Birthdays:
1968~ Gillian Anderson (née Gillian Leigh Anderson), American actress. She is best known for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on television drama, The X-Files.
1968~ Eric Bana (né Eric Banadinović), Australian actor.
1963~ Whitney Houston (née Whitney Elizabeth Houston, d. Feb. 11, 2012), American singer. She died of drowning due to a drug overdose. She was 48 years old.
1959~ Michael Kors (né Karl Anderson, Jr.), American fashion designer.
1957~ Melanie Griffith (née Melanie Richards Griffith), American actress.
1953~ Jean Tirole, French economist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economic Science.
1944~ Patricia McKissack (née Patricia L’Ann Carwell, d. Apr. 7, 2017), American children’s author who championed black heroes. She died at age 72.
1944~ Sam Elliot (né Samuel Pack Elliot), American actor.
1943~ Ken Norton, Sr. (né Kenneth Howard Norton, d. Sept. 18, 2013), heavyweight boxer who broke Muhammad Ali’s jaw in a 12-round victory in 1973. He beat and then befriended Ali. He died at age 70.
1941~ Way Bandy (né Ronald Duane Wright, d. Aug. 13, 1986), American make-up artist. He died 4 days after his 45th birthday.
1940~ Linda Keen (née Linda Jo Goldway), American mathematician.
1928~ Bob Cousy (né Robert Joseph Cousy), American basketball player. He had a long career with the Boston Celtics.
1922~ Conchita Cintrón (d. Feb. 17, 2009), Chilean female bullfighter known as the “Blond Goddess.” She died at age 86.
1915~ Mareta West (d. Nov. 2, 1998), American astronomer and geologist. She was the first female astrogeologist. She died at age 83.
1911~ William Alfred Fowler (d. Mar. 14, 1995), American physicist and recipient of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 83.
1910~ Bunny Mellon (née Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellon, d. Mar. 17, 2014), the American heiress who redesigned the Rose Garden. She died at age 103.
1899~ Pamela Lyndon Travers (née Helen Lyndon Goff, d. Apr. 23, 1996), Australian author, best known for her children’s novel, Mary Poppins. She took the penname Pamela L. Travers, but went by P.L. Travers. She was the subject of the 2013 movie Saving Mr. Banks. She died at age 96.
1892~ S.R. Ranganathan (né Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, d. Sept. 27, 1972), Indian mathematician. He died at age 80.
1878~ Eileen Gray (née Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith, d. Oct. 31, 1976), Irish architect and furniture designer. She died at age 98.
1861~ Dorothea Klumpke (d. Oct. 5, 1942), American astronomer. She died at age 81.
1776~ Amedeo Avogadro (né Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, d. July 9, 1856), Italian chemist. He is best known for his contribution to molecular theory, now known as Avogadro’s law. He died a month before his 80th birthday.
1757~ Elizabeth Hamilton (née Elizabeth Schuyler, d. Nov. 9, 1854), American wife of Alexander Hamilton. She died at age 97.
1726~ Francesco Cetti (d. Nov. 20, 1778), Italian priest, zoologist and mathematician. He died at age 52.
1669~ Eudoxia Lopukhina (d. Sept. 7, 1731), Russian wife of Tsar Peter the Great. She died a month after her 62nd birthday.
1537~ Francesco Barozzi (d. Nov. 23, 1604), Italian mathematician and astronomer. The lunar crater Barocius is named in his honor. He died at age 67.
1387~ Henry V of England (d. Aug. 31, 1422). He died just 3 weeks after his 36thbirthday of dysentery while in France. Upon his death, his infant son, Henry VI, became King of England.
Events that Changed the World:
2014~ Michael Brown, a young African-American, was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri by a police officer. His killing initiated protests and riots throughout the United States.
1974~ Gerald Ford (1913 ~ 2006) took over the Office of President, the only United States President to take office without having been elected, after Richard Nixon (1913 ~ 1994) became the first United States President to resign from that Office.
1969~ Charles Manson (1934 ~ 2017) and his followers murdered actress Sharon Tate (b. 1943), coffee heiress Abigail Folger (b. Aug. 11, 1943), actor Wojciech Frykowski (b. 1936), Jay Sebring (b. 1933) and Steven Parent (b. 1951).
1945~ The United States dropped another atomic bomb three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. The second bomb, dubbed Fat Man, was exploded over Nagasaki. 35,000 people were immediately killed.
1944~ The United States Forest Service released posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
1936~ Jesse Owens (1913 ~ 1980) won his fourth gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games. He was the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
1930~ The cartoon Betty Boop made her debut in Dizzy Dishes.
1902~ Edward VII (1841 ~ 1910) and his wife, Alexandra of Denmark (1844 ~ 1925), were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1892~ Thomas Edison (1847 ~ 1931) received a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1854~ Henry David Thoreau’s book, Walden, was published.
