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April
2 Hans Christian Anderson, Emile Zola, Alec Guiness, Rita Gam Actor, Max Ernst, Darvin Gaye, Camile Paglia Writer, Dana Carvey Actor, Rochelle Owens Playwright, Buddy Ebsen Actor, Jack Webb Actor
3 Marlon Brando, Washington Irving Writer, Eddie Murphy Actor, Doris Day, Henry Luce Publisher, Alex Baldwin Actor, Leslie Howard, Marsha Mason, Daisy Ashford Writer, Miyoshi Umeki Actor
4 Marguerite Duras Writer, Anthony Perkins Actor, Maya Angelou Writer, Arthur Murray Dance, Elmer Bernstein Music, Robert Downey Junior Actor, Anthony Tudor Dance, Cloris Leachman, Emmett Williams Writer, Edward Hicks Artist, Pierr Monteux, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Artist, Kitty Kelly Writer
5 Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, Herbert von Karajan, Melvyn Douglas Actor, Robert Bloch Writer, Algernon Swinburne Writer, Jean Honore FRAGONARD -, Roger Corman Film Director, Michael Moriarty Actor, Alester James Peries Film Director
6 Houdini, Andre Previn, Barry Levinson Film Director, Billy dee Williams Actor, Gustave MOREAU
7 Buddha, Wordsworth, Billy Holliday, Francis Ford Coppola Film Director, Ravi Shankar, James Garner Actor, David Frost, Janis Law, Ole Kirk Christiansen - Lego,
8 Hou Hsia Hsien Film Director, Franco Corelli Music, Sir Adrian Boult, Julian Lennon, Ilka Chase Actor
9 Baudelaire, Paul Robeson, Mary Pickford, Jean Paul Belmondo Actor, Hugh Hefner, Dennis Quaid Actor, Robert Helpmann, Tom Lehrer, James W Fulbright, Anton Dorati, Efrem Zimbalist, Dorothy Tutin,
10 Joseph Pulitzer, Paul Theroux Writer Playwright, Hugo Grotius Writer, Max von Sydow Actor, Omar Sharif Actor, Pat Steir Artist, Ben Nicholson Artist, Kenneth Noland Artist, William Hazlitt Writer, Chuck Connors Actor
11 Oleg Cassini Fashion Designer, Clive Exton Writer Playwright, Louise Lasser Actor, Joel Grey Actor, Gervase de Peyer, Manuel Neri Sculptor,
12 David Letterman, Tamar Janowitz Writer, Robert DELAUNAY, Anne Miller Actor, Alan Ayckbourn Playwright, Montserrat Caballe, Lili Pons, Jane Withers Actor, David Cassidy, Scott Turow Writer, Georges Franju Film Director, Hardy Kruger Actor
13 Lousiana Purchase Architect, Samuel Beckett Playwright, James Ensor Artist, Landford Wilson Playwright, Seamus Heaney Writer, Stanley Dorren Film Director, Eudora Welty Writer, Ron Perlman Actor, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kaszan,
14 Arnold Toynbee Writer, Sir John Gielgud, Loretta Lynn, Rod Steiger, Julie Christie, Erich von Daniken Writer, Morton Subotnick Music, Hermene Butos Artist, James Branch Cabell Writer, Friederich von Amerling Artist, Aprile Millo Music, Bradford Dillman Actor
15 Leonardo DA VINCI, Henry James Writer, Claudia Cardinale Actor, Thomas Hart Benton Artist, Sir Neville Marriner, Samantha Fox Actor, Jeffrey Archer Writer, David Gilhooly Sculptor
16 Charles Chaplin, Anatole France Writer, Peter Ustinov, Kingsley Amis Writer, Spike Milligan Writer, Merce Cunningham Dance, Henry Mancini, Jules Hardovin Mansart Architect, Ellen Barkin Actor, Herbie Mann, Vladimir von Bechtejeff Artist
17 Isak Dinesen Writer, Konstantinos Kavafis Writer, Thornton Wilder Playwright, Clare Francis Writer, William Holden, Cynthia Ozick Writer, Lindsay Anderson Film Director, Olivia Hussey Actor,
18 Leopold Stokowski, James Woods Actor, Eric Roberts Actor, Miklos Rozsa Music, Robert Hooks Actor, Huntinton Hartford Art Patron, Ludwig Meidner Artist, Max Weber Artist, Hayley Mills Actor
