#561 Tamara de Lempicka / Leon D. Cuddeback – 16 May 1898

Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka (Łempicka) (16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), born Maria Górska in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter and “the first woman artist to be a glamour star”.

  Young Lady with Gloves, 1930

Leon D. Cuddeback

Leon Dewey Cuddeback (May 16, 1898 – July 6, 1984) flew the first scheduled, civilian Air Mail (Contract Air Mail) flight in the United States on April 6, 1926. Because the start of the contract air mail system is considered the beginning of airline service, Cuddeback’s flight is cited as the first U.S. airline flight, and is also celebrated as the “birthday” of United Airlines.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_de_Lempicka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_D._Cuddeback

Also born on this day:
Jean Fautrier was a French painter and sculptor.
Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth was a British landowner and politician.
Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Gordon Hickman Garland was a conservative Democratic California state legislator.
Desanka Maksimović was a Serbian poet and professor of literature.
Gordon McGregor Sloan was a lawyer, judge and political figure in British Columbia.
Louis Hudson was a Canadian ice hockey player.

#560 Freddie Garrity / Stephen Lewis – 14 November 1936

Freddie Garrity

Freddie Garrity (14 November 1936 – 19 May 2006) was a singer and actor who was frontman and comical element in the 1960s pop band, Freddie and the Dreamers.

Stephen Lewis

Stephen Lewis (born Stephen Cato 14 November 1936) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Inspector Cyril “Blakey” Blake in the LWT sitcom On the Buses and Clem “Smiler” Hemmingway in the longest running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Garrity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Lewis_(actor)

Also born on this day:
Cornell Gunter was an American rhythm and blues singer
James Gilreath was an American pop singer and songwriter
Sven O. Høiby was the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway
Ron Tarr was a British actor
Josefina Molina is a Spanish film director and screenwriter
Guy Ignolin was a French professional road bicycle racer
Algimantas Adolfas Jucys was a Lithuania n theoretical physicist
Rubén Héctor Sosa is a Argentine football forward
Wang Pinxian is a well-known marine geologist
Ted Sorel was an American actor
Carey Bell was an American blues musician
Antonio Gades was a Spanish flamenco dancer
Thomas G. Nelson  was a United States federal judge
Bob Walkup served as the 40th Mayor of Tucson, Arizona
Alexandru Dincă was a Romanian journalist

#559 Grace Jones / Chris Chittell – 19 May 1948

Grace Jones

Grace Jones (born May 19, 1948) is a Jamaican singer, model and actress. Jones started out as a model and became a muse to Andy Warhol.  She has recorded ten studio albums and appeared in several films including the 1985 James Bond movie A View to a Kill.

Chris Chittell

Christopher John Chittell (born 19 May 1948, Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English actor best known for his role as Eric Pollard in ITV’s Emmerdale, a part that he has played since 1986.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Jones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Chittell

Also born on this day:
Bruce Jarchow is an American film and television actor
Sal Esquivel is a Republican politician from the US state of Oregon
Jean-Pierre Haigneré is a French Air Force officer and a former CNES astronaut
Boet van Dulmen is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
Richard Doherty is a military historian and author from County Londonderry
Alan Lawson is a retired Scottish rugby union player.
Judy McBurney is an Australian actress famous in several television soap opera roles
Bill Callaghan is currently Chair of the Legal Services Commission
Tom Scott is an American saxophonist , composer , arranger , conductor and bandleader
Paul Williams is an American music journalist and writer.
Charlie Chin (born Qin Xianglin) is a Chinese actor.
Al Santorini is a former Major League Baseball pitcher

#558 Charlie Drake / Chris Hayward / Robert Fyfe – 19 June 1925

Charlie Drake

Charlie Drake (19 June 1925 – 23 December 2006) was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer. He was a popular comedian with children in his early years, becoming nationally-known for his “Hello, my darlings” catchphrase. He is particularly remembered for the TV series The Worker and his recording of My Boomerang Won’t Come Back.

