Birthdays:
1961 ~ James Gandolfini (né James Joseph Gandolfini, Jr.; d. June 19, 2013), American actor most famous for his role as Tony Soprano and changed television. He stared in the cable TV series, The Sopranos. He was born in Westwood, New Jersey. He died of a heart attack at age 51 while in Rome, Italy.
1954 ~ Dennis Johnson (né Dennis Wayne Johnson; d. Feb. 22, 2007), American basketball player who played for the Boston Celtics. He was born in San Pedro, California. He died of a heart attack at age 52 in Austin, Texas.
1951 ~ Dee Dee Ramone (né Douglas Glenn Covin; b. June 5, 2002), American singer-songwriter and bassist for The Ramones. He was born in Fort Lee, Virginia. He died of a heroin overdose at age 50 in Hollywood, California.
1951 ~ Ben Carson (né Benjamin Solomon Carson, Jr.), African-American neurosurgeon and Republican Presidential candidate in the 2016 primaries. He served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump Administration. He held that Office from March 2017 until January 2021. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1945 ~ P.F. Sloan (né Philip Gary Schlein; d. Nov. 15, 2015), American troubled pop rock singer who wrote a ‘60s protest anthem, the Eve of Destruction. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 70 in Los Angeles, California.
1945 ~ John McAfee (né John David McAfee; d. June 23, 2021), English-American software entrepreneur who went rogue. He died at age 75 of an apparent suicide while in prison in Spain while awaiting extradition to the United States for tax evasion.
1942 ~ Fernando Hidalgo (né Fernando Corona; d. Feb. 15, 2021), Cuban-born TV host who for 14 years hosted El Show de Fernando Hidalgo, a racy variety show filled with scantily clad dancers, interviews and double entendres. He was born in Marianao, Cuba. He died of Covid-19 at age 78 in Miami, Florida.
1939 ~ Jan Camiel Willems (d. Aug. 31, 2013), Belgian mathematician. He was born in Bruges, Belgium. He died less than 3 weeks before his 74th birthday.
1933 ~ Fred Willard (né Frederick Charles Willard, Jr.; d. May 15, 2020), American comic actor who spun gold from oblivion. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He died at age 86 in Los Angeles, California.
1924 ~ J.D. Tippit (d. Nov. 22, 1963), American police officer who was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald while trying to protect President John F. Kennedy. He was 39 years old.
1923 ~ Queen Anne of Romania (d. Aug. 1, 2016), wife of King Michael I of Romania. She was born in Paris, France. She died at age 92 in Morges, Switzerland.
1922 ~ Dottie Thomas (née Dorothy Martin; d. Jan. 9, 2015), American dutiful wife who advanced medicine. She was a hematology researcher in her own right. She worked closely with her husband, Dr. E. Donnall Thomas (1920 ~ 2012), on bone marrow transplants. Her husband was the recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this research. She was born in San Antonio, Texas. She died at age 92 in Seattle, Washington.
1920 ~ Jack Warden (né John Warden Lebzelter, Jr.; d. July 19, 2006), American actor. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. He died of heart and kidney failure at age 85 in New York, New York.
1920 ~ Cecilia Chiang (née Sun Yun; d. Oct. 28, 2020), Chinese-American restaurateur who brought authentic Chinese food to America. She is best known for opening a Mandarin restaurant in San Francisco in 1961. She was born in Shanghai, China. She died in San Francisco, Califorina at age 100.
1917 ~ June Forey (née June Lucille Forer; d. July 26, 2017), American actress who gave cartoon characters a voice. She was best known as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha Fatale from The Bullwinkle Show, and Cindy Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas. She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. She died at age 99 in Los Angeles, California.
1914 ~ Jack Cardiff (d. Apr. 22, 2009), British cinematographer. He died at age 94.
1910 ~ Josef Tal (né Josef Grünthal; d. Aug. 25, 2008), Israeli composer. He died 3 weeks before his 98th birthday.
1907 ~ Edwin McMillan (né Edwin Mattison McMillan; d. Sept. 7, 1991), American physicist and recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Redondo Beach, California. He died less than 2 weeks before his 84thbirthday in El Cerrito, California.
1905 ~ Greta Garbo (née Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; d. Apr. 15, 1990), Swedish actress. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She died at age 84 in New York, New York.
