2013 Event James Hansen, a top scientist and professor from NASA, retires in order to concentrate on global warming activism 2012 Event Physics professor Enzo Di Fabrizio, of Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy, successfully takes the first direct photograph of DNA 2011 Event A professor from New York University has an experimental life-blogging camera removed from his head after his immune system rejected the implant 2010 Event A professor searching into medical records of playwright Bertolt Brecht discovers he may have died after contracting undiagnosed rheumatic fever as a child 2007 Death Jean Balissat, composer, professor of composition and orchestration, University of Geneva, dies in Corcelles-le-Jorat, Switzerland 2003 Death Edward Teller, scientist/professor, The father of the H-bomb, dies at 95 2002 Death Jean Berger, composer, pianist, professor, studied at Heidelberg, Vienna universities, dies at 91 2001 Death Andre Prevost, composer, professor, Officer of the Order of Canada, dies 2000 Death John W. Tukey, professor/computer theorist, The Practice of Data Analysis, dies at 85 2000 Death Peter Levi, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood, dies 1996 Event "Nutty Professor," starring Eddie Murphy opens in theaters in the USA 1996 Death Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard professor and LSD guru, dues of cancer at 75 1996 Death Alan Ridout, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, dies at 61 1996 Death Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69 1996 Death Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine, dies at 92 1995 Death Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72 1995 Death Trevor Oswald Ling, religious Studies Professor, dies at 75 1994 Death Joan Dickson, cellist, professor at Royal College of Music in London, dies at 72 1994 Death Lionel Grigson, professor of Jazz, dies at 52 1994 Death Gundaris Pone, composer, professor, State University College at New Paltz, New York, dies of cancer in Kingston, New York, at age 61 1993 Death Professor Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80 1991 Death Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer and Professor (Swedish Academy), dies 1991 Event Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her 1987 Death Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74 1986 Event U.S. professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut 1982 Death Trent Lehman, actor (Butch-Nanny and the Professor), dies at 20 1981 Death Carleton Coon, anthropology professor (What in the World), dies at 76 1980 Death Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music, dies at 61 1978 Death Bergen Evans, English professor ($64,000 Question), dies at 73 1977 Death Mason Gross, professor (Think Fast, 2 for the Money), dies at 66 1974 Death Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny and Professor), dies at 47 1974 Death Richard Long, actor (Nanny and Professor), dies at 47 1973 Death Mary Kornman, actress (Desert Trail, Swing it Professor), dies at 57 1971 Birthday Jada Pinkett, actress, Set it Off, Nutty Professor, Menace II Society 1971 Event Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor 1970 Event U.S. LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail 1969 Death Lloyd Corrigan, actor, Professor McKillup in 'Hank', dies at 69 1964 Death Charles Hodge, New York Univeristy professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69 1964 Birthday Kim Richards, LI, New York, actress, Nanny and Professor, James at 15 1961 Death Johanna Westerdok, 1st Dutch woman professor (Utrecht, 1917 - 1952), dies at 78 1961 Death [Louise] Sophie M E de Vries, actress (English Professor), dies at 88 1961 Birthday David Leavitt, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writer, gay literature, professor at Princeton, author of, 'The Lost Language of Cranes', 'The Body of Jonah Boyd', 'The Indian Clerk' 1956 Birthday Anita Hill, professor of law, Clarence Thomas' nemesis 1956 Birthday Judith Butler, born in Cleveland, Ohio, philosopher, professor, U of C, Berkeley, specialty, post-structuralism, Ph. D. Yale University, areas of study include feminist theory, Jewish philosophy, ethics, sexuality, developed idea of sex and gender as social construction 1955 Death Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany 1955 Birthday Michael Pollan, born in Long Island, New York, professor of journalism, U of C, Berkeley, author, columnist, activist, wrote, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma', 'The Botany of Desire', 'In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto' 1954 Death Professor Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologist, dies at 69 1954 Birthday Judith Weir, born in Cambridge, England, composer, professor of music at Cardiff University, Artistic Director, Spitafields Festival, Composer in Association for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1953 Birthday Rod Morgenstein, born in New York, drummer, member of '80's heavy metal band Wing, Dixie Dregs, educator, served as professor of percussion, Berklee College of Music 1952 Birthday Orhan Pamuk, born in Istanbul, Turkey, novelist, professor in the Humanities, teaching comparative literature, writing, at Columbia University, received 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature 1952 Event Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC 1951 Event