Birthdays:
1957 ~ Gloria Estefan (née Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García), Cuban-born American singer and songwriter. She was born in Havana, Cuba.
1939 ~ Lily Tomlin (née Mary Jean Tomlin), American actress and comedian. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1938 ~ Alan Dershowitz (né Alan Morton Dershowitz), American attorney and author. He was born in New York, New York.
1935 ~ Robert Taylor (né Robert Ridgley Taylor; d. Aug. 29, 2013), American entrepreneur who put soap in a bottle. He invented Softsoap and sold it to Colgate-Palmolive. He died of cancer just 4 days before his 78th birthday.
1935 ~ Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor. He served as the music director for the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 29 years.
1933 ~ Ann Richards (née Dorothy Ann Willis; d. Sept. 13, 2006), 45th Governor of Texas. She served as Governor from January 1991 through January 1995. She was born in Lakeview, Texas. She died of esophageal cancer 12 days after her 73rd birthday in Austin, Texas.
1932 ~ Sunny von Bülow (née Martha Sharp Crawford; d. Dec. 6, 2008), American heiress and socialite who was in a coma for over 27 years. She was 76 years old at the time of her death. She was born in Manassas, Virginia. She died in Manhattan, New York. Her husband, Claus von Bülow (1926 ~ 2019) was accused of attempted murder, but his murder conviction was later overturned.
1927 ~ Wyatt Cooper (né Wyatt Emory Cooper; d. Jan. 5, 1978), American author and screenwriter. He was married to Gloria Vanderbilt and was the father of Anderson Cooper. He was born in Quitman, Mississippi. He died at age 50 during heart surgery in New York, New York.
1927 ~ Lloyd Bucher (né Lloyd Mark Bucher; d. Jan. 28, 2004), United States Navy officer best remembers as the Captain of the USS Pueblo, which was capture by North Korea in January 1968. He was born in Pocatello, Idaho. He died at age 76 in San Diego, California.
1927 ~ Henry Rosovsky, American economic historian. He was the Dean of the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He was born in Gdansk, Poland.
1923 ~ Rocky Marciano (né Rocco Francis Marchegiano; d. Aug. 31, 1969), American boxer. He was known as the Rock from Brockton. He was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. He was killed the day before his 46th birthday when the small plane he was in crashed in Newton, Iowa.
1920 ~ Richard Farnsworth (né Richard William Farnsworth; d. Oct. 6, 2000), American actor. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He died by suicide after suffering from prostate cancer at age 80. He died in Lincoln, New Mexico.
1916 ~ Dorothy Cheney (née Dorothy May Sutton Bundy; d. Nov. 23, 2014), American tennis champion who improved with age. She played tennis well into her 90s. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She died at age 98 in Escondido, California.
1892 ~ Leverett A. Saltonstall (d. June 17, 1979), 55th Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1939 until January 1945. He was born in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He died of congestive heart failure at age 86.
1877 ~ Francis William Aston (d. Nov. 20, 1945), British chemistry and 1922 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 68.
1875 ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs (d. Mar. 19, 1950), American writer best known as the creator of Tarzan. He died of a heart attack at age 74.
1868 ~ Kin Hubbard (né Frank McKinney Hubbard, d. Dec. 26, 1930), American cartoonist, humorist and journalist. He was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He died at age 62 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1866 ~ James Corbett (né James John Corbett, d. Feb. 18, 1933), American boxer. He was known as Gentleman Jim. He died at age 66.
1854 ~ Engelbert Humperdinck (d. Sept. 27, 1921), German composer. He is best known for his opera Hänsel and Gretel. He died of a heart attack 26 days after his 67th birthday.
1711 ~ William IV, Prince of Orange (d. Oct. 22, 1759). He died at age 40.
1659 ~ Joseph Saurin (d. Dec. 29, 1737), French mathematician and Protestant minister. He died at age 78.
948 ~ Jing Zong (d. Oct. 13, 982), 5th Chinese emperor of the Liao Dunasty. He died at age 34.
Events that Changed the World:
2017 ~ Vladimir Putin (b. 1952) expelled over 750 United States diplomats from Russia in response to sanctions imposed by the United States.
2014 ~ Labor Day.
1998 ~ In the United States, federal regulations mandated air bags in automobiles.
1991 ~ Uzbekistan declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1972 ~ Bobby Fischer (1943 ~ 2008) became the world chess champion after beating Russian Boris Spassky (b. 1937) in a chess match. The games were played in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1970 ~ An assassination attempt was made on Jordan’s King Hussein (1935 ~ 1999) by Palestinian guerrillas.
1969 ~ Muammar al-Gaddafi (1940 ~ 2011) took power in Libya following a coup.
1952 ~ Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Old Man and the Sea, was published. It would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize.
1939 ~ Adolf Hitler (1889 ~ 1945) signed an order allowing the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
1939 ~ Nazi Germany invaded Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II. Two days later, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany, beginning World War II.
1914 ~ The last known passenger pigeon died in captivity. The bird was a female named Martha and had been in the Cincinnati Zoo. She was believed to have been about 28 or 29 years old.
1914 ~ St. Petersburg, Russia changed its name to Petrograd. In 1924, the name would be changed to Leningrad. In 1991, the name would be changed back to St. Petersburg.
1897 ~ The Boston Tremont Street Subway opened, thereby becoming the first underground rapid transportation system in the United States.
1878 ~ Emma Nutt (1860 ~ 1915), became the world’s first female telephone operator when she began working for the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston, Massachusetts. She was hired by Alexander Graham Bell (1847 ~ 1922).
