Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Lonely Boy" by Paul Anka
In the UK:
"Dream Lover" by Bobby Darin
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Roger Blough
(TIME Cover: July the 20th, 1959)
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Famous people born on the 22nd of July: |
1478 - King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1519 - Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1893 - James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
1898 - Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1944 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes)
1944 - Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp)
1947 - Don Henley, American drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles)
2002 - Prince Felix of Denmark, Prince of Denmark
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 |
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Severo Ochoa
1905-1993
with Arthur Kornberg, for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
USA
New York University, College of Medicine - New York, NY, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1959 |
Ben-Hur
directed by William Wyler
with Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur) and Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim)
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Designed in 1959 |
The Orange slice
by Pierre Paulin |
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