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Birthdays in History for Sunday 27th July 2014

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1452 - Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Lombardy, Italian duke of Milan (1494-1508), (commissioned The Last Supper), (d. 1508)
1502 - Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer
1518 - Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury/builder of country houses
1609 - Heinrich Pape, composer
1612 - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40)/conquered Baghdad
1625 - Edward Montagu, England
1667 - Jean Bernoulli, mathematician
1733 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1734 - Jakob Zupan, composer
1740 - Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
1741 - Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer
1752 - Samuel Smith, American politician
1768 - Charlotte Corday d'Armont, murdered Jean-Paul Marat in bath

Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza (1452) 1773 - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
1777 - Thomas Campbell, poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic)
1781 - Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer
1784 - Andre-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer (chamber music)
1784 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1801 - George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal
1802 - Benedikt Randhartinger, composer
1812 - Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1820 - John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
1833 - Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
1835 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
1840 - Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1848 - Vladimir de Pachmann, painter
1848 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
1848 - Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Guttstadt, Province of Prussia (now Warmia in Poland), German physicist who discovered that radon is emitted from radium
1849 - John Hopkinson, Manchester, U.K., British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson's Law)
1853 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1857 - Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator
1857 - Jose Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900
1867 - Enrique Granados, Spain, composer
1870 - Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome)
1872 - Stanislav Binicki, composer
1877 - Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
1878 - Th to de Weeme, painter
1879 - Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza)
1879 - Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1880 - Donald Crisp, Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana)
1880 - Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo

Physicist and Nobel Laureate Hans Fischer (1881) 1881 - Hans Fischer, Munich Germany, physicist (Nobel 1930), (d. 1945)
1882 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1886 - Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
1890 - Judith Lowry, Ft Sill OK, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays ...)
1894 - Gerald F Bogan, US vice-admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
1896 - Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
1898 - Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]
1899 - Perc Hornibrook, Australian cricket left-arm bowler (20's)
1900 - Charles Vidor, Budapest Hungary, direct (Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl)
1900 - Hans Haug, composer
1903 - Clive Martin Douglas, composer
1903 - Nikolai Cherkasov, St Petersburg Russia, actor (Ivan the Terrible)
1903 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
1904 - Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987
1904 - Anton Dolin, [Patrick Healey-Kay], dancer (Girl From Petrovka)
1904 - Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist

