HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUTHA!

it's mutha's birthday today so i thought i'd share with u some famous births and deaths on this day, according to wikipedia:

Births
* 1930 - Ruth Rendell, English writer
* 1932 - Buck Trent, American banjo player
* 1933 - Bobby Lewis, American singer
* 1933 - Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
* 1934 - Alan Bates, English actor (d. 2003)
* 1934 - Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian
* 1935 - Christina Pickles, UK-born American actress
* 1936 - Jim Brown, American football player
* 1939 - John Leyton, British singer
* 1939 - Mary Ann Mobley, American actress and beauty queen
* 1940 - Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006)
* 1941 - Julia McKenzie, English actress and theatre director
* 1942 - Huey P. Newton, American political activist (d. 1989)
* 1944 - Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
* 1945 - Zina Bethune, American actress
* 1945 - Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
* 1946 - Dodie Stevens, American singer
* 1948 - José José, Mexican singer and actor
* 1948 - Rick Majerus, American basketball coach
* 1949 - Fred Frith, English musician and composer
* 1952 - Karin Janz, East German gymnast
* 1953 - Norman Pace, British actor and comic
* 1954 - Rene Russo, American actress
* 1955 - Mo Yan, Chinese novelist
* 1956 - Richard Karn, American actor
* 1957 - Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician
* 1959 - Aryeh Deri, Israeli rabbi and politician
* 1959 - Neil Lomax, American football player
* 1962 - Samuel Bayer, American music video director
* 1962 - Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer (d. 1995)
* 1962 - Tyrone "Ty" Jones, American screenwriter
* 1962 - David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (d. 1999)
* 1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
* 1963 - Michael Jordan, American basketball player
* 1963 - Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian
* 1963 - Jen-Hsun Huang, American entrepreneur and businessman
* 1963 - Rene Syler, American journalist
* 1964 - Buster Olney, American sports columnist
* 1965 - Michael Bay, American film director
* 1966 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (d. 2004)
* 1966 - Luc Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1966 - Michael Lepond, American musician
* 1967 - Chanté Moore, American singer
* 1968 - Bryan Cox, National Football League player
* 1969 - Tuesday Knight, American actress
* 1970 - Tim Mahoney, American musician (311)
* 1970 - Tommy Moe, American Olympic skier
* 1970 - Dominic Purcell, English-born actor
* 1971 - Martyn Bennett, Canadian composer (d. 2005)
* 1971 - Jeremy Edwards, British actor
* 1971 - Denise Richards, American actress
* 1972 - Billie Joe Armstrong, American musician (Green Day)
* 1972 - Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater
* 1972 - Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters)
* 1972 - Valeria Mazza, Argentinian model
* 1972 - Yuki Isoya, Japanese singer (formerly Judy and Mary)
* 1973 - SaRenna Lee, American pornographic actress
* 1974 - Kaoru, Japanese musician
* 1974 - Jerry O'Connell, American actor
* 1974 - Bryan White, American singer
* 1975 - Wish Bone, American rapper
* 1975 - Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress
* 1975 - Todd Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1975 - Vaclav Prospal, Czech ice hockey player
* 1976 - Kelly Carlson, American actress
* 1976 - Scott Williamson, American baseball player
* 1977 - Wong Choong Hann, Malaysian Badminton player
* 1978 - Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim
* 1979 - Dee, Puerto Rican pornographic actress
* 1979 - Josh Willingham, American baseball player
* 1980 - Al Harrington, American basketball player
* 1980 - Klemi Saban, Israeli footballer
* 1980 - Jason Ritter, American actor
* 1981 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor
* 1981 - Paris Hilton, American actress and heiress
* 1982 - Adriano, Brazilian footballer
* 1982 - Brian Bruney, American baseball player
* 1982 - Lupe Fiasco, American hip hop artist
* 1983 - Gérald Cid, French footballer
* 1983 - Marios Kaperonis, Greek boxer
* 1984 - Jimmy Jacobs, American professional wrestler
* 1984 - Kenta Kamakari, Japanese actor and seiyuu
* 1984 - AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
* 1985 - Anne Curtis, Filipino actress and commercial model
* 1985 - Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian skijumper
* 1986 - Joey O'Brien, Irish footballer
* 1986 - Sandra Nilsson, Swedish model
* 1988 - Natascha Kampusch, Austrian kidnapping victim
* 1991 - Bonnie Wright, British actress
* 1992 - Meaghan Jette Martin, American child actress and singer
* 1996 - Sasha Pieterse, South African child actress

Deaths
* 1909 - Geronimo, Apache leader (b. 1829)
* 1912 - Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer (b. 1876)
* 1919 - Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
* 1934 - King Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
* 1934 - Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (b. 1862)
* 1939 - Willy Hess, German violinist (b. 1859)
* 1943 - Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (b. 1888)
* 1943 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
* 1958 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (b. 1876)
* 1961 - Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1897)
* 1962 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (b. 1876)
* 1970 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
* 1970 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1901)
* 1977 - Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (b. 1922)
* 1982 - Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (b. 1922)
* 1982 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)
* 1982 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian-born actor (b. 1901)
* 1986 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1895)
* 1989 - Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
* 1990 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (b. 1906)
* 1990 - Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1901)
* 1994 - Randy Shilts, American author and activist (b. 1951)
* 1996 - Hervé Bazin, French writer (b. 1911)
* 1997 - Zein Isa, Palestinian militant imprisoned in the United States for the honor killing of his daughter
* 1998 - Ernst Jünger, German author (b. 1895)
* 1998 - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (b. 1921)
* 2001 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (b. 1948)
* 2001 - Bob Geary, Canadian football player and manager (b. 1933)
* 2004 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (b. 1920)
* 2005 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (b. 1919)
* 2005 - Omar Sivori, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
* 2006 - Ray Barretto, Puerto Rican musician (b. 1929)
* 2006 - Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (b. 1948)
* 2007 - Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (b. 1961)
* 2007 - Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
* 2007 - Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born Canadian musician, producer and songwriter (b. 1943)
* 2007 - Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
* 2008 - Brian Harris, English footballer (b. 1935)


i know there's some names in there i didn't know, but as it was i had to trim them up so it wasn't a bleedin' novel.

mutha shares her birthday with more interesting people than i do. but i'll post my list tomorrow. yay!

so yeh hope u have a great day mutha!