"The scenes that he helped bring to life in Clint Eastwood’s 1975 film 'The Eiger Sanction' are regarded as some of the most difficult stunts ever filmed." #HamishMacInnes 1930-2020 Born on this day www.thetimes.com/uk/article/h...

“'It was so obviously wrong. When you see babies machine-gunned, you must intervene.'” #LawrenceColburn 1949-2016 Born on this day wapo.st/4b9FnvE

"After his discharge, he moved to Los Angeles, worked at an aircraft parts factory, bought a guitar at a pawn shop and recorded demos of his tunes in hope of landing a recording contract." #BillWithers 1938-2020 Born on this day www.inquirer.com/obituaries/b...

"When the Japanese invaded in 1942, Tomás and his brother, Petr, and mother were placed on one of the last boats bound for Australia..." #TomStoppard 1937-2025 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

"... Jamal disdained the term jazz, preferring American classical music as a descriptor for his work..." #AhmadJamal 1930-2023 Born on this day www.npr.org/2023/04/16/8...

"... despite being self-proclaimed as 'the most sampled artist ever' - [Johnson] rarely saw royalties from his song being sampled..." #SylJohnson 1936-2022 Born on this day www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

"... Dr. Berg often received letters from the parents of children with cancer, and despite a crowded schedule, he would respond with personal replies of encouragement." #PaulBerg 1926-2023 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/s...

"As she talked to Werner von Braun, a former Nazi who was then directing America's space programme, she realised that his sweet-sour smell was the same lemon disinfectant soap used by the Nazis in Florence." #OrianaFallaci 1929-2006 Born on this day www.economist.com/obituary/200...

"'I spent 40 years denying it was about my life.'" #BetteGreene 1934-2020 Born on this day wapo.st/3SygfbE

"Mr. Braithwaite was a World War II veteran and trained as a physicist at the University of Cambridge." #ERBraithwaite 1912-2016 Born on this day www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

"Not to be thwarted, she smuggled her 5-year-old son Evan past guards and set him on a lab bench while she set up the experiment." #CandacePert 1946-2013 Born on this day www.latimes.com/local/obitua...

"That meant managing men, something few women did at the time." #MyraJancoDaniels 1925-2022 Born on this day www.wsj.com/business/med...

"Carolyn Shoemaker was a housewife with no science degree when, aged 51, she started searching for comets and asteroids..." #CarolynShoemaker 1929-2021 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/science/2021...

"... he received glowing endorsements from celebrities like Anne Bancroft, Larry David and Howard Stern, who dedicated his autobiography to the doctor." #JohnSarno 1923-2017 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/s...

"... her background equipped her spectacularly well to portray life in hostile dystopias..." #OctaviaButler 1947-2006 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/b...

"'Think about it. Whisky, Ferraris and gambling; aren't they rather more amusing than knitting, housekeeping and one's savings.'" #FrancoiseSagan 1935-2004 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/news/2004/se...

"Offering titles like 'Super Mario Bros,' it would sell more than 60 million units world-wide..." #MasayukiUemura 1943-2021 Born on this day www.wsj.com/world/asia/n...

"... Colin Powell once said there were three things he particularly liked about Sweden: 'Abba, Volvo and Anna.'" #AnnaLindh 1957-2003 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/news/2003/se...

"... the only Holocaust survivor to receive the Medal of Honor..." #TimorRubin 1929-2015 Born on this day wapo.st/3SgQpZG

“'Whatever you are reading this on — if you are not reading it on paper — you are probably using Ethernet.'" #DavidBoggs 1930-2022 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/t...

"... revered as an architect of the American New Wave in the 1970s." #VilmosZsigmond 1930-2016 Born on this day www.bbc.com/news/enterta...

"While he didn't raise a fist, he did lend a hand." #PeterNorman 1942-2006 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/news/2006/oc...

"Posing as a drunken bum named Emil Flick, Mr. Salinger several times contrived to be thrown in jail so he could write about conditions for inmates..." #PierreSalinger 1925-2004 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/o...

"... Hack helped fight a successful battle to legalise abortion in Italy, unsuccessfully lobbied for the right to euthanasia and championed gay rights." #MargheritaHack 1922-2013 Born on this day www.independent.co.uk/news/obituar...

"... a trailblazing sporting pioneer in cricket in an era when women were still viewed by some as second-class citizens." #RachaelHeyhoeFlint 1939-2017 Born on this day www.scotsman.com/news/obituar...