Baseball Player and Manager Leo Durocher (1906) 1906 - Leo Durocher, Mass, baseball player and manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants)
1906 - Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist (d. 1999)
1906 - Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000)
1907 - Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee
1907 - Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge (Olympics 1932,36)
1908 - Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts (Labour)
1909 - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
1910 - Bea Marcia Anastasia verbrook Christoforides, writer
1910 - Julien Gracq, [Louis Poirier], French writer (Andre Breton)
1911 - Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, airman
1911 - Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981)
1912 - Hilde Domin, writer
1912 - Igor Markevitch, Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdu)
1912 - Vernon Elliott, musician/composer
1913 - Eva Jones, poet/novelist
1913 - Mary Green, headmistress (Kidbrooke School)
1913 - Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet (Diario d'Algeria)
1913 - George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (d. 2000)
1915 - Jack Iverson, Australian cricket mystery spinner (late 40's)
1916 - Asfa Wossen, Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi
1916 - Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player
1916 - Kennan Wynn, NYC, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor)
1916 - Siegfried Reda, composer
1917 - John Cunningham, executive director (British Aerospace)
1917 - Moses Rascoe, blues Singer
1917 - Robert Cowans, executive director (British Aerospace)
1917 - Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970)
1918 - Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer
1918 - Leonard Rose, Washington DC, concert cellist (NY Phil 1943-51)
1920 - Beatrice Pearson, Dennison Texas, actress (Moving Finger)
1920 - James Munn, commissioner (British University)
1921 - Émile Genest, Quebec actor (d. 2003)
1922 - Adolfo Celi, Sicily Italy, director (Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue)
1922 - Bob Thiele, record producer
1922 - Lillian Hayman, Balt Md, actress (Leslie Uggams Show)
1922 - Norman Lear, TV writer/producer (All in The Family)
1923 - Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder (d. 1994)
1924 - Otar Vasil'yevich Taktakishvili, composer
1924 - Vincent Canby, critic (NY Times)
1926 - Peter Coker, captain
1927 - Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
1927 - Allen Breed, Chicago, Illinois, USA, American inventor of the first automotive airbag sensor
1928 - Sakari Mononen, composer
1928 - Karloff Lagarde, Mexican lucha libre wrestler (d. 2007)
1929 - Harvey Fuqua, rock vocalist (Moonglows-Sincerely)
1929 - Jack Higgins, [Harry Patterson], novelist
1929 - Marc Wilkinson, composer
1930 - Ronald Dearing, chairman (British Post Office)
1930 - Shirley Williams, co-founder (Social Democratic Party)/labour minister
1931 - Jerry Van Dyke, Danville Ill, actor (My Mother the Car, Coach)
1931 - Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician
1932 - Beverly B Byron, (Rep-D-MD, 1979- )
1932 - Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader
1932 - Robert Cowan, CEO (Highlands & Islands Enterprises)
1933 - Nick Reynolds, rocker (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1933 - Roger Harris, cricketer (NZ opening batsman vs England 1959)
1933 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (d. 1995)
1934 - John Pardoe, CEO (Sight & Sound Education)/Liberal MP
1935 - Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
1936 - J. Robert Hooper, American politician
1937 - Anna Dawson, British comedienne (Violet-Keeping Up Appearances)
1937 - Chuck Jackson, Latta SC, singer (Any Day Now, I Don't Want to Cry)
1937 - Don Galloway, Brooksville Ky, actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside)
1937 - Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator
1938 - Shirley Anne Field, England, actress (Alfie, War Lover) [or Jun 27]
1938 - Isabelle Aubret, French singer
1938 - Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (d. 2008)
1939 - Irv Cross, NFL sportscaster (CBS-TV)
1939 - James McGee, pathologist/professor (Morbid Anatomy at Oxford)
1939 - James Victor, Puerto Rico, actor (Boulevard Night, Streets of LA)
1940 - Pina Bausch, German dancer
1941 - Johannes Fritsch, composer
1942 - Barbara Ferris, London England, actress (Nice Girl Like Me)
1942 - John Pleshette, NYC, actor (Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue)
1942 - Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician
1942 - Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
1943 - Al Ramsey, NJ, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1943 - Stu Gilliam, Detroit, actor/comedian (Roll Out, Harris & Company)
1944 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Dedkov, cosmonaut
1944 - Bobbie Gentry, Mississippi, singer/songwriter (Ode to Billy Joe)
1944 - Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
1946 - Gwynne Gilford, Los Angeles California, actress (Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders)
1946 - Ricardo Anasagasti, [Ricardo M Meul], Curacao, dancer/actor
1946 - Toktar Ongarbajewitch Aubakirov, Kazakhstan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13)
1946 - Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian actor
1947 - Betty Thomas, St Louis Mo, actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues)
1947 - Wayne Dowdy, (Rep-D-MS, 1981- )
1948 - Henny Vrienten, Dutch bassist/singer (Doe Maar)
1948 - Peggy Fleming Jenkins, San Jose California, figure skater (Olym-gold-1968)
1949 - David Muse, rocker (Firefall)
1949 - Jeremy Thomas, actor (Family Life)

