Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Famous Births on 1 Apr

Famous Births on 1 Apr

1220 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
1543 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (d. 1626)
1578 - William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657)
1610 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (d. 1703)
1640 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)
1647 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)
1697 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (d. 1763)
1753 - Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821)
1765 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810)
1776 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831)
1815 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of Germany (d. 1898)
1815 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (d. 1880)
1834 - Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872)
1854 - Bill Traylor, American artist (d. 1949)
1856 - Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933)
1865 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
1866 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924)
1868 - Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (d. 1918)
1875 - Edgar Wallace, English writer (d. 1932)
1880 - Agha Petros, Assyrian general (d. 1932)
1882 - Paul Anspach, Belgian Olympic champion fencer (d. 1991)
1883 - Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (d. 1930)
1885 - Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)
1893 - Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (d. 1980)
1895 - Alberta Hunter, American singer (d. 1984)
1897 - Nita Naldi, American actress (d. 1961)
1898 - William James Sidis, American genius (d. 1944)
1899 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968)
1900 - Robert McDowell, Mayor of Maryborough, Queensland (d. 1988)
1901 - Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor, and defector (d. 1961)
1902 - Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930)
1906 - Aleksandr Yakovlev, Russian engineer and aeroplane designer (d. 1989)
1908 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)
1909 - Eddy Duchin, American popular pianist & bandleader (d. 1951)
1914 - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (d. 2002)
1915 - Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)
1917 - Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1919 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel laureate
1920 - Toshirō Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
1921 - Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player
1922 - William Manchester, American historian (d. 2004)
1924 - Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey
1924 - Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (d. 2003)
1926 - Anne McCaffrey, American author
1926 - Charles Bressler, American tenor
1927 - Amos Milburn, American pianist (d. 1980)
1928 - George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007)
1929 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)
1929 - Jane Powell, American dancer, actress, and singer
1929 - Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator
1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech-born writer
1930 - Grace Lee Whitney, American actress
1931 - Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
1931 - Ita Ever, Estonian actress
1932 - Gordon Jump, American actor (d. 2003)
1932 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress
1933 - Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996)
1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel laureate
1934 - Don Hastings, American actor
1934 - Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1934 - Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
1935 - Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983)
1936 - Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician, president of the Confederation in 1989 and 1996 (d. 1998)
1938 - Ali MacGraw, American actress
1938 - John Quade, American actor
1939 - Rudolph Isley, American singer
1939 - Phil Niekro, American baseball player
1940 - Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1942 - Samuel R. Delany, American author
1942 - Annie Nightingale, British disc jockey
1944 - Rusty Staub, American baseball player
1945 - John Barbata, American drummer
1946 - Ronnie Lane, English musician (d. 1997)
1946 - Arrigo Sacchi, Italian football coach
1947 - Norm Van Lier, American basketball player
1947 - M, English singer
1947 - Alain Connes, French mathematician
1948 - Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
1949 - Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
1949 - Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer
1949 - Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer
1950 - Samuel Alito, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1951 - John Philip Abizaid, U.S. Army General, former CENTCOM commander
1952 - Annette O'Toole, American actress
1952 - Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher
1953 - Barry Sonnenfeld, producer and director
1954 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (d. 1992)
1955 - Gregg Jarrett, American television anchor
1955 - Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani statesman
1957 - David Gower, English cricketer
1958 - D. Boon, American musician d. (1985)
1960 - Michael Praed, British actor
1962 - Dave Ulliott, English poker player
1962 - Samboy Lim, Filipino basketball player
1964 - Scott Stevens, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist and manager
1965 - Mark Jackson, American basketball player
1965 - Robert Steadman, English composer
1966 - Chris Evans, English disc jockey
1967 - Phil Demmel, American musician
1968 - Julia Boutros, Lebanese singer
1968 - Andreas Schnaas, German horror film director
1969 - Fadl Shaker, Lebanese singer
1970 - Sung Hi Lee, Korean-born model
1971 - Shinji Nakano, Japanese race car driver
1971 - Lachy Hulme, Australian actor and screenwriter
1971 - Jessica Collins, American actress
1971 - Method Man, American rapper
1972 - Allen and Albert Hughes, American film directors
1972 - Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Jesse Tobias, American musician
1973 - Joe Francis, American adult video producer
1973 - Rachel Maddow, American radio personality and political analyst
1973 - Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricketer
1973 - Christian Finnegan, American comedian
1974 - Richard Christy, American drummer
1974 - Hugo Benjamín Ibarra, Argentine footballer
1974 - Sandra Völker, German swimmer
1975 - George Bastl, Swiss tennis player
1975 - John Butler, Australian singer and musician
1976 - David Oyelowo, English-Nigerian actor
1977 - Haimar Zubeldia, Spanish cyclist
1978 - Jean-Pierre Dumont, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Miroslava Vavrinec, Swiss tennis player
1979 - Ivano Balić, Croatian handballer
1980 - Randy Orton, American professional wrestler
1980 - Bijou Phillips, American actress
1980 - YÅ«ko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
1981 - Bjoern Einar Romoeren, Norwegian skijumper
1981 - Aimee Chan, Miss Hong Kong 2006
1981 - Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist
1981 - Hannah Spearritt, British singer
1981 - Antonis Fotsis, Greek basketball player
1982 - Sam Huntington, American actor
1982 - Gemma Hunt, British children's television presenter
1982 - Taran Killam, American comedian and actor
1983 - Ã"lafur Ingi Skúlason, Icelandic footballer
1983 - Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)
1983 - Matt Lanter, American actor and model
1984 - Olga Rei, Russian television personality
1984 - Gilberto Macena, Brazilian footballer
1985 - Josh Zuckerman, American actor
1986 - Ireen Wüst, Dutch speed skater
1987 - Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
1987 - Li Ting, Chinese diver
1988 - Courtney McCool, American gymnast
1988 - Brook Lopez, American basketball player
1988 - Robin Lopez, American basketball player
1989 - Vietoris Krisztián, German racecar driver

Monday, March 30, 2009

Famous Births on 31 Mar

Famous Births on 31 Mar

1360 - Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (d. 1415)
1425 - Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468)
1499 - Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)
1504 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru (d. 1552)
1519 - King Henry II of France (d. 1559)
1536 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
1576 - Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (died 1644)
1596 - René Descartes, French mathematician (d. 1650)
1621 - Andrew Marvell, English poet (d. 1678)
1651 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (d. 1685)
1675 - Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
1718 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)
1723 - King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
1730 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783)
1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1777 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859)
1778 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
1794 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (d. 1852)
1809 - Edward FitzGerald, English poet (d. 1883)
1811 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist and inventor (d. 1899)
1819 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)
1847 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
1855 - Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)
1871 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (d. 1922)
1872 - Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (Ballets Russes) (d. 1929)
1872 - Alexandra Kollontai, Russian ambassador to Norway (d.1952)
1876 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
1878 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946)
1884 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
1885 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
1890 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1891 - Victor Varconi, Hungarian film actor (d. 1976)
1893 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954)
1906 - Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1907 - Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990)
1908 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
1911 - Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
1914 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1915 - Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
1915 - Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
1916 - Lucille Bliss, American voice actress
1916 - John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (d. 1979)
1919 - Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
1922 - Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999)
1924 - Leo Buscaglia, American author (d. 1998)
1924 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (d. 2002)
1925 - Jean Coutu, French Canadian actor (d. 1999)
1926 - John Fowles, English author (d. 2005)
1927 - César Chávez, American labor activist (d. 1993)
1927 - William Daniels, American actor
1928 - Lefty Frizzell, American singer and songwriter (d. 1975)
1928 - Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 - Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (d. 2007)
1929 - Bertram Fields, American lawyer
1931 - Miller Barber, American golfer
1932 - Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director
1933 - Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
1934 - John D. Loudermilk, American singer and songwriter
1934 - Richard Chamberlain, American actor
1934 - Shirley Jones, American singer and actress
1934 - Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate
1935 - Judith Rossner, American author
1935 - Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader
1936 - Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 - Marge Piercy, American writer
1936 - Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor
1938 - Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer
1938 - David Steel, Scottish politician
1938 - Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actor
1938 - Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1938 - Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
1939 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (d. 1993)
1939 - Volker Schlöndorff, German film director
1940 - Barney Frank, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
1940 - Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator from Vermont
1942 - Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician
1942 - Michael Savage, American talk radio host and commentator
1943 - Christopher Walken, American actor
1944 - Pascal Danel, French singer and songwriter
1944 - Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
1945 - Valerie Curtin, American actress, writer, and producer
1945 - Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian
1946 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984)
1947 - Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, President of Colombia
1948 - Gustaaf Van Cauter, Belgian cyclist
1948 - Rhea Perlman, American actress
1948 - Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1950 - Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor
1950 - András Adorján, Hungarian chess player
1952 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor (d. 1998)
1955 - Angus Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
1955 - Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer
1957 - Marc McClure, American actor
1957 - Alan Duncan, British politician
1958 - Tony Cox, American actor
1959 - Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers)
1962 - John Taylor, American football player
1963 - Paul Mercurio, Australian actor/dancer
1964 - Paul Wong Koon-Chung, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
1965 - Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player
1965 - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006)
1965 - Steven T. Seagle, American comic-book writer
1966 - Roger Black, English athlete
1968 - Celine Dion, French Canadien singer
1968 - Naoya Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 - Samantha Brown, American television host
1969 - Steve Smith, American basketball player
1969 - Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish politician
1971 - Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
1971 - Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
1972 - Andrew Bowen, American actor
1972 - Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish film director
1972 - Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower
1973 - Bold Forbes, Puerto Rican/American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2000)
1974 - Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo)
1974 - Benjamin Eicher, Swiss film director
1975 - Adam Green, American film director
1976 - Josh Saviano, American actor
1976 - Ashton Moore, American porn actress
1977 - Toshiya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1977 - Garth Tander, Australian racing driver
1978 - Tony Yayo, American rapper
1978 - Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
1978 - Stephen Clemence, English footballer
1979 - Josh Kinney, American baseball player
1979 - Amey Date, Indian playback singer
1980 - Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
1980 - Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actor
1981 - Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer
1982 - Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer
1982 - Philippe Mexès, French footballer
1982 - Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter
1983 - Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast
1983 - Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
1984 - James Jones, American football player
1986 - Cveta Majtanović, Serbian singer, winner of Pop Idol.
1988 - Hogan Ephraim, English Footballer
250 - Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306)

