Who has the most noise birthday?

birthdays:
# 1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1046-56)
# 1656 - Edmond Halley, English astronomer (according to the Julian calendar)
# 1815 - Daniel Emmett, composer of Dixie
# 1897 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945)
# 1923 - Carl Djerassi, chemist, inventor of the birth control pill
# 1971 - Winona Ryder, actress

MLK DAY, INAUGURATION DAY, DAVID LYNCH'S BDAY, FEDERRICO FELINNI'S BDAY.

MOST NOIZE.

1867 - Marie Curie, chemist, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1903 and in chemistry 1911 (d. 1934)
1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)
1886 - Aron Nimzowitsch, chess grandmaster and popularizer of hypermodernism in chess (d. 1935)
1888 - Sir C. V. Raman, Indian Physicist. Recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the "Raman" effect (d. 1970)
1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, writer, director, producer (d. 1953)
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1913 - Albert Camus, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1957 (d. 1960)
1918 - Billy Graham, evangelist
1964 - Dana Plato, actress (d. 1999)

ALSO STEVE MCQUEEN DIED ON THIS DAY FOR EXTRA NOIZE POINTS

nov 8th = jack osbourne, tara reid, parker posey, mary hart and bonnie raitt.

july 27:
1950 Michael Vaughn (musician)
1949 Maureen McGovern (singer)
1948 Betty Thomas (director, actress)]
1948 Peggy Fleming (ice skater)
1944 Bobbie Gentry (singer)
1937 Don Galloway (actor)
1933 Nick Reynolds (folk singer)
1931 Jerry Van Dyke (actor)
1927 Bob Morse (singer)
1922 Norman Lear (producer)
1918 Homer (Henry D. Haynes) (comedy singer)
1916 Keenan (Francis) Wynn (actor)

48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. May have occurred September 29, records unclear.
AD 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England: Battle of Hastings
1106 - The Battle of Tinchebrai - Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose
1322 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf
1448 - Christian I crowned king of Denmark
1542 - Navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego
1708 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya
1779 - Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay
1781 - American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown Heights, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1787 - The just completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the State legislatures for approval.
1820 - The tomato is publicly proven safe when Robert Johnson eats a bushel (24 kg) of tomatoes in Salem, Massachusetts
1821 - Mexico signs its final Declaration of Independence.
1823 - Leo XII is elected as pope
1844 - Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden
1867 - Toronto, Ontario becomes the capital of Ontario
1868 - Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France
1871 - Brazil passes law freeing future children of slaves.
1934 - Ocean liner RMS Queen Mary launched at Clydebank.
1939 - Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
1944 - Battle of Arnhem - Germans defeat British airborne at Arnhem, Netherlands.
1958 - Guinea votes for independence from France
1958 - France ratifies a new constitution; the Fifth Republic of France is formed.
1961 - Syria withdraws from the United Arab Republic.
1972 - Paul Henderson scores The Goal to win the Canada/USSR (ice hockey) "Summit Series"
1973 - ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 Coup in Chile.
1976 - R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic double album Songs in the Key of Life.
1994 - The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852.
1995 - Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
2000 - Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau dies.
2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada begins after the visit of Ariel Sharon to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Births

1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
1887 - Avery Brundage, Olympic Games president (d. 1975)
1901 - Ed Sullivan, TV show host (d. 1974)
1901 - William S. Paley, television pioneer (d. 1990)
1905 - Max Schmeling, boxer
1909 - Al Capp, cartoonist (d. 1979)
1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, spy (d. 1953)
1916 - Peter Finch, actor (d. 1977)
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Seymour Cray, computer scientist (d. 1996)
1926 - Jerry Clower, country music entertainer
1929 - Lata Mangeshkar, celebrated Indian playback singer
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, actress
1935 - KoKo Taylor, blues singer
1937 - Rod Roddy, television announcer (d. 2003)
1937 - Alice Mahon, English politician and trade unionist
1938 - Ben E. King, singer, songwriter
1950 - John Sayles, director, screenwriter
1952 - Sylvia Kristel, actress
1962 - Grant Fuhr, hockey goalie
1964 - Janeane Garofalo, actress, comedian
1968 - Naomi Watts, actress
1967 - Moon Unit Zappa, singer, actress
1967 - Mira Sorvino, actress
1968 - Mika Häkkinen, Finnish auto racing driver
1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
1979 - Bam Margera, skater, troublemaker
1987 - Hilary Duff, actress, singer