1905 ~ Agnes de Mille (née Agnes George de Mille; d. Oct. 7, 1993), American choreographer. She was born and died in New York, New York. She died 19 days after her 88th birthday.
1859 ~ John L. Bates (né John Lewis Bates; d. June 8, 1946), American politician and 41st Governor of Massachusetts. He was Governor from January 1903 until January 1905. He died at age 86.
1857 ~ John Hessin Clarke (d. Mar. 22, 1945), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Woodrow Wilson. He served as an Associate Justice from July 1916 until September 1922. He replaced Charles Hughes on the Court. He was succeeded in the Court by George Sutherland. He was born in New Lisbon, Ohio. He died at age 87 in San Diego, California.
1819 ~ Léon Foucault (né Jean Bernard Léon Foucault; d. Feb. 11, 1868), French physicist, best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum. He died at age 48.
1786 ~ Christian VIII of Denmark (d. Jan. 20, 1848). He was king of Denmark from from December 1839 until his death 8 years later. He also served as King of Norway from May through October 1814. His first wife was Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. This marriage ended in divorce. His second wife was Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderborg-Augustenburg. He died of blood poisoning at age 61.
1779 ~ Joseph Story (d. Sept. 10, 1845), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President James Madison. He was 32 years old at the time of his appointment to the Court. He replaced William Cushing on the Court and was succeeded by Levi Woodbury. He served on the Court from November 1812 until his death 33 years later at age 65. He was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts 8 days before his 66th birthday.
1765 ~ Pope Gregory XVI (né Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, d. June 1, 1846). He was Pope from February 1831 until his death 15 years later at age 80.
1752 ~ Adrien-Marie Legendre (d. Jan. 10, 1833), French mathematician. He died at age 80.
1709 ~ Samuel Johnson (d. Dec. 13, 1784), British biographer and lexicographer. He died at age 75 in London, England.
1434 ~ Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. Sept. 3, 1467). She died 15 days before her 33rd birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2020 ~ Erev Rosh Hashanah.
2018 ~ Yom Kippur began at sunset.
2014 ~ Scotland voted against its independence from the United Kingdom.
2009 ~ After a 72-year run, the soap opera, The Guiding Light, ended is final broadcast. The show first aired on the radio beginning in January 1937, before becoming a television show.
2001 ~ The first mailing of the 2001 anthrax attack letters was mailed from Trenton, New Jersey.
1990 ~ Liechtenstein became a member of the United Nations.
1976 ~ The funeral of Mao Zedong (1893 ~ 1976) was held in Beijing, China. Over a million people gathered for the funeral.
1975 ~ Patty Hearst (b. 1954) was arrested after being on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for over a year for her role in a bank robbery following her kidnapping.
1974 ~ Hurricane Fifi struck Honduras killing over 5,000 people. The storm formed on September 14 and dissipated on September 24, 1974.
1948 ~ Margaret Chase Smith (1897 ~ 1995) of Maine, became the first woman elected to the United States Senate entirely on her own, without having first completed another senator’s term. Senator Smith was a long-term senator from the State of Maine.
1947 ~ The National Security Act established both the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.
1947 ~ The United States Air Force became in independent branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1943 ~ Adolf Hitler ordered the deportation of the Danish Jews during World War II.
1943 ~ During Holocaust, the Jews of Minsk were massacred at the German extermination camp of Sobibór.
1934 ~ The Soviet Union was admitted to the League of Nations.
1927 ~ The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) began broadcasting.
1922 ~ Hungary was admitted to the League of Nations.
1919 ~ The Netherlands granted women the right to vote.
1906 ~ A typhoon and tsunami struck in Hong Kong, killing about 10,000 people.
1889 ~ Hull House opened in Chicago. It was America’s most influential settlement house for the arrival of European immigrants.
1870 ~ Henry D. Washburn (1832 ~ 1871), a member of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition, named Old Faithful Geyser, which is in what is now known as Yellowstone National Park.
1851 ~ The forerunner of the New York Times began publication.
1837 ~ Tiffany and Company was founded by Charles Tiffany (1812 ~ 1902) and John B. Young.
1809 ~ The Royal Opera House opened in London.
1793 ~ George Washington (1732 ~ 1799) laid the cornerstone of the Capitol Building.
