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The American luthier Orville Gibson specialized in mandolins, and is credited with creating the archtop guitar.
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American and Orville
* 1871 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer ( d. 1948 )
* 1933 – Orville Moody, American golfer ( d. 2008 )
Archtop guitars are steel-string instruments in which the top ( and often the back ) of the instrument are carved from a solid billet in a curved rather than a flat shape ; this violin-like construction is usually credited to the American Orville Gibson ( 1856 – 1918 ).
* 1907 – Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman ( d. 1995 )
* 1918 – Orville L. Freeman, American politician ( d. 2003 )
** Orville L. Freeman, American politician ( d. 2003 )
** American Civil Rights Movement – Little Rock Crisis: Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas calls out the US National Guard, to prevent African-American students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.
** Orville Wright, American co-inventor of the airplane ( b. 1871 )
* November 17 – Milton Wright, American bishop United Bretheren Church, father of aviation pioneers Wilbur & Orville Wright ( d. 1917 )
** Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and popcorn businessman ( d. 1995 )
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* December 9 – Orville Moody, American golfer ( d. 2008 )
* Orville Dewey ( 1794 – 1882 ), American clergyman
Orville Lothrop Freeman ( May 9, 1918February 20, 2003 ) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 29th Governor of Minnesota from January 5, 1955 to January 2, 1961, and as the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
In 1953, he acquired a Japanese dwarf variety of wheat called Norin 10 developed by Orville Vogel, that had been crossed with a high-yielding American cultivar called Brevor 14.
Arnold Orville Beckman ( April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004 ) was an American chemist who founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity.
Pacific News Service ( PNS ) is an American nonprofit media organization founded in 1969 by historian and sociologist Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell, author, journalist and Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, located in Berkeley, California.
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Jereboam Orville Beauchamp (; September 6, 1802 – July 7, 1826 ) was an American lawyer who murdered the Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp ; the crime is known as the Beauchamp – Sharp Tragedy.
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Orville Lewis Duke ( August 12, 1953 – September 10, 2004 ) was an American stage, television and film actor.
* Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy: Established in 1948 to honor the memory of Orville and Wilbur Wright, is awarded annually to a living American for " significant public service of enduring value to aviation in the United States.
American and Gibson
* 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor ( d. 1962 )
* 1927 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player ( d. 2003 )
American counterculture exponents like William S. Burroughs ( whose literary influence on Gibson and cyberpunk in general is widely acknowledged ) and Timothy Leary were among the first to extoll the potential of computers and computer networks for individual empowerment.
In the 1960s Japanese guitar makers started to mainly copy American guitar designs and Ibanez branded copies of Gibson, Fender and Rickenbacker models started to appear.
* 1962 – Thomas Gibson, American actor
* 1904 – James J. Gibson, American ecological psychologist ( d. 1979 )
* 1958 – Robert Gibson, American wrestler
Some notable modern American carved mandolin manufacturers include, in addition to Gibson, Weber, Monteleone, and Collings.
* 1957 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
* 1986 – Megan Gibson, American softball player
* 1948 – William Gibson, American writer
* 1935 – Bob Gibson, American baseball player
* 2003 – Don Gibson, American singer ( b. 1928 )
* 1946 – Robert L. Gibson, American astronaut
* 1890 – Susie Gibson, American supercentenarian.
* 1935 – Henry Gibson, American actor ( d. 2009 )
* 1867 – Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator ( d. 1944 )
Gibson is one of the best-known North American science fiction writers, fêted by The Guardian in 1999 as " probably the most important novelist of the past two decades ".
* May 28 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
* March 17 – William Gibson, American / Canadian writer
** Charles Gibson, American television journalist
* February 17 – Dorothy Gibson, American actress ( b. 1889 )
* January 27 – J. J. Gibson, American psychologist ( d. 1979 )
* January 3 – Mel Gibson, American actor and director
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