Today XCI - cumpleaños felices, Carlos Santana

Birthdays:

• Ivan Vučetić, aka Juan Vucetich, anthropologist and police official who pioneered the use of fingerprinting, July 20, 1858 – January 25, 1925


• Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy, aristocrat and philosopher who coined the term "ideology," July 20, 1754 - March 9, 1836


• Gregor Johann Mendel, abbot, often called the "father of genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants; he demonstrated that the inheritance of traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him, July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884


• Erik Axel Karlfeldt, poet, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931; he had refused it in 1918, July 20, 1864 – April 8, 1931


• Theodosia Burr Goodman, aka Theda Bara, silent film actress, July 29, 1885 - 7 April 1955


• László Moholy-Nagy, painter and photographer, and professor in the Bauhaus school, July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946


• Tadeus Reichstein, chemist, succeeded, independently of a team in Britain, in synthesizing vitamin C; with E. C. Kendall and P. S. Hench, he was awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their work which resulted in the isolation of cortisone, July 20, 1897 – August 1, 1996


• Henry Emmett HEINIE Manush, MLB player, American League Batting Champion in 1926, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964. ,July 20, 1901–May 12, 1971


• Jimmy Kennedy, songwriter, July 20, 1902 - April 6, 1984


• Vilém Tauský< conductor and composer, student of Leos Janacek, July 20, 1910 - March 16, 2004


• Cindy Walker, singer/songwriter and dancer, July 20, 1918 - March 23, 2006


• Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE, mountaineer and explorer; he and Tenzing Norgay were the first men proven to reach the 29,028-foot summit of Mount Everest, 1919


• Mort Garson, pianist, arranger, and composer, 1924


• Lola Albright, singer and actress, 1925


• Nam June Paik, artist, pioneered video art, July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006


• Rex Williams, former professional snooker player, 1933


• Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE, stage and TV actress, known as Mrs. Peel in The Avengers, 1938


• Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, aka Natalie Wood, actress , July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981


• Judy Cohen, aka Judy Chicago, feminist artist, author, and educator, 1939


• Pedro Oliva López, aka , former MLB right fielder, played his entire career in the AL Minnesota Twins between 1962 and 1976, 1964 Rookie of the Year, 8-time All-Star from 1964 to 1971, 3-time batting title winner, 1964, 1965, and 1971, 1966 Gold Glove Award winner, 1940


• Kim Carnes, singer-songwriter, 1945


• John Lodge< musician, bass guitar player for the Moody Blues, 1945


• Gerd Binnig, physicist, shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics with Heinrich Rohrer for their invention of the scanning tunneling microscope; Ernst Ruska won the other half of the prize, 1947


• Carlos Augusto Alves Santana, Grammy Award-winning musician, guitarist, and songwriter; Carlos is one of those few musicians whose playing is recognizable after the first note is played; without Carlos, many of my geneartion would never have heard of congas or timbales, let alone a clavé beat; Carlos' recent collaboration albums, Supernatural, Shaman, and All That I Am, have been less and less satisfying to my ear; Viva Santana!, 1947


• Tantoo Cardinal, film and television actress, who played roles in many notable films and television series, 1950


• Thomas L. Friedman, journalist, columnist, and author, three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize; in 2004, awarded the Overseas Press Club Award for lifetime achievement, and the title, Order of the British Empire (OBE), by Queen Elizabeth II, 1953


• Charles Edward Johnson, Jr., MLB catcher, All-Star in 1997 and 2001, 4-time Gold Glove Award winner from 1995 to 1998, 1971


• Benjamin José BENGIE Molina, MLB catcher, currently with the Toronto Blue Jays, 2002 and 2003 Gold Glove winner, one of three brothers who are MLB catchers, 1974

RIP:

• Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, mathematician, made important contributions to analysis and differential geometry, some of them paving the way for the development of general relativity, September 17, 1826 - July 20, 1866


• William Cosmo Monkhouse, poet and critic, March 18, 1840 – July 20, 1901


• Andrey (Andrei) Andreyevich Markov, mathematician, best known for his work on theory of stochastic processes; his research later became known as Markov chains, June 14, 1856 – July 20, 1922


• José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, aka Francisco PANCHO Villa, one of the foremost leaders and best known generals of the Mexican Revolution, June 5, 1878 – July 20, 1923


• Guglielmo Marchese Marconi, GCVO, electrical engineer, known for the development of a practical wireless telegraphy system, the joint recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, April 25, 1874 – July 20, 1937


• Mildred Harris, silent film actress, November 29, 1901 - July 20, 1944


• Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry, author and Symbolist poet; in addition to his fiction (poetry, drama, and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events, October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945


• Bruce Jun Fan Lee, martial artist and actor, perhaps the most influential, well-known, and celebrated martial artist of the 20th century, November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973


• James Montgomery Doohan, Scotty!, character and voice actor; using his considerable vocal skills, Doohan devised the Vulcan and Klingon dialogue heard in Star Trek: The Motion Picture; later, professional linguists expanded Klingon into a fully constructed language with a working grammar, March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005


• Charles Chibitty, Comanche code talker who used his native language to relay messages for the Allies during World War II, November 20, 1921 – July 20, 2005