Birthdays:
1970 ~ Kevin Smith (né Kevin Patrick Smith), American actor and film director. He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey.
1964 ~ Mary-Louise Parker, American actress. She was born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
1959 ~ Victoria Jackson, American actress best known for being a part of the cast of Saturday Night Live from 1986 until 1992. She was born in Miami, Florida.
1955 ~ Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian. He is best known for his novel The Alienist. He was born in Manhattan, New York.
1950 ~ Lance Ito (né Lance Allen Ito), American judge. He is best known for being the judge who presided over the OJ Simpson murder trial. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
1949 ~ James Fallows (né James Mackenzie Fallows), American writer and journalist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1948 ~ Dennis Prager (né Dennis Mark Prager), American rabbi. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1942 ~ Isabel Allende (née Isabel Angélica Allende Llona), Chilean novelist. She was born in Lima, Peru when her father worked at the Chilean embassy.
1941 ~ Jules A. Hoffmann, French biologist and recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in Echternach, Luxembourg.
1939 ~ Wes Craven (né Wesley Earl Craven; d. Aug 30, 2015), American film director who was the master of horror creating the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and bringing Freddy Krueger to life. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He died of brain cancer 28 days after his 76th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1939 ~ John W. Snow (né John William Snow), 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury. He served under President George W. Bush from February 2003 until June 2006. He was born in Toledo, Ohio.
1937 ~ Billy Cannon (né William Abb Cannon; d. May 20, 2018), 1959 winner of football’s Heisman trophy winner when he played at Louisiana State University. He was later involved in a counterfeiting scheme and was sentenced to 5 years at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana. He was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He died in St. Francesville, Louisiana at age 80.
1934 ~ Stuart Bowyer (né Charles Stuart Bowyer; d. Sept. 23, 2020), American astronomer. He persuaded NASA to launch the first satellite capable of observing extreme ultraviolet radiation and helped the University of California ~ Berkeley become a world leader in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He was born in Toledo, Ohio. He died at age in Orinda, California of Covid-19.
1932 ~ Peter O’Toole (né Peter Seamus O’Toole; d. Dec. 14, 2013), Irish actor. He is best known for his role as T.E. Lawrence in the 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia. He was born in Leeds, England. He died at age 81 in London, England.
1929 ~ Vic Branden, Jr. (né Victor Kenneth Branden, Jr.; d. Oct. 6, 2014), American tennis player and sporting ambassador who popularized tennis. He was born in Monroe, Michigan. He died at age 85 in Trabuco Canyon, California.
1927 ~ Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet (né Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer; d. Dec. 26, 2018), British mathematician known for his work in number theory. He died at age 91.
1925 ~ Jorge Rafael Videla (d. May 17, 2013), 43rd President of Argentina and head of Argentina’s military junta from 1976 to 1981. After the return of the democratic government, he was prosecuted for human rights violations and crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to life in prison. He was pardoned after having served 5 years in jail. He was subsequently tried and convicted for his participation in a scheme to steal babies from parents detained for political reasons during his reign. He died at age 87.
1924 ~ James Baldwin (né James Arthur Baldwin; d. Dec. 1, 1987), African-American writer and political activist. He is best known for his first novel, To Tell It on the Mountain. He was born in Harlem, New York. He died of stomach cancer at age 63 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.
1924 ~ Carroll O’Connor (né John Carroll O’Connor; d. June 21, 2001), American actor, best known for his role as Archie Bunker on the TV series, All in the Family. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He died of a heart attack at age 76 in Culver City, California.
1924 ~ Alan Abel (né Alan Irwin Able; d. Sept. 14, 2018), American professional prankster who fooled America. He is best known for creating several hoaxes that became media circuses. In the 1950s he created SINA (the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals), to protest censorship. SINA’s mission was to clothe animals. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio. He died at age 94 in Southbury, Connecticut.
1923 ~ Shimon Peres (né Szymon Perski; d. Sept. 28, 2016), Israeli politician. He served as Prime Minister of Israel from November 1995 until June 18, 1996. He served as the President of Israel from July 2007 until July 2014. He was born in Wiszniew, Poland. He died at age 93 in Ramat Gan, Israel.
1905 ~ Myrna Loy (née Myrna Adele Williams; d. Dec. 14, 1993), American actress. She was born in Helena, Montana. She died at age 88 in New York, New York.
1902 ~ Mins Rees (née Mina Spiegel Rees; d. Oct. 25, 1997), American mathematician. She was the first female president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She died at age 95 in New York, New York.
1896 ~ Sarah T. Hughes (née Sarah Augusta Tilghman; d. Apr. 23, 1985), American attorney and Federal District Judge. She is best known for administering the oath of Office to President Johnson following the assassination of President Kennedy. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She died in Dallas, Texas at age 88.
1894 ~ Bertha Lutz (née Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz; d. Sept. 16, 1976), Brazilian zoologist and social rights activist. She specialized in poison dart frogs. Four frog species and two lizard species are named in her honor. She was also a leading figure in the Pan American feminist movement in Brazil. She died at age 82.
