Famous Birthdays on this Day 1340 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399) 1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454) 1459 - Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant 1475 - Michelangelo, Italian painter (David) (d. 1564) 1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Ital attorney/president of Romagna 1492 - Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer 1495 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione) 1615 - Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Parnasssus aan t Y) 1616 - Malachias Siebenhaar, composer 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose, playwright (Voyage to the Moon) 1663 - Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732) 1698 - John Alberti, Dutch theologist/philologist 1706 - George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792) 1710 - Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli, composer 1716 - Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779) 1740 - Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica) 1761 - Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General and diplomat (d. 1828) 1763 - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer 1765 - Jan Kops, Dutch agronomist/vicar Painter Michelangelo (1475) 1779 - Philipp Roth, composer 1785 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer 1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Suns spectrum) 1791 - Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures 1793 - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Coxhoe Hall England, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese) 1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking 1817 - Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907) 1818 - William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905) 1820 - Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General (Union volunteers) 1831 - Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission) 1831 - Philip Henry Sheridan, Albany NY, Major General (Union Army) 1834 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896) 1835 - Charles Ewing, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 1835 - Ludwik Grossman, composer 1843 - Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer 1844 - Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3/18) 1852 - Joseph Bayer, composer 1870 - Oscar Straus, Vienna Austria, composer (Ein Walzertraum) 1882 - Guy Kibbee, El Paso TX, actor (Big Shot) 1882 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980) 1885 - Ringgold Ring Lardner, US sports writer (You Know Me Al) 1887 - Henri Gagnon, composer 1890 - Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator/theory (Orfeo) 1891 - Victor Kilian, Jersey City NJ, actor (Gentlemans Agreement) 1893 - Kathleen Smoothy, housewife (last link to Siege of SIdney Street) 1893 - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of the blues 1898 - Hal Hooker, cricketer (NSW pace bowler of 20s & 30s) 1898 - Jay C Flippen, Little Rock AR, actor (Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay) 1898 - Jimmy Conzelman, NFL QB/coach/team owner (Chicago) 1898 - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Mattheus Passion) 1900 - John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian (University of London) 1900 - Ludwig Donath, Vienna Austria, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco) 1900 - Robert Lefty Grove, baseball pitcher (300 game winner) 1901 - Mark Donskoy, Odessa Russia, director (Heart of a Mother) 1903 - Elizabeth Pinkston Becker, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1928) 1903 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000) 1904 - Hugh Williams, actor/writer (Charleys Aunt, Bank Holiday) 1904 - Johannes C Chris Baay, Dutch actor (Klatergoud, Surprise Raid) 1904 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942) 1904 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960) 1906 - Bob Wills, TX, actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle) Comedian and Actor Lou Costello (1906) 1906 - Lou Costello, Paterson NJ, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello) 1909 - Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter 1909 - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83) 1911 - Charles Frank, physicist 1911 - Roland Jacobi Leich, composer 1912 - Madge Adam, astronomer 1913 - David Bowman, trade unionist 1913 - Ella Logan, Glasgow Scotland, actress (52nd Street, Goldwyn Follies) 1913 - Stewart Granger, actor (Saraband for Dead Lovers) 1914 - Kirill P Kondrashin, Moscow Russia, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981) 1915 - Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Dai al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras 1916 - Rochelle Hudson, Oklahoma City OK, actress (Thats My Boy) 1917 - J A Mommersteeg, Dutch asst sect of Defense (KVP) 1917 - Roy Scott, cricketer (one Test NZ v England 1947, 18, 1-74) 1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005) 1917 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992) 1919 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006) 1920 - Lewis Gilbert, London England, director/actor (You Only Live Twice) 1920 - Roger Price, Charleston WV, actor/writer (Whos There, Droodles) 1921 - Julius Rudel, Vienna Austria, conductor (NYC Opera 1957) 1921 - Oliver Wright, British Ambassador (To US) 1921 - Ross Hunter, Cleve OH, producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk) 1922 - Ruben Ayala, Chino, California, politician (California State Senator 1974-1998) (d. 2012) 1923 - Ed McMahon, Detroit Mich, TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search) 1923 - Erhard Karkoschka, composer 1923 - Raymond Bill Hoffenberg, college president (Wolfson at Oxford) 1923 - Ed McMahon, American television personality 1924 - Sarah Caldwell, Maryville Mo, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff) 1924 - William H Webster, US, judge/head FBI/CIA 1925 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968) US Fed Chairman & Economist Alan Greenspan (1926) 1926 - Alan Greenspan, economist/presidential advisor (FRB) 1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Suwalki Poland, director (Ashes & Diamonds, Lotna) 1926 - Ann Curtis, 400m/800m US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1948), (d. 2012) 1926 - Elwood H [Bud] Hillis, (Rep-R-IN, 1971- ) 1926 - Jon Nordal, composer 1926 - Miroslav Klega, composer 1927 - Gabriel García Márquez, Aracataca, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist (1982 Nobel Prize in Literature) 1927 - John Fairchild, Newark NJ, CEO (Fairchild publishing) 1927 - Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, Shawnee Oklahoma, USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5) 1927 - Norman Treigle, New Orleans Louisiana, bass-baritone 1927 - William J Bell, Chicago Ill, soap opera creator (Young & Restless) 1928 - Ronald Stevenson, composer 1929 - David Sheppard, bishop (Liverpool)/cricketer (England batsman) 1929 - Hal Miller, British MP 1929 - Ho Dam, North Korean secretary of State (1970-83) Colombian Writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927) 1929 - Thomas S Foley, (Rep-D-WA, 1965-94)/majority whip/speaker of house 1929 - Tome Foley, Spokane, WA, politician (congress, 1965-1995, speaker, 1989-1995), (d. 2013) 1930 - Lorin Maazel, Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941) 1931 - Carmen Delavallade, US dancer/singer/actress (Aida) 1931 - David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher (Whitakers Almanack) 1931 - John Smith, Los Angeles California, actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men) 1931 - Hal Needham, American stuntman, (d. 2013) 1933 - Dorothy Dolly Ann Collins, folk musician/composer 1933 - Heiko Wierenga, Dutch soc-dem mayor of Enschede (1977-94) 1933 - Kim Elgie, cricketer (South African bat v NZ 1961-62, Scotland RU intl) 1933 - William Davis, author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run) 1933 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004) 1934 - John Noakes, British TV presenter 1935 - Ronnie Delaney, Ireland, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1956) 1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete 1935 - Derek Kevan, Ripon, England, footballer (14 caps), (d. 2013) 1936 - A Bram Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA) 1936 - Jean Boht, actress (Arthurs Hallowed Ground) 1936 - Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Wash DC, 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment 1937 - Doug Dillard, actor (Clem-Popeye) 1937 - Ivan Boesky, Detroit, stockbroker inside trading 1937 - Paul Mefano, composer 1937 - Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6) 1938 - Lovelace Watkins, singer 1939 - Christopher Bond, (Sen-R Missouri) 1939 - David Spielberg, Weslaco Tx, actor (Jessica Novak, The Practice) 1939 - Jerry Naylor, Stephenville Tx, rock vocalist (Crickets) 1939 - Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria 1939 - Cookie Rojas, baseball player 1940 - Joanna Miles, Nice France, actress (Cross Creek, Delta County USA) 1940 - Willie Stargell, outfielder/1st baseman (Pirates, 1971 NL HR leader) 1941 - Ann Winterton, British MP 1941 - Karyn Kupcinet, actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show) 1942 - Ben Murphy, Jonesboro, Arkansas, American actor (Name of the Game, Alias Smith and Jones) 1944 - David Gilmore, Cambridge England, guitarist (Pink Floyd) 1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, Gisborne NZ, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni) 1944 - Mary Wilson, Detroit Mich, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go) 