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| JAN 1 | Alfred Stieglitz Photographer |
Xavier Cugat
Musician Bejart Choreographer Balakirev Sir Michael Tippett |
Dana Andrews Actor Philip Freneau 1752 Writer Isaac Asimov 1920 Writer Ouida Author E M Forster 1879 J D Salinger 1919 |
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| 2 |
Renata Tebaldi Musician Yuriy Grigorovich Ballet, Verna Zorina Ballet |
Philip Freneau 1752 Writer Isaac Asimov 1920 Writer |
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| 3 |
Victor Borge, Giovanni Battista Pergolese |
J R R Tolkien 1892 Writer Cicero 106 BC Writer Mel Gibson Actor Ray Milland Actor Victoria Principal Actor |
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| 4 |
Pergolesi Josef Suk Grace Bumbry |
Jacob Grimm 1785 Writer Jayne Wyman Actor |
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| 5 | Yves Tanguy |
Alfred Brendel Maurizio Pollini Alvin Ailey choreographer |
Robert Duvall Actor Diane Keaton Actor |
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| 6 | Gustav Dore Artist |
Max Bruch Alexander Schriabin |
E L Doctorow 1931 Writer Loretta Young Actor Danny Thomas Actor |
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| 7 | Oscar Dominguez Artist |
Francis Poulenc Nicanor Zabaletta Jean-Pierre Rampal |
Gerald Durrell 1925 Writer Nicholas Cage Actor | |
| 8 |
Shirley Bassey Jose Ferrier Actor Yvette Mimieux Actor |
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| 9 |
Simone de Beauvoir 1908 Writer Joan Baez Suzannah York Actor Fernando Lamas Actor |
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| 10 |
Jean Martinon Rod Stuart Galina Ulanova Ballet |
Ray Bolger Actor Paul Henreid Actor |
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| 11 | Reinhold Gliere |
Eva la Galliene Actor Rod Taylor Actor |
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| 12 | John Singer SARGENT Artist | Wolf Ferrari |
Edmund Burke 1729 Writer Jack London 1876 Writer, Louise Ranier Actor Kirstie Allie Actor |
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| 13 |
Sophie Tucker Heinrich Hofmann |
Robert Stack Actor Michael Bond Writer (Paddington Bear) |
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| 14 | Berthe MORISOT Artist |
Albert Schweitzer Cecil Beaton Photographer |
Yukio Mishima 1925 Writer Faye Dunaway Trevor Nunn Stage Director |
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| 15 |
Ivor Novello Gene Krupa Faure |
Moliere 1622 Writer Joan of Arc Lloyd Bridges Actor Margaret O'Brien Actor Maria Schell Actor |
Aristotle Onassis | |
| 16 |
Marilyn Horne Ethel Merman |
Susan Sontag 1933 Writer | ||
| 17 | Moira Shearer Ballet |
Nevil Shute 1899 Konstantin Stanislavski Acting Anne Bronte 1820 |
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| 18 |
A A Milne 1882, Danny Kaye Actor Oliver Hardy Actor CARY GRANT Actor Kevin Costner Actor |
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| 19 | Paul CEZANNE |
Hans Hotter Simon Rattle |
Edgar Allan Poe Writer Patrician Highsmith Writer Janis Joplin Michael Crawford Actor Jean Stapleton Actor |
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| 20 | Susan Rothenburg Artist |
Walter Piston Yvonne Loriof Music Chausson Music |
Federico Fellini George Burns Actor Patrician Neal Actor |
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| 21 |
Christian Dior Balenciaga Harriet Backer Artist Moritz von Schwind Artist |
Placido Domingo Igor Moiseyer Dance |
Geena Davis Actor Paul Schofied Actor Telly Savalis Actor |
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| 22 |
Jerome Kern Music George Balanchine Ballet |
Lord Byron Writer Sir Francis Bacon DW Griffith Silent Film Director Sergei Eisenstern Film Director John Hunt Actor Anne Southern Actor Gotthold Lessing Dramatist, critic |
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| 23 | Edouard MANET Artist | Rutland Boughton |
Humphrey Bogart Stendahl Writer Jeanne Moreau Actor Rutger Hauer Actor Randolph Scott Actor Francis Dorin Actor |
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| 24 | Robert MOTHERWELL Artist |
Evelyn Rothwell Music Frederick the Great Neil Diamond Music Maria Tallchief Ballet |
