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Birthdays in History for Friday 11th April 2014

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146 - Septimius Severus (d. 211)
1370 - Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony
1374 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)
1492 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
1586 - Pietro Della Valle, composer
1602 - Johann Neukrantz, composer
1638 - Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer
1661 - Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet
1681 - Anne Danican Philidor, composer
1682 - Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer
1715 - John Alcock, composer
1721 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
1722 - Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols)
1735 - Pierre Nicolas La Houssaye, composer
1755 - James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
1769 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer
1770 - George Canning, (C) British PM (1827)
1772 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo)
1775 - Charles-Francois Dumonchau, composer
1779 - Louise Reichardt, composer
1793 - Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist
1794 - Edward Everett, Dorchester Mass, (Gov-Mass), statesman/orator
1798 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
1801 - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
1810 - Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)
1815 - Klara Fey, German orchestra leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein)
1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder (Allgemeiner)
1837 - Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861
1838 - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer
1840 - John Conrad Nordqvist, composer
1852 - Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922)
1854 - Hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)
1856 - Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (dominant England bat late 19th cent)
1856 - Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India
1859 - Basil Harwood, composer
1862 - Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41)
1862 - William W Campbell, US astronomer/director Lick Observatory
1866 - Carla Ford, wife of Henry Ford
1866 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (d. 1953)
1867 - John P Lotsy, Dutch botanist/geneticist (Genetics)
1867 - Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928)
1869 - Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944)
1869 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
1873 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)
1876 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)
1879 - Leendert Round, Dutch sculptor (entrance Rotterdam Zoo)
1881 - Harvey Bartlett Gaul, composer
1883 - Leonard Mudie, England, actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence)
1888 - Donald Calthrop, London, actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express)
1889 - Nick LaRocca, US jazz coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag) (d. 1961)
1890 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
1893 - Dean G Acheson, statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53)
1893 - Johannes T Thijsse, Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft)
1896 - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
1897 - Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist
1898 - Lou Holtz, comedian/actor (Follow the Leader)
1899 - Percy L Julian, chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis)
1900 - Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
1901 - Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer (typewriter)
1901 - Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens)
1901 - Theodor Rogalski, composer
1902 - Quentin Reynolds, NYC, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI)
1904 - Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist
1904 - Paul McGrath, Chicago IL, actor (Witness, No Time for Love)
1905 - József Attila, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)
1906 - Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
1907 - Paul Douglas, Phila Pa, actor (Adventure Theater, Clash by Night)
1907 - William Henry Swinburne, music teacher
1907 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (d. 2001)
1908 - Karel Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto)
1908 - Leo Rosten, writer/humourist
1908 - Masura Ibuka, industrialist
1910 - Anna Magnani, Ital's actress (Awakening, Roma)
1910 - Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal
1910 - Henry William Collins, artist
1911 - Stella Walsh-Stanislawa-Walasiewicz, Poland, sprinter (Oly-gold-32)
1912 - John Larkin, Oakland California, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High)
1913 - Oleg Cassini, Paris France, fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy)
1914 - Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)
1915 - (Hanlon) Pat Clarke, cyclist
1916 - Alberto E Ginastera, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Panambi)
1916 - Dan Fortmann, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1916 - Howard Koch, producer/director (Frankenstein, Airplane II)
1917 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (d. 1993)
1917 - David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)
1918 - Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, journalist
1918 - Richard Wainwright, MP
1918 - William Perrie, British prison governor
1919 - Hugh Carey, (Gov-D-NY)
1919 - Raymond Carr, Warden (St Antony's College Oxford)
1920 - Marlen Haushofer, writer
1920 - Emilio Colombo, Potenza, Italy, Prime Minister (1970-2), (d. 2013)
1921 - Jeff Stollmeyer, cricketer (WI batsman pre/post-war)
1921 - Virginia O'Brien, Los Angeles California, actress (Francis in the Navy)
1921 - Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, British diplomat
1921 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 - Alexander Raichev, composer
1922 - Antoine Blondin, writer

