Today CLXXXII

Birthdays:

• Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas Lumière, one of the earliest filmmakers; on December 28, 1895, he and his brother held their first public screening of movies at which admission was charged, 19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954, Lyon


• Mordecai Peter Centennial "Three Finger" Brown, MLB pitcher, from 1903 to 1916, October 19, 1876 - February 14, 1948


• Charles Edward Merrill, philanthropist, stockbroker, and one of the founders of Merrill Lynch & Company, October 19, 1885 – October 6, 1956


• Robert Arthur BOB O'Farrell, MLB catcher, who played for 21 seasons; he was the NL Most Valuable Player 1926; that year, he led the St. Louis Cardinals to their first World Series championship, defeating the New York Yankees in seven games, throwing out Babe Ruth trying to steal second base for the last out; he managed the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds, October 19, 1896 – February 20, 1988


• Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature, October 19, 1899 – June 9, 1974


• Roger Wolfe Kahn, jazz and popular musician, composer, and bandleader, October 19, 1907 – July 12, 1962


• Geirr Tveitt, composer and pianist, October 19, 1908 – February 1, 1981


• Cozy Cole, jazz drummer, October 19, 1909 – January 31, 1981


• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, aka Chandra, physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician, shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics with William Alfred Fowler for his studies on the physical processes important to the structure and evolution of stars, October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995


• Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset, immunologist, shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell, 1916


• Emil Grigoryevich Gilels, classical pianist, October 19, 1916 – October 14, 1985


• Arne Joachim Bendiksen, singer, composer, and producer, 1926


• David John Moore Cornwell, aka John le Carré, writer of espionage novels, 1931


• John Robert Rietz, Jr, aka Robert Reed, actor, October 19, 1932 – May 12, 1992


• Peter Finkelstein, aka Peter Max, pop artist; his art work, which he called up art, was a part of the psychedelic movement in graphic design, 1937


• Marilyn Bell, long distance swimmer, the first person to swim across Lake Ontario, 1937


• Simon Ward, actor, played the title role in the movie Yong Winston, 1941


• 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


• George McCrae, soul singer, 1944


• Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine, actor, October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988


• John Arthur Lithgow, actor, best-known for his role as Dick Solomon on 3rd Rock from the Sun, 1945


• Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson, aka Jeannie C. Riley, country and gospel music singer, 1945


• Patrick Simmons, musician, singer, guitarist, songwriter, and co-founder of the Doobie Brothers, 1948


• Patricia Ireland, administrator and feminist, who served as president of the National Organization for Women, from 1991 to 2001, 1945


• Carlo Urbani, physician, the first person to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as a new disease, October 19, 1956 – March 29, 2003


• Jonathan FeBland, composer, 1960


• Randolph Severn TREY Parker III, animator, screenwriter, film director, voice actor, actor, and musician, one of the creators of South Park, 1969


• Christopher Lee CHRIS Kattan, comedian and actor, 1970


• Keith Charles Foulke, MLB right-handed relief pitcher, who currently plays for the Boston Red Sox, 1972


• Michael Brian Young, MLB shortstop, who currently plays for the Texas Rangers, 1976

RIP:

• Jonathan Swift, priest, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet, famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745


• George Mortimer Pullman, inventor and industrialist, who used his money and success to develop a comfortable railroad sleeping car - the Pullman sleeper, March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897


• Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, PC, FRS, nuclear physicist, known as the "father" of nuclear physics, pioneered the orbital theory of the atom; awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, August 30, 1871 – October 19, 1937


• Edna St. Vincent Millay, lyrical poet and playwright, the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950


• Isham Jones, bandleader, violinist, saxophonist and songwriter, January 31, 1894 – October 19, 1956


• Walter Crawford WALT Kelly, Jr., cartoonist, known for his comic strip Pogo, August 25, 1913 - October 18, 1973


• Jacqueline Mary du Pré OBE, cellist, January 26, 1945 – October 19, 1987


• Eddie James SON House, Jr., blues singer and guitarist, March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988


• Margaret Teresa Yvonne Reed, aka Martha Raye, film and television comic actress and singer, best known for the size of her mouth, which appeared enormous in proportion to the rest of her face, which relegated her motion picture work to largely supporting comic parts; had her own TV programme, The Martha Raye Show, from 1954 - 1956; because of her work with the USO during World War II and subsequent wars, she was buried with full military honors in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, August 27, 1916 – October 19, 1994


• Don Cherry, jazz trumpeter, known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995


• Glen Buxton, musician, guitarist and songwriter for Alice Cooper, November 10, 1947 – October 19, 1997


• Kenneth Eugene Iverson Ph.D., computer scientist, who developed the APL programming language in 1957; he received the Turing Award in 1979 for his contributions to mathematical notation and programming language theory, December 17, 1920 - October 19, 2004