Birthdays today; shogun Minamoto no Yorimoto 1147, poet Dante Alighieri 1265, painter Abraham van Diepenbeeck 1596, composer Giovanni Paisiello 1740, frontiersman Alexander Ross 1783, meteorologist James Pollard Espy 1785, historian Cornelis Cornelis de Jonge 1793, encyclopedaeist August Pauly 1796, activist John Brown 1800, engraver Samuel Cousins 1801, painter Louis Gallait & princess Marianne of the Netherlands 1810, composers Ciro Pinsuti 1829 & Boleslaw Dembinski 1833, automaker Adam Opel 1837, actor Catharina Beersmans & spy Belle Boyd 1844, composers Nikolai Soloviev 1846 & Julius Rontgen 1855, writer J M Barrie 1860, composer August de Boeck 1865, activist Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1866, politician Anton Cermak 1873, archaeologist Howard Carter & producer Lilian Mary Baylis 1874, painter George Barker & shipbuilder Henry J Kaiser 1882, judge Francis Biddle 1886, painter Jules van de Leene & banker Ernest de Silva 1887, curator Rolf de Mare 1888, composer Eric Westberg & queen Zita of Hungary 1892, writer William Moulton Marston 1893, philosopher Lucian Blaga & actor Richard Barthelmess 1895, jazzman Edward Pollock 1899, actor Fuzzy Knight 1901, writers Walter Dehmel 1903, Eleanor Estes 1906 & Baldur von Schirach 1907, potter Mary Scheier 1908, musician Don Messer 1909, dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse 1910, conductor Harry Simeone 1911, writer Per Imerslund & actor Pedro Armendariz 1912, graphic artist Josef Muller-Brockmann, composer Frank Chacksfield, conductor Carlo Maria Giulini, singer Hank Snow & lawyer Theodore Kheel 1914, organists Bernard Rose & Douglas Guest 1916, actor John Arnatt 1917, journalist Mike Wallace & politician Orville Freeman 1918, comedian Arthur English & golfer Betty Jameson 1919, writers Richard Adams 94 & William Tenn 1920, activist Daniel Berrigan 93, poet Mona Van Duyn 1921, actor Sheila Burrell 1922, radio host Johnny Grant & actor Connie Russell 1923, graphic artist Gerard Wernars, poet Bulat Okudzhava & director Jean Girault 1924, judge Robin Cooke 1926, chemist Manfred Eigen 87, painter Ralph Goings 86, composer Pall Pampichier Palsson & tennis star Pancho Gonzalez 1928, actors Kay Dotrice 1929 & Joan Sims 1930, astronaut Vance D Brand & engineer Alistair MacFarlane 83, actor Geraldine McEwan & politician Alex McMillan 82, writer Gavin Lyall 1932, playwright Alan Bennett & organist Roy Massey 80, rocker Nokie Edwards 79, actor Albert Finney & politician Glenda Jackson 78, journalist Terry Drinkwater 1936, architect Rafael Moneo & singers Sonny Curtis 77 & Dave Prater 1937, poet Charles Simic 76, composer Bruce Mather & jumper Ralph Boston 75, humorist Pierre Desproges 1939, director James L Brooks 74, jazzman Dick Morrisey 1940, sculptor Jan Dibbets & rocker Pete Birrell 73, singer Tommy Roe & politicians Bill Olner & John Ashcroft 72, rockers Mike Millward 1942, Bruce Milner 71 & Don Dannemann & singer Richie Furay 70, rocker Steve Katz 69, actors Candice Bergen 68 & Anthony Higgins 67, mathematician Hans Georg Bock & NBAer Calvin Murphy 66, cosmonaut Oleg Atkov & rockers Billy Joel 65 & Tom Petersson & tv host Matthew Kelly 64, actors Alley Mills 63, Patrick Ryecart 62 & Amy Hill & politician Scott McInnis 61, mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter, actors David Beecroft 59 & Kevin Peter Hall & politician Meles Zenawi 1955, actor Wendy Crewson 58, baseballer Tony Gwynn 54, actor John Corbett 53, singers Paul Heaton, Dave Gahan 52 & Sanja Dolezal 51, producer Kevin Saunderson 50, model Janu Tornell & NHLer Steve Yzerman 49, singer Amber 44, rocker Paul McGuigan 43, singer Megumi Odaka 42, actor Chu Sang-mi 41, comedian Chris Diamantopoulos & singer Tamia 39, actor Choi Jeong-yoon 37, singers Pierre Bouvier & Andrew W K & actors Rosario Dawson 35, Jo Hyun-jae 34, Rachel Boston 32, Skye Regan 26 & Mary Mouser 18
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 16:01:33 +0000
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