Birthdays:
2011 ~ Kimmie Lynum (née Kimora Lynum; d. July 17, 2020), fun-loving African-American Florida girl who was due to start fourth grade, but became the State’s youngest Covid-19 victim. She was born in Gainesville, Florida. She died at age 9.
1984 ~ Elizabeth Holmes (née Elizabeth Anne Holmes), American fraudster and founder of Theranos, a health-care company. Elizabeth claimed to have developed a revolutionary method for detecting numerous diseases from just a drop of blood. In 2018, the SEC charged her and her company with fraud. The downfall of Theranos is described in the 2018 book, Bad Blood, by investigative journalist John Carreyrou. She was born in Washington, D.C.
1976 ~ Isla Fisher (née Isla Lang Fisher), Australian actress and wife of Sacha Baron Cohen. She was born in Muscat, Oman.
1969 ~ Beau Biden (né Joseph Robinette Biden, III; d. May 30, 2015), American son of Vice President Joseph Biden who dedicated his life to public service. He served as the 44th Attorney General of Delaware. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He died in Bethesda, Maryland. He had suffered from brain cancer and was 46 years old at the time of his death.
1965 ~ Maura Tierney, American actress. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1958 ~ Milutin Dostanić (d. Jan. 14, 2014), Serbian mathematician. He died in Belgrade 20 days before his 56thbirthday.
1957 ~ Eric Lander (né Eric Steven Lander), American mathematician and geneticist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1956 ~ Nathan Lane (né Joseph Lane), American actor. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1948 ~ Henning Mankell (né Henning Georg Mankell; d. Oct. 5, 2015), Swedish author, known for his novel, A Treacherous Paradise. He died of cancer at age 67.
1948 ~ Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorese Catholic bishop and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in Wailakama, Portuguese Timor.
1947 ~ Paul Auster (né Paul Benjamin Auster), American novelist and film director. He was born in Newark, New Jersey.
1947 ~ Stephen McHattie (né Stephen McHattie Smith), Canadian actor. He was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1943 ~ Blythe Danner (né Blythe Katherine Danner), American actress. She is also the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1925 ~ Shelley Berman (né Sheldon Leonard Berman; d. Sept. 1, 2017), American comedian who found humor in angst. He died at age 92.
1920 ~ Henry Heimlich (né Henry Judah Heimlich; d. Dec. 17, 2016), American thoracic surgeon who developed the Heimlich Maneuver, a technique for removing an obstacle lodged in one’s throat to prevent a patient from choking. He died at age 96.
1918 ~ Joey Bishop (né Joseph Abraham Gottlieb; d. Oct. 17, 2007), American deadpan comic who was the last member of the Rat Pack. He died at age 89.
1917 ~ Shlomo Goren (d. Oct. 29, 1994), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israeli. He died at age 77.
1909 ~ Simone Weil (née Simone Adolohine Weil; d. Aug. 24, 1943), French philosopher. Her brother was the mathematician Andre Weil. She died at age 34 of cardiac failure.
1907 ~ James Michener (né James Albert Michener; d. Oct. 16, 1997), American novelist best known for writing long historical sagas. He died at age 90.
1906 ~ George Adamson (b. Aug. 20, 1989), British wildlife conservationist. He and his wife, Joy Adamson (1910 ~ 1980), were best known for their book Born Free, about Elsa the orphaned lioness cub. He was murdered at age 83 by bandits near his camp in the Kora National Park in Kenya. Ironically, his wife had also been murdered 9 years earlier.
1905 ~ Arne Beurling (né Arne Carl-August Beurling; d. Nov. 20, 1986), Swedish mathematician. He died at age 81.
1904 ~ Pretty Boy Floyd (né Charles Arthur Floyd; d. Oct. 22, 1934), American gangster and notorious bank robber. He was shot and killed by FBI agents in Ohio. He was 30 years old.
1894 ~ Norman Rockwell (né Norman Perceval Rockwell; d. Nov. 8, 1978), American illustrator. He is best known for creating the covers for The Saturday Evening Post. He died at age 84.
1893 ~ Gaston Julia (né Gaston Maurice Julia; d. Mar. 19, 1978), French mathematician. He died at age 85.
1874 ~ Gertrude Stein (d. July 27, 1946), American writer and art collector. She died following surgery for stomach cancer at age 72.
1862 ~ James McReynolds (né James Clark McReynolds; d. Aug. 24, 1946), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Woodrow Wilson. He replaced Horace Lurton on the Court and was succeeded by James Byrnes. He was known for his anti-Semitism, racism and misogyny views, which led to conflicts with his fellow Justices, especially Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo and Felix Frankfurter, who were both Jewish. He served on the High Court from August 1914 until January 1941. He was one of the conservative justices who often voted to strike down New Deal Programs. He had previously served as the 48th United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson. He was born in Elkton, Kentucky. He died in Washington, D.C., at age 84.
1857 ~ Giuseppe Moretti (d. Feb. 21, 1935), Italian sculptor and designer of the Vulcan statue in Birmingham, Alabama. The statute, which is made from iron from the Birmingham area, was created as the city’s entry into the 1904 World’s Fair, which was held in St. Louis, Missouri. He died 18 days after his 78th birthday.
