Birthdays:
1987 ~ Evan Rachel Wood, American actress, model and singer. She was born in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1955 ~ Efim Zelmanov, Russian mathematician. He was the recipient of the 1994 Fields Medal. He was born in Khabarovsk, Russia.
1954 ~ Corbin Bernsen (né Corbin Dean Bernsen), American actor best known his role as Arnie Becker on LA Law. His mother was Jeanne Cooper who played Katherine Chancellor on The Young and the Restless. He was born in North Hollywood, California.
1951 ~ Chrissie Hynde (née Christine Ellen Hynde), American singer and guitarist. She was a member of The Pretenders. She was born in Akron, Ohio.
1950 ~ Julie Kavner (née Julie Deborah Kavner), American actress best known as the voice of Marge Simpson on the TV show, The Simpsons. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1950 ~ Peggy Noonan (née Margaret Ellen Noonan), American journalist and political speechwriter. She was the primary speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. She was born in New York, New York.
1943 ~ Gloria Gaynor (née Gloria Fowles), African-American singer. She is best known for her disco song I Will Survive. She was born in Newark, New Jersey.
1936 ~ Buddy Holly (né Charles Hardin Holly, d. Feb. 3, 1959), American singer. American singer who was killed in a plane crash along with Ritchie Vallens and the Big Bopper. He was born in Lubbock, Texas. He was killed at age 22 in Clear Lake, Iowa.
1934 ~ Meir Brandsdorfer (d. May 13, 2009), Belgian-Israeli rabbi. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium. He died at age 74 of cardio-vascular disease in Jerusalem, Israel.
1926 ~ Ronnie Gilbert (née Ruth Alice Gilbert; d. June 6, 2015), American folksinger who was blacklisted in the 1950s during a period of anti-communist sediment due to her left-wing sympathies. She was one of the original members of The Weavers. She was born in New York, New York. She died in Mill Valley, California. She was 88 years old.
1925 ~ Laura Ashley (née Laura Mountney; d. Sept. 17, 1985), British fashion designer. She died just 10 days after her 60th birthday from a brain hemorrhage after falling down a flight of stairs.
1925 ~ Robert Jastrow (d. Feb. 8, 2008), American astronomer who brought outer space down to earth. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 82 in Arlington, Virginia.
1924 ~ Daniel Inouye (né Daniel Ken Inouye, d. Dec. 17, 2012), American politician and United States Senator from Hawaii. He was born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. He died at age 88 in Bethesda, Maryland.
1923 ~ Peter Lawford (né Peter Sydney Ernest Alyen, d. Dec. 24, 1984), English-American actor. He was the former brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy during his marriage to the President’s sister, Patricia. He had married several times, but Patricia Kennety was his first wife. He was born in London, England. He died in Los Angeles, California at age 61 of cardiac arrest, complicated by renal and liver failure.
1917 ~ Sir John Cornforth (né John Warcup Comforth, Jr.; d. Dec. 8, 2013), Australian chemist and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He died at age 96.
1916 ~ Maida Heatter (d. June 6, 2019), American amateur baker who became dessert royalty. She became a cookbook author who specialized in baking and desserts. She was born in Baldwin, New York. She died at age 102 in Miami Beach, Florida.
1915 ~ Kiyoshi Itō (d. Nov. 10, 2008), Japanese mathematician. He died at age 93.
1915 ~ Richard E. Cole (né Richard Eugene Cole; d. Apr. 9, 2019), American career Air Force officer and aviator who raided Tokyo with Lt. Col. James Dooley. He was born in Dayton, Ohio. He died at age 103 in San Antonio, Texas.
1914 ~ James Van Allen (né James Alfred Van Allen; d. Aug. 9, 2006), American physicist. The Van Allen radiation belts are named in his honor. He was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He died a month before his 92nd birthday in Iowa City, Iowa.
1912 ~ David Packard (d. Mar. 26, 1996), American businessman and co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. He also served as the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 1969 to December 1971 during the Nixon Administration. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado. He died at age 83 in Stanford, California.
1911 ~ Todor Zhivkov (né Todor Hristov Zhivkov; d. Aug. 5, 1998), Prime Minister of Bulgaria. He served in that position from November 1962 until July 1971. He died a month before his 87th birthday.
1909 ~ Elia Kazan (né Elias Kazantzoglou; d. Sept. 28, 2003), Greek-American actor and movie director. He was born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. He died 3 weeks after his 94th birthday in New York, New York.
1908 ~ Michael DeBakey (né Michel Dabaghi; d. July 11, 2008), Lebanese-American cardiologist, surgeon and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in heart transplants. He made heart transplants seem routine. He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He died at age 99 in Houston, Texas.
