19bc.......................Famous Birthdays (23/11/2013) 912 - Otto I, the Great, German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73) 1221 - Alfonso X (the Wise), king of Castile & Leon (1252-84) 1402 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468) 1417 - William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487) 1553 - Prospero Alpini, Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum) 1616 - John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (product of Wallis) 1632 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707) 1641 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720) 1669 - Johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch deaf-mute teacher (Surdus Loquens) 1690 - Ernst J earl van Biron, Russian duke of Koerland/regent of Ivan VI 1705 - Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766) 1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799) 1719 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777) 1748 - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer 1749 - Edward Rutledge, (Gov-SC)/attorney/signer (Decl of Independence) 1760 - Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist (Tribun du Peuple) 1765 - Thomas Attwood, composer 1785 - Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits (1829-53) 1794 - Joan F Van Oordt, vicar (Groninger direction) 1797 - Gabor Matray, composer 1800 - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti) 1804 - Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro NH, (D) 14th Pres (1853-1857) 1809 - Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 1815 - William Dennison, postmaster/general (Union), died in 1882 1819 - Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1901 1820 - John Willis Ellis, Governor (Confederacy) died in 1861 1820 - Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884) 1821 - Charles Meryon, British/French etcher 1826 - Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuela publisher on Curacao 1830 - Kaspar CE Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austria sculptor 1837 - Johannes van der Waals, Leiden, Netherlands, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid & Gas States), (d. 1923) 1842 - James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (1st England Test captain) 1843 - Josef Sucher, composer 1858 - Frank Hearne, cricketer (bro of George & Alec, Eng & S Afr) 1859 - Billy the Kid, [William H Bonney], NYC, frontier outlaw, (d. 1881) 1860 - Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921) 1861 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939) 1862 - Alberto Williams, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Etrerno Reposo) 1862 - Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism) 1864 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936) 1869 - Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942) 1875 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933) 1876 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946) 1878 - Andre Caplet, composer 1878 - Ernest J King, US fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations (WW II) 1878 - Holcombe Ward, tennis champ (US Open-1904) 1879 - Andre Caplet, French composer/conductor (Conte Fantastic) 1882 - Johan C T Kikkert, Dutch painter/etcher/critic 1883 - Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Along the water front) 1883 - Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexico, painter (Epic of Culture in New World) 1887 - Boris Karloff, [William H Pratt], Dulwich England, actor (Frankenstein) 1887 - Paul Malengreau, composer 1887 - Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d. 1943) 1887 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915) 1888 - Harpo Marx, [Adolph] NYC, actor/comedian (Marx brothers) 1888 - Nana Bryant, Cincinnati OH, actress (Ladies of the Chorus) 1889 - Harry Sunderland, Australian rugby league identity (d. 1964) 1890 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941) 1892 - Erté, French artist (d. 1990) 1893 - Jimmy Blanckenberg, cricket pace bowler (took 60 wickets for South Africa) 1894 - Ture Persson, Sweden, sprinter (Olympic-silver-1912) 1896 - Joris Vriamont, Flemish author/music publisher 1896 - Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1946-53) 1896 - Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer/actress (Roman scandals) 1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999) 1897 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948) 1899 - Norman Hunter, writer 1902 - Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (d. 2004) 1906 - Mervyn Roberts, composer 1907 - Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986) 1908 - Leendert P J Braat, Dutch sculptor/screenwriter 1908 - Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer (d. 2006) 1909 - Nigel Tranter, author/historian (River