Support the right to arm bears.is my saying for today (August 22nd)!
Quote of the day: "
A man finds out what is meant by a spitting image when he tries to feed cereal to his infant." by Imogene Fey
Word of the day:
etiolate - verb: to bleach; to cause a plant to whiten by excluding light
August 22nd is the 234th day of the year (235th in a leap year) and there are 131 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!
Some other,
Famous People who were born on August 22nd!1601, French writer, Georges de Scudéry (d. 1667)
1624, French writer, Jean Renaud de Segrais (d. 1701)
1647, French physicist and inventor, Denis Papin (d. c. 1712)
1679, French cardinal, Pierre Guérin de Tencin (d. 1758)
1760, Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
1764, French architect, Charles Percier (d. 1838)
1771, English inventor, Henry Maudslay (d. 1831)
1731, French explorer, Aimé Bonpland (d. 1858)
1779, American author, James Kirke Paulding (d. 1860)
1800, U.S. general, William S. Harney (d. 1889)
1800, Italian-Jewish scholar, Samuel David Luzzatto (d. 1865)
1811, American inventor, William Kelly (d. 1888)
1822, Wife of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Clemm Poe (d. 1847)
1827, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician, Ezra Butler Eddy (d. 1906)
1834, American astronomer, Samuel Pierpont Langley (d. 1906)
1836, American artist, Archibald MacNeal Willard (d. 1918)
1845, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts, William Lewis Douglas (d. 1924)
1848, American newspaper publisher, Melville E. Stone (d. 1929)
1854, King of Serbia, Milan I (d. 1901)
1857, American baseball player and manager, Ned Hanlon (d. 1937)
1860, German inventor, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (d. 1940)
1860, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria, Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz (d. 1917)
1862, French composer, Claude Debussy (d. 1918)
1867, Swiss physician and nutritionist, Maximilian Bircher-Benner (d. 1939)
1873, Russian physician and philosopher, Alexander Bogdanov (d. 1928)
1874, German philosopher, Max Scheler (d. 1928)
1880, George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1880, Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
1887, German minister of finance , Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk(d. 1977)
1891, Lithuanian/American sculptor, Jacques Lipchitz (d. 1973)
1893, American writer, Dorothy Parker (d. 1967)
1893, British Salvation Army general, Wilfred Kitching (d. 1977)
1895, French Canadian politician, Paul Comtois (d. 1966)
1900, Russian lexicographer, Sergei Ozhegov (d. 1964)
1902, German film director, Leni Riefenstahl (d. 2003)
1902, American politician, Thomas Pelly (d. 1973)
1904, Premier of the People's Republic of China, Deng Xiaoping (d. 1997)
1908, French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson (d. 2004)
1908, German rugby player and coach, Erwin Thiesies (d. 1993)
1909, American screenwriter, Julius J. Epstein (d. 2000)
1909, American football player, Mel Hein (d. 1992)
1909, American actress, Lucille Ricksen (d. 1925)
1913, Italian physicist, Bruno Pontecorvo (d. 1993)
1915, American social rights and peace movement leader, David Dellinger (d. 2004)
1915, British actor, Hugh Paddick (d. 2000)
1915, Co-inventor of the electron microscope, James Hillier (d. 2007)
1915, Polish Prime Minister, Edward Szczepanik (d. 2005)
1917, American musician, John Lee Hooker (d. 2001)
1918, American journalist, Mary McGrory (d. 2004)
1920, American writer, Ray Bradbury
1920, American heart surgeon, Denton Cooley
1921, Greek film director and screenwriter, Dinos Dimopoulos (d. 2003)
1922, French actress, Micheline Presle
1925, English actress, Honor Blackman
1925, American playwright and author, James Kirkwood, Jr. (d. 1989)
1928, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate, Tinga Seisay
1928, German composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen (d. 2007)
1930, Brazilian football player, Gilmar
1932, American astronaut, Gerald P. Carr
1934, U.S. general, Norman Schwarzkopf
1934, English bass-baritone, Sir Donald McIntyre
1935, American author, E. Annie Proulx