Chris Hayward

Christopher Robert Hayward (19 June 1925 – 20 November 2006) was an American television writer and producer. He was the co-creator of the 1960s television show The Munsters and the creator of Dudley Do-Right. He was a writer for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Alice, Barney Miller, Get Smart, 77 Sunset Strip and My Mother the Car.

Robert Fyfe

Robert Fyfe (born 19 June 1925; Alloa, Scotland) is a Scottish actor, who has appeared as Howard on the long-running British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 1985 to 2010.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Drake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hayward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fyfe

Also born on this day:
Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo was a South African politician
Herbert Keller was an American applied mathematician
George Fisher is an English footballer
Jackie Fisher is an English footballer
Halvor Bjellaanes was a Norwegian politician
Bob Martin is an American rower

#557 Jack Douglas / Derek Waring – 26 April 1927

Jack Douglas

Jack Douglas, born John Roberton (26 April 1927 – 18 December 2008) was an English actor most famous for his roles in the Carry On films. He worked with Des O’Connor for several years and in the theatre, developing a nervous character “Alf Ippititimus”, notable for his “phwaay!” catchphrase and his apparent muscular tics.

Derek Waring

Derek Waring (born Derek Barton-Chapple; 26 April 1927 – 20 February 2007) was an English actor who is best remembered for playing Detective Inspector Goss in Z-Cars from 1969 to 1973. He was married to the actress Dame Dorothy Tutin.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Douglas_(actor)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Waring

Also born on this day:
Granny Hamner was an American shortstop and second baseman in Major League Baseball.
Cecil Null was an American songwriter.
Michel Kervaire was a French mathematician.
Paul Costello was a rugby union player.
Anne McLaren was a leading figure in developmental biology.
John Ralston is a former American football player, coach, and sports executive.
Harry Gallatin is a retired American professional basketball player and coach.
Robert Robinson is a retired American Baptist pastor and theologian.
Al Carapella is a former American Football defensive tackle.
Bob Zick is a former Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs.

#556 Ludwig Wittgenstein / James Wordie – 26 April 1889

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947. In his lifetime he published just one book review, one article, a children’s dictionary, and the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921). In 1999 his posthumously published Philosophical Investigations (1953) was ranked as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy.

James Wordie

Sir James Mann Wordie, CBE (26 April 1889 – 16 January 1962) was a Scottish polar explorer and geologist. In 1914, Wordie joined Sir Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic, known as the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, where he acted as geologist and chief of scientific staff. Wordie sailed on nine polar expeditions. He was Master of St John’s College, and was knighted in 1957 for his contributions to British polar exploration.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wordie

Also born on this day:
James Tylden was an English cricketer.
Nibs Price was an American football and basketball coach.
Margaret H’Doubler created the first dance major at the University of Wisconsin.
Leonard T. Troland was an American physicist.
Peter Denny Strang was an English sportsman who played rugby union at an international level.

#555 Jimmy Osmond / Nick Berry – 16 April 1963

Jimmy Osmond

James Arthur “Jimmy” Osmond (born on April 16, 1963 in Canoga Park, California) is an American singer, actor, and businessman. Jimmy Osmond is the youngest of the Osmonds and an occasional member of their musical group. He has earned six gold records.

Nick Berry

Nicholas “Nick” Berry (born 16 April 1963) is a British television actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Simon Wicks in the British soap opera EastEnders from 1985 to 1990, and as PC Nick Rowan in the British television drama series Heartbeat from 1992 to 1998.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Osmond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Berry

Also born on this day:
Hu Na is a former professional tennis player.
Saleem Malik is a former Pakistani cricketer.
Dean DeFazio is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward.
Hwang Cine is a South Korean actress and model.
Rebecca Saire is a British actress and writer.
Terry Redman is an Australian politician.
Kerry Rea is an Australian politician.
Tom Buckner is an English long distance runner.
Peter Valentine is an English former professional footballer.
David Pearson is a former English cricketer.
Garry Galley is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman.
Chaka Demus is a Jamaican reggae musician and DJ .
Dani Jacobs is a British music video director and editor.
Keith Packard is a software developer , best known for his work on the X Window System
Prince Hermann Friedrich of Leiningen is a great-great-great grandson of Queen Victoria.
Pete Stanicek is a former Major League Baseball player.