1830 ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (d. Aug. 22, 1903), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as Prime Minister for 3 terms during the reigns of Queen Victoria and Edward VII. He died at age 73.
1826 ~ Walter Bagehot (d. Mar. 24, 1877), British journalist, businessman and essayist. He died at age 51.
1821 ~ Elizabeth Blackwell (d. May 31, 1910), British-born physician first woman to received a medical degree in the United States. She died at age 89.
1811 ~ Horace Greeley (d. Nov. 29, 1872), American journalist and politician. He is credited with coining the phrase: Go West, Young Man! He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He was born in Amherst, New Hampshire. He died at age 61.
1809 ~ Felix Mendelssohn (né Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; d. Nov. 4, 1847), German composer. He died following a series of strokes at age 38.
1747 ~ Samuel Osgood (d. Aug. 12, 1813), United States Postmaster General. He was appointed to this position by President George Washington. He served as Postmaster General from September 1789 until August 1791. He was the 4th Postmaster General in the United States, but the 1st to hold this position under the United States Constitution. He was born in Andover, Massachusetts. He died at age 66.
1338 ~ Joanna of Bourbon (d. Feb. 6, 1378), Queen consort of France through her marriage to Charles V of France. She died 3 days after her 40th birthday of complications of childbirth.
Events that Changed the World:
2019 ~ The New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl LIII, which was played in Atlanta, Georgia in a score of 13 - 3. In the previous playoff game between the Rams and the New Orleans Saints, a referee made a bad call in the final few minutes of the game, which gave the Rams the ability to win.
2013 ~ The Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII, which was played in New Orleans. During the course of the game there was a power outage in the SuperDome, which suspended the game for approximately 30 minutes.
1995 ~ Astronaut Eileen Collins (b. 1956) became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle.
1984 ~ Dr. John Buster (né John Edmund Buster; b. 1941) and his research team announced that they had performed the first human embryo transfer from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1972 ~ The Iran Blizzard of February 1972 was the deadliest blizzard in history. The severe storm, which lasted nearly a week, began with low temperatures and almost 10 feet of snow fell across rural areas of the country. In southern Iran, more than 4,000 were buried in the snow.
1969 ~ Yasser Arafat (1929 ~ 2004) was appointed as the Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress that was held in Cairo, Egypt.
1959 ~ In an incident that became known as The Day the Music Died, a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa killed Buddy Holly (1936 ~ 1959), Ritchie Valens (1941 ~ 1959) and the Big Bopper (né Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.; 1930 ~ 1959), as well as the pilot of the plane.
1931 ~ The Hawke’s Bay earthquake in New Zealand killed 258 people.
1913 ~ The 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, thereby authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income taxes.
1870 ~ The 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, thereby guaranteeing the right to vote to citizens regardless of race.
1783 ~ Spain recognized the United States as a country independent from Great Britain following the American Revolutionary War.
1690 ~ The colony of Massachusetts issued the first paper money in the Americas.
1637 ~ Tulip mania collapsed in what is now the Netherlands after sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
1488 ~ Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias (1451 ~ 1500) landed in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope. He is the first recorded European known to have traveled so far south. He later died when his ship was lost at sea.
1451 ~ Sultan Mehmed II (1432 ~ 1481) inherited the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ Kristoff St. John (b. July 15, 1966), African-American actor. He portrayed Neil Winters on The Young and the Restless. He died of heart failure at age 52. He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles.
2019 ~ Julie Adams (née Betty May Adams; b. Oct. 17, 1926), American actress who survived the Black Lagoon. She also had a recurring role as real estate agent Eve Simpson on the television mystery drama Murder, She Wrote. She died at age 92.
2015 ~ Sir Martin Gilbert (né Martin John Gilbert; b. Oct. 25, 1936), British historian. He was born and died in London, England. He died at age 78.
2015 ~ Charlie Sifford (né Charles Luther Sifford; b. June 2, 1922), African-American professional golfer who shattered racial barriers. He was the first African-American to play on the PGA tour. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2004. He was known for chomping on a cigar while on the links. He died at age 92.
2014 ~ Gloria Leonard (née Gale Sandra Klinetsky; b. Aug. 28, 1940), American porn star who became a publisher of High Society, a pornographic magazine. She was also a pioneer in telephone sex. She died of a stroke at age 73.
2014 ~ Joan Mondale (née Joan Adams; b. Aug. 8, 1930), American wife of Vice President Walter Mondale. She was born in Eugene, Oregon. She died at age 83 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2012 ~ Ben Gazzara (né Biago Anthony Gazzarra; b. Aug. 28, 1930), American actor. He was the brooding actor of stage and film. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 81.
2011 ~ Maria Schneider (née Maria-Hélène Schneider; b. Mar. 27, 1952), French actress best known for her role in The Last Tango in Paris. She was the vulnerable actress who tangoed with Marlon Brando. She died of breast cancer at age 58.
