Monday, October 09, 2006

Today CLXXII

Birthdays:

  • Robert de Sorbon, theologian and founder of the Sorbonne college, October 9, 1201 – August 15, 1274

  • Charles CAMILLE Saint-Saëns, composer pianist, and organist, October 9, 1835 – December 16, 1921

  • Hermann Emil Fischer, chemist, noted for his work on sugars, awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, October 9, 1852 - July 15, 1919

  • Alfred Dreyfus, military officer, falsely arrested for treason on October 15, 1894, stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island in 1895, exonerated in July, 1906, , October 9, 1859 – July 12, 1935

  • Karl Schwarzschild physicist and astronomer, October 9, 1873 - May 11, 1916

  • Carl Flesch, violinist and teacher, October 9, 1873 - November 14, 1944

  • Max von Laue, physicist, studied under Max Planck, awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics, October 9, 1879 - April 24, 1960

  • Richard William RUBE Marquard, MLB left-handed pitcher in the 1910's and early 1920's, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971, October 9, 1886 - June 1, 1980

  • Ivo Andric, novelist and short story writer, awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature, October 9, 1892 – March 13, 1975

  • Alastair Sim CBE, character actor, appeared in many British films; portrayed Captain Hook in six different productions of Peter Pan between 1941 and 1968; best remembered as the title character in Scrooge, the 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol; voiced the Scrooge role in an Academy Award-winning animated version, October 9, 1900 – August 19, 1976

  • Walter Francis O'Malley, sports executive, owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1950 to 1979, October 9, 1903 - August 9, 1979

  • Jacques Tatischeff, aka Jacques Tati, fimmaker, October 9, 1908 – November 5, 1982

  • Lila Kedrova, actress, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1964 for her role as Mme Hortense in Zorba the Greek; won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical when she reprised the role in the Broadway musical version of Zorba the Greek, October 9, 1918 - February 16, 2000

  • Fyvush Finkel, actor, famous for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on Picket Fences, for which he won an Emmy Award in 1994, 1923

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara, composer of modern classical music, 1928

  • Prof Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS, physicist, shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Lauterbur for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], 1933

  • Brian Blessed, actor, played King Yrcanos in the Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp, 1937

  • John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE, Beatle!, October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980

  • Jesús Dionisio CHUCHO Valdés, pianist and arranger, winner of three Grammy awards, 1941

  • John Alec Entwistle, aka "The Ox", multi-instrumental musician, songwriter, and artist, bass guitar player for The Who, October 9, 1944 – June 27, 2002

  • Nona Hendryx, vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, author, and actress, known for her work as a solo artist and as one-third of Labelle; her music has ranged from soul, funk, dance, and rhythm and blues to hard rock, art rock, and new age, 1944

  • Winston Hubert McIntosh, aka Peter Tosh, pioneer reggae musician, and a trailblazer for the Rastafarian movement, a founding member of The Wailers, murdered at his home, October 9, 1944 – September 11, 1987

  • Jody Williams, teacher and aid worker who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the campaign she led, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), 1950

  • Anthony Marcus TONY Shalhoub, three-time Emmy Award-winning TV and film actor, currently the star and executive producer of the TV series Monk, 1953

  • Scott Stewart Bakula, actor, famous for leading roles in Quantum Leap and Star Trek: Enterprise, 1954

  • Michael Paré, actor, 1959

  • Kenny Garrett, jazz saxophonist, 1960

  • Shannon Michelle Wilsey Longoria, aka Savannah, actress, October 9, 1970 – July 11, 1994

  • Steve Burns, actor, singer, and guitarist, the host of Blue's Clues, from 1996 through 2002, 1973

  • Sean Taro Ono Lennon, musician, the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, born on his father's 35th birthday, 1975

  • Brandon James Routh, actor and former model; in 2004, he was cast in the lead role in Superman Returns, 1979


RIP:

  • Pieter Zeeman, physicist, shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz, May 25, 1865 – October 9, 1943

  • Milan Vidmar, electrical engineer, chess player and theorist, philosopher, and writer, a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current, June 22, 1885 – October 9, 1962

  • Ernesto CHE Guevara de la Serna, physician, Marxist revolutionary, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas, June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967

  • Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood OM FRS, physical chemist, shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, June 19, 1897 – October 9, 1967

  • Miriam Hopkins, actress, October 18, 1902 – October 9, 1972

  • Oskar Schindler, humanitarian, April 28, 1908 – October 9, 1974

  • Jacques Brel, singer, author-composer, actor, and director, April 8, 1929 – October 9, 1978

  • Clare Boothe Luce, editor, playwright, social activist, politician, journalist, and diplomat, April 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987

  • William Parry Murphy, physician, shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anaemia, February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987

  • Walter Francis Kerr, writer, Broadway theatre critic, and writer, lyricist, and director of several Broadway musicals, July 8, 1913 – October 9, 1996

  • Milton MILT "Bags" Jackson, jazz vibraphonist, an important figure in the hard bop style, member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999

  • Virginia Ruth Egnor, aka Dagmar, television personality, November 29, 1921 – October 9, 2001

  • Herbert David HERB Ross, film director, producer, choreographer, and actor, May 13, 1927 - October 9, 2001

  • Louis Neistat, aka Louis Nye, comedian, May 1, 1913 – October 9, 2005

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