1892 ~ Jack L. Warner (né Jacob Warner; d. Sept. 9, 1978), Canadian production manager and co-founder, along with his brothers Samuel, Harry and Albert, of Warner Brothers movie studio. He was born in London, Ontario, Canada. He died about a month after his 86th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1887 ~ Oskar Anderson (né Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson; d. Feb. 12, 1960), Russian-born German mathematician. He died at age 72.
1871 ~ John Sloan (né John French Sloan; d. Sept. 7, 1951), American artist. He was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. He died of cancer at age 80 in Hanover, New Hampshire.
1835 ~ Elisha Gray (d. Jan. 21, 1901), American inventor and businessman. He founded Western Electric. He is also considered to be the father of the modern music synthesizer. He was born in Barnesville, Ohio. He died of a heart attack in Newtonville, Massachusetts at age 65.
1834 ~ Frédéric Bartholdi (né Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi; d. Oct. 4, 1904), French sculptor and designer of the Statue of Liberty. He was born in Colmar, France. He died at age 70 in Paris, France.
1754 ~ Pierre Charles L’Enfant (d. June 14, 1825), French architect and engineer who designed Washington, D.C. He was born in Paris, France. He died at age 70 in Maryland, United States.
1612 ~ Saskia van Uylenburgh (d. June 14, 1642), Dutch model and wife of Rembrandt. She died at age 29, probably from tuberculosis.
Events that Changed the World:
1992 ~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee (b. Mar. 3, 1962) won the Gold medal in the heptathlon at the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She also took the Bronze in the long jump at those games.
1990 ~ Iraq invaded Kuwait, ultimately led to the Gulf War.
1968 ~ An earthquake struck in the Philippines killing nearly 300 people and injuring over 350 others.
1947 ~ A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashed into the Andes on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until the late 1990s. An investigation in 2000 determined the crash was due to weather-related factors.
1943 ~ The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109, commanded by John F. Kennedy (1917 ~ 1963), was rammed by a Japanese destroyer in the early hours of August 2. Kennedy saved all but two of his crew.
1943 ~ About 700 Jewish prisoners revolted at Treblinka. About 200 Jews escaped, but most were killed in the ensuing chase. About 70 of the escapees were known to have survived.
1937 ~ The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 was passed by the United States Congress. The effect of this Act was to make all marijuana and its products illegal.
1934 ~ Adolf Hitler (1889 ~ 1945) became the supreme leader gave himself the title of Führer of Germany.
1923 ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872 ~ 1933) was sworn in as the 30th President of the United States by his father following the death of President Warren Harding (1865 ~ 1923). Coolidge became the 6th Vice President to become President following the death of the incumbent President.
1922 ~ A typhoon struck Shantou, China killing more than 50,000 people.
1873 ~ San Francisco, California’s cable car system began operation by the Clay Street Hill Railroad.
1870 ~ The world’s first underground tube railroad, the Tower Subway, opened in London, England.
1790 ~ The first United States census was completed showing a population of nearly 4 Million people.
1776 ~ The United States Declaration of Independence was formally signed place.
1610 ~ Henry Hudson (1565 ~ 1611) sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay. He thought he had found the Northwest Passage into the Pacific Ocean.
1274 ~ Edward I, King of England (June 17, 1239 ~ 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks, returned from the Ninth Crusade. He was formally crowned King 17 days later.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ Tootie Robbins (né James Elbert Robbins; b. June 2, 1958), African-American hard-hitting football offensive tackle. He was born in Windsor, North Carolina. He died at age 62 of Covid-19.
2020 ~ Robert Ryland (b. June 16, 1920), African-American professional tennis player who broke the color barrier. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died at age 100 in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
2017 ~ Judith Jones (b. Mar. 10, 1924), American editor who discovered Julia Child. She is also known for rescuing The Diary of Anne Frank from a discard pile. She was born in New York, New York. She died at age 93 in Walden, Vermont.
2017 ~ Ara Parseghian (né Ara Raoul Parseghian; b. May 21, 1923), American football player and college football coach. He guided the University of Notre Dame to national championships in 1966 and 1973. He was born in Akron, Ohio. He died at age 94 in Granger, Indiana.
2016 ~ Ahmed Zewail (b. Feb. 26, 1946), Egyptian-born American chemist. He was the recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is known as the Father of Femtochemistry, the study of chemical reactions on extremely short durations. He died at age 70.
2014 ~ Eroni Kumana (b. 1918), one of the Solomon Islanders who saved John F. Kennedy after Kennedy’s PT-109 boat had been damaged by a Japanese destroyer during World War II. He was with Biuku Gasa (July 27, 1923 ~ Nov. 23, 2005), who also assisted in saving Kennedy. The exact date of his birth is not known.
2013 ~ Julius Chambers (né Julius LeVonne Chambers; b. Oct. 6, 1936), African-American civil rights lawyer who won many landmark cases against racial segregation. He died at age 76.
2011 ~ Baruj Benacerraf (b. Oct. 29, 1920), Venezuelan-born American immunologist and recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He died in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts at age 90.
