Birthdays:
1951 ~ Michael Keaton (né Michael John Douglas), American actor. He was born in Kennedy Township, Pennsylvania.
1950 ~ Cathy Guisewite (née Cathy Lee Guisewite), American cartoonist and creator of Cathy. She was born in Dayton, Ohio.
1946 ~ Freddie Mercury (né Farrokh Bulsara; d. Nov. 24, 1991), Tanzanian-English singer and songwriter and frontman for the band, Queen. His life story was portrayed in the 2019 movie Bohemian Rhapsody. He was born in Stone Town, Zanzibar. He died at age 45 in London, England.
1940 ~ Raquel Welch (née Jo Raquel Tejada), American actress. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1939 ~ William Devane (né William Joseph Devane), American actor. He was born in Albany, New York.
1936 ~ John Danforth (né John Claggett Danforth), 24th United States Ambassador to the United Nations. He served in this position from July 2004 until January 2005, during the President George W. Bush presidency. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
1929 ~ Bob Newhart (né George Robert Newhart), American actor and comedian.
1927 ~ Paul Volcker (né Paul Adolph Volcker, Jr.; d. Dec. 8, 2019), American economist and 12th Chair of the Federal Reserve during the Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan administrations. He was known as the central banker who whipped inflation. He was born in Cape May, New Jersey. He died in New York City at age 92.
1924 ~ Paul Dietzel (né Paul Franklin Dietzel; d. Sept. 24, 2013), American football player and coach who lived his final years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was the head football coach at Louisiana State University from 1955 until 1961. He was born in Fremont, Ohio. He died 3 weeks after his 89th birthday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1916 ~ Frank Yerby (né Frank Garvin Yerby; d. Nov. 29, 1991), African-American historical novelist. He was born in Augusta, Georgia. He died of liver cancer at age 75 in Madrid, Spain.
1914 ~ Stuart Freeborn (d. Feb. 5, 2013), British makeup artist who gave Star Wars life. He was born and died in London, England. He died at age 98.
1914 ~ Nicanor Parra (né Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval; d. Jan. 23, 2018), Chilean physicist and mathematician. He died at age 103.
1912 ~ John Cage (né John Milton Cage, Jr.; d. Aug. 12, 1992), American avant-garde composer. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He died 24 days before his 80th birthday in Manhattan, New York.
1905 ~ Arthur Koestler (né Artúr Kōsztler; d. Mar. 1, 1983), Hungarian-born British author. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He died at age 77 in London, England.
1902 ~ Darryl F. Zanuck (né Darryl Francis Zanuck; d. Dec. 22, 1979), American actor and movie director. He was born in Wahoo, Nebraska. He died of jaw cancer at age 77 in Palm Springs, California.
1897 ~ Arthur Nielsen, Sr. (né Arthur Charles Nielsen; d. June 1, 1980), American market analyst and founder of the AC Nielsen company. He was born and died in Chicago, Illinois. He was 82 years old.
1867 ~ Amy Beach (née Amy Marcy Cheney; d. Dec. 27, 1944), American pianist and composer. She was the first American woman composer to achieve success with large-scale art music. She was from Henniker, New Hampshire. She died at age 77.
1847 ~ Jesse James (né Jesse Woodson James, d. Apr. 3, 1882), American outlaw in the Wild American West. He was killed at age 34 by Robert Ford, another outlaw.
1836 ~ Justiniano Borgoño (d. Jan. 27, 1821), President of Peru. He served as President for 4 months, from April 1894 until August 1984. He died at age 84.
1735 ~ Johann Christian Bach (d. Jan. 1, 1782), German composer. He was the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He died at age 46.
1725 ~ Jean-Étienne Montucla (d. Dec. 18, 1799), French mathematician. He died at age 74.
1667 ~ Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (d. Oct. 25, 1733), Italian mathematician and Jesuit priest. He died at age 66.
1638 ~ King Louis XIV of France (d. Sept. 1, 1715). 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.
1187 ~ Louis VIII of France (d. Nov. 8, 1226). He reigned as King from July 1223 until his death 2 years later. He was known as Louis the Lion. He died at age 39.
Events that Changed the World:
2016 ~ Labor Day in the United States.
2013 ~ Rosh HaShanah.
1996 ~ Hurricane Fran made landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina. Nearly 30 people were killed as a result of the storm. The storm had formed on August 23, 1996 and dissipated on September 10 1996.
1978 ~ Menachem Begin (1913 ~ 1992) and Anwar Sadat (1918 ~ 1981) met at Camp David, Maryland to discuss talks to begin the peace process in the Middle East.
1975 ~ Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (b. 1948), made an assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford (1913 ~ 2006). Although she was sentenced to life in prison for the attempted assassination, she was released on parole in August 2009.
1972 ~ During the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, a Palestinian terrorist group called Black September attacked and murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two of the Israeli athletes were killed during the attack. The remaining 9 died the following day.
1969 ~ United States Army Lieutenant William Calley (b. 1943) was charged with six specifications of pre-meditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre.
1958 ~ Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1890 ~ 1960) was published in the United States. The book had been banned in the Soviet Union. The book won Pasternak the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958. A fictional version of how this book came out of the Soviet Union and came to be publish can be found in The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescot.
1957 ~ Jack Kerouac’s book, On the Road, was first published.
1941 ~ Estonia became entirely occupied by Nazi Germany.
1921 ~ A party thrown by silent film star, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle (1887 ~ 1933), ended with the death of Virginia Rappe (1895 ~ 1921), a young actress. Arbuckle was accused of raping and killing the young actress, although he was ultimately acquitted at trial. This was one of the first Hollywood scandals.
