Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Happy Birthday Laura!!!

(Update: I was posting this around midnight but the links are all to September 2nd dates, which is Laura's birthday)

I hope it is fantastic and filled with wonderful moments.

Laura, I honestly cannot recall how old you are other than "timeless" and younger than myself. So let's simply run down a wee bit of month and date history:

1981 Katie Teft, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, gymnast 1996 Olympics
1980 Ashley Witmer, Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA 1997
1974 Jason Lawson, NBA center, Orlando Magic
1974 Karina Wieland, Australian rower 1996 Olympics
1973 Matthew Dunn, Leeton NSW Australia, swimmer 1996 Olympics
1972 James Willis, NFL linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles
1972 Katarina Studenikova, Bratislava Slovak Rep, tennis star
1971 Rich Aurilia, born in Brooklyn, New York, infielder for the San Francisco Giants
1971 Shauna Sand, born in San Diego, California, actress, Renegade
1971 Tommy Maddox, NFL quarterback for the New York Giants
1969 Mark Brettschneider, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actor, Jason-One Life to Live
1969 Russell Freeman, NFL tackle for the Oakland Raiders
1969 Shani Waugh, born in Bunbury, Australia, LPGA golfer, Australia sub-jr champ-1986, 87
1968 Ricardo de Jongh, soccer player, Dordrecht '90
1966 Salma Hayek, born in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, actress, Mexican national, most prominent Mexican figure in Hollywood, fights discrimination against immigrants
1965 Doug Linton, born in Santa Ana California, pitcher for the Kansas City Royals
1965 Lennox Lewis, born in West Ham, England, professional boxer, won World heavyweight championship three times, 1988 Olympic Games gold medalist
1964 Keanu Reeves, Beirut, actor, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed
1963 Sam Mitchell, NBA forward, Minnesota Timberwolves
1961 Jeff Russell, Cincinnatti, Ohio, pitcher for the Texas Rangers
1960 Eric Dickerson, Texas, NFL halfback, Los Angeles Rams, Colts/2,105 yds in 1984
1960 Rex Hudler, born in Tempe, Arizona, outfielder, New York Yankees, California Angels
1959 Esther Oosterbeek, Dutch singer, Dolly Dots
1958 Marlene Janssen, born in Rock Island, Illinois, playmate, Nov, 1982
1957 Steve Porcaro, rock keyboards/vocalist, Toto-Roseanna, Africa
1955 Linda Purl, born in Greenwich, Connecticut, actress, Gloria-Happy Days, Matlock
1953 Gerhard P J Thiele, Brenz, Germany, astronaut
1953 John Zorn, American Composer
1952 Earl Pomeroy, born in Valley City, North Dakota, Representative-D-North Dakota 1993 -
1952 Jimmy Connors, U.S. Open-78, 82, 83 Wimbledon-74, 82
1951 Mark Harmon, born in Burbank, California, actor, Dr. Caldwell-St. Elsewhere
1951 Michael Gray, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Ronnie-Brian Keith Show
1951 Jim DeMint, born in Greenville, South Carolina, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from South Carolina, representative, 4th congressional district 1999 - 2005
1949 Albert West, Dutch singer, Dumb Willie
1948 Nate Archibald, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, NBA guard
1948 Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, teacher/astronaut, STS-25
1948 Terry Bradshaw, NFL quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers/announcer, CBS, FOX
1948 Christa McAuliffe, American Astronaut
1946 Luis Avalos, Havana Cuba, actor, Condo, E/R, I Had 3 Wives
1946 Marty Grebb, Chicago, rocker, Buckinghams
1944 Claude Nicollier, born in Vevey, Switzerland, astronaut, STS-61-K, 46, 61, 75
1943 Glenn Sather, NHL coach, Edmonton Oiler
1943 Joe Simon, U.S. singer, Power of Love
1943 Rosalind Ashford, Detroit, rock vocalist, Martha Reeve and Vandellas
1941 Tommy Aycock, Edinburg, Texas, PGA golfer, 1994 Las Vegas Senior-5th
1940 Beverly Sanders, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Lotsa Luck, CPO Sharkey
1940 Jimmy Clanton, Baton Rogue, Louisiana, rock vocalist, Just a Dream
1939 Robert Lee Dickey, U.S. singer, I'm your puppet
1939 Sam Gooden, Chattanooga Tennessee, rock vocalist, Impressions-Gypsy Woman