Deaths

876 - Louis the German, grandson of Charlemagne, ruler of Eastern Francia
1197 - Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
1429 - Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria
1891 - Herman Melville, novelist
1895 - Louis Pasteur, scientist
1902 - Emile Zola, novelist and critic
1918 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
1953 - Edwin Hubble, astronomer
1964 - Harpo Marx, comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1966 - André Breton, French poet
1970 - John Dos Passos, novelist
1970 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first president of Egypt
1978 - Pope John Paul I
1979 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist who directed the launch of the first Canadian satalite, Alouette 1.
1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist
1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, former president of the Philippines
1991 - Miles Davis, musician
2000 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada
2002 - Patsy T. Mink, American statesman, first woman of color in Congress
2003 - Althea Gibson, African-American tennis pioneer
2003 - Yukichi Chuganji, 114 years
2003 - Elia Kazan, movie and theatre director

they also forgot edgar allen poe's death and also i think patty hearst was freed around my birthday and maybe squeaky shot gerald ford too?

also, sylvia kristel, rowr.

ugh... posting my birthday online goes against all my better instincts....

1755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte inventor (modern pencil)
1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley England, romantic poet (Adonais)
1823 Oliver Perry Morton (Gov-Ind)
1832 Gaspar N£¤ez de Arce Spain, poet "Spanish Tennyson"
1839 Walter Pater London England, writer (Plato & Platoism)
1859 Knut Hamsun Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920)
1870 Sir Harry Lauder Scotland, comedian/singer (Roman in the Gloamin)
1897 Joseph Calleia Malta, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda, Touch of Evil)
1901 Louis Armstrong New Orleans, Jazz musician & bandleader, "Hello Dolly" - oldest musician in Billboard history to have a Number One song
1900 Arturo Umberto Illia pres of Argentina (1963-66)
1900 Elizabeth Britain's Queen Mother
1909 Glenn Cunningham US middle distance runner in the 1930's
1910 William Howard Schuman NYC, composer (American Festival Overture)
1912 David Raksin Phila Penns, composer (Modern Times)
1913 Wesley Addy Omaha Neb, actor (Bostonian, Loving)
1915 Irving Fields NYC, pianist (Ilona Massey Show)
1920 Helen Thomas UPI journalist (starts press conferences)
1921 Maurice "Rocket" Richard Montreal Canadien (MVP-1947)
1928 Udham Singh India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64)
1934 Dallas Green baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1939 Frankie Ford Gretna La, rock vocalist (Sea Cruise)
1942 David Russell Lange PM (L) New Zealand (1984- )
1943 Michael J McCulley San Diego Calif, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS-34)
1943 Rodney Stuart Pattison British yachtsman (Olympics)
1943 Tina Cole Hollywood, singer (King Cousins)/actress (Katie-My 3 Sons)
1944 Richard Belzer KOed by Hulk Hogan/comedian (How to be a Stand Up)
1945 Fred Hansen US, pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-1964)
1946 Maureen Cox Starkey 1st wife of Beatle Ringo Starr
1952 Bobby Buntrock Denver Colo, actor (Harold Baxter-Hazel)
1952 Kristoffer Tabori LA Calif, actor (Rappaccini's Daughter)
1955 Andrew M Allen Phila Pa, Captain USMC/astronaut (sk: STS-46)
1955 Charles D "Sam" Gemar Yankton SD, army/astronaut (STS 38, 48)
1955 Billy Bob Thornton Hot Springs, Ark. US. actor, 'Sling Blade','A Family Thing'
1958 Mary Decker Tabb Slaney NJ, olympic track star (Mile record 4:16.71)
1960 Robbin Crosby heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round)
1962 Roger Clemens Dayton Ohio, Boston Red Sox pitcher (Cy Young, MVP)
1965 Crystal Chappell Silver Spring Md, actress (Carly-Days of our Lives)

but maybe this ain't my birthday. (black sabbath, "paranoid")
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GEORGE W. BUSH
50 CENT
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Lance Armstrong (BOOOOOYAH)
Robert Blake
James Gandolfini (HA)
Lita Ford
Greta Garbo
Dee Dee Ramone
Frankie Avalon

