Birthdays:
1974 ~ Eva Mendes (née Eva de La Carida Méendez), American actress. She was born in Miami, Florida.
1959 ~ Mike Byster (né Michael Byster), American mathematician and educator. He was born in Skokie, Illinois.
1956 ~ Teena Marie (née Mary Christine Brockert; d. Dec. 26, 2010), American singer-songwriter. She died at age 54.
1955 ~ Penn Jillette (né Penn Fraser Jillette), American magician and comedian, best known for his work with Raymond Joseph Teller, in their routine known as Penn and Teller. He was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
1950 ~ Eugene Fodor (né Eugene Nicholas Fodor, Jr.; d. Feb. 26, 2011), American violin virtuoso haunted by addiction. He was born in Denver, Colorado. He died of liver disease 7 days before his 61st birthday.
1948 ~ Jan van Beveren (d. June 26, 2011), Dutch-born soccer star who became a devoted coach in Texas. He died in Beaumont, Texas at age 63.
1938 ~ Lynn Margulis (née Lynn Petra Alexander; d. Nov. 22, 2011), American biologist and evolutionary theorist. Carl Sagan was her first husband. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She died at age 73 following a hemorrhagic stroke in Amherst, Massachusetts.
1936 ~ Dean Stockwell (né Robert Dean Stockwell), American actor. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
1934 ~ Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is the author of Thinking Fast and Slow. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1934 ~ James Sikking (né James Barrie Sikking), American actor. He is best known for his role as Lt. Howard Hunter on the television drama Hill Street Blues. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
1931 ~ Jerrie Cobb (née Geraldyn M. Cobb; d. Mar. 18, 2019), American space pioneer who was grounded by sexism. She was a member of the Mercury 13, a group of women selected to undergo the same psychological screening testing as the original Mercury Seven male astronauts. She was born in Norman, Oklahoma. She died 13 days after her 88th birthday.
1925 ~ Jacques Vergès (d. Aug. 15, 2013), Thai-French attorney who defended the indefensible. He defended such criminals and war criminals as Carlos the Jackal, Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy. He was born in Thiland. He died in Paris, France died at age 88.
1919 ~ Peter Florjančič (d. Nov. 14, 2020), Slovene inventor who lived large and spent big. He also participated as a ski-jumper in the 1936 Olympic games. Among his inventions are the perfume atomizer, a skiing treadmill and plastic photographic slide frames. He died at age 101.
1918 ~ James Tobin (d. Mar. 11, 2002), American economist and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He died 6 days after his 84th birthday in New Haven, Connecticut.
1915 ~ Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (d. July 4, 2002), French mathematician. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work in theory distributions. He died at age 87.
1908 ~ Sir Rex Harrison (né Reginald Carey Harrison; d. June 2, 1990), English actor best known for his role of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 82.
1901 ~ Louis Kahn (né Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; b. Mar. 17, 1974), Russian-American architect. He was born in Russia and the calendar in use at the time was the Julian calendar, so his birthday is sometimes noted as February 20th. He was born in the Russian Empire. He died in New York City of a heart attack shortly after his 73rd birthday.
1900 ~ Lilli Jahn (née Lilli Schlüchterer; d. June 18, 1944), German-Jewish physician. She perished in the Breitenau concentration camp during World War II. She became known following the posthumous publication of her letters to her children in which she described the conditions of her imprisonment in the concentration camp. She was murdered at age 44.
1898 ~ Zhou Enlai (d. Jan. 8, 1976), 1st Premier of the People’s Republic of China. He died at age 77.
1880 ~ Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (d. Oct. 26, 1968), Russian mathematician. He died at age 88.
1878 ~ Peter D. Ouspensky (d. Oct. 2, 1947), Russian mathematician. He died at age 69.
1871 ~ Rosa Luxemburg (né Rozalia Luksenburg; d. Jan. 15, 1919), Polish socialist revolutionary, Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and political activist. She was murdered by the Freikorps, a group was right-wing paramilitary group in Germany. She 47 at the time of her murder.
1870 ~ Frank Norris (né Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.; d. Oct. 25, 1902), American journalist and novelist. He is best known for his novels McTeague and The Octopus. He died at age 32 of peritonitis following a ruptured appendix.