#554 Liz McClarnon / Laura Bell Bundy – 10 April 1981

Liz McClarnon

Elizabeth Margaret “Liz” McClarnon (born 10 April 1981) is an English pop singer, dancer and television presenter. She is a member of the girl group Atomic Kitten and originated the role of Paulette in the first UK tour of Legally Blonde the musical.

Laura Bell Bundy

Laura Ashley Bell Bundy (born April 10, 1981) is an American actress and singer who has performed in a number of Broadway roles, both starring and supporting, as well as in television and film. Her best known Broadway roles are the original Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray and the original Elle Woods in the musical version of Legally Blonde.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_McClarnon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bell_Bundy

Also born on this day:
Gretchen Bleiler is an American professional halfpipe snowboarder.
Elina Kettunen is a Finnish retired competitive figure skater.
Timmy Williams is an American actor , comedian and writer.
Daouda Jabi is a Guinean footballer.
Vera Shimanskaya is a Russian rhythmic gymnast.
Todd Jackson is an American professional ice hockey player.
Joel Parkinson is an Australian surfer who competes on the ASP World Tour.
Anis Boussaïdi is a Tunisian footballer.
Emilio Martínez is a Paraguayan footballer.
Fábio Luís Ramim is a naturalized Azerbaijani football midfielder.
Lætitia Bléger is a beauty queen who has competed at the Miss Universe pageant.
Sedat Bayrak is a Turkish professional footballer.
Des Byrne is an Irish footballer.
Peter Ďuriš is a Slovak football midfielder.
José Vega Díez is a Spanish professional footballer.
Chen Lisha is a female sprinter from PR China.
Isaac Uche is a Nigerian sprinter.
Erjon Dine is an Albanian football player.
Abdoulaye Diawara is an Ivorian footballer.
Michael Pitt is an American actor and musician.
Khan Malaythong is an American badminton player.
Alexei Semenov is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman.
Nina Petković is a Montenegrin singer.
Kenny Satterfield is an American professional basketball player.
Sergei Serdyukov is a Russian professional footballer.
Dmitri Turutin is a Russian professional footballer.
Jeb Terry is an American football guard.

#553 Chuck Connors / Sheb Wooley – 10 April 1921

Chuck Connors

Kevin Joseph “Chuck” Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. His best-known role from his forty-year film career was Lucas McCain in the 1960s ABC hit Western series The Rifleman.

Sheb Wooley

Shelby F. “Sheb” Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty song “Purple People Eater”. He played Ben Miller, brother of Frank Miller in the film High Noon, played Travis Cobb in The Outlaw Josey Wales, and also had a co-starring role as scout Pete Nolan in the television program Rawhide.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Connors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheb_Wooley

Also born on this day:
Harry Warburton is a Swiss bobsledder.
Robert Wade was a British chess player
Thelma Pressman was a pioneering microwave cooking consultant
Daniel Ferro is an American bass-baritone and voice teacher.
Peter Carter was a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Wadham College, Oxford .
Nina Onilova was a Soviet machine gunner in the Red Army ‘s 25th Rifle Division who fought the Germans near Odessa
Hamza Alavi was an academic sociologist and activist
Jake Warren was the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Paul Martineau was a Canadian politician, lawyer, crown attorney and judge
Francis M. Gibbons was the secretary to the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mustafa Krantja is an Albania n conductor and composer.
Cecil A. Partee was an Illinois African American legislator.

