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Birthdays:

• George Bradshaw, cartographer, printer, and publisher, originator of the railway timetable, July 29, 1801 - August, 1853


• Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville, political thinker and historian, July 29, 1805 – April 16, 1859


• Johannes Schmidt, linguist, developed the wave theory of language development, July 29, 1843 – July 4, 1901


• Newton BOOTH Tarkington, novelist and dramatist, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946


• Sigmund Romberg, composer, best known for his operettas, July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951


• William Horatio Powell, actor, most famous as Nick Charles in six Thin Man films, July 29, 1892 - March 5, 1984


• Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist, awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for Physics, July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988


• Eyvind Johnson, author, shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson, July 29, 1900 – August 25, 1976


• Clara Bow, actress, best known for her silent film work in the 1920's; referred to as the original "It girl," July 29, 1905 - September 27, 1965


• Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld, diplomat, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, posthumously received the 1961 Nobel Peace Prize, July 29, 1905 – September 18, 1961


• Melvin Mouron Belli, lawyer and actor, appeared in the Star Trek episode, "And the Children Shall Lead," July 29, 1907 - July 9, 1996


• Charlie Christian, jazz guitarist, an important early performer on the electric guitar, the first great soloist on the amplified guitar, July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942


• Edwin O'Connor, journalist and novelist, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962, July 29, 1918 - 23 March 23, 1968


• Lloyd Bochner, actor, July 29, 1924 - October 29, 2005


• Mikis Theodorakis, composer, 1925


• Robert Blake Theodore TED Lindsay, former NHL hockey player, 1925


• Peter Schreier, tenor and conductor, 1935


• Daniel L. McFadden, Ph.D., econometrician, awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with James Heckman, 1937


• Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM, broadcaster and news anchor, July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005


• David Warner, stage, film, television, and voice actor, 1941


• David Taylor, former professional snooker player, 1943


• Kenneth Lauren Burns, documentary filmmaker, winner of three Emmy Awards, 1953


• Gary Lee Weinrib, aka Geddy Lee OC, musician, the vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for Rush, 1953


• Nellie Vladimirovna Kim, retired gymnast, 1957


• LUIS Rene ALICEA de Jesus, former MLB second baseman, 1965


• Richard William WIL Wheaton III, actor, writer, and geek icon, best known as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1972


• Stephen Dorff, actor, 1973

RIP:

• Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher, youngest child of six born to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, July 26, 1791 – July 29, 1844


• Robert Schumann, composer, pianist, and music critic, June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856


• Vincent Willem van Gogh, Post-Impressionist painter, March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890


• Tobias Michael Carel Asser, jurist, co-winner with Alfred Fried of the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference, April 28, 1838 – July 29, 1913


• Sir John (Giovanni Battista) Barbirolli, conductor and cellist, December 2, 1899 - July 29, 1970


• Ellen Naomi Cohen, aka "Mama" Cass Elliot, Baroness von Wiedenman, singer, with The Mamas & The Papas, and in a solo career, September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974


• Erich Kästner, author and children's writer, February 23, 1899 - July 29, 1974


• Herbert Marcuse, philosopher and sociologist, July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979


• William BILL Todman, television producer, teamed up with Mark Goodson in producing game shows for radio; they moved into television, producing some of the longest-running game shows in history, July 31, 1916 - July 29, 1979


• Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, physicist and inventor, a pioneer of television technology, invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes,and was instrumental in the practical development of television from the early thirties, July 30, 1889 - July 29, 1982


• Luis Buñuel Portoles, director and filmmaker, February 22, 1900 – July 29, 1983


• Raymond Hart Massey, actor, famous for his quintessential American roles, especially that of Abraham Lincoln, August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983


• James DAVID Graham Niven, Academy Award-winning actor, March 1, 1910 – July 29, 1983


• Fredrick Malcolm FRED Waring, musician, bandleader, and radio and TV personality, inventor of the Waring blender, awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor in 1983, June 9, 1900 - July 29, 1984


• Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, OM , FRS, chemist, the founder of protein crystallography, pioneering the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three dimensional structures of biomolecules; among her most influential discoveries are the determination of the structure of penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12, for which she was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, May 12, 1910 – July 29, 1994


• Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz, aka Jerome Robbins, choreographer, awarded 5 Tony Awards, 2 Academy Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, the National Medal of the Arts, the French Legion of Honor, three Honorary Doctorates, and an Honorary Membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998