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Famous Births on 30 Mar

Famous Births on 30 Mar

1135 - Maimonedes, philosopher (d. 1204)
1326 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
1432 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)
1640 - John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695)
1746 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
1750 - John Stafford Smith, English composer (d. 1836)
1820 - Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878)
1844 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
1857 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
1864 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943)
1879 - Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)
1880 - Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (d. 1964)
1892 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
1892 - Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
1894 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (d. 1977)
1895 - Jean Giono, French author (d. 1970)
1899 - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, well known Bengali writer (d. 1970)
1902 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (d. 2007)
1902 - Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)
1903 - Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (d. 1984)
1903 - Countee Cullen, American poet (d. 1946)
1904 - Ripper Collins, baseball player (d. 1970)
1905 - Albert Pierrepoint, English executioner (d. 1992)
1907 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d. 1940)
1913 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta
1913 - Frankie Laine, American singer (d. 2007)
1913 - Richard Helms, American CIA director (d. 2002)
1913 - Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)
1919 - McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
1922 - Turhan Bey, Turkish actor
1923 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
1926 - Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (d. 1992)
1926 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur
1927 - Peter Marshall, American game show host
1928 - Robert Badinter, French politician
1928 - Tom Sharpe, English satirical author
1929 - Richard Dysart, American actor
1930 - Rolf Harris, Australian artist and entertainer
1930 - John Astin, American actor
1932 - Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer
1933 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007)
1935 - Karl Berger, German musicologist and musician
1935 - Willie Galimore, American football player (d. 1964)
1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
1940 - Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
1941 - Graeme Edge, British musician (Moody Blues)
1941 - Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
1941 - Bob Smith, former American politician
1943 - Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (d. 1998)
1945 - Eric Clapton, British guitarist/singer
1945 - Johnnie Walker, British DJ
1947 - Ryszard Kotla, Polish travel writer and activist, tour guide, journalist, academic teacher, engineer
1948 - Mervyn King, British economist
1948 - Eddie Jordan Former owner of Jordan Grand Prix
1949 - Naomi Sims, American fashion model and businesswoman
1949 - Liza Frulla, Quebec politician
1950 - Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian
1951 - Yves Séguin, Quebec politician
1952 - Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach
1953 - Cydney Bernard, American film producer
1955 - Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1956 - Bill Butler, Scottish politician
1957 - Paul Reiser, American actor
1958 - Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
1959 - Sabine Meyer, German clarinetist
1959 - Peter Ellis, convicted child abuser
1961 - Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
1962 - MC Hammer, American rap musician
1962 - Bil Dwyer, American actor
1963 - Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor
1964 - Ian Ziering, American actor
1964 - Dave Ellett, Canadian hockey player
1964 - Vlado Bozinovski, Australian former footballer
1964 - Tracy Chapman, American singer
1965 - Piers Morgan, British journalist
1966 - Joey Castillo, American drummer (Queens of the Stone Age)
1966 - Efstratios Grivas, Greek chess grandmaster and author
1967 - Hayashibara Megumi, Japanese voice actress and singer
1967 - Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (d. 2008)
1968 - Donna D'Errico, American actress and model
1968 - Celine Dion, Canadian singer
1970 - Secretariat, American racehorse (d. 1989)
1971 - Mark Consuelos, American actor
1972 - Mili Avital, Israeli-American actress
1973 - Matthew Pritchard, Welsh Stuntman
1973 - Jan Koller, Czech footballer
1975 - Bahar Soomekh, American actress
1976 - Mark McClelland, Northern Irish musician (Degrassi)
1976 - Ty Conklin, American ice hockey player
1976 - Obadele Thompson, Barbadian athlete
1978 - Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
1979 - Simon Webbe, English singer
1979 - Norah Jones, American singer and pianist
1980 - Ricardo Osorio, Mexican footballer
1980 - Yalin, Turkish singer and songwriter
1982 - Jason Dohring, American actor
1983 - Hebe Tian, Taiwanese singer (S.H.E)
1983 - Davis Romero, Panamanian baseball player
1983 - Scott Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter
1983 - Zach Gowen, American professional wrestler
1983 - Jérémie Aliadière, French footballer
1984 - Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player
1984 - Anna Nalick, American singer and songwriter.
1986 - Beni Arashiro, Japanese singer
1986 - Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Famous Births on 29 Mar

Famous Births on 29 Mar

1553 - Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet (d. 1613 or 1614)
1584 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648)
1602 - John Lightfoot, English churchman (d. 1675)
1668 - Thomas Coram, Founder of the Foundling Hospital (d. 1751)
1713 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
1746 - Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1785)
1769 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)
1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1799 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
1826 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
1867 - Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)
1869 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist living in the United States (d. 1943)
1870 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (d. 1904)
1873 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
1874 - Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
1888 - Enea Bossi, Italian-American engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1963)
1889 - Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)
1891 - Yvan Goll, French-German writer (d. 1950)
1891 - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1980)
1892 - József Cardinal Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d. 1975)
1895 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
1899 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953)
1900 - Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1900 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
1901 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)
1902 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
1902 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
1905 - Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)
1906 - E. Power Biggs American concert organist (d. 1977)
1907 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
1908 - Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (d. 1968)
1908 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)
1911 - Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)
1912 - Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
1913 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
1913 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
1914 - Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985)
1916 - Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)
1917 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)
1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
1918 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)
1919 - Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)
1920 - John Belk, American head of Belk, Inc. (d. 2007)
1927 - John McLaughlin, American political commentator
1927 - John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1928 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (d. 2005)
1929 - Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993)
1929 - Richard Lewontin, American biologist
1929 - Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006)
1931 - Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut
1931 - Norman Tebbit, British politician
1933 - Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet
1934 - Paul Crouch, American televangelist
1936 - Mogens Camre, Danish politician
1936 - Judith Guest, American author
1937 - Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (d. 1988)
1939 - Terence Hill, Italian actor
1939 - Roland Arnall, American businessman and diplomat (d. 2008).
1940 - Ray Davis, American musician (d. 2005)
1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
1941 - Eden Kane, British singer
1941 - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate
1943 - Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer
1943 - Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1943 - Vangelis, Greek musician and composer
1944 - Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist
1944 - Denny McLain, American baseball player
1945 - Walt Frazier, American basketball player
1946 - Billy Thorpe, Australian singer (d. 2007)
1947 - Bobby Kimball, American singer
1948 - Bud Cort, American actor
1949 - Keith Simpson, British politician
1949 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2007)
1949 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979)
1952 - Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer
1954 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)
1954 - Dianne Kay, American actress
1955 - Earl Campbell, American football player
1955 - Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor
1955 - Christopher Lawford, Irish actor
1955 - Marina Sirtis, English actress
1956 - Kurt Thomas, American gymnast
1956 - Stephen Cole, English journalist
1956 - Patty Donahue, American singer (d. 1996)
1957 - Christopher Lambert, French actor
1958 - Victor Salva, American film director
1959 - Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
1959 - Perry Farrell, American musician
1959 - Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Gary Brabham, Australian racing driver
1961 - Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian
1961 - Mike Kingery, American baseball player
1964 - Michael A. Jackson, Maryland politician
1964 - Elle Macpherson, Australian model
1965 - William Oefelein, American Astronaut
1965 - Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete
1965 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)
1967 - John Popper, American musician
1967 - Brian Jordan, American baseball player
1968 - Sue Foley, Canadian singer and guitarist
1968 - Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
1971 - Lara Logan, South-African born journalist and reporter
1972 - Michel Ancel, French game designer
1972 - Rui Costa, Portugal footballer
1972 - Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor
1973 - Sebastiano Siviglia Italian footballer
1973 - Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
1974 - Kristoffer Cusick, American actor
1974 - Marc Gené, Spanish racing car driver
1976 - Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist
1976 - Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
1978 - Michael Kaczurak, American singer and actor
1980 - Amy Mathews, Australian actress
1980 - Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein, of Jordan
1980 - Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress
1981 - Megan Hilty, American actress
1981 - Jlloyd Samuel, WestIndian-born footballer
1982 - Hideaki Takizawa, Japanese artist
1983 - Luiza Sá, Brazilian musician
1985 - Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey forward
1985 - Mickey Pimentel, National Football League linebacker
1986 - Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer

