Monday, May 16, 2011

Popular Birthdays On Feb 9

By Tracy Rocelyn


1949 - Judith Light, Trenton NJ, (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live)

1533 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)

1578 - Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor (L'adamo)

1913 - Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports funds)

1950 - Richard F. Colburn, American politician

1607 - Abraham Megerle, composer

1951 - Jay Inslee, (Rep-D-Washington)

1951 - Penny Peyser, Irvington NY, actress (Rich Man Poor Man, Knots Landing)

1735 - Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian

1952 - Mookie Wilson, American baseball player

1916 - Tex Hughson, American baseball player (d. 1993)

1921 - B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director (RAF Nursing Service)

1953 - Gary Franks, (Rep-R-Connecticut)

1763 - Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)

1954 - Ulrich Walter, German FR, cosmonaut

1771 - Daniel Belknap, composer

1923 - Norman E Shumway, Mich, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon

1775 - Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungary, mathematician (parallel axiom)

1780 - Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer

1781 - Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist (d. 1826)

1926 - Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland

1957 - Gordon Strachan, soccer player

1789 - Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)

1958 - Alexander W B Lyle, Shrewsbury England, PGA golfer (1988 Phoenix Open)

1814 - Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for NY Public Library

1958 - Cyrille Regis, English former footballer

1960 - Peggy A Whitson, Mt Ayr Iowa, PhD/astronaut

1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)

1834 - Felix Dahn, writer

1962 - Diego Perez, Spain, tennis star

1929 - Clement Meadmore, Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005)

1962 - Anik Bissonnette, Quebec ballet dancer (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)

1846 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (d. 1904)

1963 - Madusa Miceli, [Debra Ann], Milan Italy, wrestler (WCW)

1931 - Xavier Benguerel, composer

1931 - Josef Masopust, Czech footballer

1857 - Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education

1964 - Rachel Bolan, rocker (Skid Row)

1865 - Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl

1933 - Jo Ann Prentice, LPGA golfer

1866 - George Ade, US, journalist/playwright/humorist (Fables in Slang)

1966 - James "Rachel" Bolan, Pt Pleasant NJ, rocker (Skid Row-Psycho Love)

1871 - Franc S Finzgar, Slovenian clergyman/writer (Our Blood)

1871 - Howard T Ricketts, US pathologist (studied typhus fever)

1874 - Amy Lowell, US poet/critic (Patterns, Sword Blades & Poppy Seed)

1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical director/actor (Houligan)

1937 - Brian Wenham, media consultant/journalist

1876 - Martin Stixrud, Norway, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1920)

1879 - Carl Natanael Berg, composer

1968 - Paul Claxton, Vidalia GA, Nike golfer (NIKE Central Georgia Open-38th)

1939 - Janet Suzman, S Africa, actress (Dry White Season, Nuns on the Run)

1968 - Rahul Roy, Indian actor

1884 - Frederik Gerretson, [Geerten Gossaert], Dutch poet/politician)

1885 - Alban Maria Johannes Berg, Vienna Austria, a Lulu of a composer!

1969 - Peta Edebone, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)

1942 - Milos Stedron, composer

1942 - Peder Lunde Jr, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1960)

1970 - Glenn McGrath, cricketer (NSW & Australian fast bowler 1993-)

1970 - Grant Moorhead, New Plymouth NZ, Australasia golfer

1971 - Gonzalo Floyd, CFL defensive end (Hamilton Tiger Cats)

1943 - Jonny Nilsson, Sweden, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)

1971 - Jim Miller, NFL quarterback (Pitts Steelers, Atl Falcons, Jaguars)

1895 - Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)

1943 - Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate

1971 - Sharon Case, Det Mich, actress (Sharon Collins-Young & Restless)

1944 - Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality

1972 - Jason George, actor (Michael Bourre-Sunset Beach)

1945 - Mia [Maria] Farrow, LA, actr (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo)

1972 - Crispin Freeman, American voice actor

1972 - Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer

1906 - Gwen Catley, British(?) soprano

1973 - Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast

1907 - Aubrey "Dit" Clapper, NHL hall of famer (Boston Bruins)

1974 - Brad Maynard, punter (NY Giants)

1947 - Joe Ely, Amarillo Tx, country vocalist (Honky Tonk Masquerade)

1909 - Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69)

1947 - Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor

1975 - Clinton Grybas, Australian Football commentator (d. 2008)

1909 - John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian

474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

1621 - Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.

1775 - American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.

1788 - The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.

1825 - After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.

1849 - New Roman Republic established

1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.

1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau is established.

1885 - The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.

1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture is established as a Cabinet-level agency.

1895 - William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.

1900 - The Davis Cup competition is established.

1904 - Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.

1913 - A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.

1920 - Under the terms of the Spitsbergen Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.

1922 - Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1934 - The Balkan Entente is formed.

1942 - World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.

1942 - Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.

1943 - World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.

1945 - World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic - HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.

1945 - World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Frdefjorden, Norway.

1950 - Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.

1959 - The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.

1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.

1965 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.

1969 - First test flight of the Boeing 747.

1971 - The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.

1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.

1973 - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.

1975 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.

1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.

1995 - Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.

1996 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.

2001 - The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.




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