Bobby Kennedy's Wife Ethel Kennedy (1925) 1925 - Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bobby
1925 - Johan van Zonderen, painter
1925 - Oscar De Ville, CEO (Meyer International)
1925 - Rik Kuijpers, Belgian director (Sea gulls die in the harbor)
1925 - Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman and newspaper editor (Quebecor) (d. 1997)
1926 - Gervase de Peyer, clarinettist
1926 - Robert Hall Lewis, composer
1926 - Victor Bouchard, Quebec pianist and composer
1927 - Domenico Guaccero, composer
1929 - Lawrence Coughlin, (Rep-R-PA, 1969- )
1930 - Carl Franklin, Richmond California, actor (Fantastic Journey)
1930 - Clive Exton, scriptwriter & playwright
1930 - James Alan Ferman, secretary (British Board of Film Classification)
1930 - Joseph Burnett-Stuart, CEO (Robert Fleming Holdings)
1930 - Kazuo Fukushima, composer
1930 - Nicholas F Brady, US Secretary of Treasury (1988-93)
1930 - W G [Bill] Hefner, (Rep-D-NC, 1975- )
1930 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
1931 - Johnny Sheffield, Pasadena California, actor (Boy-Tarzan Finds a Son)
1931 - Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
1932 - F Gregory Neubeck, USAF pilot
1932 - Joel Grey, [Joe Katz], actor (Cabaret, Remo Williams, 7% Solution)
1932 - Max Schubel, composer
1933 - Tony Brown, Charleston WV, newsman (Tony Brown's Journal)
1934 - Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer (Dept of Health)
1934 - Mark Strand, American poet/editor/translator (Another Republic)
1934 - Richard A Garland, artist/photographer
1935 - Pierre Kartner, [Father Abraham], Dutch singer (Smurf Song)
1935 - Richard Berry, musician
1935 - Richard Kuklinski, American mafia hitman (d. 2006)
1936 - Janet Allen, Headmistress (Benenden School)
1938 - Michael Deaver, politician/influence peddler (S&L scandal)
1938 - Kurt Moll, German bass
1939 - Louise Lasser, NYC, actress (Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!)
1941 - David Lyle Boren, (Sen-D-OK, 1979- )
1941 - Frederick "Rick" Hauck, Long Beach Ca, astr (STS-7, STS 51-A, STS-26)
1941 - Ellen Goodman, American political columnist
1942 - Anatoly Nikolayevich Berezovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5)
1943 - E J Dommering, Dutch lawyer
1943 - John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich, British entrepreneur, politician and nobleman
1943 - Elmer R Wilsoe, Island mayor (Curacao)
1944 - John Milius, writer (Red Dawn, 1941, Big Wednesday)
1944 - R J B Knight, deputy director (National Maritime Museum)
1947 - Michael Hindley, British MEP
1947 - Michael Wright, Vice-Chancello, (Aston University)
1947 - Peter Riegert, NYC, actor (Animal House, Crossing Delancey)
1947 - Uli Edel, Neuenburg am Rhein, South Baden, German film director
1947 - Meshach Taylor, American actor
1947 - Lev Bulat, Russian physicist
1948 - Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist (or 1941)
1948 - Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach
1949 - Bernd Eichinger, German film producer
1949 - Carl Franklin, American actor
1950 - Bill Irwin, Santa Monica, actor (My Blue Heaven, Scenes From a Mall)
1951 - Robbie House, rocker (Snuff)
1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
1951 - Paul Fox, English guitarist (The Ruts) (d. 2007)
1951 - James Patrick Kelly, American author
1952 - Michael Daly, Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 BC Winter Tour)
1952 - Peter Windsor, English motor racing journalist and reporter
1953 - Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
1953 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
1955 - Michele Scarabelli, actress (Jo Santini-Airwolf, Alienation, Dallas)
1955 - Piers J Sellers, Sussex England, PhD/astronaut
1955 - Kevin Brady, American politician
1957 - Everton Mattis, cricketer (WI batsman early 80's)
1957 - John Castellanos, San Diego California, actor (John Silva-Young & Restless)
1958 - Sally Clark, Feilding NZ, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-silver-96)
1958 - Stuart Adamson, rock vocalist/guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1958 - William Stuart Adamson, Manchester, rock guitarist (Big Country)
1958 - Brynn Hartman, American murderer (d. 1998)
1960 - Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist
1961 - Lucky Vanous, Lincoln Nebraska, model (GQ, Diet Coke)
1961 - Doug Hopkins, American musician
1961 - Vincent Gallo, Buffalo, New York, American actor, director, writer (Buffalo '66, The Brown Bunny)
1962 - Andre Wasiman, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1962 - Terry Hoage, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1963 - Eddy Moya, El Paso Tx, actor
1963 - Elizabeth Smylie, Perth Australia, tennis star (1987 Oklahoma City)
1963 - Chris Ferguson, American poker player
1963 - Billy Bowden, New Zealand umpire
1964 - Steve Azar, American singer-songwriter
1964 - Bret Saberhagen, American baseball player
1964 - Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American cellist
1966 - Dave Richards, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Kara McGaw, Toronto Ontario, softball rightfielder (Olympics-96)
1966 - Lisa Stansfield, English pop singer (Around the World)
1966 - Mark Higgs, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1966 - Steve Scarsone, Anaheim CA, infielder (SF Giants)
1966 - Mason Reese, American actor
1966 - Dustin Patrick Runnels, American professional wrestler
1967 - Lachlan Dreher, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Oly-silv-92, 96)
1967 - Mark Seay, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Stefan Johnstown, Norwegian speed walker (world record 20 km)
1967 - Wendel Suckow, Marquette Mich, luger (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Eric Moten, NFL guard/tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author
1969 - Gavin Briant, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman 1993)
1969 - J Nick Adamson, Freeport Bahamas, US laser yachter (Olymp-21st-1996)
1969 - Janeth Arcain, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1969 - Jesse Campbell, NFL safety (NY Giants, Washington Redskins)
1969 - Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
1969 - Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer
1970 - Delroy Pearson, rock vocalist (Five Star-Between the Lines)
1970 - Joe Vitiello, Cambridge MA, infielder (KC Royals)
1970 - Sean Bergman, Joliet IL, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 - Trevor Linden, Medicine Hat, NHL right wing (Canucks, NY Islanders)
1970 - Johnny Messner, American actor