#552 Ward Bond / Gregory Goodwin Pincus – 09 April 1903

Ward Bond

Wardell Edwin “Ward” Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960) was an American film actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm were featured in over 200 movies and the television series Wagon Train.

Gregory Goodwin Pincus

Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus (April 9, 1903 – August 22, 1967) was an American biologist and researcher who co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Bond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Goodwin_Pincus

Also born on this day:
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor was a British Conservative Party politician.
Stanisław Wigura was a Polish aircraft designer and aviator
Mimi Pollak was a Swedish actress and theatre director.
Ernst von Siemens was a German industrialist
Wolf-Dietrich von Xylander was a highly decorated Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht
Pietro Pastore was an Italian professional football player

#551 Anna Raeburn / Tony Orlando – 03 April 1944

Anna Raeburn

Anna Raeburn (born 3 April 1944) is a British broadcaster and journalist who is famous for her role giving advice on life relationship and more general life problems. Anna Raeburn won a gold Sony award in 1998, and a bronze Sony award in 2007 for speech broadcaster of the year. She was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in December 2006

Tony Orlando

Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis (born April 3, 1944), better known as Tony Orlando, is an American show business professional, best known as the lead singer of the group Tony Orlando and Dawn in the early 1970s. They had several songs which were major hits including “Knock Three Times”, and “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree”.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Raeburn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Orlando

Also born on this day:
Randy Beverly is a former professional American football player.
Lamberto Bava is an Italian film director, specializing in horror and fantasy films.
Robert Goebbels is a politician in Luxembourg and a Member of the European Parliament.
Bob McGregor was a Scottish swimmer.
Oladipo Diya is a retired Lt. General in the Nigerian Army.
Derek Higgs was an English businessman and merchant banker
Ramazan Rragami is a former national football player for Albania.
Storrs L. Olson is an American biologist and ornithologist.
Gomer Hodge was an American professional baseball player
Jaroslav Škarvan is a Czechoslavak handball player
Vance D. Coffman was the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Michel-Marie-Bernard Calvet is the French -born New Caledonian Archbishop.
Grover Furr is an American professor.
Ricardo Munguía Padilla was a Mexican footballer .
Sergio Codognato is a retired Italian professional football player.

#550 Ewan McGregor / Craig McCracken – 31 March 1971

Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor (born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor who has had success in mainstream, indie, and art house films. He is perhaps best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting (1996), Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005), and poet Christian in the musical film Moulin Rouge! (2001). He has also received critical acclaim for his starring roles in theatre productions of Guys and Dolls (2005–07) and Othello (2007–08). McGregor was ranked No. 36 on Empire magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list in 1997.

Craig McCracken

Craig McCracken is a cartoonist/animator born March 31, 1971 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. He created and produced The Powerpuff Girls and  Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends which both won  Emmy and Annie awards. After leaving Cartoon Network he developed a live action/animation projects at Sony Pictures Animation and r Disney Television Animation.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_McGregor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_McCracken

Also born on this day:

Ramón Garbey is a heavyweight boxer from Cuba.
Martin Atkinson is an English professional football referee.
Boštjan Žitnik is a Slovenian slalom canoer.
Barry Dignam is an Irish filmmaker.
Dvir Abramovich is an Australian academic, scholar, columnist, editor, and public intellectual.
Paul Grayson is a former English cricketer.
Klaus Härö is a Finland-Swedish film director.
Edgar Valencia is a retired Guatemalan football midfielder.
Jeff Singer is a British musician and former drummer of Paradise Lost.
Alison James is a New Zealand actor.
Tibor Ordina is a retired Hungarian athlete.
Tinav Ahmedov is a Russian judo ka.
Pavel Bure is a retired Russian professional ice hockey right winger.
Michael Douglas is a Canadian skeleton racer.
Demetris Assiotis is a former international Cypriot football midfielder.

