Showing posts with label August 17th. Show all posts
Showing posts with label August 17th. Show all posts

Tuesday

If at first you don't succeed, that pretty much does it for skydiving.



If at first you don't succeed, that pretty much does it for skydiving.is my saying for today (August 17th)!

Quote of the day: "The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us." by Quentin Crisp

Word of the day: burgoo - noun: a thick oatmeal eaten by sailors (not to be confused with bird-goo)

August 16th is the 229th day of the year (230th in a leap year) and there are 136 days left until the end of the year.

If today is your Birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

If you would like your birthday or a family member, or even a friends included in my "Birthday List", just leave a comment with all the pertinent information like Name, nickname, occupation and date of birth!

Famous People Who Birthday Is Today!

Births
  • 1473, Duke of York, Richard
  • 1578, Italian painter, Francesco Albani (d. 1660)
  • 1601, French mathematician, Pierre de Fermat (d. 1665)
  • 1629, King John III of Poland (d. 1696)
  • 1686, Italian composer, Nicola Porpora (d. 1768)
  • 1753, Czech linguist, Josef Dobrovský (d. 1828)
  • 1768, French general, Louis Charles Antoine Desaix (d. 1800)
  • 1786, Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
  • 1786, Mother of Queen Victoria, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1861)
  • 1794, German priest, Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (d. 1849)
  • 1828, French neurologist, Jules Bernard Luys (d. 1897)
  • 1844, Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
  • 1863, American author and naturalist, Gene Stratton-Porter (d. 1924)
  • 1866, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Mahboob Ali Khan (d. 1911)
  • 1866, English actress, Julia Marlowe (d. 1950)
  • 1873, American gynecologist, John A. Sampson (d. 1946)
  • 1878, Australian cricketer, Reggie Duff (d. 1911)
  • 1880, South African cricketer, Percy Sherwell (d. 1948)
  • 1887, Jamaican-born Black rights activist, Marcus Garvey (d. 1940)
  • 1887, Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
  • 1888, American actor, Monty Woolley (d. 1963)
  • 1890, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce, Harry Hopkins (d. 1946)
  • 1890, Polish aviator, Stefan Bastyr (d. 1920)
  • 1893, American actress, Mae West (d. 1980)
  • 1896, American military engineer, Leslie Groves (d. 1970)
  • 1904, Austrian musicologist, Leopold Nowak (d. 1991)
  • 1904, American newspaper editor and politician, Mary Cain (d. 1984)
  • 1909, American trumpeter and bandleader, Larry Clinton (d. 1985)
  • 1911, Russian chess player, Mikhail Botvinnik (d. 1995)
  • 1911, German military officer, Martin Sandberger (d. 2010)
  • 1913, American Watergate informant, W. Mark Felt (d. 2008)
  • 1913, American baseball player, Rudy York (d. 1970)
  • 1913, Argentine racing driver, Óscar Alfredo Gálvez (d. 1989)
  • 1914, Son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (d. 1988)
  • 1919, American singer, Georgia Gibbs (d. 2006)
  • 1920, Irish actress, Maureen O'Hara
  • 1921, British historian, Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (d. 1994)
  • 1922, England cricketer, Roy Tattersall
  • 1926, Chinese politician, Jiang Zemin
  • 1926, British singer, George Melly (d. 2007)
  • 1926, French actor, director and screenwriter, Jean Poiret (d. 1992)
  • 1929, American U-2 pilot, Francis Gary Powers (d. 1977)
  • 1930, American actor, Glenn Corbett (d. 1993)
  • 1930, English poet, Ted Hughes (d. 1998)
  • 1932, West Indian writer, Nobel Laureate, V. S. Naipaul
  • 1933, American NASA executive, Eugene F. Kranz
  • 1933, Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986)
  • 1935, Russian actor, Oleg Tabakov
  • 1936, Native American musician and actor, Floyd Red Crow Westerman (d. 2007)
  • 1938, Indonesian Muslim cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir
  • 1938, Greek politician, Theodoros Pangalos
  • 1939, American musician, Luther Allison (d. 1997)
  • 1939, British actor, Anthony Valentine
  • 1940, Argentinian film director, Eduardo Mignogna (d. 2006)
  • 1941, French Canadian film director, Jean Pierre Lefebvre
  • 1941, American baseball player, Boog Powell
  • 1943, American actor, Robert De Niro
  • 1943, American musician, Dave "Snaker" Ray (d. 2002)