ETA Hoffman Beaumarchais Edith Wharton Writer, John Belushi Actor Nastassja Kinski Actor Ernest Borgnine Actor Sharon Tate Actor |
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| 25 | Wilhelm Furtwangler Lutoslawski |
Robert Burns Writer Virginia Woolf Writer Somerset Maugham Writer, Youssef Chahaine Film Director Mildred Dunnock Actor |
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| 26 |
Jules Feiffer Social Cartoonist Elisabet Ney |
Stephane Grappelli
Jaqueline du Pres Stephanie Grappelli Music Eartha Kitt |
Paul Newman Roger Vadim Film Director |
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| 27 | Jozef Israels Artist |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Edouard Lalo John Ogden, Edouard Lalo Music Jean-Phillipe Collard Music |
Lewis Carroll Writer Ingrid Thulin Actor Illya Ehrenberg Writer Donna Reed Actor, |
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| 28 | Jackson POLLOCK Artist |
Artur Rubinstein Mikhail Baryshnikov Ballet Richmond Barthe Sculptor |
Alan Aldar Actor | Oprah Winfrey |
| 29 |
Auber Delius Luigi Nono Music, Frederick Delius Music |
Anton Chekhov WC Fields Actor Ernst Lubitsch Film Director Germaine Greer Writer, Paddy Chayevsky Writer, Romaine Rolland Writer, Barnett Newman Writer, Katherine Ross Actor Tom Selleck Actor John Forsythe Actor, |
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| 30 |
Johann Joachim Quantz Roy Eldridge Music |
Barbara Tuchman Writer, Vaness Redgrave Actor, Gene Hackman
Actor Delbert Mann Film Director, Dick Martin Actor Dorothy Malone Actor |
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| 1 FEB |
Franz Schubert Anna Pavlova Ballet, Phillip Glass Music, Mario Lanza Music Phil Collins Music |
Norman Mailer Carol Channing Actor John O'Hara Writer, Tallulah Bankhead Eddie Cantor Actor Jean Simmons Actor |
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| 2 | Kazuhiro Ishii Architect |
James P Johnson Music Victor Herbert, Alexander Kipnis |
Langston Hughes Writer, John Ford Film Director, Clarke Gable Actor SJ Perlman Writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal Writer Langston Hughes Writer Gertrude Stein James Michener James Joyce |
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| 3 | Hugette Bertrand Artist |
Jascha Heifitz Fritz Kreisler Jussi Bjoerling Stan Getz |
Farrah Fawcett Nell Gwyn James Dickey Writer Vera Chytilova Film Director |
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| 4 |
Norman ROCKWELL Artist, Ferdinand LEGER Artist |
Mendelssohn Bartholdy Linda Cohen Music Agi Jambor Music Erich Leinsdorf |
Betty Friedan Gertrude Stein James Michener Carl Theodor Drydreyer Film Director Blythe Danner Actor Shelley Berman Actor Joey Bishop Actor Morgan Fairchild Paul Auster Writer Ida Lupino Actor Mackinlay Kantor Writer |
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| 5 | Nathaniel Owings Architect |
JK Huysmans
Writer John Guare Writer, Charlotte Rampling Actor Barbarra Hershey Actor John Carradine Actor, Jennifer Leigh Actor, Stephen Cannell Writer, |
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| 6 |
Natalie Cole Claudio Arrau |
Christopher Marlowe, Francois Truffaut
Film Director Robert Townsend Actor, Patrick MacNee Actor Sir Henry Irving Actor Zsa Zsa Gabor Actor, Ramon Novarro Actor |
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| 7 |
Russell Drysdale
Artist Stuart Davis Artist Daryl Jackson Architect |
Charles Dickens Sinclair Lewis Writer Laura Ingalis Wilder Writer Buster Crabbe Actor Guy Talese Writer Eddie Bracken Actor |
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| 8 | Franz MARC Artist |
John Williams Composer Elly Ameling |
Jules Verne James Dean Jack Lemon Nick Nolte John Ruskin Writer King Vidor Film Director, Lana Turner Dame Edith Evans Samuel Butler Writer, Robert Burton Writer |
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| 9 | Robert Morris Sculptor |
Alban Berg, Arnold Schenberg Joseph Szigeti Kathryn Grayson |
Alice Walker - Writer The Color Purple Mia Farrow Brendan Behan Writer Joe Pesci Actor Amyu Lowell Writer Ronald Colman Mrs Patrick Campbell Actor |
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| 10 |
Leontine Price Roberta Flack Adelina Patti Cesare Siepi music |
