Today III

Birthdays:

• Christiaan Huygens, mathematician and physicist, April 14, 1629 – July 8, 1695


• Anne Sullivan, teacher, April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936


• Sir Arthur JOHN Gielgud OM, CH, actor, April 14, 1904 – May 21, 2000


• Eugene JUG Ammons, tenor saxophone player, the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, April 14, 1925 - August 6, 1974


• Rodney Stephen ROD Steiger, actor, April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002


• Loretta Lynn, singer, 1935


• Julie Frances Christie, actress, 1941


• Pete Rose, former baseball player, deserving of Hall of Fame membership, 1941


• Richard Hugh RITCHIE Blackmore, guitarist, 1945


• John Shea, actor, 1949


• Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist, 1951


• Bradley Gerstenfeld, aka Brad Garrett, 6'8" actor, 1960


• Greg Maddux, pitcher, 1966


• Veronika Zemanová, model, 1975


• Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress, 1977

RIP:

• Georg Friedrich Händel, composer, February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759


• Simone de Beauvoir, feminist author and philosopher, January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986


• Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel, aka Fredric March, actor, August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975


• Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, folk singer, June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995


• Phillip W. PHIL Katz, computer programmer [PKZIP], November 3, 1962 – April 14, 2000