1945 - Anna Maria Horsford, NYC, actress (Thelma Frye-Amen) 1945 - Hugh Grundy, Winchester England, drummer (Zombies-Shes Not There) 1946 - David Jon Gilmour, rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall) 1946 - Martin Kove, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Victor-Cagney & Lacey) 1946 - Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry, Cameroon, astronaut (STS 18) 1946 - Tony Klatka, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears) 1947 - Richard Dick Fosbury, Portland Oregon, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1968) 1947 - Judy Loe, Urmston Manchester UK, actress (Singles, Meaning of Life) 1947 - Kiki Dee, Yorkshire England, singer (Dont Go Breaking My Heart) 1947 - Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author 1947 - Rob Reiner, Bronx NY, actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me) 1948 - James FCS Jim Woude, cartoonist 1949 - Donald York, rocker (Sha Na Na) 1949 - Martin Buchan, Scottish soccer player 1951 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004) 1952 - Lyn Perrin, executive administrator (WIC) 1953 - Jackie Zeman, Englewood NJ, actress (Bobbie-General Hospital) 1953 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author 1956 - Peter Roebuck, cricketer (Somerset opening batsman & SMH writer) 1958 - Mike Gatting, English cricketer 1958 - Eddie Deezen, American actor 1959 - Tom Arnold, Iowa, [Mr Roseanne Barr Arnold], actor (Tom, True Lies) 1959 - Saul Anuzis, American politician 1960 - [Eris] Sleepy Floyd, NBA guard 1962 - Alison Nicholas, Gibraltar, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic) 1962 - Valerie French, American animatronics art director 1963 - Suzanne Crough, rocker (Partridge Family) 1963 - D.L. Hughley, American comedian and actor 1964 - Cher Butler, Garland Tx, playmate (August, 1985) 1964 - Reniet Vrieze, rock singer/guitarist (Pilgrims-White Men) 1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician 1965 - Tammy Liley, Long Beach Ca, volleyball mid blocker/capt (Oly-b-92, 96) 1966 - Cliff Meidl, Redondon Beach California, sprint kayak (alt-Olympics-96) 1966 - Michelle Edwards, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers) 1966 - Alan Davies, British comedian and actor 1967 - Julio Bocca, Argentinean Ballet Dancer 1968 - Carla McGhee, Peoria Ill, US basketball forward (Olympics-gold-96) 1968 - Connie Britton, Boston MA, actress (Nikki-Spin City) 1968 - Jon Baker, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy) 1968 - Moira Kelly, actress (Cutting Edge) 1968 - Russell Butler, Dandenong Victoria Australia, diver (Oly-28th-88, 96) 1968 - Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X) 1969 - Andrea Elson, NYC, actress (Lynn-Alf, Alice-Whiz Kids) 1969 - Deems May, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers) 1969 - Greg Scott, British TV personality 1970 - Amy Pietz, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Annie-Caroline In the City) 1970 - Robbie Tobeck, NFL guard/center (Atlanta Falcons) 1970 - Scott Stahoviak, Waukegan IL, infielder (Minnesota Twins) 1971 - Darrick Martin, NBA guard (LA Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves) 1971 - Roger Salkeld, Burbank CA, pitcher (Cin Reds) 1971 - Sean Morley, American professional wrestler 1972 - Jamal Anderson, fullback (Atlanta Falcons) 1972 - Paul Frlan, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders) Basketball Player Shaquille ONeal (1972) 1972 - Shaquille ONeal, Newark NJ, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96) 1972 - Susan Alexander, Silver Spring Maryland, Miss America-Maryland (1997) 1973 - Brian Olson, Tallahassee Fla, middleweight (189 lbs) judoka (Oly-96) 1973 - Greg Ostertag, NBA center (Utah Jazz) 1973 - Michael Finley, NBA guard/forward (Phoenix Suns/Dallas Mavericks) 1973 - Terry Adams, Mobile AL, pitcher (Chicago Cubs) 1974 - Sebastian Siegel, British-American actor 1975 - Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer 1976 - Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler 1977 - Giorgos Karagounis, Greek soccer player 1977 - Marcus Thames, American baseball player 1978 - Sage Rosenfels, American Football Player 1978 - Lara Cox, Australian Actress 1979 - David Flair, American professional wrestler 1979 - Erik Bedard, Canadian baseball player 1979 - Ryan Nyquist, American BMX rider 1981 - Ellen Muth, American actress 1983 - Andranik Teymourian, Iranian soccer player 1984 - Becky, Japanese-British entertainer 1985 - Albert Reed, American model 1986 - Eli Marienthal, American actor 1987 - Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress 1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer 1996 - Savanah Stehlin, American actress
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 08:24:03 +0000
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