The biggest celebrity celebrating today is Scary Duck. Happy Birthday, Alistair, still two years older than me!
1564 Galileo Galilei, Let Me Go!
1748 Jeremy Bentham, invented Utilitarianism - the greatest happiness of the greatest number
1797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
1812 Charles Lewis Tiffany, jeweller
1874 Ernest H Shackleton, explorer
1946 Clare Short, MP
1947 John Adams, composer - he has just picked up a few Grammys for his "On the Transmigration of Souls", a 9/11 remembrance. Most famous for Nixon in China and Death of Klinghoefer
1954 Matt Groening, created The Simpsons
