Birthdays:
1984 ~ Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland. She is the wife of Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland.
1971 ~ Ryan White (né Ryan Wayne White; d. Apr. 8, 1990), American AIDS activist. He had hemophilia and contracted AIDS from his numerous blood transfusions. He died at age 18.
1967 ~ Judd Apatow, American movie director. He was born in Flushing, New York.
1955 ~ Steven Wright (né Steven Alexander Wright), American comedian. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1953 ~ Tom Hulce (né Thomas Edward Hulce), American actor and theater director. He is best known for his portrayal of Mozart in the 1984 film Amadeus. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1952 ~ Craig Newmark (né Craig Alexander Newmark), American computer programmer and founder of Craigslist. He was born in Morristown, New Jersey.
1949 ~ William Powell (d. July 11, 2016), American radical who wrote The Anarchist Cookbook when he was 19 years old. The book was a comprehensive “how-to” guide for insurrectionists. He later tried to atone for his actions in creating the book by co-founding a non-profit organization for handicapped and disabled children. He died of a heart attack while on vacation with his family. He was 66 years old.
1948 ~ JoBeth Williams (née Margaret JoBeth Williams), American actress. She was born in Houston, Texas.
1933 ~ Henryk Górecki (né Henryk Mikołaj Górecki; d. Nov. 12, 2010), Polish composer who shed dissonance and found success. He died of complications from a lung infection 24 days before his 77th birthday.
1924 ~ Wally Cox (né Wallace Maynard Cox; d. Feb. 15, 1973), American actor. He was the voice of Underdog on the cartoon of the same name. He died at age 48 of a heart attack.
1920 ~ George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (d. Aug. 31, 2002), English chemist and recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 81.
1920 ~ Dave Brubeck (né David Warren Brubeck; d. Dec. 5, 2012), American pianist who reshaped the rhythms of jazz. He died 1 day before his 92nd birthday.
1917 ~ Irv Robbins (né Irvine Robbins; d. May 5, 2008), Canadian-born American businessman and co-founder of Baskin-Robbins. He died at age 90.
1908 ~ Baby Face Nelson (né Lester Joseph Gillis; d. Nov. 27, 1934), American gangster. He was killed 9 days before his 26th birthday in a shoot-out with the FBI during a bank robbery.
1908 ~ Herta Freitag (née Herta Taussig; d. Jan. 25, 2000), Austrian-born American mathematician. Her family emigrated from Austria in 1938 to escape the Nazi regime. She died at age 91.
1906 ~ Carl Weiss, Sr. (né Carl Austin Weiss, d. Sept. 8, 1935), American physician and alleged assassin of Louisiana Senator Huey Long. Weiss was killed by Long’s bodyguards after he allegedly shot Long in the State Capitol building. Huey Long died two days after being shot. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was 28 years old at the time of his death.
1904 ~ Ève Curie Labouisse (née Ève Denise Curie; d. Oct. 22, 2007), French journalist. She was the youngest daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. She died at age 102.
1900 ~ Agnes Moorehead (née Agnes Robertson Moorehead; d. Apr. 30, 1974), American actress. She is best known for her role as Endora on the sit-com Bewitched. She was born in Clinton, Massachusetts. She died of uterine cancer at age 73.
1898 ~ Gunner Myrdal (né Karl Gunnar Myrdal; d. May 17, 1987), Swedish economist and recipient of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 88.
1898 ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt (d. Aug. 23, 1995), German-born photographer. He died in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts at age 96.
1896 ~ Ira Gershwin (né Israel Gershowitz; d. Aug. 17, 1983), American lyricist and songwriter. He died at age 86.
1887 ~ Lynn Fontanne (née Lillie Louise Fontanne; d. July 30, 1983), American actress. She died at age 95.
1886 ~ Joyce Kilmer (né Alfred Joyce Kilmer, d. July 30, 1918), American poet. He is best known for his poem Trees. He died at age 31 during the Second Battle of Marne during World War I.
1856 ~ Walther von Dyck (né Walther Franz Anton von Dyck; d. Nov. 5, 1933), German mathematician. He died a month before his 78th birthday.
1808 ~ Levi Boone (né Levy Day Boone; d. Jan. 24, 1882), 17th Mayor of Chicago. He was a member of the Know-Nothing Party. He served as Mayor from 1855 until 1856. He did at age 73.
1792 ~ King William II of the Netherlands (b. Mar. 17, 1849). He reigned from October 1840 until his death in March 1849. He was married to Anna Pavlovna of Russia. He died at age 56.
1752 ~ Gabriel Duvall (d. Mar. 6, 1844), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President James Madison. He replaced Samuel Chase on the Court. He was succeeded by Philip Barbour. He served on the Court from November 1811 until January 1835. He was considered one of the most insignificant Supreme Court Justices. He was 91 years old at the time of his death.
1421 ~ King Henry VI of England (d. May 21, 1471). He was married to Margaret of Anjou. He died at age 49 in the Tower of London.
1285 ~ King Ferdinand IV of Castile and León (d. Sept. 7, 1312). He reigned from April 1295 until his death in September 1312. He was married to Constance of Portugal. He was 26 years old at the time of his death.
Events that Changed the World:
2017 ~ The Donald Trump administration announced that the United States would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
2015 ~ Chanukah began at sunset.
1973 ~ The United States House of Representatives voted to confirm Gerald Ford (1913 ~ 2006) as Vice President of the United States. The United States Senate had voted for his confirmation on November 27, 1973.