#549 John Barry / Jeremy Brett / Michael Dukakis / Ken Berry – 03 November 1933

John Barry

John Barry Prendergast, OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English conductor and composer of film music. He is best known for composing the soundtracks for 12 of the James Bond films between 1962 and 1987. He wrote the scores to the award winning films Midnight Cowboy, Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, in a career which lasted over 50 years.

Jeremy Brett

Jeremy Brett (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995), born Peter Jeremy William Huggins, was an English actor.  In 1956 he appeared on Broadway. From the early 1960s, Brett starred in several serials on British TV. His highest profile film appearance was as Freddie Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady (1964). He is best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in four Granada TV series.

Michael Dukakis

Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988.

Ken Berry

Kenneth Ronald “Ken” Berry (born November 3, 1933) is an American dancer, comedic actor and singer. He began on stage as a dancer and later starred in television sitcoms including F Troop. Berry’s film credits include the Disney motion pictures Herbie Rides Again, and The Cat from Outer Space.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barry_(composer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Brett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Berry

Also born on this day:
Aneta Corsaut was an American actress.
Amartya Sen is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Jaffer Sharief is a prominent politician from Karnataka state in India.
Celina Jesionowska is a Polish athlete.
Reginald Carter was an English cricketer.
Enrique González is a Spanish Olympic fencer.
Louis Wade Sullivan is an American physician and businessman.
Života Panić was the last acting minister of defense and army chief of staff in the Yugoslav government.
Robert E. Kelley was a U.S. Air Force general.

#548 Patrick Duffy / Stuart Rose – 17 March 1949

Patrick Duffy

Patrick George Duffy (born March 17, 1949) is an American character actor of stage and film. He is best known for his role on the CBS television drama Dallas, where he played Bobby Ewing from 1978 to 1985 and from 1986 to 1991.

Stuart Rose

Sir Stuart Alan Ransom Rose (born 17 March 1949) is a British businessman, who was the executive chairman of the British retailer Marks & Spencer.  Rose first joined Marks & Spencer in 1972, as a management trainee. He was knighted in 2008 for his services to the retail industry.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Duffy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Rose

Also born on this day:
Daniel Lavoie is a Canadian singer–songwriter.
Pat Rice is a former Northern Irish football player and coach.
Little Pattie is the stage name of Australian singer, Patricia Thelma Amphlett OAM.
Werner Lämmerhirt is a noted German singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Pavel Palazhchenko is a high-level Soviet conference interpreter and principal English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev.
Ned Lagin is an American avant-garde keyboardist.
Shih Wing-ching is a Chinese businessman.
Bruce McIntosh is a retired American ice hockey defenseman.

#547 Judy Garland / Bill Kerr – 10 June 1922

Judy Garland

Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer and vaudevillian. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. She was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Actress for her role in the remake of A Star is Born and for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1961 film, Judgment at Nuremberg. At 39 years of age, she remains the youngest recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the motion picture industry.

Bill Kerr

William ‘Bill’ Kerr (born 10 June 1922) is an Australian film and television actor. During the 1940s he was regularly featured in the BBC radio series Variety Bandbox. His trademark was his catch phrase “I’m only here for 4 minutes…”. In the 1950s, he had a recurring role as an Australian lodger in the BBC radio comedy series Hancock’s Half Hour.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kerr

Also born on this day:
Angela Giussani Angela and Luciana Giussani were two Italian sisters, very famous for their comic book anti-hero series, Diabolik.
Keris Mas born Kamaluddin Muhamad, was a prominent Malaysian literary figure.
Edvard Hagerup Bull is a notable Norwegian composer.
Luís Romano de Madeira Melo was a bilingual poet, novelist, and folklorist.
Mohamad Sadli was a leading Indonesia n policy-maker and economist.
Boris Brunov was a Soviet actor and entertainer.
Erling Danielsen was a Norwegian politician.
Alvise Zorzi is an Italian journalist and writer from Venice.
Margaret Baxtresser was an internationally renowned American concert pianist.
Rose Mofford is a retired American civil servant and politician.
Robert Alan Aurthur was an American screenwriter , director and TV producer.
Leonard Gershe was an American playwright , screenwriter , and lyricist.
Joseph Aubin Doiron was the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
Ann-Britt Leyman is a Swedish athlete.