Not bad. Avalon is about as anti-noise as it gets, but Dee Dee Ramone cancels him out.

deaths:
1967 - Woody Guthrie, Amerian folk musician (b. 1912)
* 2000 - Benjamin Orr, bassist and part-time lead singer for The Cars (b. 1947)
2004 - Janet Leigh, actress (b. 1927)

Also, same day:
Peter Lorre
Chris Isaak
Mick Jones
Derek Jeter
Chris O' Donnell
some other clowns i don't remember...

9-22-79

MOST N01Z3

I WISH I WAS DEAD

Mark David Chapman, Sid Vicious, Bono (:(), MOTHER'S DAY, Rick Santorum (:((), Fat's Domino, and BUDDHA (in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and South Korea) share my birthday.

John Wayne Gacy was executed on my birthday.

-Births: Frederic Remington (1861), Damon Runyan (1880), Buster Keaton (1865), Charlton Heston (1924), Anne Rice (1941), H Rap Brown (1943), Susan Sarandon (1946), Chris Lowe [pet shop boys] (1959), Afrika Bambaata (1960), Kazuki Takahashi (1961), Alicia Silverstone (1976).

-Deaths: Admittedly, this one is no fun. Here's why: St. Francis of Assissi, St. Teresa of Avila, Jacques Offenbach, Janis Joplin, Anne Sexton, and Secretariat (the horse) all died on October 4th. Along with a surprising number of Nobel Laureates.

The most notable event: The first Hooters was opened in Clearwater, Fla., on my birthday. Totally sweet.

Also, lfam should post to this. The wiki on his birthday is definitely the most noise I've seen.

Events

* 1782 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
* 1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
* 1803 - In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
* 1804 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
* 1853 - Crimean War: The Russian navy destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Sinop.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin — The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
* 1868 - A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in the King's garden in Stockholm.
* 1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
* 1874 - Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace (the Duke of Marlborough's official seat).
* 1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
* 1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
* 1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
* 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
* 1939 - Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
* 1940 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married in Greenwich, Connecticut.
* 1942 - World War II: A U.S. warship force is defeated by a smaller Japanese warship force in the Battle of Tassafaronga during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
* 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.
* 1953 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
* 1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.4 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.
* 1960 - Production of the DeSoto automobile brand ceases.
* 1962 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.
* 1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Quaid-e-Awam whom becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
* 1972 - Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
* 1979 - Pink Floyd release the album The Wall.
* 1981 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
* 1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.
* 1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion.
* 1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
* 1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes female serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.
* 1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
* 1994 - Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio.
* 1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
* 1999 - In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
* 1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
* 2000 - The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 comes into force in the UK.
* 2004 - Longtime Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
* 2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crashlands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
* 2005 - Rt Rev John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England as Archbishop of York.

