Today XXXII

Birthdays:

• Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, aka Gustave Coriolis, mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist, best known for his work on the Coriolis Effect, May 21, 1792 – September 19, 1843


• Willem Einthoven, Dutch doctor and physiologist; he invented the first practical electrocardiogram in 1903, for which he was awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize in Medicine, May 21, 1860 – September 29, 1927


• Horace Heidt, pianist, Big Band leader, radio and television personality, and entertainer, May 21, 1901 - December 1, 1986


• Sam Jaffe, motion picture agent, producer, and studio executive, May 21, 1901 – January 10, 2000


• Manly Wade Wellman, writer of fiction and non-fiction, best known for his horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, May 21, 1903 -April 5, 1986


• Henry Montgomery, Jr., aka Robert Montgomery, actor and director, May 21, 1904 – September 27, 1981


• Thomas Wright FATS Waller, jazz pianist, organist, composer, and comedic entertainer, May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943


• Raymond William Stacey Burr, actor, best known for his roles as Perry Mason and Ironside, May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993


• Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. Ph.D., nuclear physicist, dissident, and human rights activist, May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989


• Mary Margaret PEGGY Cass, actress and comedienne, May 21, 1924 - March 8, 1999


• Heinz Holliger, oboist and composer, 1939


• Ronald Isley, pop, rock, soul, and R&B singer, best known as the lead singer of the Isley Brothers, 1941


• Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine, guitarist for The Animals, 1943


• Alan Stuart AL Franken, comedian, author, screenwriter, political commentator, and radio host, 1951


• Stan Lynch, songwriter and producer and, until 1994, the original drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 1955


• Edward Ernest JUDGE Reinhold, Jr., actor, 1957

RIP:

• Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo, Cavaliere Suppé-Demelli, aka Franz von Suppé, composer and conductor, best known for his operettas, April 18, 1819 – May 21, 1895


• Jacob Julius Garfinkle, aka John Garfield, actor, March 4, 1913 - May 21, 1952


• Sir Geoffrey Raoul de Havilland, aircraft designer, July 27, 1882 - May 21, 1965


• Vaughn Monroe, singer, trumpeter, and big band leader, October 7, 1911 - May 21, 1973


• Sammy Davis, Sr., dancer, musician, and entertainer, December 12, 1900 - May 21, 1988


• Alfred LASH LaRue, actor, mostly in Westerns, June 14, 1917 – May 21, 1996


• Sir Arthur JOHN Gielgud OM, CH, theatre and film actor, April 14, 1904 – May 21, 2000