* 1912 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1999 )

* 1909 – Glenn Cunningham, American runner ( d. 1988 )

* 1959 – Glenn Morshower, American actor

When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

* 1944 – Glenn Miller, American musician ( presumed date of death ) ( b. 1904 )

* 1960 – Glenn McQueen, American animator ( d. 2002 )

The American composers Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca have written " symphonic " works for large ensembles of electric guitars, in some cases numbering up to 100 players, and the instrument is a core member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars ( played by Mark Stewart ).

* 1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.

* 1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.

* 1941 – Scott Glenn, American actor

* 1970 – Glenn Medeiros, American singer-songwriter

* 1910 – Ray McKinley, American singer, drummer, and bandleader ( Glenn Miller Orchestra ) ( d. 1995 )

* 1886 – Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer ( d. 1955 )

* 1951 – Glenn Ordway, American radio talk show host

* 1993 – Glenn Corbett, American actor ( b. 1930 )

* 1973 – Glenn Robinson, American basketball player

* 1921 – John Glenn, American astronaut and politician

* 1950 – Glenn Hughes, American singer, dancer, and actor ( Village People ) ( d. 2001 )

* 1974 – Terry Glenn, American football player

* 1904 – Glenn Miller, American bandleader ( d. 1944 )

* 1995 – Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer and bandleader ( Glenn Miller Orchestra ) ( b. 1910 )

* 1950 – Dann Glenn, American bassist, composer, and author

John Glenn became the first American ( third overall, following Gagarin and Titov ) to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, during the third manned Mercury flight.

John Glenn became the first American ( third overall, following Gagarin and Titov ) to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, during the third manned Mercury flight.

* John Herschel Glenn, Jr., USMC ( born 1921 ); first American to orbit the Earth, 20 February 1962

These skillfully rendered paintings encouraged fan Glenn Bray to ask Barks if he could commission a painting of the ducks (" A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By ", taken from the cover of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 108 by Barks ).

In 1990 Franco Zeffirelli, whose Shakespeare films have been described as " sensual rather than cerebral ", cast Mel Gibson — then famous for the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon movies — in the title role of his 1990 version, and Glenn Close — then famous as the psychotic " other woman " in Fatal Attraction — as Gertrude.

Another fairly detailed vehicle system, designed and optimized for crewed Solar System exploration, " Discovery II ", based on the D < sup > 3 </ sup > He reaction but using hydrogen as reaction mass, has been described by a team from NASA's Glenn Research Center.

A song he recorded named " Life Fades Away ", written with friend Glenn Danzig, was featured in the film Less Than Zero.

The character of Zefram Cochrane had first appeared in the Original Series episode " Metamorphosis ", played by Glenn Corbett.

Jazz pianist and composer, Frank Signorelli, who collaborated on the jazz standards " A Blues Serenade ", recorded by Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, " Gypsy ", and " Stairway to the Stars ", joined ODJB for a brief time in 1921.

* An episode of Glenn Martin, DDS, now the episode is called " The Grossest Show On Earth ", 2009

* Fleishman, Glenn, " The revolution may be wireless ", Seattle Weekly, 2001-07-18

The book had depicted Glenn as a " zealous moralizer ", and he did not attend the film's Washington premiere on October 16, 1983.

Peter Williams writes that " the beauty and dark passion of this variation make it unquestionably the emotional high point of the work ", and Glenn Gould said that " the appearance of this wistful, weary cantilena is a master-stroke of psychology.

During production of Beavis and Butt-heads final seasons, MTV representatives approached story editor Glenn Eichler, offering a spin-off series for Daria, and a five-minute pilot, " Sealed with a Kick ", was created by Eichler and " Beavis and Butthead " staffer Susie Lewis ( although written by Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil ).

* Cole Gagne: " Glenn Branca ", Grove Music Online, ed.

For Hegarty, " noise music ", as with 4 ' 33 ", is that music made up of incidental sounds that represent perfectly the tension between " desirable " sound ( properly played musical notes ) and undesirable " noise " that make up all noise music from Erik Satie to NON to Glenn Branca.

The first single and lead track, " Take It Easy ", was a song written by Glenn Frey and his neighbor and fellow country-folk rocker Jackson Browne.

By then, several English recordings of his songs were on the charts, including Damita Jo's " If You Go Away ", based on " Ne me quitte pas ", Judy Collins ' " The Dove ", based on " La colombe ", and Glenn Yarbrough's " The Women ", based on " Les biches ".

Chattanooga is internationally known for the 1941 gold record song " Chattanooga Choo Choo ", which was composed by Glenn Miller and his orchestra.

By the 1930s Chattanooga was known as the " Dynamo of Dixie ", inspiring the 1941 Glenn Miller big-band swing song " Chattanooga Choo Choo ".