Birthdays:
1967 ~ Harry Connick, Jr. (né Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr.), American singer and actor from New Orleans, Louisiana.
1965 ~ Bashar al-Assad, 21st President of Syria. He was born in Damascus, Syria.
1962 ~ Kristy McNichol (née Christina Ann McNichol), American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1961 ~ Virginia G. Madsen (née Virginia Gayle Madsen), American actress. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1960 ~ Hiroshi Amano, Japanese physicist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1959 ~ Andre Dubus, III, American author best known for his novel House of Fog and Sand. He was born in Oceanside, California.
1957 ~ Jeh Johnson (né Jehovah Charles Johnson), 4th United States Secretary of Homeland Security. He took office in December 2013 during the Barack Obama administration. He served in that Office until January 2017. He was born in New York, New York.
1951 ~ Richard Gill (né Richard David Gill), British mathematician.
1950 ~ Amy Madigan (née Amy Marie Madigan), American actress. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1948 ~ John Martyn (né Iain David McGeachy; d. Jan. 29, 2009), hard-living British musician who defied genres. He died at age 60.
1945 ~ Leo Kottke, American musician. He was born in Athens, Georgia.
1940 ~ Brian De Palma (né Brian Russell De Palma), American movie director. He was born in Newark, New Jersey.
1929 ~ David S. Broder (né David Salzer Broder; d. Mar. 9, 2011), American journalist and courtly dean of Washington’s press corps. He was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He died of complications from diabetes at age 81 in Arlington, Virginia.
1929 ~ Kenji Ekuan (d. Feb. 8, 2015), former Buddhist monk who became an industrial designer and helped shape modern Japan. He designed such items as the bullet train and the red-capped Kikkoman soy sauce dispenser. He was born and died in Tokyo, Japan. He was 85 years old.
1928 ~ William X. Kienzle (né William Xavier Kienzle; d. Dec. 28, 2001), American priest and author of crime novels. He left the priesthood in 1974 and married a journalist. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died of a heart attack at age 73 in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
1926 ~ Heini Halberstam (d. Jan. 25, 2014), Czech-born English mathematician. He is best known for his work in analytic number theory. He was among the children transported to England in the Kindertransport during World War II. He was born in Most, Czechia. He died at age 87 in Champaign, Illinois.
1924 ~ Tom Landry (né Thomas Wade Landry; d. Feb. 12, 2000), American football coach. He served for 24 years as the coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He was born in Mission, Texas. He died of leukemia at age 75 in Dallas, Texas.
1923 ~ Betsy Drake (d. Oct. 27, 2015), American actress who quit her career for Cary Grant. She became his 3rdwife. She was born in Paris, France. She died at age 92 in London, England.
1917 ~ Ferdinand Marcos (né Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos; d. Sept. 28, 1989), Filipino politician and 10thPresident and dictator of the Philippines. He died 16 days after his 72nd birthday.
1917 ~ Kenkichi Iwasawa (d. Oct. 26, 1998), Japanese mathematician. He is best known for his influence on algebraic number theory. He was born in Gunma, Japan. He died at age 81 in Tokyo, Japan.
1917 ~ Jessica Mitford (née Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford; d. July 22, 1996), British writer. She was born in Gloucestershire, England. She died of lung cancer at age 78 in Oakland, California.
1913 ~ Bear Bryant (né Paul William Bryant; d. Jan. 26, 1983), American college football coach for the University of Alabama. He was born in Moro Bottom, Arkansas. He died of a massive heart attack at age 69 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
1899 ~ Jimmie Davis (né James Houston Davis; d. Nov. 5, 2000), American politician and 47th Governor of Louisiana. He served as Governor from May 1944 through May 1948. He was also well known for his song, You Are My Sunshine. He was born in Jackson Parish, Louisiana. He died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at age 101.
1885 ~ D.H. Lawrence (né David Herbert Richards Lawrence; d. Mar. 2, 1930), English writer best known for his novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover. He died from complications of tuberculosis at age 44.
1877 ~ Sir James Hopwood Jeans (d. Sept. 16, 1946), English physicist and mathematician. He died 5 days after his 69th birthday.
1864 ~ Draga Mašin, Queen Consort of Alexander I of Serbia (d. June 11, 1903). She and her husband were assassinated. She was 38 years old; her husband was 26.
1862 ~ O. Henry (né William Sydney Porter, d. June 5, 1910), American short-story writer. He died at age 47.
