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Birthdays:

• Richard Leveridge, bass singer and composer of baroque music, July 19, 1670 - March 22, 1758


• John Martin, painter and engraver, July 19, 1789 – February 17, 1854


• Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt revolver, July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862


• Edgar Degas, painter, sculptor, and draughtsman, one of the fathers of Impressionism, July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917


• Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon and a co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, July 19, 1865 – May 26, 1939


• Max Fleischer, pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon, brought such characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen, responsible for follow the bouncing ball sing-along cartoons, produced the first sound animated cartoons in May 1924; Jack Kirby was an employee of Fleischer, July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972


• Archibald Joseph [A. J.] Cronin, novelist, author of The Citadel, July 19, 1896 – January 9, 1981


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


• Marius Ugo Russo, MLB starting pitcher, played for the New York Yankees, July 19, 1914 – March 26, 2005


• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Ph.D., medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique, 1921


• Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona, aka Vikki Carr, singer, whose music genres have included jazz, pop, country, and Spanish-language, 1941


• Alan Gorrie, musician, founding member of the Average White Band, 1946


• Bernie Leadon, musician, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger, a founding member of The Eagles, 1947


• Brian Harold May CBE, musician, guitarist and songwriter for Queen, 1947


• Allen Larkin Collins, musician, guitarist and songwriter, one of the founding members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, July 19, 1952 - January 23, 1990


• Atom Egoyan, OC, filmmaker, 1960


• Anthony Charles Edwards, actor, 1962


• Preston James Richard Wilson, outfielder for the Houston Astros, nephew and stepson of Mookie Wilson, 1974

RIP:

• Sarah Margaret Fuller, journalist, critic, and women's rights activist, May 23, 1810 - June 19, 1850


• Janusz Andrzej Zajdel, science fiction author, the second most popular Polish science-fiction writer after Stanislaw Lem, August 15, 1938 – July 19, 1985


• Elmer William Valo, MLB right fielder, coach, and scout, played in the major leagues for 20 years, March 5, 1921 - July 19, 1998


• Alan Lomax, folklorist and musicologist, one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recorded substantial interviews with many musicians, including Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, and Jelly Roll Morton; in 2003, awarded a posthumous Grammy Trustees Award for his lifetime achievements, January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002