Today's Birthdays – December 17, 2011

Celebrity Birthday

1239 – Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256) 1706 – Émilie du (Gabrielle) Châtelet, French writer, mathematician and physicist  (d. 1749) (Voltaire) 1770 – Johann Friedrich Schubert composer 1797 – Joseph Henry, American physicist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism (d. 1878) 1801 – Johan king of Saxon (1854-73) (translated Divina Commedia) 1807 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892) (Snow-bound) 1824 – John Kerr System physicist (electro-visually Kerr-effect) 1908 – Willard Frank Libby, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980) (carbon-14 “atomic clock” (Nobel 1960)) 1927 – Richard Long, American actor (d. 1974) (Professor-Nanny & the Professor) 1930 – Bob Guccione, American magazine publisher (d. 2010) (Penthouse Magazine Empire) 1930 – Julia Meade actress/TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse) 1935 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball coach (d. 1999) (Baltimore Orioles) 1937 – Art Neville, American musician (The Neville Brothers) 1939 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992) 1942 – Paul Butterfield, American blues musician (d. 1987) (Better Days) 1943 – Mary Brunner, American “Manson Family” member 1945 – Chris Matthews, American journalist (Host of Hardball on MSNBC) 1945 – Ernie Hudson, American actor  (Ghostbusters, Weeds) 1946 – Eugene Levy, Canadian actor, comedian/writer (SCTV) 1947 – Wes Studi, American actor (Last of the Mohicans) 1949 – Paul Rodgers, English singer (Free; Bad Company) 1954 – Bill Pullman actor (Sommersby, League of their Own, Independence Day) 1956 – Peter Farrelly, American film director (Farrelly Brothers) 1958 – Mike Mills, American musician (R.E.M.) 1961 – Sara Dallin, English singer (Bananarama) 1964 – Michele Tafoya, American sportcaster 1969 – Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell, American mixed martial artist 1972 – Laurie Holden, American actress 1975 – Nick Dinsmore (Eugene), American professional wrestler 1975 – Milla Jovovich, actress (Resident Evil, Chaplin) 1979 – Jaimee Foxworth actress (Judy Winslow-Family Matters) 1987 – Bradley Manning, American soldier who leaked information to WikiLeaks 1989 – Taylor York, American rock guitarist  ]]]]> ]]>

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