#OnThisDay in 1867, #ArturoToscanini, Italian cellist and #conductor (La Scala, 1898-1908 & 1921-29; Metropolitan Opera, 1908-15; New York Philharmonic, 1926-36; NBC Symphony Orchestra, 1937-41 & 1944-54), born in Parma, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1957).
#RIP
#OnThisDay in 1881, #BélaBartók, Hungarian #pianist, #composer (Concerto for Orchestra), and ethnomusicologist, born in Nagyszentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (d. 1945).
#RIP
#OnThisDay in 1918, #ClaudeDebussy, French #composer (Nocturnes, La Mer), died of #cancer at 55.
#RIP
#OnThisDay in 1934, #JohnnyBurnette, American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Train Kept A-Rollin'"; "You're Sixteen"), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1964).
#RIP
Colleague John Flavell has passed --
a kind intellectual giant who guided developmental #psychology through the past decade. He went on from definitively translating Piaget's stage theory to inventing the term 'metacognition' and pioneering research on the theory of mind. #RIP ...
#Journalists #HossamShabat and #MohammadMansour are martyred in #Gaza today, after hundreds of their colleagues have been murdered by the #IDF.
#RIP #press #news #BreakingNews #genocide
https://youtu.be/1LCCyawksdE?si=NlgyvFJp3jwsFEPq
#Journalists #HossamShabat and #MohammadMansour are martyred in #Gaza today, after hundreds of their colleagues have been murdered by the #IDF.
#OnThisDay in 1938, #HoytAxton, American songwriter, singer ("No No Song"; "Joy To The World"; "I've Never Been To Spain"), and actor (McCloud; Gremlins; The Rousters), born in Duncan, Oklahoma (d. 1999).
#RIP
#OnThisDay in 1942, #ArethaFranklin, American #singer known as "The Queen of Soul" ("Respect"; "Think"; "Chain of Fools"), pianist, songwriter, and first female performer inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2018).
#RIP
Dag Solstad, Norwegian Novelist and Short Story Writer, Dies at 83 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/books/dag-solstad-dead.html
Samsung Co-CEO Han Jong-Hee Passes Away at 63 https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/03/samsung-co-ceo-han-jong-hee-passes-away.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #Samsung #HanJongHee #RIP #Leadership #ConsumerElectronics
#OnThisDay in 2006, (Alvis) #BuckOwens, American "Bakersfield Sound" country singer-songwriter ("Under Your Spell Again"), bandleader (The Buckaroos - "Act Naturally"), and TV personality (Hee Haw), died of an apparent heart attack at 76.
#RIP
Samsung's co-CEO, Han Jong-hee, has tragically passed away at 63 from cardiac arrest. A major loss for the tech world. #Samsung #HanJongHee #TechIndustry #RIP #BreakingNews #Leadership #CardiacArrest #RestInPeace
Fred Eversley, Sculptor of Otherworldly Discs, Is Dead at 83 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/arts/design/fred-eversley-dead.html
#OnThisDay in 2009, #EnglandDan [Seals], American pop and country singer (England Dan & John Ford Coley - "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"), died of cancer at 61.
#RIP