Birthdays:
1970 ~ Beck (né Bek David Campbell), American musician. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
1968 ~ Billy Crudup (né William Gaither Crudup), American actor. He was born in Manhasset, New York.
1958 ~ Kevin Bacon (né Kevin Norwood Bacon), American actor. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1958 ~ Tzipi Livni (née Tziporah Malka Livni), Israeli politician and 18th Justice Minister of Israel. She was born in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1952 ~ Anna Quindlen (née Anna Marie Quindlen), American columnist and novelist. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1951 ~ Anjelica Huston, American actress. She was born in Santa Monica, California.
1948 ~ Raffi (né Raffi Cavoukian), Egyptian musician. He is best known for his music for children. He was born in Cairo, Egypt.
1949 ~ Wolfgang Puck (né Wolfgang Johannas Topfschnig), Austrian-born celebrity chef. He was born in Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria.
1947 ~ Kim Darby (née Deborah Zerby), American actress, best known for her role as Mattie Ross in the 1969 film, True Grit. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1944 ~ Jeffrey Tambor (né Jeffrey Michael Tambor), American actor. He was born in San Francisco, California.
1934 ~ Marty Feldman (né Martin Alan Feldman; d. Dec. 2, 1982), English comedian and actor. He died of a heart attack at age 48.
1929 ~ Shirley Ann Grau, American author from New Orleans, Louisiana.
1926 ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (née Elisabeth Kübler; d. Aug. 24, 2004), Swiss-born psychiatrist who specialized in the study of death and dying. She died at age 78.
1926 ~ John Dingell (né John David Dingell, Jr.; d. Feb. 7, 2019), American political giant who shaped landmark laws. He was the longest-serving member of Congress, serving nearly 60 years in the United States House of Representatives as a representative from Michigan. He died at age 92.
1923 ~ Harrison Dillard (né William Harrison Dillard; d. Nov. 15, 2019), African-American star hurdler who became an Olympic legend. To date, he is the only male to win the gold medal in both the 100 meter and the 110 meter hurdles in the Olympics. He competed in the 1948 and in the 1952 Olympics. He was born and died in Cleveland, Ohio. He died at age 96.
1918 ~ Paul B. Fay (né Paul Burgess Fay, Jr.; d. Sept. 23, 2009), acting United States Secretary of the Navy in November 1963. He resigned after the assassination of President Kennedy. He died at age 91.
1916 ~ Jean Rouverol (d. Mar. 24, 2017), American screenwriter who became a Hollywood exile. She was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. She died at age 100.
1914 ~ Billy Eckstein (né William Clarence Eckstein; d. Mar. 8, 1993), African-American trumpet player and singer. He died at age 78.
1914 ~ Elisabeth Bing (née Elisabeth Dorothea Koenigsberger; d. May 15, 2015), German-born physical therapist and natural-birth campaigner who popularized Lamaze. Her family left Germany in 1933 to escape potential Nazi persecution. Her family had been Jewish, but converted to Protestantism before her birth. She was known as the Mother of Lamaze. She was born in Berlin, Germany. She died in New York New York. She was 100 years old.
1908 ~ Nelson A. Rockefeller (né Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller; d. Jan. 26, 1979), 41st Vice President of the United States. He served under President Gerald Ford from December 1974 until January 1977. He also served as the 49thGovernor of New York State from January 1959 until December 1973. He was the grandson of John D. Rockefeller, whose birthday was also on July 8. He was born in Bar Harbor, Maine. He died of a heart attack at age 70.
1906 ~ Philip Johnson (né Philip Cortelyou Johnson; d. Jan. 25, 2005), American architect gadfly who changed America’s skyline. He died at age 98.
1904 ~ Henri Cartan (né Henri Paul Cartan; d. Aug. 13, 2008), French mathematician. He made significant contributions to the field of algebraic topology. He died at age 104.
1898 ~ Alec Waugh (né Alexander Raban Waugh; d. Sept. 3, 1981) English writer. He was the brother of writer Evelyn Waugh. He was born in London, England. He died at age 83 in Tampa, Florida.
1895 ~ James P. McGranery (né James Patrick McGranery, d. Dec. 23, 1962), 61st United States Attorney General. He served under President Harry S Truman from April 1952 until January 1953. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 67 in Palm Beach, Florida.
1895 ~ Igor Tamm (d. Apr. 12, 1971), Russian physicist and recipient of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 75.
