Monday, May 16, 2011

Celebrity Birth On 6 March

By Tracy Rocelyn


1340 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)

1919 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)

1920 - Lewis Gilbert, London England, director/actor (You Only Live Twice)

1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (d. 1564)

1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540)

1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Ital attorney/president of Romagna

1921 - Ross Hunter, Cleve OH, producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk)

1923 - Ed McMahon, Detroit Mich, TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search)

1706 - George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)

1616 - Malachias Siebenhaar, composer

1724 - Henry Laurens, American merchant, slave trader, and political leader (d. 1792)

1663 - Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)

1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)

1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)

1710 - Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli, composer

1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)

1926 - Ann Curtis, 400m/800m US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1948)

1818 - William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)

1952 - Lyn Perrin, executive administrator (WIC)

1926 - Miroslav Klega, composer

1765 - Jan Kops, Dutch agronomist/vicar

1927 - Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, Shawnee Okla, USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5)

1785 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer

1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)

1928 - Ronald Stevenson, composer

1929 - David Sheppard, bishop (Liverpool)/cricketer (England batsman)

1929 - Hal Miller, British MP

1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking

1962 - Valerie French, American animatronics art director

1963 - Suzanne Crough, rocker (Partridge Family)

1963 - D.L. Hughley, American comedian and actor

1831 - Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission)

1831 - Philip Henry Sheridan, Albany NY, Major General (Union Army)

1834 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)

1933 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer

1933 - Heiko Wierenga, Dutch soc-dem mayor of Enschede (1977-94)

1843 - Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer

1844 - Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3/18)

1967 - Julio Bocca, Argentinean Ballet Dancer

1968 - Carla McGhee, Peoria Ill, US basketball forward (Olympics-gold-96)

1882 - Guy Kibbee, El Paso TX, actor (Big Shot)

1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete

1936 - A "Bram" Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA)

1887 - Henri Gagnon, composer

1936 - Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Wash DC, 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment

1969 - Andrea Elson, NYC, actress (Lynn-Alf, Alice-Whiz Kids)

1969 - Deems May, NFL tight end (SD Chargers)

1969 - Greg Scott, British TV personality

1970 - Amy Pietz, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Annie-Caroline In the City)

1938 - Lovelace Watkins, singer

1898 - Jimmy Conzelman, NFL QB/coach/team owner (Chicago)

1898 - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Mattheus Passion)

1971 - Roger Salkeld, Burbank CA, pitcher (Cin Reds)

1939 - Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria

1972 - Jamal Anderson, fullback (Atlanta Falcons)

1972 - Paul Frlan, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)

1940 - Willie Stargell, outfielder/1st baseman (Pirates, 1971 NL HR leader)

1903 - Empress Kojun of Japan (d. 2000)

1941 - Ben Murphy, Jonesboro Ark, actor (Name of the Game, Winds of War)

1973 - Greg Ostertag, NBA center (Utah Jazz)

1942 - Ben Murphy, American actor

1944 - David Gilmore, Cambridge England, guitarist (Pink Floyd)

1905 - Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)

1944 - Mary Wilson, Detroit Mich, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go)

1945 - Anna Maria Horsford, NYC, actress (Thelma Frye-Amen)

1977 - Giorgos Karagounis, Greek soccer player

1945 - Rob Reiner, Bronx NY, actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me)

1911 - Charles Frank, physicist

1911 - Roland Jacobi Leich, composer

1912 - Madge Adam, astronomer

1979 - Erik Bedard, Canadian baseball player

1979 - Ryan Nyquist, American BMX rider

1981 - Ellen Muth, American actress

1983 - Andranik Teymourian, Iranian soccer player

1984 - Becky, Japanese-British entertainer

1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer

1986 - Eli Marienthal, American actor

1949 - Donald York, rocker (Sha Na Na)

1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)

1917 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)

1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.

1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.

1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.

1834 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.

1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured.

1840 - The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opens, the first dental school.

1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.

1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.

1921 - Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.

1945 - Cologne is captured by American Troops.

1946 - Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.

1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

1953 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1957 - Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British

1964 - Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.

1964 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece.

1965 - Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.

1967 - Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

1968 - The first of the East L.A. Walkouts take place at several high schools.

1970 - Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.

1975 - For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.

1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.

1981 - After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.

1983 - The first United States Football League game is played.

1987 - The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.

1988 - Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.

1992 - Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

2008 - A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.




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