Births

* 539 - Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
* 1340 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
* 1364 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
* 1466 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)
* 1508 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
* 1554 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d. 1586)
* 1594 - John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
* 1625 - Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)
* 1637 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
* 1667 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d.1745)
* 1670 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
* 1683 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
* 1719 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
* 1722 - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
* 1723 - William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
* 1756 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
* 1768 - Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
* 1781 - Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
* 1796 - Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)
* 1810 - Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
* 1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
* 1813 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)
* 1817 - Theodor Mommsen, German author and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)
* 1821 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
* 1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), American writer (d. 1910)
* 1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
* 1847 - Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, Brazilian president (d. 1909)
* 1857 - Bobby Abel, English test cricketer (d. 1936)
* 1858 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
* 1863 - Andres Bonifacio, head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK) (d. 1897)
* 1869 - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
* 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
* 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
* 1889 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
* 1898 - Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (d. 1976)
* 1904 - Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
* 1907 - Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author
* 1909 - Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
* 1912 - Gordon Parks, American photographer, film director, composer and writer
* 1915 - Brownie McGhee, American blues musician (d.1996)
* 1915 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
* 1918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor
* 1920 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
* 1924 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. 2005)
* 1924 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)
* 1926 - Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
* 1927 - Robert Guillaume, American actor
* 1929 - Dick Clark, American television host
* 1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, American children's television pioneer
* 1930 - G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate operative
* 1931 - Jack Ging, American actor
* 1931 - Bill Walsh, American football coach
* 1936 - Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
* 1936 - Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician
* 1937 - Ridley Scott, British film director
* 1937 - Paul Stookey, American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)
* 1937 - Frank Ifield, Australian/British singer
* 1943 - Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter.
* 1945 - Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)
* 1947 - David Mamet, American playwright
* 1951 - Christian Bernard, mystic
* 1951 - June Chadwick, British actress
* 1952 - Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist
* 1952 - Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer
* 1955 - Billy Idol, British musician
* 1957 - Colin Mochrie, British-born Canadian comedian
* 1957 - Andrew Calhoun, American musician
* 1958 - Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
* 1958 - Stacey Q, American dance-pop singer
* 1959 - Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist
* 1960 - Gary Lineker, English international footballer
* 1962 - Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
* 1962 - Daniel Keys Moran, American writer
* 1964 - Jushin Liger, Japanese professional wrestler
* 1965 - Ben Stiller, American actor and writer
* 1965 - Aldair, Brazilian international footballer
* 1966 - Ed Kemper, American actor
* 1966 - Mika Salo, Finnish Formula 1 Driver
* 1968 - Des'ree, British soul/pop singer
* 1968 - Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
* 1971 - Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez, Puerto Rican baseball player
* 1971 - Ray Durham, American baseball player
* 1972 - Abel Xavier, Portuguese international footballer
* 1973 - John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)
* 1973 - Jason Reso, Canadian professional wrestler
* 1975 - Mindy McCready, American musican
* 1975 - Ben Thatcher, Welsh international footballer
* 1976 - Josh Lewsey, England national and London Wasps Rugby union player
* 1978 - Clay Aiken, American singer
* 1981 - Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player
* 1982 - Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
* 1984 - Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
* 1984 - Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
* 1985 - Kaley Cuoco, American actress and model
* 1987 - Dougie Poynter, British singer and bassist (McFly)
* 1990 - Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
* 1991 - Carnell Breeding, of the boy band B5
* 1994 - Nyjah Huston, Skateboarder

Deaths

* 1016 - Edmund II of England
* 1580 - Richard Farrant, English composer
* 1626 - Thomas Weelkes, English composer
* 1654 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)
* 1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
* 1703 - Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
* 1705 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
* 1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
* 1761 - John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
* 1765 - George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
* 1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
* 1901 - Edward John Eyre, British explorer (b. 1815)
* 1920 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
* 1933 - Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
* 1935 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
* 1943 - Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist (executed) (b. 1914)
* 1953 - Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1857)
* 1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
* 1955 - Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer (b. 1896)
* 1958 - Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
* 1967 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (b. 1904)
* 1987 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1913)
* 1989 - Paul Keegan, Irish footballer
* 1993 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)
* 1994 - Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1931)
* 1996 - Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
* 1997 - Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
* 1997 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
* 2003 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
* 2004 - Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)
* 2005 - Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)

Holidays and observances

* R.C. Saints - Saint Andrew the apostle - St Andrew's day is the national day of Scotland
* Also see November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* Barbados - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966)
* Philippines - Andres Bonifacio Day
* Official End of the Hurricane Season
* Cities for Life Day; 300 cities around the world declare their opposition to the death penalty

died on my birthday: francis scott key (famous for penning the words to our national anthem and putting them to an old english pub song)

# 1945 - Peter George Criscoula, American drummer and singer (KISS)
# 1946 - Uri Geller, Israeli psychic
# 1957 - Billy Bragg, English singer and songwriter
# 1957 - Mike Watt, American bassist

1522 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
1917 - Cheka, first Soviet secret police, founded.
1989 - United States invasion of Panama: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega.
2002 - US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.
2005 - 2005 New York City transit strike: New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes on strike, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services.
1996 - NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
1999 - Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples.

