Birthdays:
1980 ~ Christina Ricci, American actress. She was born in Santa Monica, California.
1965 ~ John Michael Higgins, American actor and comedian. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1965 ~ Brett Kavanaugh (né Brett Michael Kavanaugh), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Court by President Donald Trump (b. 1946). He assumed Office in October 2018 after a very contentious Senate hearing. He had been accused of sexual misconduct as a student and a very credible witness came forward to testify. The Senate ultimately voted to affirm his confirmation in a 50-48 vote, which was along Party lines. He was born in Washington, D.C.
1956 ~ Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
1951 ~ Steven Earl Parent (d. Aug. 9, 1969), victim of the Charles Manson murders. He was murdered at age 18.
1945 ~ Maud Adams (née Maud Sloveig Christina Wikström), Swedish actress. She was born in Luleå, Sweden.
1942 ~ Ehud Barak (né Ehud Brog), 10th Prime Minister of Israel. He was born in current-day Israel.
1939 ~ Ray Manzarek (né Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr.; d. May 20, 2013), keyboardist who gave The Doors their signature sound. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of cancer at age 74 in Rosenheim, Germany.
1938 ~ Judy Blume (née Judith Sussman), American author. She is best known for her young adult book, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. She was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
1934 ~ Bill Russell (né William Felton Russell), African-American professional basketball player with a long career with the Celtics. He was born in Monroe, Louisiana.
1930 ~ Arlen Specter (d. Oct. 14, 2012), United States Senator from Pennsylvania who battled both sides of the aisle. He was born in Wichita, Kansas. He died of cancer at age 82 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1929 ~ Donald Kingsbury (né Donald MacDonald Kingsbury), American-Canadian mathematician and science-fiction author. He was born in San Francisco, California.
1926 ~ Joe Garagiola, Sr. (né Joseph Henry Garagiola; Sr. b. Mar. 23, 2016), American professional baseball player and sportscaster. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He died at age 90 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
1926 ~ Charles Van Doren (né Charles Lincoln Van Doren; d. Apr. 9, 2019), American quiz show fraud who fooled America. He is best known for having been given answers on the game show quiz Twenty-One in the 1950s. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 93 in Canaan, Connecticut.
1923 ~ Franco Zeffirelli (né Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli; d. June 15, 2019), Italian opera and film director who embraced grandeur. He is best known for his 1968 rendition of Romeo and Juliet. He was born in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He died at age 96 in Rome, Italy.
1919 ~ Forrest Tucker (né Forrest Meredith Tucker; d. Oct. 25, 1986), American actor. He is best known for his role in as Professor Harry Hill in The Music Man, and for his role in the television sit-com, F. Troop. He was born in Plainfield, Indiana. He died of lung cancer at age 67 in Los Angeles, California.
1918 ~ Julian Schwinger (né Julian Seymour Schwinger; d. July 16, 1994), American physicist and recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in New York, New York. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 76 in Los Angeles, California.
1918 ~ Norman Farberow (né Norman Louis Faberow; d. Sept. 10, 2015), American psychologist who worked to save the suicidal. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died at age 97 in Los Angeles, California.
1917 ~ Dom DiMaggio (né Dominic Paul DiMaggio; d. May 8, 2009), American professional baseball player who played his entire career with the Boston Red Sox. He was known as The Little Professor. He was Joe DiMaggio’s younger brother. He was born in San Francisco, California. He died of pneumonia at age 92 in Marion, Massachusetts.
1916 ~ Joseph Alioto (né Joseph Lawrence Alioto; d. Jan. 29, 1988), 36th Mayor of San Francisco. He was mayor from January 1968 until January 1976. He was born and died in San Francisco, California. He died of prostate cancer 14 days before his 82nd birthday.
1915 ~ Lorne Green (né Lyon Himan Green; d. Sept. 11, 1987), Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Ben Cartwright on Bonanza. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He died at age 72 of pneumonia in Santa Monica, California.