Friday, March 27, 2009

Famous Births on 28 Mar

Famous Births on 28 Mar

1472 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
1515 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun (d. 1582)
1522 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)
1569 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)
1592 - Comenius, Czech bishop (d. 1670)
1599 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)
1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1613 - Xiaozhuangwen Grand Empress Dowager, Empress of Manchu (d. 1688)
1652 - Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)
1725 - Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
1750 - Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1816)
1760 - Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846)
1773 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
1793 - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
1795 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
1806 - Thomas Hare, English barrister (d. 1891)
1815 - Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)
1818 - Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician (d. 1902)
1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
1836 - Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904)
1840 - Emin Pasha, Equatorian politician (d. 1892)
1842 - William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officier (d. 1908)
1849 - James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)
1851 - Bernardino Machado, Portuguese politician (d. 1944)
1862 - Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1866 - Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
1871 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
1890 - Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
1892 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1892 - Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)
1893 - Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
1895 - Christian Herter, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1966)
1895 - Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1985)
1897 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)
1899 - Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973)
1899 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
1899 - Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941)
1899 - Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
1900 - Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (d. 2004)
1902 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
1902 - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
1903 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
1903 - Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986)
1905 - Marlin Perkins, American naturalist and television host (d. 1986)
1905 - Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996)
1907 - "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
1909 - Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981)
1910 - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American Librarian (d. 2001)
1910 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
1911 - J. L. Austin, British philosopher of language (d. 1960)
1912 - A. Bertram Chandler Australian author (d. 1984)
1912 - Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)
1914 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1914 - Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
1914 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)
1914 - Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003)
1915 - Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1919 - Vic Raschi, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1921 - Herschel Grynszpan, German political assassin (d. between 1943 and 1945)
1921 - Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
1922 - Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
1922 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (d. 1990)
1922 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
1924 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)
1925 - Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress
1926 - Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
1927 - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. National Security Advisor
1928 - Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician
1929 - Paul England, Australian racing driver
1930 - Robert Ashley, American composer
1930 - Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1933 - Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
1933 - Frank Murkowski, American politician
1935 - Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster
1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and politician
1940 - Tony Barber, Australian television personality
1941 - Jim Turner, American football player
1941 - Alf Clausen, orchestra conductor (The Simpsons)
1942 - Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and head coach
1942 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
1942 - Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
1942 - Mike Newell, English film director
1942 - Neil Kinnock, British politician
1942 - Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
1943 - Conchata Ferrell, American actress
1944 - Rick Barry, American basketball player
1944 - Ken Howard, American actor
1945 - Count Björn Hamilton, Swedish politician
1946 - Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru
1946 - Henry Paulson Jr., Current U.S. Treasury Secretary
1946 - Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
1947 - John Landecker, American disk jockey
1948 - Matthew Corbett, English retired actor
1948 - Milan Williams, American musician The Commodores (d. 2006)
1948 - John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull)
1948 - Gerry House, American radio personality
1948 - Dianne Wiest, American actress
1951 - Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995)
1951 - Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
1952 - Tony Brise, racing driver (d. 1975)
1953 - Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993)
1954 - Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985)
1955 - Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
1955 - John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician
1956 - April Margera, Bam Margera's mother
1958 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1959 - Chris Myers, American sportscaster
1960 - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist
1960 - José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician
1960 - Chris Barrie, British actor
1961 - Orla Brady, Irish actress
1961 - Byron Scott, American basketball player
1962 - Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
1962 - Terry Szopinski, American pro-wrestler
1965 - Steve Bull, English footballer
1968 - Max Perlich, American actor
1968 - Tim Lovejoy, British television presenter
1968 - Jon Lee, British drummer (d. 2002)
1968 - Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
1968 - Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)
1969 - Brett Ratner, American film director
1969 - Rodney Atkins, American country music singer-songwriter
1970 - Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician
1970 - Vince Vaughn, American actor
1971 - Mr. Cheeks, American rapper
1972 - Nick Frost, English comedian and actor
1972 - Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
1973 - Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter
1973 - Eddie Fatu, Samoan professional wrestler
1974 - Mark King, English snooker player
1974 - Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey
1975 - Derek Hill, American racing driver
1975 - Richard Kelly, American film director
1975 - Matt Reis, American soccer goalkeeper
1975 - Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
1975 - Shanna Moakler, former beauty queen
1976 - David Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)
1977 - Lauren Weisberger, American novelist
1977 - Erik Rasmussen, American ice hockey player
1979 - Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress
1980 - Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper
1980 - Luke Walton, American basketball player
1981 - Lindsay Frimodt, American model
1981 - Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player
1981 - Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh Actor
1981 - Julia Stiles, American actress
1982 - Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress
1983 - Ryan Ashington, English footballer
1984 - Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
1984 - Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
1984 - Christopher Samba, French-born footballer
1986 - J-Kwon, American rapper
1986 - Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player
1988 - Lacey Turner, British soap actress
1989 - Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
1989 - Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
1989 - Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
1989 - Afrikan Boy, a Nigerian rapper
1991 - Amy Bruckner, American actress

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Famous Births on 27 Mar

Famous Births on 27 Mar

1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d. 1480)
1627 - Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
1676 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (d. 1735)
1696 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (d. 1762)
1712 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
1730 - Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar (d. 1786)
1746 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
1765 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
1785 - King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
1797 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (d. 1863)
1809 - Baron Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)
1810 - William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
1813 - Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888)
1817 - Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
1845 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
1847 - Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
1851 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)
1857 - Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936)
1859 - George Giffen, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
1860 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
1863 - Sir Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d. 1933)
1869 - James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)
1871 - Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
1879 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
1883 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
1886 - Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
1886 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
1892 - Ferde Grofé, American composer (d. 1972)
1893 - Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (d. 1947)
1897 - Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (d. 1958)
1899 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
1901 - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1901 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
1901 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
1901 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
1902 - Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
1905 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1906 - Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
1909 - Golo Mann, German historian (d. 1994)
1909 - Ben Webster, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1973)
1912 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
1913 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)
1914 - Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist
1914 - Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
1915 - Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (d. 2006)
1917 - Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002)
1920 - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
1921 - Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
1922 - Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1923 - Endo Shusaku, Japanese author (d. 1996)
1923 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet
1924 - Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
1931 - David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
1935 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (d. 1981)
1935 - Julian Glover, British actor
1935 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
1937 - Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
1939 - Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
1940 - Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
1940 - Austin Pendleton, American actor
1941 - Ivan Gašparovič, President of Slovakia
1942 - John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 - Michael York, English actor
1942 - Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
1943 - Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1944 - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
1946 - Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
1947 - Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
1947 - Brian Jones, British balloonist
1950 - Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
1950 - Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
1950 - Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1952 - Maria Schneider, French actress
1952 - Richard Séguin, Quebec singer and songwriter
1956 - Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross-country skier
1956 - Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong activist
1957 - Nick Hawkins, British politician
1957 - Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997)
1959 - Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
1960 - Hans Pflügler, German footballer
1961 - Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
1961 - Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
1962 - Jann Arden, Canadian musician
1963 - Charly Alberti, Argentinian musician
1963 - Randall Cunningham American football player
1963 - Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
1963 - Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
1964 - Glenn Carter, English actor and singer-songwriter
1966 - Paula Trickey, American actress
1967 - Talisa Soto, American actress
1967 - Paul Adams, American celebrity
1968 - Sandra Hess, Swiss-born actress and model
1969 - Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
1969 - Kevin Corrigan, American actor
1970 - Mariah Carey, American singer
1970 - Brent Fitz, Canadian Musician (Theory of a Deadman)
1970 - Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler)
1970 - Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
1970 - Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
1971 - Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
1971 - David Coulthard, Scottish Formula One driver
1971 - Thom Barron, German porn star
1972 - Charlie Haas, professional wrestler
1972 - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
1974 - Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)
1974 - Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
1975 - Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, American pop/R&B singer and member of The Black Eyed Peas
1976 - Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
1976 - Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
1977 - Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
1977 - Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
1977 - Violetta Blue, American porn star
1979 - Michael Cuddyer, Minnesota Twins baseball player
1981 - Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
1981 - Carey Davis, National Football League fullback
1981 - Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
1982 - Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty queen, first runner-up Miss Universe 2006
1985 - Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
1985 - Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
1985 - Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel
1986 - Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham, American professional wrestling valet
1987 - Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Brenda Song, American actress
1990 - Scott Selwood, Australian Rules Footballer, West Coast Eagles
1995 - Taylor Atelian, American actress
972 - King Robert II of France (d. 1031)

