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All born on August 1:
10 BC - Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
1779 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
1819 - Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
1933 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer
1942 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
1950 - Jim Carroll, American poet and actor
1951 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist
1953 - Robert Cray, American singer
1958 - Robert Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
1959 - Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
1960 - Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
1960 - Richard Roeper, American newspaper columnist and film critic
1963 - Coolio, American rapper
1964 - Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
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November 20th:
* 270 - Maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)
* 1761 - Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
* 1889 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)
* 1925 - Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968)
* 1946 - Duane Allman, American guitarist. (Allman Brothers) (d. 1971)
* 1947 - Joe Walsh, American musician
* 1964 - Muhammed Ali, American Boxer formerly known as Cassius Marcellus Clay
* 1965 - Mike D, American musician (Beastie Boys)
* 1975 - Davey Havok, singer (AFI)
Cool Events: Diocletian became Roman Emperor, Andy Kaufman was forever voted off Saturday Night Live by a live phone poll, Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released, Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation.
I'm fucking cool.
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1984 - The Antichrist.
My birthday is the Epiphany to Roman Catholics, the Theophany to the Byzantine Catholics and East Orthadox, Nollaig na MBain to the Irish Catholics, Christmas to the Caucasian Christians, and Zvaigznes Diena to the Latvian pagans. The Hieromartyr Romanus, beheaded by the Turk, doth arise with vengeance in his heart.
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June 23. Just the ones I find interesting...
1894 - Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist
1929 - June Carter Cash, American singer
1955 - Glenn Danzig, American musician
1964 - Joss Whedon, American producer, director, and screenwriter
1972 - Selma Blair, American actress
1972 - Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
1977 - Jason Mraz, American singer and songwriter
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June 11
1933 - Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka, Young Frankenstein)
1956 - Joe Montana (Football [American])
1959 - Hugh Laurie (Yes, House himself)
1965 - Joey Santiago (guitarist)
1964 - World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
1982 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (release)
Awesome.
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Gene Wilder is a Gemini! yesss! *dances*
because, I am, too... & I love him & I feel it would be marvellous if we had even the most trifling thing in common -would it were talent.
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Uh, Dimebag Darrell was born on my birthday. Excuse me while I take my place as winner of this thread.
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October 25th
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
1957 - Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
1962 - Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
YES YES YES YES!!!!! I have know about Picasso since forever, but Chad Smith and Nacy Cartwright = awesome.
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22 February:
1040 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (d. 1105)
1403 - Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
1440 - Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1457)
1500 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
1612 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
1705 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
1714 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
1732 - George Washington, 1st President of the United States. (d. 1799)
1778 - Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)
1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
1796 - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1838)
1796 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
1806 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1819 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
1825 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)
1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
1840 - August Bebel, German politician (d. 1913)
1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Boy Scouts (d. 1941)
1857 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
1874 - Bill Klem, Major League Baseball Hall of Fame umpire (d. 1951)
1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
1880 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
1882 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
1883 - Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (d. 1940)
1886 - Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)
1887 - Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
1888 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (d. 1961)
1889 - Olave Baden-Powell, English Chief Girl Guide (d. 1977)
1891 - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)
1897 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
1899 - Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943)
1899 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
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1899 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
1900 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983)
1902 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)
1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
1907 - Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
1907 - Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
1908 - Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
1911 - Bill Baker, baseball player (d. 2006)
1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
1918 - Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1918 - Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer
1918 - Robert Wadlow, tallest person in history (d. 1940)
1921 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
1921 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1921 - Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
1925 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1926 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
1926 - Bud Yorkin, American film director
1928 - Paul Dooley, American actor
1928 - Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer
1929 - James Hong, Chinese American actor
1929 - Rebecca Schull, American actress
1930 - Marni Nixon, American singer
1932 - Ted Kennedy, U.S. senator from Massachusetts
1933 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent
1934 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager
1936 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1938 - Ishmael Reed, American writer
1940 - Johnson Mlambo, South African politician
1941 - Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic
1942 - Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
1944 - Jonathan Demme, American director
1944 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer
1944 - Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
