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Trivia

Birthdays in history

♥ 1902 - Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (d. 1972)
♥ 1903 - Árpád Élõ, Hungarian physicist (d. 1992)
♥ 1909 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
♥ 1909 - Michael Rennie, English actor (d. 1971)
♥ 1912 - Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994)
♥ 1913 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
♥ 1913 - Bob Crosby, American bandleader (d. 1993)
♥ 1913 - Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
♥ 1916 - Van Johnson, American actor
♥ 1916 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2003)
♥ 1917 - Mel Ferrer, American actor
♥ 1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
♥ 1918 - Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
♥ 1919 - George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
♥ 1921 - Monty Hall, Canadian-born game show host
♥ 1921 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (d. 1999)
♥ 1921 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
♥ 1927 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
♥ 1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
♥ 1928 - Darrell Johnson, baseball player (d. 2004)
♥ 1930 - Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor
♥ 1931 - Regis Philbin, American television host
♥ 1931 - Hal Fishman, American news anchor
♥ 1933 - Wayne Shorter, American musician
♥ 1933 - Tom Skerritt, American actor
♥ 1934 - Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician
♥ 1935 - Charles Wright, American poet
♥ 1938 - David Canary, American actor
♥ 1938 - Frederick Forsyth, English author
♥ 1939 - John Badham, American film director
♥ 1940 - José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
♥ 1944 - Anthony Heald, American actor
♥ 1944 - Conrad Black, newspaper magnate
♥ 1944 - Jacques Demers, National Hockey League coach
♥ 1946 - Rollie Fingers, baseball player
♥ 1947 - Anne Archer, American actress
♥ 1949 - Martin Amis, English novelist
♥ 1949 - John Savage, American actor
♥ 1949 - Gene Simmons, Israeli-born bassist and singer (KISS (band))
♥ 1951 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
♥ 1952 - Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (Buggles, Yes, Asia)
♥ 1954 - Elvis Costello, English musician
♥ 1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, producer, and screenwriter
♥ 1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer and actor
♥ 1962 - David Packer, American actor
♥ 1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
♥ 1964 - Blair Underwood, American actor
♥ 1965 - Mia Zapata, American punk rock singer (The Gits)
♥ 1966 - Albert Belle, Major League Baseball player
♥ 1967 - Jeff Tweedy, American alt-country singer (Wilco)
♥ 1968 - Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
♥ 1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian)
♥ 1968 - Rachael Ray, American cook and television host
♥ 1968 - Spider One, American singer and musician (Powerman 5000)
♥ 1969 - Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor
♥ 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
♥ 1971 - Mike Lockwood, Professional wrestler (d. 2003)
♥ 1972 - Marvin Harrison, American football player
♥ 1974 - Eric Millegan, American actor
♥ 1976 - Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
♥ 1978 - Franck Queudrue, French footballer
♥ 1978 - Kel Mitchell, American actor
♥ 1981 - Rachel Bilson, American actress
♥ 1987 - Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
♥ 1987 - James Wesolowski, Australian footballer

 

 

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