Thursday, March 5, 2009

Famous Births on 6 Mar

Famous Births on 6 Mar

1340 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
1459 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)
1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540)
1495 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
1663 - Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)
1706 - George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
1716 - Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
1761 - Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General (d. 1828)
1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)
1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)
1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
1817 - Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
1818 - William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
1831 - Philip Sheridan, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888)
1834 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
1870 - Oscar Straus, Viennese operetta composer (d. 1954)
1882 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
1885 - Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)
1893 - Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
1900 - Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (d. 1975)
1903 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
1904 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
1904 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
1905 - Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)
1906 - Lou Costello, American actor comedian (d. 1959)
1914 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
1915 - Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras
1915 - Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
1917 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
1919 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
1923 - Ed McMahon, American television personality
1925 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
1927 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)
1927 - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (d. 1975)
1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor
1931 - Hal Needham, American stuntman
1933 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1934 - John Noakes, British television presenter
1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete
1936 - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (d. 2002)
1936 - Marion Barry Jr., American politician
1936 - Jean Boht, English actress
1937 - Ivan Boesky, American stock trader
1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
1939 - Cookie Rojas, baseball player
1939 - Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
1939 - Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer (d. 2003)
1940 - Joanna Miles, American actress
1940 - Willie Stargell, baseball player (d. 2001)
1942 - Ben Murphy, American actor
1944 - Mary Wilson, American singer
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand singer
1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer
1947 - Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
1947 - Martin Kove, American actor
1947 - Anna Maria Horsford, American actress
1947 - Dick Fosbury, American athlete
1947 - Kiki Dee, British singer
1949 - Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan
1949 - Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer
1951 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
1953 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
1953 - Jacklyn Zeman, American actress
1955 - Alberta Watson, Canadian actress
1958 - Eddie Deezen, American actor
1959 - Saul Anuzis, American politician
1959 - Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
1959 - Michael Carmine , American actor (d. 1989)
1962 - Valerie French, American animatronics art director
1963 - D.L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
1964 - Skip Ewing, American country music singer and songwriter
1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician
1966 - Alan Davies, British comedian and actor
1967 - Connie Britton, American actress
1967 - Julio Bocca, Argentinean Ballet Dancer
1968 - Moira Kelly, American actress
1968 - Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X)
1969 - Greg Scott, British TV personality
1969 - Amy Pietz, American actress
1969 - Tari Phillips, American basketball player
1969 - Andrea Elson, American actress
1970 - Shane Brolly, British actor
1970 - Betty Boo, British singer
1971 - Sean Morley, American professional wrestler
1971 - Darrick Martin, American basketball player
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player
1972 - Terry Murphy, Northern Irish snooker player
1973 - Michael Finley, American basketball player
1973 - Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist (ex-Opeth)
1974 - Sebastian Siegel, British-American actor
1975 - Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer
1976 - Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
1977 - Marcus Thames, American baseball player
1977 - Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer
1978 - Sage Rosenfels, American Football Player
1978 - Lara Cox, Australian Actress
1979 - David Flair, American professional wrestler
1979 - Erik Bedard, Canadian baseball player
1979 - Ryan Nyquist, American BMX rider
1981 - Ellen Muth, American actress
1983 - Andranik Teymourian, Iranian footballer
1984 - Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
1985 - Albert Reed, American model
1986 - Eli Marienthal, American actor
1987 - Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer
1996 - Savanah Stehlin, American actress

No comments: