Birthdays:
2013~ His Highness Prince George Alexander Louis, son of Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge.
2002~ Prince Felix of Denmark.
1964~ John Leguizamo (né John Alberto Leguizamo), Colombian-born American actor.
1963~ Rob Estes (né Robert Estes), American actor.
1955~ Willem Dafoe (né William James Dafoe), American actor.
1948~ S.E. Hinton (née Susan Eloise Hinton), American novelist, best know for her novel, The Outsiders, written when she was 16 years old.
1947~ Albert Brooks (né Albert Lawrence Einstein), American comedian and actor.
1947~ Don Henley (né Donald Hugh Henley), American singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of the band The Eagles.
1946~ Danny Glover (né Danny Lebern Glover), Africian-American actor.
1941~ Estelle Bennett (d. Feb. 11, 2009), American sassy ‘60s singer who rocked with the Ronettes. She died of colon cancer at age 67.
1940~ Alex Trebek (né George Alexander Trebek), Canadian game show host of Jeopardy!
1939~ Mildred Loving (d. May 2, 2008), African-American woman who, along with her white husband Richard (1933 ~ 1975), helped legalize interracial marriage in the United States. They were arrested and sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their case eventually went to the United States Supreme Court as Loving v. Virginia, which unanimously held that the prohibition against interracial marriage was unconstitutional. Their case was the subject of the 2016 movie, Loving. She died at age 68.
1938~ Terence Stamp (né Terence Henry Stamp), English actor.
1936~ Geraldine Claudette Darden, African-American mathematician.
1934~ Louise Fletcher (née Estelle Louise Fletcher), American actress. She is best known for her role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
1932~ Oscar de la Renta (d. Oct. 20, 2014), Dominican-American fashion designer who dressed the rich and fabulous. He died at age 82.
1930~ Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (d. Nov. 2, 2012), Indian-American mathematician. He died at age 82.
1928~ Kevin Reilly, Sr. (né Kevin Patrick Reilly, Sr., d. Oct. 28, 2012), American politician who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but served from Louisiana. He died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at age 84.
1928~ Orson Bean (né Dallas Frederick Burrows), American actor and game show host. He was born in Burlington, Vermont.
1923~ Bob Dole (né Robert Joseph Dole), American politician and 1996 Republican Presidential candidate.
1922~ Dan Rowan (né Daniel Hale David, d. Sept. 22, 1987), American actor, best known for being the straight man to Dick Martin on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. He died of lymphoma at age 65.
1910~ Ruthie Thompson, American animator and artist. She is best known for her work with the Disney Studio. She was born in Portland, Maine.
1908~ Amy Vanderbilt (d. Dec. 27, 1974), American etiquette authority. She died at age 66 from injuries sustained from a fall from a window. It is not clear whether or not the fall was accidental or a suicide.
1898~ Stephen Vincent Benét (d. Mar. 13, 1943), American writer. He died at age 44 of a heart attack.
1898~ Alexander Calder (d. Nov. 11, 1976), American sculptor and inventor. He is best known for his mobiles. He died at age 78.
1893~ Karl Menninger (né Karl Augustus Menninger, d. July 18, 1990), American psychiatrist and founder of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He died of abdominal cancer 4 days before his 97th birthday
1890~ Rose Kennedy (née Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, d. Jan. 22, 1995), Kennedy family matriarch and wife of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. She died at age 104.
1888~ Selman Waksman (né Selman Abraham Waksman, d. Aug. 16, 1973), Ukrainian-born American biochemist and microbiologist. He was the recipient of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of streptomycin. He died 25 days after his 85th birthday.
1887~ Gustav Ludwig Hertz (d. Oct. 30, 1975), German physicist and recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 88.
1882~ Edward Hopper (d. May 15, 1967), American realist painter. He died at age 84.
1849~ Emma Lazarus (d. Nov. 19, 1887), American poet. She is best known for her poem, The New Colossus, a portion of which is found on a plaque at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. She died of an illness at age 38.
1844~ William Archibald Spooner (d. Aug. 29, 1930), English priest and scholar. His name is given to the linguistic phenomenon of spoonerism. He died at age 86.
1784~ Friedrich Bessel (né Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, d. Mar. 17, 1846), German mathematician and astronomer. He died at age 61.
1755~ Gaspard de Prony (d. July 29, 1839), French mathematician. His name is one of 72 inscribed in the Eiffel Tower. He died 7 days after his 84th birthday.
1596~ Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. July 23, 1645), first Russian Tsar of the House of Romanov. He died the day after his 49th birthday.
