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1688 Pierre De Marivaux; Paris; France; writer; (Marianne)
Today, this person is/would be 324 years old.
1746 Tadeusz Kosciusko; Polish general patriot
Today, this person is/would be 266 years old.
1841 Clément Ader; French inventor (1st to fly a heavier-than-air craft)
Today, this person is/would be 171 years old.
1849 Jean Richepin; French poet/writer; (Les Chansons de Gueux)
Today, this person is/would be 163 years old.
1875 Ludwig Prandtl; Germany; physicist; (father of aerodynamics)
Today, this person is/would be 137 years old.
1881 Fernand Léger; France; painter/ceramist/cubist
Today, this person is/would be 131 years old.
Fruit; Dish on a Table; 1909
Big Julie; 1945
1892 Ugo Betti; Italian playwright
Today, this person is/would be 120 years old.
Corruzione al palazzo di giustizia (Smiling Maniacs); 1974; Franco Nero/Alfredo Rey; directed by Marcello Aliprandi
1893 Raymond Dart; Australian paleoanthropologist; (Australopithecus)
Today, this person is/would be 119 years old.
1900 Jacques Prévert; Neuilly-sur-Seine; France; poet/screenwriter (Paroles)
Today, this person is/would be 112 years old.
Notre Dame de Paris; 1956; Gina Lollobrigida/Anthony Quinn; director: Jean Delannoy; based on the novel by Victor Hugo; the screen written by - among others - Prévert
1902 Charles A. Lindbergh; Lucky Lindy
Today, this person is/would be 110 years old.
Charles Lindbergh with the Lockheed Sirius in Lisbon; Portugal; 1933
1910 Uys Krige; South African playwright/novelist; (Orphan of the Desert)
Today, this person is/would be 102 years old.
1921 Betty Friedan; author/Spokesperson
Today, this person is/would be 91 years old.
1935 Martti Talvela; singer (bass); Hiitola; Karelia; Finland
Today, this person is/would be 77 years old.
1948 Alice Cooper; singer; Detroit; Michigan; USA
Today, this person is/would be 64 years old.
1971 Michael Goorjian; Oakland; California; actor
Today, this person is/would be 41 years old.
Deal of a Lifetime; 1999; with Jennifer Rubin/Ashley Buccille; director: Paul Levine
1975 Natalie Imbruglia; singer; Sydney; New South Wales; Australia
Today, this person is/would be 37 years old.
1824 J.W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public
1865 The Hawaiian Board of Education is formed
1932 First Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid New York)
1948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence
Independence Day celebrated in Sri Lanka
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