Bertolt Brecht Stella Adler Acting Laura Dern Actor Jimmy Durant Actor, Robert Wagner Actor Alan Hale Actor William Congreve Writer Charles Lamb Writer, |
Boris Pasternak | |
| 11 |
Mary Quant Rudolf Bauer Artist |
Rudolf Firkusny |
Sidney Sheldon Joseph Mankiewicz Film Director Burt Reynolds Actor Tina Louise Actor Kim Stanley Actor Leslie Nielson Actor Eva Gabor Roy Fuller Writer |
Thomas Edison, |
| 12 | Max Beckmann |
Franco Zeffirelli Film Director George Meredith Writer Lorne Green Actor Joe Don Baker Actor |
Charles Darwin | |
| 13 | Grant Wood | Fyodor Chaliapin Music, |
Georges Simenon Kostantin Costa Gavras Film Director George Segal Actor Oliver Reed Actor Stockard Channing Actor, Carol Lynley Actor |
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| 14 | Marion Mahony Griffin Architect |
Jack Benny, Molly Ringwald Actor Alan Parker Film Director Ken Wahl Actor |
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| 15 |
Charles Tiffany Shepard Fairey |
Melissa Manchester Music |
John Barrymore, Matt Groening - The Simpsons, Jane Seymour Actor, Sax Rohmer Writer, Claire Bloom Actor, Cesar Romero Actor, | Galileo Galilei |
| 16 | Adolph Ziegler | Anthony Dowell Ballet, Eliahu Inbal Music, Geraint Evans Music, John Corigliano Music | John Schlesinger Film Director, Le Var Burton Actor, Robert Flaherty Film-maker | |
| 17 | Theodore Shelf Hollywood Costume Designer | Marian Anderson, Corelli |
Alan Bates Actor, Chaim Potok
Writer, Banjo Patterson Writer, Lou Diamond Phillips Actor, Arthur Kennedy Actor Barry Humphries, Ruth Rendell |
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| 18 | Andes Segovia |
Toni Morrison Writer John Travolta Cybill Shepherd, Milas Forman Film Director Matt Dillon Writer Jack Palance Actor Adolf Menjou Actor George Kennedy Actor |
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| 19 | Constantin Brancusi |
Sven Hedrin Writer Amy Tan Writer Lee Marvin Actor Carson McCullers Writer, John Frankenheimer Film Director Margaux Hemingway Actor |
Copernicus | |
| 20 | Louis Kahn Architect | Kurt Cobain Singer, Anthony Davis Music, Riccardo Chailly Music, Christoph Eschenbach Music |
Sidney Poitier Actor, Robert Aitman
Film Director, Gloria Vanderbilt Actor Sandy Duncan Actor |
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| 21 |
Brancusi Sculptor Hubert de Givenchy Jeff Fioravanti |
Nina Simone |
Anais Nin Writer, WH Auden Writer Sam Peckinpath Film Director, Erma Bombeck Writer, Tyne Dale Actor Margarethe von Trotta Film Director, Rosa Luxemborg Actor, Anne Sheridan Actor, Rue McClanahan Actor |
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| 22 |
Chopin Heinrich Rngelhard Steinweb - founder of Steinway Pianos |
Edna St Vincert Millay Writer, Schopenhauer, Luis Bunuel Film Director, Guilietta Masina Actor | ||
| 23 | Regine Crespin Music |
Samuel Pepys, Hiroshi Nomura Writer, Thomas Gallagher Writer, Jiri Menzel
Film Director, Peter Fonda Actor ictor Fleming Film Director, Erich Kastner Writer |
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| 24 | Winslow HOMER Artist |
Michel Legrand Music, Renata Scotto
Music Arnold Dolmetsch Music, Charles Widor Music |
William Grimm Writer dward Olmos Actor, Barry Bostwick Film Director, James Farentino Actor, August W Derleth Writer |
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| 25 | Renoir |
Handel Enrico Caruso Dame Myra Hess |
Anthony Burgess Writer Marcel Pagnol Film Director, George Harrison, David Puttnam Film Director, Gert Frobe Actor, Jim Backus Actor, Tom Courtnay Actor |
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| 26 | Honore DAUMIER Artist |
Fats Domino, Johnny Cash Emma Destinn Music |
Victor Hugo Jackie Gleason Tony Randall Actor, Theodore Sturgeon Writer, Godfrey Cambridge Actor, Madelaine Carroll Actor |
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| 27 | Lotte Lehman Music |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Steinbeck Lawrence Durrell, Longfellow Elizabeth Taylor Irwin Shaw Writer Joanne Woodward Actor, James Farrell Writer |
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| 28 |
Frank Gehry architect Martiros Sarian Jem Targal |
Geraldine Farran Music |
Vincent Minnelli Film Director Bernadette Peters Actor Ben Hecht Film Director, Zero Mostel Actor Sir John Tenniel - cartoonist, Alice in Wonderland, Stephen Spender Writer |
