Happy 57th birthday Harry Connick Jr.

Birthday anniversaries of poet Pierre de Ronsard (1524), composers William Boyce (1711), Valentino Fioravanti (1764), Friedrich Kuhlau (1786), Ignaz Lachner (1807), and Harry Somers (1925), writer D.H. Lawrence (1885), baritone Tiyt Kuusik (1911), tenor Gösta Björling (1912), and bass Clfford Grant (1930)

Happy 99th birthday lyricist Alan Bergman

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