Birthdays today; caliph Al-Mustansir Billah of Cairo 1029, queen Joan of Scotland 1321, composer Johann Steuerlein 1546, settler Thomas Hooker 1586, administrator Thomas Pitt 1653, anatomist Antonio Pacchioni 1665, king Pedro III of Portugal 1717, politician Francis Seymour-Conway 1718, poet Claudio Manuel da Costa 1729, actor Sarah Siddons 1755, composers Janos Lavotta 1764 & William Crotch 1775, politician Stamford Raffles 1781, activist Sylvester Graham 1794, meteorologist Robert FitzRoy 1805, showman P T Barnum 1810, engineer William John Macquirn Rankine 1820, painter Paul Gabriel 1828, writer Ignacio Mariscal 1829, politician William Collins Whitney 1841, historian Mandell Creighton 1843, composers Agnes Zimmermann 1847 & Stefano Gobatti 1852, politician Cecil Rhodes 1853, activist Clara Zetkin 1857, politician Robert Bacon 1860, astronomer A E Douglass 1867, painter William Henry Singer 1868, politician Eduard Herriot 1872, composers Gerhard von Keussler 1874, Joseph Holbrooke 1878 & Volkmar Andreae, harpsichordist Wanda Landowska & politician Dwight F Davis 1879, composer Jan Kubelik 1880, musician Inayat Khan 1882, artist Andre Lhote 1885, writer Felix Timmermans & politician Willem Drees 1886, poet Jean Cocteau 1889, historian Frederick Lewis Allen 1890, biochemist John Howard Northrop & piet Tin Ujevic 1891, composers Gordon Jacob 1895 & Paul Ben-Haim 1897, activist Anna Arnold Hedgeman, playwright Marcel Achard & composer Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson 1899, puppeteer Sergey Obraztsov 1901, writer Frank Waters & politician Henry Cabot Lodge Jr 1902, composer Irwin Fischer 1903, biologist Ernst Mayr, writer Harold Acton, composer Franz Syberg, newscaster Don Goddard & actors Milburn Stone 1904 & Isa Miranda 1905, sociologist Robert K Merton 1910, politician Georges Pompidou 1911, bluesman Smiley Lewis 1913, composers George Rochberg 1918 & Issachar Miron & politician Mary Louise Hancock 1920, historian Niels Jannasch & cellist Janos Starker 1924, composer Kenneth Gaburo & politician Haya van Someren 1926, writer Walter Matthias Digelmann & actors Beverly Tyler 1927, Katherine Helmond & Warren Oates & politician Piere Mauroy 1928, actor Tommy Cook 1930, painter Teddy Millington-Drake, actor Billy Laughlin & politician Gyula Horn 1932, actor Terence Cooper 1933, writers John Gilmore & Edward McInnes 1935, economist James Mirrlees & actor Shirley Knight 1936, writer Brooke Hayward & politicians Nita Lowey & Frouwke Laning-Boersema 1937, composer Stanley Silverman 1938, painter Chuck Close & politician Karen Shepherd 1940, poet Barbara Frischmuth 1941, rocker Robbie Robertson 1943, politician Leni Bjorklund 1944, rocker Dick Scoppettone & politician Humberto Benitez Trevino 1945, physicist Gerard t Hooft, politician Pierre-Marc Johnson & couturier Paul Smith 1946, actor William Hootkins 1948, rockers Michael Monarch & Huey Lewis 1950, singer Keiko Fuji & baseballer Goose Gossage 1951, astronaut Terence T Henricks, composer Michael Don McNabb & politician David Dreier 1952, rockers Jimmy Crespo 1954 & Michael Gismondi 1955, NFLer James Lofton & actor Patsy Pease 1956, politician David Hanson 1957, cartoonist Bill Watterson, writer Meredith Ann Pierce, conductor Paul Daniel & journalist Veronica Guerin 1958, musician Marc Cohn 1959, actor Brad Loree 1960, soprano Isabelle Poulenard 1961, singer Russ Lorenson & actor Edie Falco 1963, pianist Eyran Katsenelenbogen & actors Kathryn Erbe 1965 & Susannah Doyle 1966, comics creator Silvia Ziche 1967, animator Ken Akamatsu & composer Kenji Ito 1968, director Jenji Kohan & rappers RZA 1969 & Mac Dre 1970, rocker Bengt Lagerberg & singer Roisin Murphy 1973, rocker Gunnar H Thomsen & dancer Kip Gamblin 1975, model Marina Dias 1976, rapper Royce da 5 9 1977, singer Shane Filan & tennis star Amelie Mauresmo 1979, rocker Jason Wade & actors Eva Green 1980 & Ryan Hansen 1981, model Yu Yamada 1984, rocker Nick OMalley & actors Stephanie McIntosh 1985 & Jason Dolley 1991
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 16:47:10 +0000