things that happend today

This is the result of my researching on IMDB & Wikipedia about people born today or events. My criteria for who made it on the list was mostly people that I recognize or know to be famous. For a more extensive list, I'd consult either Wikipedia or IMDB .

Birthdays:

• Michelangelo [1475-1564]
  
• Cyrano de Bergerac [1619]
• Elizabeth Barret Browning [1806-1861]
  
  • considered the greatest of English poetesse
• Jerry O'Sullivan [1889-1978]
  
  • mostly put this guy on the list cause of his last name. He was an actor in the 1950s & 60s
    
• Lou Costello [1906-1959]
  
• Ed McMahon [1923]
• Alan Greenspan [1926]
  
• Gabriel García Márquez [1927]
  • Columbian novelist, journalist, & Nobel Prize laureate
  • famous for his novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
    
• Rob Reiner [1947]
  • director of some of my favorite movies, When Harry Meet Sally & The Prince's Bride
    
• Larry Cedar [1955]
  
  • played Leon on 'Deadwood'
• Tom Arnold [1959]
• Suzanne Crough [1963]
  
  • played Tracy Partridge on 'The Partridge Family'
• Shane Brolly [1970]
  
  • played the character Kraven in Underworld)
• Shaquielle O'Neil [1972]
• Ellen Muth [1981]
  • lead actress from the show 'Dead Like Me'
• Michael O'Laskey [1983]
  
  • played one of the Power Rangers, eek!
• Reanne O'Sullivan [1983]

Deaths

• Davy Crockett [1786-1836]
• Louisa May Alcott [1832-1888]
  • wrote Little Women, a favorite book when I was a wee lass
    
• John Philip Sousa [1845-1932]
  
  • this man haunted my years in band, all those bloody marches he composed argh!
• Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986]
  

Events

• End of the Battle of the Alamo [Feb 23- March 6 1836]
  
• Ghana achieved independence from Britain in 1957