"Parker’s work revolutionized human understanding of the sun..." #EugeneParker 1927-2022 Born on this day www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/w...

"... remembered almost exclusively for his orchestration of U.S. prosecution of the war in Vietnam, a failed effort..." #RobertMcNamara 1916-2009 Born on this day wapo.st/4eiBhCd

"At a time when it was rare for men and women of different religions to date, let alone marry, Stiller and Meara broke new comic ground with their routines..." #JerryStiller 1927-2020 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/a...

"Forced to lie in bed, he contemplated how he could support his family, and decided to turn to acting, where he noticed there were more auditions available." #LanceReddick 1962-2023 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

"At a friend’s birthday party, the quartet first sang together and were soon performing as the jazz vocal quartet the Four Aims, backing up such names as Count Basie and Della Reese." #LeviStubbs 1936-2018 Born on this day www.latimes.com/local/obitua...

"Botha’s passion for music, and hip-hop in particular, resulted in him deejaying at gigs..." #LeonBotha 1985-2011 Born on this day mg.co.za/article/2011...

"He simultaneously worked as a bookseller and screenwriter, co-writing the Oscar-winning script for the movie 'Brokeback Mountain.'” #LarryMcMurtry 1936-2021 Born on this day apnews.com/arts-and-ent...

"... the rock-steady heartbeat of the Rolling Stones, but what he always yearned to do was play jazz." #CharlieWatts 1942-2021 Born on this day www.irishtimes.com/life-and-sty...

"... he gave up American football, he said, when he realised its referees might not always be unbiased or accurate." #PowersBoothe 1948-1017 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/film/2017/ma...

"... the daughter of working-class parents and an unapologetic Chicana who transformed the political landscape of Los Angeles..." #GloriaMolina 1948-2023 Born on this day www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

"Internet wits discovered this story and began mocking Mom for writing an earnest review of a chain restaurant shunned by food snobs." #MarilynHagerty 1926-2025 Born on this day www.wsj.com/us-news/mari...

"A neighbour stopped him in the street to break the news that he had won..." #PeterHiggs 1929-2024 Born on this day www.bbc.com/news/science...

"... a noted activist for the rights of little people (the term she preferred). She also campaigned for Aids education and greater public awareness of the disease in 1984, when it was courageous to do so." #ZeldaRubinstein 1933-2012 Born on this day www.the-independent.com/news/obituar...

"She worked out of a basement because others in the building did not want children with visible problems coming through the lobby." #MargaretGiannini 1921-2021 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/h...

"Her first flight on board the space shuttle Challenger in June 1983 came 20 years to the month after the Soviet Union had launched the first woman in space..." #SallyRide 1951-2012 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/science/2012...

"The multifariousness of his career defies definition..." #JohnTrain 1928-2022 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/b...

"... garnered praise for his radio-friendly, playful flows and was embraced as an unlikely sex symbol by female fans who called him a 'big teddy bear.'" #HeavyD 1967-2011 Born on this day www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

"... in response to the earthquake in Armenia, he formed his own charity to help the victims, including composing a song that featured a string of top French performers and topped the charts for more than four months." #CharlesAznavour 1924-2018 Born on this day www.bbc.com/news/enterta...

"...she grew up selling water at train stations before rising to stardom..." #NoraAunor 1953-2025 Born on this day www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

"She was cold and hungry when she took those risks and was interrogated nine times by the Gestapo." #TinaStrobos 1920-2012 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/n...

"'I never heard anything negative about him, ever. And he was on a team that with the Orioles had a number of African-American players... They all loved him. That’s saying a lot. Especially back in that day.'" #BrooksRobinson 1937-2023 Born on this day apnews.com/article/broo...

"... Liberace could pick out entire melodies on the piano by the time he was 4 and was recommended for a scholarship to the Wisconsin College of Music at 7." #Liberace 1919-1987 Born on this day www.orlandosentinel.com/1987/02/05/t...

"... introduced a new kind of film-making with his unusual camera movement, non-linear narrative, discontinuities and freeze frames — something that Indian cinema had never witnessed before him." #MrinalSen 1923-2018 Born on this day www.thehindu.com/entertainmen...

"In 1983, now the single mother of three teenage girls, she published the first of the Sweet Valley High books." #FrancinePascal 1932-2024 Born on this day www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2...

"... he stood apart. Fellow songwriter Sammy Cahn liked to joke that the smiling, wavy-haired Bacharach was the first composer he ever knew who didn't look like a dentist." #BurtBacharach 1928-2023 Born on this day www.pbs.org/newshour/art...