Happy Birthday Captain, oh, woops, *Admiral
Kathryn Janeway.

I bet there are folks gathering to her statue in Bloomington today.

#StarTrek #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager #StarTrekProdigy #BOTD #OTD

Remembering Joe Cocker who would have celebrated his 81st birthday today 20th May

"I have one message for young musicians around the world. Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard."

© Bill Green

#joecocker #photooftheday #BOTD #music #photography

Remembering Larry Wallis on today's #motorheadMonday
He was #BOTD 19th May 1949 , today would have been his 76th birthday Mainly of Pink Fairies and Motörhead ♠️

#motörhead #music #photography

Oliver Heaviside https://zbmath.org/authors/heaviside.oliver, famous for his work on electromagnetism, was #botd 175 years ago. His "electrical papers" were reviewed in https://zbmath.org/24.1043.02.

Ludwig Stickelberger https://zbmath.org/authors/stickelberger.ludwig, famous for his work in algebra, was #botd 175 years ago. "Ueber eine Verallgemeinerung der Kreistheilung", introducing what would become known as Stickelberger elements, was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/22.0100.01.

We didn't plan for this to be the current episode of our podcast when Dennis Hopper's birthday (#BOTD) rolled around, but we're so pleased it worked out that way!
https://social.lol/@thetonearm/114511914988583417

Glückauf und Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, Jiří Němec, #botd 1966. Hier eins seiner wenigen Interviews. Konnte ihn vor 20 Jahren in Prag zum Gespräch treffen. Das wäre nicht möglich gewesen ohne die Hilfe von František Steiner (R.I.P.). https://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/jiri-nemec-uber-das-em-finale-1996-tschechien-deutschland-ich-habe-gedacht-wir-spielen-noch-weiter-11929553.html

Émile Léonard Mathieu https://zbmath.org/authors/mathieu.em, famous for his work on group theory, was #botd 190 years ago. 'Sur la fonction cinq fois transitive de 24 quantités', describing what would become famous as Mathieu groups M12 and M24, was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/05.0088.01.

Zohra Lampert #BOTD in her Emmy-winning role on KOJAK in 1975.

She's 94 today. And you can watch her outsmart Lt. Kojak (really) on Tubi.

https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200205598/s02-e18-queen-of-the-gypsies

#BOTD #ZohraLampert #ClassicTV #1970sTV #Kojak #TellySavalas

Lorenzo Mascheroni https://zbmath.org/authors/mascheroni.lorenzo, famous for his work in geometry, was #botd 275 years ago. Luigi Pepe's 'Mascheroni: mathematician, poet, and citizen' was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/1038.01019.

Happy Birthday, Maya Deren! Born on this day in 1917, the celebrated Ukrainian-born American experimental filmmaker was an important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Her short film "Meshes of the Afternoon" is considered one of the most influential works in American experimental cinema. She was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer. 1/2

#MayaDeren #MeshesOfTheAfternoon #BOTD #FilmHistory #WomenInFilm @film

Herbert Busemann https://zbmath.org/authors/busemann.herbert, known for his work in differential geometry, was #botd 120 years ago. His influential monograph 'The geometry of geodesics' was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/0112.37002.

'Hij dacht: ik sla haar dood en steek het huis in brand.
Ik moet de schimmel van mijn stramme voeten wasschen
en rennen door het vuur en door het water plassen
tot bij een ander lief in eenig ander land.'

WILLEM ELSSCHOT (1882-1960) #botd #7mei

Uit het #gedicht 'Het #huwelijk',
beschikbaar in de #dbnl in de voorpublicatie in #Forum, 1933:
https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_for003193301_01/_for003193301_01_0002.php
@kbnationalebibliotheek
#verzenvanvroeger #gedichten #willemelsschot

“I prefer people who rock the boat
to people who jump out.”
— Orson Welles

Photo: Earl Theisen

Happy Birthday, Mr. Welles.
#BOTD #OrsonWelles #director #cinema

🎬🎥

"I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment." - Happy Birthday to the genius Orson Welles!

(May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)

#orsonwelles #cinema #director #movies #botd

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”

Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)
A great director to share a bday with…

Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles in "The Lady From Shanghai" by Robert Coburn (Columbia, 1947)

#botd #orsonwelles #ritahayworth #cinema #film

William Kingdon Clifford https://zbmath.org/authors/clifford.william-kingdon, famous for his work in algebra and geometry, was #botd 180 years ago. His 'Application of Grassmann’s extensive algebra' was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/10.0297.02.

Beulah Bondi #BOTD as Jimmy Stewart’s mother in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) and on THE JIMMY STEWART SHOW on NBC in 1971.

They played mother and son 5 times.

#FilmMastodon #TCMParty #BeulahBondi #JimmyStewart