Birthdays:
1946~ Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player.
1937~ Richard Jordan, Jr. (né Robert Anson Jordan, Jr., d. Aug. 30, 1993), American actor. He starred in Taylor Caldwell’s adaptation of Captains and the Kings. He died of a brain tumor at age 56.
1924~ Stanley K. Hathaway (né Stanley Knapp Hathaway, d. Oct. 4, 2005), 40th United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under President Gerald Ford from June 1975 until October 1975. He died at age 81.
1924~ Pat Hingle (néMartin Patterson Hingle, d. Jan. 3, 2009), American actor. He died at age 84.
1922~ George McGovern (né George Stanley McGovern, d. Oct. 21, 2012), American politician and anti-war “prairie populist” who ran against Richard Nixon for president in 1972. He died at age 90.
1921~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (d. May 30, 2011), American medical physicist and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of the Radioimmunoassay technique. She died at age 89.
1917~ William Scranton (néWilliam Warren Scranton, d. July 28, 2013), 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations. He served in that office from March 1976 until January 1977 during the Gerald Ford administration. He died 9 days after his 96th birthday.
1896~ A.J. Cronin (né Archibald Joseph Cronin, d. Jan. 6, 1974), Scottish physician and novelist. He wrote the novel, A Song of Sixpence. He died at age 77.
1894~ Percy Spencer (né Percy Lebaron Spencer, d. Sept. 8, 1970), American physicist and inventor. He invented the microwave oven. He was born in Howland, Maine and died in Newton, Massachusetts. He died at age 76.
1894~ Aleksandr Khinchin (d. Nov. 18, 1959), Russian mathematician. He is best known for his work in probability theory. He died at age 65.
1886~ Michael Fekete (d. May 13, 1957), Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician. He died at age 70.
1868~ Florence Foster Jenkins (née Narcissa Florence Foster, d. Nov. 26, 1944), American socialite and amateur soprano. Her life story was depicted in the 2016 movie, Florence Foster Jenkins, which starred Meryl Streep. She died at age 76.
1865~ Charles H. Mayo (né Charles Horace Mayo, d. May 26, 1939), American physician and co-founder of the Mayo Clinic. He died of pneumonia at age 73.
1860~ Lizzie Borden (née Lizzie Andrew Borden, d. June 1, 1927), American accused of killing her parents. She was acquitted by a jury. She was from Fall River, Massachusetts. She died at age 66.
1842~ Frederic T. Greenhalge (Frederick Thomas Greenhalgh, d. Mar. 5, 1896), 38th Governor of Massachusetts. He was elected for three consecutive terms as Governor, but died early into his third term. He was governor from January 1894 until March 1896. He died of kidney disease in Lowell, Massachusetts at age 53.
1834~ Edgar Degas (né Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, d. Sept. 27, 1917), French artist. He died at age 83.
1814~ Samuel Colt (d. Jan. 10, 1862), American firearms inventor and founder of the Colt’s Manufacturing Company. He invented the modern revolver that bears his name. He was born and died in Hartford, Connecticut. He died of gout at age 47.
Events that Changed the World:
1980~ The 1980 Summer Olympics opened in Moscow. The United States boycotted the games because of the Soviet’s war in Afghanistan.
1952~ The 1952 Summer Olympics opened in Helsinki, Finland.
1903~ The first Tour de France took place and was won by Maurice Garin (1871 ~ 1957).
1900~ The first line of the Paris Metro opened for operation.
1848~ A two-day Women’s Rights Convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York. Bloomers were introduced to the world at the convention.
1845~ The Great New York City Fire was the last big fire to affect Manhattan. Four firefighters and 26 others were killed in the fire. Nearly 350 buildings were destroyed.
1821~ The coronation of King George IV (1762 ~ 1830) of the United Kingdom.
1799~ The Rosetta Stone was discovered in Egypt.
1553~ Lady Jane Grey (1536 ~ 1554) was replaced by Queen Mary I (1516 ~ 1558), after being Queen for only 9 days.
64~ The traditional date ascribed to the Great Fire of Rome. The fire is believed to have burned for 5 days.
Good-Byes:
2016~ Garry Marshall (né Garry Kent Marshall, b. Nov. 13, 1934), American actor and movie director. He died of pneumonia following a stroke. He was 81 years old.
2015~ Elio Fiorucci (b. June 10, 1935), Italian fashion designer who defined the disco age. He was 80 years old.
2014~ James Garner (né James Scott Bumgarner, b. Apr. 7, 1928), American actor who put brains before brawn. He was best known for his roles as Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford in the television shows, Maverickand The Rockford Files. He died of a heart attack at age 86.
2012~ Tom Davis (néThomas James Davis, b. Aug. 13, 1952), American comedian. He had partnered with Al Franken and wrote many comedy skits during the early years of Saturday Night Live. He died of throat cancer at less than a month before his 60th birthday.
2012~ Omar Suleiman (b. July 2, 1936), the wily Egyptian spy chief who served Mubarak’s regime. He served as the Vice President of Egypt from January 2011 until February 2011. He died 17 days after his 76th birthday.
2012~ Sylvia Woods (b. Feb. 2, 1926), the African-American cook who brought soul food to Harlem. She died at age 86.
2012~ Harry Eisen (b. May 15, 1917), Polish-born Holocaust survivor who immigrated to the United States and purchased Norco to become the egg baron. He died at age 95 on complications from lung disease.
2009~ Frank McCourt (né Francis McCourt, b. Aug. 19, 1930), Irish-American author, best known for his memoir, Angela’s Ashes. He died of cancer a month before his 79th birthday.
2006~ Jack Warden (né John Warden Lebzelter, Jr., b. Sept. 18, 1920), American actor. He died of heart and kidney failure at age 85.
1982~ Hugh Everett, III (b. Nov. 11, 1930), American mathematician. He died at age 51 of a heart attack.
1953~ Maurice Tobin (né Maurice Joseph Tobin, b. May 22, 1901), 6th United States Secretary of Labor. He served under President Harry S. Truman. He served in that position from August 1948 until January 1953. He had previously served as the 56th Governor of Massachusetts from January 1945 until January 1947. The Mystic River Bridge, now known as the Tobin Bridge, was renamed in his honor. He died of a heart attack at age 52.
1949~ Frank Murphy (né William Francis Murphy, b. Apr. 13, 1890), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served on the High Court from January 1940 until his death 9 years later. He had previously served as the 56th United States Attorney General in the Roosevelt administration, from January 1939 until January 1940. He died at age 59 of coronary thrombosis.
1878~ Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev (b. Mar. 31, 1847), Russian mathematician. He died of blood poisoning at age 31.
1852~ John McKinley (b. May 1, 1780), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the High Court by President Martin Van Buren. He served in this position from April 1937 until his death 15 years later. He had previously served as a United States Senator from Alabama. He died at age 72.
1850~ Margaret Fuller (née Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, b. May 23, 1810), American journalist and women’s rights advocate. She was born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. She was the subject of the 2013 biography, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, by Megan Marshall. Fuller drowned at age 40 when the ship she was in ran aground outside of Fire Island, New York.
1692~ Rebecca Towne Nurse (b. Feb. 21, 1621), English colonist who was hanged as a witch during the Salem witch trials. She was 71.
1374~ Petrarch (né Francesco Petrarca, b. July 20, 1304), Italian scholar and poet. He died 1 day before his 70th birthday.
514~ Pope Symmachus. He was Pope from November 22, 498 until his death on this date in 514. The date of his birth is unknown.
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