Today LXXIII

Birthdays:

• Claudio Saracini, composer, lutenist and singer of the early Baroque era, famous composer of monody, July 1, 1586 – September 20, 1630


• Johann Heinrich Heidegger< theologian, July 1, 1633 - July 18, 1698


• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, polymath, invented calculus independently of Newton, his notation being the one in general use; his philosophy anticipates logic and analysis; made major contributions to physics and technology, and anticipated notions that surfaced much later in biology, medicine, geology, psychology, knowledge engineering, and information science; also wrote on politics, law, ethics, theology, history, and philology, July 1, 1646 – November 14, 1716


• Thomas Green Clemson, founder of Clemson University, July 1, 1807 – April 6, 1888


• William Strunk, Jr., former Professor of English at Cornell University, best known as the author of the first editions of The Elements of Style, July 1, 1869 - September 26, 1946


• Louis Blériot, inventor and engineer, first to fly a heavier-than-air craft over a large body of water, July 1, 1872 – August 2, 1936


• Léon Jouhaux, trade union leader, received the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize, July 1, 1879 — April 28, 1954


• Charles Laughton, stage and film actor, July 1, 1899 – December 15, 1962


• William Wyler, Oscar-winning film director, July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981


• David Ross Brower, environmentalist and founder of many environmentalist organizations, July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000


• William James 'Willie' Dixon, blues bassist, singer, songwriter, and record producer, July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992


• Olivia Mary de Havilland, two-time Academy Award-winning film actress, 1916


• Humphry Fortescue Osmond, psychiatrist, coined the word psychedelic, known for his research in using psychedelic drugs in medical research, July 1, 1917 - February 6, 2004


• Farley Earle Granger II, actor, 1925


• Robert William Fogel, economic historian and scientist, winner of the 1993 Nobel n Prize in Economic Sciences with Douglass North, 1926


• Hans Werner Henze, composer, 1926


• Gerald Maurice Edelman, biologist, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the immune system, 1929


• Robert James Byrd Sr., aka Bobby Day, musician, July 1, 1928 - July 27, 1990


• Leslie Caron, film actress and dancer, 1931


• Jameel Joseph Farah, aka Jamie Farr, television and film actor, 1934


• Sydney Pollack, film director, producer, and actor, 1934


• Alfred Goodman Gilman, scientist, shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin Rodbell for discoveries involving G-proteins, 1941


• Myron S. Scholes, economist, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, one of the authors of the Black-Scholes equation, 1941


• Twyla Tharp, dancer and choreographer, winner of several Emmy Awards, 1941


• Karen Blanche Ziegler, aka Karen Black, actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter, 1942


• Geneviève Bujold, actress, 1942


• Deborah Ann Harry, musician and actress, lead singer for Blondie, 1945


• Fred Schneider III, lead male singer and founding member of The B-52's, 1951
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• Daniel Edward DAN Aykroyd CM, comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician, 1952


• Lady Diana Frances Spencer Mountbatten-Windsor, Princess of Wales, July 1, 1961 – August 31, 1997


• Michelle Wright, country music singer, songwriter, and musician, 1961


• Pamela Denise Anderson Lee, television actress, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author, 1967


• Julianne Nicholson, actress, 1971


• Claire Forlani, actress, 1972


• Liv Tyler, actress, 1977

RIP:

• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, organist, improvisor, and master of counterpoint, the eldest son, of Johann Sebastian Bach, November 22, 1710 – July 1, 1784


• Charles Goodyear, inventor of vulcanized rubber, December 29, 1800 - July 1, 1860


• Allan Pinkerton, detective and spy, founder of the Pinkerton Agency, August 25, 1819 – July 1, 1884


• Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and writer, her most famous book being Uncle Tom's Cabin, June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896


• Eric Alfred Leslie "Erik" Satie, composer and pianist, May 17, 1866 – July 1, 1925


• Pierre Monteux, conductor, April 4, 1875 – July 1, 1964


• Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH, FRS, physicist, winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics, March 31, 1890 - July 1, 1971


• John Russell Morgane, aka Rushton Moreve, bass player for Steppenwolf, 1948 - July 1, 1981


• Richard Buckminster BUCKY Fuller, visionary, designer, architect, and inventor, July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983


• Michael Landon, actor, producer, and director, October 31, 1936 - July 1, 1991


• Robert Weston Smith aka Wolfman Jack, disc jockey and radio personality, January 21, 1939 — July 1, 1995


• Robert Charles Durman Mitchum, film actor and singer, August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997


• Edward Dmytryk, film director, served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy era red scare, September 4, 1908 - July 1, 1999


• Sophia Kosow, aka Sylvia Sidney, actress, August 8, 1910 - July 1, 1999


• Walter Matthau, Academy Award-winning comedy actor, known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple, and his frequent collaborations with Jack Lemmon, October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000


• Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov, physicist and educator, shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Aleksandr Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes, for his work in the field of quantum electronics that lead to the development of the laser and maser, December 14, 1922 – July 1, 2001


• Herbert Jay Solomon, aka Herbie Mann, jazz flautist, April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003


• Marlon Brando, Jr., actor, April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004


• Luther Ronzoni Vandross, Jr., R&B singer, winner of eight Grammy Awards, April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005


• Renaldo "Obie" Benson, soul and R&B singer and songwriter, best known as the bass voice of The Four Tops, June 14, 1936 - July 1, 2005