Well, the most notable birthday today is my cousin Justin, but, even though he doesn't have a computer (and only has a secret mobile phone) I won't embarrass him by publishing his age or a photo. Although I did publish a photo of his fiftieth birthday party last year...So happy birthday, Justin.
Joseph Calleja is 27 today. I have his Tenor Arias CD. Very pleasant indeed. Let's hope that youthful potential comes to fruition. He's in La Traviata at Covent Garden next month, but I shall be seeing the other cast. Besides, La Traviata is really a soprano's opera.
Worth mentioning is Claire Rayner, a remarkable woman, who is 74 today. Oh, I suppose I should mention Alf Ramsey, who was born in 1920. But he's not really a hero, just a sort of defaultish heroish. (He managed the World Cup winning team in 1966...)
The rest are all slightly famous and nearly interesting, but nothing to write home about.
1561 Francis Bacon England, statesman/essayist "Silence is the virtue of fools"
1788 Lord George Byron, poet
1858 Beatrice Webb, economist
1875 DW Griffith Birth of a Nation
1906 Joe Gladwin, (Wally Batty. aLso appeared with Stu Francis in Sit Thi' Deawn)
1940 John Hurt, actor
1948 George Foreman, grill
1953 Myung-Whun Chung, pianist/conductor
1960 Michael Hutchence INXS
1964 Nigel Benn, boxer
1971 Stan Collymore, celebrity dogger
1974 Rebekah Elmaloglou (Sophie, the coolest kid in Home & Away)