2003 ~ Natascha Artin Brunswick (née née Natalya Naumovna Yasnay; b. June 11, 1909), Russian-born American mathematician and photographer. She was married to Emil Artin, also a mathematician. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. She died at age 93 in Princeton, New Jersey.
1996 ~ Audrey Meadows (née Audrey Cotter; b. Feb. 8, 1922), American actress. She is best known for her role as Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners. She died of lung cancer 5 days before her 70th birthday.
1991 ~ Nancy Kulp (née Nancy Jane Kulp; b. Aug. 28, 1921), American actress best known for her role as Miss Jane on the Beverly Hillbillies. She died of cancer at age 69.
1989 ~ John Cassavetes (né John Nicholas Cassavetes; b. Dec. 9, 1929), American actor and film director. He died of liver disease at age 59.
1985 ~ Frank Oppenheimer (né Frank Friedman Oppenhaimer; b. Aug. 14, 1912), American particle physicist. He was involved in the Manhattan Project. He died of cancer at age 72.
1980 ~ Hanna Rovina (b. Sept. 15, 1893), Israeli actress. She died at age 91 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1970 ~ Heinrich Behmann (b. Jan. 10, 1891), German mathematician. He was a member of the Nazi Party. He was born and died in Breman, Germany. He died 24 days after his 79th birthday.
1961 ~ Anna May Wong (b. Jan. 3, 1905), Asian-American actress. She was a Cinematic trailblazer. She is considered the first Chinese-American Hollywood movie star. She became a silent film star in the 1920s. Because of miscegenation laws prevented interracial couples to appear on screen, her acting opportunities were limited to stereotype roles. She moved to Europe where audiences were more receptive to her talents. She ultimately returned to the United States and continued to speak out against discrimination. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She died of a heart attack a month after her 56th birthday in Santa Monica, California.
1959 ~ Musicians killed in the plane crash The Day the Music Died:
v 1959 ~ Ritchie Valens (né Richard Steven Valenzuela; b. May 13, 1941), Mexican-American singer who was killed in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. He was 17 years old.
v 1959 ~ Buddy Holly (né Charles Hardin Holly; b. Sept. 7, 1936), American singer. American singer who was killed in a plane crash along with Ritchie Vallens and the Big Bopper. He was 22 years old.
v 1959 ~ The Big Bopper (né Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.; b. Oct. 24, 1930), American singer who was killed in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Vallens. He was 28 years old.
1956 ~ Émile Borel (né Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel; b. Jan. 7, 1871), French mathematician, known for his work in areas of measure theory and probability. He died less than a month after his 85th birthday.
1952 ~ Harold L. Ickes (né Harold LeClair Ickes; b. Mar. 15, 1874), 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman. He served in that Office from March 1933 until Feb. 1946. He died at age 77.
1951 ~ August Horch (b. Oct 12, 1868), German engineer and automobile pioneer. He was the founder of Audi. He died at age 82.
1929 ~ Agner Krarup Erlang (b. Jan. 1, 1878), Danish mathematician and engineer. He invented the field of traffic engineering. He died a month after his 51st birthday following abdominal surgery.
1925 ~ Oliver Heaviside (b. May 18, 1850), English engineer and mathematician. He died at age 74 following a fall from a ladder.
1924 ~ Woodrow Wilson (né Thomas Woodrow Wilson; b. Dec. 28, 1856), 28th President of the United States and recipient of the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize. He was President from March 1913 until March 1921. He died at age 67.
1922 ~ John Butler Yeats (b. Mar. 16, 1939), Irish artist and father of the poet William Butler Yeats. He died at age 82.
1889 ~ Belle Starr (née Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr; b. February 5, 1848), American Wild West outlaw. She was killed 2 days before her 41st birthday under mysterious circumstances. Her murderer was never found.
1862 ~ Jean-Baptiste Biot (b. Apr. 21, 1774), French physicist, mathematician and astronomer. He was born and died in Paris, France. He died at age 87.
1737 ~ Tommaso Ceva (b. Dec. 20, 1648), Italian mathematician and Jesuit priest. He died at age 88.
1468 ~ Johannes Gutenberg (b. 1400), German publisher credited with inventing the printing press. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been about 67 or 68 at the time of his death.
1399 ~ John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (b. Mar. 6, 1340), Belgian-English politician and father of Henry IV, King of England. He was married three times: first to Blanche of Lancaster; second to Constance of Castile; and finally to Katherine Swynford. He died about a month before his 59th birthday.
1161 ~ Inge I (né Inge Haraldsson; b. 1135), King of Norway from1136 until Feb. 1161. He was known as Inge the Hunchback. He was of the House of Gille. The exact date of his birth is not known.
1116 ~ Coloman (b. 1070), King of Hungary. He was king from 1095 until his death in 1116. He was known as Coloman the Learned because he was very scholarly. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been about 45 or 46 at the time of his death.
1014 ~ Sweyn Forkbeard (b. 960), King of Denmark, Norway and England. The exact date of his birth is not known.
6 CE ~ Ping (b. 9 BCE), Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. The exact date of his birth is not known. He died at age 14.
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