Saturday, October 07, 2006

Today CLXX

Birthdays:

  • Felix August Bernhard Draeseke, composer of the "New German School," whose compositions included eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music, October 7, 1835 – February 26, 1913

  • Niels Henrik David Bohr, physicist who made fundamental contributions to the understanding of atomic structure and quantum mechanics, awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics, October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962

  • Dwain Esper, director and producer of exploitation films, October 7, 1892 — October 18, 1982

  • Del Lord, film director and actor, best known as a director of Three Stooges films, October 7, 1894 - March 23, 1970

  • Andrew Vabre ANDY Devine, character actor and comic cowboy sidekick, well-remembered for his role as Jingles, Guy Madison's sidekick on The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, October 7, 1905 - February 18, 1977

  • Vaughn Monroe, singer, trumpeter, and big band leader, October 7, 1911 - May 21, 1973

  • Shura Cherkassky, classical pianist, October 7, 1911 - December 27, 1995

  • Alfred Capurro, aka Alfred Drake, stage and television star, best known for his leading roles in the original Broadway productions of such musicals as Oklahoma! and Kiss Me, Kate, October 7, 1914 - July 25, 1992

  • Sarah Millicent Hermione Spencer Churchill, Baroness Audley, actress and dancer, the second daughter of Winston and Clementine Churchill, October 7, 1914 – September 24, 1982

  • Ella Geisman, aka June Allyson, actress, October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006

  • Grady Edgebert Hatton, former MLB player, coach, manager and executive, 1922

  • Dolores Loehr, aka Diana Lynn, actress and pianist, October 7, 1926 – December 18, 1971

  • Ronald David [R. D.] Laing, psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness, especially psychosis, October 7, 1927 – August 23, 1989

  • Alfred Cini, aka Al Martino, singer and actor, 1927

  • The Most Reverend Desmond Mpilo Tutu, cleric and activist, an opponent of apartheid, awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, 1931

  • Thomas Michael TOM Keneally, novelist, famous for his Schindler's Ark, which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film Schindler's List, 1935

  • Charles Édouard Dutoit, conductor; in 1977, he became the Artistic Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, a position that he held for 25 years, 1936

  • John E. Hopcroft Ph.D., theoretical computer scientist, 1939

  • Harold Krotoschiner, aka Sir Harold Walter Kroto KBE, FRS, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Richard Smalley and Robert Curl, 1939

  • Josephina Victoria Occhiuto, aka Joy Behar, comedienne and co-host of The View, 1943

  • Jose Rosario Domec Cardenal, former MLB outfielder, 1943

  • Kevin Michael Godley, British musician and music video director, writes, sings, and plays drums and percussion, one of the founders of 10cc, 1945

  • Dave Hope, musician, played bass for Kansas from 1973 until the band split in 1983, 1949

  • Mary Badham, actress, best known for her portrayal of Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch in 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird, 1952

  • Kenneth Atchley, composer and noise artist, a member of the San Francisco Bay Area electronic music community, 1954

  • Yo-Yo Ma, virtuoso cellist, 1955

  • Jayne Torvill, OBE, figure skater who, with her partner Christopher Dean, won a gold medal in ice dancing at the 1984 Winter Olympics, 1957

  • Toni Michelle Braxton R & B singer, winner of six Grammy Awards, 1968

  • Rachel McAdams, actress, 1976

  • Meighan Desmond, actress, played Discord on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Young Hercules, 1977

  • Aaron Ashmore, film and television actor, Jimmy Olsen on Smallville, 1979

  • Shawn Ashmore, film and television actor, Iceman in X-Men and its sequels, 1979


RIP:

  • Cristóbal de Morales, composer of the Renaissance, c.1500 – October 7, 1553

  • Edgar Allan Poe, poet, short story writer, editor, critic, and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement, best known for his tales of the macabre, January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., physician by profession, writer, and poet, August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894

  • Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz, mathematician and educator, student of Peter Gustav Dirichlet, and supervisor of the early work of Felix Klein; he worked in a various fields, including number theory, algebras with involution, mathematical analysis, differential geometry, and classical mechanics, May 14, 1832 – October 7, 1903

  • John Hughlings Jackson, FRS, neurologist, March 4, 1835 - October 7, 1911

  • Christopher CHRISTY Mathewson, MLB pitcher for 17 years, won more than 20 games for twelve straight years, including winning 30 or more games from 1903 to 1905; in 1908 he won 37 games; in 1936, became one of the first five players admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame, August 12, 1880 – October 7, 1925

  • Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist, often credited with being the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and psychiatric genetics, February 15, 1856 - October 7, 1926

  • Clarence Birdseye, fur trader and inventor, considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry, December 9, 1886 - October 7, 1956

  • Alfredo Arnold Cocozza, aka Mario Lanza, tenor and Hollywood movie star, January 31, 1921 – October 7, 1959

  • Sir Ralph Norman Angell Lane, lecturer, writer, and MP, knighted in 1931 and awarded the 1933 Nobel Peace Prize, December 26, 1872 – October 7, 1967

  • Leo Ernest "Leo the Lip" Durocher, MLB infielder and manager, with 2,008 career victories; inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994, July 27, 1905 — October 7, 1991

  • Niels Kaj Jerne FRS, immunologist, shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Georges J. F. Köhler and César Milstein, December 23, 1911 – October 7, 1994

  • Arnold Jacobs, musician, the principal tubist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1944 until his retirement in 1988, June 11, 1915 - October 7, 1998

  • Herbert Lawrence Block, aka Herblock, editorial cartoonist, October 13, 1909 – October 7, 2001

  • 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

  • Kenneth John Bigley, civil engineer, kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq on September 16, 2004, while working for Gulf Supplies and Commercial Services, a company working on reconstruction projects in Iraq; he was beheaded, not fucking acceptable!, 1942 – October 7, 2004

  • Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya, journalist, well known for her opposition to the Putin administration; she was found shot dead in the elevator of her apartment block, 1958 - October 7, 2006

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