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| 29 | Balthus Artist |
Rossini Jimmy Dorsey Dinah Shore |
William Wellman Film Director George Seferis Writer, Michele Morgan Actor, James Mitchel Actor |
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| MARCH 1 |
Sandro BOTTICELLI Hans Hofmann Art Oskar KOKOSCHKA Hans von Aachen Artist |
Glen Miller Harry Belafonte |
Robert Lowell Writer Howard Nemerov Writer Ralph Ellison Writer Roger Daltry Actor David Niven Ron Howard Catherine Bach Actor Litton Strachey Writer Jaques Rivette Film Director Joan Hackett Actor |
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| 2 |
Theodore
Dr Seuss Clara Zaitsev Fashion Designer |
Kurt Weill Smetana |
Tom Wolfe Writer John Irving Writer Martin Ritt Film Director Jon Bon Jovi Peter Straub Writer Juvenal Writer Jennifer Jones Desi Arnaz |
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| 3 |
Gilbert Adrian MGM Fashion Designer Milton Avery Artist Ronald Searle Rod Hackney Architect |
Sholem Aleichem Writer Jean Harlow Diane Barrymore Actor George K Miller Film Director, William Godwin Writer |
Alexander Graham Bell | |
| 4 |
Vivaldi Lilli Kraus |
Allan Sillitoe Writer John Garfield Actor Paula Prentiss Actor Bernard Kellerman Writer Kay Lenz Actor |
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| 5 | Giovanni Battista TIEPOLO Artist |
Villa Lobos Elaine Page Music Eugene Fodor Music |
Pasolini Film Director Rex Harrison Charles Fuller Writer Dean Stockwell Actor Wang Zeng Qi Writer Josephine Herbst Writer Samantha Eggar Actor Fred Williamson Actor Franz Norris Writer |
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| 6 | Michelangelo |
Kiri Ta Kanawa Lorin Maazel |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Writer, Cyrano de Bergerac
Writer, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Ring Lardner Writer Andrzej Wajda Film Director Rob Reiner Actor Lou Costello Actor |
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| 7 |
Piet MONDRIAN E H Landseer Artist Albert Carel Artist Anthony Armstrong Jones Photographer |
Maurice Ravel |
Kobo Abe Writer Anna Magnani Actor Peter Carey Writer |
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| 8 |
Anselm KIEFER
Artist Sir Anthony Caro Sculptor |
Leoncavalio Alan Horhaness Music Cyd Charisse CPE Bach Lynn Seymour Ballet |
Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows Aidan Quinn Actor Lynn Redgrave Leslie Fiedler Writer |
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| 9 |
Andre Courreges Fashion Designer David Smith |
Samuel Barber |
Irene Papas Actor Paul Julia Actor Micky Spillane Writer Masahiro Shinoda Film Director Trish van Devere Actor Keely Smith Actor |
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| 10 |
Paul Wunderlich Artist Germain Buimard Architect |
Tamara Karsavina Ballet, Sarasate Honnegger Siegried Borries Music Fou T'song |
David Rabe Writer Isaac Rosenfeld Writer Chuck Morris Actor Barry Fitzgerald Actor Pamela Mason Actor |
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| 11 | H Kenneth Miller Artist | Marius Petipa Ballet |
Rupert Murdoch Publishing Dorothy Schiff NY Post Raoul Walsh Film Director Dorothy Gish Actor Douglas Adams Writer Claude Jutra Film Director Torquato Tasso Writer, |
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| 12 |
Vaslav Nijinsky Liza Minnelli Georges Delerus Music |
Gabriele D'Annunzio Writer Jack Kerouac Writer |
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| 13 | Alexei von JAWLENSKY Artist |
Hugo Wolfe Fritz Busch Music Neil Sedaka |
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| 14 |
Diane Nemerov Arbus Photographer Diane Arbus |
Telemann Johann Strauss Snr Billy Crystal |
Michael Caine Max Schulman Writer Robert Rimmer Writer Hank Ketchum - Dennis the Mennis, Bertrand Blier Film Director Rita Tushingham Actor |
Albert Einstein |
| 15 | David Wall Ballet |
Philippe de Broca Film Director Judd Hirsch Actor |
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| 16 | Rosa BONHEUR Artist | Christa Ludwig |
Jerry Lewis Armand Sully Prud'homme Writer, Rene Daumal Writer Isabelle Huppert Actor Alice Hoffman Writer Leo McKern, Sybil Bedford Writer |
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| 17 |
