Aug 1
Jerry Garcia:
tribute
(Why? Best rock albums of the 1960s)
Also:
Herman Melville
(Best novels)
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
(History of Knowledge)
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Aug 2
The Hampster Dance:
tribute
(Why? Greatest songs of all time)
Also:
Isabel Allende
(Best novels in Spanish)
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Aug 3
Roscoe Mitchell:
tribute
(Why? Best Jazz of the 1960s),
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Aug 4
Louis Armstrong:
tribute
(Why? Greatest trumpeters of jazz)
Witold Gombrowicz:
tribute
(Why? Best novels of all time)
Klaus Schulze:
tribute
(Why? Best rock albums of the 1970s)
Also:
Percy-Bysshe Shelley
(Best poetry in English)
Jonas Wenstrom (Science of the 19th century)
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Aug 5
John Huston:
tribute
(Why? Best films of the 1950s
Also:
Neil Armstrong
(History of Knowledge)
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Aug 6
Andy Warhol:
tribute
(Why? Art and Culture in the 20th Century)
Charlie Haden:
tribute
(Why? Best Jazz of the 1960s)
Also:
Alexander Fleming
(Modern Science and Technology)
Paul Claudel
(Best theater),
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Aug 7
Roland Kirk:
tribute
(Why? Best Jazz of the 1960s)
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Aug 8
Paul Dirac:
tribute
(Why? Modern Science and Technology)
Also:
Roger Penrose
(Modern Physics),
Ernest Lawrence
(Modern Science and Technology),
Dustin Hoffman
(Best actors),
William Bateson
(Modern Science and Technology)
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Aug 9
Robert Aldrich:
tribute
(Why? Best films of the 1960s)
Jean Piaget:
tribute
(Why? Modern Science and Technology)
Marvin Minsky:
tribute
(Why? Artificial Intelligence)
Also:
Philip Larkin
(Best poets),
Amedeo Avogadro (Science of the 19th century)
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Aug 10
Jorge Amado:
tribute
(Why? Best Portuguese Novels)
Also:
Jean-Francois Lyotard
(History of Knowledge)
Ettore Pancini (Science of the 20th century)
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Aug 11
Steve Wozniak:
tribute
(Why? History of Computing)
Also:
Fernando Arrabal
(Best theater)
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Aug 12
Erwin Schrodinger:
tribute
(Why? Modern Science and Technology)
Also:
Pat Metheny
(Jazz guitarists)
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Aug 13
Alfred Hitchcock:
tribute
(Why? Best films of all time)
Also:
Frederick Sanger (Science of the 20th century)
Johannes Friedrich Miescher (Science of the 19th century)
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Aug 14
Wim Wenders:
tribute
(Why? Best films of the 1980s
Also:
Pierre Schaeffer (Art and Culture in the 20th Century)
Hans Oersted (Science of the 19th century)
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Aug 15
Louis DeBroglie:
tribute
(Why? Modern Science and Technology)
Also:
Oscar Peterson
(Best jazz albums of the 1950s),
Ghose Aurobindo
(History of Knowledge),
Walter Scott
(Best poetry in English)
Arthur Tansley (Science of the 20th century)
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Aug 16
Wilhelm-Max Wundt:
tribute
(Why? Modern Science and Technology)
Also:
Kevin Ayers
(Best rock albums of the 1970s),
Charles Bukowski
(Best novels in English)
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Aug 17
Robert De Niro:
tribute
(Why? Best actors)
Also:
Pierre de Fermat
(Greatest mathematicians),
Ted Hughes
(Best poetry in English)
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Aug 18
Roman Polanski:
tribute
(Why? Best films of the 1970s)
Also:
Henri-Georges Clouzot
(Why? Best films of the 1950s)
Elsa Morante
(Best novels in Italian)
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Aug 19
Philo Farnsworth:
tribute
(Why? Modern Science and Technology)
Also:
Gilbert Ryle
(philosopher)
Orville Wright (Science of the 20th century)
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Aug 20
Roger Sperry:
tribute
(Why? Modern Science and Technology)
Also:
Eero Saarinen
(History of Architecture),
Isaac Hayes
(History of Soul Music),
Jack Teargarden
(Jazz trombonists)
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Aug 21
Count Basie:
tribute
(Why? Greatest pianists of jazz)
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Aug 22
Karlheinz Stockhausen:
tribute
(Why? 20th Century Classical Music)
Claude Debussy:
tribute
(Why? Best of Classical Music)
Also:
Ray Bradbury
(Best novels in English),
John Lee Hooker
(History of the Blues)
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Aug 23
Allan Kaprov:
tribute
(Why? Art and Culture in the 20th Century)
Also:
Chan-wook Park (Best films of the 2000s)
Konstantin Novoselov (Science of the 20th century)
Hamilton Smith (Science of the 20th century)
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Aug 24
Jorge-Luis Borges:
tribute
(Why? Greatest writers of all time)
Also:
Antonia Byatt
(Best Novels of the 20th Century)
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Aug 25
Leonard Bernstein:
tribute
(Why? Greatest classical conductors)
Also:
Walt Kelly
(Comics)
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Aug 26
Guillame Apollinaire:
tribute
(Why? The Best poetry of all time)
Julio Cortazar:
tribute
(Why? Greatest writers of all time)
Also:
Albert Sabin
(Modern Science and Technology),
Antoine Lavoiser
(Science and Technology of the 18th Century),
Lee DeForest
(Modern Science and Technology),
Edward Witten (Science of the 20th century)
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Aug 27
Georg Hegel:
tribute
(Why? History of Knowledge)
Man Ray:
tribute
(Why? Art and Culture in the 20th Century)
Alice Coltrane:
tribute
(Why? Best Jazz of the 1970s),
Also:
Lester Young
(Greatest tenor saxophonists of jazz),
Giuseppe Peano
(Greatest mathematicians),
Sonny Sharrock
(Best jazz albums of the 1970s)
Carl Bosch (Science of the 20th century)
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Aug 28
Johann-Wolfgang Goethe:
tribute
(Why? Greatest writers of all time)
Also:
Godfrey Hounsfield (Science of the 20th century)
Janet Frame (Best novels in English)
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Aug 29
Charlie Parker:
tribute
(Why? Greatest jazz saxophonists)
Diamanda Galas:
tribute
(Why? Greatest jazz saxophonists)
Also:
John Locke
(History of Knowledge)
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Aug 30
Ernest Rutherford:
tribute
(Why? Modern Science and Technology)
Also:
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Aug 31
Van Morrison:
tribute
(Why? Greatest rock albums)
Also:
Hermann von Helmholtz
(History of Knowledge),
Edward Thorndike
(History of Knowledge),
Theophile Gautier
(Best novels in French)
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