Today XLV

Birthdays:

• Maurice Evans, actor, June 3, 1901 - March 12, 1989


• Jacob Pincus Perelmuth, aka Jan Peerce, tenor, June 3, 1904 – December 15, 1984


• Freda Josephine McDonald, aka Josephine Baker, dancer, actress, and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus", June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975


• Pauline Levy, aka Paulette Goddard, Oscar-nominated actress, child model, and Ziegfield Girl, June 3, 1911 – April 23, 1990


• Willis Marie Van Schaack, aka Lili St. Cyr, exotic dancer and actress, June 3, 1918 - January 29, 1999


• Alain Resnais, film director, 1922


• Colleen Dewhurst, actress, June 3, 1924 - August 22, 1991


• James A. Lane, aka Jimmy Rogers, blues guitarist, best known as a member of Muddy Waters' 1950's band, June 3, 1924 - December 19, 1997


• Bernard Schwartz, aka Tony Curtis, actor and painter, 1925


• Irwin Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet, June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997


• Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III, saxophonist, 1926


• Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley, fantasy author, June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999


• John Frederick Lange, Jr., Ph.D., aka John Norman, author [the Gor series], 1931


• James Edward 'Jim' Gentile, former MLB first baseman, 1934


• Curtis Mayfield soul, funk and R&B singer, songwriter, and guitarist, June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999


• Ian Hunter Patterson, aka Ian Hunter, rock singer, 1939


• Michael James Dick, aka Michael Clarke, musician, best known as the drummer for The Byrds, June 3, 1946 – December 19, 1993


• June Deniece Chandler, aka Deniece Williams, singer and songwriter, 1950


• Susan Kay 'Suzi' Quatro, singer, bassist, radio personality, and actress, 1950


• Anderson Hays Cooper, television journalist, and the great-great-great grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1967


• José Benjamin Molina, MLB catcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 1975

RIP:

• William Harvey, medical doctor, credited as the first to correctly describe, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart, April 1, 1578 – June 3, 1657


• [Registered as] Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, baptized as Georges Bizet, composer and pianist, best known for his opera Carmen, October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875


• Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Ritter von Köchel, musicologist, writer, composer, botanist, and publisher, best known for cataloguing the works of Mozart, and originating the "K" numbers by which they are known, January 14, 1800 – June 3, 1877


• Johann Strauss II, or Johann Strauss, Jr., or Johann Strauss the Younger, composer, known especially for his waltzes, he became the "waltz king" by his revolutionary elevation of the waltz from lowly peasant dance to sparkling entertainment for the royal court, October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899


• Franz Kafka, novelist and short story writer, July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924


• Oswald George 'Ozzie' Nelson, band leader, producer, director, and actor, who created and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio and television series with his wife and two sons, March 20, 1906 - June 3, 1975


• Roberto Rossellini, film director, May 8, 1906 - June 3, 1977


• Robert Noyce, Ph.D., co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor (1957) and Intel (1968), December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990


• Robert Adolph Wilton Morley, Oscar-nominated actor, May 26, 1908 - June 3, 1992


• Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca "Anthony" Quinn, actor, painter, and writer, April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001