Sunday, April 15, 2018

Today's Famous Birthdays

Leonardo da Vinci

1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, scientist and visionary, born in Vinci, Florence, Italy (d. 1519)

Guru Nanak

1469 Guru Nanak, Founder of the religion of Sikhism and the 1st Sikh Guru, born in Rai-Bhoi-Di-Talwandi, Punjab, Pakistan (d. 1539)

Leonhard Euler

1707 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician(Euler's Constant), born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1783)

1710 William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)
1741 Charles Willson Peale, American painter remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution (George Washington), born in Chester, Province of Maryland (d. 1827)
1757 George Knowil Jackson, composer
1766 Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic
1772 Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
1786 Walter Channing, American physician who was the first to use anesthesia during childbirth, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1876)
1793 Friedrich Struve, German founded dynasty of astronomers
1794 Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
1800 James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic)
1809 Hermann Gunther Grassmann, mathematician
1812 Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter

1814 John Lothrop Motley, American historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep)
1820 Evander McNair, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1902)
1821 Emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), (d. 1894)
1822 Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana, American Major General (Union Army), born in Eastport, Maine (d. 1905)
1827 Julius Tausch, composer
1829 Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon
1832 Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
1837 Horace Porter, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), (d. 1921)
1841 Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)
1843 Carl Eilhardt, composer
1843 Henry James, American/British author (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians), (d. 1916)
1845 Dave Gregory, cricketer (Australia's 1st Test captain)
1850 John Munroe Longyear, American capitalist/bank president
1858 Anton G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch painter/lithographer/etcher
1858 Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social)
1861 Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)
1874 Johannes Stark, German physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)
1874 George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)
1875 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty)

James J. Jeffries

1875 James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer, born in Carroll, Ohio (d. 1953)

1878 Robert Walser, Swiss writer, born in Biel (d. 1956)
1879 Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980)
1882 Giovanni Amendola, Italian antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo)
1883 Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1885 Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)

1886 Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1888 Florence Bates, American actress (Moon & Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 1954)
1888 Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
1889 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union)
1889 Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
1891 Vaino Raitio, composer
1891 Wallace Reid, American actor, director and screenwriter referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover" (Every Inch a Man), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1923)
1892 Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983)
1892 Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)
1894 Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues (over 200 songs)

Nikita Khrushchev

1894 Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64), born in Kalinovka, Russia (d. 1971)

1895 Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
1895 Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Olympic bronze 1920)
1895 Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
1896 Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1897 Pedro Regas, Greek stage actor (Only Angels Have Wings, Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour), born in Goranoi, Greece (d. 1974)
1898 Marian Jordan, American actress, radio comedienne (Molly-Fibber McGee & Molly), born in Peoria, Illinois (d. 1961)
1898 Nini de Boel, Flemish operette singer (White Horse)
1901 Joe Davis, English snooker/billiards-world champ (1927-46)
1902 Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
1903 Erich Arendt, writer [or Apr 16]
1903 John Williams, British actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), born in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1983)
1904 Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (d. 1948)
1906 A J "Sandy" Bell, South African cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35)
1906 Susan Walker, vice CEO (WRVS)
1907 Gerald Abrahams, author (Teach Yourself Chess), born in Liverpool, England
1907 Nicholas Tinbergen, Neth/British biologist/zoologist (Nobel 1973)
1908 Eden Ahbez, American songwriter (Nature Boy), born in Brooklyn, New York (d.1995)

Lita Grey

1908 Lita Grey, American actress, born in Hollywood, California (d. 1995)

1910 Lord Grey of Naunton, chancellor (Ulster University)
1911 Jacob Fresco, Dutch architect (Antilles Brewery/Autonomy Monument)

Kim Il-sung

1912 Kim Il-sung, Founder, dictator and Supreme Leader of North-Korea (1948-94), born in Mangyongdae, Japanese Korea (d. 1994)

1912 Peter Menzies, CEO (British Electricity Council)
1914 John Gregory, English ballet dancer (Harlequin Ballet Company), born in Norwich (d. 1996)
1915 Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist
1915 Elizabeth Catlett, sculptor and print maker (Mother and Child), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2012)
1916 Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
1917 Hans Conried, American actor (Peter Pan, Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1982)
1917 Pietro Grossi, composer
1918 John Baragrey, American actor (Creeper, The Loves of Carmen), born in Haleyville, Alabama (d. 1975)
1919 Clive Beadon, British RAF Wing Commander and pilot (WWII), born in Conoor near Poona, India (d. 1996)
1919 Elizabeth Catelett, sculptor/lithographer
1919 Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer (Civil Prisoners)
1920 Richard von Weizsacker, German politician and 1st president of reunited Germany (1990-94), born in Stuttgart
1920 Thomas Szasz, psychiatrist (The Myth of Mental Illness, The Manufacture of Madness), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2012)
1921 Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
1921 Norman Ewart Thurston, musician
1922 Harold Washington, 1st African American mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87)
1922 Michael Ansara, American actor (Broken Arrow, Centennial), born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 2013)
1923 Douglas Wass, CEO (Equity & Law Life Assurance Company)
1924 John Grigg, British historian
1924 Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist (Academy of St Martin in the Fields), born in Lincoln (d. 2016)
1927 Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi
1927 Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
1928 Norma Merrick Sklarek, 1st African American woman architect in NY & Calif
1928 Richard Evans, British diplomat
1929 Adrian Cadbury, confectionery manufacturer (Cadbury) and author of report on Corporate Governance, (d. 2015)
1929 Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person (British Broadcast Standards)
1930 Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre (COSATU)
1930 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
1931 Kenneth Bloomfield, BBC governor (Ireland)
1931 Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet (Nobel Prize for Literature - 2011), born in Stockholm (d. 2015)
1932 David Bolton, director (British Royal United Service for Defense)
1932 Nikolai Stepanovich Porvatkin, Russian cosmonaut
1933 Boris Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian science fiction author (Tale of Troika)

