Check it out. Sure, every day is someone famous’ birthday, but today was a huge one. Etta James! Dobzhansky! Lagrange! Boyle! Robinho! General Pickett! Burns!
Births
- 1627 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)
- 1736 – Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
- 1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
- 1825 – George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)
- 1874 – William Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)
- 1882 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
- 1900 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)
- 1913 – Witold LutosÅ‚awski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
- 1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 2003)
- 1919 – Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer
- 1927 – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian musician (d. 1994)
- 1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia
- 1933 – Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
- 1938 – Etta James, American singer
- 1984 – Robinho, Brazilian footballer