Birthdays today; duke Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy 1562, historian Petrus Scriverius 1576, chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont 1579, politician John Winthrop 1587, painter Jusepe Ribera 1591, sculptor Francois Duquesnoy 1597, painter Adriaen van Utrecht 1599, writer Charles Perrault 1628, composers Reinhard Keiser 1674, Gaetano Latilla 1711 & Jacques Duphly 1715, explorer Antonio de Ulloa 1716, educator Samuel Langdon 1723, writer Francis Brooke 1724, physiologist Lazzaro Spallanzani & philosopher Edmund Burke 1729, translator Johann Joachim Christoph Bode 1731, declaration signer John Hancock & composer Brizio Petrucci 1737, educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746, writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz 1751, politician Mikhail Speransky 1772, writer Erik Gustaf Geijer 1783, politician Robert Harry Inglis 1786, chemist Johan August Arfwedson 1792, physician Gideon Brecher 1797, composer Hippolyte Monpou 1804, choreographer Paul Taglioni 1808, king Ferdinand II of Sicily 1810, politician Jones M Withers 1814, composer Nikolai Afanasiev 1821, engineer Etienne Lenoir 1822, composers Adolf Jensen & Carlos Troyer 1837, painter Jean Beraud 1849, mathematician Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro 1853, painter John Singer Sargent 1856, physicist Knut Johan Angstrom 1857, philosopher James Mark Baldwin 1861, swami Vivekananda 1863, runner Spyridon Louis 1873, writer Marika Stiernstedt 1875, writer Jack London & composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari 1876, politician Frank J Corr 1877, playwright Ferenc Molnar 1878, astronomer Paul Guthnick 1879, linguist Jakob Jud & actor Milton Sills 1882, composer Louis Horst & actor Texas Guinan 1884, composer Claude Delvincourt 1888, educator Mordecai Wyatt Johnson 1890, engineer Mikhail Gurevich & politicians Hermann Goering & Alfred Rosenberg 1893, psychologist David Wechsler 1896, painter Hendrik Valk 1897, composer Jose Forns y Cuadras 1898, chemist Paul H Muller & baritone Pierre Bernac 1899, composer Vaino Hannikainen 1900, actor Ray Teal & king Saud of Saudi Arabia 1902, physicist Igor Kurchatov 1903, bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell 1904, archaeologist James Mennett Griffin & singer Tex Ritter 1905, philosopher Emmanuel Levinas & botanist E J H Corner 1906, engineer Sergei Korolev 1907, illustrator Clement Hurd & choreographer Jose Limon 1908, actor Mauritz Hugo 1909, cartoonist Charles E Martin & actors Luise Rainer & Patsy Kelly 1910, writer Jacques Cesar Ellul, newscaster Peter Pooley & politician Edward Gurney 1912, screenwriter Paul Jarrico, tv host Martin Agronsky & polticians Frank Annunzio & Ernest Armstrong 1915, chemist Ruth Benerito, jazzman Jay McShann, cellist William Pleeth & politician P W Botha 1916, composer Walter Hendl & yogi Maharishi Mahesh 1917, activist James L Farmer Jr & sociologist Jerzy Zubrzycki 1920, composer Leo Smit & weightlifter John Davis 1921, journalist Tadeusz Zychiewicz 1922, sculptor Jan Willem Radecker 1924, composer Laurentiu Profeta, actor Scottie MacGregor & tv host Bill Burrud 1925, singer Ray Price & composer Morton Feldman 1926, composer Salvatore Martirano 1927, singer Ruth Brown & actor Lew Gallo 1928, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre & publisher Colin Haycraft 1929, writer Jennifer Johnston & singer Glenn Yarbrough 1930, comedian Des OConnor & sculptor Alain Teister 1932, director Lilliana Cavani & tv host Michael Aspel 1933, actor Ron Harper 1936, actor Marie Dubois & baritone Vincente Sardinero 1937, actor Lewis Fiander 1938, poet Jacques Hamelink, writer Helmut Eisendle & singer William Lee Golden 1939, actor Matthias Habich 1940, singer Long John Baldry & politician Jaime B Fuster 1941, activist Bernardine Dohrn & cosmonaut Vladimir Sergeyevich Kozelsky 1942, activist Hans Henning Atrott, pianist Viktoria Postnikova & actor Carlos Villagran 1944, singer Maggie Bell 1945, rockers George Duke & Cynthia Robinson & judge Hazel Cosgrove 1946, writer William Nicholson & actor Anthony Andrews 1948, radiologist Michael W Vannier, writer Haruki Murakami, director Wayne Wang & composer Kentaro Haneda 1949, microbiologist Marilyn R Smith & politicians Sheila Jackson Lee, Goran Lindblad & Bob McEwen 1950, sportscaster Drew Pearson, rocker Larry Hoppen, singer Chris Bell actor Kirstie Alley, lawyer Ann Althouse & radio host Rush Limbaugh 1951 singer Ricky Van Shelton & writers Walter Mosley & Charles Faulkner1952, radio host Howard Stern 1954, screenwriter Rockne S OBannon 1955, animator John Lasseter 1957, poet Lasana M Sekou, singers Blixa Bargeld & Per Helmstad 1959, NBAer Dominique Wilkins & actor Oliver Platt 1960, comics creator Joe Quesada 1962, director Francois Girard 1963, entrepreneur Jeff Bezos 1964, rocker Rob Zombie & producer Mark Moore 1965, actor Olivier Martinez 1966, models Vendela Kirsebom 1967 & Heather Mills, composer Junichi Masuda & actor Farrah Forke 1968, rocker Zack de la Rocha & rapper Raekwon 1970, actor Tommy Puett 1971, comedians Randy Sklar & Jason Sklar & politician Priyanka Gandhi 1972, rocker Matt Wong & singers Hande Yener, Dan Haseltine 1973 & Melanie Sporty Spice Chisholm 1974, rocker Jason Freese & singer Chase Hampton 1975, actors Miki Nakatani 1976, Piolo Pascual & singer Kris Roe 1977, actor Kim Sa-rang & musician Jeremy Camp 1978, singer Amerie 1980, actors Yohana Cobo 1985, Naya Rivera, Will Rothhaar 1987 & Andrew Lawrence 1988, singer Mao Kobayashi 1992
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