Today XXXVI

Today is Mark's birthday. Happy Birthday - I love you!!

Other birthdays:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson, author, poet, and philosopher, May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882


• Bill BOJANGLES Robinson, dancer and actor, May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949


• Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, inventor, who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first successful helicopter of the most common configuration, (single main rotor, tail rotor), 25 May 1889 – 26 October 1972


• James Joseph GENE Tunney, Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 1926 to 1928, May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978


• Bennett Alfred Cerf, publisher and co-founder of Random House, also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, and for his television appearances on What's My Line?, May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971


• Claude Marion Akins, actor, May 25, 1918 - January 27, 1994


• Jack Steinberger, physicist, co-discoverer of the muon neutrino, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics, 1921


• Hal David Oscar-winning lyricist and songwriter, 1921


• Jeanne Elizabeth Crain, actress, May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003


• Robert Ludlum, author, May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001


• Belle Miriam Silverman, aka Beverly Sills, coloratura soprano, 1929


• Dixie Virginia Carter, actress, 1939


• Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CBE, stage and screen actor, 1939


• Richard Frank Oznowicz, aka Frank Oz, film director, actor and puppeteer, 1944


• Guy Fletcher, keyboardist for Dire Straits and for Mark Knopfler's solo work, 1960


• Michael MIKE Myers, actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer, 1963


• Anne Celeste Heche, actress, 1969


• Miguel Odalis Tejada, MLB shortstop, currently with the Baltimore Orioles, 1976


• Cillian Murphy, actor and musician, 1976

RIP:

• Gustavus Theodor von Holst, composer, September 21, 1874 – May 25, 1934


• Aleck "Rice" Miller, aka Sonny Boy Williamson II, blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter, December 5, 1899 - May 25, 1965


• Ernst August Friedrich Ruska, physicist, who posited that microscopes using electrons, with waves 100,000 shorter than those of light, could provide a more detailed picture of an object than a microscope utilizing light, in which magnification is limited by the size of the wavelengths; in 1931, he built an electron lens, and used several of these in a series to build the first electron microscope in 1933, December 25, 1906 – May 25, 1988


• Warren Harding SONNY Sharrock, jazz guitarist, August 27, 1940 – May 25, 1994


• Desmond Dekker, ska and reggae singer and songwriter, July 16, 1941 – May 25, 2006