Today XXX - RIP Freddie Garritty

Birthdays

• Helen Porter Mitchell, aka Dame Nellie Melba GBE, soprano, May 19, 1861 - February 23, 1931


• James Charles Lehrer, television journalist and news anchor, 1934


• Nancy Kwan, actress, 1939


• Nora Ephron, film director, producer, screenwriter, and novelist, 1941


• Gary Arlen Kildall, creator of the CP/M operating system and GEM Desktop GUI, and founder of Digital Research, Inc., May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994


• Peter Dennis Blandford PETE Townshend, rock guitarist and songwriter, founding member of The Who, 1945


• André René Roussimoff, aka André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor, May 19, 1946 – January 27, 1993


• Grace Mendoza, aka Grace Jones, model, singer and actress, 1948


• James Gosling, software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language, 1955


• Kyle Eastwood, jazz musician and actor, 1968

RIP:

• Anne Boleyn, 1st Marquess of Pembroke, second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII, and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1501/1507 – May 19, 1536


• Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist and short story writer, July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864


• José Julián Martí Pérez, leader of the Cuban independence movement, poet, and writer, considered the Cuban people's greatest hero, January 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895


• Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO, Legion of Honour, aka Lawrence of Arabia, soldier and writer, August 16, 1888 – May 19, 1935


• Charles Edward Ives, composer, October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954


• Ronald Colman, actor, February 9, 1891 – May 19, 1958


• Coleman Randolph Hawkins, jazz tenor saxophonist, November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969


• Frederic OGDEN Nash, poet, August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971


• Alice Sheldon, aka James Tiptree, Jr., science fiction author, August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987


• Henry Corden, actor and voice artist, best-known for taking over the voicing of Fred Flintstone after Alan Reed died in 1977; he also voiced a number of other Hanna-Barbara productions, including The Jetsons and Jonny Quest, January 6, 1920 – May 19, 2005


• Freddie Garrity, lead singer of Freddie and the Dreamers, November 14, 1937 - May 19, 2006