Birthdays today; diplomat Sigismund von Herberstein 1486, writer Francois Hotman 1524, poet Fulvio Testi 1593, astronomer Stanislaw Lubieniecki 1623, politician Abraham Yates 1724, composer Friedrich Hartmann Graf 1727, tsar Ivan Vi of Russia 1740, explorer Jean-Francois de Galaup 1741, lexicographer Louis-Francois Beffara 1751, king Louis XVI of France 1754, naturalist Georges Cuvier 1769, philosopher Jakob F Fries 1773, engineers William Tierney Clark 1783 & Joseph Gilbert Totten 1788, politician Anton von Schmerling 1805, historian Moritz Cantor 1829, queen Marie Henriette of Austria 1836, publisher William Southam 1843, sculptor Alexander Milne Calder 1846, astronomer Sarah Francis Whiting 1847, poet William Ernest Henley 1849, economist Arnold Toynbee & politician Climaco Calderon 1852, composer Moritz Moszkowski 1854, politician Eleftherios Venizelos 1864, writer Marcel Schwob 1867, poet Edgar Lee Masters 1868, politician James Rolph 1869, physicist William Eccles & artist Eugene Lanceray 1875, composer Alfreds Kalnins 1879, writer Alexander Grin 1880, painter Louis Schelfhout 1881, writer Will Cuppy & politician Ogden L Mills 1884, chemist Henry Tizard 1885, composer Gottfried Rudinger 1886, playwright Jo Sternheim 1887, writer Alfred Lichtenstein 1889, composer Roy Agnew 1891, politician Cor van Dis Sr 1893, actor Gareth Hughes 1894, composer Ernst Krenek & singer Malvina Reynolds 1900, journalist Cecil Rolph Hewitt & politicians John Sherman Cooper 1901 & Maurits van Haegendoren 1903, violist William Primrose 1904, composer Constant Lambert 1905, playwright Arthur Adamov & sculptor Hannah Frank 1908, writer Albert Alberts, ski jumper Birger Ruud, sprinter Betty Robinson & musician Carl Dolmetsch 1911, dancer Gene Kelly & writer Jara Ribnikar 1912, bandleader Bob Crosby & composer Luis Felipe Ramon y Rivera 1913, singer Tex Williams 1917, actor Guus Hermus 1918, producer James Quinn 1919, choreographer Aart Verstegen 1920, economist Kenneth Arrow 92, actor Jean Darling 91, unionist Jack Boddy, painter Pierre Gauvreau & baseballer George Kell 1922, computer scientist Edgar F Codd, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch & producer Humphrey Fisher 1923, econometrician Denis Sargan, writer Ephraim Kishon & composers Edvard Fliflet Braein 1924, Wlodzimierz Kotonski 88 & Sulkhan Tsintsadze 1925, anthropologist Clifford Geertz 1926, artist Dick Bruna & composers Martial Solal 86 & Gerd Natschinski & actor Marian Seldes 85, actor Vera Miles & politicians Andy Ireland & Michel Rocard 83, computer scientist John Fairclough 1930, actor Barbara Eden 82, comedian Mark Russell 81, politicians Houari Boumediene 1932 & Pete Wilson & chemists Robert Curl 80 & Manfred Donike 1933, composer Lojze Lebic & NFLer Sonny Jurgensen 79, composer Loren Rush & historian Roy Strong 78, singer Rudy Lewis 1936 songwriter Roger Greenaway 75, politician Charles Wardle 74, singer Richard Sanders & actor Tony Bill 73, ballerina Patricia McBride 71, writer Nelson DeMille, politicians Peter Lilley & Dale Campbell-Savours & actor Bobby Diamond 70, physician Antonia Novello & publisher Lena Tabori 69, NFLer Rayfield Wright 67, rocker Keith Moon 1946, composer Terje Rypdal, dramatist Willy Russell, singer Rex Allen Jr & actor David Robb 66, philosopher Andrei Plesu 65, singers Vicky Leandros, Katiana Balanika, Woody Paul, & Rick Springfield, strongman Geoff Capes, actor Shelley Long & politician Pieter Biesheuvel 64, journalist John Bauldie & actor Christopher Blake 1949, singer Jimi Jamison, songwriter Mark Hudson & queen Noor of Jordan 62, politician Akhmad Kadyrov 1951, astronaut Klaus-Dietrich Flade 61, singers Dalton Reed 1952 & Bobby Gee 60, model Cathy St George 59, actor Skipp Sudduth, politician Valgerd Svarstad Haugland & astronaut David A Wolf 57, mathematician Andeas Floer 1956, politician Tasos Mitropoulos 56, artist Rodney Greenblat & actor Chris Potter 53, rocker Dean DeLeo 52, politician Martin Cauchon 51, director Roger Avary 48, model Laura Richmond 47, newscaster Nancy Cox 46, model Amanda Hope, sportswriter Jeremy Schaap & artist Keith Tyson 44, comedian Jay Mohr & jazzman Brad Mehldau 43, actor River Phoenix 1970, model Malaika Arora Khan 40, singer Shifty Shellshock, writer Christian Beranek & actor Ray Park 39, musician Eliza McCarthy 38, actor Scott Caan 37, singer Julian Casablancas & NBAer Kobe Bryant 35, singer Ritchie Neville 34, actor Carmen Luvana 32, swimmer Natalie Coughlin & rapper YT Cracker 31, animator Neil Cicierega 27, singer Nikki Gil 26
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