August 12 - Not Awake

Not Awake

Family Birthdays

Cousin Mike Nesvold

(It's Cousin A&E's half-birthday, too.)

This Day In History

30 BC

Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.

1851

Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.

1877

Asaph Hall discovers Mars's second moon, Deimos.

1883

The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.

1960

Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.

1977

The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.

1981

The IBM Personal Computer is released.

Famous Birthdays

1644
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist (d. 1704)

1696

Maurice Greene, English composer and organist (d. 1755)

1876

Mary Roberts Rinehart, American mystery writer (d. 1958)

1881

Cecil B. DeMille, American film director (d. 1959)

1887

Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)

1910

Jane Wyatt, American actress (d. 2006)

1925

Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)
Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)

1931

William Goldman, American screenwriter

1946

Deborah Howe, American children's writer (Bunnicula)

1949

Mark Knopfler, British singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dire Straits)
1950
Jim Beaver, American actor and writer
1955
Ann M. Martin, American children's writer
1965
Peter Krause, American actor
1971
Pete Sampras, American tennis player
1980
Maggie Lawson, American actress