Friday, November 7, 2008

Birthdays for November 9

Birthdays for November the 9th:
1802 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher, abolitionist
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, playwright (Fathers & Sons)
1821 - Charles Baudelaire, Poet
1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, Pioneer Photographer
1841 - Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
1850 - Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology
1898 - Paul Robeson, actor and Singer
1903 - Gregory Pincus, birth control pill inventor
1903 - Ward Bond
1905 - James William Fulbright, (Sen-Mo)
1915 - Sargent Shriver, (Peace Corp)
1915 - Hedy Lamarr
1918 - Florence Chadwick, swimmer
1918 - Spiro Agnew, (R), 39th VP (1973-77), crook
1926 - Hugh Hefner, Publisher
1932 - Carl Perkins
1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo
1934 - Carl Sagan, astronomer, author (Cosmos, Broca's Brain)
1936 - Mary Travers, in Louisville Ky, (Peter Paul & Mary)
1936 - Mikhail N. Tal, of USSR, world chess champion (1960-61)
1939 - Michael Learned
1952 - Lou Ferrigno, actor (Incredible Hulk)