1894 ~ Pyotr Kapitsa (d. Apr. 8, 1984), Russian physicist and recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is best known for his work in low-temperatures physics. He was born when Russia still used the Julian calendar, so his birth date is sometimes given as June 26. He died at age 89.
1885 ~ Hugo Boss (né Hugo Ferdinand Boss; d. Aug. 9, 1948), 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.
1883 ~ Oszkár Gerde (d. Oct. 8, 1944), Hungarian athlete and two-time Olympic gold medalist in fencing in the 1908 and 1912 Olympic games. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He was murdered in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp during the Holocaust. He was 61 years old at the time of his death. In 1989, he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
1857 ~ Alfred Binet (d. Oct. 18, 1911), French psychologist. He devised the first practical intelligence test. He died at age 54.
1839 ~ John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (né John Davidson Rockefeller; d. May 23, 1937), American industrialist and philanthropist. He founded the Standard Oil Company as well as Rockefeller University. He died at age 97.
1838 ~ Eli Lilly (d. June, 6, 1898), American industrialist and pharmaceutical chemist. He was the founder of Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company. He died of cancer about a month before his 60th birthday.
1838 ~ Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (né Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin; d. Mar. 8, 1917), German aircraft manufacture and father of the Zeppelin. He died at age 78.
1831 ~ John Pemberton (né John Stith Pemberton; d. Aug. 16, 1888), American pharmacist and inventor of Coca-Cola. He was also a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War. He died at age 57 of stomach cancer.
1760 ~ Christian Kramp (d. May 13, 1826), French mathematician. He worked primarily with fractals. He died at age 65.
1621 ~ Jean de la Fontaine (d. Apr. 13, 1695), French fabulist and poet. He died at age 73.
Events that Changed the World:
2011 ~ The Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in the final mission of the United States Space Shuttle program.
1994 ~ Kim Jong-il (1941 ~ 2011) became the supreme leader of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung (1912 ~ 1994).
1960 ~ Francis Gary Powers (1929 ~ 1977), was charged with espionage by the Soviet Union as a result of his reconnaissance over that country. He would later be charged and sentenced to 10-years hard labor. In 1962, he was release to the United States in a prisoner exchange. This event was depicted in the book and the movie Bridge of Spies.
1948 ~ The United States Air Force accepted its first female recruits in its Women in the Air Force (WAF) Program.
1892 ~ St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1892.
1889 ~ The Wall Street Journal began its publication.
1730 ~ A massive earthquake struck in the southern Pacific Ocean causing considerable damage to Chile’s coastline.
1709 ~ Peter the Great (1672 ~ 1725) of Russia defeated King Charles XII (1682 ~ 1718) of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava during the Great Northern War
1663 ~ King Charles II of England (1630 ~ 1685) granted John Clarke (1609 ~ 1676) a Royal charter to what is now Rhode Island.
1497 ~ Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama (1460s ~ 1524), set sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
Good-Byes:
2018 ~ Tab Hunter (né Arthur Andrew Kelm; b. July 11, 1931), American Hollywood heartthrob who became a gay icon. He died of cardiac arrest 3 days before his 87th birthday.
2015 ~ Ken Stabler (né Kenneth Michael Stabler; b. Dec. 25, 1945), American football and one of the National Football League’s most successful quarterback. He partied as hard as he threw. Following his career as a football player, he became a sportscaster. He was born in Foley, Alabama and died in Gulfport, Mississippi. He was 69 years old.
2013 ~ Nadezhda Popova (b. Dec. 17, 1921), Russian “Night Witch” who bombed the Nazis. She was one of the first female Russian military pilots. During World War II, she joined a night bombing regiment and bombed Germany to revenge the death of her brother. She died at age 91.
2012 ~ Lionel Batiste (b. Feb. 11, 1931), African-American musician from New Orleans. He was born and died in New Orleans, Louisiana. He died at age 81.
2012 ~ Ernest Borgnine (né Ermes Effron Borgnino; b. Jan. 24, 1917), American actor whose tough guy act lasted 60 years. He died at age 95.
2011 ~ Betty Ford (née Elizabeth Ann Bloomer; b. Apr. 8, 1918), First Lady of the United States and wife of President Gerald Ford. She elevated candor to a public virtue. She died at age 93.
2010 ~ David Blackwell (né David Harold Blackwell; b. Apr. 24, 2010), African-American mathematician. He was the first African-American inducted into the National Academy of Science. He was born in Centralia, Illinois. He died in Berkley, California at age 91.
