born 7 June 1970

Carlos Miguel Rosas, Whitstable, England, animator

Danielle Petty, Bellevue, Washington, actress

Dean DeBlois, birthplace unspecified, Canadian animator

Greg Fawley, Los Angeles, California, a rollerboy

Helen Baxendale, Lichfield, England, actress

Kevin Johnson, state of Colorado, ventriloquist

Kevin Lawson, Oakland, California, lighting director

Marcos Evangelista de Moraes, São Paolo, Brazil, soccer player Cafú

Marko Keskitalo, Kungsbacka, Sweden, actor

Mike Modano, Livonia, Michigan, hockey player

Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Naivasha, Kenya, conservationist/TV naturalist

Sascha Gluth, Karlsburg, East Germany, actor

Stevan Maric, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, film editor

Sybil Temtchine, birthplace unspecified, American actress

Thomas Parris, Huntsville, Alabama, second second assistant director

Tomasz Englert, Warsaw, Poland, actor

We’ve got two heavy hitters from the goalsports today. But I’m going with the ventriloquist. Why? I don’t know. Mainly because I can’t be certain we’re going to see another one this year, and I didn’t want to forget the fact that there was one.

But a secondary reason has to do with the word “ventriloquist” itself. A very beautiful word. It’s just weird that it’s a word where everyone knows what it means. Because it’s a weird thing to be, weirder than a lepidopterist or a lorimer or all kinds of other things.

Talents find people maybe, not the other way around.