Birthdays:
1969 ~ Cory Booker (né Cory Anthony Booker), African-American politician. He is a United States Senator from New Jersey. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 presidential election. He was born in Washington, D.C.
1967 ~ Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands. He became King on April 30, 2013 following the abdication of his mother, Beatrix. In 2002, he married Máxima Zorreguleta Cerruti (b. May 17, 1971). They have 3 daughters. He is of the House of Orange-Nassau. He is the son of Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands and Claus von Amsberg. He is of the Protestant Church of the Netherlands.
1945 ~ August Wilson (né Frederick August Kettel, Jr.; d. Oct. 2, 2005), African-American author and playwright. He died of cancer at age 60.
1941 ~ Fethullah Gülen (né Muhammed Fethullah Gülen), Turkish theologian.
1939 ~ Judy Carne (née Joyce Audrey Botterill; d. Sept. 3, 2015), British actress. She is best known for her performances in Laugh-In. She died of pneumonia at age 76.
1932 ~ Gian-Carlo Rota (d. Apr. 18, 1999), Italian-born mathematician. He died of cardiac arrest 9 days before his 67th birthday.
1932 ~ Casey Kasem (né Kemal Amin Kasem; d. June 15, 2014), American radio disc jockey and personality, best known for being the host of American Top 40. He democratized rock ‘n roll. He died at age 82.
1932 ~ Anouk Aimée (née Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus), French actress.
1927 ~ Coretta Scott King (né Coretta Scott; d. Jan. 30, 2006), African-American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. She died of ovarian cancer at age 78 years old.
1923 ~ Jean Harris (née Jean Struven; d. Dec. 23, 2012), American educator who murdered her lover. She was the headmistress of the Madeira School for girls in Virginia. She was in a relationship with Herman Tarnowner. After she discovered that he had another girlfriend, she killed him. She was convicted of his murder and sent to prison. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She died in New Haven, Connecticut at age 89.
1922 ~ Jack Klugman (né Jacob Joachim Klugman; d. Dec. 24, 2012), American actor. He is best known for his role as Oscar Madison on the television sit-com, The Odd Couple. He died at age 90.
1921 ~ John Stott (né John Robert Walmsley Stott; d. July 27, 2011), British Anglican priest and Christian who evangelized the world. He died at age 90.
1920 ~ Mark Krasnosel’skii (d. Feb. 13, 1997), Ukrainian mathematician. He is best known for his work on nonlinear functional analysis. He died at age 76.
1916 ~ Enos Slaughter (né Enos Bradsher Slaughter; d. Aug. 12, 2002), American baseball player. He died at age 86.
1913 ~ Irving Adler (d. Sept. 22, 2012), American mathematician. He died in Bennington, Vermont at age 99.
1899 ~ Walter Lantz (né Walter Benjamin Lantz; d. Mar. 22, 1994), American animator, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for creating such cartoon characters as Woody Woodpecker. He died of heart failure a month before his 95th birthday.
1896 ~ Wallace Carothers (né Wallace Hume Carothers; d. Apr. 29, 1937), American organic chemist who, while working at DuPont, invented nylon. He died by suicide 2 days after his 41st birthday.
1891 ~ Sergei Prokofiev (d. Mar. 5, 1953), Russian composer. He is best known for composing Peter and the Wolf. He died at age 61.
1848 ~ Otto, King of Bavaria (d. Oct. 11, 1916). He reigned as King of Bavaria from June 13, 1886 until November 5, 1913. He never actively ruled, however, due to alleged severe mental illness. He was deposed in November 1913, following legislation allowing his cousin, Ludwig to do so. Ludwig then became Ludwig III, King of Bavaria. He never married and had no known children. He was of the House of Wittelsbach. He was the son of Maximilian II, King of Bavaria and Marie of Prussia. He was Roman Catholic. He died at age 68.
1827 ~ Mary Ward (née Mary King; d. Aug. 31, 1869), Irish astronomer and entomologist. She was killed at age 42 when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam vehicle. She is the first person known to have been killed by a motor vehicle.
1822 ~ Ulysses S. Grant (né Hiram Ulysses Grant, d. July 23, 1885), General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and 18th President of the United States. He was President from March 1969 through March 1877. He has previously served as General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He died of throat cancer at age 63.
1791 ~ Samuel Morse (né Samuel Finley Breese Morse; d. Apr. 2, 1872), American painter and inventor of the Morse code. His contribution greatly advanced the use of the commercial telegraph. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He died three weeks before his 81st birthday.
1759 ~ Mary Wollstonecraft (d. Sept. 10, 1797), English author and early feminist, best known for her book, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She died at age 38 of complications following childbirth.
1755 ~ Marc-Antoine Parseval (d. Aug. 16, 1836), French mathematician. He died at age 81.
1650 ~ Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d. Mar. 27, 1714), Queen consort of Denmark and wife of Christian V, King of Denmark. They had 8 children. She was of the House of Hesse-Kassel. She was the daughter of William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and Hedwig Sophia of Brandenburg. She died of smallpox a month before her 64thbirthday. The city of Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands is named in her honor.
1593 ~ Mumtaz Mahal (d. June 17, 1631) died during the birth of her 14th child. She was 38 years old. She was the third and favorite wife of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan I (1592 ~ 1666), who spent the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.