19 Lucrezia Borgia, Dudley Moore, Murray Perahia, Jayne Mansfield, Hugh O'Brien Actor, Anthony Bliss Opera, Don Adams Actor, Constance Talmadge Actor, Richard Hughes Writer
20 Hittler, Joan MIRO, Jessica Lange Actor, Daniel Day-Lewis Actor, Harold Lloyd Actor, Ryan O'Neill Actor, Gregor Piatigorsky, George Takei Actor, Nina Foch Actor
21 Charlotte Bronte, Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano Actor, Tony Danza Actor, Norman Parkinson Photographer, Richard DIEBENKORN Artist, John Clifford Mortimer Writer
22 Immanuel Kant, Alexander Kemensky Writer, Jack Nicholson Actor, Yehudi Menuhin, Kathleen Ferrier, Bai Yang Actor, Ellen Glasgow Writer, Glen Campbell, Mme Anne Louise de Stael Writer, Odile REDON, Aaron Spelling TV Producer, Signer Nolan
Shakespeare, William TURNER Artist, Prokofiev, Vladimir Nabokov Writer, Ngaio Marsh Writer, Shirly Temple, Roy Orbison, Lee Majors
24 Barbra Steisland, Shirley MacLaine, Willem de KOONING, Robert Pen Warren Writer, Anthony Trollope Writer, John Williams Music, Jill Ireland Actor, Bridget Riley Artist,
25 Oliver Cromwell, Ellan Fitzgerald, Al Pacino Actor, Talia Shire Actor, Paul Mazursky Director, Bertrand Tavernier Film Director, Karel Appel Artist, Walter de la Mare Writer
26 Aubudon Artist, Eugene DELACROIX, Michel Fokine Dance, Carol Burnett, Bernard Malamud Writer, Anita Loos Writer, AE Van Vogt Writer
27 Cecil Day-Lewis Writer, Norman Bel Gedes Stage Designer, Jack Klugman Actor, Walter Lantz - Woody Woodpecker, Zhang Jie Writer, Sandy Dennis Actor, Anouk Aimee Actor
28 Oskar Schindler, Odette Sansom, Yves KLEIN Artist, Harper Lee Writer, Lionel Barrymore Actor, Ann Margret Actor, Kaneto Shindo Film Director, Angana Enters Dancer
29 Duke Ellington, William Randolph Hearst Publisher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Andre Agassi, Sir Thomas Beechman, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Zubin Mehta, Celeste Holm Actor
30 Willie Nelson, Eve Arden Actor, Jill Clayburgh, Franz Lehar, John Crowe Ransom Writer, Herbert Ferber Artist, Peter Ahrends, Architect, Corinne Calvert Actor, Robert Shaw Music,
MAY
1 Terry Southern Writer, Joseph Heller Writer, Judy Collins Actor, Bobbie Ann Mason Writer, Joseph Addison Writer, Glen Ford Actor, Danielle Darrieux Actor, Wendy Toye Theatre, Rita Coolidge Singer
2 Sat Yajit Ray Film Director, Bing Crosby, Scarlatti, Noralis Writer, Sir John Malcolm Writer, Lorenzo Hart - Robers & Hart, Theodore Bikel Actor, Hadda Hopper Actor, Sidney Skolsky Firlm Producer, Bianca Jagger, Philippe Halsman Fashion Photographer, Edmund Bacon Architect
3 Henry Fielding Writer, Walter Slezak Actor, Mary Astor Actor, Pete Seeger, Folk Singer, Mary Sarton Writer, William Inge Playwright, Englebert Humperdinck, Allessandro Allori Artist
4 Audrey Hepburn, Cristofori - 1st piano, Keith Haring Artist, Frederick Edwin Church Artist, Howard da Silva Actor, Amos Oz Writer
5 Karl Marx Writer, Tyrone Power, Tammy Wynette, Michael Palin, Charles Bennet Gullans Writer, Hans Baluschek Artist, George Muche Artist, Hans Pfitzer Music
6 Freud, Orson Welles Film Director, Rudolph Valentino, Max Ophuls Film Director, Ernst Kirchner Artist, T H White Writer, Yasushi Inove Writer, Christian Morgenstern Writer, Stewart Granger, Victor Neuburg Writer
7 Brahms, Tschaikovsky, Robert Browning, Archibald Macleish Playwright, Gary Cooper, Rabindranath Tagore Writer, Carolyn Roehm Fashion Designer, Anne Baxter, Marjorie Boulton Writer
8 Gary Snyder Poet, Oscar Hammerstein, Roberto Rossellini Film Director, Candice Bergen, Thomas Pynchon Writer, Ricky Nelson Actor, Sloan Wilson Writer, Don Rickles Actor, Peter Benchley Writer, Jane Roberts Writer
