Birthdays today; poet Omar Khayyam 1048, sculptor Hendrick de Keyser 1565, composer Claudio Monteverdi 1567, writer Mary Wortley Montagu 1689, astronomer Maximilian Hell 1720, politician Levi Lincoln Sr 1749, composers Pierre Dutillieu 1754, Maria Theresia von Paradis 1759 & Johann Nepomuk Kalcher 1764, politicians Dimitris Plapoutas 1786 & Floris Adriaan van Hall 1791, composer Adolf Bernhard Mark 1795, engineer Isaac R Trimble 1802, composers Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata 1807, Gottfried Hermann & Michael William Balfe 1808, politician Jacob Thompson 1810, composer Stephen Heller 1813, politician Thomas Leonidas Crittenden 1819, Martinus Wilhelmus van der Aa 1831, composer Giovanni Bolzoni 1841, biologist Ilya Mechnikov 1845, painter Viktor Vasnetsov 1848, writers Eduard von Keyserling 1855 & L Frank Baum 1856, astronomer Williamina Fleming 1857, physicist Pierre Curie 1859, writer Arthur Schnitzler 1862, poet Albert Verwey 1865, composers Nikolai Tcherepnin 1873, Francisco Pujol 1878 & Stanley Marchant 1883, unionist Bessie Hillman 1889, writer Katherine Anne Porter 1890, chemist Fritz Feigl poet David Vogel, writer Mikhail Bulgakov & actor Nipo T Strongheart 1891, composer Michel Gusikoff & actor Stanley Lupino 1893, director Charles Lamont & politician William D Byron 1895, actor Arietty 1898, writer Xavier Herbert 1901, politician Richard J Daley 1902, archaeologist Maria Reiche & actor Anny Ondra 1903, writer Clifton Fadiman 1904, actor Joseph Cotten 1905, composer Josef Alexander & politician Phil Piratin 1907, composers Lars-Erik Larsson 1908 & Rudolfo S Cornejo & actors James Mason 1909 & Constance Cummings 1910, playwright Max Frisch & actor Leo Fuchs 1911, composer Arthur Berger & philosopher Alexis Kagame 1912, immunologist Jack Pepys, composer Jean-Pierre Froidebise & NHLer Turk Broda 1914, journalist Maurice Latey, accordianist Gus Viseur, economist Paul A Samuelson & actor Bill Williams 1915, director Hugh Falkus 1917, singer Eddy Arnold & actor Joseph Wiseman 1918, poet Hugh Henry Home Popham 1920, writer Jakucho Setouchi & politician Enrico Berlinguer 1922, composer John Lanchbery, photographer Richard Avedon & actor Johnny Walker 1923, ornithologist Maria Koepcke, poet Jaime Garcia Terre & actor Ursula Thiess 1924, director Jos Jacobs & composers Andrei Eshpai & Emmanuel Ghent 1925, playwrights Peter Schaffer & Anthony Shaffer & composer Clermont Pepin 1926, actor David Healy 1929, painter Jasper Johns 1930, sportscaster Ken Venturi & politician Frits Korthals Altes 1931, director John Glen 1932, cartoonist Ralph Steadman, clown Wavy Gravy & soprano Anna Maria Alberghetti, playwright Paul Zindel & composer Jean Balissat 1936, singer Trini Lopez & diplomat Madeleine Albright 1937, singer Lenny Welch & actor Mireille Darc 1938, mathematician Brian Hartley 1939, actor Lainie Kazan 1940, composer Richard Edward Wilson 1941, astronaut Anthony W England, singer K T Oslin & politician Doug Lowe 1942, screenwriter Harve Brosten 1943, rocker Ian Tich Amey, runner Miruts Yifter, actor Gunilla Hutton & politician Bill Alter 1944, singer Lasse Berghagen 1946, rockers Graeham Goble 1946 & Brian Eno 1948, astronaut Frank L Culbertson Jr & singer Eric J Beekes 1949, actor Nicholas Hammond 1950, singer Dennis Frederiksen 1951, actor Chazz Palminteri 1952, musician Mike Oldfield & baseballer George Brett 1953, radio host Robert P Harrison 1954, actor Lee Horsley 1955, sportscaster Dan Patrick 1956, politician Juan Jose Ibarretxe 1957, singer Andrew Eldritch 1959, director Rob Bowman 1960, rapper Melle Mel & actor Katrin Cartlidge 1961, painter George Heidweiller & actors Grant Heslov 1963, Jeff Rochlin 1965, Madhuri Dixit 1967 & Todd Porter, rocker Seth Putnam & politician Cecilia Malmstrom 1968, musician Asalah Nasri & NFLer Emmitt Smith 1969, singer Martin Rossiter 1970, strongman Phil Pfister 1971, singer David Charvet 1972, actor Tori Spelling 1973, rocker Ahmet Zappa & actor Shiney Ahuja 1974, rocker Peter Iwers 1975, gymnast Amy Chow, model Krissy Taylor & actors Caroline Dhavernas, David Krumholtz 1978, Rocky Marquette 1980 & Jamie-Lynn Sigler 1981, singer Jessica Sutta, runner Veronica Campbell-Brown & actors Tatsuya Fujiwara & Alex Breckenridge 1982, rocker Devin Bronson 1983, actor Jennylyn Mercado 1987, singer Ksenia Sitnik 1995
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