Events that Changed the World:
2019 ~ During services celebrating the last day of Passover in a Chabad synagogue outside of San Diego, California, a gunman opened fire, killing one woman and injuring three others. The gunman was later arrested.
2014 ~ A tornado outbreak over much of the eastern portion of the United States killed 45 people.
2011 ~ Over 200 tornados touched down in the Southeastern United States, especially in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. During the tornado outbreak, which occurred from April 25 through April 28, over 300 people were killed and scores were injured in the devastation caused by the storms.
2010 ~ Standard & Poor’s downgraded Greece’s sovereign credit rating to junk.
1987 ~ The United States Department of Justice banned Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (1918 ~ 2007) from entering the United States because he had been involved in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews while serving as a German Army officer during World War II.
1967 ~ Expo 67 officially opened in Montreal, Canada in a ceremony that was broadcast around the world.
1865 ~ The steamboat, SS Sultana, exploded and sank into the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee. The boat’s passenger list was comprised of many Union soldiers who had survived the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons. Of the 2,400 passengers aboard the steamboat, over 1,700 were killed.
1865 ~ The New York State Senate created Cornell University as the state’s land grant institution.
1861 ~ President Abraham Lincoln (1809 ~ 1865) suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
1810 ~ Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 ~ 1827) composed his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
1667 ~ John Milton (1608 ~ 1674), who was blind and impoverished, sold the copyright of his book, Paradise Lostfor £10.
1570 ~ Pope Pius V (1504 ~ 1572) issued the Regnans in Excelsis (Reigning on High) that declared England’s Queen Elizabeth I (1533 ~ 1603) a heretic, thereby releasing her subjects from their allegiance to her.
711 ~ Islamic Moorish troops landed in Gibraltar and began their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.
Good-Byes:
2012 ~ Moose Skowron (né William Joseph Skowron; b. Dec. 18, 1930), American All-Star first baseman. He played 13 seasons in the major league from 1954 to 1967, playing with such teams as the Yankees, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Washington Senators and the Chicago White Sox. He died at age 81.
2002 ~ Ruth Handler (né Ruth Marianna Mosko; b. Nov. 4, 1916), American toymaker and creator of the Barbie doll. She was president of the Mattel toy company. She died of colon cancer at age 85.
1999 ~ Al Hirt (né Alois Maxwell Hirt; b. Nov. 7, 1922), American trumpeter. He was born and died in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2009. He died at age 76.
1996 ~ William Colby (né William Egan Colby; b. Jan. 4, 1920), 10th Director of the Central Intelligence. He served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford from September 1973 until January 1996. He died in what appeared to be a boating accident. He took off on a canoe on April 27, 1996. His body was discovered on May 6, 1996. Although the coroner determined that he died drowning after having suffered a stroke or heart attack, there has been speculation that his death may have been due to foul play or suicide. He was 76 years old.
1978 ~ Guido Stampacchia (b. Mar. 26, 1926), Italian mathematician. He died of a heart attack a month after his 52nd birthday.
1965 ~ Edward R. Murrow (né Egbert Roscoe Murrow; d. Apr. 25, 1908), American broadcast journalist. He died of lung cancer 2 days after his 57th birthday.
1952 ~ Guido Castelnuovo (b. Aug. 14, 1865), Italian mathematician. He died at age 86.
1938 ~ Edmund Husserl (né Edmund Gustav Albrecht Hesserl; b. Apr. 8, 1859), Austrian mathematician. He died 19 days after his 79th birthday.
1936 ~ Karl Pearson (b. Mar. 27, 1857), English statistician and mathematician. He died a month after his 79thbirthday.
1932 ~ Hart Crane (né Harold Hart Crane; b. July 21, 1899), American writer. He is believed to have intentionally died by suicide at age 32 by throwing himself off a steamship.
1915 ~ John Labatt (b. Dec. 11, 1838), Canadian businessman and brewer. He was the founder of the Labatt’s Brewing Company. He died at age 76.
1902 ~ Julius Sterling Morton (b. Apr. 22, 1832), 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture. He served in that Office from March 1893 until March 1897 in the Grover Cleveland administration. He died 5 days after his 70th birthday.
1886 ~ Henry Hobson Richardson (b. Sept. 29, 1838), American architect. He designed Trinity Church in Copley Square in Boston. He was born in St. James Parish, Louisiana. He died in Brookline, Massachusetts at age 47 of Bright’s disease.
1882 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (b. May 25, 1803), American essayist, poet and philosopher. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died in Concord, Massachusetts less than a month before his 79th birthday.
1813 ~ Zebulon Pike (né Zebulon Montgomery Pike; b. Jan. 5, 1779), American army officer, frontiersman and explorer. Pikes Peak in Colorado is named for him. He was killed in action age 34 in the Battle of York during the War of 1812.
1605 ~ Pope Leo XI (né Alessandro Ottaviano de’ Medici; b. June 2, 1535). He was Pope for less that a month, from April 1 until April 27, 1605. He died at age 69.
1521 ~ Ferdinand Magellan (b. 1480), Portuguese explorer who was killed by natives in the Philippines. He is believed to have been about 40 years old at the time of his death. The exact date of his birth is unknown.
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