Today VI

Birthdays:

• Harold Lloyd, actor, 1893 - March 8, 1971


• Lionel Hampton, musician, 1908 - August 31, 2002


• Tito Puente, musician, 1923 - May 31, 2000


• Peter Soyer Beagle, fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays, 1939


• Johnny Tillotson, singer and songwriter, 1939


• George Takei, actor, 1940


• Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor, 1943


• Jessica Phyllis Lange, actress, 1949


• Louise Jameson, actress, Leela on Doctor Who, 1951


• Geraint Wyn Davies, actor, 1957


• Donald Arthur DON Mattingly, aka "Donnie Baseball," former New York Yankees first baseman (1982-1995) and current Yankees hitting coach, 1961

RIP:

• Bram Stoker, author, November 8, 1847 - April 20, 1912


• Karl Ferdinand Braun, phyisicist; in 1897, he built the first cathode-ray tube oscilloscope; the CRT is still called the "Braun tube" in German-speaking countries; during the development of radio, he also worked on wireless telegraphy; around 1898, he invented a crystal rectifier; his British patent on tuning was used by Marconi in many of his tuning patents - Marconi would later admit to Braun himself that he had "borrowed" portions of Braun's work; shared the 1909 Nobel Prize for Physics with Marconi for contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy, June 6, 1850 – April 20, 1918


• Benny Hill, comedian, January 21, 1924 - April 20, 1992


• Mario Moreno Reyes, aka Cantinflas, comedy actor, August 12, 1911 – April 20, 1993


• Christopher Robin Milne, icon, August 21, 1920 - April 20, 1996


• Señor Wences, ventriliquist, April 17, 1896 - April 20, 1999


• Giuseppe Sinopoli, composer, November 2, 1946 - April 20, 2001