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Germans rept Leningrad doom sealed as Schluesselburg falls; Germans advance to Neva River; Finns advance to Svir River seen as cutting off escape of USSR Leningrad area troops; USSR gains reptd, Central Front
funeral plans; Cong pays tribute
U S freighter Steel Seafarer sunk by unidentified plane in Red Sea
Adjourns in memory of Mrs S D Roosevelt
Brit rept how plane captured U-boat in Atlantic; illus
1941Syed Abid Ali, Indian cricketer[†]
Syed Abid Ali was an all-rounder Indian cricketer who was a lower-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler. He played an important role in Indian cricket in the 1960s and '70s.
1941Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1967)[†]
Otis Ray Redding Jr. was an American singer and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. Nicknamed the "King of Soul", Redding's style of singing drew inspiration from the gospel music that preceded the genre. His vocal style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s.
1941Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (died 2011)[†]
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B programming language with long-time colleague Ken Thompson. Ritchie and Thompson were awarded the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1983, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1990, and the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1999.
1941Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)[†]
Hans Spemann was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his student Hilde Mangold's discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of the embryo, that directs the development of groups of cells into particular tissues and organs, one of the first steps towards cloning. Spemann added his name as an author to Hilde Mangold's dissertation and won a Nobel Prize for her work.