Today LII

Birthdays:

• Hattie McDaniel, actress, the first black American to be nominated and to win for her Academy Award-winning supporting role of Mammy in the 1939 movie Gone with the Wind, June 10, 1895 – October 26, 1952


• Frederick Loewe, composer, inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1972, famous for musicals he created with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, June 10, 1901 - February 14, 1988


• Robert 'Bob' Cummings, motion picture and television actor noted for his fresh faced youthful look, which lasted long after he was young, June 10, 1908 – December 2, 1990


• Chester Arthur Burnett, aka Howlin' Wolf, blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player, June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976


• Saul Bellow, writer, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1988 National Medal of Arts, June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005


• Barry Morse, actor, 1918


• Frances Ethel Gumm, aka Judy Garland, actress and singer, June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969


• Maurice Sendak, artist and creator of children's literature; in 1983 he designed an award-winning stage production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker for the Pacific Northwest Ballet, 1928


• João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira, musician, considered one of the co-creators, with Tom Jobim, of bossa nova, 1931


• Jürgen Prochnow, actor, 1941


• Shirley Owens, vocalist, former lead singer of the Shirelles, 1941


• Kenneth Wayne 'Ken' Singleton, former MLB outfielder/designated hitter from 1970 to 1984, currently a commentator for New York Yankee games, 1947


• Elias Sosa Martinez, former MLB relief pitcher, 1950


• Gina Gershon, actress, 1962


• Jeanne Tripplehorn, actress; her father, Tom, was once a guitarist with Gary Lewis and the Playboys, 1963


• Calvin "Pokey" Reese, Jr., MLB second baseman/shortstop, 1973


• Freddy Antonio García, MLB starting pitcher, 1976


• Tara Kristen Lipinski, figure skater, 1982


• Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta "Leelee" Sobieski, actress, 1982

RIP:

• André-Marie Ampère, physicist, credited as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism; the ampere unit of measurement of electric current is named after him, January 20, 1775 – June 10, 1836


• Frederick Delius, composer, January 29, 1862, – June 10, 1934


• Sir Robert Laird Borden, PC , KC , GCMG , DCL , LL.D, eighth Prime Minister of Canada [October 10, 1911, to July 10, 1920], June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937


• John Arthur 'Jack' Johnson, first black Heavyweight Champion of the World [1908-1915], March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946


• Spencer Tracy, two-time Academy Award-winning film actor; from 1930 to 1967, he appeared in 74 films, April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967


• Eric Alexander "Michael" Rennie, actor, well known for his role as Harry Lime in The Third Man TV series, and as Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still, August 25, 1909 – June 10, 1971


• Cukor Adolf, aka Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures Studios, January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976


• Rainer Werner Fassbinder, movie director and actor, May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982


• Addie "Micki" Harris, vocalist, member of The Shirelles, January 22, 1940 - June 10, 1982


• Louis Dearborn LaMoore, aka Louis L'Amour, author of (primarily) Western fiction, March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988


• Jo Van Fleet, Academy Award-winning theater and film actress, December 30, 1914 – June 10, 1996


• Ralph Hammond Innes, author, July 15, 1914 – June 10, 1998


• Ray Charles Robinson, aka Ray Charles, pianist and soul musician who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues, and brought a soulful sound to everything from country music to pop standards, September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004