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Events
1648 - Treaty of Münster
1649 - King Charles I beheaded.
1661 - Oliver Cromwell formally executed - after having been dead for two years.
1820 - Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctic mainland
1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, was opened
1835 - the first assassination attempt against a President. Both pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.
1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
1911 - first airplane rescue at sea
1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1945 - deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people.
1948 - Mohandas Gandhi assassinated
1968 - Tet Offensive begins
1969 - The Beatles' last public performance
1972 - Bloody Sunday
1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.

Births
1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd. President of the United States (d. 1945)
1928 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor
1937 - Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
1945 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
1957 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
1959 - Jody Watley, American singer
1962 - Abdullah II of Jordan
1974 - Christian Bale, British actor
1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer Puffy Amiyumi
1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian

Deaths
1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)1980 - Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)

Holidays and Religious observances
Martyr Day, India - India

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births:
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
1920 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
1923 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
1933 - Conway Twitty, American singer (d. 1993)
1939 - Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedian
1968 - Mohammed Atta, 9/11 terrorist (d. 2001)

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the new liturgical year begins on September 1. Also see September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Uzbekistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
Start of the partridge-shooting season ("St. Partridge").

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and sharon tate, will smith, yakov smirnoff, john belushi, neil diamond, warren zevon, :/

but also max ernst, and Ernst Heinrich Heinkel who invented the first ROCKET-POWERED AIRCRAFT. and Frederick II, the Great, king of Prussia, 1740-86, and Publius A Hadrianus, 14th Roman Emperor, 117-138. sweet.

plus, Caligula, Emperor of Rome, died, A.D. 41, gold was discovered in California, 1848, 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co, 1935, Apple Computer unveils its Macintosh personal computer, 1984. and bunch of random sports stuff.

912 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
1221 - King Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
1402 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
1417 - William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
1553 - Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
1616 - John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
1632 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)
1641 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
1705 - Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)
1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
1719 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
1749 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (d. 1800)
1760 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (d. 1797)
1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
1820 - Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
1837 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
1860 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
1861 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1864 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936)
1869 - Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
1875 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)
1876 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
1887 - Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d. 1943)
1887 - Boris Karloff, British actor (d. 1969)
1888 - Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)
1890 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
1892 - Erté, French artist (d. 1990)
1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1897 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948)
1902 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
1907 - Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)
1908 - Nelson S. Bond, American Science Fiction Writer
1909 - Nigel Tranter, British historian and writer (d. 2000)
1920 - Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d. 1970)
1921 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
1922 - Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia
1923 - R.L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
1923 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986)
1924 - Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist (d. 1994)
1925 - Johnny Mandel, American songwriter
1925 - José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
1926 - Sathya Sai Baba, Indian "God-man", widely believed to be Avatar of the age
1931 - Dervla Murphy, Irish traveller and author
1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
1934 - Robert Towne, American writer, director, producer, and actor
1934 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
1935 - Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
1941 - Franco Nero, Italian actor
1943 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
1943 - Sue Nicholls (The Honourable Susan Frances Harmer Nicholls), British actress
1944 - Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born film producer and writer
1944 - James Toback, American writer and director
1945 - Steve Landesberg, American actor
1945 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
1953 - Francis Cabrel, French singer
1954 - Bruce Hornsby, American musician
1954 - Glenn Brummer, Baseball player
1955 - Steven Brust, American author
1955 - Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
1956 - Steve Harvey, American actor and comedian
1959 - Maxwell Caulfield, British actor
1959 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
1965 - Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian
1968 - Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer
1969 - Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer
1970 - Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
1971 - Lisa Kushell, American actress
1972 - Chris Adler, American musician (Lamb of God)
1974 - Jamie Sharper, American football player
1977 - Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
1980 - David Britz, American nanotechnologist
1980 - Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
1984 - Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
1992 - Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer

STAN MUHFUCKIN BRAKHAGE
FAYE DUNAWAY
CARL WEATHERS!!!!
LL "LADIES LOVE COOL JAMES" COOL J
GERMAN RAPPER 50 PENCE

On the bright side, 26 May is also the bday of Stevie Nicks, Pam Grier, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Jack Kevorkian.

QED

Night Fever by Bee Gees
Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb
Le Freak by Chic
Stayin' Alive by Bee Gees
Kiss You All Over by Exile
Boogie Oogie Oogie by A Taste of Honey
Baby Come Back by Player
MacArthur Park by Donna Summer
Thicker Than Water by Andy Gibb
Three Times a Lady by Commodores

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Milk: $1.44/gal
Eggs: $1.31/doz
Car: $6,379
Gas: $0.65/gal
House: $62,500
Stamp: $0.15/ea
Avg Income: $20,091/yr
Min Wage: $2.65/hr
DOW Avg: 805

ODETTA
ANTHONY HOPKINS
BEN KINGSLEY (hello, sexy beast!)
JON DENVER
DONNA SUMMER
VAL KILMER (ICEMAN!)
JACQUES CARTIER

On July 23, 1892, Haile Selassie I, the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, was born.

1904 By some accounts, the ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.

2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty died in Jackson, Miss., at age 92.

78 Calvert DeForest [Larry "Bud" Melman]
41 Slash
38 Nick Menza

65 Emil Jannings
7/23/1884 - 1/2/1950
Swiss-born German stage and screen actor

70 Raymond Chandler
7/23/1888 - 3/26/1959
American author of detective stories

1967 - Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

I win, close internets thx.

1879 - Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time.

1923 - The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.

1946 - President Harry Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

1983 - The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.

1991 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is officially dissolved.

1994 - This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati, as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands changed time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.

1) Bruce Lee
2) Jimi Hendrix
3) Bill Nye
4) Curtis Armstrong
5) Me
6) Urkel
7) The Game
8) Twista
9) Charlie Benante (drummer for Anthrax)

* 1906 - Clifford Odets a.k.a. BARTON FINK
* 1913 - Red Skelton
* 1918 - Nelson Mandela
* 1921 - John Glenn
* 1922 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher
* 1929 - SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS!@!!@!1
* 1937 - Hunter S. Thompson O RLY
* 1940 - Joe Torre
* 1967 - Vin Diesel
* 1979 - Deion Branch

# 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron.
# 1256 - Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
# 1791 - The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia legislature.
# 1891 - James Naismith introduces the first version of basketball, with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of his school's gymnasium, and two teams of nine players.
# 1939 - Gone with the Wind premiers in Atlanta, Georgia.
# 1945 - Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as state religion of Japan. 8(
# 1960 - Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier.
# 1994 - The web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released.
# 2005 - The 43rd known Mersenne prime is discovered by Dr. Curtis Cooper & Dr. Steven Boone of USA, participants of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search distributed computing project. The prime number is 2nd largest known prime and has more than nine million digits.
# 2005 - Latvia edits its constitution to ban equal marriage rights to gays and lesbians.

Births

# 37 - Nero, Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (d. 68) (IF NERO = NOIZE THEN I TRUMP U)
# 1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, Russian initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
# 1922 - Alan Freed, American disc jockey (d. 1965) (rock + roll b1tches)
# 1949 - Don Johnson, American actor (http://ffmedia.ign.com/filmforce/image/miami_vice.jpg

1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
1961 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 - Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1937 - Philip Glass, American composer, birthday.
Feast day of St. John Bosco, patron saint of educators, circus artists and magicians.

i share bday with joey mceintyre...

also, same exact day as F. Durst and Jonathan Ke Quan, who played Data in the Goonies and Short Round.