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Birthdays:

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician, mechanician, physicist, and philosopher, co-editor with Diderot of the Encyclopédie, the original French encyclopedia; D'Alembert's method for the wave equation is named after him, November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783


• Carlo Antonio Campioni, aka Carlo Antonio Campione, aka Charles Antoine Campion, composer, and collector of early music, November 16, 1720 – April 12, 1788


• Rodolphe Kreutzer, violinist, teacher, composer, and conductor; Beethoven dedicated his Violin Sonata No. 9, the Kreutzer, to him; his compositions include nineteen violin concertos and around forty operas, November 16, 1766 - January 6, 1831


• William Christopher [W. C.] Handy, blues composer and musician; while he was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took the blues from an obscure regional music style to one of the dominant forces in American music; he wrote St. Louis Blues, among other works, November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958


• George Simon Kaufman, playwright, director, producer, humorist, and drama critic, November 16, 1889 - June 2, 1961


• Paul Hindemith, composer, violist, teacher, theorist, and conductor, November 16, 1895 – December 28, 1963


• Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, opera singer, who became a singer at the Metropolitan Opera in 1923, November 16, 1896 - July 15, 1960


• Albert Edwin EDDIE Condon, jazz banjoist, guitarist, piano player, singer, and bandleader, a leading figure in the Chicago school of early jazz, November 16, 1905 – August 4, 1973


• Oliver BURGESS Meredith, actor, best known as trainer Mickey in the Rocky films and as The Penguin in the television series Batman; appeared in four different starring roles in the TV series The Twilight Zone: in Time Enough at Last, he played a henpecked bank teller who only wants to be left alone with his books - when he takes a lunch break to read in the bank vault, he is saved from a nuclear war that destroys the world, only to lose his ability to read when his eyeglasses are broken; in Mr. Dingle, the Strong, he played the subject of a space alien's experiment on human nature; in Printer's Devil, he portrayed the Devil, while in The Obsolete Man, he portrayed a deeply religious man, sentenced to death in a future, dystopic totalitarian society, November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997


• Charles Dawson DAWS Butler, voice actor, who created and played the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound, November 16, 1916 – May 18, 1988


• Gene Myron Amdahl, computer architect and hi-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later at his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation, he is known for formulating Amdahl's law, a fundamental theory of parallel computing, 1922


• José de Sousa Saramago, GCSE, writer, playwright, and journalist, awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1922


• William Martin CLU Gulager, television and film actor, noted for appearing in 1980's horror movies such as The Return of the Living Dead, The Hidden, and The Offspring; he played Billy the Kid on the 1960 series The Tall Men with Barry Sullivan as Pat Garrett, and played Emmett Ryker on The Virginian, along with over 60 other roles in movies and TV shows, 1928


• Hubert Sumlin, blues guitar player, known as a both a solo artist and the guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's backup band, 1931


• Garrett Mimms, aka Garnet Mimms, soul and rhythm and blues singer, 1933


• Michael Cimino, film director; his second film, The Deer Hunter, was a critical and commercial success, and won a number of Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture, 1939


• Mary Marg Helgenberger, film and TV actress, who won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress, for her role on China Beach, 1958


• Dwight Eugene DOC Gooden, former MLB pitcher, the 1984 NL Rookie of the Year, 1985 NL Cy Young Award winner, NL All-Star in 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1988, the NL Pitching Triple Crown winner in 1985, and winner of a Silver Slugger Award in 1992, 1964


• Lisa Michelle Boney, aka Lisa Bonet, actress, played Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show and on A Different World, 1967


• Martha Carradine, aka Martha Plimpton, former model, and actress, daughter of Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton, 1970


• Oksana Baiul, professional figure skater and Olympic gold medalist, 1977


• Maggie Ruth Gyllenhaal, actress, 1977


• Allison Louise Crowe, singer-songwriter and pianist, 1981


• Caitlin Tiffany Glass, voice actor, 1981

R.I.P.:

• Paolo Quagliati, composer of the early Baroque era, and a member of the Roman School of composers, a transitional figure between the late Renaissance style and the earliest Baroque, and was one of the first to write solo madrigals in Rome, c. 1555 – November 16, 1628


• Louis Riel, politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies, who led two resistance movements against the Canadian government, seeking to preserve Métis rights and culture as their homelands in the Northwest Territories came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence, October 22, 1844 – November 16, 1885


• Max Abraham, physicist, who studied under Max Planck, and worked as Planck's assistant for three years; he developed his theory of the electron in 1902, in which he hypothesized that the electron was a perfect sphere with a charge divided evenly around its surface, March 26, 1875 – November 16, 1922


• Robert Holbrook BOB Smith, medical doctor and surgeon, who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson in 1935, August 8, 1879 - November 16, 1950


• William CLARK Gable, film actor, the biggest box office star of the early sound film era; he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1934 for It Happened One Night, February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960


• William Franklin Beedle, Jr., aka William Holden, film actor, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1953 for Stalag 17, April 17, 1918 - November 16, 1981


• Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov, mathematician, who wrote about three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology; he became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1953, May 7, 1896 – November 16, 1982


• Victor VIC Dickenson, jazz trombonist, August 6, 1906 - November 16, 1984


• Siobhán Giollamhuire Nic Cionnaith, aka Siobhán McKenna, stage and screen actress, May 24, 1923 - November 16, 1986


• James Thomas JIM Brewer, MLB relief pitcher; following the advice of Warren Spahn, he developed a nasty screwball, and become one of the most successful relievers in the National League between the 1960's and 70's; he compiled a 69-65 record with 810 strikeouts and a 3.07 ERA in a 17-year career, November 17, 1937 – November 16, 1987


• Chester William Powers, Jr., aka Dino Valente, aka Jesse Oris Farrow, singer/songwriter; in the early 1960's, he wrote Get Together, later recorded by The Youngbloods, Jefferson Airplane, and many others; he was an original member of the Quicksilver Messenger Service, October 7, 1943 – November 16, 1994


• Daniel Nathans M.D., microbiologist, who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Werner Arber and Hamilton Smith, October 30, 1928 – November 16, 1999


• Thomas Lee TOMMY Flanagan, jazz pianist, remembered as an accompanist of bElla Fitzgerald/b, March 16, 1930 - November 16, 2001


• Professor Henry Taube, Ph.D , M.Sc , B.Sc , FRSC, chemist, awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes, also referred to as inner-sphere electron transfer, November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005


• Milton Friedman, economist, known for his work on macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history, statistics, and for his advocacy of laissez-faire capitalism, awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics, July 31, 1912 - November 16, 2006