1915 ~Olivia Hooker (née Olivia Juliette Hooker; d. Nov. 21, 2018), African-American psychologist. She was the last known race riot survivor of the Tulsa race riots in 1921, and bore witness. She was also the first African-American woman to be admitted into the United States Coast Guard. She was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She died at age 103 in White Plains, New York.
1914 ~ Johanna Neumann (née Johanna von Caemmerer; d. Nov. 14, 1971), German-born British mathematician. She was born in what is today a district of Berlin. She moved to England in 1933 to follow Bernhard Neumann, her fiancé, who was Jewish, to escape the Nazis. She died of a cerebral aneurysm at age 57 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1912 ~ R.F. Delderfield (né Ronald Frederick Delderfield; d. June 24, 1972), English author. He is best known for his novel God is an Englishman. He died of lung cancer at age 60.
1908 ~ Jacques Herbrand (d. July 27, 1931), French mathematician. He was born in Paris, France. He died from a fall while mountain climbing in the French Alps. He was 23 years old.
1893 ~ Omar Bradley (né Omar Nelson Bradley; d. Apr. 8, 1981), American Five-Star General. He was the 1st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He served in this position under Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. He was born in Clark, Missouri. He died at age 88 in New York, New York.
1884 ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth (née Alice Lee Roosevelt; d. Feb. 20, 1980), eldest daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. She was born in Manhattan, New York. She died 8 days after her 96th birthday in Washington, D.C.
1884 ~ Max Beckmann (né Max Carl Friedrich Beckman; d. Dec. 27, 1950), German painter and sculptor. He was born in Leipzig, Germany. He died of a heart attack at age 66 in New York, New York.
1881 ~ Anna Pavlova (d. Jan. 23, 1931), Russian prima ballerina. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. She died of pleurisy 3 weeks before her 50th birthday in The Hague, Netherlands.
1880 ~ John L. Lewis (né John Llewellyn Lewis; d. June 11, 1969), American miner and labor union leader. He served as the 9th President of the United Mine Workers. He was born in Cleveland, Iowa. He died at age 89 in Alexandria, Virginia.
1877 ~ Louis Renault (d. Oct. 24, 1944), French car manufacturer and co-founder of the Renault Company. He was born in Paris, France. He died at age 67.
1876 ~ 13th Dalai Lama (né Thubten Gyatso; d. Dec. 17, 1933). He died at age 57.
1809 ~ Abraham Lincoln (d. Apr. 15, 1865), 16th President of the United States. He died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth the day before. He was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was assassinated at age 56 in Washington, D.C.
1809 ~ Charles Darwin (né Charles Robert Darwin; d. Apr. 19, 1882), English biologist and proponent of the theory of evolution. He died at age 73.
1775 ~ Louisa Adams (née Louisa Catherina Johnson; d. May 15, 1852), First Lady of the United States and wife of President John Quincy Adams. She was born in London, England. She died at age 77 in Washington, D.C.
1768 ~ Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. Mar. 2, 1835). He ruled as Holy Roman Emperor from July 1792 until he abdicated and dissolved the Empire in August 1806. In 1804, he founded the Empire of Austria and lived out his life as Francis I, Emperor of Austria. He married four times. His first wife was Elisabeth of Württemberg. After her death, he married Maria Teresa of Naples and Sicily. After her death, he married Maria Ludovika Beatrix of Modena. His fourth wife was Caroline Augusta of Bavaria. He was of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was the son of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Luisa of Spain. He died less than 3 weeks after his 67th birthday.
1663 ~ Cotton Mather (d. Feb. 13, 1728), New England clergyman. He was born in Boston Massachusetts Bay Colony. He died 1 day after his 65th birthday.
1606 ~ John Winthrop the Younger (d. Apr. 6, 1676), 1st Governor of Connecticut Colony. He was born in Groton, England. He died at age 70 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1272 ~ Zhao Bing (d. Mar. 19, 1279), 18th and last Chinese emperor of the Song Dynasty. He was the ninth and last Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty. He reigned from May 1278 until his death a year later. He died was killed at age 7.
