Today CXII

Birthdays:

• Hieronymus Praetorius, composer and organist of the late Renaissance and very early Baroque eras, wrote masses, ten settings of the Magnificat, and numerous motets, mostly in Latin; most of his music is in the Venetian polychoral style, which uses numerous voices divided into several groups, the first such to be written in north Germany, August 10, 1560 – January 27, 1629


• Gilles Personne de Roberval, mathematician, August 10, 1602 - October 27, 1675


• Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, physicist, founder of electrical engineering, did the pioneer work in the field of ferromagnetism, and discovered the principles of outer photoelectric effect, August 10, 1839-May 27, 1896


• William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time, August 10, 1856 – March 4, 1915


• William Manuel BILL Johnson, jazz musician, considered the father of the "slap" style of upright bass playing, played in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, August 10, 1872 – December 3, 1972


• Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964


• Frank James Marshall, chess player, U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944


• Jack Haley, film actor best known as The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, August 10, 1898 – June 6, 1979


• Edith NORMA Shearer, actress, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress on six occasions, winning for her role in 1930's The Divorcee, August 10, 1902 - June 12, 1983


• Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius, biochemist, awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemisrty, August 10, 1902 – October 29, 1971


• Clarence Leonidas LEO Fender, luthier, founded the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, and G&L Musical Products; built and popularized amplified instruments; in 1950, he and George Fullerton introduced first the Esquire and then the Broadcaster, later the Telecaster, electric guitars, followed by the Precision Bass, Fender amps, the Stratocaster guitar, and the Jazz Bass, among other instruments, August 10, 1909 - March 21, 1991


• Wolfgang Paul, physicist, co-developed the ion trap; awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, for this work, August 10, 1913 - December 7, 1993


• Marilyn Louis, aka Rhonda Fleming, actress and singer, 1923


• Vernon Washington, film and television actor, August 10, 1927 – June 7, 1988


• Jimmy Ray Dean, singer, actor, and businessman, founded the Jimmy Dean Sausage brand, 1928


• Edwin John EDDIE Fisher, singer and entertainer, 1928


• Rocco Domenico ROCKY Colavito, Jr., former MLB right fielder, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, and 1966 All-Star, 1933


• Kate O'Mara, actress and author, appeared in films made by Hammer Studios, and on television; played Jackie Stone, Patsy's sister on Absolutely Fabulous, and the Rani on Doctor Who, 1939


• Robert Lee BOBBY Hatfield, singer, one of The Righteous Brothers, August 10, 1940 – November 5, 2003


• Veronica Yvette Bennett, aka Ronnie Spector, lead singer of The Ronettes, 1943


• James Arthur Griffin, musician and songwriter, guitarist for Bread, August 10, 1943 – January 11, 2005


• Ian Scott Anderson, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and flautist, leader of Jethro Tull, 1947


• Patti Austin, R&B and jazz singer, 1948


• Rosanna Lauren Arquette, actress, film director, and film producer, granddaughter of Cliff Arquette,, 1959


• Claudia Ann Christian, actress, writer, singer, musician, and director, known for her role as Commander Susan Ivanova on Babylon 5; played Janine Foster, mother of Peri Brown, in the Doctor Who audio drama The Reaping, 1965


• Salvatore Frank SAL Fasano, MLB catcher for the New York Yankees, 1971


• Devon Edwenna Aoki, model and actress, 1982

RIP:

• Johann Michael Haydn, composer, younger brother of Franz Joseph Haydn, Kapellmeister at Großwardein and, later, at Salzburg, holding the Salzburg position for forty-three years, during which time he wrote over 360 compositions for the church and much instrumental music; friend of Mozart, and teacher of Carl Maria von Weber, September 14, 1737 – August 10, 1806


• Otto Lilienthal, inventor and a pioneer of human aviation, built the first controllable glider in 1891; helped to prove that heavier-than-air flight was practical without flapping wings, laying the groundwork for the Wright Brothers a few years later to build the first successful powered aircraft, May 23, 1848 – August 10, 1896


• Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley, physicist, whose main contribution to science, the justification of the concept of atomic number - he found a systematic relation between wavelength and atomic number, now called Moseley's Law - advanced chemistry, November 23, 1887-August 10, 1915


• Adam Politzer, M.D., physician and one of the pioneers and founders of otology, the study of normal and pathological anatomy and physiology of the ear, October 1, 1835 – August 10, 1920


• Robert Hutchings Goddard, professor and scientist, recognized as a pioneer of controlled, liquid-fueled rocketry; launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926; awarded 214 patents for his work, 83 during his lifetime; the Goddard Space Flight Center and Goddard Crater, on the Moon, are named in his honor, October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945


• Joseph Franklin Dimaria, aka Frank Demaree, MLB outfielder for 12 seasons, 1936 and 1937 NL All-Star, June 10, 1910 - August 10, 1958


• Pasqulino Antonio LENO LaBianca, grocery store owner, murdered by Charles Manson and his followers, August 6, 1925 - August 10, 1969


• Rosemary LaBianca, businesswoman, murdered by Charles Manson and his followers, December 15, 1930 - August 10, 1969


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


• Conlon Nancarrow, composer, remembered for the pieces he wrote for the player piano, October 27, 1912 - August 10, 1997


• Kristen Nygaard, mathematician, computer programming language pioneer, and politician, co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming language Simula with Ole-Johan Dahl; together, they developed SIMULA I and SIMULA 67, the first object-oriented programming languages, introducing the concepts upon which all later OOP languages are built, August 27, 1926 - August 10, 2002