Birthdays today; duke Albert III of Saxony 1443, shah Abbas I of Persia 1571, painter Frederick Avercamp 1585, composer Pierre de la Barre 1592, politician Harbottle Grimston 1603, physician Thomas Willis 1621, critic Richard Bentley 1662, painter Jean Francois de Troy 1679, architect Johann Balthasar Neumann 1687, explorer Charles Marie de La Condamine & historian Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim 1701, composer Vaclav Kalous 1715, playwright Samuel Foote 1720, poet Johann Andreas Cramer 1723, writer Hester Thrale 1741, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756, philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775, composer Martin-Joseph Mengal 1784, inventor Phineas Davis 1792, physician William Henry Duncan, painter Samuel Palmer & princess Sophie of Bavaria 1805, composer Juan Crisostomo Arriaga 1806, architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc 1814, activist Thomas L Kane 1822, composer Edouard Lalo 1823, painter Jozef Israels 1824, satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin & politician Richard Taylor 1826, composer Louis Schubert 1828, astronomer Isaac Roberts 1829, composer Georg Hellmesberger 1830, writer Lewis Carroll 1832, writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch 1836, painter Arkhip Kuindzhi 1842, psychologist James Ward 1843, unionist Samuel Gompers 1850, poet Rafel Obligado 1851, writer Neel Doff 1858, kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany 1859, engineer Ralph Modjeski 1861, composer Claude Antoine Terrasse & soprano Cato Engelen-Sewing 1868, composer Will Marion Cook 1869, judge Learned Hand 1872, writer Giuseppe Prezzolini 1882, painter Maeda Seison & composers Eduard Kunneke & Jerome Kern 1885, archaeologist Carl Blegen 1887, mineralogist Victor Goldschmidt 1888, physicist Balthasar van der Pol 1889, writer Ilja Ehrenburg 1891, composer Mitya Stillman 1892, politician Soong Ching-ling 1893, NFLer Fritz Pollard 1894, composers Harry Ruby & Claudio Carneyro & conductor Joseph Rosenstock 1895, composers Sulo Nikolai Salonen & Granville English 1899, actor Willy Fritsch 1901, neurophysiologist John Eccles 1903, radio host Luther Diamond & actor Howard McNear 1905, composer Radames Gnattali 1906, jazzman Hot Lips Page & editor William Randolph Hearst Jr 1908, actor Benay Venuta 1911, engineer Francis Rogallo, philosopher Arne Naess, writer Lawrence Durrell & director Marc Daniels 1912, composers Valery Zhelobinsky & Milton Adolphus 1913, activist Anna Larina 1914, clarinettist Jack Brymer 1915, bluesman Elmore James & composer Skitch Henderson 1918, singer David Seville & pianist Nina Milkina 1919, composer Helmut Zacharias & director John Box 1920, actor Donna Reed 1921, composer Alexander Chugayev, actors Brian Rix & Sabu Dastagir & politicians William van Straubenzee & Rauf Denktas 1924, pr man Geoffrey Tucker & designer John Bury 1925, musician Fritz Spiegl & actor Ingrid Thulin 1926, newscaster Nancy Dickerson & actor Doretta Morrow 1927, pianist Jean-Michel Damase, actor Michael Craig & politician Hans Modrow 1928, writer Gaston Suarez & lawyer Richard Du Can 1929, singer Bobby Bland & politicians Roger Sims & Esteban Edward Torres 1930, inventor Nigel Vinson, singer Rudi Maugeri & writers Mordecai Richler & John Hopkins 1931, politician Neville Trotter & gymnast Boris Shakhlin 1932, politicians Edith Cresson & Federico Mayor Zaragoza 1934, critic Gillian Beer 1935, physicist Samuel C C Ting, writer Ismail Kadare & actor Troy Donahue 1936, pianist John Ogdon 1937, composer Tigran Mansurian & politician Patricia Rawlings 1939, actor James Cromwell & astronaut Brian T OLeary 1940, composer Petr Kotik & comedian John Witherspoon 1942, politician Julia Cumberlege 1943, activist Mairead Maguire & rockers Nick Mason & Kevin Coyne 1944, activist Harold Cardinal 1945, singers Nedra Telley 1946 & Bjorn Afzelius & politician Vyron Polydoras 1947, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov & rockers Chuck Larsen & Kim Gardner 1948, writer Ethan Mordden 1949, obstetrician Amos Grunebaum 1950, rockers Brian Downey & Seth Justman & actor Scott Lane 1951, composer Peter Garland 1952, critic Joe Bob Briggs 1953, comics creator Peter Laird 1954, singer Richard Young, writer Alexander Stewart & judge John Roberts 1955, actor Mimi Rogers 1956, comics creator Frank Miller 1957, artist Kadri Malk, writer James Grippando, rocker Charles Waltz & politician Alan Milburn 1958, actor Patti Cohoon, sportscaster Chris Collinsworth, tv host Keith Olbermann & politician Goran Hagglund 1959, rockers Gillian Gilbert & Rudi Mauger, singer Margo Timmins, models Karen Velez & Charlotte Kemp, actor Dina Bonnevie & designer Narciso Rodriguez 1961, composer Roberto Paci Dalo & conductor Michael Collins 1962, rocker Migi Drummond & actors Bridget Fonda, Cathy Podewell, Carrington Garland 1964, Alan Cumming 1965, Tamlyn Tomita 1966 & Bobby Deol 1967, singers Mike Patton & Tracy Lawrence & rapper Tricky 1968, comedian Patton Oswalt, musician Cornelius & singer Michael Kulas 1969, flutist Emmanuel Pahud & tv host Jon Douglas Rainey 1970, singer Mark Owen 1972, voice actor Clint Ford & actor Ruby Lin 1976, bluesman Jonny Lang 1981, actor Davetta Sherwood 1984, singer Katy Rose & model Lily Donaldson 1987
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