Birthdays today; emperor Hadrian of Rome 76 AD, duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza 1444, poet Charles Sackville 1638, architect John Vanbrugh 1664, playwright William Congreve 1670, philosopher Christian Wolff 1679, singer Farinelli 1705, engraver Georg Friedrich Schmidt & king Frederick II of Prussia 1712, playwright Pierre de Beaumarchais 1732, duchess Anne of Cumberland and Strathearn 1743, king Gustav III of Sweden 1746, politician Wybo Fijnje 1750, composer Muzio Clementi 1752, surveyor Andrew Ellicott 1754, composer Johann Chrysostomus Drexel 1758, poet Antony Christiaan Wynandt Staring 1767, composer Karl Moser 1774, writer E T A Hoffmann 1776, duke Charles Ferdinand of Berry 1778, poet Karl Eduard von Holtei & mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt 1798, activist Edwin Chadwick 1800, politician John Milton Thayer 1820, biologist Ferdinand J Cohn & composers Karol Studzinski 1828, & William Mason 1929, painter Vasily Surikov 1848, composer Alexander Ilinsky 1859, writer Edith Wharton 1862, activist Marguerite Durand 1864, painter Konstantin Bogaevsky & writer Ethel Turner 1872, historian Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 1874, activist Elisabeth Achelis 1880, actor Estelle Winwood 1883, director Henry King 1886, engineer Ernst Heinkel & writer Vicki Baum 1888, poets Eugen Roth & Albin Zollinger 1895, economist Oskar Morgenstern 1902, painter Robert Gwathmey 1903, curator Norman Cook 1906, politicians Maurice Couve de Murville & Alfons Vranckx 1907, jazzman Tiny Winters & actor Ann Todd 1909, wirter C L Moore 1911, composer Norman Dello Joio 1913, painter Robert Motherwell, composer Vitezslava Kapralova & producer Mark Goodson 1915, physicist John Corner & sportscaster Jack Brickhouse 1916, actor Ernest Borgnine 1917, composer Gottfried von Einem & John McLiam 1918, composer Leon Kirchner & journalist Nora Beloff 1919, choreographer Donald Sadler & actor Jerry Maren 94, politician Bernard J Dwyer 1921, psychiatrist Charles Socarides 1922, composer Simeon ten Holt 1923, politician Robert Kastenmeier 90, organist David Craighead & composer Klaus George Roy 1924, ballerina Maria Tallchief & actor William Hudson 1925, director Georges Lautner 1926, actor Marvin Kaplan 87, politician Paula Hawkins 1927, zoologist Desmond Morris 86, actor Michel Serrault 1928, turkey farmer Bernard Matthews 1930, composers Ib Norholm 83 & Werner Steger 1932, singers Zeke Carey & Ron Townson 1933, poet Stanislaw Grochowiak 1934, composer Daniel Goode, singer Jack Scott & fiddler Doug Kershaw 78, jazzman Julius Hemphill 1938, singer Ray Stevens 75, politician Flip Buurmeijer 74, singers Neil Diamond, Michael Chapman & Aaron Neville 73, actors Julie Bennett 71 & Sharon Tate 1943, writer David Gerrold 70, tenor Klaus Nomi 1944, director Subhash Ghai & politician John Garamendi 69, actor Michael Ontkean 68, journalist John Harrison 1946, singer Warren Zevon 1947, singer Michael Des Barres & lawyer Elliott Abrams 66, politician Bart Gordon 65, comedian John Belushi 1949, writer Benjamin Urrutia & actor Daniel Auteuil 64, comedian Yakov Smirnoff 63, astronaut William F Readdy 62, actor Brian Matthews 61, swimmer Jim Montgomery 59, singers Hanne Krogh 58 & Lounes Matoub 1956, actor Adrian Edmondson 57, rocker Jools Holland 56, comedian Vic Reeves & writer David Mills 55, newscaster Rick Leventhal 54, cosmonaut Krasimir Stoyanov, writer Vince Russo & actor Natassja Kinski 53, comedians Jimeoin 48 & Phil LaMarr & rocker John Myung 47, singer Michael Kiske & gymnast Mary Lou Retton 46, model Stephanie Romanov & actors Hilmir Snaer Gudnason 45 & Matthew Lillard 44, producer Andrea Mackris & actors Raelyn Saalman & Tonya Crowe 43, composer Naoshi Mizuta & politician Ulla Werbrouck 42, comedian Ed Helms 40, actor Tatyana Ali 35, model Nicole Marie Lenz 34, rocker Witold Kieltyka 1984, actors Mischa Barton & Ricky Ullman 28
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:54:00 +0000
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