Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XX

[Flynbyu]

This is my FAVORITE house in Fort Smith. I just can't swing it.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2208-Carleton-Place_Fort-Smith_AR_72908_1100730423



~Brian

[Krandall]

thats stupid rediculous.. not even on 2 acres!

[Flynbyu]

This one is right across the street from the bad boy I like so much.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2205-Carleton-Place_Fort-Smith_AR_72908_1105615092

~Brian

[Krandall]

That's beautiful. Deffinatly not my thing. Funny how the styles of homes change as you get south. The ones you've looked at.. Even yours has such a I don't know what style, but.... really nice looking! You come up north, and the styles turn more.. Woodsyish style. Kinda cool seeing different stuff.

[Flynbyu]

There are a lot of ranch style homes here......I want to build a Mediterranean style home. Not many of those here.

There are a few places being developed here now in town.  Most of the homes start in the $185-240K for a brand new home with 1800-2500 square feet.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Feb 17 1600

Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno burned at the stake at Campo di Fiore in Rome, likely because ecclesiastical authorities were alarmed at his rambling and somewhat insane ideas, coupled with rejection of accepted authority. Exactly what the charges against him were are lost to history, but likely involve theological heresies rather than astronomical.

Feb 17 1974

Forty-nine people trampled to death at a soccer stampede in Cairo, after crowds tear down entry barriers to the Zamalek vs Dukla game.

Feb 17 1989



The cinematic masterpiece "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure" starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter opened in theaters. Pictured above, Bill and Ted's Excellent Breakfast Cereal.

Feb 17 1993

An overcrowded ferry carrying up to 1,500 people sank off Haiti. Only 285 people were known to have survived.

Feb 17 1994

The decomposing corpse of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first president of the Republic of Georgia, is exhumed from a temporary grave in Djikhaskari. His wife refuses an autopsy, but western journalists note a bullet wound in the side of Zviad's head. Officially listed as suicide, the wife also claims he was murdered. Another government minister oddly states the death was by cancer with the head shot administered post-mortem.

Birthdays today...
1490 - Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (d. 1527)
1519 - Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)
1524 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)
1581 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)
1646 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)
1653 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (d. 1713)
1718 - Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)
1723 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762)
1752 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831)
1754 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
1781 - René Laënnec, French physician (d. 1826)
1792 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876)
1796 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866)
1816 - Haller Nutt, Southern Plantation owner (d. 1864)
1820 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal (d. 1898)
1820 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (d. 1881)
1821 - Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861)
1836 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870)
1844 - Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder (d. 1913)
1848 - Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)
1854 - Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1902)
1861 - Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany (d. 1922)
1862 - Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)
1863 - Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)
1864 - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)
1864 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941)
1874 - Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (d. 1956)
1877 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (d. 1904)
1877 - André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)
1885 - Steve Evans, American baseball player (d. 1943)
1887 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)
1888 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
1893 - Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
1904 - Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (d. 1980)
1908 - Red Barber, American baseball announcer (d. 1992)
1908 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
1910 - Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (d. 1979)
1910 - Marc Lawrence, American actor (d. 2005)
1911 - Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born American literary scholar (d. 1984)
1912 - Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005)
1914 - Arthur Kennedy, American actor (d. 1990)
1914 - Wayne Morris, American actor (d. 1959)
1916 - Raf Vallone, Italian actor (d. 2002)
1916 - Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England (d. 1940)
1917 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (d. 2002)
1917 - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (d. 1965)
1919 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (d. 2001)
1920 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director
1922 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1922 - Tommy Edwards, American singer (d. 1969)
1922 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
1924 - Margaret Truman, American novelist (d. 2008)
1925 - Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
1925 - Hal Holbrook, American actor
1928 - Marta Romero, Puerto Rican actress & singer
1929 - Paul Meger, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 - Chaim Potok, American author (d. 2002)
1929 - Patricia Routledge, English actress
1930 - Roger Craig, American baseball player and manager
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 (Symphony X)
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 - LG Petrov, Swedish singer (Entombed)
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

