Birthdays today; emperor Nijo of Japan 1143, duke Philip III of Burgundy 1396, king Maximilian II of Bohemia 1527, sculptor Alessandro Algardi 1598, composer Johann Jakob Lowe von Eisenach 1629, politician Jacob Hop 1654, composer Benedetto Marcello 1686, painter Jean Denis Attiret 1702, mathematician Gabriel Cramer 1704, physicist John Canton 1718, lexicographer Noel Francis de Wally 1724, painter Isaak Ouwater 1738, composer Amelie-Julie Candeille 1767, inventors John Ericsson 1803 & Thomas Jackson Roman 1816, geographer Heinrich Kiepert 1818, politician William S Clark 1826, composers Francois-Auguste Gevaert 1828 & Frantisek Zdenek Skuhersky 1830, explorer Paul du Chaillu & politician Henri Brisson 1835, poet Peter Rosegger 1843, linguist Ignazio Guidi 1844, composers Ignacio Cervantes 1847 & Robert Planquette 1848, politician Jose Canalejas 1854, geologist Richard Dixon Oldham 1858, painter Mary Vaux Walcott 1860, retailer S S Kresge 1867, actor Harry Northrup 1875, writers Munshi Premchand 1880 & Grete Gulbransson 1882, politician Carl Friedrich Goerdeler 1884, producer Fred Quimby 1886, sociologist Hans Feyer 1887, actor Donald Foster 1889, composers Charles Wilfred Orr 1893, Roy Bargy 1894 & Erich Katz & pollster Elmo Roper 1900, painter Jean Dubuffet 1901, writer Brett Halliday & sportswriter Arthur Daley 1904, curator Trenchard Cox 1905, musician George Liberace 1911, economist Milton Friedman & tv host Irv Kupcinet 1912, composer Anatoly Bogatiryov & NHLer Bryan Hextall 1913, engineer Raymond Aubrac, winemaker Jose Ignacio Domecq & actor Louis de Funes 1914, activist Sibte Hassan & actor Sydney Tafler 1916, chemist Paul D Boyer & jazzman Hank Jones 1918, chemist Primo Levi, conductor Norman Del Mar & sportscaster Curt Gowdy 1919, composer Rudolf Halaczinsky 1920, activists Whitney Young & Peter Benenson 1921, politician Lucy Killea 1922, musician Ahmet Ertegun 1923, philosoper Hilary Putnam 1926, writer Walter Vogt & composer Stefan Niculescu 1927, politician Bill Frenzel 1928, writers Oriana Fallaci & Lynne Reid Banks & actor Don Murray 1929, clown Oleg Popov 1930, jazzmen Kenny Burrell 1931 & Morey Carr, philosopher John Searle, politician Robert William Davis & actors Ted Cassidy & Sam Coppola 1932, writers Cees Nooteboom 1933 & Yvon Deschamps & actor Geoffrey Lewis 1935, singer Bonnie Brown 1937, rocker John R West & actors Susan Flannery & France Nuyen 1939, producer Stanley R Jaffe 1940, politician Amarsinh Chaudhary 1941, rocker Lobo, actor Sab Shimono & politician William Bennett 1943, economist Robert C Merton & actors Geraldine Chaplin & Sherry Lansing 1944, composer Tomas Vackar, rocker Bob Welch & politician William Weld 1945, rockers Gary Lewis 1946, Karl Green, Dennis Greenslade 1947 & Leaveil Degree 1948, actor Lane Davies 1950, tennis star Evonne Goolagong & actors Barry Van Dyke & Gerald Anthony 1951 astronaut Pratiwi Sudarmono, writer Joao Barreiros & actor Alan Autry 1952, cellist Hugh McDowell, actor James Read & politician Ted Baillieu 1953, actor Michael Biehn & politician Deval Patrick 1956, rocker Daniel Ash, model Victoria E Cooke & actor Dirk Blocker 1957, rocker Bill Berry & singer Wally Kurth 1958, jazzman Stanley Jordan 1959, model Kym Malin, actor Wesley Snipes & politician John Chiang 1962, rockers Fatboy Slim 1963 & Jim Corr 1964, writer J K Rowling 1965, model Tylyn John & actor Dean Cain 1966, writer Elizabeth Wurtzel, voice actor Mitsuo Iwata, singer Minako Honda & actors Rodney Harvey & Rudolf Martin 1967, director Julian Richards 1968, model Langa Sibanda, actor Loren Dean & politician Kenneth D Schisler 1969, writer Ahmad Akbarpour 1970, rocker John William Lowery 1971, choreographer Tami Stronach 1972, singer Jerry Rivera & model Chandra North 1973, actor Emilia Fox 1974, composer Allan von Schenkel, dj Simon Hirst & actor Annie Parisse 1975, rockers Joshua Cain 1976 & Will Champion & tv host Zeta Makripoulia 1978, singer Jade Kwan & actor B J Novak 1979, singers Ira Losco & Matthew Sanders & actors J.Son Dinant, Eric Lively 1981 & Brittany Byrnes 1987, juggler Olga Galchenko 1990
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