Happy Birthday RIP John “Dizzy” Gillespie(1917-1993) ; Joyce Randolph(Joyce Sirola)-88 Manfred Mann(Manfred Lubowitz)-72 Judy Sheindlin(Judith Blum)-70 Kensaku Watanabe-53 Carrie Fisher-56 Sasha Roiz-41 Jade Jagger-41 Jeremy Miller-36 William Estes Nipper-34 ; 1879, Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.