Elizabeth Montgomery

1933 Elizabeth Montgomery, US actress(Samantha/Serena-Bewitched), born in Los Angeles, California

1933 Roy Clark, Meherrin, Virginia, US country singer (Hee Haw, The Tonight Show)
1935 Gene Cherico, American jazz bassist, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1996)
1936 Hector Quintanar, composer
1936 Jack Noreiga, cricketer (9-95 WI v India 1971)
1936 Maurice Shock, rector (Lincoln College in Oxford)
1936 Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist
1936 Pen Sovann, 1st post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian Prime Minister (1981), born in Takéo (d. 2016)
1937 Earl Russell, historian
1938 Carles Marsden, professor (neurology)
1938 Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician
1938 Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress (The Pink Panther)
1939 Marty Wilde, English singer-songwriter and father of rocker Kim Wilde, born in London, England
1940 Edy Hubacher, Swiss 4-man bobsled (Olympic gold 1972)
1940 Jeffrey Archer, England, (Tory-Commons)/author (Matter of Honor)
1940 Robert Walker Jr, American actor (Ceremony, Ms Don Juan, Ensign Pulver), born in NYC, New York
1940 Woodie Fryman, American baseball player
1940 Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics
1941 Roman Balayan, Ukrainian-Armenian director (Filer, Biryuk), born in Nerkin Horatagh, Nagorno-Karabakh AO, Azerbaijan
1941 Howard L Berman, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1942 Walter Raphael Hazzard, basketball (Olympic gold 1964), born in Wilmington, Delaware
1942 Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate
1942 Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
1943 Riem de Wolff, Indonesian/Dutch singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)

Robert Lefkowitz

1943 Robert Lefkowitz, American physician (Nobel Prize for Chemistry), born in NYC, New York

1943 Mighty Sam McClain, American soul and blues singer-songwriter, born in Monroe, Louisiana (d. 2015)
1944 Dave Edmunds, Wales, singer/guitarist (Rockpile-Baby I Love You)
1944 Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991), (d. 1996)
1944 Gerard Schoenaker, Dutch singer (Les Baroques)
1945 Jos van Rey, Dutch politician (VVD)
1946 Wayne Gilchrest, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1947 Bojoura, [Raina GB van Melzen], Dutch singer/wife of Hans Cleuver
1947 DeDe Lind, playmate (Aug, 1967), born in Los Angeles, California
1947 Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)
1947 Michael DeBello, singer (Maniac)
1947 Mike Chapman, Australian songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
1947 Wooly Wolstenholme, keyboardist/vocalist (Barclay James Harvest)
1947 Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician
1948 Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
1949 Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer
1949 Craig Zadan, American film producer
1950 Amy Wright, actress (Inside Moves, Accidental Tourist), born in Chicago, Illinois
1951 Hansel, Cuba, spanish personality
1951 Heloise II, columnist (Heloise's Helpful Hints)
1951 John L Phillips, Ft Belvoir Va, PhD/astronaut
1951 Marsha S Ivins, astronaut (STS 32, 46, 62, 81), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1952 Sam McMurray, actor (Tracey Ullman)
1952 Bengt Gingsjö, Swedish swimmer
1952 Kym Gyngell, Australian comedian
1952 Donald Harvey, American serial killer, healthcare worker who killed at least 37 patients, born in Hamilton, Ohio (d. 2017)
1954 Emmanuel, spanish singer, born in Mexico City, Mexico
1955 Barbara Barrow, LPGA golfer
1955 Enith Salle Brigitha, Neth, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympic bronze 1976)
1955 Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
1956 Gregory J Harbaugh, astronaut (STS 39, 54, 71, 82), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1956 Michael Cooper, NBA star (LA Lakers)
1957 Evelyn Ashford, 100m runner (Olympic 4 gold-1976, 84), born in Shreveport, Louisiana
1958 John Bracewell, NZ cricketer (premiere spinner of 80's)
1958 Matt Reid, rock keyboardist (Berlin-Takes Your Breathe Away)
1958 Dolores Gordon-Smith, British Writer
1958 Noni Ιoannidou, Greek fashion model and actress
1958 Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer

