Birthdays:
1967 ~ Scott Weiland (né Scott Richard Kline; d. Dec. 3, 2015), American rock star and frontman for the Stone Temple Pilots who struggled with drug addiction. He was born in San Jose, California. He died at age 48 of a drug overdose in Bloomington, Minnesota.
1963 ~ Marla Maples (née Marla Ann Maples), American television personality. She is most famous for being the second wife of Donald Trump. They were married from 1993 until 1999. She was born in Cohutta, Georgia.
1950 ~ Fran Lebowitz (née Frances Ann Lebowitz), American writer and humorist. She was born in Morristown, New Jersey.
1943 ~ Domenic Parisi (d. Oct. 2, 2020), Sicilian-born American barber. He was born in Santa Croce Camerina, Sicily. He immigrated to the United States in the mid-1950s. His father wanted him to become a farrier, but there were no such jobs where he landed in New Jersey. Instead he became a barber and opened a shop in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. One of his clients was Richard Nixon, whose hair he cut for the last 9 years of Nixon’s life. He died in Hackensack, New Jersey of Covid-19 just 25 days before his 77th birthday.
1940 ~ Maxine Hong Kingston (née Maxine Ting Ting Hong), American author. She was born in Stockton, California.
1939 ~ John Cleese (né John Marwood Cleese), British actor and co-founder of Monty Python.
1932 ~ Sylvia Plath (d. Feb. 11, 1963), American poet. She was married to Ted Hughes. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She died by suicide at age 30 in London, England.
1926 ~ H.R. Haldemann (né Harry Robbins Haldemann; d. Nov. 12, 1993), American politician and 4th White House Chief of Staff. He served under President Nixon from January 1969 until April 1973. He was involved in the Watergate scandal cover-up. He was convicted of perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice for which he spent 18 months in a federal prison. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He died abdominal cancer 16 days after his 67th birthday in Santa Barbara, California.
1925 ~ Warren Christopher (né Warren Minor Christopher; d. Mar. 18, 2011), 63rd United States Secretary of State. He served during President Bill Clinton’s first term from January 1993 until January 1997. He was born in Scranton, North Dakota. He died at age 85 in Los Angeles, California.
1923 ~ Roy Lichtenstein (né Roy Fox Lichtenstein; d. Sept. 29, 1997), American artist. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died of pneumonia about a month before his 74th birthday.
1922 ~ Ralph Kiner (né Ralph McPherren Kiner; d. Feb. 6, 2014), American major league baseball player and slugger who became a broadcaster and voice of the Mets. He was born in Santa Rita, New Mexico. He died at age 91 in Rancho Mirage, California.
1922 ~ Ruby Dee (née Ruby Ann Wallace; d. June 11, 2014), American activist actress who stood up for civil rights. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She died at age 91 in New Rochelle, New York.
1920 ~ Nanette Fabray (née Ruby Bernadette Nanette Theresa Fabares; d. Feb. 22, 2018), American stage star who became Sid Caesar’s comic foil. She was born in San Diego, California. She died at age 97 in Palos Verdes, California.
1914 ~ Dylan Thomas (né Dylan Marlais Thomas; d. Nov. 9, 1953), Welsh poet. He died 2 weeks after his 39thbirthday.
1910 ~ Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau (né Margaret Hutchinson; d. Jan. 12, 2000). American chemical engineer. She designed the first commercial penicillin production plant. She was also the first female member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. She received her doctorate from MIT. She was born in Houston, Texas and died at age 89 in Weston, Massachusetts.
1908 ~ Lee Krasner (née Lenore Krassner; d. June 19, 1984), American painter. She was the wife of Jackson Pollack. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died at age 75 in New York, New York.
1906 ~ Earle Cabell (d. Sept. 24, 1975), Mayor of Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He served as Mayor of Dallas from 1961 until February 1964. He was born and died in Dallas, Texas. He died of emphysema about a month before his 69th birthday.
1889 ~ Enid Algerine, Lady Jones (née Enid Bagnold; d. Mar. 31, 1981), British playwright, best known for her novel, National Velvet. She died at age 91.
1872 ~ Emily Post (née Emily Price, d. Sept. 25, 1960), American etiquette expert. The exact date of her birth is disputed but is generally considered to be October 27. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She died about a month before her 88th birthday in New York, New York.