Musician Oliver Riedel (1971) 1971 - Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
1971 - Vicellous Reon Shannon, American actor
1972 - Avo Avetisyan, WLAF defensive linesman (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Dietrich Jells, wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1972 - Kunihiko Sakurai, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1972 - Nicole Levesque, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1972 - Ted Johnson, linebacker (New England Patriots)
1972 - Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler
1973 - Blake Brockermeyer, NFL tackle (GB Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Monica Chala, Miss Universe-Ecuador (1996)
1973 - Reggie Tongue, NFL safety (KC Chiefs)
1973 - Jennifer Esposito, American television actor
1974 - Alex Corretja, Barcelona Spain, tennis star (1990 Orange Bowl boys 16)
1974 - Sascha van Wissen, Dutch soccer player (MVV)
1974 - Ashot Danielyan, Armenian weightlifter
1974 - Anton Glanzelius, Danish actor
1974 - Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actor
1974 - Zöe Lucker, British television actor
1974 - Trot Nixon, American baseball player
1975 - Terry Cousin, NFL cornerback (Chicago Bears)
1975 - Walid Soliman, Tunisian author
1978 - Victor Sikora, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1978 - Brett Claywell, American actor
1978 - Josh Hancock, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1978 - Tom Thacker, Canadian musician
1979 - Malcolm Christie, English footballer
1979 - Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Miss World Canada 2003, Singer/Songwriter, Human Rights Activist
1979 - Chris Gaylor, American drummer
1979 - Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
1979 - Josh Server, American actor
1979 - Sebastien Grainger, Canadian musician
1980 - Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
1980 - Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
1981 - Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
1981 - Alexandre Burrows, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 - Ian Bell, English cricketer
1983 - Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch racing driver
1984 - Kelli Garner, American actress
1985 - Will Minson, Australian rules footballer

Singer Joss Stone (1987) 1987 - Joss Stone, English singer
1994 - Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
2002 - Alexa Gerasimovich, American actress

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