Today XVII

Birthdays:

• Martha Jane Canary-Burke, aka Calamity Jane, Wild West performer, a frontierswoman best known for her association with Wild Bill Hickok; in accordance with her dying wish, she is buried next to Hickok in Mount Moriah Cemetery, overlooking the city of Deadwood, May 1, 1852 - August 1, 1903


• Kathryn Elizabeth KATE Smith, singer, May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986


• Louis Neistat, aka Louis Nye, comedian, May 1, 1913 – October 9, 2005


• Jan Walter Susskind, conductor, May 1, 1913 - March 25, 1980


• Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, aka Glenn Ford, actor, 1916


• Jacques Harold Paar, aka Jack Paar, television talk show host, May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004


• Dan O'Herlihy, actor, May 1, 1919 – February 17, 2005


• Joseph Heller, novelist, May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999


• Judy Collins, folk singer, 1939


• Rita Coolidge, singer, 1945


• Joanna Lumley, OBE, actress, 1946

RIP:

• Antonín Leopold Dvořák, composer, listen to his music! September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904


• Lindley Armstrong SPIKE Jones, band leader, musician, and comedian; his father was a Southern Pacific railroad agent - he got his nickname by being so thin that he was compared to a railroad spike, December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965


• Aram Ilich Khachaturian, composer, June 6, 1903 – May 1, 1978