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Famous Births on 26 Mar

Famous Births on 26 Mar

1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
1554 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)
1698 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)
1749 - William Blount, American Statesman (d. 1800)
1753 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigation expert (d. 1838)
1794 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
1859 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936)
1859 - Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
1868 - King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
1871 - Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana‘ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
1874 - Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
1875 - Max Abraham, German physicist (d. 1922)
1875 - Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965)
1876 - Prince William of Wied (d. 1945)
1879 - Othmar Ammann, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1965)
1882 - Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940)
1884 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969)
1886 - Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)
1888 - Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)
1893 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964)
1894 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985)
1896 - Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)
1898 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979)
1904 - Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (d. 1986)
1904 - Joseph Campbell, American author (d. 1987)
1904 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
603 - Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Famous Births on 25 Mar

Famous Births on 25 Mar

1252 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268)
1259 - Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1332)
1297 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341)
1297 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364)
1345 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1369)
1347 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380)
1479 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1533)
1539 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)
1541 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
1593 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1643 - Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680)
1661 - Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
1699 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
1767 - Joachim Murat, King of Naples (d. 1815)
1782 - Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839)
1800 - Heinrich von Dechsen, German geologist (d. 1889)
1824 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
1840 - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune (d. 1876)
1863 - Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946)
1867 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, (d. 1957)
1868 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (d. 1932)
1873 - Rudolf Rocker, German anarchist (d. 1958)
1877 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
1881 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
1881 - Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927)
1884 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
1886 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1892 - Andy Clyde, American actor (d. 1967)
1895 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
1897 - John Laurie, Scottish actor (d. 1980)
1899 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
1901 - Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970)
1903 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
1903 - Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)
1906 - Jean Sablon, French singer (d. 1994)
1906 - A.J.P. Taylor, British historian (d. 1990)
1908 - Helmut Käutner, German actor and director (d. 1980)
1908 - David Lean, English film director (d. 1991)
1910 - Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
1911 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
1912 - Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971)
1913 - Sir Reo Stakis, Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate (d. 2001)
1914 - Norman Borlaug, American agricultural scientist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1918 - Howard Cosell, American sports reporter (d. 1995)
1920 - Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
1920 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
1921 - Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995)
1921 - Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
1921 - Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
1922 - Eileen Ford, American model agency executive
1923 - Bonnie Guitar, American singer
1925 - Flannery O'Connor, American author (d. 1964)
1926 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
1926 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (d. 1999)
1928 - Jim Lovell, American astronaut
1929 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
1931 - Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer
1932 - Gene Shalit, American film critic
1934 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (d. 1964)
1934 - Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher
1935 - Flash Elorde, Filipino boxer
1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
1938 - Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
1938 - Fritz d'Orey, Brazilian racing driver
1939 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author (d. 1995)
1940 - Anita Bryant, American singer
1941 - Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian politician
1942 - Kim Woodburn, English television personality
1942 - Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer
1942 - Aretha Franklin, American singer
1943 - Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
1946 - Cliff Balsam, English footballer
1946 - Stephen Hunter, American author
1946 - Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)
1946 - Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (d. 1995)
1947 - Elton John, English singer and songwriter
1948 - Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
1948 - Lynn Faulds Wood, Scottish television presenter
1950 - Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)
1952 - Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician
1954 - Elli Stai, Greek journalist and TV presenter
1954 - Thom Loverro, American sportswriter
1955 - Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur
1955 - Lee Mazzilli, American baseball player
1956 - Matthew Garber, English actor (d. 1977)
1957 - Jim Uhls, American screenwriter
1958 - Ã…sa Torstensson, Swedish politician
1958 - Ray Tanner, American college baseball coach
1958 - James McDaniel, American actor
1958 - Sisy Chen, Taiwanese politician and television commentator
1960 - Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress
1960 - Steve Norman, British saxophonist (Spandau Ballet)
1960 - Peter O'Brien, Australian actor
1960 - Haywood Nelson, American actor
1960 - Brenda Strong, American actress
1961 - Fred Goss, American actor, comedian, and writer
1962 - Marcia Cross, American actress
1964 - Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress
1964 - Alex Solis, Panamanian jockey
1964 - Ken Wregget, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
1965 - Avery Johnson, American basketball player and coach
1965 - Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper
1966 - Anton Rogan, Irish footballer
1966 - Tatjana Patitz, German supermodel
1966 - Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (d. 2008)
1966 - Tom Glavine, American baseball player
1967 - Matthew Barney, American media artist
1967 - Debi Thomas, American figure skater
1967 - Doug Stanhope, American comedian
1969 - Dale Davis, American basketball player
1969 - Cathy Dennis, English singer, songwriter, and actress
1970 - Kari Matchett, Canadian actress
1971 - Cammi Granato, American ice hockey player
1973 - Anthony Barness, English footballer
1973 - Anders Fridén, Swedish singer (In Flames)
1974 - Lark Voorhies, American actress
1975 - Ladislav Benysek, Czech ice hockey player
1975 - Melanie Blatt, British singer (All Saints)
1976 - Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer
1976 - Gigi Leung, Hong Kong singer/actress
1976 - Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1976 - Juvenile, American rapper
1976 - Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor
1976 - Francis Bellew, Irish Gaelic footballer
1979 - Lee Pace, American actor
1979 - Natasha Yi, American supermodel
1980 - Carrie Lam, Hong Kong actress
1980 - Joe King, Guitarist and Co-Founder for the band The Fray
1982 - Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer
1982 - Sergey Yakovlev, russian musical artist and painter
1982 - Sean Faris, American actor and model
1982 - Danica Patrick, American race car driver
1984 - Katharine McPhee, American singer/actress
1986 - Megan Gibson, American softball player
1987 - Jason Castro, American Idol contestant
1987 - Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
1989 - Alyson Michalka, American actress/singer
1989 - Scott Sinclair, English footballer

