We celebrate top personalities this day March 14
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones is an influential record producer, arranger, and musician of many film scores, classic albums, and hit songs. He is perhaps best known for producing multiple albums by the great Michael Jackson, including 1982’s Thriller and 1987’s Bad. In 2013, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. more after the cut.....
He refused a scholarship to Schillinger House in order to tour with Lionel Hampton instead.
He won 27 Grammy Awards and accumulated a total of 79 Grammy Award nominations.
He married Jeri Caldwell in 1957, Swedish actress Ulla Andersson in 1967, and actress Peggy Lipton in 1974. One of his daughters, Rashida Jones, starred in NBC’s Parks and Recreation and The Office and another, Kidada became a fashion designer for Disney. He also has four other daughters and a son named Quincy III.
He and songwriter Bob Russell were the first African Americans to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for “Their Eyes of Love,” as featured in the 1967 film “Banning” starring Robert Wagner.
The 83 year old was born March 14, 1933.
Albert Einstein
Iconic genius and legendary theoretical physicist was a German-born theoretical physicist who formulated the Theory of Relativity and the mass-energy equivalence formula. Born in Germany, he came to America when Hitler rose to power and worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb.
He failed to find a teaching job for two years, and worked as an assistant examiner for patent applications at the Federal Office for Intellectual Property in Bern.
During World War II his name was on a Nazi list of assassination targets, with a $5,000 bounty on his head.
He married Mileva Marić in January 1903, and after their divorce on February 14, 1919, married Elsa Lowenthal on June 2, 1919. He had three children named Lieserl (1902), Hans Albert (1904), and Eduard ‘Tete’ (1910).
Together with Bertrand Russell, he signed the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which argued against the use of nuclear weapons.
He was bornMarch 14, 1879, he died Apr 18, 1955 (age 76).
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