41 ~ Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus (d. Feb. 11, 55), heir to the Roman Emperorship, died under mysterious circumstances. His death led to Nero stepping up to become Emperor. He was the Roman son of Claudius. He is believed to have died a day before his 14th birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2016 ~ Pope Francis (b. 1936) and Patriarch Kirill (b. 1946) signed an Ecumenical Declaration. It was the first meeting between leaders of the Catholic and the Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.
2013 ~ Mardi Gras.
2010 ~ It snowed in all 50 States of the United States.
2010 ~ The Winter Olympics in British Columbia began. Shortly before the opening ceremony, one of the luge participants, Nodar Kumaritshvili (1988 ~ 2010) of Georgia (Ukraine) was killed in a trial run. He was 21 years old.
2004 ~ Gavin Newsom (b. 1967), Mayor of San Francisco, issued a directive allowing the city to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
2002 ~ The trial of Slobodan Milošević (1941 ~ 2006), the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugloslavia, began at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yuloslavia. He had been indicted for crimes against humanity for breeching the Geneva Conventions in Croatia and Bosnia and for genocide in Bosnia. He would died of a heart attack before the trial ended.
1999 ~ President William Clinton (b. 1946) was acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
1994 ~ Edward Munch’s painting, The Scream, was stolen by four men who broke into the National Gallery of Norway. It was recovered several months later.
1990 ~ Carmen Lawrence (b. 1948) became the first female Premier of Western Australia. She served until February 1993.
1974 ~ Nobel Prize recipient Aleksandr Solzheinitzyn (1918 ~ 2008) was exiled from the Soviet Union.
1963 ~ Construction began on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. It was completed in October 1965.
1914 ~ Construction on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., began.
1912 ~ Puyi (1906 ~ 1967), the last Emperor of China, abdicated. He had been known as the Xuantong Emperor.
1909 ~ The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
1855 ~ Michigan State University was established.
1832 ~ The Galápagos Islands were annexed by Ecuador.
1825 ~ The Treaty of Indian Springs was formalized, and the Creek Indians ceded the last of their lands in Georgia and moved west.
1818 ~ Bernardo O’Higgins (1778 ~ 1842) formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence.
1771 ~ Gustav III (1746 ~ 1792) became King of Sweden.
1733 ~ James Oglethorpe (1696 ~ 1785) founded Georgia, the 13th of the original Thirteen Colonies that became the United States.
1541 ~ Pedro de Valdivia (1597 ~ 1553) founded the city of Santiago, Chile.
1502 ~ Isabella I (1451 ~ 1504), Queen of Spain, issued an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing all Muslims in the country to convert to Christianity.
881 ~ Charles the Fat (839 ~ 888), King of Italy was crowned the Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John VIII (d. 882).
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ Lyndon LaRouche (né Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr.; b. Sept. 8, 1922), American conspiracist who longed to be president. He was a politician and political activist. He was born in Rochester, New Hampshire. He died at age 96.
2019 ~ Betty Ballantine (née Elizabeth Jones; b. Sept. 25, 1919), American publisher who helped make paperbacks mainstream. She and her husband created Bantam Books and Ballantine Books, which focused on paperback books. She was born in British India. She died at age 99 in Bearsville, New York.
2018 ~ Marty Allen (né Morton David Alpern; b. Mar. 23, 1923), American comedian and actor. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died of complications of pneumonia at age 95 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2018 ~ Ursula Marvin (née Ursula Bailey Marvin; b. Aug. 20, 1921), American trailblazing geologist who studied space rocks. She was born in Bradford, Vermont. She died in Concord, Massachusetts at age 96.
2017 ~ Al Jarreau (né Alwin Lopez Jarreau, b. Mar. 12, 1940), American vocal virtuoso who crossed genres. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He died a month before his 77th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
2017 ~ Anne Marguerite McCann (b. May 11, 1933), American art historian and archeologist. She was the first female American underwater archeologist. She was born in Mamaroneck, New York. She died at age 83 in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
2016 ~ Antonin Scalia (né Antonin Gregory Scalia; b. Mar. 11, 1936), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Ronald Reagan. He served on the Court from September 1986 until his death 30 years later. He replaced William Rehnquist on the Court. He was succeeded by Neil Gorsuch. He was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He died in his sleep following a day of hunting in Cibolo Creek Ranch Marfa, Texas. He died a month before his 80th birthday.
