1879, composer Mikulas Schneider-Tmavsky 1881, actor Creighton Hale 1882, psychologist Susan Sutherland Isaacs 1885, composer Paul Paray 1886, taxonomist B H Danser & archaeologist William F Albright 1891, astronomer Walter Baade 1893, publisher Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr 1895, writer Kathleen Hale 1898, poet Henri Michaux & tennis star Suzanne Lenglen 1899, actor Eduardo De Filippo 1900, politician Lionel Conacher 1902, composers Aram Kachaturian & Hilding Hallnas 1903, physicist Patrick Johnson & comedian George Formby 1904, writer Mikhail Sholokhov & composers Zdenek Blazek 1905 & Kresimir Fribec & historian Michael Roberts 1908, poet Guillermo Diaz-Plaja & politician Wilbur Mills 1909, composers Margers Zarins & Nils-Eric Fougstedt 1910, soprano Joan Hammond & playwright Joseph Anthony 1912, director George Tabori, actor Lilli Palmer & politicians Clifford Irving 1914 & Roden Cutler 1916, judges Alan Campbell & Derek Hodgson 1917, politician Coleman Young 1918, comics creator Sid Couchey 1919, composer Sadao Bekku 1922, oral surgeon Paul Bramley & actor Siobhan McKenna 1923, actors Mai Zetterling, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez 1925 & Stanley Baxter 1926, writer William Trevor & politician Peter Griffiths 1928, judge Ivor Richardson & composer Hans-Martin Linde 1930, actor Michael Lonsdale 1931, painter Graham Arnold, soprano Elaine Malbin & playwright Arnold Wesker 1932, painter Joaquin Vaquero Turcios & judge Christopher Staughton 1933, conductor Barry Rose, & politician Jane Byrne 1934, director Joan Micklin Silver 1935, composer Harold Budd 1937, comedian Tommy Chong & psychiatrist David Viscott 1938, politician Geret Schutte 1939, writer Joseph Brodsky 1940, composers Konrad Boehmer & Brian Dennis, rockers Bob Dylan & Tony Valentino, actor Andres Garcia & politician Patricia Hollis 1941, rocker Derek Quinn 1942, actor Gary Burghoff 1943, singer Patti LaBelle 1944, actor Priscilla Presley & politicians Steven Norris & Richard Ottaway 1945, writer Jeremy Treglown, rocker Steve Upton & runner Irina Szewinska 1946, musician Mike Reid 1947, singer Ernst Jansz 1948, actor Jim Broadbent 1949, judge Larry Seidlin 1950, rocker Rob Baker & astronaut Ronald A Parise 1951, actors Nell Campbell & Alfred Molina 1953, singers Roseanne Cash 1955, & Helen Terry 1956, politician John G Rowland 1957, actor Gene Anthony Ray 1962, writer Michael Chabon, singer Kathy Leander & NBAer Joe Dumars 1963, swimmer Adrian Moorhouse 1964, animator Shinichiro Watanabe & actor John C Reilly 1965, rocker Steven Shane McDonald & rapper Heavy D 1967, rocker Rich Robinson 1969, singer Tommy Page 1970, writer Greg Berlanti 1972, singer Ruslana 1973, comedian Will Sasso & singer Maria Lawson 1975, rocker Alessandro Cortini 1976, actor Kym Valentine 1977, actors Bryan Greenberg 1978, Cecilia Cheung & Billy L Sullivan 1980, model Marketa Janska 1981, writer Ben Croshaw 1983, actor Sarah Hagen 1984, dancer Mark Ballas & actor Jordan Metcalfe 1986, singers Dominika Kasprzycka 1987 & Billy Gilman 1988, actor Tara Correa-McMullen 1989, singer Erika Umeda 1991, actor Travis T Flory 1992
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