Today CLXXIV - RIP Cory Lidle

Birthdays:

• Simon Sechter, music theorist, teacher, organist, conductor, and composer, wrote masses and oratorios, and almost 5000 fugues, October 11, 1788. - September 10, 1867


• Henry John Heinz, businessman; in 1869, he founded Heinz Noble & Company with a friend, L. C. Noble, and began marketing horseradish; in 1876, he founded another company, F & J Heinz, with his brother and a cousin - one of the company's first products was tomato ketchup; in 1888, he bought out his partners, and reorganized the company as the H J Heinz Company, October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919


• Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius, chemist, shared the 1931 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Carl Bosch, October 11, 1884 – March 30, 1949


• Anna ELEANOR Roosevelt, political and human rights activist, who chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and niece of Theodore Roosevelt, October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962


• François Mauriac, author, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature, October 11, 1885 – September 1, 1970


• Jakov Gotovac, composer and conductor of classical music, October 11, 1895 – October 16, 1982


• Edwin Hawley EDDIE Dyer, MLB left-handed pitcher, manager, and farm system official for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1922 to 1944 and 1946 to 1950, October 11, 1899 – April 20, 1964


• Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz, aka Jerome Robbins, choreographer, awarded 5 Tony Awards, 2 Academy Awards, a Kennedy Center Honour, the National Medal of the Arts, the French Legion of Honor, three Honorary Doctorates, and an Honorary Membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998


• Arthur ART Blakey, jazz drummer and bandleader, one of the inventors of the modern, bebop style of drumming; over more than 30 years his band the Jazz Messengers included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz, October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990


• Jean Vander Pyl, voice actress, best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone from The Flintstones, also provided the voice for Pebbles Flintstone, as well as Rosie the Robot Maid from The Jetsons, October 11, 1919 – April 11, 1999


• Elmore John Leonard, Jr., novelist and screenwriter, 1925


• Dorothy Marie Marsh, aka Dottie West, country music singer, one of country music's most popular female vocalists for more than three decades, October 11, 1932 – September 4, 1991


• Billy Higgins, jazz drummer, who played mainly free jazz and hard bop; beginning in 1958, he played on Ornette Coleman's first records, then freelanced extensively with hard bop and other post-bop players, October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001


• Lester Bowie, jazz trumpet player and composer, cofounder of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, October 11, 1941 – November 8, 1999


• Michael Gary Joseph MIKE Fiore, former MLB first baseman, 1944


• Daryl Franklin Hohl, aka Daryl Hall, musician, 1946


• Gary Mallaber, musician, drum, percussion, and keyboard player for The Steve Miller Band, 1946


• Dawn French, comedian and actress, one half of the comic duo French & Saunders, 1957


• Curt Ford, former MLB outfielder, who played from 1985 to 1990, 1960


• Nicola Bryant, actress known for her role as Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown on Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986, first with Peter Davison, and then with Colin Baker as the Doctor, 1962


• Joan Cusack, actress and comedian, 1962


• Jane [Krajkowski] Krakowski, actress, 1968


• Claudia Lee Black, actress, known for her portrayal of Aeryn Sun on Farscape, 1972


• Dmitri Dell Young, MLB switch-hitting designated hitter, left fielder, and first baseman; was an All-Star in 2003; was released by the Detroit Tigers on Sept 6, 2006, 1973


• Emily Erin Deschanel, actress, 1976


• Ty Allen Wigginton, MLB third baseman for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 1977


• Michelle Christine Trachtenberg, television and film actress, portrayed Dawn Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1985


• Michelle Sung Wie, professional golfer, 1989

RIP:

• Guillaume Amontons, scientific instrument inventor and physicist, August 31, 1663 - October 11, 1705


• Meriwether Lewis, explorer, soldier, and public administrator, best known as part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809


• James Prescott Joule, FRS, physicist, who studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work, leading to the theory of conservation of energy, and the development of the first law of thermodynamics; the SI unit of work, the joule, is named after him; he discovered the relationship between the flow of current through a resistance and the heat dissipated, now called Joule's law, December 24, 1818 – October 11, 1889


• Anton Bruckner, organist and composer, whose mature music was written at the end of the Romantic era, famous for his [nine] symphonies, masses, and motets, September 4, 1824 – October 11, 1896


• Vito Volterra, mathematician and physicist, best known for his contributions to mathematical biology, May 3, 1860 - October 11, 1940


• Leonard CHICO [originally Chicko] Marx, one of the Marx Brothers, whose manager he became after their mother, Minnie, died; a talented pianist, he led a big band in the 1930's and 1940's - Mel Tormé began his professional career singing with the Chico Marx Orchestra, March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961


• Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau, poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, and filmmaker, July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963


• Édith Piaf, singer and actress, December 19, 1915 – October 11, 1963


• Dorothea Lange, documentary photographer, May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965


• MacKinlay Kantor, novelist and screenwriter, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his novel Andersonville, February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977


• Bonita Granville, film actress and television producer, February 2, 1923 – October 11, 1988


• John Elroy Sanford, aka Redd Foxx, comedian best known for his starring role on Sanford and Son, December 9, 1922 - October 11, 1991


• Jess Thomas< lyric and Wagnerian tenor, August 4, 1927 - October 11, 1993


• Lars Valerian Ahlfors, mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and for his text on complex analysis, April 18, 1907 – October 11, 1996


• Cory Fulton Lidle, MLB right-handed pitcher, last played for the New York Yankees, killed in a plane crash, March 22, 1972 – October 11, 2006