Today LXXI

Birthdays:

• William James Mayo, physician and co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, June 29, 1861 – July 28, 1939


• George Ellery Hale, solar astronomer, inventor of the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discoveries of the solar vortices and magnetic fields of sun spots, June 29, 1868 – February 21, 1938


• Nelson Ackerman Eddy, singer and film actor, June 29, 1901 - March 6, 1967


• Leroy Anderson, composer of short, light concert music pieces, June 29, 1908 – May 18, 1975


• Frank Henry Loesser, composer and lyricist, June 29, 1910 - July 26, 1969


• Bernard Herrmann, composer, known for his film scores, June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975


• Rafael Jeroným Kubelík, conductor and composer, lifelong champion of composers Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana, June 29, 1914 - August 11, 1996


• Louis Bert Lindley, Jr., aka Slim Pickens, cowboy and actor, inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame in 1982, June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983


• Ray Harryhausen, producer and creator of special effects creator, awarded a Gordon E. Sawyer Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an inspiration to so many of us who have made or tried to make animated films, 1920


• Ezra Laderman, classical composer, 1924


• Bernice Kamiat, aka Cara Williams, film and television actress, 1925


• Robert John BOB Shaw, former Major League Baseball pitcher, 1933


• Harmon Clayton Killebrew, former Major League Baseball player, hit 40 homers in a season eight times, led the league in home runs six times, in RBI three times, and was named to eleven All Star teams, the 1969 American League Most Valuable Player, elected in 1984 to the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1936


• Stokely Carmichael, aka Kwame Ture, civil rights activist, leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and member of the Black Panther Party, June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998


• Eva Narcissus Boyd, aka Little Eva, singer, June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003


• William GARY Busey, Academy Award-nominated film and stage actor, 1944


• Richard Philip Lewis, comedian and actor, 1947


• Ian Anderson Paice, drummer for Deep Purple, 1948


• Joe Johnson, professional snooker player, 1986 World Snooker Champion, 1952


• Colin James Hay, musician, guitarist and singer for Men at Work, 1953


• Evelyn "Champagne" King, R&B and disco singer, 1960


• Anne-Sophie Mutter, classical violinist, 1963


• Kaitlyn Ashley, actress, 1971


• Matthew Frederick Robert Good, rock musician, 1971


• Anthony Hamilton, professional snooker player, 1971


• Katherine Jenkins, mezzo-soprano, 1980

RIP:

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861


• Thomas Henry Huxley, FRS, biologist, known for his defence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and a populariser of science; coined the term agnosticism to describe his take on religious belief, May 4, 1825 – June 29, 1895


• Roscoe Conkling FATTY Arbuckle, silent film comedian, whose career was destroyed by an attempted blackmail scheme, spun by newspapers that "crucified" him in false and vicious articles and editorials, March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933


• Paul Klee, painter, variously associated with expressionism, cubism and surrealism, and teacher at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture, December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940


• Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, composer, diplomat, and politician, the third Prime Minister of Poland, November 6, 1860 – June 29, 1941


• Vera Jayne Palmer, aka Jayne Mansfield, actress and sex symbol, April 19, 1933 - June 29, 1967


• Primo Carnera, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, October 26, 1906 – June 29, 1967


• Frederick Earl SHORTY Long, soul singer, songwriter, and record producer for Motown's Soul Records label, May 20, 1940 - June 29, 1969


• Robert Edward BOB Crane, disc jockey and actor, July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978


• Lowell George, singer and guitarist, with Little Feat, April 13, 1945 - June 29, 1979


• Irving Wallace, author and screenwriter, March 19, 1916 - June 29, 1990


• Kurt Peter Eichhorn, conductor and teacher of conducting, August 4, 1908 – June 29, 1994


• Julia Jean LANA Turner, actress, February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995


• Allan Solomon, aka Allan Carr, Tony Award-winning producer, and manager, May 27, 1937 - June 29, 1999


• Vittorio Gassman, theatre and film actor and director, September 1, 1922 – June 29, 2000


• Rosemary Clooney, popular singer and actress, May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002


• Katharine Houghton Hepburn, film, television, and stage actress, holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar nominations, with 12, and wins, with 4; won an Emmy Award in 1975, May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003