Monday, March 23, 2009

Famous Births on 24 Mar

Famous Births on 24 Mar

1494 - Georg Agricola, German scientist (d. 1555)
1607 - Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)
1628 - Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)
1657 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
1693 - John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)
1725 - Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
1725 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
1782 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
1796 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
1808 - Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836)
1809 - Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (d. 1837)
1809 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)
1820 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1820 - Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915)
1828 - Horace Gray, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1902)
1829 - George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
1829 - Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
1830 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889)
1834 - William Morris, English writer and designer (d. 1896)
1834 - John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist (d. 1902)
1835 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist (d. 1893)
1848 - Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906)
1850 - Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
1855 - Andrew Mellon, American financier (d. 1937)
1855 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (d. 1920)
1874 - Harry Houdini, (Weisz Erik), Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
1884 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
1886 - Athenagoras I, Greek Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1886 - Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
1887 - Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)
1888 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
1889 - Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
1891 - Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
1893 - Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
1893 - George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1897 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-born psychotherapist (d. 1957)
1901 - Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
1902 - Thomas Dewey, American politician (d. 1971)
1903 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
1903 - Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar (d. 1990)
1905 - Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007)
1906 - Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
1907 - Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
1909 - Clyde Barrow, American crime figure (d. 1934)
1910 - Richard Conte, American actor (d. 1975)
1911 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1915 - Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
1916 - Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006)
1917 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1917 - Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007)
1919 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005
1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher
1920 - Gene Nelson, American actor (d. 1996)
1921 - Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player
1922 - Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)
1923 - Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
1924 - Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
1925 - Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994)
1926 - Dario Fo, Italian writer, Nobel laureate
1927 - Martin Walser, German author
1928 - Byron Janis, American pianist
1930 - David Dacko, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
1930 - Agustín González, Spanish actor (d. 2005)
1930 - Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
1934 - William Smith, American actor
1935 - Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
1936 - David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
1937 - Billy Stewart, American singer (d. 1970)
1938 - David Irving, British historian
1938 - Holger Czukay, German musician (Can)
1940 - Bob Mackie, American fashion designer
1940 - Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1944 - R. Lee Ermey, American actor
1944 - Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister
1945 - Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
1945 - Curtis Hanson, American film director
1946 - Klaus Dinger, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk)
1947 - Alan Sugar, English businessman
1947 - Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
1947 - Christine Gregoire, American politician, current governor of Washington
1949 - Nick Lowe, British musician
1951 - Pat Bradley, American golfer
1951 - Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
1951 - Dougie Thomson, British bassist (Supertramp)
1954 - Robert Carradine, American actor
1954 - Donna Pescow, American actress
1955 - Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and cross-country skier
1958 - Mike Woodson, American basketball player and head coach
1960 - Kelly LeBrock, American actress
1960 - Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler
1960 - Nena, German pop singer
1960 - Scott Pruett, American race car driver
1961 - Dean Jones, Australian cricketer
1962 - Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
1962 - Star Jones Reynolds, American television personality
1964 - Annabella Sciorra, American actress
1965 - Peter Jacobson, American actor
1965 - Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor
1965 - The Undertaker, American professional wrestler
1969 - Houston, American pornographic actress
1970 - Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian football player
1970 - Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
1970 - Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
1971 - Megyn Price, American actress
1972 - Steve Karsay, American baseball player
1973 - Jacek BÄ…k, Polish footballer
1973 - Steve Corica, Australian soccer player
1974 - Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot)
1974 - Alyson Hannigan, American actress
1975 - Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer, actress and diva
1975 - Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1976 - Aaron Brooks, American football player
1976 - Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer
1976 - Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
1976 - Peyton Manning, American football player
1977 - Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1977 - Corneille, Canadian-Rwandan singer
1978 - Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer
1979 - Graeme Swann, English cricketer
1979 - Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete
1979 - Norris Hopper, American baseball player
1979 - Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
1979 - Lake Bell, American actress
1980 - Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
1981 - Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
1982 - Corey Hart, American baseball player
1982 - Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
1982 - Nivea, American singer
1983 - T. J. Ford, American basketball player
1984 - Chris Bosh, American basketball player
1985 - Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
1986 - Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver
1986 - Anthony McMahon, English footballer
1988 - Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
1990 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress
1992 - Thomas Law, English actor

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Famous Births on 23 Mar

Famous Births on 23 Mar

1429 - Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)
1638 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1731)
1645 - William Kidd, Pirate Legend From Scotland (d. 1701)
1699 - John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777)
1723 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)
1732 - Marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800)
1749 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
1754 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)
1769 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)
1769 - William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (d. 1839)
1823 - Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
1826 - Léon Minkus, German/Czech composer and violinist (d. 1917)
1831 - Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
1834 - Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858)
1858 - Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941)
1862 - Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d.1950)
1868 - Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d. 1923)
1878 - Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (d. 1934)
1880 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (d. 1922)
1881 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1958)
1881 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1882 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1887 - Juan Gris, Spanish artist (d. 1927)
1887 - Josef ÄŒapek, Czech writer (d. 1945)
1887 - Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
1893 - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960)
1895 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
1899 - Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
1900 - Erich Fromm, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1980)
1904 - H. Beam Piper, American science fiction author (d. 1964)
1905 - Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
1905 - Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
1907 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
1912 - Wernher von Braun, German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
1915 - Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II hero (d. 1991)
1919 - Carl Graffunder, mid-century modernist architect
1920 - Neal Smith, former United States Congressman
1920 - Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
1921 - Donald Campbell, British car and motorboat racer (d. 1967)
1922 - Marty Allen, American comedian and actor
1922 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1924 - Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (d. 1980)
1925 - David Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008)
1929 - Sir Roger Bannister, English runner
1931 - Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005)
1931 - Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player
1932 - Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment
1934 - Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician
1934 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
1934 - Mark Rydell, American film and television director
1937 - Robert Gallo, American physician
1937 - Craig Breedlove, American land speed record holder
1938 - Maynard Jackson, first black mayor of Atlanta (d. 2003)
1938 - Dave Pike, American jazz musician
1939 - Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer
1941 - Jim Trelease, American educator and children's literature author
1942 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)
1943 - Lee May, former Major League Baseball player
1943 - Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (d. 2001)
1944 - Tony McPhee, English singer and guitarist (The Groundhogs)
1944 - Michael Nyman, British minimalist composer
1945 - Franco Battiato, Italian singer, songwriter and filmmaker
1945 - David Grisman, American bluegrass musician
1948 - David Olney, American musician
1949 - Ric Ocasek, American musician (The Cars)
1950 - Anthony De Longis, American actor
1950 - Corinne Clery, French actress
1951 - Ron Jaworski, American football player and analyst
1952 - Kim Stanley Robinson, American author
1953 - Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)
1953 - Chaka Khan, American singer
1954 - Geno Auriemma, American basketball coach
1955 - Moses Malone, American basketball player
1955 - Petrea Burchard, American actress
1956 - José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician, president of the European Commission
1957 - Robbie James, Welsh footballer (d. 1998)
1957 - Amanda Plummer, American actress
1958 - Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist
1958 - El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (d. 1997)
1959 - Catherine Keener, American actress
1959 - Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (d. 1997)
1959 - Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005)
1960 - Nicol Stephen, Deputy First Minister of Scotland
1961 - Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster
1962 - Steve Redgrave, British rower, 5 Olympic Gold Medals
1963 - Míchel (José Miguel González Martín), Spanish footballer
1964 - Hope Davis, American actress
1964 - John Pinette, American comedian
1965 - Sarah Buxton, American actress
1965 - Richard Grieco, American actor and singer
1965 - Marti Pellow, Scottish singer
1965 - Gary Whitehead, American poet
1967 - David Ford, Canadian kayaker
1968 - Michael Atherton, English cricketer
1968 - Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer
1968 - Mitch Cullin, American novelist
1968 - Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur and Gorillaz)
1971 - Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian supermodel
1971 - Karen McDougal, American model
1971 - Gail Porter, British television presenter
1971 - Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player
1971 - Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Japanese professional wrestler
1972 - Judith Godrèche, French actress and author
1972 - Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer
1973 - Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer
1973 - Wim Eyckmans, Belgian racing driver
1973 - Jason Kidd, American basketball player
1975 - Alydar, American racehorse (d. 1990)
1976 - Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian racing car driver
1976 - Jayson Blair, American journalist and author
1976 - Keri Russell, American actress
1976 - Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player
1976 - Jeremy Newberry, American football player
1976 - Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle trials rider
1976 - Michelle Monaghan, American actress
1977 - Jean Carlos Gamarra, Peruvian taekwondo practitioner
1978 - Walter Samuel, Argentine footballer
1978 - Nicholle Tom, American actress
1978 - Perez Hilton, American television personality and blogger
1979 - Natalya Baranovskaya, Olympic swimmer
1979 - Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish International rugby player
1979 - Misty Hyman, American swimmer
1979 - Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
1979 - Mark Buehrle, American baseball player
1980 - Russell Howard, British Comedian
1981 - Luciana Carro, Canadian actress
1981 - Erin Crocker, American NASCAR driver
1981 - Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player
1982 - José Raúl Contreras, Chilean footballer
1983 - Jerome Thomas, English footballer
1985 - Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player
1986 - Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
1986 - Steven Strait, American actor
1990 - Princess Eugenie of York
1995 - Jan Lisiecki, Canadian Pianist
1999 - Prince Beltran of Bulgaria

