Great years for great people to be born

[andyfox]

Reading about the great Dutch painter Vermeer, I note that he was born in 1632. Also born in that year were Spinoza, John Locke, and Christopher Wren.

Any ideas on what year produced the greatest crop?

[andyfox]

I don't see how anyone can top this list of great people born in 1953:

Andy Fox
Bruce Sutter
Bobby Rahal
Pat Benatar
Paul Allen
Tony Blair
George Brett
Cyndi Lauper
Tim Allen
Randy White
Pat Haden
Desi Arnaz Jr.
Mary Steenburgen
Ron Howard
Jim Rice
Chaka Khan
Louie Anderson
Rick Moranis
Jim Rice
Jamaal Wilkes
Benazir Bhutto
Geraldo Rivera
Leon Spinks
Steve Grogan
Hulk Hogan
Kathie Lee Gifford
Robert Parrish
Keith Hurnandez
Tom Petty
Dennis Miller
Franz Klammer
Kim Bassinger
John Malkovich
World B. Free


Spinoza, John Locke and Christopher Wren! Hah!

[Mike Gallo]

Andy,

You have way tooo much time on your hands.

Thanks for the info.

When you get a chance can you look up 1968??

[daryn]

1642: Isaac Newton

[Ulysses]

Selected "High"lights:

16-Jul-1971 Corey Feldman
23-Dec-1971 Corey Haim

I think that's probably enough right there....

06-Jan-1971 Joey Lauren Adams
12-Apr-1971 Shannen Doherty
29-Aug-1971 Carla Gugino
18-Sep-1971 Jada Pinkett Smith
29-Oct-1971 Winona Ryder
25-Nov-1971 Christina Applegate

17-Jan-1971 Kid Rock
20-Aug-1971 Fred Durst

27-Feb-1971 Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas
27-May-1971 Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes

09-Mar-1971 Emmanuel Lewis
21-Sep-1971 Alfonso Ribeiro

31-Mar-1971 Pavel Bure
03-Apr-1971 Picabo Street
18-Sep-1971 Lance Armstrong

05-Jun-1971 "Marky" Mark Wahlberg
16-Jun-1971 Tupac Shakur
01-Jul-1971 Missy Elliott

[andyfox]

And Galileo died in 1642.

Shoulders of giants indeed.

[andyfox]

A great year for baseball players: Piazza; Sosa; Olerud; Mussina; Kent; Thomas; Bagwell; Alomar.

On other fronts:

Cuba Gooding Jr., actor
Lyle Menendez, murderer
LL Cool J, rapper
Pauly Shore, ?
Vlade Divac, best basketball player ever named Vlade
Cline Dion, diva (curiously, her husband was born in 1868)
Tracy Lords, acrobatic actress
Lisa Marie Presley, heiress

Doesn't appear there's an Isaac Newton in the bunch, or even in the aggregate . . .

[HDPM]

Hey, why aren't you accepting PM's? I need to PM you. PM me if yer e-mail changed. I don't have it on this computer. Offtopic, but can't be avoided given your PM status. I think there's at least a 33% chance I'll try to get to LA next week sometime. I need to know how to take Archie and iris out to dinner. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[andyfox]

Charles Darwin
Abraham Lincoln
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Edgar Allan Poe
Louis Braille

[andyfox]

Babe Ruth
J. Edgar Hoover
John Ford
Stan Laurel
jack Dempsey
Oscar Hammerstein II
R. Buckminster Fuller
Paul Muni
Buster Keaton
Lumiere Brothers

[Wake up CALL]

George W. Bush

How could you have missed this year Mr. Fox? /images/graemlins/smile.gif

How about 1937 General Colin Powell?

Heck 1941 was a pretty good year as well for America at least, Dick Cheney.

Please don't let us forget 1932 which brought us our distinguished Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

[andyfox]

I prefer 1931:

Mickey Mantle
Willie Mays
Ernie Banks
Eddie Matthews
Charles Nelson Reilly
Rupert Murdoch
Desmond Tutu
Barbara Walters
Dan Rather
Anne Bancroft
Gene Hackman
Robert Duvall
James Dean
Larry Hagman
Willie Shoemaker
Roone Arledge
Tom Wolfe
Alfred Brendel
Boris Yeltsin
Isabel Person

and

Daniel Ellsberg

[andyfox]

Adolph Hitler
Charlie Chaplin
Jawaharal Nehru
Edwin Hubble
Walter Lippman
Erle Stanley Gardner
Robert Benchley
George S. Kaufman

[Ulysses]

15-Feb-1564 Galileo Galilei
23-Apr-1564 William Shakespeare

23-Feb-1685 George Frederic Handel
21-Mar-1685 Johann Sebastian Bach

19-Jan-1809 Edgar Allan Poe
12-Feb-1809 Charles Darwin
12-Feb-1809 Abraham Lincoln

OK, getting boring.... /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[andyfox]

I hadn't realized Darwin and Lincoln were born on the same day. Probably the second greatest such duo, behind Jeff Bagwell and Frank Thomas.

Baseball rules! Great, great game tonight.