2015 ~ Herald Price Fahringer (b. Nov. 6, 1927), American teetotling attorney who defended famous pornographers. He was born in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He died at age 87 in Manhattan, New York.
2014 ~ Sid Caesar (né Isaac Sidney Caesar; b. Sept. 8, 1922), American comic actor who ruled 1950s television. He was born in Yonkers, New York. He died at age 91 in Beverly Hills, California.
2011 ~ Betty Garrett (née Elizabeth Garrett; b. May 23, 1919), American musical-comedy star who was scarred by the Hollywood blacklist. She was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. She died at age 91 in Los Angeles, California.
2010 ~ Nodar Kumaritashvili (b. Nov. 25, 1988), Georgian athlete and one-man luger. He was killed when he was thrown from the 2010 Olympic track during a training run in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. He was 21 years old.
2009 ~ Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak (b. June 10, 1938), Indian mathematician. She is known for her work in combinatorics. She died at age 70.
2007 ~ Peggy Gilbert (néw Margaret Fern Knechtges; b. Jan. 17, 1905), American saxophonist and bandleader. She was born in Sioux City, Iowa. She died less than a month after her 102nd birthday in Hollywood, California.
2000 ~ Tom Landry (né Thomas Wade Landry; b. Sept. 11, 1924), American professional football coach. He served for 24 years as the coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He was born in Mission, Texas. He died of leukemia at age 75 in Dallas, Texas.
2000 ~ Charles M. Schultz (né Charles Monroe Schultz; b. Nov. 26, 1922), American cartoonist and creator of Charlie Brown. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He died of colon cancer at age 77 in Santa Rosa, California.
1985 ~ Nicholas Colasanto (b. Jan. 19, 1924), American actor best known for his role as Coach on Cheers. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He died of a heart attack 24 days before his 62ndbirthday in Los Angeles, California.
1983 ~ Eubie Blake (né James Hubert Blake; b. Feb. 7, 1887), African-American musician and composer. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He died 5 days after his 96th birthday in Brooklyn, New York.
1980 ~ Muriel Rukeyser (b. Dec. 15, 1980), American poet and political activist. She is best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice and Judaism She was born and died in New York, New York. She died of a stroke at age 66.
1979 ~ Jean Renoir (b. Sept. 15, 1894), French movie director and son of artist Pierre-August Renoir. He was born in Paris, France. He died at age 84 in Beverly Hills, California.
1976 ~ Sal Mineo (né Salvatore Mineo, Jr.; b. Jan. 10, 1939), American actor. He was born in New York, New York. He was murdered about a month after his 37th birthday in West Hollywood, California.
1975 ~ Carl Lutz (b. Mar. 30, 1895), Swiss vice-consul to Hungary during World War II. He is credited with saving over 62,000 Jews during the War. By issuing safe-conduct certificates that allowed Jews to emigrate to what is now Israel. He is the Righteous Among the Nations. He died at age 79 in Bern, Switzerland.
1971 ~ James Cash Penney, Jr. (b. Sept. 16, 1875), founder of the American department store chain, J.C. Penney’s. He was born in Hamilton, Missouri. He died at age 95 in New York, New York.
1970 ~ Clare Turlay Newberry (b. Apr. 10, 1903), American children’s author and illustrator. She was born in Eugene, Oregon. She died at age 66 in San Diego, California.
1960 ~ Oskar Anderson (né Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson; b. Aug. 2, 1887), Russian-born German mathematician. He is best known for his work in mathematical statistics. He was born in Minsk, Russian Empire. He died at age 72 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
1958 ~ Douglas Hartree (né Douglas Rayner Hartree; b. Mar. 27, 1897), English mathematician and physicist. He was born and died in Cambridge, England. He died of heart failure at age 60.
