Would You Mind If I Played A Little Guitar For You?
The opposite of PROgress is Con...is my saying for today (August 20th)!
Quote of the day: "
Well, If I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?" by James Thurber
Word of the day:
geck - noun: a contemptible person
August 20th is the 232th day of the year (233rd in a leap year) and there are 133 days left until the end of the year.
August 20th Worldwide holidays and observances:
St.Stephen's day (Hungary)
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!
Some other, Famous People who were born on August 20th!
1517, French church leader, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (d. 1586)
1561, Italian composer, Jacopo Peri (d. 1633)
1625, French dramatist, Thomas Corneille (d. 1709)
1632, French Jesuit preacher, Louis Bourdaloue (d. 1704)
1710, British mathematician, Thomas Simpson (d. 1761)
1719, French soldier and diplomat, marquis de Ruffec, Charles-François de Broglie (d. 1791)
1719, Czech astronomer, Christian Mayer (d. 1783)
1778, South American revolutionary, Bernardo O'Higgins (d. 1842)
1779, Swedish chemist, Jöns Jakob Berzelius (d. 1848)
1833, 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison (d. 1901)
1845, Polish Catholic Saint, St. Albert Chmielowski (d. 1916)
1847, England cricketer, Andrew Greenwood (d. 1889)
1847, Polish writer, Boleslaw Prus (d. 1912)
1856, Sorbian writer, Jakub Bart-Cišinski (d. 1909)
1860, French statesman, Raymond Poincaré (d. 1934)
1865, South African cricketer, Bernard Tancred (d. 1911)
1868, American tennis player, Ellen Roosevelt (d. 1954)
1873, Finnish architect, Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (d. 1950)
1881, English poet, Edgar Guest (d. 1959)
1886, German-American theologian, Paul Tillich (d. 1965)
1890, American writer, H. P. Lovecraft (d. 1937)
1897, Norwegian writer, Tarjei Vesaas (d. 1970)
1898, Swedish author and historian, Vilhelm Moberg (d. 1973)
1901, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate, Salvatore Quasimodo (d. 1968)
1905, German-born author, linguist, and poet, Jean Gebser (d. 1973)
1905, American musician, Jack Teagarden (d. 1964)
1907, Original voice of Fred Flintstone, Alan Reed (d. 1977)
1908, American baseball player and manager, Al Lopez (d. 2005)
1909, New Zealand cricketer, Alby Roberts (d. 1978)
1910, Finnish architect, Eero Saarinen (d. 1961)
1913, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Roger Wolcott Sperry (d. 1994)
1916, Estonian–German chess player, Paul Felix Schmidt (d. 1984)
1918, American novelist, Jacqueline Susann (d. 1974)
1921, Australian cricketer, Jack Wilson (d. 1985)
1923, US country music singer, Jim Reeves (d.1964)
1924, American baseball player, George Zuverink
1926, American and Canadian football player and coach, Nobby Wirkowski
1927, English video blogger, Geriatric1927
1927, English actress, Yootha Joyce (d. 1980)
1929, Gaelic footballer, Kevin Heffernan
1930, Canadian conductor, Mario Bernardi
1931, American boxing promoter, Don King
1932, British actor, Anthony Ainley (d. 2004)
1932, Russian novelist, Vasily Aksyonov (d. 2009)
1932, South African cricketer, Atholl McKinnon (d. 1983)
1933, Former United States Senator, George J. Mitchell
1934, Finnish beauty queen, Armi Kuusela
1935, US Congressman, 1988 and 2008 presidential candidate, Ron Paul
1936, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, Hideki Shirakawa
1937, English comedian, Jim Bowen
1937, Spanish singer and actor, El Fary (d. 2007)
1937, Russian film director, Andrei Konchalovsky
1938, French politician, Alain Vivien
1939, Filipino actor and politician, Fernando Poe Jr. (d. 2004)
1940, American politician, Rubén Hinojosa
1940, Australian cricketer, Rex Sellers
1941, British musician, Dave Brock
1941, American football coach, Rich Brooks
1941, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Miloševic (d. 2006)
1941, British journalist, Robin Oakley