1739 ~ The Treaty of Belgrade was signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
1679 ~ New Hampshire became a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1180 ~ Philip Augustus (1165 ~ 1223) became king of France.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg (née Joan Ruth Bader; b. Mar. 15, 1933), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who fought for gender equality. She was nominated to the High Court by President Bill Clinton. She began her tenure on the Court in August 1993. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died at age 87 on Erev Rosh Hashanah (29 Elul 5780) in Washington, D.C.
2013 ~ Ken Norton, Sr. (né Kenneth Howard Norton; b. Aug. 9, 1943), heavyweight boxer who broke Muhammad Ali’s jaw in a 12-round victory in 1973. He beat and then befriended Ali. He died at age 70.
2012 ~ Stephen Sabol (né Stephan Douglas Sabol; b. Oct. 2, 1942), American filmmaker who exalted football. He was the president, and one of the founders of, NFL Films. He died about 2 weeks before his 70th birthday.
2011 ~ Norma Holloway Johnson (née Normalie Loyce Johnson; b. July 28, 1932), African-American Federal judge who oversaw the Monica Lewinsky probe. She was the first African-American woman to serve as Chief Judge of a United States District Court. She was born and died in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She died at age 79.
2006 ~ Edward King (né Edward Joseph King; b. May 11, 1925), 66th Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1969 to January 1983. He died at age 81.
2004 ~ Russ Meyer (né Russell Albion Meyer; b. Mar. 21, 1922), American movie director and screenwriter. He is best known for campy sexploitation films. He died of complications from pneumonia at age 82.
2002 ~ Etta Zuber Falconer (née Etta Zuber; b. Nov. 21, 1933), African-American educator and mathematician. She was one of the first African-American women to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics. She earned her degree from Emory University in 1969. She was from Tupelo, Mississippi. She died at age 68 in Atlanta, Georgia.
1985 ~ Gerald Holtom (né Gerald Herbert Holtom; b. Jan. 20, 1914), British artist and designer. In 1958, he designed the peace symbol logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He died at age 71.
1980 ~ Katherine Anne Porter (née Callie Russell Porter; b. May 15, 1890), American author. She is best known for her novel, Ship of Fools. She died at age 90.
1977 ~ Paul Bernays (né Paul Isaac Bernays; b. Oct. 17, 1888), Swiss mathematician. He died a month before his 89th birthday.
1970 ~ Jimi Hendrix (né Johnny Allen Hendrix; b. Nov. 27, 1942), American musician and guitarist. He died of an accidental drug overdose at age 27.
1967 ~ Sir John Cockcroft (né John Douglas Cockcroft; b. May 27, 1897), English physicist and recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in splitting the atomic nucleus. He died of a heart attack at age 70.
1964 ~ Seán O’Casey (né John Casey; b. Mar. 30, 1880), Irish playwright. He died at age 84.
1961 ~ Dag Hammarskjöld (b. July 29, 1905), Swedish economist. He also served as the 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations. He was killed in a plane crash on a mission to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in September 1961. Later that year, he was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, being one of a very few honored with a Nobel Prize after death. He was 56 at the time of his death.
1939 ~ Charles M. Schwab (né Charles Michael Schwab; b. Feb. 18, 1862), American businessman and co-founder of Bethlehem Steel. He died at age 77.
1915 ~ Susan LaFlesch Picotte (b. June 17, 1865), Omaha Native American shaman and physician. She was a social reformer who advocated for Native American health rights. She was also the first Native American to earn a medical degree. She died of bone cancer at age 50.
1891 ~ William Ferrel (b. Jan 29, 1817), American mathematician and meteorologist. He died at age 74.
1872 ~ Charles XV of Sweden (b. May 3, 1826). He reigned as king from July 1859 until his death 13 years later. His coronation, however, was in 1860 on his 34th birthday. He died at age 46.
1830 ~ William Hazlitt (b. Apr. 10, 1778), British writer, literary critic, social commentator and philosopher. He died at age 52.
1783 ~ Leonhard Euler (b. Apr. 15, 1707), Swiss mathematician. He died at age 76.
1180 ~ King Louis VII of France (b. 1120). The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been about 59 or 60 at the time of his death.
1137 ~ King Eric II of Denmark (b. 1090). He was known as Eric the Memorable. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 46 or 47 at the time of his death.
958 ~ Liu Sheng (b. 920), 3rd Chinese Emperor during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The date of his birth is not known.
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