Birthdays today; marchesa Isabella dEste of Mantua 1474, etcher Stefano della Bella 1610, philosopher Joseph Butler 1692, astronomer Ruggiero G Boscovich 1711, composers Joseph Beer 1744 & Charles Duquesnoy 1759, politician Charles Vane 1778, writer John Wilson 1785, explorer Hugh Clapperton 1788, king Frederick Augustus II of Saxony 1797, writer Ethan Allen Hitchcock 1798, politicians Thomas S Bocock 1815 & James W Denver 1817, composers Julius Hopp 1819, Karl Goldmark 1830, Isador Vorobchievici 1836 & Wilhelm Gericke 1845, physicist Oliver Heaviside 1850, politician James Budd 1851, composer Bernard Zweers 1854, publisher William Heinemann 1863, painter Jan Veth 1864, tsar Nicholas II of Russia 1868, writer Fanny zu Reventlow 1871, mathematician Bertrand Russell 1872, composers Guido Alberto Fano 1875 & Eduardo Fabini 1882, architect Walter Gropius & politician Eurico Gaspar Dutra 1883, composer Ole Windingstad 1886, writer Ernst Wiechert 1887, chemist Thomas Midgley & writer Gunnar Gunnarsson 1889, philosopher Rudolf Carnap 1891, basso Ezio Pinza 1892, actor Walter Fitzgerald 1896, director Frank Capra & actor Jack Raine 1897, writer Juan Jose Domenchina 1898, biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud & composers Harry Robert Wilson, Henri Sauguet 1901 & Meredith Wilson 1902, actor George E Stone 1903, politician Jacob K Javits 1904, composer Eric Zeisl 1905, physicist Robley D Evans & pianist Clifford Curzon 1907, tennis star Fred Perry 1909, bluesman Big Joe Turner, publisher William Michael Berry & actor Sigrid Gurie 1911, activist Walter Sisulu, director Richard Brooks, singer Perry Como & carmaker Georg von Opel 1912, singer Charles Trenet 1913, basso Boris Christoff, couturier Pierre Balmain & politician Anthony Fell 1914, chief Leon Shenandoah 1915, journalist Charles Wintour & actors James Donald 1917 & Massimo Girotti 1918, ballerina Morgot Fonteyn 1919, singer Lucia Mannutti 1920, virologist Anthony Epstein 1921, jazzman Kai WInding, psychologist Gerda Boyesen & actors Bill Macy 1922 & Liam Sullivan 1923, sportscaster Jack Whitaker & actors Priscilla Pointer 1924 & Dirch Passer 1926, politician Richard Body 1927, actor Pernell Roberts 1928, composer Roger Matton & politician Norman St John-Stevas 1929, astronaut Don L Lind, writer Fred Saberhagen & politician Warren Rudman 1930, cartoonist Don Martin & actor Robert Morse 1931, politician Bernadette Chirac 1933, actor Dwayne Hickman 1934, writer Barbara Goldsmith, director Henry Herbert, baseballer Brooks Robinson & politician Jacques Santer 1937, rocker Glen Hardin, politicians Gordon OConnor & Patrick Cormack, & lawyer Giovanni Falcone 1939, physicist Marshall Stoneham 1940, astronomer Malcolm Longair & actors Diane McBain & Miriam Margolyes 1941, musician Rodney Dillard 1942, singer Albert Hammond & writer W G Sebald 1944, actor Candice Azzara & politician Maarten van Traa 1945, rockers Bruce Gilbert & George Alexander, baseballer Reggie Jackson, politician Frank Hsieh & actor Andreas Katsulas 1946, politician John Bruton 1947, singers Butch Tavares & Joe Bonsall & actor Felix Troch 1948, writer Stuart Gannes & rockers Rick Wakeman & Bill Wallace 1949, tv host Thomas Gottschalk & hurdler Rodney Milburn 1950, actors James Stephens & Denny Dillon & jumper Angela Voigt 1951, writer Diane Duane, singer George Strait, pilot Jeana Yeager & politician Martin R Hoke 1952, artist Helen Chadwick 1953, composer Reinhold Heil, singer Wreckless Eric & writer Martyn Wiley 1954, actor Yun Fat Chow 1955, rocker Michael Cretu 1957, actor Toyah Willcox 1958, NHLer Jari Kurri 1960, singers Nanne Gronvall & Sandra 1962, rockers Ingo Schwichtenberg 1965 & Michael Tait 1966, rapper Rob Base 1967, singer Martika 1969, comedian Tina Fey 1970, tv host Desiree Horton 1971, rocker Jack Johnson & singer Jem 1975, musician Ali Zafar & politician Aileen Campbell 1980, singer Eric West 1983, model Scarlett Keegan 1984, actors Luisana Lopilato 1987, Ryan Cooley 1988. Spencer Breslin 1992 & Alana Etheridge 1997
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