1998 ~ Shari Lewis (née Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz; b. Jan. 17, 1933), American puppeteer and ventriloquist. She was known for creating her sock puppets, Lamb Chops and Charlie Horse. She died at age 65 of uterine cancer.
1997 ~ William S. Burroughs (né William Seward Burroughs, II; b. Feb. 5, 1938), American author. He died at age 83.
1988 ~ Raymond Carver (né Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr.; b. May 25, 1914), American author and short story writer. He was born in Clatskanie, Oregon. He died at age 50 of lung cancer in Port Angeles, Washington.
1986 ~ Roy Cohn (né Roy Marcus Cohn; b. Feb. 20, 1927), American politician and attorney. He served as Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Red Scare in the 1950s. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 59 in Bethesda, Maryland.
1979 ~ Thurman Munson (né Thurman Lee Munson; b. June 7, 1947), American baseball player. He was born in Akron, Ohio. He was killed while practice landing in his Cessna Citation in Green, Ohio. He was 32 years old.
1976 ~ László Kalmár (b. Mar. 27, 1905), Hungarian mathematician. He is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. He died at age 71.
1976 ~ Fritz Lang (né Friedrich Christian Anton Lang; b. Dec. 5, 1890), Austrian film director, best known for his silent film, Metropolis and M. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He died at age 85 in Beverly Hills, California.
1970 ~ Angus MacFarlane-Grieve (né Alexander Angus MacFarlane-Grieve; b. May 11, 1891), British mathematician. He died at age 79.
1955 ~ Wallace Stevens (b. Oct. 2, 1879), American poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He died in Hartford, Connecticut at age 75.
1934 ~ Paul von Hindenburg (b. Oct. 2, 1847), German field marshal and 2nd President of Germany. He is best remembered as being the man who, when he was President of Germany, appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. He served as President of Germany from May 1925 until his death on August 1934. He died at age 86.
1924 ~ George Shiras, Jr. (b. Jan. 26, 1832), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Benjamin Harrison. He replaced Joseph Bradley on the Court. He was succeeded by William Day. He served on the Court from July 1892 until February 1903. He was born and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died at age 92.
1923 ~ Warren G. Harding (né Warren Gamaliel Harding; b. Nov. 2, 1865), 29th President of the United States. He was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio. He was President from March 1921 until his death of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 57 while in Office. He died in San Francisco, California.
1922 ~ Alexander Graham Bell (b. Mar. 3, 1847), Scottish-born inventor, best known for his invention of the telephone. He was born in Edinburg, Scotland. He died of complications of diabetes at age 75 in Bienn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1921 ~ Enrico Caruso (b. Feb. 25, 1873), Italian tenor. He was born and died in Naples, Italy. He died of peritonitis at age 48.
1876 ~ Wild Bill Hickok (né James Butler Hickok; d. May 27, 1837), American lawman in the American Wild West. He was murdered at age 39 while playing poker in Deadwood, Dakota Territory.
1859 ~ Horace Mann (b. May 4, 1796), American educator and politician. He was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. He died of yellow fever at age 63 in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
1823 ~ Lazare Nicholas Marguerite, Count Carnot (b. May 13, 1753), French mathematician and politician. He died at age 70.
1799 ~ Jacques-Étienne Montigolfier (b. Jan. 6, 1745), co-inventor along with his brother Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740 ~ 1810), of the hot air balloon. He died at age 54; his brother died at age 69.
1788 ~ Thomas Gainsborough (b. May 14, 1727), English painter. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he was baptized on May 14, 1727. He died at age 61.
1589 ~ Henry III, King of France (b. Sept. 19, 1551). He reigned as King from May 30, 1574 to his death on August 2, 1589. He was married to Louise de Lorraine (Apr. 30, 1553 ~ Jan. 29, 1601). There were no children of this marriage. He was of the House of Valois-Angoulême. He was the 4th son of Henry II, King of France and Catherine de’Medici. He was Roman Catholic. He was assassinated at age 37 and was the last of the Valois French kings.
1332 ~ Christopher II, King of Denmark (b. Sept. 29, 1276). He reigned Denmark from 1320 until 1326, and then again from 1329 until his death. He died at age 55.
1330 ~ Yolande of Dreux, Queen consort of Scotland (b. 1263). Her first husband was Alexander III, King of Scotland. She was of the House of Dreux. She was the daughter of Robert IV, Count of Dreux and Beatrice, Countess of Montfort. The exact date of her birth is unknown. She is believed to have been about 66 or 67 at the time of her death.
1100 ~ William II, King of England (b. 1056). He reigned from September 1087 until his death in August 1100. He is sometimes known as William Rufus due to his red hair. He exact date of his birth is unknown. He was the son of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders. He is believed to have been about 43 or 44 at the time of his death.
686 ~ Pope John V. He was Pope from July 23, 685 until his death about a year later. The date of his birth is unknown.
640 ~ Pope Severinus. He was Pope from May 28, 640 until his death on this date just over 2 months later. The date of his birth is unknown.
257 ~ Pope Stephen I. He was Pope from May 254 until his death 3 years later. The date of his birth is unknown.
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