Saturday, September 23, 2006

Today CLVI - Shona Tova, Happy New Year

Birthdays:

  • Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, aka Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor, September 23, 63 BC – August 19, 14 AD

  • Kublai Khan, military leader, the founder and the first Emperor of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty, September 23, 1215 - February 18, 1294

  • Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, physicist, whose earliest work was concerned with improvements in photographic processes; in association with J. B. L. Foucault, he engaged in investigations on the interference of light and heat; in 1848, he discovered the Doppler effect for electromagnetic waves; in 1849, he published the first results obtained by his method for determining the speed of light; in 1850, with E. Gounelle, he measured the speed of electricity; in 1853, he described the use of the capacitor in increasing the efficiency of the induction coil, September 23, 1819 - 1896

  • Mary Church Terrell, writer and civil rights activist, who majored in classics at Oberlin College, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1884, one of the first black women awarded a college degree; she was president of the National Association of Colored Women; in 1908, she became a founder of the NAACP's Executive Committee, member of a committee investigating alleged police mistreatment of black Americans, and the first black woman in the United States to earn an appointment to a school board, September 23, 1863 - July 24, 1954

  • Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy, Baroness Orczy, novelist, playwright, and artist, known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel; some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947)

  • Sir John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, doctor, biologist, and politician, received the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition, September 23, 1880 – June 25, 1971

  • Walter Lippmann, writer, journalist, and political commentator, September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974

  • John Leo JOHNNY Mokan, MLB outfielder, who spent seven seasons in the National League, from 1921 to 1927; he was a .291 career hitter with 32 home runs and 273 RBI in 582 games, September 23, 1895 - February 10, 1985

  • Walter Davis Pidgeon, actor, a classicaly trained baritone, studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston; he made his Broadway debut in 1925, and made several silent movies in the 1920's; remembered for How Green Was My Valley, Mrs. Miniver, Madame Curie, Forbidden Planet, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Advise and Consent, September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984

  • Jaroslav Seifert, writer, poet, and journalist, won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature, September 23, 1901 – January 10, 1986

  • Clifford Glenwood Shull, physicist, shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for developing neutron scattering techniques for studying condensed matter, September 23, 1915 – March 31, 2001

  • Joseph Yule, Jr., aka Mickey Rooney, actor, 1920

  • John William Coltrane, jazz saxophonist and composer, his accomplishments are too numerous and his legacy too large to record here, listen to his music!, September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967

  • Ray Charles Robinson, aka Ray Charles, pianist and soul musician who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues, and brought a soulful sound to everything from country music to pop standards, listen to his music!, September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004

  • Rosemarie Magdalena Albach-Retty, aka Romy Schneider-Albach, aka Romy Schneider, actress, September 23, 1938 - May 29, 1982

  • Roy Buchanan, blues musician and guitar player, who made his recording debut in 1957, playing the solo on Dale Hawkins' My Babe for Chess Records; after, moving to Canada, he played guitar in Ronnie Hawkins' band, whose bass player, Robbie Robertson, studied guitar with him, and took over the lead guitar spot when Buchanan left the group; in the early 60's, he worked as a sideman with rock bands, and as a session guitarist with musicians such as Freddy Cannon; he spent many years playing dance halls and bars, and played Carnegie Hall several times; his career took him from underground club gigs in the sixties and seventies to national television, gold record sales, and worldwide tours in the eighties, September 23, 1939 - August 14, 1988

  • William PAUL Petersen, movie actor, singer, novelist, and activist for child stars, 1945

  • Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen, singer, songwriter, and guitarist, 1949

  • Chao Jyalin, aka Rosalind Chao, actress, played Keiko O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; she appeared in TV series M*A*S*H and AfterMASH; she played one of the main characters in The Joy Luck Club, and Lalu in A Thousand Pieces of Gold, 1957

  • Emilio Antonio TONY Fossas Morejon, former MLB setup pitcher from 1988 to 1997, had only one at-bat in his career, 1957

  • Jason Scott Greenspan, aka Jason Alexander, television, cinema, and musical theatre actor, 1959

  • Elizabeth Peña, actress, 1959

  • Jason Brian Carter, actor, known for his role as Marcus Cole on Babylon 5, 1960

  • William Cameron WILLIE McCool, Navy Commander and astronaut, the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107, killed when the craft disintegrated after re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003

  • Michelle Thomas, actress, known for her role as Myra Monkhouse on Family Matters, September 23, 1969 – December 23, 1998

  • Angela Marie ANI DiFranco, singer, guitarist, and songwriter, 1970

  • Harumi Inoue, actress and model, 1974

  • Jaime Bergman, model and actress, wife of David Boreanaz, 1975


RIP:

  • Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini, composer of Bel canto opera, November 3, 1801 – September 23, 1835

  • Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, mathematician, specializing in celestial mechanics, March 11, 1811 – September 23, 1877

  • Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, chemist, who studied colloids; awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; the Zsigmondy crater on the moon is named after him , April 1, 1865 - September 23, 1929

  • Sigmund Freud, neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939

  • James Waddell [J. W.] Alexander II, topologist, a pioneer in algebraic topology, September 19, 1888 – September 23, 1971

  • Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, aka Pablo Neruda, poet and writer, received the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973

  • Clifford Arquette, actor and comedian, famous for his role as Charley Weaver, December 28, 1905 – September 23, 1974

  • Lyman Wesley Bostock, Jr., MLB outfielder, played for four seasons, and was murdered, November 22, 1950 - September 23, 1978

  • Geswanouth Slahoot aka Dan Slaholt aka Chief Dan George, chief of the Tsleil-Waututh, a Salish First Nations people, and actor; at age 71, won several awards for his role in Little Big Man, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, continued to act in movies, television, and stage, July 24, 1899 – September 23, 1981

  • Robert Louis BOB Fosse, musical theater dancer, choreographer, and director, winner of the 1972 Academy Award for Best Director for Cabaret, June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987

  • Mary Frances Luecke, aka Mary Frann, actress, best remembered for her role as Joanna Loudon on Newhart, February 27, 1943 – September 23, 1998

  • Aurelio Rodríguez Ituarte, Jr., MLB third baseman, December 28, 1947 – September 23, 2000

  • Roger Brierley, actor, appeared in many television productions over a forty year period; he appeared twice in Doctor Who, as Trevor in The Daleks' Master Plan and as the voice of Drathro in The Mysterious Planet, June 2, 1935 - September 23, 2005

  • Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, KBE, musician and composer, began his career as a professional trumpeter, but was composing full-time by the time he was thirty; he was a composer of light music in works such as his sets of Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish, and Cornish Dances, and the scores to the St Trinian's films, and Hobson's Choice, October 21, 1921 - September 23, 2006

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