1944 ~ Margaret Woodrow Wilson (b. Apr. 16, 1886), American daughter of President Woodrow Wilson. She served as First Lady during her father’s presidency after her mother, Ellen Wilson, died and before he married Edith Wilson. She was born in Gainesville, Georgia. She died of uremia at age 57 in Pondicherry, French India.
1942 ~ Avraham Stern (b. Dec. 23, 1907), Polish Zionist leader. He founded the militant Zionist group that became known as the Stern Gang. He was murdered in Tel Aviv at age 34.
1942 ~ Grant Wood (né Grant DeVolson Wood; b. Feb. 13, 1891), American painter best known for his iconic American Gothic. He was born in Anamosa, Iowa. He died of pancreatic cancer 1 day before his 51st birthday in Iowa City, Iowa.
1929 ~ Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton; b. Oct. 13, 1853), British singer and actress. She was born in Island of Jersey and was known as the Jersey Lily. She died at age 75 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
1916 ~ Richard Dedekind (né Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind; b. Oct. 6, 1831), German mathematician. He died at age 84.
1804 ~ Immanuel Kant (b. Apr. 22, 1724), German philosopher. He was one of the central figures during the Enlightenment Period. He died at age 79.
1789 ~ Ethan Allen (b. Jan. 21, 1738), American military leader during the American Revolutionary War. He was the leader of Vermont’s Green Mountain Boys. He was born in Litchfield, Connecticut. He died 22 days after his 51stbirthday in Burlington, Vermont.
1771 ~ Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (b. May 14, 1710). He was king from March 1751 until his death in February 1771. He was married to Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. He was of the House of Holstein-Gottorp. He was the son of Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin and Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach. He died at age 60.
1578 ~ Catherine, Archduchess of Austria (b. Jan. 14, 1507), Queen consort of Portugal and wife of John III, King of Portugal. She was of the House of Habsburg. She was the daughter of Joanna I, Queen of Castile and posthumous daughter of Philip I, King of Castile. She died about a month after her 71st birthday.
1554 ~ Lady Jane Grey (b. 1537), claimant to the English throne. She was Queen for nine days in 1553 but was ultimately beheaded for treason. She was married to Lord Guildford Dudley. She was of the House of Grey. She was the daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Lady Frances Brandon. The exact date of her birth is not known. She is believed to have been about 16 or 17 at the time of her execution.
1554 ~ Lord Guilford Dudley (b. 1536), husband of Lady Jane Grey. He was executed for treason along with his wife, Lady Jane Grey. The exact date of his birth is not known.
1538 ~ Albrecht Altdorfer (b. 1480), Bavarian painter and engraver.
1517 ~ Catherine, Queen of Navarre (b. 1468). She ruled jointly with John III, King of Navarre from January 1483 until her death. She was of the House of Foix. She was the youngest daughter of Gaston, Prince of Valois and Magdalene of France. The exact date of her birth is not known. She died at about age 48 or 49.
1479 ~ Eleanor, Queen of Navarre (b. Feb. 2, 1426). She was briefly the Queen regent of Navarre from January 1479 until her death a month later. She was married to Gaston IV, Count of Foix. She was of the House of Trastámara. She was the daughter of John II, King of Aragon and Blanche I, Queen of Navarre. She died just 10 days after her 53rdbirthday.
1101 ~ Daozong (b. Sept. 14, 1032), 8th Chinese Emperor of the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty. He ruled from August 1055 until his death 56 years later. He died at age 68.
914 ~ Lui Shouguang, Chinese emperor of the short-lived Yan Dynasty. He reigned from September 8, 911 until January 4, 914 when he was deposed. He was executed about a month after being deposed. He was executed along with his two wives. The date of his birth is not known.
914 ~ Li, Empress of Yan, one of two wives of Liu Shouguang, the only emperor of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms state of Yan. She was executed along with her husband and his other wife. The date of her birth is not known.
914 ~ Zhu, Empress of Yan, one of two wives of Liu Shouguang, the only emperor of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms state of Yan. She was executed along with her husband and his other wife. The date of her birth is not known.
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