Thursday, May 19, 2011

Celebrity Birth On March 14

By Tracy Rocelyn


1623 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer

1638 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)

1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer

1692 - Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist (Leyden jar)

1726 - Josef Antonin Stepan, composer

1727 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer

1957 - Tad Williams, American author

1915 - Kenneth Rowntree, painter

1916 - Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter

1795 - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer

1960 - George Horvath, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-1980)

1919 - Luther Henderson Jr, KC Mo, orch leader (Polly Bergen Show)

1919 - Max Shulman, novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap)

1961 - Grigoriy Kornev, Russian speed walker (world record 5 km)

1807 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)

1961 - Greg Anderson, American NHRA driver

1961 - Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress

1816 - Montgomery Dent Corse, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895

1820 - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78)

1821 - Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archaeologist

1822 - Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889)

1823 - Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887

1823 - Thodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)

1965 - Kevin Brown, Mcintyre GA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)

1927 - Joop F Wolff, Dutch editor (Truth)/Dutch politician (CPN)

1831 - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer

1929 - Thomas Bell Jr, race horse trainer

1965 - Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter

1966 - Darcy Wakaluk, Pincher Creek, NHL goalie (Dallas Stars)

1931 - Bob Goalby, golfer (British Open-1968, Canadian Open-1968, NZ-1970)

1837 - Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification)

1844 - King Umberto I, of Italy (1878-1900)

1967 - Melissa Brennan Reeves, Eatontown NJ, actress (Jen-Days of our Lives)

1967 - Vijay Yadav, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper between More & Mongia)

1933 - Ren Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council

1854 - Thomas Riley Marshall, (D) 28th VP (1913-21)

1934 - Shirley Scott, swing/blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine)

1969 - Laura Leighton, actress (Sydney-Melrose Place, Other Woman)

1935 - Jo van den Booren, composer

1936 - Bob Charles, Carterton NZ, PGA golfer (1963 Houston Open)

1970 - Thomas McLemore, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)

1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)

1873 - Johannes Aengenent, sociologist/bishop of Haarlem (1928-35)

1972 - Antowain Smith, running back (Buffalo Bills)

1874 - Mary Carr, Phila, actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles)

1875 - Isadore Gilbert Mudge, US, librarian/author (Thackeray Dictionary)

1875 - Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer

1940 - Eleanor Fount, English actress (Women in Love, Bedazzled)

1940 - Rita Tushingham, Liverpool England, actress (Green Eyes, Dr Zhivago)

1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, Emden Germany, actor (Shattered, Enemy Mine)

1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)

1975 - Wendy Rice, American actress

1942 - Rita Tushingham, British actress

1943 - Jim Pons, Santa Monica CA, bassist (Turtles-Happy Together)

1944 - Clyde Lee, NBAer

1978 - Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001)

1945 - Herman[us J] van Veen, Neth, cabaretier/singer/composer/writer

1979 - Chris Klein, American actor

1945 - Walt Parazaider, Chicago Ill, rock saxophonist (Chicago)

1946 - Jasper Carrott, English comedian (Jane & the Lost City, Detectives)

1979 - Sead Ramovic, German-born Bosnian footballer

1946 - Wes Unseld, NBA all-star (Baltimore Bullets, MVP 1969)

1947 - Billy Crystal, Long Beach NY, comedian (Soap, SNL, City Slickers)

1947 - Jan [AJ] te Veldhuis, Dutch MP (VVD)

1947 - Janis Schmitt, St Louis Mo, playmate (February, 1978)

1981 - Bobby Jenks, American baseball player

1899 - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992)

1947 - Pam Ayres, British poet

1982 - Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer

1982 - Franois Sterchele, Belgian footballer (d. 2008)

1983 - Jordan Taylor Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)

1951 - Rick Dees, radio disc jock (KIIS LA)

1951 - Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream

1952 - David Byrne, guitarist/vocalist (Talking Heads-Burning Down the House)

1952 - J Fred Muggs, chimp (Today show)

1909 - Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (Margin)

1911 - Pete Piute, [Morris Kaufman], NYC, comedian (Village Barn)

1912 - Les Brown, Reinerton Pa, orch leader (& his band of renown)

1986 - Andy Taylor, British/English footballer

1913 - Witold Rudzinski, composer

313 - Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).

1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.

1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.

1647 - Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.

1757 - Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.

1780 - American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.

1782 - Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.

1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

1885 - The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.

1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.

1903 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.

1910 - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.

1915 - World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.

1931 - Alam Ara, India's first talkie film, is released.

1939 - Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.

1942 - Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

1943 - World War II - The Krakw Ghetto is 'liquidated'.

1945 - World War II - The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.

1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.

1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.

1967 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

1972 - Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.

1978 - The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.

1979 - In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.

1980 - In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.

1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.

1994 - Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

1995 - Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.

2006 - Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'tat attempt.

2007 - The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.

2008 - A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.




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