Birthdays today; king Rene I of Naples 1409, astronomer Johannes Schoner 1477, courtier Anthony Denny 1501, painter Alexander Adriaenssen & politician Gaspar de Guzman 1587, duke Francois de Vendome of Beaufort 1616, painter Lucas Achtschellinck 1626, poet Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter 1634, composer Francesco Mancini 1672, writer Louis de Rouvroy 1675, writer Richard Savage 1697, composer Niccolo Piccinni 1728, astronomer Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron 1730, poet Vittorio Alfieri 1749, architect Samuel McIntire 1757, chemist Anders Gustaf Ekeberg 1767, composer Karl August Krebs 1804, hydrographer Charles Henry Davis 1807, composer Adolph Trube & lawyer Henry Halleck 1815, politician John Cabell Breckinridge 1821, judge Albert Lindley Lee 1834, king Francis II of the two Sicilies 1836, ethnologist Ellen Russell Emerson & politician James Phillip Simms 1837, philosopher Franz Brentano 1838, politician Ismail Qemali 1844, industrialist Andre Michelin & actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson 1853, actor Frank Bacon 1864, composer Cyril Metodej Hrazdira 1868, chemist Wilhelm Normann 1870, director Edward Gordon Craig & composer Henri Busser 1872, explorer Boyd Alexander 1873, poet Robert W Service 1874, biochemist Leonor Michaelis 1875, poet Robert Garbe & actor Harry Carey Sr 1878, engineer Arthur Percy Morris Fleming 1881, writer Zhou Zuoren & politician Wladyslaw Rackiewicz 1885, actor John Hamilton 1887, writer Osip Brik 1888, actor Lloyd Bacon 1889, cinematographer Karl Freund 1890, violinist Daisy Kennedy 1893, publisher Irving Mills & NFLer Guy Chamberlin 1894, writer Nat Schachner 1895, screenwriter Ruth Rose 1896, poet Carlos Pellicer 1897, editor Margaret Booth & director Irving Rapper 1898, inventor Frank Zamboni & politician Fulgencio Batista 1901, songwriter Evelyn Danzig & runner Eric Liddell 1902, composers Max Vredenburg 1904, & Ernesto Halffter 1905, actor Diana Wynyard 1906, writer Alexander Knox, translator Phillip Vellacott & politician Paul Nitze 1907, actor Ethel Merman 1908, critic Clement Greenberg 1909, baseballer Dizzy Dean 1910, writer Franz Tumler 1912, choirmaster Roger Wagner & historian Roger Aubert 1914, geologist Frederick Stewart 1916, entrepreneur Carl Karcher & actor Buddy Lester 1917, poet Nel Benschop screenwriter Stirling Silliphant & politician Clem Jones 1918, biochemist Jerome P Horowitz 1919, actor Elliott Reid 1920, photographer Francesco Scavullo 1921, singer Ernesto Bonino 1922, playwright Gene Feist, poet Anthony Hecht & rocker Roy Lanham & politician Wim Aantjes 1923, actor Katy Jurado 1924, composer Ezra Sims, writer William Kennedy, engineer John Fozard & soprano Pilar Lorengar 1928, composer Tage Nielsen & politician Allard Lowenstein 1929, writers Norman Podhoretz 1930 & Vladimir Skutina & politician Johannes Rau 1931, zoologist Dian Fossey 1932, cartoonist Jim Berry 1932, writer Susan Sonntag 1933, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, composer Richard Wernick, rocker Bob Bogle & politician Bill Alexander 1934, producer Michael White 1936, actor Lorraine Bayly & singer Conny Vandenbos 1937, comedian Jo Soares & actors Michael Pataki 1938 & Richard Bohringer 1941, singers Barbara Lynn & Rene Angelil, rocker Billy Francis & politician Tony P Hall 1942, composers Gavin Bryars & Brian Ferneyhough & singers Ronnie Milsap 1943 & Jim Stafford & editor Chris de Marigny 1944, astronaut Michael L Coats & actor Kabir Bedi 1946, writers Magdalen Nabb & Juliet Berto & politician Harvey Proctor 1947, cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev, writer Ruth Reichl, director John Carpenter & musician Dalvinius Prime 1948, actor Caroline Munro 1949, writer Brian Castro, singer Damo Suzuki & actor Debbie Allen 1950, rocker Richard Thompson 1951, astronaut Lloyd Blaine Hammond, journalist Roberta Baskin, playwright Bille Brown & king Fuad II of Egypt 1952, astronaut Jerry M Linenger 1955, actor Jennifer Dale & journalist Ivan Safronov 1956, mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev & politician Lena Ek 1958, singer Sade Adu 1959, rocker Paul Raven 1961, rockers Paul Webb & Jan Koster, singer Maxine Jones & politician Joel Fitzgibbon 1962, tv host James May 1963, singer Jill Sobule 1965, actor David Chokachi 1968, comics creator Garth Ennis 1970, director Josh Evans 1971, runner Salah Hissou, singer Greg Page & actors Richard T Jones & Dameon Clarke 1972, actor Josie Davis 1973, model Kate Moss 1974, director Greg Strause & actor Gillian Iliana Waters 1975, singer Aaliyah 1979, rapper Lin-Manuel Miranda & actor Michelle Wild 1980, rocker Nick Valensi 1981, singer Samuel Preston 1982, rocker Jared Slingerland 1984, actor Mason Gamble 1986, model Lauren McAvoy 1987
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