Today LXIII - Jim's Birthday

Birthday's:

• Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, ninth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, harpsichordist and composer of keyboard sonatas, symphonies, oratorios, liturgical choir pieces and motets, operas, and songs, June 21, 1732 – January 26, 1795


• Carlo Matteucci, physicist and neurophysiologist, pioneer in the study of bioelectricity, June 21, 1811 - June 25, 1868


• Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius NAX Wolf, astronomer, pioneer of astrophotography, June 21, 1863 – October 3, 1932


• Hermann Scherchen, conductor and arranger, June 21, 1891 – June 12, 1966


• Alois Hába, composer, known for his microtonal compositions, especially using the quarter tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones and twelfth-tones, June 21, 1893 – November 18, 1973


• Howarth William HOWIE Morenz, NHL hockey player, three-time winner of the Hart Memorial Trophy, June 21, 1902 - March 8, 1937


• Albert AL Hirschfeld, caricaturist, known for his simple black and white satirical portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars, June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003


• Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist, and critic, awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, which he declined, June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980


• Mary Therese McCarthy, author, critic, and political activist, June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989


• Judith Tuvim, aka Judy Holliday, Academy Award-winning actress, June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965


• Ernestine JANE Geraldine Russell, actress, recipient of the 1989 Women's International Center Living Legacy Award, 1921


• Lois MAUREEN Stapleton, film, theater, and television actress, winner of Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006


• Conrad L. Hall , cinematographer, winner of three Academy Awards, June 21, 1926 - January 4, 2003


• Alexandre Lagoya, classical guitarist, June 21, 1929 - August 24, 1999


• Boris Claudio LALO Schifrin, pianist and composer, famous for composing the theme from Mission: Impossible, has written more than 100 scores for films, television and video games, and has won four Grammy Awards (with twenty-one nominations), and received six Oscar nominations, 1932


• Ronald Pierce, aka Ron Ely, actor, 1938


• Mary Loretta MARIETTE Hartley, actress and author, 1940


• Maria Rosa Marco, aka Salomé, singer, 1943


• Raymond Douglas RAY Davies, CBE, rock musician, lead singer-songwriter for The Kinks, with whom he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005; has acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television, 1944


• Brenda Holloway, singer and songwriter, recorded for the Motown label during the 1960's, 1946


• Meredith Baxter, actress, same birthday as former co-star Michael Gross, 1947


• Michael Gross, actor, same birthday as former co-star Meredith Baxter, 1947


• Joseph Michael JOEY Kramer, drummer and percussionist for Aerosmith, 1950


• Nils Lofgren, rock music singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and accordion player, 1951


• Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1953


• Robert Pastorelli, TV, film, and stage actor, known as Eldin Bernecky on Murphy Brown, June 21, 1954 – March 8, 2004


• Guy BERKELEY Breathed, cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director, and screenwriter, known for the Bloom County comic strip, 1957


• Kathleen Alice KATHY Mattea, country music and bluegrass performer, 1959


• Viktor Robertovich Tsoi, rock artist and leader of the Russian rock group Kino, June 21, 1962 - August 15, 1990


• Laurence LARRY Wachowski, film director, 1965


• Rudabeh RUDI Bakhtiar, journalist, 1966


• Brenda Grislaw, aka Sindee Coxx, actress and exotic dancer, 1970


• Alon Hilu, novelist, 1972

RIP:

• Niccolò di Bernando dei Machiavelli, political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright, a key figure in realist political theory, May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527


• Anders Jonas Ångström, physicist, one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy, whose combination of the spectroscope with photography resulted in proof that the sun's atmosphere contains hydrogen, among other elements; the ångström units for the measurement of the wavelength of light is named for him, August 13, 1814 – June 21, 1874


• Amasa LELAND Stanford, founder of Stanford University, March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893


• Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer of beautiful and teacher of harmony and orchestration, particularly known for his excellent orchestration, March 18, 1844 – June 21, 1908


• Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner, novelist, and radical pacifist, the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize [1905], June 9, 1843 - June 21, 1914


• Thorne Smith, writer of humorous fantasy fiction, creator of Topper, , March 27, 1892–June 21, 1934



• James Earl Chaney, civil rights worker, murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan, May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964


• Andrew Goodman, November 23, civil rights worker, murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan, 1943 – June 21, 1964


• Michael MICKEY Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964



• Angus MacLise, percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist, and calligrapher, the first drummer for the Velvet Underground, March 4, 1938 - June 21, 1979


• Bert Kaempfert, orchestra leader and songwriter, October 16, 1923 - June 21, 1980


• Alan Vaness Chakmakjian, aka Alan Hovhaness, composer, whose big breakthrough came in 1955, when his Symphony No. 2, Mysterious Mountain, was premiered by Leopold Stokowski in his debut with the Houston Symphony, March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000


• John Lee Hooker, blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001


• John CARROLL O'Connor, actor, famous for his role as Archie Bunker in All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place and as Police Chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night, August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001


• Leon Uris, novelist, author of Battle Cry, Exodus, Mila 18, Topaz, QB VII, Trinity, and The Haj, among others, and writer of the screenplays for Battle Cry and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003