Today's Famous Birthdays
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- 1471 Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
- 1792 Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
- 1796 Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), (d. 1876)
- 1799 Mary Anning, Lyme Regis, Dorset, British fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist (Jurassic marine fossil beds of Lyme Regis in Dorset)
- 1821 John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director
- 1822 Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1900)
- 1822 Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1865)
- 1825 George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
- 1826 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
- 1827 William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
- 1832 Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
- 1835 Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
- 1835 František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
- 1841 Joseph Parry, composer
- 1843 Charles-Albert Gobat, Tramelan, Switzerland, Swiss politician, recipient of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
- 1843 Louis Renault, French lawyer
- 1850 Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
- 1851 Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
- 1853 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
- 1855 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
- 1858 Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician
- 1860 Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)
- 1864 Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
- 1867 John James Ferris, cricketer (mighty Australian bowler of late 1880's)
- 1867 Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer
- 1872 Henry Warren, inventor (Telechon electric clock), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1873 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
- 1873 Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)
- 1873 Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
- 1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (hydroplane)
- 1878 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN)
- 1880 Pablo Luna y Carne, composer
- 1880 Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
- 1882 Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Hostage Rights of Aemstel)
- 1884 Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
- 1885 Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, wife of Prince William of Wied (d. 1936)
- 1887 Mabel Taliaferro, actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back), born in NYC, New York
- 1888 May Aufderheide, composer
- 1890 Albert van Raalte, conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
- 1892 John Peale Bishop, US poet (This Side of Paradise)
- 1893 Arthur Carr, cricket captain (England v Australia 1926)
- 1893 Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Boemeladvocaat)
- 1898 Armand Hammer, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum), born in NYC, New York
- 1898 Karel Haba, composer
- 1899 Ralph Sanford, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
- 1901 Horace Heidt, Alameda California, orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon)
- 1901 Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador)
- 1902 Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
- 1902 Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
- 1903 Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7)
- 1903 Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet)
- 1903 Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina
- 1904 Robert Montgomery, Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)
- 1905 Edward Lockspeiser, composer
- 1906 Keith Rigg, cricketer (Australian Test batsman in the thirties)
- 1909 Guy de Rothschild, French banker
- 1909 François-Albert Angers, Quebec economist (d. 2003)
- 1912 John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986)
- 1912 Monty Stratton, baseball player (d. 1982)
- 1913 Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
- 1916 Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy), born in NYC, New York
- 1916 Joseph Janni, producer
- 1916 Leonard Manasseh, architect
- 1916 Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002)
- 1917 Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy)
- 1917 Heather Swift, local councillor
- 1917 Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes)
- 1917 Raymond Burr, BC Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
- 1917 Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman
- 1918 Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
- 1919 Lord Maxwell, senator/prof (college of Justice Scotland)
- 1919 Mark Wood, bishop (Ludlow)
- 1920 Anthony Steel, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse), born in London, England
- 1921 Leona Wood, painter and dancer, born in Seattle, Washington
- 1923 Ara Parseghian, American football player and coach (Northwestern, Notre Dame), born in Akron, Ohio
- 1923 Bettye Danoff, LPGA golfer
- 1923 Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter
- 1923 Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
- 1924 Peggy Cass, actress/TV panelist (To Tell the Truth, Mame), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1924 Robert Parris, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1924 Jack Twyman, basketball player (Rochester/Cincinnati Royals), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2012)
- 1926 Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer
- 1926 Joseph Horovitz, composer
- 1926 Rick Jason, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn), born in NYC, New York
- 1926 Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
- 1927 George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner
- 1927 Kay Kendall, Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls)
- 1929 Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
- 1929 Paul Winslow, cricketer (big-hitter for South Africa, 108 v England 1955)
- 1929 Robert Welch, designer/silversmith (Robert Welch flatware)
- 1930 David Smith, principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University)
- 1930 Stanley Wells, director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham)
- 1931 Desmond Wilcox, broadcaster
- 1931 George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus (1988-93)
- 1932 Gabriele Wohmann, German writer, born in Darmstadt (d. 2015)
- 1932 John Armitage, principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham)
- 1932 Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer
- 1933 Maurice André, French trumpeter, (d. 2012)
- 1934 Phillip King, British sculptor
- 1934 Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate
- 1935 Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen)
- 1936 Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun
- 1936 Dipak Nandy, founder (Runnymead Trust)
- 1936 Abdul Taib Mahmud, 4th Chief Minister of Sarawak (1981-2014) and 7th Governor of Sarawak (2014-), born in Miri, Kingdom of Sarawak