1936, American singer and songwriter, Dale Hawkins (d. 2010)
1936, German roller coaster designer and engineer, Werner Stengel
1938, American football commentator, Paul Maguire
1939, American actor, George Reinholt
1939, American baseball player, Carl Yastrzemski
1939, American actress, Valerie Harper
1940, American football coach, Bill McCartney
1941, American football coach, Bill Parcells
1941, Austrian plasma physicist, Hannspeter Winter
1942, Turkish journalist and writer, Ugur Mumcu (d. 1993)
1943, Japanese computer scientist, Masatoshi Shima
1945, American songwriter and record producer, Ron Dante
1945, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician, Erol Gelenbe
1947, American actress, Cindy Williams
1947, Singer, Donna Godchaux
1948, Italian actress, Eleonora Brown
1949, American swimmer, Diana Nyad
1949, Baseball player, Doug Bair
1949, Icelandic writer, Þórarinn Eldjárn
1950, Baseball player , Ray Burris
1950, White House Chief of Staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
1951, Nepalese politician, Chandra Prakash Mainali
1952, American musician, Peter Laughner (d. 1977)
1953, American wrestling manager, Paul Ellering
1955, Writer, Will Shetterly
1955, Telugu films Indian film actor, Chiranjeevi
1956, Baseball player, Paul Molitor
1957, English snooker player, Steve Davis
1958, American actor, Colm Feore
1958, American professional wrestler, Lane Huffman
1958, American musician, Vernon Reid
1959, American musician, Juan Croucier
1959, Danish politician, Pia Gjellerup
1961, Argentine musician, Andres Calamaro
1961, British musician, Roland Orzabal
1961, American musician, Debbi Peterson
1963, American singer/songwriter , Tori Amos
1963, American basketball player, Terry Catledge
1964, Swedish tennis player, Mats Wilander
1965, American voice actor, Tom Gibis
1965, American actor, Courtney Gains
1965, Singaporean actress, Chen Liping
1966, American football player, Eric Andolsek (d. 1992)
1966, American rapper, GZA
1966, Dutch footballer, Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer
1967, American musician, Layne Staley (d. 2002)
1967, British actor, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
1967, American comedian, Ant
1967, American actor, Ty Burrell
1967, American screenwriter, Alfred Gough
1967, Japanese singer, Yukiko Okada (d. 1986)
1968, Australian guitarist, Paul Colman
1968, Danish comedian, Casper Christensen
1968, American magazine editor, Rich Lowry
1968, Russian footballer, Alexander Mostovoi
1968, Austrian tennis player, Horst Skoff (d. 2008)
1970, English writer, Charlie Connelly
1970, Italian/American chef and television host, Giada De Laurentiis
1971, English actor, Richard Armitage
1971, American actor, Rick Yune
1972, American baseball player, Steve Kline
1972, South African pole vaulter, Okkert Brits
1972, American drummer, Paul Doucette
1972, Brazilian racing driver, Max Wilson
1973, American comedian, Kristen Wiig
1973, American singer, Howie Dorough
1974, American professional wrestler, Brimstone
1974, Argentine rugby player, Agustín Pichot
1974, Italian guitarist, Stefano Verderi
1975, Australian footballer, Clint Bolton
1975, British actress, Sheree Murphy
1975, Brazilian actor, Rodrigo Santoro
1977, Icelandic footballer, Heiðar Helguson
1977, American actress, Jenna Leigh Green
1978, Greek basketball player, Giannis Gagaloudis
1978, Canadian musician, Jeff Stinco
1979, American actor, Brandon Quintin Adams
1979, American football player, Matt Walters
1979, Canadian-born actress, Jennifer Finnigan
1980, American model and actress, Christi Shake
1980, German footballer, Roland Benschneider
1980, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete, Nicolas Macrozonaris
1981, American football player, Alex Holmes
1981, Japanese actor and model, Saito Takumi
1983, Dutch cyclist, Theo Bos
1983, American actress, Laura Breckenridge
1984, English footballer, Lee Camp
1985, American voice actress, Kether Donahue
1986, Japanese actress, Keiko Kitagawa
1987, Italian footballer, Leonardo Moracci
1991, Italian footballer, Federico Macheda
1991, Canadian hockey player, Brayden Schenn
Famous People who died on August 22nd!
