Famous Birthdays

Kerkor “Kirk” Kerkorian was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the president and CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Beverly Hills, California.

David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Employment from 1997 to 2001, Home Secretary from 2001 to 2004 and Secretary of State for…

Keith Daniel Williams was an American triple murderer who was executed by the state of California for the October 1978 murders of three people in Merced, California. He was convicted and sentenced…

Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was…

Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and…

Martha Argerich is an Argentine classical concert pianist. Argerich is noted especially for her interpretations of the works by composers such as Chopin, Ravel, Liszt, Prokofiev, and Schumann, and…

Spalding Rockwell Gray was an American actor and writer. He is best known for driving autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his…

Pierre Bruneau, is a Canadian journalist and news anchor. He is the longtime anchor of the weekday edition of TVA Nouvelles news bulletins which air on the Quebec television network TVA every weekday.

Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE was an English barrister and biochemist. He co-founded Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people, with the Australian barrister Roland Berrill in 1946.

Johan Gadolin was a Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist. Gadolin discovered a “new earth” containing the first rare-earth compound yttrium, which was later determined to be a chemical element.