Today LXXXII

Birthdays:

• Jean Chauvin, aka John Calvin, theologian, namesake of the system of theology called Calvinism, July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564


• Camille Jacob Pissarro, French Impressionist painter, July 10, 1830 – November 13, 1903


• Alvan Graham Clark, astronomer and telescope-maker, July 10, 1832 – June 9, 1897


• Henri Wieniawski, composer and violinist, July 10, 1835 – March 31, 1880


• Colonel Adolphus Busch, founder of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery, July 10, 1839 – October 10, 1913


• Nikola Tesla, inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer, July 10, 1856 - January 7, 1943


• Marcel-Valentin-Louis-Eugène-Georges Proust, intellectual, novelist, essayist, and critic, July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922


• Giorgio de Chirico, aka Népo, pre-Surrealist painter, founder of the scuola metafisica art movement, July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978


• Carl Orff, composer and music educator, July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982


• John Cecil Gilbert, actor and silent film star, July 10, 1899 - January 9, 1936


• Kurt Alder, chemist, won the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Otto Paul Hermann Diels, July 10, 1902 – June 20, 1958


• John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, aka John Wyndham, post-apocalyptic science fiction writer, July 10, 1903 – March 11, 1969
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• Joseph 'Joe' Shuster, artist and cartoonist, best known for co-creating Superman with Jerry Siegel, July 10, 1914 - July 30, 1992


• David McClure Brinkley, television newscaster and news anchor, half of the Huntley–Brinkley Report team, with Chet Huntley, July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003


• Owen Chamberlain, physicist, part of the Manhattan Project, shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics with his collaborator Emilio Segrè for their discovery of the antiproton, July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006


• Harvey Ross Ball, creator of the Smiley, July 10, 1921 – April 12, 2001


• Giacobbe 'Jake' La Motta, former World Middleweight Boxing Champion, 1921


• Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver, activist, 1921


• Bridget Jean Collins, aka Jean Kerr, author and playwright, July 10, 1923 – January 5, 2003


• Frederick Hubbard 'Fred' Gwynne, actor, known for starring in Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters, singer, painter, and writer and illustrator of children's books, July 10, 1926 – July 2, 1993


• Nicholas Aloysius Adamschock, aka Nick Adams, actor, July 10, 1931 — February 7, 1968


• Alice Ann [Laidlaw] Munro, award-winning short story writer, 1931


• Helen Donath, soprano, 1940


• Ronald James Padavona, aka Ronnie James Dio, heavy metal vocalist, 1940


• Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr., tennis player and sports commentator, won three Grand Slam titles, July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993


• Sue Lyon, actress, 1946


• Arlo Guthrie, folk singer, songwriter, and musician, 1947


• Cheryl Wheeler, folk singer/songwriter, 1951


• Jessica Ann Simpson, singer and actress, 1980

RIP:

• Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus, aka Hadrian [in English], Roman emperor from 117–138, January 24, 76–July 10, 138


• Paul Charles Morphy, chess player, child chess prodigy, an unofficial world chess champion, June 22, 1837 - July 10, 1884


• Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, virtuoso pianist, bandleader, and jazz composer, October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941


• Joe Davis, professional snooker and billiards player, Snooker World Champion from 1927 to 1940 and 1946, World Professional Billiards Champion from 1928 until 1932, April 15, 1901 - July 10, 1978


• Arthur Fiedler, conductor, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra from 1930 to 1979, December 17, 1894 – July 10, 1979


• John Henry Hammond, record producer, musician, music critic, and talent scout, December 15, 1910 – July 10, 1987


• Melvin Jerome 'Mel' Blanc, voice actor for radio programmes and animation studios, primarily Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera studios, May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989


• Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, GBE, PC, KC, barrister and politician, the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes trial, February 4, 1902 – July 10, 2003


• Philip Nicholson, aka A. J. Quinnell, mystery and thriller writer, June 25, 1940 - July 10, 2005