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July 7, 1932

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Notable Births

1932T. J. Bass, American physician and author (died 2011)[†]

Thomas J. Bassler was an American science fiction author and physician.

Joe Zawinul

1932Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (died 2007)[†]

Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock. He co-founded the groups Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate. He pioneered the use of electric piano and synthesizer, and was named "Best Electric Keyboardist" twenty-eight times by the readers of DownBeat magazine.

Notable Deaths

Alexander Grin

1932Alexander Grin, Russian author (born 1880)[†]

Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky, better known by his pen name Alexander Green or Grin, was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor. Most of his writings deal with the sea, adventures, and love.

Henry Eyster Jacobs

1932Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (born 1844)[†]

Henry Eyster Jacobs was an American religious educator, Biblical commentator and Lutheran theologian.

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