It was also the day Archbishop Desmond Tutu was born, the day Yo-Yo Ma was born (I’m a cellist, so that one is nice for me).
It was also the day Edgar Allen Poe died.
And the day Marian Anderson made history in 1956 by being the first black woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
Any one famous born on your birthday? Anything special happen?
I don’t know who first said “everyone’s a critic,” but I think it’s a really stupid saying.
Here’s the birthdays, youngest to oldest for 10/28:
Joaquin Phoenix, Julia Roberts, Jami Gertz, Griffin O’Neal (Tatum’s brother), Lauren Holly, Daphne Zuniga, Bill Gates, Annie Potts, Bruce Jenner, Telma Hopkins (of Tony Orlando & Dawn), Roy Rogers, Jr., Dennis Franz, Michael Crichton, Jane Alexander, Charlie Daniels, Joan Plowright, Edith Head (prolific Hollywood Costume Designer).
The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886 on 10/28.
Oliver North, U.S. marine, involved in Iran-Contra controversy.
John Cougar Mellencamp, U.S. singer
And something really odd…
American poet James Whitcomb Riley was born on this date in 1849. While working in Indiana he carried out a literary hoax. He wrote a poem called “Leonainie” in the style of Edgar Allan Poe. The Kokomo Dispatch printed it as an unpublished Poe masterpiece. Riley revealed his trick when scholars asked to see the original Poe manuscript.
“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” - Humphrey Bogart
Happy B-day Pete!
Mine is 4/24. I don’t know of anybody famous born on that day, but I do know that one year, when I was 10 or so, it was New Kids On The Block Day in Michigan. Sad, yes?
My birthday is tomorrow, my time, and October 9th has:
Camille Saint-Saëns (cool!)
Jacques Tati (also cool!)
Fyvush Finkel
Donald Sinden
Brian Blessed (yay! one of my favourite actors!)
John Lennon (someone few people haven’t heard of)
Tony Shalhoub
Scott Bakula (Quantum!)
Michael Paré (eek!)
Savannah (double eek!)
Zachery Ty Bryan (oh dear…)
Not a bad selection, really. I’m happy
“Waheeey! ‘Duck!’ Get it?”
“Errr… No…”
“Duck! Sounds almost exactly like fu-”
My birthday is February 22 - I share it with Edna St. Vincent Millay (coincidentally, one of my favorite poets)
George Washington
Ted Kennedy
Drew Barrymore
It seems that all of them have or had a big ol’ wad of vices, which is the only argument for astrology that’s ever made any sense to me…