Sunday, May 15, 2011

Famous Born On 20 Mar

By Tracy Rocelyn


1954 - Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and politician

1956 - Phillip Oppenhein, British MP

1918 - Marian McPartland, jazz pianist (Bill Mayer, Jimmy McPartland)

1957 - Theresa Russell, [Paup], SD Calif, actress (Black Widow, Razor's Edge)

1634 - Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets)

1957 - David Foster, Australian woodchopper

1921 - Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegal, director general (UNESCO)

1958 - Holly Hunter, Atlanta Georgia, actress (Broadcast News, Roe vs Wade)

1728 - Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist

1922 - Carl Reiner, Bronx, comedian (2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show)

1737 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809)

1922 - Jack Kruschen, Winnipeg Canada, actor (Papa-Webster, Busting Loose)

1959 - Steve McFadden, British actor

1959 - Sting, American professional wrestler

1961 - John Clark Gable, LA Calif, actor (Bad Jim)

1774 - John Braham, composer

1799 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)

1804 - Neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897

1811 - George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election)

1963 - Paul Annacone, Southampton NY, tennis star

1928 - Anthony Blond, British publisher (The Publishing Game, Book Book)

1928 - Christopher Benstead, race horse trainer

1963 - Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (d. 2007)

1823 - John Echols, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896

1963 - David Thewlis, British actor

1930 - Michel Magne, composer

1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer

1965 - Chris Hoiles, Bowling Green OH, catcher (Baltimore Orioles)

1829 - Charles Albert White, composer

1830 - Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910

1831 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)

1966 - Alka Yagnik, Indian singer

1834 - Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909)

1967 - Dana Rinehart Dalton, Orlando Florida, Miss Florida-America (1991)

1967 - Mookie Blaylock, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)

1934 - Eric Hebborn, artist/faker

1846 - Auguste Bender, writer

1853 - George Godfrey, Chelsea Mass, heavyweight boxer (Old Chocolate)

1856 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management

1856 - Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941)

1936 - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican Reggae artist

1868 - Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay Farm)

1937 - Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor

1937 - Helmut Recknagel, Germany, 90m ski jump (Olympic-gold-1960)

1969 - Mannie Fresh, American producer

1937 - Joe Rivers, rocker (Johnnie & Joe)

1874 - Brries von Mnchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)

1970 - Ron George, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)

1938 - Sergei Petrovich Novikov, Russian Mathematician, Fields Medalist

1882 - Ren Coty, Le Harve France, president of France (1953-58)

1883 - Colin Campbell, Falkirk Scot, actress (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys)

1940 - Mickey Preger, horse trainer

1941 - Carlos Lopez, jockey

1885 - Hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological/sociologist

1943 - Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer

1973 - Nico Boje, cricketer (South African ODI left-arm spinner 1996)

1943 - Paul Junger Witt, American TV producer

1973 - Christopher Heinz, American businessman; son of Teresa Heinz

1945 - Pat Riley, Schenectady NY, NBA coach (Lakers, Knicks, Heat)

1902 - Kathryn Forbes, short story writer (mama's bank account)

1974 - P J Bogart, NYC, diver (Olympics-96)

1904 - B[urrhus] F[rederic] Skinner, Pa, Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box)

1946 - Ranger Doug, [Douglas Green], Ill, singer (Riders in Sky-Cowboy Way)

1906 - Abraham Beame, (Mayor-D-NYC), NYC's 1st Jewish mayor

1906 - Ozzie Nelson, Jersey City NJ, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)

1906 - Pavel P Parenago, Russian astronomer

1948 - John de Lancie, actor (Q-Star Trek Next Gen, Days of our Lives)

1979 - Molly Jenson, American musician

1949 - Marcia Ball, American singer and pianist

1950 - William Hurt, Wash DC, actor (Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God)

1951 - Guy Perry, rock guitarist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)

1979 - Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player

1951 - John Wetton, rocker (Asia)

1980 - Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer

1915 - Sviatosiav Richter, Zhitomir Ukraine, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)

1951 - Curt Smith, American author and media host

1916 - Pierre Messmer, PM (France)

1952 - Geoff Brabham, Australian racing driver

1954 - Charlie Simmer, Ontario, NHL left winger (LA Kings)

1917 - Vera Lynn, singer (Anniversary Waltz)

235 - Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.

1208 - Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

1600 - The Linkping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linkping, Sweden.

1602 - The Dutch East India Company is established.

1616 - Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.

1760 - The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts destroys 349 buildings.

1815 - After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

1848 - Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.

1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.

1861 - An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.

1883 - The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.

1888 - The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.

1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.

1914 - In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.

1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

1922 - The USS Langley (CV-1) is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

1923 - The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.

1933 - Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".

1948 - With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.

1951 - Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshu is founded.

1952 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.

1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France.

1964 - The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.

1974 - Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.

1980 - The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.

1985 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

1985 - Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.

1987 - The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.

1988 - Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.

1990 - Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.

1993 - An IRA bomb explodes, killing two children in Warrington, Northwest England.

1995 - A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.

1999 - Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.

2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.

2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.

2005 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.

2006 - Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana crop.

2006 - Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby.




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