1941, Mexican motor racing team manager and author, Jo Ramirez
1942, American singer, songwriter and actor, Isaac Hayes (d. 2008)
1942, American baseball player, Fred Norman
1943, Scottish actor, Sylvester McCoy
1944, Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi (d. 1991)
1944, American baseball player, Graig Nettles
1946, American journalist, Connie Chung
1946, German musician, Ralf Hütter
1946, Indian businessman, N.R. Narayana Murthy
1947, English conceptual artist, Alan Lee
1948, Australian actor, John Noble
1948, British Musician, Robert Plant
1949, Greek composer and singer, Nikolas Asimos (d. 1988)
1949, South African cricketer, Norman Featherstone
1949, English TV presenter, Alan Hardwick
1949, Irish musician, Phil Lynott (d. 1986)
1951, American author, Greg Bear
1952, English cricketer, John Emburey
1952, American musician, Doug Fieger (d. 2010)
1952, American musician, John Hiatt
1953, American wheelchair Olympian, Gerry Bertier (d. 1981)
1954, American basketball player and coach, Quinn Buckner
1954, American disc jockey, Tawn Mastrey (d. 2007)
1954, American television personality, Al Roker
1954, American actor, Don Stark
1955, Hong Kong singer and writer, Agnes Chan
1956, American actress, Joan Allen
1956, West Indian cricketer, Alvin Greenidge
1957, Scottish rugby player, Finlay Calder
1958, Canadian film director and screenwriter, Patricia Rozema
1958, American journalist, John Stehr
1961, Australian author, Greg Egan
1961, English comedian, Joe Pasquale
1962, English actress, Sophie Aldred
1962, American actor, James Marsters
1962, South Korean tennis player, Dong-Wook Song
1965, American rapper, KRS-One
1966, American guitarist, Dimebag Darrell (d. 2004)
1967, American baseball player, Andy Benes
1967, American actor, Colin Cunningham
1967, American yogini and professional wrestler, Terri Poch
1968, Swedish footballer, Klas Ingesson
1968, Japanese voice actress and singer, Yuri Shiratori
1969, American professional wrestler, Duke Droese
1970, Belgian tennis player, Els Callens
1970, American computer game programmer, John D. Carmack
1970, American singer, Fred Durst
1971, Vietnamese/American actor, Jonathan Ke Quan
1971, English footballer, Steve Stone
1971, British comedian, David Walliams
1972, American actor, Chaney Kley (d. 2007)
1973, American baseball player, Todd Helton
1974, American actress, Amy Adams
1974, American rapper, Big Moe (d. 2007)
1974, Hungarian footballer, Szabolcs Sáfár
1974, Australian musician, Andy Strachan
1974, Russian violinist, Maxim Vengerov
1974, American actor and producer, Misha Collins
1975, American author, Marcus Mastin
1976, American hockey player, Chris Drury
1977, Argentine rugby player, Felipe Contepomi
1977, Argentine rugby player, Manuel Contepomi
1977, Icelandic footballer, Ivar Ingimarsson
1977, Cuban model and actress, Mayra Veronica
1977, England cricketer, James Ormond
1977, English footballer, Wayne Brown
1979, British musician, Jamie Cullum
1979, American baseball player, Cory Sullivan
1979, South Korean entertainer, Haha
1980, American actor, Corey Carrier
1980, British actress, Rochelle Gadd
1980, French cyclist, Samuel Dumoulin
1981, English actor, Ben Barnes
1981, French footballer, Bernard Mendy
1982, Brazilian footballer, Cléber Luis Alberti
1982, Ethiopian footballer, Youssouf Hersi
1982, Australian footballer, Joshua Kennedy
1982, Zimbabwean cricketer, Barney Rogers
1983, American football player, Brian Schaefering
1984, Japanese actor, Mirai Moriyama
1986, Canadian actor, Robert Clark
1987, Romanian gymnast, Catalina Ponor
1988, American basketball player, Jerryd Bayless
1990, Zimbabwean cricketer, Barney Rogers
1990, Dutch swimmer, Ranomi Kromowidjojo
1991, Serbian tennis player, Marko Ðokovic
1991, English footballer, Luke O'Neill
1992, American actress and singer, Demi Lovato
1992, Croatian footballer, Matej Delac
1995, American actress, Liana Liberato
Famous People who died on August 20th!