9 James Barrie Playwright, Glenda Jackson, Billy Joel, Carlo Maria Giulini Music, Gordon Bunshaft architect, Jan Dibberts artist, Dietrich Buxtehude Music
10 Fred Astaire, Judith Jamison Dance, John Wilkes Booth Actor, David O Selznick Film Producer, Max Steiner Film Composer, Dmitri Tiomkin film composer, Ariel Durant Writer, Milton Babbitt Music
11 Martha Graham, Salvador Dali, Camilo Jose Cela Writer, Irving Berlin, Andre Gregory Writer, Margaret Rutherford, Marco Ferreri Film Director, Phil Silvers, Yakov Agam Artist, Jerzy Jarocki Theatre
12 Florence Nightingale, Edward Lear - The Owl and the Pussycat, Katherine Hepburn, Joseph Berrys Artist, Frank Stella Artist, Rossetti Artist, Faure Music, Burt Bacharach, Emilo Esterez Film Director, Lennox Berkeley, Wilfred Hyde White Actor
13 Stevie Wonder, Daphne du Maurier, George Braue, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Harvey Keitel Film Director, Bruce Chatwin Writer, Bea Arthur Actor, Adolf Holzel Artist, Ravi Shankar, Jane Alison Glver Music, Alphse Daudet Writer, Theodore Aventowicz Artist
14 George Lukas Film Director, Otto Klemperer, Gainsborough Artist, Antonio Berni Artist, Patrice Munsel Music, Norman Luboff Music
15 Frank Baum Writer - Wizard of Oz, Monteverdi, Brian Eno Music, Jasper Johns Artist, James Mason, Peter Shaffer Playwright, Richard Avedon Fashion Photographer, Joseph Cotton Actor, Pierre Curie Writer, Katherine Anne Porter Writer, Mikhail Bulgakov Writer, Mike Oldfield Music, Max Frisch Playwright, David Cronenburg Film Director, Mario Monicelli Film Director
16 Liberace, Henry Fonda, Janet Jackson, Debra Winger, Woody Herman Music, Frank F Mankiewicz Writer, Kenji Mizoguchi Film Director, Christian Lacroix Fashion Designer, Richard Tauber, Margaret Sullivan, Zoe Fontana Fashion Designer
17 Dennis Hopper Acotr, Eric Satie, Birgit Nilsson, Dennis Brain, Jean Gabin Actor, Maureen o'Sullivan Actor, Frederick Prokosch Writer
18 Bertrand Russell Writer, Frank Capra Film Director, Margot Fonteyn Ballet, Perry Como, Charles Trenet, Richard Brooks Film Director, Pierre Balmain Fashion Designer
19 Grace Jones, Lorraine Hansberry Poet, Writer, James Fox Actor, Edward de Bono, Nora Ephraon Writer, Yusuf Idris Playwright, Nellie Melba, Froberger Music
20 Socrates, Honore de Balzac, Jimmy Steward Actor, Cher, Joe Cocker, William Thornton Achitect - Capitol in Washington, Sigrid Undset Writer, Lya Bosi Artist, Constance Towers Actor, Elijah Fenton Writer
21 Albrecht Durer, Fatts Waller, Henri Rousseau, Marcel Breuer Architect, Maurice Andre, Harold Robbins Writer, Gina Bachauer, Robert Montgomery Actor, Raymond Buss Actor
22 Wagner, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Sir Arthur Conon Doyle, Charles Aznavour, Mary Cassatt, Herge - TIntin, Paul Winfield Actor, Michael Sarzin Actor, Alexander Pope Writer, M Scott Peck Writer, Marisol Artist, Susan Strasberg Actor, Jean Tinguely Artist
23 Robert Moog, Franz Kline Artist, Alicia de Larrocha Music, Joan Collins, Sir Charles Barry Architect - House of Parliament, Douglas Fairbanks Sn Actor, Rosemary Clooney, Richard Anaszkiewicz Artist
24 Queen Victoria, Bob Dylan, Joseph Brodsky Writer, Priscilla Presley, Mai Zetterling, Joan Micklin Silver Film Director, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero Writer, Albert Andre Artist, Gary Burghoff
25 Miles Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson Writer, Sir Ian McKellar Actor, Beverley Sills, John K Fairbanks Writer, Robert Ludlum Writer, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton Writer, Leslie Uggams Music, John Weitz Clothing Designer, Carlo Dolci Artist