1868 ~ Roy West (né Roy Owen West; d. Nov. 29, 1958), 30th United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under President Calvin Coolidge from July 1928 until March 1929. He was born in Georgetown, Illinois. He died a month after his 90th birthday in Chicago, Illinois.
1858 ~ Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (d. Jan. 6, 1919), 26th President of the United States, and 25th Vice President of the United States. He became President following the assassination of William McKinley. He served as President from September 1901 until March 1909. He had previously served as the Governor of New York from January 1899 through December 1900. Roosevelt was also the recipient of the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 60 in Oyster Bay, New York.
1844 ~ Klas Pontus Arnoldson (d. Feb. 20, 1916), Swedish writer and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1908 Nobel Peace Prize. He died at age 71.
1838 ~ John Davis Long (d. Aug. 28, 1915), 34th United States Secretary of the Navy. He served under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt from March 1897 until Apr. 1902. He had previously served as the 32nd Governor of Massachusetts from January 1880 until January 1883. He was born in Buckfield, Maine and died in Hingham, Massachusetts. He was 76 years old at the time of his death.
1828 ~ Jacob Dolson Cox (d. Aug. 4, 1900), 10th United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under President Ulysses S. Grant. He served in that Office from March 1869 thorough October 1870. He had previously served as the 28th Governor of Ohio, from January 1866 until January 1868. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He died while on summer vacation in Gloucester, Massachusetts at age 71.
1811 ~ Isaac Singer (né Isaac Merritt Singer; d. July 23, 1875), American inventor who made improvements to the sewing machine, and entrepreneur founder of the Singer Corporation. He fathered at least 24 children through various wives and mistresses. He was born in Pittstown, New York. He died at age 63 in the United Kingdom.
1782 ~ Niccolò Paganini (b. May 27, 1840), Italian violinist and composer. He died at age 58.
1744 ~ Mary Moser (d. May 2, 1819), British painter and artist. She was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy. She died at age 74.
1401 ~ Catherine of Valois (d. Jan. 3, 1437), Queen consort and wife of Henry V of England. She was Queen Consort of England from June 1420 until August 1422 when her husband died. She later entered into a relationship with Owen Tudor. She was of the House of Valois. She was the daughter of Charles VI, King of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. She was born in Paris, France. She died at age 35 following complications of childbirth in London, England.
921 ~ Chai Rong (d. July 27, 959), 2nd Chinese Emperor of the Later Zhou during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Ne ruled from February 954 until his death 4 years later. He died of an illness at age 37.
892 ~ Ai (d. Mar. 26, 908), last emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He ascended to the throne at age 11 and was poisoned at age 15.
Events that Changed the World:
2018 ~ In an act of domestic terrorism, a gunman opened fire in the Tree of Life Synagogue during a bris ceremony in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Eleven people were killed.
2004 ~ The Boston Red Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series games, winning their first World Series championship since 1918.
1967 ~ In protest of the war in Vietnam, Father Philip Berrigan (1923 ~ 2002) and others of the so-called “Baltimore Four” poured blood on Selective Service records. In addition to Father Berrigan, the others involved were Thomas Lewis (1940 ~ 2008), James Mengel, and David Eberhardt.
1954 ~ Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (1912 ~ 2002) became the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. Almost 14 years to the day earlier, his father had become the first African-American general in the United States Army.
1936 ~ Mrs. Wallis Simpson (1896 ~ 1986) received a divorce from her second husband, freeing her to marry Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (1894 ~ 1972). He would ultimately abdicate, and the couple would become known as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
1904 ~ The New York City Subway line, run by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, or IRT, opened. The System would become the biggest in the United States.
1838 ~ Missouri governor, Lilburn Boggs (1796 ~ 1860), issued Executive Order No. 44, also known as the Extermination Order, which ordered all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
1810 ~ The United States annexed the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1682 ~ The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was founded.
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ Vladimir Bukovsky (né Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky; b. Dec. 30, 1942), Russian lifelong dissident who exposed Soviet abuse. He was a Russian-born British human rights activist and writer. He spent 12 years in psychiatric prison hospitals, labor camps and prisons in the Soviet Union. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in the mid-1970 and began his campaign to stop human rights abuse in his native country. He died of a heart-attack at age 76.
