Welcome to this edition of the very intermittent series Happy Cultural Birthday. If this is your birthday, best wishes.
I noticed yesterday that my mojo has gone from 5 to 4. I never understood why I was at 5 in the first place, and I suppose I should be grateful that my recent decision to become a subscriber kept me from slipping any further. Really, so long as I keep TU status, I'm cool. But back when I went from 4 to 5, I was publishing a lot of these birthday diaries. So consider this offering an homage to those times of glory.
On this date in 1927, Showboat opened on Broadway. It is considered the first modern musical:
Go below the fold to see and hear who first raised their voices today:
Johannes Kepler:
Jacob Bernoulli:
Mirza Ghalib:
Louis Pasteur:
Sydney Greenstreet:
Louis Bromfield:
Marlene Dietrich:
Oscar Levant:
Willem van Otterloo:
Charles Olson:
Anna Russell:
Agnes Nixon:
John Amos:
Joan Manuel Serrat:
Tracy Nelson:
Gerard Depardieu:
Karla Bonoff:
Tovah Feldshuh:
Dee Ferris:
Kristoffer Zegers:
Pleasure P: