Saturday, May 21, 2011

Famous Birth On Mar 7

By Tracy Rocelyn


1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)

1914 - Morton DaCosta, Phila, director (Island of Love, Music Man)

1556 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)

1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)

1678 - Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736)

1687 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)

1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)1958 - Alan Hale, American astronomer

1959 - Thomas Edward Lehman, Austin MN, PGA golfer (1994 Memorial Tournament)

1919 - Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian writer (Twilight in Djakarta)

1920 - Willie Watson, cricketer (England batsman & soccer international)

1960 - Joe Carter, Oklahoma City OK, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)

1924 - Eduardo Paolozzi, British sculptor (Hydra)

1693 - Clement XIII, [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69)

1962 - Taylor Dayne, [Leslie Wunderman], NY, vocalist (I'll Always Love You)

1927 - James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)

1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)

1927 - Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotel owner and philanthropist

1930 - James Broderick, Charleston NH, actor (Brenner-Brenner, Doug-Family)

1963 - Denyce Graves, American singer

1931 - C W Stubblefield, music promoter

1964 - Jeff Criswell, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs)

1931 - Donald Barthelme, US, writer (Snow White)

1785 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)

1788 - Antoine Csar Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)

1965 - Jesper Bo Parnevik, Stockholm Sweden, PGA golfer (1995 Nestle-5th)

1965 - Steve Beuerlein, NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars, Car Panthers)

1965 - [Willie] Flipper Anderson, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)

1965 - Jack Armstrong, American baseball player

1811 - Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer

1937 - Don Bonker, (Rep-D-WA, 1975- )

1938 - Homero Blancas, Houston TX, PGA golfer (1972 Phoenix Open)

1966 - Joy Tanner, American actress

1938 - David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel laureate

1831 - John Bratton, [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brig Gen

1968 - Jeff Kent, Bellflower CA, infielder (NY Mets)

1940 - Daniel J Travanti, Kenosha Wisc, actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St Blues)

1940 - Harald Gerlach, writer

1940 - Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader (Glasnost Berlin)

1842 - Anne CAI van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist

1942 - Al[bert] Tanara, WLAF defensive coach (Amsterdam Admirals)

1942 - Michael Eisner, Mt Kisko NY, CEO (Walt Disney)

1969 - Sam Gash, NFL running back (New England Patriots)

1850 - Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921)

1969 - Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress and radio DJ

1970 - Jacquelyn Doucette, Miss Massachusetts USA (1996)

1942 - Charles R. Boutin, American politician

1970 - Kathy Gedney, Indianapolis Ind, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25th-1994)

1971 - Alison Herst, Toronto Ontario, kayaker (Olympics-5-92, 96)

1872 - Piet Mondriaan, Holland, abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)

1944 - Elton Gallegly, (Rep-R-California)

1972 - Andrew Finch, rower (Olympics-1996)

1972 - Marina Hatzakis, Australian rower (Olympics-96)

1944 - Stanley Schmidt, American editor

1945 - Arthur Lee, rocker (Vindicator)

1886 - Raymond Largay, Wisc, actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl)

1973 - Sbastien Izambard, operatic pop singer (Il Divo)

1974 - Joost Volmer, soccer player (FC Twente)

1947 - Donna Loren, Boston Mass, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo)

1947 - Lewis J Stadlen, Bkln NY, actor (John-Benson, Savages, Windy City)

1947 - Richard Lawson, actor (Eddie-O'Neills)

1975 - Andrey Savenkov, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)

1898 - Jan Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer

1947 - Helen Eadie, Scottish politician

1977 - Ludmila Richterova, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star (1995 Bournemouth)

1977 - Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer

1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norway, Olympic speed skater (4 gold, 2 silver)

1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, German governor (Bohemen/Moravia (Lidice))

1951 - Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power)

1904 - Willy Forst, Austria actor/director (Vienna Blood)

1952 - Lynn Swann, NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster

1952 - Vivian Richards, West Indian master blaster

1953 - Jules Shear, rock musician

1953 - Kathleen Sullivan, Pasadena Ca, newscaster (E!)

1954 - Matt Frenette, rock drummer (Loverboy)

1985 - Thomas Erak, American guitarist

1955 - Anupam Kher, Bollywood Actor

1989 - Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model

1990 - Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins

1992 - Bel Powley , English Actress

161 - Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

238 - Roman subjects in Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.

321 - Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.

1277 - Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.

1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

1814 - Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.

1827 - Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.

1827 - Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.

1850 - Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.

1862 - American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1886 - The City of Lbrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lbrea.

1900 - The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.

1902 - Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war

1912 - Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.

1914 - Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.

1936 - World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.

1945 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.

1950 - Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.

1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.

1965 - Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.

1968 - Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding M? Tho.

1985 - The song "We Are the World" has its international release.

1986 - Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.

1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.

1994 - Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.

2006 - The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.

2007 - The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

2009 - The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since The Troubles.

2009 - The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.




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