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April 1: April Fools' Day; Iranian Islamic Republic Day Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham (pictured) opened the first section of the Brill Tramway , a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
Dean Torrence, from the 1960s pop group Jan and Dean, who co-wrote "Surf City" (#1 in 1963), said that Huntington Beach embodies the song's spirit of freedom and California fun. [36] Christian Jacobs, MC Bat Commander of The Aquabats [37] Matt Costa, folk pop singer, was born in Huntington Beach. [38]
This is a list of notable people that were born in, or who have lived in, Berkeley, California.Located in the San Francisco Bay area and near Oakland, it includes people who attended Berkeley High School, but not people that attended University of California, Berkeley unless they achieved notoriety while in attendance, and were also residents of the city at the time.
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), Caltech professor and later overseer of the Manhattan Project [1] Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019), Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech; George Ellery Hale (1868-1938), astrophysicist, Caltech professor, founder Mount Wilson Observatory; Edwin Hubble, astronomer, namesake for the Hubble Space Telescope, Caltech professor
Kevin Costner, actor and Oscar-winning director, graduate of California State University, Fullerton; Suzanne Crough, actress [27] Jeremy Gable, playwright [28] Jenna Haze, actress [29] Chris Hebert, actor [30] Chuck Knipp [citation needed] Michael McDonald, actor and comedian [31] John Raitt, Broadway, television, and film actor and singer [32]
Linda Geary (born 1960), painter, educator; Jean Halpert–Ryden (1919–2011), painter, printmaker [1] Stephan Pastis, cartoonist of Pearls Before Swine; Peter Schifrin (born 1958), Olympic fencer and sculptor; Charles M. Schulz, creator and cartoonist of Peanuts; Nancy Speir, children's book illustrator
Annabel Parlett McMillin: First Lady of Guam [190] Frank Merriam: governor of California, 1934–1939 [191] [192] Opie Ortiz: artist [193] William F. Prisk: California State Senator, editor-publisher of Long Beach Press-Telegram [194] [195] Mark Ragins: psychiatrist in the recovery movement, founding member of the Village ISA [196]
1949 - Birth of Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate; 1961 - Death of Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870) 1963 - Death of Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897) 1965 - Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in ...