Professor Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris 1950 Birthday Stephen Chatman, born in Faribault, Minnesota, Canadian composer, received Fulbright grant for study at Hochschule fur Misik in Cologne, since 1976 has served as professor and Head of the Composition Division at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1948 Birthday Peter Ruzicka, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, professor, composer, conductor, composes stage, orchestral, chamber, piano, vocal music 1948 Birthday Nigel Osborne, born in Manchester, England, composer, studied with Egon Wellesz, Kenneth Leighton, music professor, University of Edinburgh 1948 Death Gerhard Anschutz, German professor, dies at 81 1947 Birthday Ann Beattie, born in Washington, D.C., short story writer, novelist, compared to John Updike, J.D Salinger, professor at Harvard, University of Virginia, Rea Award for the Short Story recipient 1947 Birthday Paul Patterson, born in Britain, composer, professor, Royal Academy of Music, composes for orchestra, ensemble, film, television, education 1947 Event Dmitri Shostakovich named professor at conservatory of Leningrad 1946 Birthday J R Baines, professor, Egyptologist 1946 Birthday Anne Boyd, born in Sydney, New South Wales, composer, professor of composition at the University of Sydney, recipient, Order of Australia, for contributions to music 1944 Birthday Paul Lansky, born in New York, composer, electronic music, computer music language pioneer, studied with George Perle and Milton Babbitt, professor of music at Princeton University 1944 Birthday John Lill, professor/pianist 1944 Birthday David Melville, professor and director, Middlesex Polytechnic 1944 Birthday Leif Segerstam, born in Vaasa, Finland, composer, chief conductor, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra 1995 - 2007, professor Sibelius Academy 1944 Birthday Neely Bruce, born in America, composer, conductor, pianist, scholar of American music, Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University, chorus director for Connecticut Opera 1942 Birthday Robert C. Solomon, born in Michigan, philosophy professor, studied Hegel, Nietzsche, Sartre, philosophy of emotions 1942 Birthday Lionel Grigson, professor of jazz 1941 Birthday Juliet Mills, born in London, England, actress, Nanny and the Professor, QB VII 1941 Birthday Laurence Henry Tribe, Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor 1941 Birthday June Clark, British Professor of Nursing, Middlesex U 1941 Birthday Kenneth Cooper, New York City, harpsichordist/professor, Barnard, Bkln 1941 Birthday Konrad Boehmer, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, writer, Marxist, Ph. D. University of Cologne, professor, Royal Conservatory of The Hague 1940 Birthday Lewis Spratlan, born in Miami, Florida, composer, contemporary classical music genre, Professor of Music Emeritus, Amherst College 1939 Birthday James McGee, pathologist/professor, Morbid Anatomy at Oxford 1939 Event Dmitri Shostakovich appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad 1939 Birthday Seamus Heaney, born in Ireland, poet, writer, poetry professor at the University of Oxford, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, wrote play The Cure at Troy, Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf: A New Translation 1939 Birthday Stuart Sutherland, Professor Emeritus, Sussex U 1938 Birthday Alvin Curran, born in Providence, Rhode Island, composer, professor at Mills College, co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva, using electronic and environmental found sounds 1938 Birthday Zygmunt Krauze, born in Poland, composer, pianist, contemporary classical music genre, professor, Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy 1938 Birthday Alan Smithers, British professor 1938 Birthday Ricardo Lagos, born in Santiago, Chile, politician, lawyer, Socialist Party, Party for Democracy, 33rd President of Chile, professor, Brown University 1937 Birthday Rob Houwer, Dutch director/producer/actor, OK, Professor Columbus 1937 Birthday Colin Berry, professor, morbid anatomist 1937 Death John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church, dies of pneumonia at age 55 1936 Birthday Hans Zender, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, composer, conductor, music professor, Conductor in Chief of the Chamber Orchestra of Radio Netherlands in Hilversum, Southwest German Radio guest conductor 1936 Event "Professor Quiz," 1st radio quiz show premieres 1936 Birthday Lars Gustafsson, born in Vasteras, Sweden, professor, University of Texas at Austin, author, wrote 'The Death of a Beekeeper' 1936 Birthday Jean Balissat, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, composer, professor of composition and orchestration, University of Geneva 1936 Birthday Manfred Schoof, born in Madgeburg, Germany, composer, founder, European free jazz, professor in Cologne, interpreter of works by Bernd Alouis Zimmermann 1936 Birthday John Albert, professor, Master of University College Oxford 1935 Birthday Gilbert Kalish, born in Brooklyn, New York, pianist/professor, SUNY Stony Brook 1935 Birthday Gillian Beer, professor/president, Clare Hall-Cambridge 1934 Birthday Alan Ridout, born in West Wickham, England, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, worked with Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra, prolific instrumental and choral music composer 