Born on This Day: July 30

Italian artist, architect, and biographer whose Lives became a foundation of art history.

English novelist and poet whose Wuthering Heights became an enduring work of world literature.

American industrialist whose assembly-line manufacturing transformed automobiles, labor, and mass production.

Russian-American engineer whose electronic television technologies helped make modern broadcasting possible.

American baseball manager whose leadership and wit became influential in professional sports culture.

English sculptor whose monumental abstract forms transformed modern public art.

British historian whose observations on bureaucracy produced Parkinson’s law and influenced management thought.

American guitarist whose electric blues style influenced rock, blues, and generations of musicians.