merry birthday to meeeee!!!

as promised yesterday, i am putting up a list of famous births and deaths for today!

oh damn... i found another bad thing that happened today..... on this day in 1954, the first church of scientology was created. *dies*

that's it!! i'm changing my birthday to yesterday!!!!

ah stuff it. there's too many nobodies in the list. i'm just gonna write a short list of teh famous people i know of that were born on this day:

yoko ono (although i'm not sure if that's a god thing...)
John Travolta (awesome, aside from the scientology thing)
Cybill Shepard
Matt Dillon (that's DILLON, not DAMON)
Dr Dre (probz the ONLY redeeming factor of this day!!!)
Molly Ringwald
Regina Spektor (her fidelity song is still a fave)
Buddy Nielsen, American singer (Senses Fail)
Lee Boyd Malvo, American serial killer (one must always include a serial killer in the list. he's one of the sniper attack guys from 2002ish)

and i'll include this last one even though i don't know them, but they are an 86 baby like myself. yaaay!!

Marc Torrejón, Spanish footballer

and now for the deaths......

* 806 - Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 730)
* 814 - Angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne
* 901 - Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)
* 999 - Pope Gregory V (b. 972)
* 1139 - Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)
* 1294 - Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215)
* 1379 - Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)
* 1405 - Tamerlane, Mongol Emperor (b. 1336)
* 1455 - Fra Angelico, Italian artist (b. 1395)
* 1478 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1449)
* 1535 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, astrologer and alchemist (b. 1486)
* 1546 - Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
* 1564 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist (b. 1475)
* 1583 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b. 1503)
* 1654 - Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b. 1594)
* 1683 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
* 1712 - Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (b. 1682)
* 1718 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
* 1743 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)
* 1748 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
* 1772 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)
* 1778 - Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715)
* 1780 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714)
* 1788 - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713)
* 1803 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (b. 1719)
* 1842 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1779)
* 1845 - Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (b. 1774)
* 1851 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804)
* 1873 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian Revolutionist (b. 1837)
* 1893 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)
* 1895 - Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (b. 1851)
* 1900 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
* 1902 - Charles Lewis Tiffany, American founder of Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
* 1906 - John Batterson Stetson, American manufacturer (b. 1830)
* 1911 - Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
* 1931 - Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (b. 1879)
* 1933 - James J. Corbett, American boxer (b. 1866)
* 1938 - David King Udall, American politician (b. 1851)
* 1942 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author (b. 1872)
* 1945 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906)
* 1955 - Sadako Sasaki, School student(b. 1944)
* 1956 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
* 1957 - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
* 1957 - Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877)
* 1964 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Quebec inventor and industrialist (b. 1907)
* 1966 - Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1908)
* 1967 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
* 1967 - Dragiša Cvetković, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister (b. 1893)
* 1973 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (b. 1891)
* 1977 - Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)
* 1978 - Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928)
* 1981 - John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1895)
* 1982 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)
* 1993 - Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
* 1993 - Jacqueline Hill, British actress (b. 1929)
* 1995 - Bob Stinson, American guitarist (b. 1959)
* 1997 - Emily Hahn, American writer (b. 1905)
* 1998 - Harry Caray, American baseball broadcaster (b. 1914)
* 1998 - Robbie James, Welsh footballer (b. 1957)
* 1999 - Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b. 1932)
* 2000 - Willy Maltaite, Belgian comics creator (b. 1927)
* 2001 - Balthus, Polish-born painter (b. 1908)
* 2001 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)
* 2001 - Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (b. 1931)
* 2003 - Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912)
* 2003 - Johnny Paycheck, American country singer/songwriter (b. 1938)
* 2004 - Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and ethnologist (b. 1917)
* 2006 - Richard Bright, American actor (b. 1937)
* 2008 - Sir Richard Knowles, British politician (b. 1917)
* 2008 - Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress, (b. 1955)
* 2008 - Mickey Renaud, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1988)


so there ya have it. everything u didn't want to know about today. w00t!