1969 ~ Meredith Hunter (1951 ~ 1969) was killed by the Hells Angels during a Rolling Stone’s concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
1967 ~ Adrian Kantrowitz (1918 ~ 2008) performed the first human heart transplant in the United States. The surgery was performed on an infant at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. This transplant occurred just three days following the first human heart transplant lead by Christiaan Bernard’s team in South Africa.
1953 ~ Vladimir Nabokov (1899 ~ 1977) completed Lolita.
1947 ~ The Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated.
1933 ~ United States Federal Judge John Woolsey (1877 ~ 1945) ruled that James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, was not obscene.
1917 ~ A munitions explosion in Halifax, Nova Scotia killed more than 1900 people and cause massive damage to the city. This event was depicted in the book, The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy and Extraordinary Heroism, by John U. Bacon.
1917 ~ Finland declared its independence from Russia.
1907 ~ A coal mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia killed over 360 miners and other workers.
1897 ~ London became the world’s first city to host licensed taxicabs.
1884 ~ The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., was completed 36 years after construction had begun in 1848.
1877 ~ The Washington Post began publication.
1865 ~ The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which banned slavery in the United States, was ratified.
1790 ~ The United States Congress moved its location from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1768 ~ The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published.
1534 ~ The City of Quito, Ecuador was founded by Sebastián de Belalcázar (d. 1551).
1060 ~ Béla I (d. 1063) was crowned King of Hungary. He would rule for 3 years, until his death in September 1063.
Good-Byes:
2014 ~ Ralph Baer (né Rudolf Heinrich Baer, b. Mar. 8, 1922), German-born American engineer who became a video game pioneer. He was known as the Father of Video Games. His family left Germany to escape from the Holocaust. He died in Manchester, New Hampshire at age 92.
2008 ~ Sunny von Bülow (née Martha Sharp Crawford, b. Sept. 1, 1932), American heiress and socialite who was in a coma for over 27 years. She was 76 years old at the time of her death. Her husband, Claus von Bülow (b. 1926) was accused of attempted murder, but his murder conviction was later overturned.
2002 ~ Father Philip Berrigan (né Phillip Francis Berrigan; b. Oct. 5, 1923), American priest and civil rights activist. He died of cancer at age 79.
2000 ~ Werner Klemperer (b. Mar. 22, 1920), German-born actor best known for his role as Captain Klink on the television sit-com Hogan’s Heroes. He died of cancer at age 80.
1993 ~ Don Ameche (né Dominic Felix Amici; b. May 31, 1908), American actor. He died of prostate cancer at age 85.
1991 ~ Sir Richard Stone (né John Richard Nicholas Stone; b. Aug. 30, 1913), British economist and recipient of the 1984 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 78.
1989 ~ Frances Bavier (née Frances Elizabeth Bavier; b. Dec. 14, 1902), American actress best known for her role as Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show. She died 8 days before her 87th birthday.
1988 ~ Roy Orbison (né Roy Kelton Orbison; b. Apr. 23, 1936), American singer and songwriter. He died of a heart attack at age 52.
1955 ~ Honus Wagner (né Johannas Peter Wagner; b. Feb. 24, 1874), American baseball player. He played for the Pittsburg Pirates nearly his entire career. He died at age 81.
1951 ~ Harold Ross (né Harold Wallace Ross; b. Nov. 6, 1892), American journalist and co-founder of The New Yorker magazine. He died a during surgery month after his 59th birthday.
1949 ~ Lead Belly (né Huddie William Ledbetter, b. Jan. 20, 1888), African-American folk and blues musician. He was born in Mooringsport, Louisiana. He died at age 61.
1889 ~ Jefferson Davis (né Jefferson Finis Davis; b. June 3, 1889), President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He has previously served as the United States Secretary of War from March 1853 until March 1857, under Franklin Pierce. Following the Civil War, he was imprisoned at Fort Monroe, in Virginia. He died at age 81 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1882 ~ Alfred Escher (né Johann Heinrich Alfred Escher vom Glas; b. Feb. 20, 1819), Swiss businessman and founder of Credit Suisse. He died at age 63.
1882 ~ Anthony Trollope (b. Apr. 24, 1815), British writer. He died at age 67.
1879 ~ Erastus Brigham Bigelow (b. Apr. 2, 1814), American industrialist and inventor of weaving machines. He was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He was 65 at the time of his death.
1867 ~ Giovanni Pacini (b. Feb. 17, 1796), Italian composer best known for his operas. He died at age 71.
1686 ~ Eleanora Gonzaga (b. Nov. 18, 1630), Holy Roman Empress and Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia. She was the Italian wife of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. She died 3 weeks after her 56th birthday.
1658 ~ Baltasar Gracián y Morales (b. Jan. 8, 1601), Spanish Jesuit priest and philosopher. He died about a month before his 58th birthday.
1616 ~ Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (b. Dec. 18, 1552), Moroccan writer and mathematician. He died 12 days before his 64th birthday.
1562 ~ Garzia de’Medici (b. July 5, 1547), Tuscan prince. He died of malaria at age 15.
1352 ~ Pope Clement VI (né Pierre Roger; b. 1291). He was Pope from 1342 until his death 10 years later. He reigned during the Black Death (1348 ~ 1350) and is known for granting remission of sins for all who died during the plague. The exact date of his birth is not known.
343 ~ Saint Nicholas (b. Mar. 15, 270). Greek/Turkish bishop and saint. The exact date of his birth is not known, but it is often given as March 15. He died at age 73.
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