#546 Liza Minnelli / Frank Welker – 12 March 1946

Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli.  Minnelli rose to international stardom for her appearance as Sally Bowles in the 1972 film version of the Broadway musical Cabaret, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Frank Welker

Franklin Wendell “Frank” Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American actor who specializes in voice acting. Welker is one of the highest grossing actors in Hollywood. In the Hollywood league-table of the top 100 credited actors at the box office since 1980, No 1 is Frank Welker with over $6bn (£3.7bn) for 95 feature film credits. Welker’s first voice role came in 1969, as Fred Jones in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. He has since provided voices in Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Transformers, Simpsons, The Smurfs and others. He has also created the vocal effects for different animals in films.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liza_Minnelli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Welker

Also born on this day:
Ricky King is a German guitarist.
Ludo Martens was a Belgian historian.
Serge Turgeon was a Quebec actor and union leader.
Frits van Dongen is an architect from the Netherlands.
Ya’acov Dorchin is an Israeli sculptor and painter.
Ineke Lambers-Hacquebard is a Dutch politician.
Sjur Torgersen was a Norwegian Ambassador and diplomat.
Dean Cundey is an American cinematographer.
Jerry Howarth is an American Canadian recognized as the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Ilkka Niiniluoto is a Finnish philosopher and mathematician.
Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator.
Dan R. Eastman was an American Republican Party politician and businessman.
Alan Hays is a Republican Representative in the House of Representatives.
Shelby Bryan is an American communications executive.

#545 Max Fleischer / Louis Paulhan – 19 July 1883

Max Fleischer

Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was an American animator. He was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such animated characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations. Fleischer devised a concept to simplify the process of animating movement by tracing frames of live action film called the Rotoscope.

Louis Paulhan

Isidore Auguste Marie Louis Paulhan, known as Louis Paulhan, (19 July 1883 Pézenas, Hérault – 10 February 1963 Saint-Jean-de-Luz) was a pioneering French aviator who in 1910 flew “Le Canard”, the world’s first seaplane, designed by Henri Fabre. He is also credited with the first medical evacuation by air and the first powered flight into Manchester from outside the city (while winning the 1910 London to Manchester air race).

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Fleischer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Paulhan

Also born on this day:
Archibald Douglas was a Swedish nobleman and soldier.
James P. McIntyre was a farmer, lobster packer and political figure on Prince Edward Island.
Cornelis den Held was a Dutch athlete.
Wincenty Rzymowski was a Polish politician and writer.
William Boardman Armstrong was a lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia.

#544 Yvonne De Carlo / Vittorio Gassman – 01 September 1922

Yvonne De Carlo

Yvonne De Carlo (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American actress of film and television. During her six-decade career, her most frequent appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best-known film roles, such as Sephora the wife of Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956), starring Charlton Heston; and Amantha Starr in Band of Angels (1957) with Clark Gable. In the early 1960s, De Carlo playd Lily Munster for the television series The Munsters.

Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI (born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore (the spotlight chaser), was an Italian theatre and film actor and director. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors whose long career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements (which made him greatly popular).

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_De_Carlo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Gassman

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Antonio Bueno was an Italian painter of Spanish origin.
Pierce Butler was a creamery manager and Fine Gael politician from County Tipperary in Ireland.
Sir Kenneth C. Bradshaw KCB was Clerk of the House of Commons.
Raffaele Frumenti was an Italian painter.
Heinz Ewald was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace.
Melvin R. Laird is an American politician and writer.
Joe Astroth is a retired American professional baseball player.
Charles McGregor was an African American film actor.
Frank Nikolay was an American politician and lawyer.

