Today XXVI
Birthdays:
RIP:
- Claudio Monteverdi, composer, violinist and singer, whose work marks the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music, May 15, 1567 – November 29, 1643
- Lyman Frank Baum, author, May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919
- Pierre Curie, physicist, pioneer in the study of crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity; together with his wife, Marie, Pierre was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, May 15, 1567 – November 29, 1643
- Walter TURK Broda, former hockey goaltender for the Toronto Maple Leafs, May 15th, 1914 - October 17th, 1972
- Richard Edward EDDY Arnold, country music singer, 1918
- Richard Avedon, photographer, May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004
- Anna Maria Alberghetti, actress and operatic singer, 1936
- Hugh Romney, aka Wavy Gravy, activist, 1936
- Trinidad TRINI López III, singer and guitarist, 1937
- Brian Peter George St. Jean le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, electronic musician, music theorist and record producer, 1948
- Calogero Lorenzo CHAZZ Palminteri, Oscar-nominated actor and writer, 1952
- George Howard Brett, Hall of Fame MLB third baseman, and the only man to ever win batting titles in three different decades, 1953
- Michael Gordon Oldfield, multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, best known for his composition Tubular Bells, 1953
- John Andrew Smoltz, Cy Young Award-winning pitcher, 1967
- Amy Chow, gymnast, 1978
- Joshua Patrick JOSH Beckett, right-handed starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, 1980
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler, actress, while married to her agent, A.J. DiScala, she took the name Jamie-Lynn DiScala - she subsequently changed her name back after they separated, 1981
RIP:
- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, poet, December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886
- Edward Hopper, painter best remembered for his eerily realistic depictions of solitude in contemporary American life, July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967
- Sir William Tyrone Guthrie, theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, July 2, 1900 - May 15, 1971
- Johnny Green, songwriter, October 10, 1908 - May 15, 1989
- Luis Antonio Damaso de Alonso, aka Gilbert Roland, actor, December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994
- June Carter Cash, singer, songwriter, and actress, a member of the first family of country music, the Carter Family, and the wife of Johnny Cash; played the guitar, banjo, and autoharp, June 23, 1929 – May 15, 2003
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