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Famous Births on 22 Mar

Famous Births on 22 Mar

1212 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
1366 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
1459 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
1503 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)
1599 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d. 1641)
1609 - King John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
1663 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)
1712 - Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
1720 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
1723 - Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783)
1759 - Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
1797 - King Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888)
1812 - Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)
1817 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
1857 - Paul Doumer, French President (d. 1932)
1860 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
1866 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d. 1913)
1868 - Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1869 - Emilio Aguinaldo, 1st President of the Philippines Republic (d. 1964)
1878 - Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (d. 1919)
1880 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)
1887 - Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
1896 - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
1901 - Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
1907 - James Gavin, American general and ambassador (d. 1990)
1907 - Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
1908 - Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)
1908 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (d. 1991)
1909 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (d. 1983)
1910 - Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (d. 1979)
1912 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (d. 1985)
1912 - Karl Malden, American actor
1913 - Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
1913 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
1915 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d. 2005)
1917 - Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004)
1918 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (d. 1997)
1920 - Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (d. 2000)
1920 - Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981)
1921 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004)
1923 - Marcel Marceau, world renown French Mime (d. 2007)
1924 - Bill Wendell, American television announcer (d. 1999)
1924 - Allen Neuharth, American businessman
1928 - Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d. 2001)
1928 - E.D. Hirsch. American social commentator
1928 - Ed Macauley, American basketball player
1930 - Pat Robertson, American televangelist
1930 - Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
1930 - Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator
1931 - Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1931 - William Shatner, Canadian actor
1933 - May Britt, Swedish actress
1933 - Abolhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran
1934 - Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994)
1934 - Orrin Hatch, American politician
1935 - M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
1936 - Roger Whittaker, British singer
1936 - Ron Carey, American labor leader
1937 - Angelo Badalamenti, American composer
1937 - Armin Hary, German athlete
1940 - Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996)
1941 - Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
1941 - Billy Collins, American poet
1941 - Jeremy Clyde, British actor and musician (Chad and Jeremy)
1942 - Bernd Herzsprung, German actor
1942 - Dick Pound, Canadian chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency
1943 - George Benson, American musician
1943 - Keith Relf, English musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976)
1946 - Rudy Rucker, American author
1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, English theatre composer
1949 - Fanny Ardant, French actress
1950 - Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player
1952 - Bob Costas, American sports commentator
1952 - Jay Dee Daugherty, American drummer
1955 - Valdis Zatlers, 7th President of Latvia
1955 - Pete Sessions, American politician
1955 - Lena Olin, Swedish actress
1956 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (d. 2003)
1957 - Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer
1958 - Laurie David, American political activist
1958 - Pete Wylie, British singer/songwriter
1959 - Carlton Cuse, Mexican-born American TV writer and executive
1959 - Matthew Modine, American actor
1965 - John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
1965 - Emma Wray, English actress
1966 - Artis Pabriks, Latvian politician
1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
1968 - Euronymous, Norwegian black metal musician (d. 1993)
1970 - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
1971 - Will Yun Lee, American actor
1972 - Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
1972 - Shawn Bradley, American basketball player
1972 - Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1973 - Beverley Knight, English singer
1973 - Joe Nedney, American football player
1974 - Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
1974 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player
1974 - Kidada Jones, American actress
1975 - Jiří Novák, Czech tennis player
1975 - Cole Hauser, American actor
1976 - Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress
1977 - Joey Porter, American football player
1978 - Tom Poti, professional hockey player
1979 - Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Aaron North, American musician
1980 - Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane)
1980 - Pamela O'Connor, Scottish ice dancer
1981 - Victoria Lanz, Venezuelan porn star
1981 - MIMS, American rapper
1985 - Mike Jenkins, American football player
1988 - Tania Raymonde, American actress
1992 - Luke Freeman, English footballer
1993 - Mick Hazen , American actor
841 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (d. 885)

Friday, March 20, 2009

Famous Births on 21 Mar

Famous Births on 21 Mar

1521 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d. 1553)
1527 - Hermann Finck, German composer (d. 1558)
1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
1713 - Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
1763 - Jean Paul, German writer (d. 1825)
1768 - Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (d. 1830)
1801 - Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855)
1806 - Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman and national hero (d. 1872)
1811 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)
1835 - Thomas Hayward, English cricketer (d. 18976)
1839 - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (d. 1881)
1854 - Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1924)
1863 - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp(d.1934)
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theater producer (d. 1932)
1876 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)
1880 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
1885 - Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (d. 1952)
1895 - Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
1901 - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
1902 - Son House, American musician (d. 1988)
1904 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
1904 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (d. 1949)
1906 - Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
1910 - M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
1913 - Heinz "Pritzl" Bär, German fighter pilot (d. 1957)
1913 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
1914 - Paul Tortelier, French cellist (d. 1990)
1920 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (d. 1975)
1920 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (d. 1970)
1921 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
1922 - Russ Meyer, American film director and producer (d. 2004)
1923 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Founder of Sahaja Yogav
1923 - Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998)
1925 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (d. 1964)
1925 - Peter Brook, British film director and producer
1927 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
1929 - Maurice Catarcio, wrestler
1930 - James Coco, actor (d. 1987)
1932 - Joseph Silverstein, American violinist and conductor
1932 - Walter Gilbert, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Michael Heseltine, English politician
1934 - Al Freeman, Jr., American actor
1935 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (d. 2004)
1936 - Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
1936 - Mike Westbrook, British jazz composer, bandleader and pianist
1940 - Solomon Burke, American singer
1942 - Françoise Dorléac, French actress (d. 1967)
1943 - Vivian Stanshall, English musician, artist, actor, writer, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (d. 1995)
1943 - István Gyulai, Hungarian General Secretary of the IAAF (d. 2006)
1943 - Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor
1944 - Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress
1945 - Rose Stone, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
1946 - Timothy Dalton, British actor
1949 - Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic
1949 - Eddie Money, American musician
1950 - Roger Hodgson, English musician, former member of Supertramp
1951 - Russell Thompkins Jr, American singer (The Stylistics)
1956 - Ingrid Kristiansen, Norwegian runner
1956 - Guy Chadwick, English guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (The House of Love)
1958 - Sabrina Le Beauf, American actress
1958 - Gary Oldman, English actor
1959 - Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer
1959 - Sarah Jane Morris, English Singer
1960 - Robert Sweet, American drummer
1960 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver and three-time F1 World Champion (d. 1994)
1961 - Shawn Lane, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2003)
1961 - Lothar Matthäus, German footballer
1962 - Mark Waid, American comic book writer
1962 - Rosie O'Donnell, American comedian, actress, talk show host, and publisher
1962 - Kathy Greenwood, Canadian actress
1962 - Matthew Broderick, American actor
1963 - Shawon Dunston, baseball player
1963 - Ronald Koeman, Dutch footballer and football manager
1964 - Ahmed Radhi, Iraqi international football star
1964 - Jesper Skibby, Danish professional cyclist
1965 - Xavier Bertrand, French politician
1967 - Maxim Reality, British MC (The Prodigy)
1967 - Adrian Chiles, British television and radio presenter
1967 - Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Swedish musician (Ace of Base)
1968 - DJ Premier (Preemo), hip hop producer
1969 - Ali Daei, Iranian footballer
1972 - Chris Candido, professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1973 - Ananda Lewis, American model and television personality
1973 - Stuart Nethercott, English footballer
1973 - Jerry Supiran, American actor
1974 - Laura Allen, American actress
1974 - Jose Clayton, Tunisian footballer
1975 - Fabricio Oberto, Argentine basketball player
1975 - Justin Pierce, British actor (d. 2000)
1975 - Mark Williams, Welsh snooker player
1978 - Rani Mukherjee, Indian actress
1978 - Cristian Guzmán, baseball player
1978 - Charmaine Dragun, Australian news anchor (d.2007)
1978 - Kevin Federline, American dancer/hip hop artist
1980 - Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1980 - Ronaldinho Gaucho, Brazilian international footballer
1980 - Deryck Whibley, Canadian guitarist and singer (Sum41)
1982 - Colin Turkington, British racing driver
1982 - Aaron Hill, American baseball player
1985 - Adrian Peterson, American Football player
1988 - Lee Cattermole, English footballer
1990 - Mandy Capristo, German Singer (Monrose)
2004 - Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Famous Births on 20 Mar

