Today VII

Birthdays:

• Michel Rolle, mathematician, invented the current standardized notation to denote the nth root of x, April 21, 1652 - November 8, 1719


• John Law, economist, considered to be the father of finance, responsible for the adoption or use of paper money or bills in the world today, (baptized) April 21, 1671 - March 21, 1729


• Charlotte Brontë, novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, wrote Jane Eyre, and other novels, April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855


• Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca ANTHONY Quinn, actor, painter, and writer, April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001


• Alistair Stuart MacLean, novelist, wrote The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, among others; also used the pseudonym Ian Stuart, April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987


• Queen Elizabeth II [Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor], 1926


• Elaine May, comedienne, 1932


• Alan Warner, guitarist with The Foundations, 1947


• Kenneth Gene KEN Caminiti, baseball player, April 21, 1963 – October 10, 2004

RIP:

• Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, author, November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910


• Earl Zebedee Hooker, blues guitarist, January 15, 1929 – April 21, 1970


• Milton Marx, aka Gummo Marx, actor, October 23, 1892 - April 21, 1977


• Eunice Kathleen Waymon, aka Nina Simone, singer, February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003