Birthdays today; politician Charles Talbot 1660, queen Louise Ulrika 1720, writer Betje Wolff 1738, painter Vladimir Borovikovsky 1757, king Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia 1759, revolutionary Simon Bolivar 1783, mathematician Joseph Nicollet 1786, geologist Johan Georg Forchhammer & biologist Heinz Christian Pander 1794, politicians Herman van Sonsbeeck, John M Clayton 1796 & John Adams Dix 1798, writer Alexandre Dumas 1802, architect A J Davis 1803, actor Ira Aldridge 1807, composers Jozef Michal Poniatowski 1814 & Felix Godefroid 1818, politician Francisco S Lopez 1826, conductor Johann Christoph Lauterbach 1832, financier Jan Gotlib Bloch 1836, playwright Abraham Goldfaden 1840, writer Ambrose Bierce 1842, mathematician Friedrich Schottky 1851, actor William Gillette 1853, mathematician Charles Emile Picard 1856, writer Henrik Pontoppidan 1857, politician Wolfgang Kapp 1858, painter Alphonse Mucha 1860, playwright Frank Wedekind & composer Gaston Carraud 1864, poet Vicente Acosta & writer E F Benson 1867, architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr 1870, writers Oswald Chambers & Edward Plunkett 1878, composers Ernest Bloch 1880, Walter Schulthess & Dezso Antalffy-Zsiross 1885, writers Junichiro Tanazaki 1886, Hermann Kasack 1896 & Karl von Mechow, designer Elmar Berkovich & aviator Amelia Earhart 1897, painter Frank Mortelmans 1898, actor Chief Dan George 1899, composer Hans Chemin-Pitt & actor Nora Swinburne 1902, composer Robert Mills Delaney 1903, educator James Rhyne Killian, writer Isaac Bashevis Singer & composer Leo Arnaud 1904, director Harry Horner 1910, biochemist Britton Chance, producer George H Brown & actor Robert Emhardt 1913, activist Kenneth B Clark, economist David Bensuan-Butt, composer Riccardo Malipiero, entrepreneur Edwin Mirvish & actor Frank Silvera 1914, judge Enrique Fernando 1915, writer John D McDonald & singer Bob Eberly 1916, writer John Hillaby & composers Robert Farnon 1917 & Ruggerio Ricci 1918, judge Robert Marsden Hope 1919, producer Alexander H Cohen & politician Bella Abzug 1920, jazzman Billy Taylor & tenor Guiseppe di Stefano 1921, composer Leo Kraft 91, writer Madeleine Ferron & politician Charles Mathias 1922, ballerina Janine Charrat 89, composer Glenn Loren Glasgow 1924, writer Ignacio Aldecoa 1925, composer Wilfred Josephs & politician James J Howard 1927, activist Hedda Garza & directors Peter Yates 1929, cosmonaut Boris Nikolayevich Belousov & actor Jacqueline Brooks 1930, director Ermanno Olmi 82, lawyer William Ruckelshaus 81, actor John Aniston 80, NFLer Willie Davis 79, singer Jimmy Holiday 1934, cartoonist Pat Oliphant & songwriter Les Reed 78, comedian Ruth Buzzi & actor Mark Goddard 77, architect Quinlan Terry & composer Barry Vercoe 76, politician Emily Blatch 1937, jazzman Mike Manieri 75, artist Eugene J Martin 1938, writer Barry N Malzberg & NBAer Walt Bellamy 74, actor Dan Hedaya 73, politician Carrol A Campbell Jr 1940, singer Barbara Jean Love 72, actor Chris Sarandon 71, rocker Heinz Burt 1942, runner Lyudmila Bragina 70, rocker Jim Armstrong & jazzwoman Barbara Thompson 69, pianist Peter Serkin & actor Robert Hays 66, screenwriter Geoff McQueen 1947, comedian Michael Richards & critic Michael Coveney 65, politician Marjanne Sint 64, directors Goutam Ghose & actor Sam Behrens 63, actor Lynda Carter & politician Chris Smith 62, director Gus van Sant & politician Vin Weber 61, jazzman Jon Faddis & politicians Claire McCaskill & Julian Brazier 60, politician Charlie Crist 57, rocker Robbie Grey, singer Pam Tillis & model Dorothy Mays 56, rockers Mick Karn 1958 & Paul Geary 52, NBAer Karl Malone 50, cartoonist Colleen Doran, writer Banana Yoshimoto & baseballer Barry Bonds 49, director Doug Liman & actor Kadeem Hardison 48, rocker Jasper Teule 46, singer Kristen Chenoweth & actors Laura Leighton & John P Navin Jr 45, singer Jennifer Lopez 44, model Stephanie Adams 43, singer John Partridge 42, artist Rev Jen Miller 41, actors Eric Szmanda 38 & Danny Dyer 36, rapper Status Quo 35, actors Rose Byrne, Lee Si-yeon 34 & Summer Glau 32, model Elise Crombez & actor Anna Paquin 31, rocker Dhani Lennevald 29, actors Megan Park 27, writer Mara Wilson 26, actor Daveigh Chase 23
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:50:46 +0000
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