1838 Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich, Count von Zeppelin – German soldier and air pioneer who built rigid dirigibles which were named after him. During the US Civil War, he served as a military observer for the Union Army, where he made his first ascent in a balloon

How would you like to write that name at school?







1918 Craig Stevens - Actor (Peter Gunn, Drums in the Deep South, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

I watch and rewatch Peter Gunn over and over. I'm really surprised he wasn't a much bigger star than he was.







1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley – British romantic poet and writer (Prometheus Unbound, Julian and Maddalo, Adonais, Alastor, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Mont Blanc) He drowned off Leghorn while sailing his small schooner to his home on the Gulf of Spezia, less than one month before his 30th birthday. His wife was Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein

I wonder how he drowned? Did the boat sink? Fell overboard?