Today CXIII - RIP Mike Douglas

Birthdays:

• Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins; shared the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frederick Hopkins, August 11, 1858 – November 5, 1930


• Enid Mary Blyton, children's author, whose most widely known character is Noddy, August 11, 1897 – November 28, 1968


• Lloyd Nolan, film and television actor, August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985


• Erwin Chargaff, biochemist and educator, discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA, August 11, 1905 – June 20, 2002


• Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, astronomer, made important observations of variable stars, August 11, 1912 – March 9, 1954


• Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, novelist and short story writer, August 11, 1913 - 1991


• Ginette Neveu, violinist, August 11, 1919 – October 27, 1949


• Alexander Palmer Haley, writer, ghostwrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and wrote Roots: The Saga of an American Family, August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992


• Arlene Dahl, actress, 1923


• Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr., aka Mike Douglas, singer, entertainer, and TV host, vocalist in the Kay Kyser Big Band after WWII, long-time host of The Mike Douglas Show, which received the first Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Daytime Television in 1967, August 11, 1925 – August 11, 2006


• Sir Aaron Klug, OM, FRS, physicist and chemist, awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy, 1926


• Israel Harold IZZY Asper, OC , OM , QC , LL.M , Ph.D., lawyer, politican, and media magnate, founder of CanWest Global Communications, August 11, 1932 - October 7, 2003


• Eric Howard Carmen, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist, 1949


• Stephen Wozniak, computer engineer, game designer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in 1976, and created the Apple I and Apple II computers, 1950


• David Ian Jackson, aka Joe Jackson, pianist, singer, and songwriter, received a Grammy award in 1999 for his Symphony No. 1, 1954


• Richard Reinhardt, aka Richie Ramone, drummer, played with The Ramones, 1957


• Juan María Solare, composer and pianist, 1966


• Jim Lee, comic book artist, writer, creator, and publisher, has worked for Marvel and DC; one of the founders of Image Comics; published Alan Moore's America's Best Comics; in 1990, received the Harvey Special Award for New Talent, 1964


• Charles Wayne CHARLIE Sexton, guitarist, singer and songwriter, 1968


• Richard Stephen BUBBA Crosby, former outfielder for the New York Yankees, currently playing for their AAA team, 1976


• Melky Cabrera, MLB outfielder for the New York Yankees, 1984

RIP:

• Bartolomé de Escobedo, composer, c. 1500 – August 11, 1563


• Pedro Nunes, mathematician, known for his contributions in the technical field of navigation, inventor of several measuring devices, 1502 – August 11, 1578


• Macedonio Melloni, physicist, demonstrated that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light, April 11, 1798 – August 11, 1854


• Enrico Betti, mathematician, remembered for his 1871 paper on topology, October 21, 1823 - August 11, 1892


• Andrew Carnegie, businessman and philanthropist, November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919


• Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, novelist, short story writer, and designer, whose 1920 novel, The Age of Innocence, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937


• Gianoberto Maria Carlo JEAN Bugatti, automotive designer and test engineer, January 15, 1909 – August 11, 1939


• Paul Jackson Pollock, painter, January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956


• Max Theiler, virologist, received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing a vaccine for yellow fever, January 30, 1899 – August 11, 1972


• Alfred A. Knopf, publisher, September 12, 1892 – August 11, 1984


• Peter Cushing, OBE, actor, known for roles such as Winston Smith in BBC's 1984, Doctor Who, Frankenstein and Van Helsing in Hammer Films, and Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars, among many, many others, May 26, 1913 – August 11, 1994


• Phil Harris, singer, songwriter, jazz musician, bandleader, and comedian, June 24, 1904 - August 11, 1995


• Rafael Jeroným Kubelík, conductor and composer, the son of violinist Jan Kubelík, Principal Conductor, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, from 1942 to 1948, Musical Director, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, from 1950 to 1953, Principal Conductor, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, from 1961 to 1979, Musical Director, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1955 to 1958, Principal Conductor, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, from 1961 to 1979, June 29, 1914 – August 11, 1996


• Jean Papineau-Couture, composer and academic, Companion of the Order of Canada and Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, November 12, 1916 – August 11, 2000


• Armand Borel, mathematician, professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, worked in algebraic topology and in the theory of Lie groups, and was one of the creators of the theory of linear algebraic groups, 21 May 1923 - 11 August 2003