1173~ Construction of the campanile of the cathedral of Pisa was begun. It would ultimately take over 200 years to complete and is now affectionately known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
70~ Traditional date when Roman General Titus began the siege of Jerusalem following the Jewish revolts against the Romans. The date of the complete destruction of the second Temple corresponded with the 9th of Av on the Hebrew calendar.
Good-Byes:
2015~ Frank Gifford (né Francis Newton Gifford, b. Aug. 16, 1930), American football hero who became a broadcast icon. He died 1 week before his 85th birthday.
2010~ Ted Stevens, Sr. (né Theodore Fulton Stevens, b. Nov. 18, 1923), American politician from Alaska, who was killed in a small plane crash. He was 86 years old. Sean O’Keefe was also a passenger in the plane, but he survived.
2008~ Bernie Mac (né Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, b. Oct. 5, 1957), American straight-talking comedian who specialized in crankiness. He died of complications of pneumonia at age 50.
2006~ James Van Allen (né James Alfred Van Allen, b. Sept. 7, 1914), American physicist. The Van Allen radiation belts are named in his honor. He died a month before his 92nd birthday.
2005~ Judith Rossner (née Judith Louise Perelman, b. Mar. 31, 1935), American author, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar. She died of leukemia and complications from diabetes at age 70.
2003~ Gregory Hines (né Gregory Oliver Hines, b. Feb. 14, 1946), American actor and dancer. He died of liver cancer at age 57.
2000~ John Harsanyi (né Harsányi János Károly, b. May 29, 1920), Hungarian –born American economist and recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 80.
1996~ Sir Frank Whittle (d. June 1, 1907), British inventor and pioneer in the development of the turbojet engine. He died at age 89.
1995~ Jerry Garcia (né Jerome John Garcia, b. Aug. 1, 1942), American musician and front man for the band The Grateful Dead. He died of a heart attack 8 days after his 53rd birthday.
1994~ Helena Rasiowa (b. June 20, 1917), Polish mathematician. She died at age 77.
1980~ Jacqueline Cochran (née Bessie Lee Pittman, b. May 11, 1906), American aviator and test pilot. In 1953, she became the first woman to break the sound barrier. She died at age 74.
1969~ Sharon Tate (née Sharon Marie Tate, b. Jan. 24, 1943), American actress murdered by Charles Manson and his gang. Killed along with her were Abigail Folger (b. 1943) the coffee heiress, Wojciech Frykowski (b. 1936), a Polish writer, Jay Sebring (b. 1933), and Steven Parent (b. Feb. 12, 1951). At the time of her death, she was married to Roman Polanski. She was pregnant when she was murdered at age 26.
1969~ Abigail Folger (née Abigail Anne Folger, d. Aug. 11, 1943), American heiress to the Folger coffee fortune and murder victim of Charles Manson. She was killed just two days before her 26th birthday.
1969~ C.F. Powell (né Cecil Frank Powell, b. Dec. 5, 1903), English physicist and recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 65.
1962~ Hermann Hesse (né Hermann Karl Hesse, b. July 2, 1877), German-born writer and recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His is best known for his novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha. He died about a month after his 85th birthday.
1948~ Hugo Boss (né Hugo Ferdinand Boss, b. July 8, 1885), German fashion designer and founder of Hugo Boss. He had joined the Nazi Party two years before Hitler came into power. He died of a tooth abscess a month after his 63rd birthday.
1943~ Chaim Soutine (b. Jan. 13, 1894), Belarusian painter. He died of a perforated ulcer at age 50.
1942~ Edith Stein (b. Oct. 12, 1891), German philosopher and nun. Stein was born into a Jewish family but became a Catholic convert. During World War II, she was captured by the Nazi’s and executed at Auschwitz. She was murdered at age 50.
1936~ Lincoln Steffens (né Lincoln Joseph Steffens, b. Apr. 6, 1866), American reporter. He is best known for investigating corruption in municipalities and his support for the Soviet Union. He died of a heart attack at age 70.
1932~ John Charles Fields (b. May 14, 1863), Canadian mathematician and founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. The Fields Medal was first awarded in 1936 for outstanding achievement in mathematics. Since 1950, it has been awarded every 4 years to a mathematician under the age of 40. John Fields died at age 69.
1929~ Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou (b. Feb. 28, 1878), French mathematician. He died at age 51.
1516~ Hieronymus Bosch (né Jheronimus van Aken, b. 1450), Dutch painter. He is best known for his triptych entitled The Garden of Earthly Delights. The exact dates of his birth and death are unknown. He was buried on August 9, 1516.
1048~ Pope Damasus II (né Poppo de’Curagnoni). He was pope for only 23 days, from July 17, 1048 until his death. The date of his birth is unknown.
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