Famous Births on 20 Mar

1469 - Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)
1477 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)
1502 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)
1644 - Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)
1725 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)
1735 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784)
1737 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809)
1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)
1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
1799 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)
1811 - Napoleon II of France, (d. 1832)
1823 - Ned Buntline, American publisher (d. 1886)
1828 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1906)
1831 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)
1834 - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (d. 1926)
1836 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (d. 1886)
1836 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (d. 1919)
1840 - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)
1856 - Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941)
1856 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (d. 1915)
1870 - Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)
1874 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)
1876 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927)
1879 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (d. 1960)
1882 - René Coty, French President (d.1962)
1890 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (d. 1957)
1890 - Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor (d. 1973)
1895 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
1897 - Ruby Muhammad, American matriarch of Black Islam
1903 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
1904 - B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1905 - Jean Galia, French rugby footballer (d. 1949)
1906 - Abraham Beame, American politician (d. 2001)
1906 - Ozzie Nelson, American bandleader and actor (d. 1975)
1908 - Michael Redgrave, English actor (d. 1985)
1911 - Alfonso García Robles, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1914 - Wendell Corey, American actor (d. 1968)
1915 - Rudolf Kirchschläger, President of Austria (d. 2000)
1915 - Sviatoslav Richter, Soviet pianist (d. 1997)
1916 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
1917 - Vera Lynn, English actress and singer
1918 - Marian McPartland, British jazz pianist
1918 - Donald Featherstone, British writer and wargamer
1918 - Jack Barry, American TV host (d. 1984)
1920 - Pamela Harriman, British-American diplomat (d. 1997)
1921 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973)
1922 - Larry Elgart, American saxophonist and bandleader
1922 - Ray Goulding, American comedian (d. 1990)
1922 - Carl Reiner, American film director
1923 - Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani Author, Journalist and Political Activist (d. 2006)
1924 - Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (d. 1998)
1925 - John Ehrlichman, American political figure (d. 1999)
1927 - John Joubert, South African-born British composer
1928 - Fred Rogers, American TV host (d. 2003)
1929 - Germán Robles, Spanish actor
1931 - Hal Linden, American actor
1933 - George Altman, American baseball player
1933 - Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
1934 - Willie Brown, American politician
1935 - Ted Bessell, American actor (d. 1996)
1936 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (d. 2004)
1936 - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Reggae artist
1937 - Jerry Reed, American singer and actor
1938 - Sergei Petrovich Novikov, Russian Mathematician, Fields Medalist
1939 - Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada
1941 - Pat Corrales, American baseball player
1943 - Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
1943 - Paul Junger Witt, American TV producer
1943 - Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist
1945 - Pat Riley, American basketball player and coach
1945 - Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author
1945 - Rick Berman, American TV and film producer
1945 - Henry Bartholomay, American fighter pilot
1947 - John Boswell, American historian (d. 1994)
1948 - John de Lancie, American actor
1948 - Bobby Orr, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Marcia Ball, American singer and pianist
1950 - William Hurt, American actor
1950 - Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
1951 - Curt Smith, American author and media host
1951 - Jimmie Vaughan, American blues guitarist
1952 - Geoff Brabham, Australian racing driver
1954 - Mike Francesa, American sports talk show host
1954 - Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and politician
1957 - Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress
1957 - David Foster, Australian woodchopper
1957 - Spike Lee, American film director
1957 - Theresa Russell, American actress
1958 - Holly Hunter, American actress
1958 - Phil Anderson, Australian cyclist
1959 - Dave Beasant, English football goalkeeper
1959 - Steve McFadden, British actor
1959 - Sting, American professional wrestler
1961 - Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer
1961 - Slim Jim Phantom, American musician (Stray Cats)
1962 - Stephen Sommers, American film director
1963 - Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (d. 2007)
1963 - David Thewlis, British actor
1963 - Manabu Suzuki, Japanese racing driver and broadcaster
1963 - Paul Annacone, American tennis player
1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
1966 - Alka Yagnik, Indian singer
1967 - Mookie Blaylock, American basketball player
1969 - Mannie Fresh, American producer
1969 - Caroline Brunet, Quebec kayaker
1970 - Michael Rapaport, American actor
1971 - Touré, American writer
1971 - Manny Alexander, Dominican baseball player
1972 - Alexander Kapranos, Greek-British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1973 - Cedric Yarbrough, American actor
1973 - Christopher Heinz, American businessman; son of Teresa Heinz
1973 - Jane March, English actress
1973 - Jung Woo-sung, South Korean actor
1974 - Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
1974 - Paula Garces, Colombian actress
1976 - Chester Bennington, American musician (Linkin Park)
1979 - Molly Jenson, American musician
1979 - Bernard O'Connor, Gaelic Footballer
1979 - Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player
1979 - Bianca Lawson, American actress
1979 - Silvia Abascal, Spanish actress
1980 - Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
1980 - Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer
1982 - José Moreira, Portuguese footballer
1982 - Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer
1982 - Nick Wheeler, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
1982 - Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 - Marcus Vick, American football player
1984 - Valtteri Filppula, Finnish professional ice-hockey player
1984 - Winta, Norwegian musician
1984 - Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer
1984 - Christy Carlson Romano, American actress
1984 - Markus Niemelä, Finnish racing driver
1984 - Rami Malek, Egyptian-born actor
1984 - Justine Ezarik, American Internet personality
1987 - Jô, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian hockey player
1987 - Patrick Boyle, Scottish footballer
1987 - Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian football player
1987 - Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Rollo Weeks, English actor
1989 - Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer
43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Famous Births on 19 Mar

Famous Births on 19 Mar

1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
1488 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)
1534 - José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Brazil (d. 1597)
1590 - William Bradford, Pilgrim and First Governor of the Plymouth Colony (d. 1657)
1684 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (d. 1771)
1734 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
1739 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)
1742 - Tupac Amaru II, Incan revolutionary (d. 1781)
1749 - Princess Louisa Anne of Wales (d. 1768)
1778 - Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)
1813 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
1821 - Richard Francis Burton, British explorer, diplomat and author (d. 1890)
1823 - Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria d. 1914
1829 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)
1848 - Wyatt Earp, American policeman and gunfighter (d. 1929)
1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German World War I Admiral (d. 1930)
1851 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)
1860 - William Jennings Bryan, 41st United States Secretary of State (d. 1925)
1861 - Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (d. 1929)
1864 - Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926)
1865 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
1871 - Schofield Haigh, British cricketer (d. 1921)
1873 - Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)
1883 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (d. 1946)
1883 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1950)
1888 - Josef Albers, German artist (d. 1976)
1888 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
1891 - Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
1892 - James Van Fleet, American general (d. 1992)
1894 - Moms Mabley, American comedian (d. 1975)
1900 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1958)
1904 - John Sirica, American judge (d. 1992)
1905 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (d. 1981)
1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
1909 - Louis Hayward, British actor (d. 1985)
1909 - Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer (d. 1990)
1910 - Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (d. 1991)
1914 - Fred Clark, American film actor (d. 1968)
1914 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (d. 2002)
1914 - Leonidas Alaoglu, Greek-Canadian mathematician (d. 1981)
1915 - Robert G. Cole, American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (d. 1944)
1916 - Eric Christmas, British actor (d. 2000)
1916 - Irving Wallace, American novelist (d. 1990)
1917 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d. 1950)
1917 - Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
1920 - Tige Andrews, American actor (d. 2007)
1920 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)
1921 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)
1923 - Pamela Britton, American actress (d. 1974)
1923 - Henry Morgentaler, Canadian gynecologist
1924 - Mary Wimbush, British actress (d. 2005)
1925 - Brent Scowcroft, US National Security Advisor
1927 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1928 - Hans Küng, Swiss theologian
1928 - Patrick McGoohan, American-born actor
1930 - Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist
1932 - Gay Brewer, American golfer (d. 2007)
1933 - Philip Roth, American author
1933 - Renée Taylor, American actress
1936 - Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
1936 - Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
1937 - Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American musician
1937 - Egon Krenz, President of East Germany
1939 - Joe Kapp, American football player
1942 - Richard Dobson, American singer and songwriter
1943 - Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel laureate
1943 - Mario Monti, Italian politician
1943 - Vern Schuppan, Australian racing driver
1944 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
1945 - Stefanos Kiriakidis, Greek actor
1946 - Ruth Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
1946 - Bigas Luna, Spanish film director
1946 - Paul Atkinson, British musician (The Zombies) (d. 2004)
1947 - Glenn Close, American actress
1947 - Marinho Peres, Brazilian football player
1952 - Harvey Weinstein, American film producer
1952 - Warren Lees, New Zealand Test wicket-keeper
1953 - Billy Sheehan, American musician (Mr. Big)
1953 - Ricky Wilson, American musician (The B-52's) (d. 1985)
1954 - Indu Shahani, Indian educationist and Sheriff of Mumbai
1955 - Bruce Willis, American actor
1955 - Simon Yam, Hong Kong actor
1956 - Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician and economist.
1958 - Andy Reid, NFL Head Coach (Philadelphia Eagles).
1961 - Jos Lansink, Dutch-Belgian equestrian
1962 - Ivan Calderón, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2003)
1962 - Jim Korderas, American professional wrestling referee
1964 - Jake Weber, British actor
1964 - Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer
1966 - Andy Sinton, English footballer
1966 - James "Big Jim" Wright, American record producer
1967 - Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian ice hockey player
1968 - Mots'eoa Senyane, Lesotho diplomat
1969 - Gary Jules, American singer and songwriter
1969 - Connor Trinneer, American actor
1971 - Sébastien Godefroid, Belgian sailor
1971 - Nadja Auermann, German supermodel
1973 - Simmone Jade Mackinnon, Australian actress
1973 - Bun B, American Rapper (UGK)
1974 - Vida Guerra, Cuban-American swimsuit model
1975 - Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
1975 - Brann Dailor, American drummer
1975 - Matthew Richardson, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer
1976 - Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
1976 - Andre Miller, American basketball player
1976 - Zach Lind - American drummer (Jimmy Eat World)
1977 - Jorma Taccone, American writer and comedian
1979 - Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player
1979 - Christos Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer
1979 - Ivan Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player
1979 - Hee-Seop Choi, Korean baseball player
1980 - Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer
1980 - Don Sparrow, Canadian illustrator
1981 - Kim Rae Won, South Korean actor and model
1981 - Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer
1982 - Jonathan Fanene, American football player
1982 - Matt Littler, British actor
1982 - Brad Jones, Australian footballer
1983 - Ana Rezende, Brazilian film director and musician (CSS)
1983 - Matt Sydal, American professional wrestler
1984 - Tanushree Dutta, Indian actress
1985 - Ernesto Viso, Venezuelan racing driver
1987 - Michal Å vec, Czech football player
1993 - Munro Chambers, Canadian Actor
1999 - Tatum McCann, American actress
2007 - Prince Abdullah bin Ali, Prince of Jordan

