Wow! I was looking only for Allen--but what a great list. Thanks,
Frank--Candice
on 6/3/01 3:44 PM, Frank Parker at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> Oh, Fraaaank--isn't there a poetic BIRTHDAY you'd like to remind us of
>> today?
>>
>> Candice
>
> Oh, Candice, duh! Allen Ginsberg, Curtis Mayfield, Ian Hunter and King
> George V!!!
>
> 1761 Henry Scrapnel English inventor (shrapnel shell)
> 1780 William Hone England, author/bookseller (The Every-Day Book)
> 1804 Richard Cobden founder Anti-Corn-Law League
> 1808 Jefferson Davis Ky, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5)
> 1844 Garret Augustus Hobart (R) 24th US VP (1897-99)
> 1864 Ransom Eli Olds auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer
> 1865 George V king of England (1910-36)
> 1877 Raoul Dufy France, Fauvist painter (The Palm)
> 1895 Kavalam Madhava Panikkar India, statesman/diplomat/writer
> 19-- Kerry King rock guitarist (Slayer-Die by the Sword)
> 1901 Maurice Evans Dorchester England, actor (Maurice-Bewitched)
> 1904 Dr Charles Drew Washington DC, pioneer of blood plasma
> preservation/first director of the Red Cross blood bank
> 1904 Jan Peerce [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth], NYC, tenor (NY Met Opera)
> 1906 Josephine Baker dancer/singer/Parisian night club owner
> 1911 Dr Mason Gross TV professor (Think Fast, Two for the Money)
> 1911 Olaf Okern Norway, Nordic skier (Olympic-medal-1948)
> 1911 Paulette Goddard [Marion Levy], Switz, actress (The Great Dictator)
> 1913 Ellen Corby Racine Wisc, actress (Grandma Walton-The Waltons)
> 1922 Alain Resnais France, director (Providence, Hiroshima, Mon Amour)
> 1925 Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz], actor (Some Like It Hot, Trapeze)
> 1926 Allen Ginsberg beat poet (Howl)
> 1926 Colleen Dewhurst Montreal Canada, actress (Maggie-Blue & Grey)
> 1929 Chuck Barris Phila, TV game show producer/host (Gong Show)
> 1942 Curtis Mayfield singer (Freddie's Dead, Superfly)
> 1943 Billy Cunningham NBA/ABA (Phila 76ers, Carolina Cougers)
> 1944 Michael Clarke drummer (Byrds)
> 1945 Hale Irwin PGA golfer (US Open 1974, 79)
> 1946 Ian Hunter England, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
> 1946 Tristan Rogers Australia, actor (Robert Scorpio-General Hospital)
> 1950 Suzi Quatro Detroit, singer (Stumblin' In)/actress (Happy Days)
> 1951 Christopher Cross Texas, singer (Sailing)
> 1951 Deniece Williams singer (Love Wouldn't Let Me Wait)
> 1952 Billy Powell keyboards (Lynyrd Skynyrd-That Smell, Freebird)
> 1956 Suren Nalbandyan USSR, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
> 1958 Scott Valentine actor (Nick-Family Ties, My Demon Lover)
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