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Today's Anniversary – Monday, April 06


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Births

* 1983 Diora Baird American actress and former model for Guess? who has appeared in films such as Wedding Crashers and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
* 1975 Zach Braff Grammy Award-winning American television and film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer.
* 1961 Rory Bremner British impressionist and comedian, noted for his political satire.
* 1960 Miss Foozie Better known as simply Miss Foozie, is a character from Chicago.
* 1956 Michele Bachmann Republican State Representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district.
* 1949 Horst Ludwig Stormer German physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin, "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations".
* 1945 Neal Boortz Libertarian American talk radio host based in Atlanta, Georgia.
* 1937 Merle Haggard American country music singer, guitarist and songwriter.
* 1928 James D. Watson American scientist, best known as one of the four discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule.
* 1926 Ian Paisley Politician and church leader in Northern Ireland.
* 1908 John P. (diplomat) Davies American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient.
* 1908 John Paton Davies American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient.
* 1857 Arthur Wesley Dow American painter, printmaker, photographer, and influential arts educator.
* 1826 Gustave Moreau French Symbolist painter, famous for his illustration of biblical and mythological figures.
* 1823 Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney Born Julia Fletcher, was an American Universalist educator and poet, whose works began to be published when she was 14, and who later wrote under various pseudonyms.
* 1773 James Mill Scottish utilitarian philosopher of the school of Jeremy Bentham; also an economist, historian and political theorist.
* 1741 Nicolas Chamfort Born Nicolas-Sébastien Roch, was a French writer.

Deaths

† 2012 Fang Lizhi Chinese astrophysicist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
† 2000 Habib Bourguiba President of Tunisia from July 25, 1957 until 7 November 1987.
† 1992 Isaac Asimov Russian-born American author and biochemist.
† 1984 Jimmy Kennedy British songwriter.
† 1971 Igor Stravinsky Russian-born composer, is thought to be one of the most influential composers of the 20th century.
† 1935 Edwin Arlington Robinson American poet.
† 1927 Florence Earle Coates —American poet born in Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania poet laureate who gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred of which were published in literary magazines of her day such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, The Literary Digest, Lippincott's, The Century Magazine, and Harper's.
† 1875 Moses Hess German philosopher who is considered one of the founders of communism and zionism.
† 1528 Albrecht Durer German painter and printmaker.
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