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Famous Births on 18 Mar

Famous Births on 18 Mar

1395 - John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)
1496 - Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)
1555 - François, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584)
1590 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
1602 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)
1603 - Simon Bradstreet, Massachusetts Bay colonist (d. 1693)
1634 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (d. 1693)
1640 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
1657 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (d. 1743)
1679 - Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1759)
1685 - Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
1690 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (d. 1764)
1701 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d. 1776)
1780 - Milos Obrenovic, Leader of The Second Serbian Uprising and Prince of Serbia (d. 1860)
1782 - John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
1813 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (d. 1864)
1823 - Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (d. 1883)
1828 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)
1837 - Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908)
1840 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
1842 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908)
1848 - Nathanael Herreshoff, American naval architect (d. 1938)
1848 - Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1939)
1858 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)
1869 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
1872 - Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918)
1874 - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
1877 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)
1877 - Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (d. 1945)
1882 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (d. 1973)
1886 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)
1893 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962)
1893 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
1893 - Wilfred Owen, British poet (d. 1918)
1898 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1960)
1901 - William H. Johnson, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance (d. 1970)
1904 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (d. 1926)
1905 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985)
1905 - Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958)
1907 - John Zachary Young, British biologist (d. 1997)
1909 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007)
1910 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (d. 1988)
1911 - Smiley Burnette, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1913 - Reinhard Hardegen, German U-Boat commander
1913 - Werner Mölders, German WWII fighter pilot (d. 1941)
1913 - René Clément, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1915 - Richard Condon, American novelist (d. 1996)
1917 - Frederika of Hanover, queen of the Hellenes (d. 1981)
1918 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
1918 - Al Benton, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1919 - Christopher Challis, British cinematographer
1920 - Jack Warden, American actor (d.2006)
1922 - Egon Bahr, German politician
1922 - Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights movement leader
1923 - Andy Granatelli, American motorsports entrepreneur
1926 - Peter Graves, American actor
1926 - Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1927 - John Kander, American songwriter
1927 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (d. 2003)
1928 - Fidel V. Ramos, President of the Philippines
1928 - Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist
1928 - Julia Mullock, Princess of Korea
1929 - John Macurdy, American bass
1930 - Pat Halcox, British musician
1931 - John Fraser, Scottish-born stage, film and television actor
1931 - John Mollo, British costume designer
1932 - John Updike, American author
1934 - Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
1935 - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician
1936 - Frederik Willem de Klerk, President of South Africa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1937 - Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975)
1937 - Rudi Altig, German cyclist
1938 - Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver
1938 - Shashi Kapoor, Indian Actor
1938 - Charley Pride, American musician
1939 - Ron Atkinson, English former footballer and manager
1939 - Giannis Markopoulos, Greek composer
1939 - Kenny Lynch, British entertainer
1941 - Wilson Pickett, American singer (d. 2006)
1941 - John W. Derr, American politician
1942 - Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (d. 1991)
1943 - Kevin Dobson, American actor
1943 - Toula Grivas, Greek actress
1944 - Dick Smith, Australian Adventurer and Businessman
1944 - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader and politician
1945 - Michael Reagan, American radio host and adopted son of Ronald Reagan
1945 - Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
1945 - Joy Fielding, Canadian novelist and actress
1946 - Martyn Griffiths, British racing driver
1946 - Michel Leclère, French racing driver
1947 - Heather Ryan, American model and former Playmate of the Month
1947 - Roger Kenneth Evans, English politician
1947 - Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
1947 - Patrick Chesnais, French actor
1947 - B.J. Wilson, English drummer (d. 1990)
1948 - Guy Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
1948 - Lockwood Phillips, American radio host
1948 - Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer
1949 - Hannu Siitonen, Finnish athlete
1949 - Ã…se Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician
1949 - Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player
1950 - John Hartman, American drummer (Doobie Brothers
1950 - Larry Perkins, Australian racing driver
1950 - Eiji Okuda, Japanese actor and film director
1950 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (d. 1997)
1950 - Richard Kretchmer, English artist and historian
1950 - Brad Dourif, American actor
1951 - Bill Frisell, American jazz musician
1951 - Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1952 - Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
1955 - Francis G. Slay, Mayor of St. Louis, Mo.
1956 - Deborah Jeane Palfrey
1956 - Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish skier
1957 - György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgép)
1957 - Christer Fuglesang, Swedish ESA astronaut
1959 - Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director
1959 - Irene Cara, American actress and singer
1960 - James MacPherson, Scottish actor
1960 - Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1960 - Richard Biggs, American actor (d. 2004)
1962 - Brian Fisher, American baseball player
1962 - Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor
1962 - Mike Rowe, American television personality
1962 - James McMurtry, American folk singer/songwriter
1962 - Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
1963 - Jeff LaBar, American guitarist
1963 - Vanessa L. Williams, American beauty queen, actress, and singer
1963 - Keith Brown, English cricketer
1964 - Paul Elliott, English footballer
1964 - Alex Caffi, Italian racecar driver
1964 - Rozalla, Zambian singer
1964 - Courtney Pine, British jazz saxophonist
1964 - Bonnie Blair, American speed skater
1965 - Yoriko Douguchi, Japanese actress
1965 - Birgit Clarius, German heptathlete
1966 - Daniel S. Nevins, American rabbi
1966 - Jerry Cantrell, American musician
1967 - Miki Berenyi, English singer (Lush)
1967 - Ken Edenfield, American basenall player
1968 - Paul Marsden, British politician
1968 - Eudes, duc d'Angoulême, French prince
1968 - Shinichiro Miki, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1969 - Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player
1969 - Shaun Udal, English cricketer
1969 - Andy Cutting, English folk musician and composer
1970 - Queen Latifah, American singer and actress
1972 - Nathan Quarry, American mixed martial arts fighter
1972 - Anja Möllenbeck, German discus thrower
1972 - Dane Cook, American comedian and actor
1973 - Max Barry, Australian author
1973 - Luci Christian, American voice actress
1974 - Laure Savasta, French basketball player
1975 - Rodleen Getsic, American musician, civil servant
1975 - Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer
1975 - Tomas Žvirgždauskas, Lithuanian footballer
1975 - Brian Griese, American football player
1976 - Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress
1976 - Michael Spillane, American wrestler, better known as Mike Quackenbush
1976 - Scott Podsednik, American baseball player
1976 - Tomokazu Ohka, Japanese baseball player
1976 - Jovan Kirovski, American soccer player
1977 - Fernando Rodney, Dominican baseball player
1977 - Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player
1977 - Willy Sagnol, French footballer
1977 - Devin Lima, American singer
1977 - Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player
1977 - Danny Murphy, English footballer
1978 - Khalilah Adams, American actress
1978 - Yoshie Takeshita, Japanese volleyball player
1978 - Jan Bulis, Czech ice hockey player
1978 - Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer
1979 - Anthony Maher, American soccer player
1979 - Dramane Coulibaly, Malian footballer
1979 - Danneel Harris, American actress
1979 - Brandon Lee, American adult actor
1979 - Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
1980 - Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
1980 - Sophia Myles, English actress
1980 - Sebastien Frey, French footballer
1981 - Kasib Powell, American basketball player
1981 - Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete
1981 - Jang Nara, Korean singer and actress
1982 - Chad Cordero, American baseball player
1982 - Timo Glock German Formula 1 driver
1982 - Pedro Mantorras, Angolan footballer
1983 - Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer
1983 - Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player
1984 - Vonzell Solomon, American Idol Contestant
1985 - Vince Lia, Australian Footballer
1985 - Gennaro Esposito, Italian footballer
1986 - Kaloyan Ivanov, Bulgarian basketball player
1986 - Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani, Algerian footballer
1986 - Bia Figueiredo, Brazilian racing driver
1987 - Mauro Zárate, Argentinian Footballer
1987 - Gabriel Mercado, Argentinian Footballer
1987 - Cesare Rickler, Italian footballer
1996 - Madeline Carroll, American actress