26 Charles Duke of Orleans Writer - Valentines, John Wayne Actor, James Arness Actor, Jay Silverheels Actor, Pam Grier, Actor, Philip Michael Thomas Actor, Peggy Lee, Peter Cushing Actor, Jean Crain Actor,
27 Isadora Duncan, Julia Ward Howe Writer, Dashiell Hammett Writer, George Rouault Actor, John Barth Writer, Vincent Price Actor, Christopher Lee Actor, Herman Wouk Writer, Louis Gossettjn Actor
28 Ligeti Music, Ian Fleming Writer, Gladys Knight Music, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Music, Patrick White Writer, Warwich Deeping Writer, Thomas Moore Writer
29 John F Kennedy, Bob Hope, Annette Bening Actor, Joseph von Steinberg Film Director, T H White Writer, Albeniz Music, Xenakis Music, Pearl Lang Dance
30 Benny Goodman, Howard Hawks Film Director, Alfred Deller Music, Agnes Varda Film Director, Peter Carl Faberge Jeweller, Paolo Fendi Fashion Designer, Mel Blanc Actor, James MacGillivray Sculpture, Keir Dullea Actor, Stepin Fetchit Actor
31 Walt Whitman Writer, Norman Vincent Peale, Clint Eastwood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Film Director, Brooke Shields, Don Amechie Actor, Peter Fleming Writer, Ludwig Tieck Writer, Playwright, Jean Rouch Film Director, Frei Potto Architect
JUNE
1 Marilyn Monroe, Morgan Freeman, Jonathan Pryce Actor, Colleen McCullogh Writer, Norman Foster Architect, Pat Boone, Nelson Riddle, Andy Griffith Actor, John Masefield Poet, Glinka, Edo de Waart, Frederica von Stade, Cleavon Little Actor,
2 Thomas Hardy Writer, Marquis de Sade Writer, Marvin Hamlish, Music, Albert Innaurato Playwright, Sir Edward Elgar, Johnny Weissmuller - Tarzan, Stacy Keach Actor, Sally Kellerman Actor, Edwin way Teale Writer, Milo O'Shea Actor
3 Josephine Baker Actor, Dancer, Tony Curtis Actor, Allen Ginsberg Poet, Paulette Goddard Actor, Jan Peerce Music, Maurice Evans Actor, Colleen Dewhurst Actor, Alain Resnais Film Director, Raol Dufy Artist, Suzi Quatro, Martha Clarke Dance
4 Judith Malina Actor, Bruce Dern Actor, Dennis Weaver Actor, Robert Merrill Music, Rosalind Russell Actor, Cecilia Bartoli, Natalie Gontsjarova Artist, Jean alla Nazimora Actor, Henning Carlsen Film Director, Darci Kistler Dance
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6 Thomas Mann Writer, Alexander Pushkin Writer, Diego Velazquez Artist, Dame Ninette de Valois, Robert Englund Actor, Khatchaturian, Pierra Corneille Film Director
7 Gauguin, Tom Jones, Al Jolson, Jessica Tandy Actor, George Szell, Philippe Entremont, James Ivory Film Director, Elizabeth Bowen Writer, Pietro Annigoni Artist
8 Frank Lloyd Wright, Schumann, Marguerite Yourcenar Writer, Nancy Sinatra, Sara Paretsky Writer, Le Roy Neimann Artist, Alexis Smith Actor, Bo Widerberg Film Director
9 Cole Porter, Michael J Fox, Carl Neilsen Music, Jonny Depp
10 Judy Garland, Gustav Coubet, Richard Foreman Theatre Designer, Maurice Sendak Writer, Grace Mirabella Publisher Mirabella Magazine
11 Ben Jonson Playwright, Athol Fugard Playwright, Richard Strauss, William Styron Writer - Sophies Choice, Gene Wilder Actor, John Constable, Michael Cacoyannis Film Director - Zorba the Greek
Nina Timofeyer Ballet
Adrienne Barbeau Actor
12 Anne Frank
Irwin Allen Film Producer, Egon Schiele Artist, Luis Garcia Berlanga Film Director, John Charles Clifford Choreographer, Alessandro Penna Writer, Jim Nabors Actor, Brigid Brophy Writer, Rona Jafte Writer, Mary Lavin Writer, Charles Kingsley Writer - Westward Ho
13 J B Yeats Writer, Christo - wrapping landmarks, Basil Rathbone Actor, Doroghy L Sayres Writer, Richard Thomas Actor, Ally Sheedy Actor, Paul Lynde Actor, Fanny Burney Writer
