Today CIII - Happy Birthday, Ramona

Today is Ramona's Birthday!!

Happy Birthday to my wife, my soul-mate, my best friend - my life is a better place with you in it!

Theodore and I love you

Birthdays:

• William Clark, explorer, accompanied Meriwether Lewis on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, August 1, 1770 - September 1, 1838


• Francis Scott Key, lawyer and amateur poet, wrote the words to The Star-Spangled Banner, August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843


• Herman Melville, novelist, essayist and poet, author of Moby-Dick and Billy Budd, August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891


• Mary Harris Jones, aka Mother Jones, labour and community activist, moved with her family to Toronto from Irelandwhen she was still young, shortly after her grandfather was hanged by the British for participation in the Irish Republican Movement, August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930


• Hevesy György, aka George Charles de Hevesy, chemist, received the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the tracer method where radioactive tracers are used to study chemical processes, August 1, 1885 in Budapest – July 5, 1966


• Otto Toeplitz, mathematician, working in the fields of linear algebra and functional analysis, August 1, 1881 - February 15, 1940


• Walter Gerlach, physicist, discovered the spin quantization together with Otto Stern, August 1, 1889 - August 10, 1979


• Georges Charpak, physicist, awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention and development of particle detectors, 1924


• Raymond John Leppard, CBE, conductor and harpsichordist, 1927


• Lionel Begleiter, aka Lionel Bart, composer of songs and musicals, best known for Oliver!, August 1, 1930 - April 3, 1999


• Meir David Kahane, rabbi, author, and political activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in the United States, August 1, 1932 – November 5, 1990


• Dominick DOM DeLuise, actor and comedian, 1933


• Jerome John JERRY Garcia, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and painter, lead guitarist and vocalist for the Grateful Dead, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995


• Douglas Dean Osheroff, physicist, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson for discovering the superfluidic nature of Helium-3, 1945


• Sandi [Jensen] Griffiths, singer, performer on The Lawrence Welk Show, 1946


• Robert Cray, blues musician, guitarist and singer, 1953


• Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE, stage and film director, won an Academy Award for Best Director for American Beauty, 1965


• Gregory Scott GREGG Jefferies, former MLB infielder, had a 14-year career from 1987 to 2000; NL All-Star in 1993 and 1994, 1967


• Kevin Thomas Jarvis, MLB starting pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, 1969


• Tempestt Bledsoe, actress, best known as Vanessa Huxtable on The Cosby Show, 1973


• Kevin Joseph, former MLB pitcher, 1976


• Dhani Harrison, guitarist, son of George Harrison and Olivia Trinidad Arias, 1978

RIP:

• Richard Kuhn, biochemist, awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, December 3, 1900 – August 1, 1967


• Frances Elena Farmer, film actress, screwed by the system, September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970


• Otto Heinrich Warburg, physiologist and medical doctor, awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, October 8, 1883 – August 1, 1970


• Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, musicologist, and music editor, March 18, 1882 - August 1, 1973


• Francis Gary Powers, USAF pilot, August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977


• Sidney Aaron PADDY Chayefsky, dramatist, playwright, and screenwriter; January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981


• John Andrew Howard Ogdon, pianist and composer, January 27, 1937 – August 1, 1989


• 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


• Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter, pianist, March 20, 1915 – August 1, 1997


• Philip Hauge Abelson, physicist, editor of scientific literature, and science writer, discoverer of the element Neptunium, April 27, 1913 – August 1, 2004