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Today's Anniversary – Wednesday, May 06


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Births

* 1982 Nathan Leone Lead singer of the pop punk band Madina Lake.
* 1979 Kerry Ellis English stage actress and singer who is most famous for her work in musical theatre and subsequent crossover into music.
* 1961 George Clooney Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter.
* 1953 Tony Blair Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007.
* 1945 Bob Seger American rock musician and singer-songwriter.
* 1944 Carl I. Hagen Norwegian economist, politician, former chairman of the Progress Party and former Vice President of the Norwegian Parliament.
* 1931 Willie Mays Major League Baseball player for 22 seasons, starting his career with the Giants in New York, remaining with the team during their relocation to San Francisco, and then ending his career with the New York Mets.
* 1921 Erich Fried Austrian poet, essayist and translator.
* 1920 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara Founding father and Long-time Prime Minister and President of Fiji.
* 1916 Robert H. Dicke American physicist, who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity.
* 1915 George Perle Composer and theorist.
* 1915 Sydney Carter English poet and songwriter.
* 1915 Orson Welles Writer, actor and film director.
* 1914 Randall Jarrell American poet, novelist, critic, children's book author and essayist.
* 1906 Andre Weil One of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, whether measured by his research work, its influence on future work, exposition or breadth.
* 1880 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German expressionist painter and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brόcke.
* 1872 Ahmed Djemal One of the most important administrators of the Ottoman government.
* 1871 Christian Morgenstern German author.
* 1856 Sigmund Freud [?zi?gm?nt ?fr???t] was an Austrian neurologist and psychologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology.
* 1809 Juan Donoso Cortes Spanish author, diplomat and politician, born at Valle de la Serena, Extremadura.
* 1797 Joseph Brackett American Shaker Elder and songwriter, famous as the author of the song "Simple Gifts.
* 1759 Francois Andrieux French man of letters and playwright.
* 1758 Maximilien Robespierre One of the leaders of the French Revolution.
* 1714 James Townley English dramatist and anonymous playwright, second son of Charles Townley, merchant.
* 1405 prince of Arberia (Scanderbeg Skanderbeg Better known as Skanderbeg, is one of the most prominent figures in the history of Albania.

Deaths

† 2002 Pim Fortuyn Known as Pim Fortuyn, was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List.
† 1992 Marlene Dietrich German-American actress and singer.
† 1979 Bernard Leach British studio potter and art teacher.
† 1963 Theodore von Karman Hungarian-born engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics during the seminal era in the 1940s and 1950s.
† 1952 Maria Montessori Italian educator, scientist, physician, philosopher, and feminist.
† 1949 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist who wrote in French, most famous for his work L'Oiseau Bleu, and for other works exploring the meaning of life and death.
† 1919 L. Frank Baum American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator William Wallace Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
† 1915 Theodore Chickering Williams American pastor and hymnwriter, and the first headmaster of the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York.
† 1902 Bret Harte American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.
† 1885 Joseph Edwards Carpenter English playwright and songwriter.
† 1884 Judah P. Benjamin American politician and lawyer.
† 1862 Henry David Thoreau American writer and philosopher; born David Henry Thoreau.
† 1859 Alexander von Humboldt German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the diplomat and philosopher Wilhelm von Humboldt.
† 1796 Adolf Freiherr Knigge German writer and Freemason, most famous for his book άber den Umgang mit Menschen [On Human Relations].
† 1794 Suzanne (aka Madame Necker) Curchod French-Swiss salonist and writer.
† 1692 Nathaniel Lee English dramatist.
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