1904 ~ C.B. Colby (né Carroll Burleigh Colby; d. Oct. 31, 1977), American children’s author. He was born in Claremont, New Hampshire. He died at age 73 in Westchester County, New York.
1900 ~ Taylor Caldwell (née Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell; d. Aug. 30, 1985), English-born American novelist. She is best known for her novel entitled Captains and the Kings. She was born in Manchester, England. She died in Greenwich, Connecticut 8 days before her 85th birthday.
1887 ~ Dame Edith Sitwell (née Edith Louisa Sitwell; d. Dec. 9, 1964), British poet and critic. She died at age 77 in London, England.
1885 ~ Elinor Wylie (née Elinor Morton Hoyt; d. Dec. 16, 1928), American author and poet. She was born in Somerville, New Jersey. She died of a stroke at age 43 in New York, New York.
1875 ~Edward Francis Hutton (d. July 11, 1962), American businessman and financier. He was a co-founder of E.F. Hutton & Company. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He died at age 86 in Old Westbury, New York.
1860 ~ Grandma Moses (née Anna Mary Robertson; d. Dec. 13, 1961), American folk artist. She took up painting at age 78. She was born in Greenwich, New York. She died at age 101 in Hoosick Falls, New York.
1836 ~ Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (d. Apr. 22, 1908), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was Prime Minister from December 1905 until his death on this date in April 1908 during the reign of King Edward VII. He died at age 71, just 19 days after he resigned as Prime Minister.
1819 ~ Thomas A. Hendricks (né Thomas Andrew Hendricks; d. Nov. 25, 1885), 21st Vice President of the United States. He served under President Grover Cleveland for only 8 months, from March 1885 until his sudden death at age 66 in November 1885.
1818 ~ Thomas Talbot (d. Oct. 6, 1885), 31st Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1879 until January 1880. He was born in Cambridge, New York. He died in Lowell, Massachusetts a month after his 67th birthday.
1707 ~ Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (d. Apr. 16, 1788), French mathematician. He died at age 80.
1533 ~ Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. Mar. 24, 1603). She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She was Queen from November 1558 until her death nearly 50 years later. She died at age 69.
1524 ~ Thomas Erastus (d. Dec. 31, 1583), Swiss physician and theologian. He argued that sinners should be punished by the government, and not the Church, believing that the Church should not withhold sacraments to sinners. He died at age 59.
Events that Changed the World:
2020 ~ Labor Day in the United States
2017 ~ An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck in Chiapas, Mexico. Over 60 people were killed in the quake.
2015 ~ Labor Day in the United States.
2008 ~ The United States government took control over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
2004 ~ Hurricane Ivan hit Grenada as a Category 5 storm, killing nearly 40 people. The storm had formed on September 2 and dissipated by September 25, 2004.
1999 ~ A 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit Athens, Greece, killing over 140 people, and leaving over 50,000 people homeless.
1979 ~ The Chrysler Corporation sought a $1.5 Billion hand-out from the United States government to avoid bankruptcy.
1979 ~ The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) began broadcasting.
1978 ~ While walking across the Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov (1929 ~ 1978) was assassinated when he was hit with a ricin pellet fired from a specially designed umbrella by a Bulgarian secret police agent.
1953 ~ Nikita Khrushchev (1894 ~ 1971) was elected as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1943 ~ A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas killed over 50 people. This fire remains the worst loss of life in a fire in that city’s history.
1942 ~ Over 8,700 Jews from Kolomyia in the western Ukraine were sent to the Belzec concentration camp.
1940 ~ The Blitz of London in World War II began. The bombing lasted for 57 consecutive nights.
1927 ~ The first fully electronic television system was achieved by Philo Farnsworth (1901 ~ 1971).
1923 ~ The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) was formed.
1921 ~ The first Miss American Pageant was held. It was a two-day event in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sixteen-year old Margaret Gorman (1905 ~ 1995) would be crowned the first Miss America on the second day of the event.
1901 ~ The Boxer Rebellion during the Qing dynasty in China officially ended with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
1896 ~ Physician Ludwig Wilhelm Rehn (1849 ~ 1930) Carl conducted the first successful heart surgery when he repaired a stab wound suffered by a 22-year old man.
1864 ~ General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 ~ 1891) ordered the evacuation of Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War.
1822 ~ Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
1818 ~ Carl III (1763 ~ 1844) of Sweden-Norway was crowned King of Norway.
1813 ~ The United States got its nickname of Uncle Sam.
