Today's Birthdays

Roy Webb (1888-1982)
Stanislav Skrowaczewski (1923)
Steve Reich (1936)
Geoffrey Douglas Madge (1941)
Ruggero Raimondi (1941)
John Melby (1941)
Ian MacDonald (1948-2003)

and

George Bancroft (1800-1891)
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
Gore Vidal (1925)