2019 ~ John Coyners (né John James Conyers, Jr.; b. May 16, 1929), African-American trailblazing congressman who fell from glory. He served as a United States Representative Michigan. He was active in sponsoring civil rights legislation. His long political career ended in 2017 due to allegations of sexual harassment. He died at age 90.
2018 ~ Ntozake Shange (née Paulette Linda Williams; b. Oct. 18, 1948), African-American playwright who wrote For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. She died 9 days after her 70th birthday.
2015 ~ Betsy Drake (b. Sept. 11, 1923), 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.
2014 ~ Starke Taylor (né Austin Starke Taylor, Jr.; b. July 2, 1922), Mayor of Dallas, Texas. He was Mayor from 1983 until 1987. He died at age 92.
2013 ~ Lou Reed (né Lewis Allan Reed; b. Mar. 2, 1942), American singer and guitarist. He was the dark visionary who reshaped rock ‘n’ roll. He died of liver disease at age 71.
2012 ~ Hans Werner Henze (b. July 1, 1926), German composer who was repelled and inspired by Germany. He died at age 86.
2012 ~ Rodney S. Quinn (né Rodney Sharon Quinn; b. May 27, 1923), Secretary of State of Maine from 1979 to 1988. He died at age 89.
2010 ~ Néstor Carlos Kirchner (b. Feb. 25, 1950), 51st President of Argentina. He served as President from May 2003 until December 2007. He died of cardiac arrest at age 60.
2009 ~ Roy DeCarava (b. Dec. 9, 1919), African-American photographer who chronicled black lives. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died at age 89.
1996 ~ Morey Amsterdam (né Moritz Amsterdam; b. Dec. 14, 1908), American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of a heart attack at age 87 in Los Angeles, California.
1992 ~ David Bohm (né David Joseph Bohm; b. Dec 20, 1917), American physicist who contributed greatly quantum theory. Due to his communist affiliations, he was the subject of a federal investigation in the late 1940s, causing him to leave the United States and he ultimately settled in Great Britain. He died of a heart attack at age 74.
1990 ~ Xavier Cugat (né Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingali de Bru y Deulofeu; b. Jan. 1, 1900), Spanish-born musician. He died at age 90.
1980 ~ John Hasbrouck van Vleck (b. Mar. 13, 1899), American physicist and mathematician. He was the recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 81 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1977 ~ James M. Cain (né James Mallahan Cain; b. July 1, 1892), American detective writer and journalist. He is best known for his novels, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. He died at age 85.
1975 ~ Rex Stout (né Rex Todhunter Stout; b. Dec. 1, 1886), American detective-story writer. He created fictional detective Nero Wolf. He died in Danbury, Connecticut at age 88.
1974 ~ C.P. Ramanujam (né Chakravarthi Padmanabhan Ramanujam; b. Jan. 9, 1938), Indian mathematician. He died by suicide at age 36.
1933 ~ Emily Murphy (née Emily Gowan Ferguson; b. Mar. 14, 1868), Canadian lawyer and activist. She was the first female magistrate in Canada and the British Empire. She was born in Innisfil, Ontario, Canada. She died at age 65 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
1930 ~ Ellen Hayes (née Ellen Amanda Hayes; b. Sept. 23, 1851), American mathematician and social activist. She died in Wellesley, Massachusetts about a month after her 79th birthday.
1675 ~ Gilles de Roberval (b. Aug. 10, 1602), French mathematician. He died at age 73.
1505 ~ Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. Jan. 22, 1440). He was known as Ivan the Great. He ruled as the Grand Prince of Moscow from April 1462 until his death in October 1505. He was married twice; first to Maria Borisovna (1442 ~ 1467), and then to Sophia Palaiologina (1440s ~ 1503). He died at age 65.
1449 ~ Ulugh Beg (né Mīrza Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh; b. Mar. 22, 1394), Persian mathematician and astronomer. He was also a ruler and sultan. He is best known for his work in trigonometry and geometry. His academic legacy was the creation of the Ulugh Beg Observatory. He died at age 55.
1327 ~ Elizabeth de Burgh (b. 1289), Scottish wife and Queen Consort of King Robert I of Scotland. The exact date of her birth is unknown, but she is believed to have been about 43 at the time of her death.
939 ~ Ǽthelstan (b.895), English King. He is generally considered to be the first King of England. The date of his birth is unknown.
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