535, Disciple of St. Patrick, Mochta of Louth
917, Byzantine Admiral, Constantine Lips
984, Pope John XIV
1384, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life, Geert Groote (b. 1340)
1572, Spanish conquistador, Miguel López de Legazpi (b. 1502)
1580, Portuguese historian, Jeronymo Osorio (b. 1506)
1611, Spanish composer, Tomás Luis de Victoria (b. 1548)
1639, German poet, Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (b. 1597)
1643, English Puritan preacher, Anne Hutchinson (b. 1591)
1648, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher, Edward Herbert (b. 1583)
1672, Dutch politician, Johan de Witt (b. 1625)
1672, Dutch politician, Cornelis de Witt (b. 1623)
1680, English informer, William Bedloe (b. 1650)
1701, English playwright, Charles Sedley (b. 1639)
1707, French organist and composer, Nicolas Gigault (b. 1627)
1731, Spanish historian, Enrique Florez (b. 1701)
1811, French explorer, Louis Antoine de Bougainville (b. 1729)
1823, Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)
1825, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland, William Waldegrave (b. 1753)
1854, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th Yokozuna, Shiranui Dakuemon (b. 1801)
1887, French poet, Jules Laforgue (b. 1860)
1904, French statesman, René Waldeck-Rousseau (b. 1846)
1912, English founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth (b. 1829)
1914, Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
1915, German scientist, Nobel laureate, Paul Ehrlich (b. 1854)
1917, German chemist, Nobel laureate , Adolf von Baeyer (b. 1835)
1919, England cricketer, Greg MacGregor (b. 1869)
1930, Australian cricketer, Charles Bannerman (b. 1851)
1959, American Admiral, William Halsey, Jr (b. 1882)
1961, American physicist, Nobel laureate, Percy Williams Bridgman (b. 1882)
1963, Dutch astronomer, Joan Voûte (b. 1879)
1965, American activist, Jonathan Myrick Daniels (b. 1939)
1971, Pakistani Air Force pilot, Rashid Minhas (b. 1951)
1980, American singer, Joe Dassin (b. 1938)
1982, Swedish actress, Ulla Jacobsson (b. 1929)
1986, Canadian poet, Milton Acorn (b. 1923)
1989, India-born English game warden and lion expert, George Adamson (b. 1906)
1993, Dutch philosopher, Bernard Delfgaauw (b. 1912)
1996, German rock musician and singer, Rio Reiser (b. 1950)
1997, American physicist, Norris Bradbury (b. 1909)
1997, French-Canadian political scientist, Léon Dion (b. 1922)
1998, Danish singer, Raquel Rastenni (b. 1915)
2001, English astronomer and science fiction writer, Sir Fred Hoyle (b. 1915)
2001, American actress, Kim Stanley (b. 1925)
2005, American football player, Thomas Herrion (b. 1981)
2005, Polish drummer, Krzysztof Raczkowski (b. 1970)
2006, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor, Claude Blanchard (b. 1932)
2006, American photographer, Joe Rosenthal (b. 1911)
2006, British soldier, Cpl Bryan Budd VC (b. 1977)
2007, American hotel operator and real estate investor, Leona Helmsley (b. 1920)
2007, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto, Larry Hartsell (b. 1942)
2008, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Hua Guofeng (b. 1921)
2008, American politician, Stephanie Tubbs Jones (b. 1949)
2008, American football player and union leader, Gene Upshaw (b. 1945)
2008, Former U.S. Army helicopter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient, Ed "Too Tall" Freeman(b. 1927)
2009, American keyboard player and bassist, Larry Knechtel (b. 1940)