Famous deaths...
364 - Jovian, Roman Emperor
440 - Mesrop Mashtots
1339 - Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)
1371 - Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
1596 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)
1600 - Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)
1609 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
1624 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
1659 - Abel Servien, French diplomat (b. 1593)
1673 - Molière, French playwright (b. 1622)
1680 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)
1680 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist (b. 1637)
1715 - Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (b. 1646)
1732 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)
1768 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (b. 1691)
1780 - Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b. 1706)
1841 - Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist (b. 1770)
1854 - John Martin, English painter (b. 1789)
1856 - Heinrich Heine, German writer (b. 1797)
1874 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796)
1883 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (b. 1806)
1883 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b. 1845)
1890 - Christopher Sholes, American inventor (b. 1819)
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)

Holidays and observances...
Independence Day in Kosovo

Have a great Tuesday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Feb 17 1994

The decomposing corpse of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first president of the Republic of Georgia, is exhumed from a temporary grave in Djikhaskari. His wife refuses an autopsy, but western journalists note a bullet wound in the side of Zviad's head. Officially listed as suicide, the wife also claims he was murdered. Another government minister oddly states the death was by cancer with the head shot administered post-mortem.





Post Mortem Gunshot wound. 

I bet.

[Flynbyu]

The KGB more than likely had something to do with it.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Underground shiz.

[Peelz]

Happy kosovar independence day.    

[Flynbyu]

The KGB is still alive and well.

I think they make the CIA look like Girl Scouts.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

FSB 

[Krandall]

FSB 

Front Side Bus? 

[Flynbyu]

FSB 

Front Side Bus? 

Front of Short Bus.



No, It's the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). Formerly the KGB.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Feb 18 1933

Yoko Ono born.

Feb 18 1965

Dre Day: Rapper and hip hop producer Dr. Dre (AKA André Romel Young) born in Los Angeles, California.

Feb 18 1967

J. Robert Oppenheimer dies.

Feb 18 1991

Killer/Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer strangles a 19-year-old man, marking his tenth (of 17) victims. Jeffrey dismembers the body and keeps the skull in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment.

Feb 18 2001

During the Daytona 500, NASCAR phenom Dale Earnhardt crashes into the wall and dies instantly. His widow later files a lawsuit to keep his autopsy photos sealed, and Florida subsequently passes a law to prevent them from ever being released.