#543 Gillian Anderson / Eric Bana – 09 August 1968

Gillian Anderson

Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress. After beginning her career in theatre, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on the American television series The X-Files. In 2006, Anderson was nominated for a British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) for Best Actress and won the Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Award for Best Actress for her role in Bleak House. Anderson also received an Emmy nomination for her performance as Lady Dedlock. She appeared to some acclaim as Miss Havisham in a three-part BBC adaptation of Great Expectations.

Eric Bana

Eric Bana (born 9 August 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He gainied critical recognition in the biopic Chopper (2000). After a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Bana gained Hollywood’s attention in Black Hawk Down (2001), the lead role as Bruce Banner in the Ang Lee directed film Hulk (2003), Hector in the movie Troy (2004), the lead in Steven Spielberg’s Munich (2005), and the villain Nero in the science-fiction film Star Trek (2009).

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Anderson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Bana

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Hugo Duarte born in Brazil is a retired mixed martial arts fighter.
Jay Stacy is a former field hockey midfielder.
Kate Gerbeau is an English television presenter and news reader.
Helga Stevens is a Belgian politician.
Nariyasu Yasuhara is a former Japanese football player.
Jon Olav Alstad is a Norwegian politician.
McG is an American director and producer of film and television.
Sam Fogarino is the drummer of New York City -based band Interpol.
Andrew Swan is a politician in Manitoba , Canada.
Jarrod Bunch is a former American football running back.
Mugabe Were was a Kenyan politician.
Rob Goraieb is a singer  songwriter and guitarist.
Adrian Ursu is a Romania n journalist.
Chris Stone (also known as Bobby Vega) is a Hispanic-American pornographic actor.

#542 Paris Hilton / Joseph Gordon-Levitt – 17 February 1981

Paris Hilton

Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American businesswoman, potential future heiress and socialite. In recent years Hilton is perhaps most known for starring in a number of her own produced reality shows. She appeared in the 2007 Guinness World Records as the world’s “Most Overrated Celebrity”.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American actor whose career as both a child and adult has included television series and theatrical films. He  co-starred in the television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. He is known for his roles in the 2009 indie film (500) Days of Summer (for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination), a supporting role in the 2010 science fiction film Inception, and for starring in the 2011 drama 50/50 (for which he earned his second Golden Globe nomination).

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gordon-Levitt

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Masrezwan Masturi is a Singapore an football player.
Songül Öden is a Turkish actress.
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Bernhard Eisel is an Austrian professional road cycling racer.
Tiberiu Bălan is a Romanian football player.
John Hassall is an English musician and bassist for The Libertines.
Andrew Stephenson is a British Conservative Party politician.
Lisa Skinner is an Australian gymnast.
Dmytro Hlushchenko is a Ukrainian sprinter.
Attila Kovács is a Hungarian football player.
Anders Fredriksen is a Norwegian professional ice hockey player.
Cassandra Ford is a visual artist.
Simas Skinderis is a Lithuanian professional footballer.
Hugo Évora is a Cape Verdean- Portuguese footballer.
Khumo Motlhabane is a Botswanan footballer.
T. J. Duckett is an American football running back.
Ryan Hinds is a West Indian cricketer.
Brett Rogers is a mixed martial artist.
Andrew Brown is a professional baseball relief pitcher.
Paul Wasicka is a professional poker player.
Lindsay Jo Rimer a thirteen year old girl from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom , who was murdered. Her murder remains unsolved.
Gregor Bermbach is a German bobsledder.
Dion Frazer is a Belizean professional football striker.
Pontus Segerström is a Swedish footballer.
Diego Guidi is a Argentine footballer.
Shi Na is a female Chinese athletics race walker.
Sean Michael Becker is an American film director, film producer and editor.
Tafadzwa Madondo was a Zimbabwean cricketer.
Sean Poolman is an American Actor.