1862 ~ Hawley Harvey Crippen (d. Nov. 23, 1910), American homeopathitic physician and murderer. He was convicted of murdering his wife. He was hanged in England at age 48. Erik Larson wrote about Dr. Crippen and his crimes in the book Thunderstruck.
1860 ~ Benjamin Tillett (d. Jan. 27, 1943), British socialist and trade union leader. He was born in Bristol, England. He died at age 82 in London, England.
1847 ~ Mary Watson Whitney (d. Jan. 20, 1921), American astronomer from Waltham, Massachusetts. She was the head of the Vassar Observatory for 22 years and during her tenure and guidance over 100 scientific papers were published. She died at age 73 of pneumonia.
1816 ~ Carl Zeiss (d. Dec. 3, 1888), German lens maker and founder of the Optical Instrument. He died at age 72.
1798 ~ Franz Ernst Neumann (d. May 23, 1895), German mathematician, physicist and mineralogist. He died at age 96.
1777 ~ Felix Grundy (d. Dec. 19, 1840), 13th United States Attorney General. He served under Martin Van Buren from July 1838 until January 1840. He had previously served as a United States Senator from Tennessee. He was born in Berkeley County, West Virginia. He died at age 63 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Events that Changed the World:
2012 ~ The United States embassy in Benghazi, Libya was attacked. Four American were killed, including J. Christopher Stevens (1960 ~ 2012), the United States Ambassador to Libya.
2011 ~ The National September 11 Memorial and Museum opened in New York City on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
2001 ~ In the event that became known simply as “9/11”, Islamic terrorists deliberately crashed two jetliners into the World Trade Center in New York City and one jet into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth jet crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks.
1992 ~ Hurricane Iniki devastated the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu. The storm had formed on September 5 and dissipated on September 13, 1992.
1973 ~ Augusto Pinochet (1915 ~ 2006) lead a coup in Chile and toppled the democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende (1908 ~ 1973). Allende was killed in the attack, although the attackers alleged he committed suicide. Pinochet became the country’s dictator until he was ousted in 1990.
1972 ~ The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system began its passenger service.
1961 ~ Hurricane Carla struck the Texas coast as a Category 4 storm. The storm had formed on September 3 and dissipated on September 17, 1961.
1954 ~ Hurricane Edna hit New England as a Category 2 hurricane, killing at least 29 people. The storm had formed on September 2 and dissipated on September 15, 1954.
1950 ~ President Harry S. Truman (1884 ~ 1972) approved military operations north of the 38th parallel in Korea.
1941 ~ The construction of the Pentagon began. Exactly 60 years after construction began, the building was struck by one of the hijacked airplanes during the 9/11 attacks. One hundred eighty-nine people were killed, including the 59 passengers and crew on the plane and 125 people in the building.
1921 ~ Nahalal, the first moshav, or agricultural community, in what would become northern Israel, began to be settled.
1792 ~ The Hope Diamond was stolen along with other French crown jewels during the French Revolution. Today the diamond is on display at the Smithsonian.
1789 ~ Alexander Hamilton (1757 ~ 1804) was appointed as the first United States Secretary of the Treasury. He served in President George Washington’s administration.
1792 ~ The French Blue diamond, along with other French crown jewels, were stolen while Louis XVI, King of France and his family were imprisoned during the early stages of the Reign of Terror. While some of the other jewels were recovered, French Blue diamond was never seen again. It is believed that it was recut and the larger portion became known as the Hope Diamond.
1777 ~ The Battle of Brandywine during the American Revolutionary War, in which the British celebrated a major victory.
1609 ~ Sir Henry Hudson (d. 1611) discovered Manhattan Island and encountered the indigenous people living there.
1541 ~ The Spanish city of Santiago, Chili was destroyed by indigenous warriors to free several indigenous chief who were held captive by the Spaniards. The Spaniards decapitated the chiefs and rolled their heads on the main square, thus ending the attack. How utterly horrible.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ Rebecca Dawn Shadowen (b. 1958), American medical doctor, infectious disease specialist and health-care epidemiologist. She helped establish a Covid-19 unit at a hospital in Bowling Green, Kentucky. After she became ill with Covid-19, she continued to attend work meetings from her hospital bed. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She died at age 62 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
2020 ~ Toots Hibbert (né Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert; b. Dec. 8, 1942), Jamaican soulful singer who gave reggae its name. He was born in May Pen, Jamaica and died at age 77 in Kingston, Jamaica.
