Illustration by Aleksandr Deyneka for A. Pravdina’s short story “Four Tos’kas” (1930)
(Tos’ka—Тоська—is a cat’s name and also a woman’s name. Antonina → Tosya → Tos’ka)
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Beer Birthdays
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Judy Ashworth (1942)
Oliver Hughes (1959)
David Walker (1964)
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Cher; pop singer, writer (1946)
Joe Cocker; rock singer (1944)
Christopher Columbus; explorer (1451)
Mindy Cohn; actor (1966)
William Congreve; English inventor (1772)
Francis Cotes; English artist (1726)
Henri-Edmond Cross; French artist (1856)
Moshe Dayan; Israeli general (1915)
Honore de Balzac; French writer (1799)
Aleksandr Deyneka; Russian artist (1899)
Alfred Domett; English/NZ poet (1811)
Patrick Ewing Jr.; basketball player (1984)
William Fargo; banker (1818)
Gardner Fox; author (1911)
George Gobel; comedian (1919)
Tony Goldwyn; actor (1960)
John M. Harlan; US Supreme Court justice (1899)
William Hewlett; H-P Founder (1913)
Nick Heywood; UK pop singer, guitarist (1961)
Guy Hoffman; rock musician (1954)
Levinus Lemnius; Dutch writer (1505)
Shorty Long; musician (1940)
Dolley Madison; first lady of James Madison (1768)
Hector Malot; French author (1830)
Hans Meerwein; German chemist (1879)
R.J. Mitchell; English engineer (1895)
Bobby Murcer; baseball player (1946)
Sumitranandan Pant; Indian poet (1900)
Bronson Pinchot; actor (1959)
Busta Rhymes; rapper (1972)
Michele Roberts; UK author (1949)
Louis Smith; jazz trumpeter (1931)
Tony Stewart; automobile racer (1971)
Jewel Styles; pornstar (1988)
Dave Thomas; Canadian comedian, actor (1949)
William Thornton; architect (1759)
David Wells; baseball player (1963)
Jane Wiedlin; pop singer (1958)
Anthony Zerbe; actor (1936)
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Aleksandr Deyneka 1933
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka was a Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the most important Russian modernist ..
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