1905 ~ The Russo-Japanese War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth, which was mediated by President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 ~ 1919). The treaty was signed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1882 ~ The first Labor Day parade in the United States was held in New York City.
1839 ~ The United Kingdom declared the First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
1836 ~ Sam Houston (1793 ~ 1863) was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas, which had earned its independence from Mexico.
1774 ~ The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia.
1725 ~ King Louis XI (1710 ~ 1774) of France married Marie Leszcyńska (1703 ~ 1768).
1698 ~ Tsar Peter I (1672 ~ 1725) of Russia imposed a tax on beards for all men, with the exception of the clergy and peasantry. This was in an effort to Westernize his nobility.
917 ~ Liu Yan (889 ~ 942) declared himself emperor of the Southern Han state of the southern portion of China.
Good-Byes:
2018 ~ Diane Leather (b. Jan. 7, 1933), British runner who set a milestone for women. In 1954, she became the first woman to run a mile in under 5 minutes. She died at age 85.
2017 ~ Nicolaas Bloembergen (b. Mar. 11, 1920), Dutch physicist and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Dordrecht, Netherlands. He died at age 97 in Tuscon, Arizona.
2016 ~ Phyllis Schlafly (née Phyllis McAlpin Stewart; b. Aug. 15, 1924), American conservative political activist and anti-feminist. She opposed the Equal Rights Amendment, gay rights and abortion, among other social and moderate issues. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She died 21 days after her 92nd birthday in Ladue, Missouri.
2014 ~ Mara Neusel (née Mara Dicle Neusel, b. May 14, 1964), German mathematician. She died at age 50.
2013 ~ Rochus Misch (b. July 29, 1917), German bodyguard who defended Hitler to the end. He died at age 96.
2011 ~ Salvatore Licitra (b. Aug. 10, 1968), Italian operatic tenor hailed as the next Pavarotti. He died from head injuries when the motor scooter he was riding slammed into a wall in Catania, Sicily, Italy. He was born in Bern, Switzerland. He died three weeks after his 43rd birthday.
2001 ~ Justin E. Wilson (b. Apr. 24, 1914), American Cajun chef and humorist. He was born in Roseland, Louisiana. He died in Baton Rouge. Louisiana at age 87.
1999 ~ Allen Funt (né Allen Albert Funt; b. Sept. 16, 1914), American radio and television personality. He was best known for his role as host on Candid Camera. He died less than 2 weeks before his 85th birthday.
1997 ~ Mother Teresa (née Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, b. Aug. 26, 1910), Albanian-born missionary and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She died less than 2 weeks after her 87th birthday. On September 4, 2016, she became a Saint in the Catholic Church.
1994 ~ Shimshon Amitsur (b. Aug. 26, 1921), Israeli mathematician. He died two weeks after his 73rd birthday.
1993 ~ Claude Renoir (b. Dec. 4, 1914), French cinematographer and son of impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He died at age 79.
1975 ~ Alice Evans (née Alice Catherine Evans; b. Jan. 29, 1881), American pioneering microbiologist. She demonstrated that Bacillus abortus in cattle caused Brucellosis in cattle and humans. She was born in Neath, Pennsylvania. She died at age 94 in Alexandria, Virginia.
1972 ~ Victims of the Munich Massacre: Moshe Weinberg (b. 1939), Coach of the Israeli Wrestling team, and Yossef Romano (b. 1940), Israeli weightlifter.
v 1972 ~ Yossef Romano (b. Apr. 15, 1940), Israeli weightlifter who was murdered in the 1972 Summer Olympics Munich massacre. He was born in Benghazi, Lybia. He was 32 years old.
v 1972 ~ Moshe Weinberg (b. Sept. 19, 1939), Israeli wrestling coach who was murdered in the 1972 Summer Olympics Munich massacre. He was born in Haifa, Israel. He died 14 days before his 33rd birthday.
1964 ~ Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (b. Aug. 7, 1890), American social activist and labor leader. She was a strong advocate for women’s rights issues. She was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union. She was born in Concord, New Hampshire. She died in Moscow while visiting the Soviet Union. She died about a month after her 74th birthday.
1962 ~ Gertrude Rush (née Gertrude Elzora Durden; b. Aug. 5, 1880), American attorney. She was the first African-American female lawyer in Iowa. She was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1918. She was also instrumental in founding the National Bar Association in 1925. She was born in Navasota, Texas. She died a month after her 82nd birthday in Des Moines, Iowa.
1953 ~ Francis Ford (né Francis Joseph Feeney, b. Aug. 14, 1881), American film director. He was the older brother director of John Ford. He was born in Portland, Maine. He died of cancer 22 days after his 72nd birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1948 ~ Richard Tolman (né Richard Chace Tolman, b. Mar. 4, 1881), American mathematical physicist. He was born in West Newton, Massachusetts. He died at age 67.
1877 ~ Crazy Horse (b. 1840), leader of the Oglala Lakota tribe. He was killed when he was bayoneted by federal soldier while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson during the American Indian Wars. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 36 or 37 at the time of his death.
1876 ~ Manuel Blanco Encalada (b. Apr. 21, 1790), 1st President of Chile. He served as President for two months, from July 1826 until September 1826. He died at age 86.
1548 ~ Catherine Parr (b. August 1512), 6th and final wife of King Henry VIII of England. She outlived Henry VIII by one year. She married several times. She married her fourth and final husband, Thomas Seymour within six months of Henry’s death. The marriage, however, was short-lived, as she died about six months later. The exact date of her birth is unknown, but she is believed to have been about 35 or 36 at the time of her death of childbirth.
714 ~ Shang, Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. The date of his birth is not know.
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