1824 ~ James M. Ives (né James Merritt Ives; d. Jan. 3, 1895), American lithographer and businessman. He was a cofounder, along with Nathaniel Currier (1813 ~ 1888), of Currier and Ives. He died at age 70.
1817 ~ Angelo Genocchi (d. Mar. 7, 1889), Italian mathematician. He died 2 days after his 72nd birthday.
1815 ~ John Wentworth (d. Oct. 16, 1888), Mayor of Chicago. He served two non-consecutive terms as Mayor of Chicago. He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois. He was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire. He died at age 73.
1794 ~ Robert Cooper Grier (d. Sept. 25, 1870), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President James Polk. He replaced Henry Baldwin on the High Court. He was succeeded by William Strong. He served on the Court from August 1846 through January 1870. He died at age 76, just nine months following his retirement from the Court.
1794 ~ Jacques Babinet (d. Oct. 21, 1872), French physicist and mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to optics. He died at age 78.
1779 ~ Benjamin Gompertz (d. July 14, 1865), British mathematician and actuary. He is best known for his Gompertz law of mortality. He died at age 86.
1723 ~ Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. Jan. 14, 1772), Landgravine consort of Hesse-Kassel and first wife of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. She was the daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach. She was of the House of Hanover. She died at age 48.
1685 ~ George Frederic Handel (d. Apr. 14, 1759), German composer. [Note: the date of his birth is sometimes shown as Feb. 23, because of the calendar in use at the time of his birth.] He died at age 74.
1658 ~ Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (d. Oct. 16, 1730), French explorer and founder of Detroit, Michigan. His explorations took him from eastern Canada to Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico. He was the third French Governor of Louisiana. He died at age 72.
1575 ~ William Oughtred (d. June 30, 1660), English mathematician and Anglican priest. He died at age 86.
1563 ~ Sir John Coke (d. Sept. 8, 1644), English politician. He died at age 81.
1512 ~ Gerardus Mercantor (né Geert de Kremer; d. Dec. 2. 1594), Flemish mapmaker and mathematician. He developed the Mercantor projection, a way of showing the earth on a flat sheet. He died at age 82.
1326 ~ King Louis I of Hungary (d. Sept. 10, 1382). He was known as Louis the Great. He was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 until his death 40 years later. He died at age 56.
1324 ~ King David II of Scotland (d. Feb. 22, 1371). He was King from June 1329 until his death 42 years later. His first wife was Joan of England; his second wife was Margaret Drummond. He and his wives had no children. He was the last male heir of the House of Bruce. He died 11 days before his 47th birthday.
1133 ~ King Henry II of England (d. July 6, 1189). He was King from December 1154 until his death 35 years later. He was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine. He died at age 56.
905 ~ Pope Agapetus II (d. Nov. 8, 955). He was Pope from May 10, 1946 until his death 8 and a half years ago. He was 50 years old at the time of his death. The exact date of his birth is not known, but is sometimes ascribed to March 5, 905.
Events that Changed the World:
2019 ~ Mardi Gras.
2004 ~ Martha Stewart (b. 1941) was found guilty of obstructing justice.
2003 ~ A Hamas suicide bomber set off a bomb on a bus in Haifa, Israel, killing 17 Israelis.
1960 ~ Cuban photographer, Alberto Korda (1928 ~ 2001), took his iconic photograph of Che Guevara (1928 ~ 1967).
1946 ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874 ~ 1965) coined the term “Iron Curtain”, which came to mean events in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
1872 ~ George Westinghouse, Jr. (1846 ~ 1914) received a patent for the air break.
1836 ~ Samuel Colt (1814 ~ 1862) made the first production-model of the .34 caliber revolver.
1770 ~ British soldiers opened fire on rioters and killed five people in the “Boston Massacre.” This incident was the spark that ultimately led to the American Revolutionary War.
1766 ~ Antonio de Ulloa (1716 ~ 1795), the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrived in New Orleans.
