Birthdays:
1982 ~ Whitney Cummings (née Whitney Ann Cummings), American comic and actress. She was born in Washington, D.C.
1962 ~ Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with adult stem cells. He determined that mature cells can be converted to stem cells. He was born in Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan.
1957 ~ Khandi Alexander (née Harriet Rene Alexander), American actress best known for her role as the coroner on CSI: Miami. She was born in Jacksonville, Florida.
1951 ~ Judith Ivey (née Judith Lee Ivey), American actress. She was born in El Paso, Texas.
1934 ~ Sir Clive Granger (né Clive William John Granger; d. May 27, 2009), Welsh economist and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was born in Swansea, Wales. He died at age 74 in San Diego, California.
1932 ~ Bevo Francis (né Clarence Francis; d. June 3, 2015), American basketball player who broke college records with his high-scoring. He was born in Hammondsville, Ohio. He died in Highlandtown, Ohio. He was 82 years old.
1931 ~ Mitzi Gaynor (née Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber), American actress, singer and dancer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1929 ~ Thomas Eagleton (né Thomas Francis Eagleton; d. Mar. 4, 2007), American United States Senator from Missouri. He was briefly the vice presidential nominee with George McGovern in the 1972 election. He was born and died in St. Louis, Missouri. He died heart and respiratory problems at age 77.
1928 ~ Dick York (né Richard Allen York; d. Feb. 20, 1992), American actor. He is best known as being cast as the first Darren on Bewitched. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He died of emphysema at age 63 in East Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1927 ~ John McCarthy (d. Oct. 24, 2011), American mathematician and father of artificial intelligence. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 84 in Stanford, California.
1926 ~ Ivan Dominic Illich (d. Dec. 2, 2002), Austrian theologian, Catholic priest, and philosopher. He was born in Vienna, Austria. He died at age 76 in Bremen, Germany.
1924 ~ Joan Aiken (née Joan Delano Aiken; d. Jan. 4, 2004), English author of gothic novels. She died at age 79.
1920 ~ Craig Claiborne (d. Jan. 22, 2000), American journalist, restaurant critic and cookbook author. He was born in Sunflower, Mississippi. He died at age 79 in New York, New York.
1918 ~ Paul Harvey (né Paul Harvey Aurandt; d. Feb. 28, 2009), American radio broadcaster. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He died at age 90 in Phoenix, Arizona.
1913 ~ Stanford Moore (d. Aug. 23, 1982), American biochemist and recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died in New York, New York less than 2 weeks before his 69thbirthday.
1913 ~ Kenzō Tange (d. Mar. 22, 2005), Japanese architect. He was born in Sakai, Japan. He died at age 91 in Tokyo, Japan.
1908 ~ Richard Wright (né Richard Nathaniel Wright, d. Nov. 28, 1960), African-American author who wrote about race relations. He is best known for his book, Native Son. He was born in Roxie, Mississippi. He died of a heart attack at age 52 in Paris, France.
1906 ~ Max Delbrück (né Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück; d. Mar. 9, 1981), German biologist and recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with bacteriophages. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He died at age 74 in Pasadena, California.
1905 ~ Mary Renault (née Eileen Mary Challans; d. Dec. 13, 1983), English novelist of historical fiction. She was born in London, England. She died at age 78 in Cape Town, South Africa.
1901 ~ Sir William Lyons (d. Feb. 8, 1985), English industrialist and businessman. He was a co-founder of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which became Jaguar cars. He died at age 83.
1895 ~ Xiang Jingyu (d. May 1, 1928), Chinese revolutionary. She is considered a pioneer of the women’s movement in China. She was one of the first female members of the Communist Party of China. In 1922, she became the first director of the Chinese Communist Women’s Bureau. She advocated for women’s education and organized mass labor strikes. She was ultimately arrested and executed for her political activities. She was killed at age 32.
1846 ~ Daniel Burnham (né Daniel Hudson Burnham, d. June, 1, 1912), American architect. He designed such iconic buildings as the Flat Iron Building in New York City. He died at age 65.
1840 ~ William, Prince of Orange (d. June 11, 1879). He died at age 38.
1809 ~ Manuel Montt (d. Sept. 21, 1880), President of Chile. He served as President from September 1851 through September 1861. He died 17 days weeks after his 71st birthday.
1803 ~ Sarah Polk (née Sarah Childress; d. Aug. 14, 1891), First Lady of the United States and wife of President James Polk. She was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She died 21 days before her 88th birthday in Nashville, Tennessee.
1745 ~ Shneur Zalman (d. Dec. 15, 1812), Lithuanian rabbi and founder of the Chabad movement. He died at age 67.
1563 ~ Wanli Emperor (d. Aug. 18, 1620), 14th Emperor of the Ming dynasty. He died 17 days before his 57thbirthday.
1557 ~ Sophie of Meckleburg-Güstrow (d. Oct. 14, 1631), Queen consort of Denmark and Norway. She was the wife of King Frederick II of Denmark. She died at age 74.
1383 ~ Antipope Felix V (d. Jan. 7, 1451). He died at age 67.
1241 ~ Alexander III of Scotland (d. Mar. 19, 1286), King of Scotland. He became King in July 1249 at age 9 following the death of his father. He remained King until his death at age 44 from a fall from a horse.
973 ~ Al-Biruni (d. Dec. 9, 1048), Persian mathematician, physician and polymath. The exact dates of his birth and death are not known, but these are the traditional dates of his lifespan. He died at age 75.