2008 ~ Sir John Templeton (né John Marks Templeton; b. Nov. 29, 1912), the American-born investor who helped fund the search for God. In 1968, he took British citizenship and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987. He died of pneumonia at age 95.
2006 ~ June Allyson (née Eleanor Geisman; b. Oct. 7, 1917), American actress, best known for her role as Timmy’s mother in Lassie. She died of respiratory failure at age 88.
1999 ~ Pete Conrad (né Charles Conrad, Jr.; b. June 2, 1930), American astronaut. He was a part of the Apollo 12 mission and became the 3rd man to walk on the moon. He died at age 69 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
1994 ~ Dick Sargent (né Richard Stanford Cox; b. Apr. 19, 1930), American actor. He is best known for his role as Darrin Stephens on the television sit-com Bewitched. He was the second actor to take that role. He died of prostate cancer at age 64.
1994 ~ Kim Il-sung (b. Apr. 15, 1912), 1st Eternal President of North Korea. He died at age 82.
1986 ~ Hyman Rickover (né Chaim Godalia Rockover; b. Jan. 27, 1900), American admiral. He was born in Poland. He is known as the Father of the Nuclear Navy. He died at age 86.
1985 ~ Simon Kuznets (né Simon Smith Kuznets; b. Apr. 30, 1901), Ukrainian economist and recipient of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was born in Pinsk, Belarus. He died at age 84 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1979 ~ Robert Burns Woodward (b. Apr. 10, 1917), American organic chemist and recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He died of a heart attack at age 62.
1979 ~ Michael Wilding (né Michael Charles Gauntlet Wilding; b. July 23, 1912), English actor and husband of Elizabeth Taylor. He died 15 days before his 67th birthday from head injuries resulting from a fall down a flight of stairs.
1979 ~ Shin’ichiro Tomonaga (b. Mar. 31, 1906), Japanese physicist and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 73.
1973 ~ Ben-Zion Dinur (b. Jan. 2, 1884), Russian-born Israeli educator and historian. He served as the 4th Israeli Minister of Education. He served as Minister of Education from 1951 until 1955. He died at age 89.
1971 ~ Kurt Reidemeister (né Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister; b. Oct. 13, 1893), German mathematician. He died at age 77.
1967 ~ Vivien Leigh (née Vivian Mary Hartley; b. Nov. 5, 1913), English actress, best known for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind. She was married to Lawrence Olivier and was known as Lady Olivier. She was born in Darjeeling, British India. She died of tuberculosis at age 53 in London, England.
1957 ~ Grace Coolidge (née Grace Anna Goodhue; b. Jan. 3, 1879), First Lady and wife of President Calvin Coolidge. She was born in Burlington, Vermont. She died of heart disease at age 78 in Northampton, Massachusetts.
1941 ~ Moses Schorr (b. May 10, 1874), Polish rabbi. He died in a Russian work camp in Uzbekistan at age 67.
1939 ~ Havelock Ellis (né Henry Havelock Ellis; b. Feb. 2, 1859), English psychologist, social reformer and author. He died at age 80.
1859 ~ King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (né Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte, d. July 4, 1799). He was King from March 1844 until his death in 1859. He died just 4 days after his 60th birthday.
1850 ~ Prince Adolphus (b. Feb 24, 1774), Duke of Cambridge, 10th child and 7th son of King George III of England and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He died at age 76.
1822 ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (b. Aug. 4, 1792), English poet. He drowned about a month before his 30th birthday.
1721 ~ Elihu Yale (b. Apr. 5, 1649), American–born Welch businessman and slave trader. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a major benefactor of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, which is named in his honor. He died at age 72.
1695 ~ Christiaan Huygens (b. Apr. 14, 1629), Dutch mathematician and astronomer. He died at age 66.
1623 ~ Pope Gregory XV (né Alessandro Ludovisi; b. Jan. 9, 1554). He was Pope from February 1621 until his death 2 years later. He died at age 69.
1153 ~ Pope Eugene III (né Pietro dei Paganelli di Montemagno; b. 1087). He was Pope from February 1145 until his death on this date 9 years later. The exact date of his birth is unknown.
975 ~ Edgar the Peaceful (b. 943), English king. The exact date of his birth is unknown. He is believed to have been about 31 or 32 at the time of his death.
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