Birthdays today; emperor Marcus Aurelius of Rome 121, writer Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo 1538, playwright William Shakespeare 1564, composer Nicolas Forme 1567, queen Marie de Medici of France 1575, composer Francesco Nigetti 1603, king Peter II of Portugal & administrator Philip J van Lichtenburgh 1648, botanist Johannes Burman 1707, politician Pasquale Paoli 1725, geologist Christian Leopold von Buch 1774, queen Maria Amalia of France 1782, ornithologist John James Audubon 1785, poet Ludwig Uhland 1787, composer Auguste Mathieu Panseron 1796, artist Eugene Delacroix 1798, diplomat Ambrose Dudley Mann 1801, politician Charles Goodyear 1804, composer Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch 1806, gunmaker Alfred Krupp 1812, poet Alice Carey 1820, journalist Frederick Law Olmstead 1822, composer Jan Albert van Eijken 1823, writer Martha Finley & politician Ambrose R Wright 1826, educator Charles Edward Hovey 1827, humorist Artemus Ward & composer Horatio Richmond Palmer 1834, anthropologist Erminnie Adelle Platt 1836, historian Wilhelm Scherer 1841, politiciann Joseph Ward 1856, poet Arno Holz & painter Charles Haslewood Shannon 1863, painter Aleksi Gallen-Kallela 1865, publisher Harold Sidney Harmsworth 1868, writer Otto zur Linde 1873, actor Ethel Griffies 1878, physicist Owen Williams Richardson 1879, actor Harry Sothern 1883, poet Gabdulla Tuqay & singer Ma Rainey 1886, astronomer Aleksandr Mikhailov & writer Anita Loos 1888, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889, actor Edgar Kennedy 1890, actor Ernst Udet 1896, director Douglas Sirk 1897, poet Vicente Aleixandre & director John Grierson 1898, actor Guinn Williams 1899, seismologist Charles Francis Richter & baseballer Hack Wilson 1900, writer Niven Busch 1903, producer Charles K Feldman 1904, director Jean Vigo & actor Denis ODea 1905, composer Leopold Spinner 1906, writer Theun de Vries 1907, actor Marianne Hoppe 1909, composers Erland von Koch & Ernst Tittel & producer Tomoyuki Tanaka 1910, writers A E van Vogt 1912, H L Gold & Bernard Malamud, comedian Charlie Chester, critic Wilfrid Mellers & developer James Rouse 1914, writer Morris West, composer Arnold van Wyk & actor Vic Perrin 1916, architect I M Pei 97, writer Jack Morpurgo, runner Fannie Blankers-Koen & actor Stafford Repp 1918, historian Margaret Gowing & jazzman Jimmy Giuffre 1921, dancer Margaret Scott 92, historian J C Holt, sculptor Pol Bury, composer Paul-Andre Gaillard, actor Mike Kellin & politician Jeanne Sauve 1922, historian Oliver Millar 1923, actor Russell Nype 90, jazzman Jorgen Ingmann 89, economist Frank Hahn 1925, composer Oldrich Frantisek Korte 88, illustrator Michael Mathias Prechtl, composer Francis Burt & sportscaster David Coleman 1926, biologist Anne McLaren & actors Jack Douglas & Derek Waring 1927, critic Richard Mitchell 1929, composer Francis Lai 82, biochemist Michael Smith 1932, comedian Carol Burnett 81, activist Filiberto Ojrda Rios 1933, environmentalist J Michael McCloskey 80, judge Edward Cazalet 78, singer Maurice Williams & guitarist Duane Eddy 76, judge Roger Buckley 75, producer Giorgio Moroder 74, composer John Mitchell & actor Claudine Auger 73, singer Bobby Rydell & diplomat Michael Kergin 72, cosmonaut Vitali Grishchenko 1942, architect Peter Zumthor & rocker Gary Wright 71, politicians Amien Rais 70, David OBrien Martin 1944 & Sylvain Simard 69, swimmer Donna de Varona, tv host Boyd Matson & actor Warren Clarke 67, historian Gervase Jackson-Stops 1947, politician Gerry Sikorski 66, choreographer Peter Schaufuss & rockers Jimmy Hall 65 & Leon Reeder 64, politicians Lynne Jones, John Battle 63 & Popo Molefe 62, actor Koo Stark 58, counselor Jeffrey Guterman & actor Giancarlo Esposito 56, rockers John Corabi 55 & Roger Taylor 54, actor Joan Chen 53, comedian Debra Wilson & actors Michael Damian 52 & Jet Li 51, comedian Kevin James 49, actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste 47, singer Tionne T-Boz Watkins & model Melania Trump 44, musician Jay DeMarcus 43, actor Ivana Milicevic & radio host Adil Ray 40, model Trudi Ferguson, singer Nerina Pallot & rocker Joey Jordison 39, actors Tom Welling & Jason Earles 37, singer Avant 36, rocker Janne Wirman, singer Ariane Moffatt & actors Sean Fox 35, Jordana Brewster, Marne Patterson & Channing Tatum 34, singer Ms Dynamite 33, poet Joanne Gobure & singers Jon Lee 32 & Mija Martina & voice actor Ryan ODonohue 30, singer Nam Gyu-Ri 28, actor Jessica Lee Rose 27
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 18:37:44 +0000