  • 1944, CEO of Oracle Corporation, billionaire, Larry Ellison
  • 1946, American film director, Martha Coolidge
  • 1946, 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago, Patrick Manning
  • 1947, American musician, Gary Talley
  • 1947, German-born American economist and author, Sylvia Nasar
  • 1948, American musician, Rod MacDonald
  • 1949, American musician , Sib Hashian
  • 1949, American politician, Norm Coleman
  • 1951, Canadian actor, Robert Joy
  • 1951, British boxer, Alan Minter
  • 1952, Brazilian race car driver, Nelson Piquet
  • 1952, German F1 team principal of BMW Sauber, Dr. Mario Theissen
  • 1952, Argentinian tennis player, Guillermo Vilas
  • 1953, Premiership winning Australian football coach, Michael Malthouse
  • 1953, American book publisher, Judith Regan
  • 1953, English musician, Kevin Rowland
  • 1954, American guitarist, Eric Johnson
  • 1955, American heir, Richard Hilton
  • 1955, English bass player, singer and songwriter, Colin Moulding
  • 1956, American film executive, Gail Berman
  • 1956, Spanish cyclist, Álvaro Pino
  • 1957, British figure skater, Robin Cousins
  • 1958, American singer, Belinda Carlisle
  • 1958, British banker, Fred Goodwin
  • 1958, Canadian snooker player, Kirk Stevens
  • 1959, Japanese voice actress and singer, Chika Sakamoto
  • 1959, American author, Jonathan Franzen
  • 1959, American cult leader, David Koresh (d. 1993)
  • 1959, American author, Eric Schlosser
  • 1960, Swiss singer, Stephan Eicher
  • 1960, American actor and director, Sean Penn
  • 1962, American musician, Gilby Clarke
  • 1962, American actor, John Marshall Jones
  • 1962, American professional wrestler, Buddy Landel
  • 1963, American football coach, Jon Gruden
  • 1963, Indian film director, S. Shankar
  • 1964, Canadian musician, Colin James
  • 1964, American singer, Maria McKee
  • 1966, American jazz singer, Maysa Leak
  • 1966, American skateboarder, Rodney Mullen
  • 1966, Canadian hockey player, Don Sweeney
  • 1967, American singer, Kevin Max
  • 1968, American football player, Ed McCaffrey
  • 1968, English actress, Helen McCrory
  • 1969, American basketball player, Christian Laettner
  • 1969, American actor and singer, Donnie Wahlberg
  • 1969, American rapper, Kelvin Mercer
  • 1970, American tennis player, Jim Courier
  • 1970, English actor and voice artist, Rupert Degas
  • 1970, Norwegian footballer, Øyvind Leonhardsen
  • 1971, South Korean singer and actress, Uhm Jung-hwa
  • 1971, Puerto Rican baseball player, Jorge Posada
  • 1971, Australian Rules footballer, Shaun Rehn
  • 1972, Bangladeshi cricketer, Habibul Bashar
  • 1972, American actor, Ken Ryker
  • 1974, Lebanese musician, Tony Hajjar
  • 1974, American novelist, Nicola Kraus
  • 1975, Italian-born American television personality, Giuliana DePandi
  • 1976, American actor, Scott Halberstadt
  • 1976, Dutch reporter, Geertjan Lassche
  • 1977, Australian race walker, Nathan Deakes
  • 1977, French footballer, William Gallas
  • 1977, French footballer, Thierry Henry
  • 1977, Finnish singer, Tarja Turunen
  • 1977, English footballer, Matthew Oakley
  • 1978, Hong Kong actress, Karena Lam
  • 1978, Norwegian singer, Vibeke Stene
  • 1979, American football player, Antwaan Randle El
  • 1979, British actor, Marcus Patric
  • 1980, Zimbabwean cricketer, Keith Dabengwa
  • 1980, Dutch footballer, Jan Kromkamp
  • 1980, Norwegian singer, Lene Marlin
  • 1981, American television personality, Kristin Holt
  • 1982, American professional wrestler, Cheerleader Melissa
  • 1982, English footballer, Phil Jagielka
  • 1982, American actor, Mark Salling
  • 1983, American baseball player, Dustin Pedroia
  • 1984, American basketball player Dee Brown
  • 1984, American football player, Garrett Wolfe
  • 1985, Japanese actress, Yu Aoi
  • 1986, American basketball player, Rudy Gay
  • 1986, American basketball player, Tyrus Thomas
  • 1986, American actor & singer, Bryton McClure
  • 1988, American actor, Brady Corbet
  • 1988, Japanese actress, Erika Toda
  • 1988, Performer, Nichole Cordova
  • 1989, German actor, Frederick Lau
  • 1990, American actor, Colin Bates
  • 1990, British actress, Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • 1991, American actress, Montana Fishburne
  • 1996, Filipina actress, Ella Cruz

    Famous People who died on August 17th!

