09 September, 2006

on the tenth...

My birthday is tomorrow, and I share the birthday or someday with these people:

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Births
1169 _ Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
1487 _ Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
1550 _ Alonso de Guzman El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Spanish Armada (d. 1615)
1588 _ Nicholas Lanier, English composer (d. 1666)
1624 _ Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
1638 _ Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
1659 _ Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
1714 _ Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
1758 _ Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
1788 _ Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaelogist (d. 1868)
1836 _ Joseph Wheeler, Confederate Lt. General and United States General (d. 1906)
1839 _ Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
1839 _ Charles Peirce, American philosopher
1844 _ Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
1852 _ Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
1861 _ Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)
1866 _ Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)
1886 _ Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
1890 _ Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
1890 _ Franz Werfel, poet and author (d. 1945)
1892 _ Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1896 _ Ye Ting Chinese military leader (d. 1946 )
1896 _ Robert Taschereau, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Governor general of Canada (d. 1970)
1897 _ Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
1898 _ Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
1898 _ Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
1904 _ Max Shachtman, American Trotskyist politician
1907 _ Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (d. 1989)
1914 _ Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
1915 _ Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1917 _ Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat
1920 _ Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
1922 _ Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer
1924 _ Ted Kluszewski, Major League baseball player (d. 1988)
1928 _ Jean Vanier, Canadian humanitarian.
1929 _ Arnold Palmer, American golfer
1931 _ Philip Baker Hall, American actor
1933 _ Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)
1934 _ Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
1934 _ Roger Maris, baseball player (d. 1985)
1938 _ Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
1941 _ Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
1941 _ Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
1941 _ Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
1942 _ Danny Hutton, American singer (Three Dog Night)
1943 _ Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler
1945 _ Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
1946 _ Jim Hines, American athlete
1946 _ Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)
1948 _ Tony Gatlif, Algerian_born director
1948 _ Bob Lanier, American basketball player
1948 _ Margaret Trudeau, former wife of late Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau
1948 _ Judy Geeson, English actress
1949 _ Don Muraco, professional wrestler
1949 _ Bill O'Reilly, American journalist, author, and commentator
1950 _ Joe Perry, American musician (Aerosmith)
1952 _ Vic Toews, Canadian politician
1953 _ Amy Irving, American actress
1958 _ Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor
1958 _ Chris Columbus, American film director
1958 _ Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer (Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister)
1959 _ Peter Nelson, American actor
1960 _ Colin Firth, English actor
1960 _ David Lowery, American musician (Cracker (band))
1963 _ Randy Johnson, American baseball player
1966 _ Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 _ Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
1968 _ Guy Ritchie, British film director
1969 _ Jonathon Schaech, American actor
1972 _ Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
1972 _ James Duval, American actor
1973 _ Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
1974 _ Ryan Phillippe, American actor
1974 _ Ben Wallace, American basketball player
1976 _ Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
1980 _ Robert Green, English football player
1980 _ Mikey Way, American bassist (My Chemical Romance)

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Deaths
918 _ Count Baldwin II of Flanders (b. 865)
954 _ King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
1167 _ Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)
1197 _ Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
1308 _ Emperor Go_Nijo of Japan (b. 1285)
1419 _ John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)
1519 _ John Colet, English churchman and educator
1559 _ Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)
1591 _ Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
1604 _ William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
1607 _ Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)
1669 _ Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
1676 _ Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
1680 _ Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
1749 _ Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
1759 _ Ferdinand Konšcak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
1797 _ Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
1801 _ Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
1851 _ Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
1867 _ Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)
1898 _ Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837)
1915 _ Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
1931 _ Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
1935 _ Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
1937 _ Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1948 _ King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
1961 _ Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
1965 _ Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)
1966 _ Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
1971 _ Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
1975 _ George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1976 _ Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)
1979 _ Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (b. 1922)
1983 _ Felix Bloch, Swiss_born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1983 _ John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
1985 _ Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)
1991 _ Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
1996 _ Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
1997 _ Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1998 _ Carl Forgione, actor (b. 1944)
1999 _ Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
2000 _ Zaib_un_Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
2004 _ Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
2005 _ Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American guitarist and singer (b. 1924)

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Holidays and observances
Calendar of Saints _ Virgin of the Wonders; Nicholas of Tolentino
Also see September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Gibraltar _ National Day
World Suicide Prevention Day
Teacher's Day in China
Day of the Child in Honduras
Grandparent's Day (US)

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Other
10 September was the name of a communist faction in Turkey.


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I copied this from Wikipedia.
It can be found in full here.

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