Happy Birthday!

Celebrating a birthday today:

• 1812 – Robert Browning,  Verse-Making Was Least of his Virtues 
• 1833 – Johannes Brahms,  famous composer
• 1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,  more famous composer 
• 1892 – Archibald MacLeish,  Circus poet
• 1919 – Eva Perón,  don't cry for her
• 1937 – Birgit,  claims to have mothered the author of this blog 
• 1955 – Axel Zwingenberger,  this has to be a made-up name
• 1957 – Hercules,  I had no idea he was born in 1957
• 1975 – Nicole Sheridan, American porn actress: doesn't it seem to you Wikipedia is a little too up-to-date with porn star birthdays?
• Also notable on this day in 1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.