- 1938 David Groh, American actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day), born in Brooklyn, New York
- 1938 Urs Widmer, Swiss writer, born in Basel (d. 2014)
- 1939 Heinz Holliger, composer, oboist, & conductor
- 1941 Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4)
- 1941 Ronald Isley, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- 1941 Martin Carthy, English musician
- 1942 David Hunt, British Conservative politician, born in Glyn Ceiriog, Wales
- 1942 Robert C Springer, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38), born in St. Louis, Missouri
- 1943 Hilton Valentine, rock guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
- 1944 Janet Dailey, US, author
- 1944 Manual Pina, fashion designer
- 1944 Marcie Blane, rocker
- 1944 Mary Robinson, pres of Republic of Ireland (Labour, 1990- )
- 1944 Mike Degett, horse trainer
- 1945 Ernst Willi Messerschmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
- 1946 David Hill, Australian TV-reporter/owner (Fox Sports)
- 1946 Ronald Bear, actor/director (Make-up), born in Havana, Cuba
- 1947 Bill Champlin, rocker, born in Oakland, California
- 1947 Dorothy Germain, LPGA golfer
- 1947 Richard Hatch, actor (Battlestar Galactica), born in Santa Monica, California
- 1947 Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
- 1948 Carol Potter, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
- 1948 Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
- 1949 Andrew Nell, editor (Sunday Times)
- 1949 Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer (T C Matic)
- 1949 Rosalind Plowright, British soprano (Aida, Senta)
- 1951 Al Franken, comedian/writer/actor (SNL, Stuart Saves His Family)
- 1954 Bill Abbott, sailor (Olympics-96), born in Sarnia, Ontario
- 1954 Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975)
- 1954 Marc Ribot, American musician
- 1955 John Glavin, rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet
- 1955 Liaqat Ali, cricket pace bowler (Pakistani in six Tests 1975-79)
- 1955 Stan Lynch, Gainesville Fl, rock drummer (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
- 1955 Paul Barber, British field hockey player
- 1957 Judge Reinhold, Wilmington DE, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
- 1957 Sue Woodstra, Colton Ca, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
- 1957 Bruce Buffer, American Mixed Martial Arts Announcer
- 1957 Nadine Dorries, British politician
- 1957 Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
- 1958 Monte Lynch, cricketer (Surrey batsman, WI Rebel, England ODI player)
- 1958 Jefery Levy, American television director
- 1958 Sabine Bischoff, Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, fencer (Oly Gld 1984), (d. 2013)
- 1959 Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director (The Notebook), born in New York City
- 1959 Brisn Lenihan, Jnr, Irish politician and minister, born in Dublin (d. 2011)
- 1960 Mark Kevin Carnevale, Annapolis MD, PGA golfer (1992 Chattanooga)
- 1960 Kent Hrbek, American baseball player
- 1960 Mohanlal, Indian actor
- 1961 Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
- 1963 Yelena Vodorezova, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976)
- 1963 Richard Appel, American writer
- 1963 Kevin Shields, Musician (My Bloody Valentine)
- 1964 Annabel Schofield, Llanelli Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)
- 1964 Tom Harding, Kalamazoo Mich, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Transamerica)
- 1964 Tommy Albelin, Stockholm Swe, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
- 1964 Danny Bailey, English footballer
- 1964 Nancy Daus, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
- 1964 Carolyn Lawrence, American actress
- 1966 Manon Kelley, Canadian actress (Red Lips 2), born in Quebec City, Québec
- 1967 Cindy Haley, Tyler TX, LPGA golfer (1987 Texas Amateur-2nd)
- 1967 Rogel Nachum, Israel, Men's triple jump (Oly-1996)
- 1967 Todd Doohan, Sarnia Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (Western Ont Amateur-92)
- 1967 Tracy Simien, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
- 1968 Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (d. 1985)
- 1968 Matthias Ungemach, German rower
- 1969 Reid Simpson, Flin Flon, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
- 1969 Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress
- 1969 Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
- 1970 Dorsey Levens, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31)
- 1970 Roman Turek, Strakonice CZE, hockey goalie (Team Czech Rep, Oly-98)
- 1970 Scott "Munnster" Munn, Larkspur California, rower (Olympics-1996)
- 1970 Veronica Sanchez, Michoan Mexico, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17-1994)
- 1970 Carl Veart, Australian former footballer
- 1971 Eric Nies, actor (MTV Real World, Grind)
- 1971 Jeff Stavroff, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Space Coast-4), born in Columbus, Ohio
- 1972 Alesha Oreskovich, playmate (Jun, 1993), born in Tampa, Florida
- 1972 Liliko Ogasawara, middleweight judoka (Olympics-96), born in Englewood, New Jersey
- 1972 The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher Wallace], American rapper (Life After Death), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)
- 1972 Adriano Cintra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
- 1973 Noel Fielding, British comedian
- 1974 Fairuza Balk (The Craft, Gas Food Lodging)
- 1974 Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
- 1975 Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist
- 1976 Deron Miller, American rock musician
- 1976 Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper
- 1977 Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
- 1977 Ricky Williams, American football player
- 1978 Kandy Marshall, Miss Virginia Teen USA (1996)
- 1978 Jamaal Magloire, Canadian professional basketballer
- 1978 Adam Gontier, Canadian singer Three Days Grace
- 1979 Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
- 1979 Gaspard Augé, French musician
- 1979 James Clancy Phelan, Australian novelist
- 1979 Jamie Hepburn, Member of the Scottish Parliament
- 1979 Scott Smith, mixed martial arts fighter
- 1980 Chris Raab, American actor
- 1981 Beth Botsford, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-gold-96)
- 1981 Max, German singer
- 1981 Josh Hamilton, Major League Baseball player
- 1982 Ma'a Nonu, New Zealand rugby union player and All Black (2003-), born in Wellington, New Zealand
- 1984 Lorena Ayala, Spanish-Dutch model and beauty queen
- 1984 Brandon Fields, National Football League punter
- 1985 Frustaci Septuplets, California, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
- 1985 Andrew Miller, Major League Baseball player
- 1985 Kano, British rapper
- 1985 Mutya Buena, English singer (ex-Sugababes)
- 1985 Marco Carta, Italian singer
- 1986 Myra, Mexican-American singer
- 1987 Ashlie Brillault, American actress
- 1988 Jonathan Howson, English footballer
- 1991 Sarah Ramos, American actress
- 1992 Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
- 1994 Tom Daley, English diver
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