Monday, May 16, 2011

Popular Birth On Feb 27

By Tracy Rocelyn


1907 - Gerhard Alexander, [Veldheer], Dutch actor (Prince Willem of Orange)

1907 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)

1942 - Michel Forget, French Canadian actor

1910 - Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli)

1910 - Peter De Vries, Chicago, author (Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon)

1702 - Johann Valentin Gorner, composer

1944 - Graeme Pollock, cricketer (South African batting prodigy)

1912 - Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999)

1945 - Daniel Olbrychski, Poland, actor (La Truite)

1759 - Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer

1947 - Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)

1915 - Arthur Gilson, Belgian attorney/minister of Defense (1958-..)

1948 - Eddie Gray, rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)

1948 - Stephen Curtis, CEO (DVLA)

1950 - Franco Moschino, fashion Designer

1920 - David Vere Bendall, former diplomat

1811 - [Catherine] Mildred Lee, daughter of US general Robert E Lee

1951 - Steve Harley, rocker (Come Up & See Me)

1952 - Dwight Elmo Jones, Houston Tx, basketball player (Olymp-silver-1972)

1952 - Henk Westbroek, Dutch singer (Good Cause)

1952 - Kevin Raleigh, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Michael Stanley Band)

1952 - Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor

1923 - Dexter Gordon, US, tenor saxophonist/actor (Connection)

1955 - Garry Christian, rocker

1955 - Sally Spencer, actress (M J McKinnon-Another World)

1841 - [Eleanor] Agnes Lee, daughter of US general Robert E Lee

1846 - Joaquin Valverde, composer

1847 - Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director (Imperial Theatre)

1925 - Richard AFM Auwerda, Dutch journalist/writer

1850 - Henry Edwards Huntington, US, railroad exec

1861 - Rudolph Steiner, Kraljevic Aust, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy

1959 - Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

1960 - Andres Gomez, Ecuador, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990)

1927 - Lord Belhaven & Stenton

1927 - Michael Butler, Pro-Provost/chairman (Royal College of Art)

1927 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)

1927 - Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)

1877 - Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (d. 1952)

1961 - James Worthy, NBA forward (LA Lakers, 1988 Playoff MVP)

1962 - Adam Baldwin, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard)

1881 - Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician

1930 - Lieux Dressler, actress (Alice Grant-General Hospital)

1962 - Veronica Ribot-Canales, Buenos Aires Argentina, US diver (Olympics-96)

1887 - James D Innes, English painter

1888 - Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello)

1932 - Dolf Zwerver, Dutch painter

1964 - Ewen Vernal, British pop bassist (Deacon Blue-Your Town)

1964 - Richard de Vries, soccer player (De Graafschap)

1933 - 6th marquess of Bute, Scottish large landowner/bibliophile

1965 - Noah Emmerich, American actor

1891 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)

1892 - William Demarest, St Paul Minn, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons)

1933 - Raymond Berry, Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts)

1893 - Ralph Linton, US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture)

1934 - Van Williams, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon)

1934 - [Navarre] Scott Momaday, US author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969)

1967 - Frantisek Kaberle, Brno CZE, hockey forward (Team Czech Rep)

1897 - G Paul H Schuitema, graphic designer/photographer (System-O-Color)

1897 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)

1935 - Mirella Freni, Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly)

1898 - Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer

1899 - Charles H Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin)

1969 - Robert Massey, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)

1936 - Virginia Maskell, actress (Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs)

1936 - Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer

1901 - Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter

1937 - Donald MacKay, CEO (Scottish Enterprise)

1937 - L Jay Silvester, US, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1972)

1970 - Michael A. Burstein, American writer

1938 - Pascale Petit, PAris, actor (Code Name: Jaguar, End of Desire)

1939 - Antoinette Sibley, ballerina (Turning Point)

1939 - Kenzo Takada, Japanese director (Dream After Dream)

1939 - Lester King, cricketer (WI fast bowler, 2 Tests 1962-68, 9 wkts)

1904 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)

1940 - Barbara Kelly, CEO (Scottish Consumer Council)

1904 - Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)

1905 - Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye)

1941 - Ian McGarry, general secretary (British Actors' Equity Association)

1906 - Alexander Matheson, NZ cricket pace bowler (2 Tests 1930-31)

1941 - Sandy Wilson

1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.

1594 - Henry IV is crowned King of France.

1617 - Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.

1626 - Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.

1700 - The island of New Britain is discovered.

1801 - Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.

1812 - Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.

1812 - Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.

1844 - The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.

1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.

1861 - Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.

1864 - American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.

1870 - The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.

1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.

1900 - The British Labour Party is founded.

1902 - Second Boer War: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.

1921 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.

1922 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.

1933 - Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.

1939 - United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.

1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14

1942 - World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies

1943 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.

1943 - The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin

1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.

1955 - Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.

1961 - The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.

1963 - The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.

1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.

1971 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.

1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

1976 - The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

1986 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.

1989 - Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.

1991 - Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".

2002 - Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.

2002 - Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;

2004 - A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.

2007 - The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.

2010 - An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured.




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