Birthdays today...
1374 - Saint Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (d. 1399)
1404 - Leone Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)
1486 - Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer
1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)
1543 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)
1559 - Isaac Casaubon, French classical scholar (d. 1614)
1602 - Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier (d. 1680)
1609 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian (d. 1674)
1635 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
1642 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
1658 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743)
1745 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)
1814 - Samuel Fenton Cary, U. S. Congressman (d. 1900)
1818 - Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, and freedom fighter (d. 1870)
1836 - Sri Ramakrishna, Indian Bengali saint, guru of Swami Vivekananda (d. 1886)
1838 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)
1846 - Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904)
1848 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933)
1849 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (d. 1906)
1859 - Sholom Aleichem, Russian Yiddish humorist (d. 1916)
1870 - William Laurel Harris, American mural painter, writer (d. 1924)
1871 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
1883 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author (d. 1957)
1884 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)
1888 - George Papandreou, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)
1890 - Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956)
1890 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)
1892 - Wendell Willkie, American politician (d. 1944)
1896 - Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
1897 - Charles Kuentz, WW1 veteran, changed nationality 4 times (d. 2005)
1898 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1980)
1901 - Reginald Sheffield, British actor (d. 1957)
1902 - Walter Herbert, German-born conductor and impresario (d. 1975)
1903 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the Soviet Union (d. 1983)
1906 - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
1907 - Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (d. 2008)
1909 - Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer and English rugby union player, Wisden COY 1929 (d. 1990)
1909 - Wallace Stegner, American writer (d. 1993)
1914 - Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (d. 2000)
1915 - Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002)
1916 - Jean Drapeau, Canadian Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1999)
1918 - Jane Loevinger, American psychologist (d. 2008).
1919 - Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
1920 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
1920 - Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician (d. 1997)
1922 - Helen Gurley Brown, American editor
1922 - Allan Melvin, American actor (d. 2008)
1922 - Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (d. 1971)
1924 - Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist (d. 1999)
1924 - Louis Laberge, Canadian Quebec labour union leader (d. 2002)
1925 - George Kennedy, American actor
1925 - Marcel Barbeau, Canadian Quebec artist
1926 - Nalini Jaywant, Indian actress
1927 - John Warner, American politician
1927 - Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican baseball player
1928 - Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 - Len Deighton, British author
1929 - André Mathieu, Canadian composer (d. 1968)
1930 - Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist
1931 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1931 - Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel laureate
1931 - Bob St. Clair, American football player
1932 - Miloš Forman, Czech film director
1933 - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer
1933 - Sir Bobby Robson, English football manager
1933 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975)
1934 - Audre Lord, Caribbean poet, writer, and activist (d. 1992)
1935 - Michel Aoun, Lebanese prime minister
1936 - Jean Auel, American writer
1936 - Dick Duff, Canadian ice hockey player
1938 - István Szabó, Hungarian film director
1938 - Manny Mota, Dominican baseball player
1939 - Dal Maxvill, American baseball player
1939 - Marek Janowski, Polish-born conductor
1939 - Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist
1941 - Irma Thomas, American singer
1943 - Graeme Garden, Scottish writer
1944 - Pat Bowlen, owner of the Denver Broncos
1945 - Judy Rankin, American golfer
1946 - Michael Buerk, British newsreader
1946 - Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor
1947 - Dennis DeYoung, American musician (STYX)
1947 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
1947 - Carlos Lopes, Portuguese athlete
1947 - Eliot Lance Engel, American politician
1948 - Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress
1948 - Keith Knudsen, American drummer and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (d. 2005)
1949 - Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
1950 - John Hughes, American director
1950 - Cybill Shepherd, American actress
1950 - Michel Gauthier, Canadian politician
1951 - Isabel Preysler, Philippines-born Spanish socialite
1952 - Maurice Lucas, American basketball player
1952 - Juice Newton, American singer
1953 - Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1954 - John Travolta, American actor
1955 - Miles Tredinnick, English playwright
1955 - Raymond Rougeau, Canadian professional wrestler
1956 - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (d. 1997)
1957 - Marita Koch, German athlete
1957 - Vanna White, American game show presenter
1958 - Giovanni Lavaggi, Italian racing driver
1958 - Gar Samuelson, American drummer (d. 1999)
1960 - Carol McGiffin, British TV and radio presenter
1960 - Greta Scacchi, Australian actress
1960 - Andy Moog, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - Julie Strain, American actress
1963 - Henry Winter, English football journalist
1964 - Matt Dillon, American actor
1964 - Paul Hanley, British musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
1965 - Dr. Dre, American rapper
1965 - Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (d. 2005)
1966 - Guy Ferland, American television director
1967 - Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
1967 - Tracey Edmonds, American film and television producer
1967 - Harry Van Barneveld, Belgian judoka
1968 - Molly Ringwald, American actress
1969 - Tomaž Humar, Slovenian mountaineer
1969 - Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player
1969 - Jason Sutter, American drummer (Smash Mouth, American Hi-Fi)
1970 - Raine Maida, Canadian musician (Our Lady Peace)
1970 - Susan Egan, American actress
1971 - Constantin Popa, Romanian-Israeli basketball player
1971 - Merritt Gant, American thrash metal guitarist
1973 - Claude Makélélé, French footballer
1974 - Jamey Carroll, American baseball player
1974 - Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmental activist
1974 - Ruby Dhalla, Canadian politician
1974 - Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player
1975 - Sarah Brown, American actress
1975 - Keith Gillespie, Irish footballer
1975 - Gary Neville, English footballer
1976 - Chanda Rubin, tennis star
1976 - Leilani Munter, American race car driver
1977 - Ike Barinholtz, American actor
1977 - Kátia, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Sean Watkins, American guitarist and songwriter
1977 - Chrissie Wellington, British triathlete
1978 - Josip Šimunić, Croatian footballer
1980 - Regina Spektor, Russian-born singer and songwriter
1980 - Nikolai Antropov, Kazakh ice hockey player
1981 - Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player
1981 - Ivan Sproule, Irish footballer
1981 - Larry Sweeney, American Professional Wrestler
1981 - Kim Jae Won, South Korean actor
1981 - Alex Rios, American baseball player
1982 - Juelz Santana, American rapper
1983 - Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
1983 - Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
1984 - Buddy Nielsen, American singer (Senses Fail)
1985 - Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
1985 - Lee Boyd Malvo, American serial killer
1986 - Marc Torrejón, Spanish footballer
1988 - Maiara Walsh, American actress
1988 - Shane Lyons, actor and private chef

Famous 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)
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)
2009 - Al-Tayyib Salih, Sudanese novelist and columnist (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances...
Gambian Independence Day

Have a great Wednesday.

~Brian