Realm, Robert the Bruce) 1910 - Hal Schumacher, baseball player 1911 - Peter Saunders, English theater producer (Legend of the Werewolf) 1912 - Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist 1912 - George OHanlon, American actor (d. 1989) 1914 - [Arthur] Wilson Bob Tucker, US, sci-fi author (Time Masters) 1914 - Roger Avon, Durham actor (d. 1998) 1915 - Ellen Drew, [Terry Ray], Kansas City Mo, actress (Isle of Dead) 1915 - John Dehner, [Forkum], Staten Is NY, actor (Big Hawaii, Bare Essence) 1915 - Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician 1916 - Michael Gough, Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya, English actor (Search for the Nile) 1917 - George OHanlon, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Calvin-Life of Riley, George Jetson) 1917 - Hugh Joseph Charles James LEtang, medical writer 1919 - Claudio Santoro, composer 1919 - Peter Strawson, English philosopher 1920 - Chalmers P Wylie, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- ) 1920 - Herman Nieland, Dutch organist/pianist/composer (Te Deum Laudamus) 1920 - Paul Celan, [Antschell], German/Romanian poet (Collected Prose) 1920 - Wayne Thiebaud, American painter 1921 - Hein J Roethof, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA) 1921 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960) 1922 - Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia 1923 - Angelo John Novarese, record company founder 1923 - Guy Molinari, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- ) 1923 - Nadia Gray, actress (Naked Runner, Maniac, Candide) 1923 - R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005) 1923 - Daniel Brewster, American democrat (d. 2007) 1923 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986) 1924 - Colin Turnbull, anthropologist 1924 - Paul Richards, CA, actor (Kiss Daddy Goodnight) 1924 - Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003) 1925 - Johnny Mandel, American songwriter 1926 - Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer (Trials) 1926 - Don Gordon, Los Angeles California, actor (Prentiss-Lucan) 1926 - Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher 1927 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005) 1928 - Jakob Jez, composer 1928 - Jerry Bock, New Haven CT, Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof) 1929 - Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer 1930 - Jack McKeon, baseball player 1930 - Robert Easton, Milwaukee, actor (Someone Up There Likes Me) 1930 - William E Brock, (Sen-D)/US Secretary of Labor (1985-87) 1931 - Yevgeni Grischin, USSR, 500m/1500m speed skater (Oly-gold-1956, 60) 1931 - Gloria Lynne, American singer 1932 - Michael Knight, air chief marshall/British leader (NATO) 1932 - Michel David-Weill, French investment banker 1933 - Hayes Jenkins, US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956) 1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Debica Poland, composer (Hiroshima Threnody) 1933 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and revolutionary 1934 - Lewis Alan Lew Hoad, Australia, tennis star (Wimbledon 1953, 56) 1934 - Michael Wayne, producer (McQ, Chisum, Green Berets, McLintock) 1934 - Rita Rossi Colwell, oceanographer 1934 - Robert Towne, producer/screenwriter (Chinatown) 1935 - Dean A Gallo, (Rep-R-NJ, 1985- ) 1935 - Ken Eastwood, cricketer (opened for Aust v Eng SCG 1971) 1935 - Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11) 1936 - Robert Barnard, British mystery writer 1938 - Herbert Achternbusch, Munich Germany, actor (Hedes, Mix Wix, Wohin) 1938 - Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor 1939 - Betty Everett, US singer (Getting Mighty Crowded) 1939 - Susan Anspach, NYC, actress (Grace-Yellow Rose, Blume in Love) 1940 - Luis Tiant, Cuba, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees) 1941 - Alan Mullery, English soccer player 1941 - Franco Nero, Italian actor 1942 - Susan Anspach, American actress 1943 - Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964 1943 - Sue Nicholls, British actress 1944 - Joe Eszterhas, screenwriter (Basic Instinct, Showgirls) 1944 - Jose Torikens, Dutch journalist (Parool, NRC) 1945 - Assaf Dayan, Israel, actor (Operation Thunderbolt) 1945 - Steve Landesberg, Bronx NY, comedian/actor (Barney Miller) 1945 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer 1945 - Jerry Harris, American sculptor 1946 - Bobby L Rush, (Rep-D-Illinois) 1946 - Diana Quick, London England, actress (Brideshead, Big Sleep, Odd Job) 1946 - Hans Hoekman, Dutch radio play actor 1946 - Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer 1947 - Geoffery Michael Roberts, vintner 1948 - Bruce Vilanch, American comedy writer 1949 - Gayl Jones, US author/poet (Corregidora, Song for Anninho ...................................
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