Kate Greenway Chaim Gross Artist |
Nureyev Nat King Cole |
Mercedes McCambridge Actor, Rob Lowe Actor | |
| 18 |
Charlie Pride Music Rimsky Korsakov |
Mallarme Writer John Updike Writer George Plimpton Writer Rene Clement Film Director Irene Cara Actor Richard Condon Writer Robert Donat |
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| 19 |
Albert Pinkham Ryder Artist, Charles Marion Russell |
Serge Diaghilev |
Glen Close Bruce Willis Philip Roth Writer Irving Wallace Writer Patrick McGoohan Actor Ursula Andress Actor |
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| 20 | George Caleb Bingham |
Benjamino Gigli Lauritz Melchior Music, Sviatoslav Richter |
Ovid Writer BF Skinner Spike Lee Film Director Johann Charles Holderlin Writer, Michael Redgrave Tanya Boyd Actor Carl Reiner Writer Hal Linden Actor |
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| 21 |
Johann Sebastian Bach Mussorgsky Jiri Kylian Dancing |
Peter Brook Film Director Mathew Broderick Actor Florenz Ziegfeld Theatre Phyllis McGinley Writer Garry Oldman Actor Timothy Dalton Actor |
John D Rockfeller | |
| 22 |
Anthony van Dyck Agnes Martin Artist |
Marcel Marceau Ruth Page Ballet Stephen Sondheim Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Chico Marx William Shatner Actor Karl Malden Nicholas Monsarrat Writer Mathew Modine Actor |
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| 23 |
Juan GRIS Artist Cecil Collins |
Akira Kurosawa Film Director Joan Crawford Erich Fromm Writer, Amanda Plummer Actor Joseph Capek Artist |
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| 24 |
William Morris Bob Mackie Fashion Designer Charley Toorop Artist Englebert van Anderlecht Artist |
Steve McQueen Fatty Arbuckly Malcolm Muggeridge Writer |
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| 25 | Gutzon Borglum Sculptor |
Bela Bartok Toscannini Elton John Aretha Franklin |
Flannery O'Connor Writer David Lean Film Director Gloria Steinem Writer Simone Signoret Actor, Paul Michael Glaser Actor Jean Louis Come Vilar Film Director Ed Begley Actor |
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| 26 |
Pierre Boulez Diana Ross Wilhelm Backhaus |
Robert Frost Writer Joseph Campbell Writer Tennessee Williams Playright, Leonard Nimoy Actor James Caan Actor Alan Arkin Actor Martin Short Actor Erica Jong Writer, AE Housman Writer |
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| 27 |
Ludwig Miesvan der Rohe Architect EDWARD STEICHEN Photographer Jules Olitski Artist |
Sarah Vaughan Mstislav Rostropovich Arthur Mitchell Ballet |
Michale York Actor Gloria Swanson Actor Alfred de Vigny Writer Nellie Wilson Parsons Writer |
Sir Henry Royce - RR |
| 28 | Grace Hartigan | |||
| 29 |
Raphael Fra Bartolommeo Artist, |
Rudolf Serkin Thad Jones Music Moses Pendleton Dance Paul Whiteman Music William Mengelberg Music Karen Kain Ballet |
Maxim Gorky Writer Dirk Bogarde Actor Frederick Exley Writer Russell Banks Writer Freddie Bartholomew Actor |
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| 30 |
Vincent VAN GOGH Francisco GOYA, Jan Baptist Xavery |
Eric Clapton |
Warren Beatty Paul Verlaine Writer Sean O'Casey Writer Anna Sewell Writer Dennis Etchison Writer Naomi Sims Writer |
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| 31 |
Haydn Herb Alpert |
Descartes, Nikolai Gogol Writer Volker Schlondorff Film Director, John Fowles Writer Christopher Walker Actor Richard Chamberlain James Nederlander Theatre John Jakes Writer Rhea Perlman Actor |
january
5 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, ,
6 , Maurice Abravanel,
8 Hans von Bulow, Jaromir Weinbergr,
9 Warwich Braithwaite,
14 Ludwig von Kochel,
18 Charles Louis de Secondat, Montesquieu 1689, William Sansom.
19 Boris Blacher,
20 Josef Hofmann, Scherepinin,
21 Manuel Garcia, Henri Duparc,
22 Henri Dutilleux,
23 Muzio Clementi,
28 , John Tavener,
February
3Ayn Rand, , , ,
5 William Burroughs,
8 John Ruskin,
14 Gregory Hines
19 Andre Breton,
29 Jiro Akagawaw,
March
2 Geisel,
5 Pier Paolo
11 Julius Bluthner,
13 Dick Katz
14 , Quincy Jones,
16 Bernardo Bertolucci,
17 Gottlieb Daimler,
Birthdays: January - March - Birthdays: April - June July August: September-October: November-December
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