14 Harriet Beecher Stowe Writer, Jerzy Kosinski Writer, Margaret Bourke-White Photographer, Borek Sipek Architect, Burl Ives, Sam Wanamaker Actor Director, Nicholas Rubinstein Music, Gene Barry Actor, Dorothy McGuire Actor, Vanessa Harwood Dancer
15 Grief, Claude Brasseur Actor, Jim Belushi Actor, Lofts Mansoun San Francisco Opera Director, Saul Steinberg Artist, Harry Langdon Actor, Amy Clampitt Poet, Robert Russell Bennett Music, Malvina Hoffman Sculptor, Carol Fox opera producer
16 Stan Laurel - Laurel & Hardy, Jim Dine Artist, Joyce Carol Oates Writer, Erich Segal Writer, Nelson Doubleday NY Publisher
17 Stravinsky, MC Escher Artist, Gwendolyn Brooks Writer, Charles Gounod Music, Barry Manilow, Dean Martin, Andre Derain Artist, Joe Piscopo Actor, Ralph Bellamy Actor, Nicola Trussardi Fashion Designer, John Hersey Writer
18 Paul McCartney, Isabella Rossellini, EG Marshall Actor, Richard Boone Actor, Gail Godwin Writer, Jeanette MacDonald - with Nelson Eddy, Ian Carmichael Actor, Eli Levin Artist
19 Kathleen Turner, Paula Abdul Music, Phylicia Rashad Actor, Salman Rushie Writer, Pauline Kael Writer, Gena Rowlands Actor, Moe Howard Actor, Louis Jourdan Music, Guy Lombardo, Moe Haward - 3 Stooges, Charles Gwathmey Architect, Tom Wicker Writer, Tobias Wolff Writer
20 Errol Flynn, Cyndi Lauper, Lionel Richie, Audie Murphy Actor, Stephen Frears Film Director, Oympia Dukakis Actor, Lillian Hellman Playwright, Offenbach, Martin Laudau Actor, Catherine Cookson Writer, Tadashi Suzuki Theatre, Kurt Schwitters Artist
21 Jean Paul Sartre, Francoise Sagan, Mary McCarthy Writer, Rockwell Kent Artist, Jane Russell Actor, Judy Holliday Actor, Robert B Stacy-Judd architect, John O'Neukk Writer
22 Meryl Streep, Erich Maria Remarque - all quiet on the western front, Billy Wilder Film Director, Kris Kristofferson, H Rider Haggard Writer - King Solomon's Mines, Joseph Papp theatre, Mike Todd, Hollywood Producer, Klaus Maria Brandauer Actor, Anne Morrow Lindbergh Writer, Freddie prinze,actor, Lindsay Wagner Actor,
23 Alfred Kinsey - Kinsey Report, Bob Fosse Actor, Ray Charles, Music, James Levine Music, Jean Anouilh Playwright, Richard Bach Writer, Ted Lapidus Fashion Designer, Allan Matheson Tyring computers, Claude Goretta Film Director, Edward P Morgan Actor
24 John Ciardi Poet, Claude Chabrol Film Director, Ambrose Bierce Writer, George Stanford Brown Actor, Michel Lee Actor
25 George Orwell Writer, Antonio Gaudi Architect, Signey Lumet Film Director, Carly Simon Music, Sam Francis Artist, Robert C Venturi Architect, Peter Blake Artist, Michelangelo Pistoletto Artist, June Lockhart Actor, Denys Arnold Filmaker, George Abbott Playwright
26 Pearl S Buck Writer, Peter Lorre Actor, Claudio Abbado Music, Lucinda Eustis Childs choreographer, Colin Wilson Writer, Walter Farley Writer, Laurie Lee Poet
27 Helen Keller, Isabel Adjani Actor, Alice McDermott Writer, Philip Guston Aritst
28 Jean Jacques Rousseau, Peter Paul Reubens Artist, Richard Rogers Music, Mel Brooks Actor, Luigi Pirandello Playwright, John Cusack Actor, Joseph Joachim Music, Kathy Bates Actor, Eric Ambler Writer
29 Antoine de Saint-Exopery Writer, Oriana Fallaci Writer, Rafael Kubelik Music, Slim Dickens Actor, Ray Harryhausen Film Producer, Anny Sophie Mutter, Luisi Tetrazzini Music, Gary Busey Actor, Claude Montana Fashion Designer, Giacomo Leopardi Poet, Nelson Eddy
30 Lona Horne Actor, Susan Hayward Actor, Winston Graham Writer, Tony Musante Actor, Walter Hampden Acotr
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