1938 Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster
1937 Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics, 1984, baseball commissioner
1936 David Leonard Blake, composer
1936 Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
1936 Andy Grove, Hungarian Businessman
1935 Jim Moody, born in Richlands, Virginia, Representative-D-Wisconsin 1983 - 1993
1933 Mathieu Kerekou, Statesman
1931 Alan K. Simpson, born in Denver, Colorado, Senator-R-Wyoming 1979 - 1997, minority whip
1931 Pierre Huyskens, Dutch radio host
1930 Andrey Pavlovich Petrov, composer
1928 Miloslav Istvan, composer
1928 Peter Mansfield, writer
1927 Francis Matthews, British actor, On the Bowery, Paul Temple
1927 Leonard Katzman, TV producer
1927 Trudi Jochum-Beiser, Austria, downhill skier 1952 Olympics gold
1927 Tzvi Avni, born in Saarbrucken, Germany, composer, Israeli emigrated to Palestine, student of Paul Ben-Haim, founded electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music
1925 Ronnie Stevens, born in London, England, actor, Rodney-Dick and Duchess
1919 Gideon William Waldrop, composer
1919 Marge Champion, born in Los Angeles, California, dancer, Marge and Gower Champion Show
1918 Allen Drury, author, Advise and Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize
1918 Laurindo Almeida, composer/guitarist
1918 Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell
1917 Cleveland Amory, Nahant Massachusetts, conservationist/TV reviewer, TV Guide
1917 Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist, developed bossa nova
1916 Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 U.S. tennis titles
1916 Penny Santon, Greenwich Village, New York, actress, Roll Out, Matt Houston
1915 Dai-Keong Lee, composer
1915 Hans Joachim Koellreutter, composer
1914 Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist
1914 Tom Glazer, American Musician
1913 Bill Shankly, Scottish Athlete
1912 Johan Daisne, Herman Thiery, Belgian writer, magic realism
1911 Eileen Way, actress, Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings, Assassin
1911 Rene Amengual, composer
1910 Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher
1908 Barbara Jo Allen, New York City, actress, Ice Capades Revue, Rosie the Riveter
1905 Bernard C J Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposophist?, founder Free College
1904 Set Svanholm, Vasteras Sweden, tenor, London Convent Garden 1948-57
1904 Vera Vague, Barbara Jo Allen, New York City, actress, Follow the Leader
1894 Joseph Roth, Austria, journalist and writer, Hotel Savoy
1892 Felix Wolfes, composer
1887 Willem De Merode, protestant poet
1884 Frank Laubach, born in Benton, Pennsylvania, educator, taught reading through phonetics
1878 Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr
1877 Frederick Soddy, English Scientist
1870 Marie Ault, Wigan England
1869 Delfien Vanhaute, Eckart, Flem pastor/poet, Parsifal, Ark of Noe
1866 Hiram Johnson, Gov-Progressive-Cal
1856 Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion
1853 Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist, Nobel 1909
1850 Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
1850 Eugene Field, author/journalist, Little Boy Blue
1847 George Robert Sims, English Journalist
1839 Henry George, land reformer/writer, Progress and Poverty
1838 Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii, 1891 - 1893
1837 James Harrison Wilson, Major General Union volunteers
1814 Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian
1798 Thomas Holliday Hicks, Union Gov
1778 Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician
1778 Louis Bonaparte, French Royalty
1763 Caroline von Schelling, Michaelis, German author
1750 Pehr Frigel, composer
1731 Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright, Olint und Sophronia
1716 Johann Trier, composer
1705 Abraham Tucker, British Philosopher
1675 William Somerville, English Poet
1661 Georg Bohm, German organist/composer


And more from Wikipedea, God Bless and Happy Birthday Laura, I will find more!!

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1 comment:

Tom Kamkari said...

Happy Birthday Laura, better late then never I guess, lol.