1535~ Catherine Stenbock (d. Dec. 13, 1621), Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden. She was the Queen consort from August 1552 until her husband’s death in 1560. She died at age 86.
1510~ Alessandro de’Medici, Duke of Florence (d. Jan. 6, 1537). He was assassinated at age 26 by his cousin, Lorenzino de’Medici.
1210~ Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (d. Mar. 4, 1238). She was the wife of King Alexander II, King of Scots from her marriage in 1221 until her death 17 years later. She died at age 27.
Events that Changed the World:
2013~ A series of earthquakes in China killed at least 90 people and killed hundreds of others.
2011~ Anders Behring Breivik (b. 1939) went on a criminal rampage, setting off a bomb in a governmental building in Oslo, then on a shooting spree at a youth camp on the island of Utøya, killing 77 people in all, many of whom were young adults.
2003~ The US 101st Airborne attacked a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Husein’s sons, Uday (b. 1965) and Qusay (b. 1966).
1993~ The levees along the Mississippi River in Kaskaskia, Illinois ruptured forcing the town to be evacuated.
1946~ The Irgun, a militant Zionist underground organization, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which was being used as the civil administration and military headquarters for British Mandate Palestine. 91 people were killed in the explosion.
1942~ The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto began on this date.
1942~ The United States government began compulsory gasoline rationing due to demands of the military during World War II.
1937~ The United States Senate voted down President Franklin Roosevelt’s proposal to “pack” the Supreme Court. The Court is limited to 9 Justices.
1934~ FBI agents gunned down John Dillinger (1903 ~ 1934), known as Public Enemy No. 1, in front of Chicago’s Biograph Theater.
1933~ Wiley Post (1898 ~ 1935) became the first person to fly solo around the world, which took over 7 days.
1894~ The first motorized racing event was held in France between Paris and Rouen, a distance of 76 miles. The winner was the Marquis Jules Felix Philippe Albert de Dion (1856-1946), who was a French automotive pioneer. He was not awarded the prize, however, because his steam vehicle required a stoker. Instead, Albert Lemaître was awarded the prize.
1706~ The Acts of Union with Scotland in 1706 and the Acts of Union with England in 1707 were agreed upon by the commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which ultimately led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1686~ Albany, New York was formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan (1634 ~ 1715).
1298~ At the Battle of Falkirk during the Wars of Scottish Independence, King Edward I (d. 1307) of England defeated William Wallace (d. 1305).
1099~ During the First Crusade, Godfrey of Bouillon (1060 ~ 1100) was elected as the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He held that position until his death almost a year to the day later.
Good-Byes:
2013~ Dennis Farina (b. Feb. 29, 1944), American actor. He died of a pulmonary embolism at age 69.
2008~ Estelle Getty (née Estelle Scher, b. July 25, 1923), American sharp-tongued actress who brightened The Golden Girls. She died 3 days before her 85th birthday.
1996~ Jessica Mitford (née Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, b. Sept. 11, 1917), British writer. She died of lung cancer at age 78.
1967~ Carl Sandburg (né Carl August Sandburg, b. Jan. 6, 1878), American poet. He died at age 89.
1934~ John Dillinger (né John Herbert Dillinger, b. June 22, 1903), American bank robber. J. Edgar Hoover labeled him as “Public Enemy No. 1.” He was killed in a shoot-out by Federal Agents at the Biography Theater in Chicago, Illinois. He was killed a month after his 31st birthday.
1932~ Flo Ziegfeld, Jr. (né Florenz Edward Ziegfeld, Jr., b. Mar. 21, 1867), American theater producer. He died of pleurisy at age 65.
1915~ Sir Sandford Fleming (b. Jan. 7, 1827), Scottish-Canadian engineer who developed Standard time. He died at age 88.
1908~ Sir William Randal Cremer (b. Mar. 18, 1828), English politician and recipient of the 1903 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the international arbitration movement. He died at age 80.
1895~ Alexander H. Rice (néAlexander Hamilton Rice, b. Aug. 30, 1818), 30th Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1876 through January 1879. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts and died in Melrose, Massachusetts. He died at age 76 following a long illness.
1869~ John A. Roebling (né Johann August Röbling, b. June 12, 1806), German-born engineer and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge. He died of tetanus at age 63.
1826~ Guiseppe Piazzi (b. July 16, 1746), Italian mathematician. He died 6 days after his 80thbirthday.
1676~ Pope Clement X (né Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, b. July 13, 1590). He was Pope from April 29, 1670 until his death nine days after his 86th on July 22, 1676.
1461~ King Charles VII of France (b. Feb. 22, 1403). He was King from October 1422 until his death 39 years later. He died at age 58.
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