  • 1153, Son of Stephen of England, Eustace IV of Boulogne (b. 1130)
  • 1304, Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
  • 1510, English statesman, Edmund Dudley (b. 1462)
  • 1657, British admiral, Robert Blake (b. 1599)
  • 1673, Dutch physician and anatomist, Regnier de Graaf (b. 1641)
  • 1676, German novelist, Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen (b. 1621)
  • 1720, French scholar, Anne Lefèvre (b. 1654)
  • 1723, English scholar, Joseph Bingham (b. 1668)
  • 1768, Russian poet, Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky (b. 1703)
  • 1785, Governor of Connecticut, Jonathan Trumbull (b. 1710)
  • 1786, King Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
  • 1834, Bosnian rebel leader, Husein Gradašcevic (b. 1802)
  • 1838, Italian librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte (b. 1749)
  • 1850, Argentine general, Don José de San Martín (b. 1778)
  • 1861, American Politician, Alcée Louis la Branche (b. 1806)
  • 1870, Cuban poet, musician, and freedom fighter of the 19th century, Pedro Figueredo (b. 1818)
  • 1875, German linguist, Wilhelm Bleek (b. 1827)
  • 1880, Norwegian violinist, Ole Bull (b. 1810)
  • 1896, British automobile fatality, Bridget Driscoll
  • 1901, French composer, Edmond Audran (b. 1842)
  • 1903, Norwegian landscape painter, Hans Gude (b. 1825)
  • 1909, Indian Revolutionary, Madan Lal Dhingra (b. 1883)
  • 1918, Russian revolutionary, Moisei Uritsky (b. 1873)
  • 1920, American baseball player, Ray Chapman (b. 1891)
  • 1924, Australian cricketer, Tom Kendall (b. 1851)
  • 1925, Transylvanian writer, Ioan Slavici (b. 1848)
  • 1935, American feminist and writer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (b. 1860)
  • 1940, American aviator, Billy Fiske (b. 1911)
  • 1949, Filipino jurist and politician, Gregorio Perfecto (b. 1891)
  • 1954, American recording artist, Billy Murray (b. 1877)
  • 1962, East German defector, Peter Fechter (b. 1944)
  • 1964, American baseball player best known for his involvement in the Black Sox Scandal, Happy Felsch
  • 1969, German physicist, Nobel laureate, Otto Stern (b. 1888)
  • 1970, Thai filmmaker, Rattana Pestonji (b. 1908)
  • 1971, German field marshal, Wilhelm List (b. 1880)
  • 1971, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna, Maedayama Eigoro (b. 1914)
  • 1973, French composer, Jean Barraqué (b. 1928)
  • 1973, American singer, Paul Williams (b. 1939)
  • 1973, American author, Conrad Aiken (b. 1889)
  • 1976, American actor, William Redfield (b. 1927)
  • 1979, American roller coaster designer, John C. Allen (b. 1907)
  • 1979, American actress, Vivian Vance (b. 1909)
  • 1983, American lyricist, Ira Gershwin (b. 1896)
  • 1987, Nazi deputy, Rudolf Hess (b. 1894)
  • 1987, Israeli actor, Shaike Ophir (b. 1929)
  • 1987, Italian studio drummer, Gary Chester (b. 1924)
  • 1988, Pakistani politician, Former Martial Law Administrator and President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (b. 1924)
  • 1988, Son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (b. 1914)
  • 1988, Australian-born American actress, Victoria Shaw (b. 1935)
  • 1990, American singer and actress, Pearl Bailey (b. 1918)
  • 1992, American film actor, Al Parker (b. 1952)
  • 1993, Chinese mathematician, Feng Kang (b. 1920)
  • 1994, Italian-American race car driver and team owner, Luigi Chinetti (b. 1901)
  • 1994, American boxer, Jack Sharkey (b. 1902)
  • 1995, American screenwriter, Howard Koch (b. 1902)
  • 1995, Australian rules footballer, Ted Whitten (b. 1933)
  • 1998, Polish track and field athlete, Wladyslaw Komar (b. 1940)
  • 1998, Polish track and field athlete, Tadeusz Slusarski (b. 1950)
  • 2004, Australian writer, Thea Astley (b. 1925)
  • 2004, French baritone, Gérard Souzay (b. 1918)
  • 2005, American astrophysicist, John Bahcall (b. 1934)
  • 2007, British journalist and politician, Bill Deedes (b. 1913)
  • 2007, American basketball player, Eddie Griffin (b. 1982)
  • 2008, Italian businessman and football team owner, Franco Sensi (b. 1926)
  • 2010, Italian politician and eighth President of the Italian Republic, Francesco Cossiga
    updated by BrianMc