1616 ~ Nicolaus Copernicus’s book, De Revolutionbus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres) was banned by the Catholic Church. This book was the first to state that the earth and all the planets rotated around the sun.
1496 ~ King Henry VII of England (1457 ~ 1509) issued letters of patent to John Cabot (1450 ~ 1500) authorizing him to explore unknown lands in the “New World.”
Good-Byes:
2015 ~ Albert Maysles (b. Nov. 26, 1926), American filmmaker. Albert, along with his brother David (1931 ~ 1987), transformed the documentary. They are best known for the film, Grey Gardens. He was 88 years old at the time of his death.
2013 ~ Hugo Chávez (né Hugo Rafael Frías Chávez; b. July 28, 1954), President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013. He died of cancer at age 58.
2008 ~ Robert Haldane (b. 1924), American army officer who fought an underground enemy in Operation Crimp during the Vietnam War. He died of cancer at age 83.
1982 ~ John Belushi (né John Adam Belushi; b. Jan. 24, 1949), American actor and comedian. He died of a drug overdose at age 33.
1980 ~ Jay Silverheels (né Harold John Smith; b. May 26, 1912), First Nation Mohawk actor, best known as Tonto, companion of the Lone Ranger on the television show of the same name. He died of a stroke at age 67.
1963 ~ Patsy Cline (née Virginia Patterson Hensley; b. Sept. 8, 1932), American singer. She was killed in a private plane crash. She was 30 years old.
1953 ~ Sergei Prokofiev (b. Apr. 27, 1891), Russian composer. He is best known for composing Peter and the Wolf. He died at age 61.
1953 ~ Joseph Stalin (b. Dec. 18, 1878), leader and dictator of the Soviet Union. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 74.
1950 ~ Edgar Lee Masters (b. Aug. 23, 1868), American poet, best known for his Spoon River Anthology. He died at age 81.
1945 ~ János Garay (b. Feb. 23, 1889), Hungarian fencer. He was a gold medalist in the 1928 Summer Olympics in fencing. He was murdered in the Mauthausen-Guesen concentration camp during the Holocaust. He was killed 10 days after his 56th birthday. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He was one of over 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary after the 1944 occupation of Germany.
1929 ~ David Dunbar Buick (b. Sept. 17, 1854), Scottish-born American automotive executive and founder of the Buick company. He died at age 74.
1927 ~ Franz Mertens (b. Mar. 20, 1840), Polish mathematician. He died 15 days before his 87th birthday.
1925 ~ Johan Jensen (d. May 8, 1859), Danish mathematician. He died at age 65.
1896 ~ Frederic T. Greenhalge (Frederick Thomas Greenhalgh; b. July 19, 1842), 38th Governor of Massachusetts. He was elected for three consecutive terms as Governor, but died early into his third term. He was governor from January 1894 until March 1896. He was born in the United Kingdom. He died of kidney disease in Lowell, Massachusetts at age 53.
1849 ~ Mary Lyon (née Mary Mason Lyon; b. Feb. 28, 1797), American pioneer in women’s education. She founded the Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts and was its first president. She was born in Buckland, Massachusetts and died in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She died of an acute skin infection at just a week after her 52nd birthday.
1827 ~ Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (b. Mar. 23, 1749), French mathematician and astronomer. He died 18 days before his 78th birthday.
1827 ~ Alessandro Volta (b. Feb. 18, 1745), Italian physicist and pioneer in electricity. He is credited with inventing the battery. He is also credited with being the discoverer of methane. He died about 2 weeks after his 82nd birthday.
1797 ~ Empress Xiaoshurui (b. Oct. 2, 1760), Chinese empress consort of the Qing dynasty. She was the wife of Jiaquig Emperor. She died at age 36.
1778 ~ Thomas Arne (né Thomas Augustine Arne; b. Mar. 12, 1710), British composer. He is best known for writing England’s national anthem, God Save the King. He died 7 days before his 68th birthday.
1534 ~ Antonio de Correggio (b. August 1489), Italian painter. The exact date of his birth is unknown.
254 ~ Pope Lucius I (b. 200). He was Pope from June 253 until his death on this date 10 months later. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 54 at the time of his death.
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