408, Roman general, Stilicho (b. 359)
1155, Emperor of Japan, Konoe (b. 1139)
1188, King of Leon, Ferdinand II (b. 1137)
1241, Pope Gregory IX, (b. c.1143)
1280, Pope Nicholas III (b. c.1216)
1304, Count of Hainaut, John II (b. 1247)
1350, King of France, Philip VI (b. 1293)
1358, Queen of England, Isabella (b. c. 1295)
1485, King of England, Richard III (b. 1452)
1553, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English admiral and politician, John Dudley (b. 1504)
1572, 7th Earl of Northumberland, Thomas Percy (b. 1528)
1584, Polish writer, Jan Kochanowski (b. 1530)
1599, English explorer and privateer, Italian composer, Luca Marenzio (b. c.1553)
1607, Bartholomew Gosnold (b. 1572)
1609, Jewish mystic and philosopher, Maharal of Prague (b. 1525)
1652, Swedish soldier and statesman, Jacob De la Gardie (b. 1583)
1680, Elector of Saxony, John George II (b. 1613)
1701, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman, John Granville (b. 1628)
1711, French marshal, Duc de Boufflers, Louis François (b. 1644)
1752, English mathematician, William Whiston (b. 1667)
1731, English writer and politician, George Lyttelton (b. 1709)
1793, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France, Louis (b. 1713)
1793, German mother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Cäcilia Weber (b. 1727)
1797, Alsatian-born Austrian general, Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (b. 1724)
1806, French artist, Jean-Honoré Fragonard (b. 1732)
1818, British Governor-General of India, Warren Hastings (b. 1732)
1828, Austrian neuroscientist, Franz Joseph Gall (b. 1758)
1850, Austrian poet, Nikolaus Lenau (b. 1802)
1861, Emperor of China, Xianfeng (b. 1831)
1891, Czech author, Jan Neruda (b. 1834)
1903, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Robert Cecil (b. 1830)
1904, Literary figure, Kate Chopin (b.1850)
1909, British dermatologist, Henry Radcliffe Crocker (b. 1846)
1914 Italian religious figure, Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi (b. 1859)
1918, German neurologist, Korbinian Brodmann (b. 1868)
1922, Irish revolutionary, Michael Collins (b. 1890)
1926, American University president, Charles William Eliot (b. 1834)
1940, English physicist, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (b. 1851)
1942, Russian choreographer and dancer, Michel Fokine (b. 1880)
1950, American geologist, Kirk Bryan (b. 1888)
1951, Canadian businessman and sports team owner, J. P. Bickell (b. 1884)
1953, American baseball player, Jim Tabor (b. 1916)
1958, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate, Roger Martin du Gard (b. 1881)
1960, Estonian wrestler, Eduard Pütsep (b. 1898)
1965, American airline stewardess, Ellen Church (b. 1904)
1967, American endocrinologist, Gregory Goodwin Pincus (b. 1903)
1970, Russian structuralist scholar, Vladimir Propp (b. 1895)
1973, American actress, Louise Huff (b. 1895)
1974, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter, Jacob Bronowski (b. 1908)
1976, President of Brazil, Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (b. 1902)
1976, Greek pianist, Gina Bachauer (b. 1913)
1977, English-born actor, Sebastian Cabot (b. 1918)
1978, First President of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta (b. c.1892)
1979, American novelist, James T. Farrell (b. 1904)
1980, American aircraft manufacturer, James Smith McDonnell (b. 1899)
1980, German racing team manager, Alfred Neubauer (b. 1891)
1989, Belgian cyclist, Robert Grondelaers (b. 1933)
1989, American activist, Huey P. Newton (b. 1942)
1991, Canadian actress, Colleen Dewhurst (b. 1924)
1994, French-Canadian film director, Gilles Groulx (b. 1931)
2003, Swiss figure skating trainer, Arnold Gerschwiler (b. 1914)
2003, American widow of Ted Ammon, Generosa Ammon (b. 1956)
2003, Argentinian singer and actress, Imperio Argentina (b. 1906)
2004, Russian chess player, Konstantin Aseev (b. 1960)
2004, Canadian television and movie director, Daniel Petrie (b. 1920)
2004, American Elvis Presley concert announcer, Al Dvorin (b. 1922)
2005, French composer, Luc Ferrari (b. 1929)
2005, American scientist, Ernest Kirkendall (b. 1914)
2006, American rock drummer, Bruce Gary (b. 1951)
2008, Canadian World War I veteran, Gladys Powers (b. 1899)
2009, American Western novelist, Elmer Kelton (b. 1926)
2010, Yugoslav football player, Stjepan Bobek (b. 1923)