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Birthdays:

• Laurent Belissen, Baroque composer, August 8, 1693 - February 12, 1762


• Esther Hobart Morris, leader in the American woman's suffrage movement, and the first woman to serve as a justice of the peace in the United States, August 8, 1814 – April 2, 1902


• Emiliano Zapata Salazar, a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution against dictatorship broke out in 1910, considered to be one of the outstanding national heroes of Mexico, August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919


• Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch, violinist and composer, August 8, 1891 – June 9, 1952


• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author, whose best known work, The Yearling, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939, and was later made into a movie, August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953


• Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Ph.D., physicist, known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation in the Manhattan Project, awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the cyclotron and its applications; chemical element number 103 is named Lawrencium in his honor, August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958


• Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM FRS, theoretical physicist, and a founder of the field of quantum physics, shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics with Erwin Schrödinger; held the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge, where he discovered the Dirac equation; Adric [an anagram of Dirac], on Doctor Who, was named after him, August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984


• André Jolivet, composer, August 8, 1905 – December 20, 1974


• Bennett Lester BENNY Carter, jazz alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader, August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003


• Arthur Joseph Goldberg, statesman and jurist, served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court Justice, and Ambassador to the United Nations, August 8, 1908 – January 19, 1990


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


• Rosetta Olive Burton, aka Rosetta LeNoire, stage, screen, and television actress, Broadway producer, casting agent, and activist, whose godfather Bill "Bojangles" Robinson helped her overcomeill health by teaching her to dance; best known to modern audiences for her work in television, on such series as Gimme a Break! and Amen, and mother Estelle Winslow on Family Matters, August 8, 1911 - March 17, 2002


• Agostino DINO De Laurentiis, movie producer, received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2001; grandfather of Giada De Laurentiis, 1919


• William Asher, producer, director, and writer, produced and directed Bewitched; was married to the show's star, the late Elizabeth Montgomery, 1921


• Webb Michael Pierce, country music singer, August 8, 1921 - February 24, 1991


• Esther Jane Williams, competitive swimmer and movie star, famous for her musical films that featured performances with swimming and diving, 1921


• Francis Timothy McCown Durgin, aka Rory Calhoun, actor, August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999


• Rudi Gernreich, dancer, fashion designer, and gay activist, invented the first topless swimsuit [monokini], the pubikini [a bikini with a window in front to show pubic hair], and the thong swimsuit, August 8, 1922–April 21, 1985


• John Ellis JOHNNY Temple, MLB second baseman and leadoff hitter, from 1952 to 1964, four-time All-Star, August 8, 1927 – January 9, 1994


• Donald Vernon DON Burrows, MBE, AO, jazz and swing musician, plays the clarinet, saxophone, and flute, 1928


• Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz-Brukhman, Soviet dissident, August 8, 1929 - April 6, 2004


• Sir Roger Penrose, Ph.D., OM, FRS, mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician author, and philosopher, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, known for his contributions to general relativity and cosmology, 1931


• Lonnie Melvin MEL Tillis, country music singer/songwriter, and actor, 1932


• Donald Paul Bellisario, television producer and scriptwriter, creator of several TV series, 1935


• Frank Oliver Howard, former MLB outfielder, coach, and manager, 1960 NL Rookie of the Year, 1936


• Dustin Lee Hoffman, actor, won the 1979 and 1988 Academy Award for Best Actor, 1937


• Concetta Rosalie Anna Ingoglia, aka Connie Stevens, actress and singer, mother of actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, 1938


• Brooke Bundy, actress, 1944


• José Cruz, Sr., former MLB outfielder, NL All-Star in 1980 and 1985; 1983 and 1984 NL Silver Slugger, 1947


• Keith Carradine, actor and songwriter, won an Oscar for Best Original Song for writing I'm Easy for the movie Nashville, in which he played one of the principal characters, 1949


• Robin Ophelia Quivers, talk show host and one of Howard Stern's sidekicks on his morning radio show, 1952


• Don Most, actor, best known as Ralph Malph on Happy Days, 1953


• Dave Howell Evans, aka The Edge, musician, lead guitarist for U2, 1961


• John Hudek, former MLB relief pitcher, 1994 All-Star, 1966


• Richard Craig Harwood, cellist, 1979

RIP:

• Carl Heinrich Graun, opera composer and tenor, May 7, 1704 - August 8, 1759


• Johnny Dodds, jazz clarinetist, older brother of drummer Baby Dodds, recorded with numerous small groups in Chicago, most notably Louis Armstrong's Hot 5 and Hot 7, and Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940


• Andrea "Whips" Feldman, actor and Warhol superstar, April 1, 1948 – August 8, 1972


• Julian Edwin CANNONBALL Adderley, jazz alto saxophonist, brother of cornetist Nat Adderley, leader of The Cannonball Adderley Quintet and Sextet, began doubling on soprano saxophone in the late 1960's, September 15, 1928 - August 8, 1975


• Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS, electrophysiologist, shared the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons, November 30, 1889 – August 8, 1977


• Mary LOUISE Brooks, actress, known for her roles in silent films, November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985


• Sir Nevill Francis Mott, FRS, CH, physicist, shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics with Philip W. Anderson and J. H. Van Vleck, September 30, 1905 – August 8, 1996


• Vina FAY Wray, actress, famous for her role as Ann Darrow in King Kong, appeared in over a hundred other films , September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004


• Barbara Bel Geddes, actress, October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005


• Gene William Mauch, former MLB player, in parts of nine seasons from 1944 to 1957, and manager from 1960 to 1982, and 1985 to 1987, November 18, 1925 – August 8, 2005