born 3 May 1970

Brian Evans, Haverhill, Massachusetts, singer

Diego Rafecas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, writer/director/actor

Douglas Thornton, Cincinnati, Ohio, composer

Gyula Juhász, Budapest, Hungary, video editor

Marie-Soleil Tougas (died 10 August 1997), St.-Hilaire, Quebec, actress

Martin Munthe, Malmö, Sweden, writer/director

Michael Kang, Providence, Rhode Island, writer/director

Natalia Di Salvo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, actress

Stanislaw Mucha, Nowy Targ, Poland, documentarian

Stephen John Thompson, Hartlepool, England, computer programmer

Suzi Perry, Cosford, England, TV host

Ute Künster, Koblenz, West Germany, TV producer

Couple of things to say here:

Brian Evans gives enough detail in his biographical profile to convey a sense of what a truly awful person he must be.

Marie-Soleil Tougas lost her life at twenty-seven in a plane crash at Kuujjuaq (a place as fun to spell as it must be bleak and difficult to visit), in the extreme far north of Quebec. Her boyfriend, Jean-Claude Lauzon, who made the highly rated Leolo, was with her and also died, likely depriving the world of some pretty good movies.

But in an utterly private joke, which may well mystify even the one old friend who might possibly grasp my reasoning, Today’s Winner takes the prize, because her hometown is the subject of the imponderable question posed, as I recall, by one or the other of the McAuley brothers, “Yo, is that where they got colblitted from?”