Events that Changed the World:
2017 ~ Labor Day in the United States.
2014 ~ Kenneth Lacovara (b. 1961) published his discovery of the giant dinosaur, Dreadnoughtus schrani, in Scientific Reports. The fossilized bones had been found in Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina. The plant-eating dinosaur is believed to have been the largest creature to walk on earth.
2013 ~ Erev Rosh HaShanah.
2012 ~ The Democratic National Convention began in Charlotte, North Carolina. It ran through September 6. The delegates chose Barack Obama (b. 1961) and Joe Biden (b. 1942) as the 2012 Democratic candidates.
2010 ~ The Canterbury earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand at a magnitude of 7.1, causing widespread damage.
1998 ~ Google was founded by two Standard University students, Larry Page (b. 1973) and Sergey Brin (b. 1973).
1975 ~ The Sinai Interim Agreement was signed in Geneva between Israel and Egypt. It was a diplomatic agreement stating that any disagreement between the countries would be resolved by peaceful means, and not by war.
1972 ~ Mark Spitz (b. 1950) became the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
1970 ~ Salvador Allende (1908 ~ 1973) was elected President of Chile. He was ousted in a military coup on September 11, 1973 and the official governmental version of his death was suicide.
1957 ~ The Edsel was introduced by the Ford Motor Company. It was not successful.
1957 ~ Orval Faubus (1910 ~ 1994), governor of Arkansas, called the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School in Little Rock.
1948 ~ Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands (1880 ~ 1962), abdicated the throne for health reasons. Her daughter, Juliana (1909 ~ 2004) became Queen of the Netherlands until she abdicated in favor of her son in 1980.
1888 ~ George Eastman (1854 ~ 1932) registered the trademark Kodak and received a patent for his camera that used roll film.
1882 ~ The Age of Electricity began when Thomas Edison (1847 ~ 1831) turned on the first commercial electrical power plant, which covered one square mile of lower Manhattan.
1781 ~ The City of Los Angeles, California was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula, or the Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola.
626 ~ Li Shimin (598 ~ 649), known as the Emperor Taizong of Tang, became the Emperor over the Tang dynasty.
Good-Byes:
2015 ~ Claus Moser, Baron Moser (né Claus Adolf Moser; b. Nov. 24, 1922), British statistician. He was born in Berlin, Germany. His family moved to England before World War II. He died at age 92 in Chur, Switzerland.
2014 ~ Joan Rivers, (né Joan Alexandra Molinksy, b. June 8, 1933) American comedian. She was the driven diva who paved the way for female comedians. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died at age 81 following complications following surgery for a minor throat procedure.
2012 ~ Abraham Avigdorov (b. July 2, 1929), Israeli soldier. He died at age 83.
2009 ~ Keith Waterhouse (né Keith Spencer Waterhouse, b. Feb. 6, 1929), British comic author who wrote Billy Liar. He died at age 80.
2006 ~ Steve Irwin (né Stephen Robert Irwin, b. Feb. 22, 1962), Australian naturalist and television personality. He was nicknamed The Crocodile Hunter. He died at age 44 after being stung by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary.
1996 ~ Joan Clark (née Joan Elisabeth Lowther Clark; b. June 24, 1917), British cryptanalyst and numismatist. She was involved in the Enigma project that decrypted Nazi German secret communications during World War II. She died at age 79.
1995 ~William Kunstler (né William Moses Kunstler, b. July 7, 1919), American lawyer and political activist. He died of heart failure at age 76.
1990 ~ Irene Dunne (née Irene Marie Dunn, b. Dec. 20, 1898), American actress. She died at age 91.
1986 ~ Hank Greenberg (né Hyman Benjamin Greenberg; b. Jan. 1, 1911), American Jewish baseball who, in 1934, refused to play baseball on Yom Kippur, the one of the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, even though his team, the Detroit Tigers, were in the middle of a pennant race. He was known at “The Hebrew Hammer” for his batting skills. He died at age 75.
1977 ~ E.F. Schumacher (né Ernst Friedrich Schumacher; b. Aug. 16, 1911), German-born economist and statistician. He was born in Bonn, Germany. He died of a heart attack in Switzerland while on a lecture tour just 19 days after his 66th birthday.
1965 ~ Albert Schweitzer (b. Jan. 14, 1875), German physician, philosopher, musician and medical missionary. Schweitzer was the recipient of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “Reverence for Life,” and the founding of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in the west central African country of Gabon. He died at age 90.
1913 ~ Henry Billings Brown (b. Mar. 2, 1836), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Benjamin Harrison. He served on the Court from December 1890 through May 1906. He is best known for being the author of the 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which solidified the “separate but equal” doctrine. He replaced Samuel Freeman Miller on the Court and was replaced by William Henry Moody. He was born in Lee, Massachusetts. He died at age 77 in Bronxville, New York.
1907 ~ Edvard Grieg (né Edvard Hagerup Grieg, b. June 15, 1843), Norwegian composer. He died of heart failure at age 64.
1323 ~ Gegeen Khan (b. Feb. 22, 1302), Chinese Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and 9th Khan of the Mongol Empire. He died at age 21.
1199 ~ Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily (b. Oct. 1165). She was the 7th child of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. The exact date of her birth is unknown. She died of childbirth at age 33.
422 ~ Pope Boniface I. He was Pope from December 418 until his death 4 years later. The date of his birth is not known.
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