Emma Thompson

1959 Emma Thompson, British actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar 1992), born in London, England

1959 Kevin Lowe, Lachute, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1959 Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director
1959 Thomas F. Wilson, American actor
1960 Marvin Clyde Goodwin, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

Philippe of Belgium

1960 Philippe of Belgium, King of the Belgians (2013-), born in Brussels, Belgium

1960 Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist
1961 Lynne Austin, Plant City Fla, playmate (Jul, 1986)
1961 Tiina Lillak, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic silver 1984)
1962 Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer
1962 Nawal El Moutawakel, Morrocan hurdler
1962 Tom Kane, American voice actor
1963 Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler)
1963 Teresa Wentzel DeWitt, Ft Bragg NC, double trap (Olympics 1996)
1963 Bobby Pepper, American journalist
1964 Lydie Denier, St Nazaire France, actress (General Hospital)
1964 Nadeem Abbasi, cricketer (three Tests for Pakistan v India 1989)
1965 Anthony Miller, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys)
1965 Kevin Stevens, Brockton, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1965 Mark Dennis, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1965 Michele Redman, LPGA golfer (1995 Star Bank-3rd), born in Zanesville, Ohio
1965 Soichi Noguchi, astronaut, born in Yokohama, Japan
1965 Linda Perry, American singer-songwriter and producer (4 Non Blondes, What's Up), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
1966 Andrei Olhovskiy, tennis pro, born in Moscow, Russia
1966 Graeme Clark, bassist (Wet Wet Wet-Angel Eyes, Love is All Around)
1966 Samantha Karen Fox, East End singer (Touch Me), born in London, England
1967 Dara Torres, US Olympic swimmer (Olympic gold 1984), born in Beverly Hills, California
1967 Lance Zeno, NFL/WLAF corner (Rams, Scottish Claymores)
1967 Mark Mortimer, actor (Nick Hudson-Another World)
1967 Suzy Green, LPGA golfer (1995 Fieldcrest Cannon-26th), born in Detroit, Michigan
1967 Frankie Poullain, British musician (The Darkness)
1967 Alt, Brazilian comic creator
1968 Billy Brewer, pitcher (NY Yankees), born in Fort Worth, Texas
1968 Stacey Williams, model (SI Swimsuit 1996), born in Philadelphi, Pennsylvania
1968 Ed O'Brien, English musician and songwriter (Radiohead), born in Oxford
1969 Jeromy Burnitz, outfielder (Cleveland Indians), born in Westminster, California
1969 Michael Jones, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders, St Louis Rams)
1969 Phillippi Sparks, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1970 Darrin Smith, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 Flex Alexander, American actor
1971 Craig Whelihan, NFL quarterback (San Diego Chargers)
1971 Derek Brown, NFL running back (New Orleans Saints)
1971 Guivi Sissaouri, Canada freestyle wrestler (Olympic silver 1996), born in Tbilisi, Georgia
1971 Jason Sehorn, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Giants)
1971 Rich McKenzie, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns)
1971 Tim Tindale, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1971 Katy Hill, British television presenter
1972 Melvin Johnson, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 Peter Billingsley, American actor (Real People), born in NYC, New York
1972 Ricky Otero, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 Ronald Cherry, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 Vickie Johnson, WNBA guard/forward (NY Liberty)
1972 Lou Romano, American voice actor
1973 Jeremy Burkett, NFL/WLAF tight end (NY Giants, Barcelona Dragons)
1974 Marena Bencomo, Miss Universe-2nd place (Venezuela, 1997)
1974 Mike Quinn, quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 Sergei Krivokrasov, Angarsk Russia, NHL right wing (Blackhawks, Olympic silver 1998)
1974 Danny Pino, American actor
1974 Douglas Spain, American actor
1974 Josh Todd, American musician (Buckcherry)
1975 Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1976 Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 Susan Ward, American actress
1978 Austin Aries, American wrestler
1978 Milton Bradley, American baseball player
1978 Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
1978 Luis Fonsi [Luis López-Cepero] Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (Despacito), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
1978 Chris Stapleton, American country musician (The SteelDrivers, Traveller), born in Lexington, Kentucky
1980 Victor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer
1980 Natalie Casey, British actress
1980 James Foster, English cricketer
1980 Raúl López, Spanish basketball player
1980 Willie Mason, Australian Rugby League Player
1980 Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish cyclist
1981 Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player
1981 Seth Wulsin, American artist
1982 Mark Mizzark, [Marlis Pugh], rapper (Another Bad Creation), born in Akron, Ohio
1982 Albert Riera, Spanish footballer
1982 Anthony Green, American musician