Singer Maureen McGovern (1949) 1949 - Maureen McGovern, Youngstown Oh, singer (Got To Be a Morning After)
1949 - André Dupont, Quebec ice hockey player
1950 - Michael Vaughn, rocker (Paper Lace)
1950 - Simon Jones, Willshire England, comedian (News is the News)
1951 - Janet Eilber, Detroit Mich, actress (Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy)
1952 - Hannu-Pekka Hänninen, Finnish sports commentator
1953 - Wim G J M van de Camp, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1953 - Yahoo Serious, Australian comedian
1954 - G. S. Bali, Indian politician
1955 - Allan Border, cricket captain (Australia)
1955 - Cat Bauer, American novelist
1956 - Carol Leifer, American actress
1957 - Gezina E "Liesbeth" van Apeldoorn, Dutch actress (Composer)
1957 - Hansi Muller, skier
1957 - Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler
1958 - Christopher Dean, Olympics skater (Torvill & Dean/Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 - David East, cricketer
1960 - Christina Singer, Geoppingen Germany, tennis star
1960 - Jo Durie, England, tennis player
1960 - Reinaldo de Carvalho, carnival King
1961 - Daniel C Burbank, Manchester Ct, Lt cmdr USCG/astronaut
1962 - Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (d. 2005)
1963 - Jason Buck, WLAF defensive end (Scottish Claymores)
1964 - Rex Brown, American musician (Pantera)
1965 - José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
1966 - Al Charron, Rugby Union forward (Canada)
1967 - Craig Wolanin, Grosse Pointe, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 - Emiel van Eijkeren, soccer player (FC The Hague/NEC)
1967 - Jeff Novak, NFL tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 - Neil Smith, cricketer (Warwickshire & England A all-rounder)
1967 - Sasha Mitchell, Los Angeles California, actor (Spike of Bensonhurst)
1967 - Juliana Hatfield, American musician
1967 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
1968 - Julian McMahon, Sydney, New South Wales, Australian actor (Nip/Tuck, Profiler)
1968 - Christina Singer, Goeppingen Germany, tennis star (1991 Futures GBR)
1968 - Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Messina Sicily, actress (Postman)
1968 - Tom Goodwin [Thomas Jones], Fresno, California, American MLB player (1994-1997 KC Royals)
1968 - Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian Formula One driver
1969 - Jason Woolley, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1969 - Linda Burgess, WNBA forward (LA Sparks)
1969 - Triple H, American professional wrestler
1970 - Tom Europe, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 - Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Danish actor
1971 - Brennon James Dowric, Australian gymnast (Olympics-92, 96)
1972 - Alph Browning, NLF/WLAF receiver (Redskins, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Bryce Bevill, CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Clint Robinson, Brisbane QLD Australia, K-1 1k canoeist (Oly-bron-96)
1972 - Jill Arrington, American sports reporter
1972 - Takako Fuji, Japanese actress
1972 - Maya Rudolph, American actress and comedian
1973 - Amy Linn Duncan, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, Miss America-Oklahoma (1997)
1973 - Niki Jenkins, Selkirk Manitoba, 72 kg judoka (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Sami Alalampi, WLAF receiver (Barcelona Dragons)
1973 - Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones)
1973 - Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league footballer
1974 - Pete Yorn, American musician
1975 - Alex Rodriguez, NYC, shortstop (Seattle Mariners)
1975 - Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
1975 - Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
1975 - Fred Mascherino, American musician
1976 - Mwadi Mabika, WNBA guard/forward (LA Sparks)
1976 - Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
1977 - Jason Michael Zimbler, Queens NY, actor (Clarissa Explains it All)
1977 - Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean comic book artist
1979 - Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
1979 - Shannon Moore, American wrestler
1980 - Allan Davis, Australian cyclist
1980 - Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
1981 - Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player
1981 - Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer
1983 - Alsou, Russian pop-star and actress
1983 - Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
1985 - Benedita Pereira, Portuguese actress
1985 - Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
1986 - Courtney Kupets, American gymnast
1986 - Ryan Griffen, Australian rules footballer
1988 - Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
1989 - Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
1990 - Cheyenne Kimball, American musician
1990 - Nick Hogan, American reality TV star
1990 - Indiana Evans, Australian actress
1994 - Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor
1994 - Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria
2000 - Kali Rodriguez, American actress

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