Birthdays today; composer Jacob Obrecht 1457, queen Mary of Scotland 1515, politician Henry Brooke 1564, writer Johannes Stalpaert van der Wiele 1579, queen Elisabeth of Spain 1602, painter Pieter de Jode II 1606, biologist Francis Willughby 1635, explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle 1643, composer Francois Colin de Blamont 1690, politician Pierre de Rigaud 1698, composers Frantisek Benda 1709 & Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1710, politicians Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres 1721 & Andreas Hofer 1767, composer Conradin Kreutzer & politician Jose Cecilio del Valle 1780, philologist Rasmus Christian Rask 1787, entrepreneur Thomas Cook 1808, politician Serranus Clinton Hastings 1814, writers Samuel Gibbs French 1818 & George Eliot 1819, politician Nathan Kimball 1822, writer Justin McCarthy 1830, editor George Henry Chapman 1832, composer Jose Augusto Ferreira Veia 1838, actor Anna S Barbiers 1842, painter Christian Rohlfs & historian Friedrich von Bernhardi 1849, politician Paul-Henri-Benjamin dEstournelles de Constant 1852, writer George Gissing 1857, politician John Nance Garner 1858, painter Qi Baishi & explorer Jean-Baptiste Marchand 1863, politicians Wilhelm Groener 1867 & John Nance Garner 1868, writer Andre Gide 1869, composer Howard Brockway 1870, linguist Matteo Giulio Bartoli & politician L S Amery 1873, philosopher Herman Harrell Horne 1874, writer Georges Rency & actor Elizabeth Patterson 1875, poet Andre Ady 1877, economist Ralph Hawtrey 1879, politician Enver Pasha 1881, unionist A J Cook 1883, painter Jean-Jacques Gailliard & politicians Charles de Gaulle & Harry Pollitt 1890, composer Bengt Axel von Torne & pr man Edward Bernays, 1891, politician Lazar Moisevitsj Kaganovitsj 1893, composer Mario la Broca 1896, astronomer Paul Oswald Ahnert 1897, economist Lionel Robbins & pilot Wiley Post 1898, bandleader Hoagy Carmichael 1899, writer Tom MacDonald & composers Hugo Godron 1900 & Joaquin Rodrigo & actor Lee Patrick 1901, cellist Emanuel Feuermann & politician Humphrey Gibbs 1902, economist S Herbert Frankel 1903, philosopher James Burnham & actor Howard Petrie 1905, composer Bernard Naylor 1907, historian Michael Balfour 1908, engineer Mikhail Mil 1909, archaeologist Eric Stuart Woord & actor Doris Duke 1912, judge Cecilia Munoz-Palma & composer Benjamin Britten 1913, writer Peter Townsend 1914, biophysicist Andrew F Huxley & composer Jean-Etienne Marie 1917, politician Claiborne Pell 1918, biochemist Wilfred Norman Aldridge 1919, actor Anne Crawford 1920, comedian Rodney Dangerfield & writer Brian Cleeve 1921, composer Fikrat Amirov 1922, director Arthur Hiller 90, composers Dika Newlin 1923 & Axel Borup-Jorgensen & actor Geraldine Page 1924, jazzman Gunther Schuller 88, jazzman Grady Fats Jackson 1927, politician Timothy Beaumont 1928, astronaut Owen K Garriott & director Peter Hall 83, actor Robert Vaughn 81, politician Keith Wickenden 1932, actor Michael Callan 78, composer Hans Zender & actor Joachim Bissmeier 77, cosmonaut Zenon Jankowski 76, forensic scientist Henry Lee 75, actor Allen Garfield & politician Mulayam Singh Yadav 74, astrophysicist Tom West 1939, actor Terry Gilliam 73, NHLer Jacques Laperriere rockers Jesse Colin Young & Ron McClure & actor Tom Conti 72, astronaut Guion Bluford, rocker Floyd Sneed & musician Stephen Caldwell 71, tennis star Billie Jean King, NHLer Yvan Cournoyer & politician George Darden 70, director Peter Adair 1943, reggaeman Aston Barrett & politician Hans Kombrink 67, writer Valerie Wilson Wesley & politician Alfredo Cristiani 66, rocker Rod Price 1947, historian David Pietrusza & physician Richard Carmona 64, rockers Tina Weymouth & Steven Van Zandt & singer Art Sullivan 63, conductor Kent Nagano 62, engineer Billy M Sprague 60, singer Urmas Alender 1953, rocker Lawrence Gowan & actor Richard Kind 57, rocker Sharon Bailey 56, actor Jamie Lee Curtis 55, director Leos Carax 53, programmer Randal L Schwartz, composer Stephen Hough & actor Mariel Hemmingway 52, writer Victor Pelevin & politician Cleo Fields 51, model Corinne Russell & actor Brian Robbins 50, actor Stephen Geoffreys 49, producer Peter Safran & actor Mads Mikkelsen 48, rocker Eg White & actor Nicholas Rowe 47, tennis star Boris Becker & actor Mark Ruffalo 46, programmer Rasmus Lerdorf & runner Irina Privalova 45, writers Marjane Satrapi 44 & Stel Pavlou 43, singers Aiko 38 & Ville Valo 37, actor Devyn Puett 36, singers Karen O 35 & Chris Doran 34, programmer Shawn Fanning 33, singer Ben Adams 32, writer Alasdair Duncan & singer Charlene Choi 31, rocker Corey Beaulieu & singer Tyler Hilton 30, model Kate Ground & actor Scarlett Johansson 29, writers Suresh Guptara & Jyoti Guptara 25
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