Thursday, July 12, 2007

Thursday 13

13 of today's famous birthdays! Most of the people on this list are of course, deceased.

Happy Birthday to Roman leader Gaius Julius Caesar

Happy Birthday to Josiah Wedgewood , English potter, industrialist and writer. (Born 1730)

Happy Birthday to Composer Christian Danner (born 1757)

Happy Birthday to Russian zoologist Heinrich Christian Pander (born 1794)

Happy Birthday to American writer Henry David Thoreau (born 1817)

Happy Birthday to Canadian physician/author William Osler. He studied the circulatory system (born 1849)

Happy Birthday to George Eastman, the founder of Kodak (born 1854)

Happy Birthday to Amedeo Modigiani, Italian painter, sculptor, and draftsman (born 1884)

Happy Birthday to Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian operatic soprano famous for her Wagnerian roles (born 1895)

Happy Birthday to R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome (also 1895)

Happy Birthday to Peter Deyneka, missions pioneer. He founded the Slavic Gospel Association in 1934. This mission undertakes evangelistic work in Europe and South America (born 1898)

Happy Birthday to Comedian Milton Berle "Uncle Miltie" (born 1908)

Happy Birthday to Artist Andrew Wyeth (born 1917)

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