Happy Birthday RIP “Tennessee” Ernest Ford(1919–1991) ; Brigadier General Charles “Chuck” Yeager–92 Marilyn “Kim” Novak–81 George Segal Jr–81 Gerald “Jerry” Springer–71 “Stockard Channing”(Susan Stockard)–71 Peter Gabriel–65 Neal McDonough–49 Robert “Robbie” Williams–41 Mena Süvari–36 ; 1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect (thermionic emission of electrons from a hot cathode into a vacuum tube)