Today is the birthday
… of Justice Clarence Thomas. He’s 62.
… of American Idol’s Randy Jackson. He’s 54.
… of Oscar-winner Frances McDormand. She’s 53. Miss McDormand has had three Oscar nominations for best supporting actress in addition to her winning best actress performance in Fargo.
… of K.T. Tunstall. Kate is 35.
… of LaDainian Tomlinson. He’s 31 and done.
Choreographer Bob Fosse was born on this date in 1927.
According to many sources, Killer Angels author Michael Shaara was born on this date in 1929. According to his biography at son Jeff Shaara’s web site, the father was born in 1928. The Killer Angels, which won the Pulitzer Prize and is regarded by many as the best Civil War novel, “was rejected by the first fifteen publishers who saw the manuscript.”
Alfred Charles Kinsey was born on this date in 1894. And so was Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who, at age 42, gave up his throne for the woman he loved. After just 10 months as king, Edward VIII defied the British establishment to marry Mrs. Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American. One wonders what Henry VIII would have thought of the fuss. (The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was renamed the House of Windsor in 1917.)