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Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time Old Calendar: St. Francis Borgia, Confessor

Today's Mass Readings

Birthdays:

1731 - Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)

1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Catholic, Italian operatic composer (d. 1901)

1863 - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)

1898 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)

1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress, Catholic, Republican, "First Lady of the American Theater", and was one of the nine people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award; Hayes' Irish Catholic maternal grandparents immigrated from Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine.

1914 - Tommy Fine, American baseball player, an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1947) and St. Louis Browns (1950), (d. 2005)

1924 - James Clavell, Australian British author, novelist, screenwriter, director; World War II hero and POW, The Great Escape (1963) (co-writer), To Sir, with Love (1966) (writer & director), Shogun - miniseries (1980),(d. 1994)

1969 - Brett Favre, American football player

1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver, son of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt; has won many awards

1975 - Plácido Polanco, Dominican baseball player

1976 - Pat Burrell, American baseball player

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  1. Placido Polanco was a Cardinal before being traded to the Phillies and then to Detroit.

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