**Born On This Day**

Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace was born in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France on this day in 1749.

“_He proved the stability of the solar system. In analysis Laplace introduced the potential function and Laplace coefficients. He also put the theory of mathematical probability on a sound footing.”

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace/.

#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #History #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Science #HistSci #Astronomy #Physics @science

Happy birthday, Juliette Binoche!

Ida Lupino directing THE TWILIGHT ZONE in 1963.

The only woman to direct an episode of Rod Serling’s iconic series was born on this date.

I hope everybody is dressing up for Telly Savalas' birthday.

"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me."
— Cary Grant (1904–1986)

Boris Karloff was 44 and had been acting for 20 years when he was cast in FRANKENSTEIN (1931).

Proof that it's never too late to be an overnight success.

Born on October 9th 1/2

Henrik Zetterburg hockey player
Mike Singletary football player & coach
Scott Bakula
Trent Lott senator
Jackson Browne musician
John Lennon
Sean Ono Lennon
Camile Saint Saens composer
Dave Odom basketball coach
Guillermo del Toro filmmaker
Rube Marquard baseball player
Joe Sewell baseball player
Robert Wuhl actor
Sharon Osbourne
Tony Shalhoub actor
Zachery Ty Bryan

"For me, cinema is not a slice of life but a piece of cake."

Born on this day 125 years ago, the mighty Alfred #Hitchcock

Fred Gwynne was an accomplished character actor for 40 years.

Critic Walter Kerr called his Big Daddy in the '74 revival of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF "astonishingly effective.” He won a Best Actor Obie in '79.

Plus: THE MUNSTERS, CAR 54, PET SEMATARY, MY COUSIN VINNY + more.

Jester Hairston (1901–2000) was #BornOnThisDay.

Choral director of classic films from the 1930s-50s. Songwriter (“Amen” from LILLIES OF THE FIELD and “Mary’s Boy Child”). Actor on radio, film and TV.

“A very special person” his AMEN and THAT'S MY MAMA co-star Clifton Davis told me in a 2019 interview.

"My dad took my hand and said, ‘Honey, whatever you want to do, just do your best.’"

Oscar winner Eva Marie Saint is 100 today.

LIFE Magazine, 1949

Happy 99th birthday to TV's greatest space mom

“You owe your audience everything: your life, your money, everything you have...They’re who put me where I am. I just love to meet them, and talk with them. They say such beautiful things.”
— Paul Lynde (1926-1982)

Richard Scarry, my first favorite author.

“There’s nothing nicer than to go through your life doing what you love.”
— Robert Osborne (1932-2017)

"I’ve never seen Carol say no autographs. I’ve never heard somebody say hello, that she didn’t say hello back...She loves the fact that people watched her and put her where she is today. She’s very appreciative."
— Tim Conway in 2007

“Sidney Lumet came up to me during the filming of this and said, ‘Al, it’s out of our hands, buddy.’ And that’s the feeling I had with it. It took on its own life.”

— Al Pacino on DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975)