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Today's Anniversary – Wednesday, May 20


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Births

* 2000 Louis van Gaal Hier bij Ajax ligt mijn hart,een club fascinerend, altijd apart.
* 1975 Andrew Sega Also known by the moniker Necros, is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 90s demoscene as well as for composing music for several well-known video games.
* 1972 Busta Rhymes Better known as Busta Rhymes, is an American hip-hop musician and actor.
* 1958 Ron Reagan Journalist and political activist.
* 1953 Robert Doyle Australian politician and the 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne, elected on 30 November 2008.
* 1946 Cher American recording artist, actress, director, and record producer.
* 1945 Anton Zeilinger Austrian quantum physicist.
* 1941 Goh Chok Tong Second Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore from November 28, 1990 to August 12, 2004.
* 1915 Moshe Dayan Israeli military leader and politician.
* 1908 James (Jimmy) Stewart Popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing screen persona.
* 1904 Margery Allingham English crime writer, best remembered for her detective stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.
* 1901 Max Euwe Dutch chess player.
* 1899 John Marshall Harlan American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1955 to 1971.
* 1892 Harry J. Anslinger First Commissioner of the U S Federal Bureau of Narcotics, widely considered the first United States "drug czar".
* 1883 Faisal I of Iraq Also known as Faisal bin Hussein, was the King of Iraq from 1921-1933 and the son of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
* 1839 Henry H. Goodell Professor of English and history, a lieutenant during the American Civil War, and one of the founders of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, where he served asthe first director of the Hatch Experimental Station, the first college librarian and ultimately its library founder, and went on to become the seventh and longest-serving president of the institution's history.
* 1811 Alfred Domett English colonial statesman and poet.
* 1806 John Stuart Mill Also known as J S Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism.
* 1799 Honore de Balzac French novelist.

Deaths

† 2006 Paul deParrie American pro-life activist and author who lived in Portland, Oregon.
† 2002 Stephen Jay Gould American geologist, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and popular-science author, who spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
† 1999 Bob Pike Full name Robert Hughes Pike, was an Australian surfer who specialized in big wave surfing.
† 1989 Gilda Radner American comedienne and actress.
† 1975 Barbara Hepworth Major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century.
† 1961 Nannie Helen Burroughs Influential African American, author, educator, orator, and religious leader.
† 1956 Max Beerbohm English writer and caricaturist.
† 1864 John Clare English poet, commonly known as "the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet".
† 1834 Gilbert du Motier Lafayette French and American military officer and aristocrat who participated in the American revolution as a general and served in the Estates General and the subsequent National Constituent Assembly in the early phases of the French revolution.
† 1732 Thomas Boston Scottish church leader.
† 1506 Christopher Columbus Explorer who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October 12th 1492 under the flag of Castilian Spain.
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