Today CI

Birthdays:

• Giorgio Vasari, painter and architect, known for his biographies of Italian artists, July 30, 1511 - June 27, 1574


• Regnier de Graaf, physician and anatomist, July 30, 1641 – August 17, 1673


• Emily Jane Brontë, novelist and poet, author of Wuthering Heights, July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848


• 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


• Charles Dillon CASEY Stengel, MLB outfielder and manager, played from 1912 to 1925; the only person to manage a team [the New York Yankees] to five consecutive World Series championships; inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966, July 30, 1890 - September 29, 1975


• Henry Spencer Moore OM CH, artist and sculptor, best known for his large, abstract bronzes which can be seen in many places around the world as public works of art, July 30, 1898 – August 31, 1986


• Riccardo DeGuglielmo, aka Dick Wilson, actor, 1916


• Grant Johannesen, concert pianist, director of the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1974 to 1985, July 30, 1921 – March 27, 2005


• Christine McGuire, singer, member of the McGuire Sisters trio, 1926


• Edward Byrne Breitenberger, aka Edward EDD Byrnes, actor, most famous as Gerald Lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III on 77 Sunset Strip, 1933


• Allan Huber "Bud" Selig, Jr., current Commissioner of Baseball, 1934


• George BUDDY Guy, blues guitarist and singer, 1936


• Peter Bogdanovich, film director, writer and actor, 1939


• Paul Albert Anka, OC, singer and songwriter, 1941


• David Sanborn, jazz saxophonist, 1945


• Frank Stallone, Jr., actor, singer, and amateur boxer, 1950


• Delta Ramona Leah Burke, television and film actress, 1956


• Anita F. Hill, lawyer, author, and professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University, 1956


• Clinton Merrick CLINT Hurdle, former MLB outfielder and the current manager of the Colorado Rockies, 2002, 1957


• Catherine KATE Bush, singer-songwriter, 1958


• Richard Linklater, film director and writer, 1961


• Laurence Fishburne III, actor, 1961


• Alton Brown, creator and host of Good Eats, and author, 1962


• Vivica Anjanetta Fox, film and television actress, 1964


• Hilary Ann Swank, two-time Academy Award-winning actress, 1974

RIP:

• György Széll, aka George Szell, conductor and composer, music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1946 to 1970, June 7, 1897 – July 30, 1970


• Lillie Louise LYNNE Fontanne, actress, with her husband Alfred Lunt part of the most acclaimed acting team in the history of the American theatre, December 6, 1887 – July 30, 1983


• Julia Hall Bowman Robinson< mathematician, December 8, 1919 – July 30, 1985


• Joseph JOE Shuster, artist and cartoonist, best known for co-creating Superman with Jerry Siegel, July 10, 1914 - July 30, 1992


• Ardis Ankerson Gaines, aka Brenda Marshall, actress, September 29, 1915 – July 30, 1992


• Lily Claudette Chauchoin, aka Claudette Colbert, Academy Award-winning actress, September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996


• Samuel Cornelius SAM Phillips, record producer, discovered Elvis Presley, January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003


• Anthony Walker, black student, murdered with an ice axe by white youths in a racially motivated crime, February 21, 1987 – July 30, 2005


• Raymond Lee RAY Cunningham, MLB third baseman in 1931 and 1932, January 17, 1905 - July 30, 2005