Friday, April 27, 2007

Thursday Thirteen - Famous or Infamous People Who Share My Birthday

Yes, I know it's Friday. Sometimes Thursday's jobs have to be done on Friday.

This is a fun topic. There were listings for baseball players, jurists, Nobel Prize laureates, prime ministers, and even one for a Jewish Rapper!!! Starting with the oldest entry in Wikipedia:

1529 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615) - I have no connection to this one, but is was nearly 400 years ago, which is rather cool.
1778 - Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840) - Whoa! A fashion plate!
1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903) - I like Gaugin!
1897 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (d. 1970) - I add this one because he is one of Captain Classics' favorite conductors.
1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d. 1974) - The doctor for whom the Apgar scores were named.
1909 - Jessica Tandy, English-born actress (d. 1994) - Jessica Tandy is one of my favorite, very classy actresses.
1929 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager - how could I fail to include THIS ONE!
1937 - Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor - Another conductor for the Captain.
1940 - Tom Jones, Welsh singer - What's new pussycat, whoa-oa-oa-oa-oa!
1952 - Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor - Schindler's List, Rob Roy, Philadelphia, and the list goes on.....
1954 - Louise Erdrich, American author - I LOVE Louise Erdrich's books. She writes mainly about Native American themes. She went to Dartmouth, which is in Hanover, NH, my home town. She wrote Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and with husband Michael Dorris, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water and The Crown of Columbus. I like it that we share the same birthday!
1958 - Prince, American musician
1976 - Necro, Jewish American rapper

Posted by Barbara Norris at 1:34 PM

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1 comment:

ChrisB said...

You do share a lot of famous birthdays. Hope you had a good time.

8:49 AM

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