23 July: Emma Name Day

In Sweden, today is the name day for people called Emma.

Emma is a feminine given name. It is derived from the Germanic word ermen meaning "whole" or "universal".

Here's a list of 10 famous Emmas:

1. Dame Emma Hamilton: English maid, model, dancer and actress who was Nelson’s mistress.

2. Dame Emma Thompson: British actress and screenwriter.

3. Emma Lazarus: American poet remembered for the sonnet "The New Colossus", inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the statue.

4. Emma Frost: Marvel Comics character reated by writer Chris Claremont and artist co-writer John Byrne. She first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #129.

5. Emma Bunton: English singer who rose to fame in the 1990s as a member of the girl group Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Baby Spice.

6. Emma Goldman: Russian-born anarchist, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

7. Emma Peel: fictional character played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers, and by Uma Thurman in the 1998 film version.

8. Emma Watson: English actress, model and activist.

9. Emma Woodhouse: protagonist of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma. She is described in the novel's opening sentence as "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."

10. Emma Samms: English actress known for her role as Fallon Carrington Colby on the prime time soap opera Dynasty.

Character birthday

The Tyrone Twins, Frank and Lee Tyrone, identical twins from Innovia, Infinitus. They were sucked through a wormhole which formed when the bomb exploded and were deposited in the Earth dimension. There, they sought out others who had travelled through the wormhole and together formed the Earth Guard. Wormhole travel gave them powers. They can attack using energy blasts, and there is a hyperlink between them: any object hitting one twin emerges from the other. The only discernible difference between the twins is that Frank is right handed and Lee is left handed.