2019 ~ Anne Rivers Siddons (née Sybil Anne Rivers; b. Jan. 9, 1936), American novelist. Many of her novels took place in the American South. She was born in Fairburn, Georgia. She died at age 83 in Charleston, South Carolina.
2019 ~ T. Boone Pickens (né Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr.; b. May 22, 1928), American oilman who became a corporate folk hero. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1908s. He died at age 91.
2017 ~ J.P. Donleavy (né James Patrick Donleavy; b. Apr. 23, 1926), Irish-American playwright. He is best known for his novel, The Ginger Man, which was often banned for being obscene. He died at age 91.
2014 ~ Cosimo Matassa (né Cosimo Vincent Matassa; b. Apr. 13, 1926), American studio owner from New Orleans who shaped rock ‘n’ roll. He was born and died in New Orleans at age 88.
2013 ~ Andrzej Trybulec (b. Jan. 29, 1941), Polish mathematician. He was 72 years old.
2012 ~ J. Christopher Stevens (né John Christopher Stevens, b. Apr. 18, 1960), American diplomat and the 10thAmbassador to Libya. He was killed during a violent attack by militant Islamics in Benghazi, Libya on the American embassy. He was a career diplomat who had served in U.S. missions throughout the Middle East and whose last mission was focused on supporting a democratic transition in the Libya. He was 52 years old.
2003 ~ Anna Lindh (née Ylva Anna Maria Lindh; b. June 19, 1957), the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs died following a knife attack against her on the preceding day. She was 46 years old.
2003 ~ John Ritter (né Jonathan Southworth Ritter; b. Sept. 17, 1948), American actor. He died 6 days before his 55th birthday.
1994 ~ Jessica Tandy (née Jessie Alice Tandy; b. June 7, 1909), English-American actress. She won an Oscar for her role in Driving Miss Daisy. She was married to actor Hume Cronyn. She died of ovarian cancer at age 85.
1987 ~ Lorne Green (né Lyon Himan Green; b. Feb. 12, 1915), Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Ben Cartwright on Bonanza. He died at age 72 of pneumonia.
1973 ~ Salvador Allende (né Salvador Guillerno Allende Gossens, b. June 26, 1908), 29th President of Chile. He served as President from 1970 until his death in 1973. He died under mysterious circumstances and was believed to have been assassination after his ouster as president. He was 65 years old.
1971 ~ Nikita Khrushchev (b. Apr. 15, 1894), Soviet politician and 7th Premier of the Soviet Union. He died at age 77 of heart disease.
1966 ~ Collett E. Woolman (né Collett Everman Woolman, b. Oct. 8, 1889), American businessman and co-founder of Delta Air Lines. He died about a month before his 77th birthday.
1957 ~ Mary Proctor (b. 1862), Irish-born American astronomer. The exact date of her birth is unknown.
1947 ~ Alice Keppel (née Alice Frederica Edmonstone, b. Apr. 29, 1868), English socialite and mistress of King Edward VII of England. She died at age 79.
1943 ~ Oswald Teichmüller (né Paul Julius Oswald Teichmüller, b. June 18, 1913), German mathematician. He was a member of the Nazi Party. He was killed in action in the Soviet Union during World War II. He was 30 years old.
1914 ~ William Sprague IV (b. Sept. 12, 1830), 27th Governor of Rhode Island. He served in this office from May 1860 until March 1963. He participated in the Battle of Bull Run while he was a sitting governor. He subsequently became a United States Senator from Rhode Island. He died 1 day before his 85th birthday.
1888 ~ Domingo F. Sarmiento (né Domingo Faustino Sarmiento; b. Feb. 15, 1811), President of Argentina. He served as President from October 1868 through October 1874. He died at age 77.
1843 ~ Joseph Nicollet (né Joseph Nicholas Nicollet, b. July 24, 1786), French mathematician and explorer. He also led three expeditions on the Mississippi River. He died at age 57.
1599 ~ Beatrice Cenci (b. Feb. 6, 1577), Italian noblewoman and legendary murderess. She was abused by her father. She reported his crimes, but was ignored, hence, she and other members of her family murdered her abusive father. She and her family were subsequently executed. She has become a symbol for resistance against the aristocracy. She was 22 at the time of her execution.
1063 ~ Béla I of Hungary (b. 1016). The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 44 or 45 at the time of his death.
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