Birthdays today; emperor Go-Shirakawa 1127, king Stefanus V of Hungary 1239, philologist Justus Lipsius 1547, poet Giambattista Marino 1569, pilgrim Edward Winslow 1595, composer Valentin Strobel 1611, painter Luca Giordano 1634, poet Lucidor 1638, explorer Abraham van Riebeeck 1653, Giovanni Canaletto 1697, historian Charles le Beau 1701, composer Baldassare Galuppi 1706, administrator Jeremias van Riemsdijk 1712, naturalist Jean-Nicolas-Sebastian Allamand 1716, writer Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1741, writer Adolfs Muller 1774 poet Heinrich von Kleist 1777, composer Charles Henri Plantade 1784, writer Thomas Love Peacock 1785, composers Giovanni Tadolini 1789 & Ferdinand Schubert 1794, king Mongkut of Siam 1804, engineer Edward Ord 1818, king Frederick III of Prussia 1831, composer Johannes Habert 1833, sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg 1837, chemist Harvey Washington Wiley & composers Emile Mathieu 1844 & Francis Thome 1850, engineer Salomon August Andree & politician Karl Kautsky 1854, philosopher Henri Bergson 1859, critic Logan Pearsall Smith & linguist Arie de Jong 1865, writer Ernst Didring 1868, actor Louis de Vries 1871 poet Mikhail Kuzmin 1872, politician Ivanoe Bonomi 1873, educator James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey 1875, activist Florence Dahl Walrath 1877, historian James Truslow Adams 1878, composer Grzegorz Fitelberg 1879, writer Fannie Hurst 1889, composer Vaclav Kalik 1891, nutritionist George Ohsawa, director Roy Del Ruth & politician Sydney Holland 1893, writer H L Davis 1894, writer Raymond Brulez 1895, psychologist Isabel Briggs Myers 1897, singer Lotte Lenya & actors George Curzon & Bob Custer 1898, composer Vladimir Grigoryevich Zakharov 1901, physicist Pascual Jordan & actor Miriam Hopkins 1902, composer Emile Enthoven & accordionist Ambrose Thibodeaux 1903, journalist A J Liebling 1904, politician Felix Houphouet-Boigny 1905, painter James Brooks & playwright Sidney Kiescher 1906, artist Alexander Hardie Williamson 1907, philosopher Norberto Bobbio 1909, composer Vojislav Vuckovic & actor Bert Botterman 1910, engineer Robert R Gilruth 1913, actor Victor Sen Yung 1915, politician Konstantinos Mitsotakis 95, jazzman Bobby Troup & politicians Molly Geertsema & James Cameron Tudor 1918, soprano Camilla Williams, singer Anita ODay, politicians Ric Nordman, Pierre Trudeau 1919, Merlina Mercouri 1920 & Jesse Helms 1921, composer Camillo Togni & sculptor Richard Stankiewicz 1922, painter Suzanne Perlman 90, fiddler Buddy MacMaster 89, writer Frank Liedel & composers Egil Hovland & Allyn Ferguson 1924, historian Thomas Millar, singer Wim van Gennep & politician Ramiz Alia 1925, rocker Chuck Berry 87, actors Klaus Kinski 1926 & George C Scott 1927, sportscaster Keith Jackson 85, politicians Violeta Chamorro 84, Frank Carlucci 83, Cathrina Dales 1931 & Vytautas Landsbergis 81, composer Jacques Charpentier & NFLer Forrest Gregg 80, actors Inger Stevens & Calvin Lockhart 1934, composer Jorge Cervello & actors Peter Boyle 1935 & Dawn Wells & singer Ronnie Bright 75, NFler Mike Ditka & politician Flavio Cotti 74, songwriter Cynthia Weil 73, cartoonist Larry Pickering 71, rocker Russ Giguere & politician Birthe Ronn Hornbech 70, writer Katherine Kurtz 69, tv host Yildo & politician Christopher Shays 68, tv host Huell Howser 1945, composer Howard Shore & singer Joe Egan 67, writer James Robert Baker 1946, comedian Paul Chuckle, physician Luc Journet, actor Joe Morton & politician Job Cohen 66, singer Laura Nyro 1947, playwright Ntozake Shange & actor Om Puri, 65, rockers Keith Knudsen 1948 & Gary Richrath 64, actors Merry Martin & Sheila White & politician Pat Swindall 63, playwright Wendy Wasserstein 1950, writer Terry McMillan & actor Pam Dawber 62, writer Bao Ninh 61, actor Liz Burch 59, director David Twohy, politician Rita Verdonk & tv host Timmy Mallett 58, tennis star Martina Navratilova, animator Craig Bartlett & politician Jim Talent 57, actor Jon Lindstrom & politician Doug Isaacson 56, actor Corinne Bohrer 55, director Milcho Manchevski & musicologist Steve Swayne 54, model Emily Arth & actors Erin Moran & Jean-Claude Van Damme 53, jazzman Wynton Marsalis 52, actor Vincent Spano 51, jazzman Curtis Stigers 48, actor Angela Visser 47, rocker Peter Svensson & actors Zhou Xun 39, Azlea Antistia 37, Chris McKenna 36, Wesley Jonathan & Jake Farrow 35, actor Richard Vuu 32, singer Ne-Yo 31, skier Lindsey Vonn 29, model Freja Beha Erichsen & actors Zac Efron 26, Carly Schroeder 23, Tyler Posey 22, Julia Wroblewska 15 & Annelise Manojlvic 12
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:46:59 +0000
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