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>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) *************** Frank Parker [log in to unmask] http://now.at/frankshome