1654 ~ The first Jewish immigrants in North America fled from Recife, Brazil, after Portugal took control of the country. The Jews settled in what was is now New York. The Dutch West Indies Company allowed them to stay despite the opposition of Governor Peter Stuvyesant.
1630 ~ The City of Boston, Massachusetts was founded.
1228 ~ Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (1194 ~ 1250) landed in Acre, in what is now Israel, and started the Sixth Crusade. This ultimately resulted in a peaceful restitution of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
70 ~ The tradition date ascribed to when the Roman army under Titus occupied and plundered Jerusalem.
Good-Byes:
2015 ~ Dickie Moore (né John Richard Moore, Jr.; b. Sept. 12, 1925), American child superstar who survived the Hollywood limelight. He was one of the last surviving actors to have appeared in silent films. He appeared in such films as Our Gang and Sergeant York. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He died 5 days before his 90thbirthday in Wilton, Connecticut.
2010 ~ Barbara Holland (née Barbara Murray Holland; b. Apr. 5, 1933), American writer who celebrated her vices, such as drinking and smoking cigarettes. She died at age 77 of lung cancer.
2010 ~ John Kluge (né John Werner Kluge; b. Sept. 21, 1914), German-born American immigrant who build a media empire. He was born in Chemnitz, Germany. He died 2 weeks before his 96th birthday in Charlottesville, Virginia.
2003 ~ Warren Zevon (né Warren William Zevon; b. Jan. 24, 1947), American musician. He is best known for his song, Werewolves of London. He died of cancer at age 56.
2002 ~ Uziel Gal (né Gotthard Glas; b. Dec. 15, 1923), Israeli firearms designed and namesake of the Uzi submachine gun. He died of cancer at age 78.
1991 ~ Edwin McMillan (né Edwin Mattison McMillan; b. Sept. 18, 1907), American physicist and recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died less than 2 weeks before his 84th birthday.
1985 ~ George Pólya (b. Dec. 13, 1887), Hungarian-American mathematician. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He died at age 97 in Palo Alto, California.
1981 ~ Christy Brown (b. June 5, 1932). Irish painter and writer. He had cerebral palsy and was able to write and paint only with his feet. His autobiography was entitled My Left Foot, which was later made into a film by the same name. He died at age 49.
1978 ~ Keith Moon (né Keith John Moon; b. Aug. 23, 1946), British musician who played was the drummer for The Who. He died of a drug overdose 15 days after his 32nd birthday.
1969 ~ Everett Dirksen (né Everett McKinley Dirksen, b. Jan. 4, 1896), United States Senator from Illinois. He died at age 73.
1965 ~ Jesse Douglas (d. July 3, 1897), American mathematician. He was the recipient of the 1936 Fields Medal. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died at age 68.
1964 ~ Walter A. Brown (b. Feb. 10, 1905), American businessman and founder of the Boston Celtics basketball team. He died at age 59.
1962 ~ Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, (née Karen Christenze Denesen; b. Apr. 17, 1885), Danish author who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen. She is best known for her memoir, Out of Africa. She died at age 77.
1951 ~ John Sloan (né John French Sloan; b. Aug. 2, 1871), American artist. He died of cancer at age 80 in Hanover, New Hampshire.
1893 ~ Hamilton Fish (b. Aug. 3, 1808), 26th United States Secretary of State. He served under Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes. He served in that Office from March 1869 through March 1877. He had previously served as the Governor of New York, from January 1849 through December 1950. He died about a month after his 85th birthday.
1892 ~ John Greenleaf Whittier (b. Dec. 17, 1807), American poet, Quaker, and abolitionist. He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts and died in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He died at age 84.
1799 ~ Jan Igenhousz (b. Dec. 8, 1730), Dutch physiologist, biologist and chemist best known for discovering the process of photosynthesis by showing that light is essential to the process by which green plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. He died at age 86.
1731 ~ Eudoxia Lopukhina (b. Aug. 9, 1669), Russian wife of Tsar Peter the Great. She died a month after her 62ndbirthday.
1362 ~ Joan of The Tower (b. July 5, 1321), Scottish wife of King David II of Scotland. She was known as Joan of the Tower because she was born in the Tower of London. She died at age 41. She was most likely a victim of the Black Death.
1312 ~ King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. Dec. 6, 1285). He reigned from April 1295 until his death in September 1312. He was married to Constance of Portugal. He was 26 years old at the time of his death.
1151 ~ Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (b. Aug. 24, 1113). He died suddenly just 14 days after his 38thbirthday.
859 ~ Emperor Xuānzong of Tang (b. July 27, 810), Chinese emperor. He was the last emperor of the Tang dynasty. He died at age 49.
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