Wednesday, April 22, 2009

 

Celebrating the Day

Happy Lenin's Birthday! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Владимир Ильич Ульянов, one of the world's more murderous mass murderers, was born this day in 1870. Oh, it's Earth Day too. I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

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Coincidence? Most likely. But nothing would make the militant warmies, the PETAs, the neo-Greenpeacers etc... happier than to see the world population decrease. Sadly, if these groups have their way, that's exactly what will happen. And, it will be accompanied with incredible and unnecessary human suffering that would make Lenin proud.
 
[edit] Births
1451 – Queen Isabella I of Castile (d. 1504)
1610 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1658 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (d. 1709)
1690 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)
1692 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)
1707 – Henry Fielding, English author (d. 1754)
1711 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)
1724 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
1744 – James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)
1766 – Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1812 – Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (d. 1894)
1816 – Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897)
1832 – Julius Sterling Morton, Arbor Day founder (d. 1902)
1840 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
1844 – Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
1852 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
1854 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1943)
1860 – Ada Rehan, American stage actress (d. 1916)
1868 – Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
1870 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1872 – Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)
1873 – Ellen Glasgow, American author (d. 1945)
1876 – Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1876 – Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)
1881 – Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
1884 – Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (d. 1939)
1889 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945)
1891 – Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
1891 – Nicola Sacco, American anarchist (d. 1927)
1891 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965)
1892 – Vernon Johns, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1904 – Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
1905 – Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (d. 1991)
1906 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
1906 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, second in line to the Swedish throne (d. 1946)
1907 – Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972)
1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel laureate
1909 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (d. 2001)
1910 – Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1912 – Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (d. 1953)
1914 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)
1914 – Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944)
1916 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
1918 – Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1919 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)
1922 – Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)
1922 – Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (d. 1973)
1923 – Avis Bunnage, English actress (d. 1990)
1923 – Bettie Page, American model (d. 2008)
1923 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (d. 2006)
1925 – George Cole, English actor
1926 – Charlotte Rae, American actress
1926 – James Stirling, British architect (d. 1992)
1927 – Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (d. 2005)
1929 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician
1935 – Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (d. 1969)
1936 – Glen Campbell, American musician
1936 – Pierre Hétu, French Canadian conductor and pianist (d. 1998)
1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor
1937 – Jack Nitzsche, American composer (d. 2000)
1938 – Adam Raphael, English journalist and author
1939 – Mel Carter, American singer
1939 – Jason Miller, American playwright (d. 2001)
1939 – Theodor Waigel, German politician and finance minister
1943 – Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate
1944 – Steve Fossett, American adventurer (d. 2007)
1946 – Nicole Garcia, French actress and director
1946 – Louise Harel, Canadian politician
1946 – John Waters, American film writer
1946 – Steven L. Bennett, USAF Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1972)
1950 – Peter Frampton, English musician
1950 – Zygi Wilf, owner of the Minnesota Vikings
1951 – Paul Carrack, English musician
1951 – Ana María Shua, Argentine poet
1952 – François Berléand, French actor
1952 – Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (d. 2009)
1953 – Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
1955 – Johnnie To, Hong Kong film director and producer
1957 – Donald Tusk, Polish Prime Minister
1958 – Ken Olandt, American actor
1959 – Terry Francona, American baseball manager
1959 – Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress
1959 – Ryan Stiles, Canadian-born actor
1960 – Mart Laar, Estonian statesman
1960 – Gary Rhodes, English chef
1960 – Randall L. Stephenson, American business executive
1961 – Dewey Nicks, American photographer and film director
1962 – Jeff Minter, English video game programmer
1964 – Estelle Asmodelle, actress, model & writer
1965 – Lauri Hendler, actress
1965 – Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Fletcher Dragge, American guitarist (Pennywise)
1966 – Mariana Levy, Mexican actress (d. 2005)
1966 – Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor
1967 – Sheryl Lee, American actress
1967 – Sherri Shepherd, American comedian and actress
1967 – Harvey Williams, American football player
1968 – Zarley Zalapski, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Dion Dublin, English footballer
1970 – Andrea Giani, Italian volleyball player
1970 – Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
1971 – Daisuke Enomoto, Japanese space tourist
1971 – Eric Mabius, American actor
1972 – Sabine Appelmans, Belgian tennis player
1972 – Owen Finegan , Australian rugby union footballer
1973 – Adem Poric, Australian footballer
1973 – Ofer Talker, Israeli footballer
1974 – Diego Costa, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1974 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian/American bassist (System of a Down)
1975 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999)
1975 – Carlos Sastre, Spanish cyclist
1976 – Dan Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Paul Henderson, Australian footballer
1976 – Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer
1977 – Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer
1977 – Aaron Fink, American guitarist (Breaking Benjamin)
1978 – Jason Stollsteimer, American singer (The Von Bondies)
1978 – Esteban Tuero, Argentinian race car driver
1979 – Zoltán Gera, Hungarian footballer
1979 – Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1980 – Nicolas Douchez, French footballer
1980 – Courtney Friel, American sports & entertainment reporter
1980 – Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 – Aaron Michael Metchik, American actor
1981 – Ken Dorsey, American football player
1982 – Tim Hamilton, Czech pornographic actor
1982 – Kaká, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Matt Jones, American football player
1983 – Jos Hooiveld, Dutch footballer
1984 – Michelle Ryan, English actress
1984 – Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)
1985 – Matt Ballinger, American singer (Dream Street)
1986 – Amber Heard, American actress
1986 – Marshawn Lynch, American football player
1986 – Dusan Sakota, Serbian/Greek basketball player
1988 – Matthew Snowdon, American Ultimate Frisbee player & pornographic actor


Sorry Gentlemen but the date of April 22 was chosen b/c it is the birthdate, in 1711, of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College whose color id green.

T
 
T, you must be as busy at the office as I am. You could have stopped at John Waters because none of the rest were famous by 1970. I would have been willing to buy Julius Morton but not Wheelock. Funny that Kerensky and Lenin were born on the same day.
 
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