Today XVI

Birthdays:

• Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, April 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855


• Franz Lehár, composer, April 30, 1870 – October 24, 1948


• Claude Elwood Shannon, "the father of information theory," April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001


• Al Lewis, actor and Munster, and restaurant owner, political candidate, and radio broadcaster, April 30, 1923 – February 3, 2006


• Laurence van Cott LARRY Niven, author, 1938


• Burt Young, actor, 1940


• Robert Thomas Velline, aka Bobby Vee, singer, 1943


• Jill Clayburgh, actress, 1944


• Philip Mason "Scrap Iron" Garner, baseball manager, 1949


• Kirsten Dunst, actress, 1982

RIP:

• John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, November 3, 1718 – April 30, 1792


• John Luther CASEY Jones, railroad engineer, March 14, 1864 -April 30, 1900


• Inger Stensland, aka Inger Stevens, actress, October 18, 1934 – April 30, 1970


• Agnes Robertson Moorehead, actress, December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974


• George Balanchine, choreographer, January 22, 1904 – April 30, 1983


• McKinley Morganfield, aka Muddy Waters, bluesman, April 4, 1915 or 1913 – April 30, 1983


• Charles Francis Richter, seismologist, April 26, 1900 – April 20, 1985


• Sergio Leone, film director, January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989