Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening was born in Portland, Oregon and
is a cartoonist, screenwriter, producer, and animator. He is also
the creator of two successful television series, The Simpsons
(1989-present) and Futurama (1999-2003, 2008-Present).
 
André Cassagnes (September 23, 1926 – January 16, 2013)
Cassagnes was a Frenchinventor, electrical technician, toymaker, and a kite
designer. He was the inventor of the Etch a Sketch in the late 1950s, a popular
mechanical drawingtoy manufactured by Ohio Art Company. Cassagnes died
in a suburb of Paris on Wednesday, January 16.
A kite designed by Cassagnes
Little Richard ("the architect of rock and roll")
is 80 today and still performing and recording.
William Conrad (John William Cann Jr.)
(September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994)
Conrad’s career spanned five decades in radio, film. and television as
a writer, actor, producer and director. He created the role of Marshall
Matt Dillon for the popular CBS radio series Gunsmoke (1952-1961)
and narrated the TV adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (1959-1964)
and The Fugitive (1963-1967).
Conrad found stardom as a detective in the CBS- TV series Cannon
(1971-1976), and in the crime drama Jake and the Fatman on CBS
from 1987 to 1992.
Richard "Dick" Beals (March 16, 1927 – May 29, 2012
(AP) The radio and television voice-over star whose work included the animated characters Gumby and Speedy Alka-Seltzer died Tuesday, May 29 in Southern
California. Dick Beals was 85.
A friend, Peter Gorman, tells the Los Angeles Times that Beals died in the
northern San Diego County community of Vista.
Beals was the original voice of the title character on "The Gumby Show" in the
late 1950s. He also was the unseen pitchman in more than 3,000 commercials
for such products as Oscar Mayer and Campbell’s Soup.
He was also the voice of the Davey in the television series "Davey and Goliath."
Beals often got jobs that called for him to sound like a child because he suffered
from a glandular condition.
His voice hadn’t changed since elementary school.
