demagogue on 26/8/2007 at 04:24
I was born on the autumnal equinox in the year of the Dragon ... sounds lucky, anyway.
No interesting births or deaths ... Scott Baio born and George C. Scott died on the day in different years.
Important events (not the same year) were the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980 and ... (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneWebDay) OneWebDay? What a stupid excuse for a holiday. :erg:
Shadow Creepr on 26/8/2007 at 05:30
Some of the people born on 11 October:
1962 - Joan Cusack, actress
1961 - Steve Young, football player
1957 - Dawn French, comedian
1953 - David Morse, actor
1946 - Daryl Hall, musician
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the U S
Died:
1961 - Chico Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers)
1991 - Redd Foxx, comedian and actor
1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist
Gestalt on 26/8/2007 at 06:16
Kaleid, apparently. Diane Arbus and Paul Ehrlich, too.
Dia on 26/8/2007 at 12:13
Births:
Ted Danson (Actor)
Andrew Johnson (17th US President)
Mary Tyler Moore (Actress)
Jon Voight (Actor)
Marianne Faithfull (Singer)
Paula Poundstone (Comedienne)
Jude Law (Actor)
Pablo Casals (Spanish Cellist)
Rick Danko (Canadian Bassist -
The Band)
William E. Gladstone (British PM (
http://britannia.com/gov/primes/prime36.html) )
Kaleid on 26/8/2007 at 13:08
Quote Posted by Gestalt
Kaleid, apparently. Diane Arbus and Paul Ehrlich, too.
Both completely unknown to me..
Matthew on 26/8/2007 at 15:14
Busy day for me, 9th September. Amongst many others, (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_9th) quoth the Wiki:
Births: * 1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
* 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817) (he of the Mutiny)
* 1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
* 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
* 1890 - Harland (the Colonel) Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
* 1924 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
* 1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor (Dr Zarkov in Flash Gordon)
* 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
* 1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
* 1943 - Roger Waters, British musician (of Pink Floyd, y'know)
* 1951 - Michael Keaton, American actor
* 1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
* 1952 - Angela Cartwright, actress
* 1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor
* 1960 - Hugh Grant, English actor
* 1960 - Bob Stoops, American football coach
* 1966 - Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
* 1967 - Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)
* 1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
* 1972 - Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
* 1972 - Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor
* 1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor
* 1976 - Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
* 1980 - Michelle Williams, American actress
plus a bunch of baseballers I've never heard of.
Deaths: * 1087 - King William I of England
* 1513 - King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
* 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
* 1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
* 1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
* 1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892)
* 1994 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
* 1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
* 2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
* 2005 - John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)
* 2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
and lots more baseballers.
Significant events:# 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
# 1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States (the United States didn't become a country until the ratification of the Constitution).
# 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
# 1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
# 1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
# 1947 - "First actual case of (a computer) bug being found": a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
# 1948 - The Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
# 1970 - A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
# 1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
# 1994 - Sachin Tendulkar scores his first ODI century against Australia in Sri Lanka.
# 2004 - 2004 Jakarta embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
Sorry about all that.
Ulukai on 26/8/2007 at 17:40
No one particularly famous in '77, but on my birthday 10 years earlier:
1967 - Anna Nicole Smith
:(
nickie on 26/8/2007 at 19:31
I got Henry V, Mary Queen of Scots, Schumann, Wilkie Collins, Poliakoff, Lee J Cobb, Shirley Bassey, Ron Moody, Stephen Hawking, Bowie, a whole heap of American actors and politicians, but, yeah, yeah, hey hey, I also got ELVIS. :D
TheHurley on 26/8/2007 at 19:48
i dunno about birth,
but the pope died last time i masturbated.
Jeshibu on 26/8/2007 at 20:57
Do it again, do it again!
