Happy Birthday To Me!
November 14, 2005I've found I share my birthday with some interesting people:
1719 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)
1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
1805 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
1907 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's book author (d. 2003)
1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State
And a couple of interesting literature-related events:
1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick was published.
1889 - Nellie Bly set out to beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg's time of 80 days to travel around the world. She did it in 72.
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Comments:
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Anne at November 15, 2005 5:17 PM
Happy Birthday! Hope you had a lovely one!
Posted by: Pip at November 16, 2005 2:04 AM
Happy, Happy belated birthday!
Posted by: coffeemamma at November 16, 2005 1:50 PM
Wow! What a lot of great people share your birthday! I hope you had a nice day!
Posted by: Tim's Mom at November 17, 2005 2:47 AM
Boy you sure do share your birthday with some interesting people!
Posted by: Miss Roxie at November 18, 2005 2:26 AM
Happy Birthday!
Happy belated birthday to you,
Posted by: allison at November 20, 2005 1:54 PM
Happy belated birthday to you,
Happy belated birthday dear Firefly,
Happy belated birthday to you!
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