1864 ~ During the American Civil War, the city of Atlanta, Georgia fell to Union forces.
1532 ~ Lady Anne Boleyn (1501 ~ 1536) was made Marquess of Pembroke by her future husband, King Henry VIII of England (1491 ~ 1547).
1420 ~ An earthquake, believed to have been about a 9.4 magnitude, struck in Chile’s Atacama Region. The strong earthquake caused tsunamis as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ John Najarian (né John Sarkis Najarian; b. Dec. 22, 1927), American surgeon who tackled the toughest transplants. Prior to entering medical school, he was a college football star. He was born in Oakland, California. He died at age 92 in Stillwater, Minnesota.
2017 ~ Shelley Berman (né Sheldon Leonard Berman; b. Feb. 3, 1925), American comedian who found humor in angst. He died at age 92.
2015 ~ Dean Jones (né Dean Carroll Jones; b. Jan. 25, 1931), American clean-cut Disney star who found faith. He had leading roles in several Disney films, including The Love Bug and That Darn Cat! In the early 1970s, he became a born-again Christian. He died of Parkinson’s disease at age 84.
2015 ~ Ben Kuroki (b. May 16, 1917), American World War II airman who battled bigotry to fight for the United States. He was the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Armed Air Forces to serve in combat in the Pacific theater during World War II. He was 98 years old.
2014 ~ Charlie Powell (né Charles Elvin Powell; b. Apr. 4, 1932), African-American standout boxer who starred on the gridiron. He was born in Dallas, Texas. He died in San Diego, California at age 82.
2014 ~ Joseph Shivers, Jr. (né Joseph Clois Shivers, Jr., b. Nov. 29, 1920), American chemist and developer of spandex. He died at age 93.
2012 ~ Hal David (né Harold Lane David; d. May 25, 1921), American songwriter, composer and lyricist behind the 20thcentury’s greatest pop songs. He died at age 91.
2009 ~ Francis Rogallo (né Francis Melvin Rogallo; b. Jan. 27, 1912), American aeronautic engineer who invented hang gliding, now known as the Rogallo Wing. He died at age 97.
1989 ~ A. Bart Giamatti (né Angelo Bartlett Giamatti; b. Apr. 4, 1938), 7th Commissioner of Major League Baseball. He is best known for being the Commissioner during the Pete Rose gambling scandal. He died of a heart attack at age 51.
1988 ~ Luis Alvarez (né Luis Walter Alvarez; b. June 13, 1911), American physicist. He was the recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died of cancer at age 77.
1982 ~ Haskell Curry (né Haskell Brooks Curry; b. Sept. 12, 1900), American mathematician. He died 11 days before his 82nd birthday.
1981 ~ Albert Speer (né Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer; b. Mar. 19, 1905), Nazi architect, who acknowledged moral responsibility for war crimes at the Nuremburg trials. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his war crimes. He died of a stroke at age 76.
1977 ~ Ethel Waters (b. Oct. 31, 1896), African-American actress and singer. She died of uterine cancer at age 80.
1970 ~ François Mauriac (né François Charles Mauriac, b. Oct. 11, 1885), French author and recipient of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 84.
1961 ~ Eero Saarinen (b. Aug. 20, 1910), Finish-American architect and son of Eliel Saarinen. He was born on his father’s 37th birthday. Eero, who designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, died just 12 days after his 52nd birthday while undergoing surgery for a brain tumor.
1940 ~ Lillian D. Wald (b. Mar. 10, 1867), American nurse and early advocate for nursing schools. She was an activist in many social causes, including health care and women’s rights. She was involved in the formation of the NAACP. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 73 in Westport, Connecticut.
1894 ~ Nathaniel Banks (né Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, b. Jan. 30, 1816), 24th Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1858 until January 1861. He also served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from February 1856 until March 1857. He was born and died in Waltham, Massachusetts. He was 78 at the time of his death.
1894 ~ Samuel Kirkwood (né Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, b. Dec. 20, 1813), 14th United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur from March 1881 until April 1882. Prior to becoming the Secretary of the Interior, he served as a United States Senator from Iowa. He had also served as the 5th and 9th Governor of Iowa. He was born in Harford County, Maryland. He died at age 80 in Iowa City, Iowa.
1838 ~ William Clark (b. Aug. 1, 1770), American explorer who, along with Meriwether Lewis, led the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition throughout the Louisiana territory to the Pacific Northwest in 1804. He later served as the 4thGovernor of the Missouri Territory. He died a month after his 68th birthday.
1770 ~ Hannah Glasse (b. Mar. 28, 1708), English cookbook writer. She is best known for her book The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. She died at age 62.
1715 ~ King Louis XIV of France (b. Sept. 5, 1638). He was a Bourbon monarch who has the distinction of being the longest-reigning king in European history. He was known as Louis the Great or The Sun King. He reigned for 72 years. He died 4 days before his 77th birthday.
1678 ~ Jan Brueghel the Younger (b. Sept. 13, 1601), Flemish painter. He died 12 days before his 77th birthday.
1648 ~ Marin Mersenne (b. Sept. 8, 1588), French mathematician. He died a week before his 60th birthday.
1557 ~ Jacques Cartier (b. Dec. 31, 1491), French explorer. He led the exploration along the St. Lawrence River in Canada. He died at age 65.
1159 ~ Pope Adrian IV (né Nicholas Breakspear, b. 1100). He was Pope from December 4, 1154 until his death almost 5 years later. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been 59 at the time of his death.
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