1934 Event Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock," premieres in Zurich 1934 Birthday Carl Sagan, Brooklyn, astronomer/author/professor, Cosmos, Broca's Brain 1934 Birthday Struther Arnott, professor, St. Andrew University 1934 Birthday Andre Prevost, born in Canada, composer, professor, Officer of the Order of Canada 1934 Birthday Roger Reynolds, born in Detroit, Michigan, composer, professor, University of California at San Diego, founder, ONCE Group, won Pulitzer Prize 1989 1934 Birthday Adolf Muschg, born in Zollikon, canton of Zurich, writer, German language and literature professor, wrote provocative works, including If Auschwitz is in Switzerland 1933 Birthday Richard Rose, Professor of Public Policy, Strathclyde University 1933 Birthday Akira Miyoshi, born in Suginami, Tokyo, composer, influenced by Henri Dutilleux, professor, Toho Gakuen School of Music, Japan 1932 Birthday Gundaris Pone, born in Riga, Latvia, composer, professor, State University College at New Paltz, New York 1932 Birthday Janet Bately, Professor of English Language, King's College London 1932 Birthday Jerome Lowenthal, Philadelphia, pianist and professor, Jerusalem Academy of Music 1931 Birthday Monty Losowsky, professor of medicine, St. James University England 1931 Birthday Peter Levi, born in Ruislip, England, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood 1931 Birthday Martin Boykan, composer, professor, studied at Harvard, Yale, awarded Fulbright Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, studied with Edward Steuermann, Aaron Copeland 1930 Birthday Toma Prosev, born in Macedonia, composer, professor, studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and professor L.M. Skerjanc at Ljubljana Music Academy 1930 Birthday Igor Kipnis, Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor, Fairfield 1930 Birthday Larry Austin, born in Duncan, Oklahoma, composer, professor, University of California 1930 Birthday Ryohei Hirose, born in Hakodate, Japan, composer, professor, Kyoto University of Arts 1977 - 1996, composes music for shakuhachi, recorder, viola da gamba 1930 Birthday Stanley L Elkin, born in Brooklyn, New York, writer/professor, Living End 1929 Birthday George Steiner, professor, English 1928 Birthday Nancy Olson, born in Milwaukee, actress, Absent-Minded Professor, Pollyanna 1928 Birthday Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor, Juiliard 1927 Birthday Richard Long, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Nanny and the Professor 1927 Birthday John Downey, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, pianist, conductor, professor of composition and theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founder, director of the Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum 1927 Birthday Alan Betts, emeritus professor, Royal Veterinary College 1926 Birthday Brian Abel-Smith, professor of Social Adminstration 1926 Birthday Arthur Wills, born in England, composer, professor at Royal Academy of Music in London, Director of Music at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, composed music for the organ and secular music based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1926 Birthday Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature 1926 Birthday G M Hughes, professor/zoologist 1925 Birthday Henry Harris, British professor of medicine 1923 Birthday Robert Francis Vere Heuston, British professor of law 1923 Birthday John Hale, born in Ashford, Kent, linguist, historian, professor, editor, attended Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, served as a Fellow of the British Academy 1922 Birthday Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, professor of Cushtic Languages 1921 Birthday Joan Dickson, born in England, cellist, professor at Royal College of Music in London, studied with Enrico Mainardi in Paris, performed with Joyce Rathbone 1921 Birthday Roger Nixon, born in California, musician, composer, professor of music, composed for orchestra, band, choir, opera, Professor Emeritus of Music, San Francisco State University 1921 Birthday Patsy Garrett, Atlantic City, New Jersey, actress, Nanny and the Professor 1921 Birthday Margaret Gowing, professor, history, science 1920 Birthday Timothy Leary, Harvard professor 1920 Birthday Derry Jeffares, Honorary Professor of English Studies, Stirling U 1920 Birthday William Masselos, born in Niagara Falls, New York, pianist and professor, Juilliard 1976 1920 Birthday Amy Clampitt, born in New Providence, Iowa, poet, author, professor at Amherst College, College of William and Mary, Smith College, received Guggenheim, MacArthur Fellowship 1920 Birthday David Walker, Professor of Law, Glasgow University 1920 Birthday Trevor Oswald Ling, religious studies professor 1920 Birthday Earl Kim, born in Dinuba, California, Korean-American composer, professor at Princeton and Harvard, studied with Roger Sessions, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch 1919 Birthday Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health 1919 Birthday Lord Maxwell, senator and professor, college of Justice Scotland 1918 Birthday Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music 1918 Birthday Eugene List, Philadelphia Penn, pianist and professor, Eastman School of Music 1917 Birthday Isang Yun, born in Tongyeong, South Korea, composer, professor, son of renowned poet Yun Ki-hyon, exhiled from South Korea, taught at Hanover Academy of Music 1917 Event Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor 1916 Birthday Andrew Kay, surgeon/professor of surgery, University of Glasgow 1916 Birthday Kennan Wynn, born in New York City, actor, Dr. Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor 1916 Birthday Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations 1915 Birthday Antony Dornhorst, professor of medicine 1914 Birthday "Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian, Car Wash 1913 Birthday Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor, isolated growth hormones 1913 Birthday Thomas Gray, professor and anaesthetist 1912 Birthday Enoch Powell, England, MP, C, Greek professor 1912 Birthday "Professor" Irwin Corey, born in Brooklyn, New York, comedian, Car Wash, Doc 1911 Birthday Edward Levi, professor, Intro to Legal Reasoning 1911 Birthday Mason Gross, Dr/TV professor, Think Fast, Two for the Money 1911 Birthday Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health 1909 Birthday Jean Berger, born in Hamm, Germany, composer, pianist, professor, studied at Heidelberg, Vienna universities, studied with Paris' Louis Aubert, taught at Middlebury College, University of Colorado at Boulder, among others 1909 Birthday Elizabeth Wilkinson, professor German University College London 1909 Birthday Alfred Uhl, born in Austria, composer, professor, studied at Vienna Music Academy with Franz Schmidt, vibrant style combined neo-classicism, atonality, serialism, works include concerto for clarinet and orchestra 1909 Birthday Robin Orr, born in Brechin, Scotland, musician, composer, professor of music, composed three operas, Full Circle, Hermiston, On the Razzle, among other symphonies, church music, chamber works 1908 Birthday David Oistrakh, born in Odessa, Russia, violinist and professor, Moscow Conservatory 1907 Birthday Loren Eiseley, professor of Anthropology, Animal Secrets 1907 Birthday Alan Strode Campbell Ross, professor, coined the terms U and non-U 1906 Death Robert Rainy, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views, dies 1906 Birthday Kathleen Tillotson, Emeritus Professor of English, Bedford College 1904 Birthday Bergen Evans, Ohio, English professor, $64,000 Question 1904 Event Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis 1903 Birthday Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine 1903 Birthday Andre Fleury, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, composer, organist, studied organ at the Paris Conservatory under Eugene Gigout, appointed professor of organ at Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris 1902 Birthday Jeno Takacs, born in Cinfalva, Hungary, composer, studied with Joseph Marx, Paul Weigarten, professor of piano, composition at University of Manila in the Philippines, gave concerts in China, Japan, Hong Kong 1902 Death Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays', dies 1902 Birthday Julian H Steward, U.S. anthropologist/professor 1900 Birthday Lloyd Corrigan actor, Papa Dodger in 'Willy', Professor McKillup in 'Hank' 1900 Birthday David Wynne, born in Penderyn, Wales, composer, studied at University of Wales, Cardiff, University of Bristol, Head of Music, Lewis School Pengam, professor of composition, Cardiff College of Music and Drama 1894 Birthday Charles Hodge, California, New York University professor, Answers for Americans 1889 Birthday Alan M Bateman, Canadian geologist, Yale professor 1881 Birthday John Gresham Machen, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church 1880 Birthday Rosina Lhevinne, born in Kiev, Ukraine, pianist and professor, Juiliard Graduate School 1879 Birthday Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect 1875 Birthday Paul E Kahle, Germany, professor of oriental studies 1873 Birthday Max Reger, born in Brand Bavaria, composer, pianist, professor, Leipzig University 1869 Birthday Stephen Leacock, Canada, economist/humorist/professor 1866 Death Friedrich Ruckert, pseudonym, Freimund Raimar, writer, poet, master of 30 languages, professor of Oriental languages, dies 1863 Birthday Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist and professor, Moscow Cons 1888-91 1852 Birthday Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays' 1844 Birthday Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer and professor, Paris Conservatory 1828 Birthday Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st professor of physical education, Amherst College 1826 Birthday Robert Rainy, born in Glasgow, Scotland, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views 1824 Birthday Francis Turner Palgrave, Eng, poet, Golden Treasury, Professor, Oxford 1814 Birthday Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet, painter and professor of Kiev 1798 Birthday Karl von Staudt, German math professor, projective geometrician 1788 Birthday Friedrich Ruckert, born in Schweinfurt, Germany, pseudonym, Freimund Raimar, writer, poet, master of 30 languages, professor of Oriental languages 1722 Birthday Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor, Amsterdam 1722 Event Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st U.S. divinity professor (Harvard) 1685 Birthday Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch Classical professor, baptized 1582 Event Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens professor of botany/medicine 1581 Event Leiden University names Snellius math professor
