Birthdays:
1974 ~ Amber Valletta (née Amber Evangeline Valletta), American fashion model. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona.
1963 ~ Brian Greene, American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He was born in New York, New York.
1960 ~ Peggy Whitson (née Peggy Annette Whitson), American biochemist and astronaut. She was born in Beaconsfield, Iowa.
1949 ~ Judith Light (née Judith Ellen Light), American actress. She was born in Trenton, New Jersey.
1946 ~ Jim Webb (né James Henry Webb, Jr.), 18th United States Secretary of the Navy. He served under President Ronald Reagan from May 1987 to February 1988. He subsequently became a United States Senator from Virginia. He served as Senator from January 2007 until January 2013. He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri.
1945 ~ Mia Farrow (née María de Lourdes Villiers Farrow), American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1945 ~ Yoshinori Ohsumi, Japanese cell biologist. He was the recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in autophagy, the process in which cells use to destroy and recycle cell components. He was born in Fukuoka, Japan.
1945 ~ Carol Saunders Wood, American mathematician. She is known for her work in mathematical logic and theoretic algebra. She was born in Pennington Gap, Virginia.
1944 ~ Alice Walker (née Alice Tallulah-Kate Malsenior Walker), African-American writer. She is best known for her 1982 novel The Color Purple. She was born in Eatonton, Georgia.
1943 ~ Joseph E. Stiglitz (né Joseph Eugene Stiglitz), American economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was born in Gary, Indiana.
1942 ~ Carole King (née Carol Joan Klein), American singer and songwriter. She was born in Manhattan, New York.
1940 ~ J.M. Coetzee (né John Maxwell Coetzee), South African-born Australian writer and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa.
1930 ~ Garner Ted Armstrong (d. Sept. 15, 2003), American televangelist. He was born in Portland, Oregon. He died of complications due to pneumonia at age 73.
1928 ~ John A. Stormer (d. July 10, 2018), American Protestant right-wing author who warned of a communist conspiracy. He was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He died at age 90 in Troy, Missouri.
1928 ~ Roger Mudd (né Roger Harrison Mudd; d. Mar. 9, 2021), American broadcast journalist and television news reporter. He was born in Washington, D.C. He died a month after his 93rd birthday in McLean, Virginia.
1926 ~ Letitia Baldridge (d. Oct. 29, 2012), American manners guru who served the Kennedys in the White House. She was the 11th White House Social Secretary from 1961 until 1963. She was born in Miami, Florida. She died at age 86 in Bethesda, Maryland.
1920 ~ Thomas M. Messer (né Thomas Maria Messer; d. May 15, 2013), Czech-American museum director who tended the Guggenheim Foundation. He was born in Bratislava, Slovakia. He died at age 93 in New York, New York.
1914 ~ Bill Veeck (né William Louis Veeck, Jr.; d. Jan. 2, 1986), American baseball executive. He owned the Chicago Cubs. He was born and died in Chicago, Illinois. He died of lung cancer at age 71.
1910 ~ Jacques Monod (né Jacques Lucien Monod; d. May 31, 1976), French biologist and recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in Paris, France. He died of leukemia at age 66 in Cannes, France.
1909 ~ Carmen Miranda (née Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha; d. Aug. 5, 1955), Portuguese-born Brazilian actress and singer. She died of a heart attack at age 46 in Beverly Hills, California.
1909 ~ Guilio Racah (d. Aug. 28, 1965), Italian-born Israeli physicist and mathematician. He was born and died in Florence, Italy. He died at age 56 of asphyxiated of an apparent faulty heater.
1909 ~ Dean Rusk (né David Dean Rusk; d. Dec. 20, 1994), 54th United States Secretary of State. He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from January 1961 until January 1969. He was born in Cherokee County, Georgia. He died of heart failure at age 85 in Athens, Georgia.
1907 ~ Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (d. Mar. 31, 2003), British-born Canadian mathematician. He is known for the study of geometry. He was born in London, England. He died at age 96 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1880 ~ Lipót Fejér (né Leopold Weisz; d. Oct. 15, 1959), Hungarian mathematician. He died at age 79 in Budapest, Hungary.
1874 ~ Amy Lowell (née Amy Lawrence Lowell; d. May 12, 1925), American poet. She was born and died in Brookline, Massachusetts. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 51.
1871 ~ Howard Taylor Ricketts (d. May 3, 1910), American pathologist. He is known for identifying the disease agent causing Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. The pathogen, Rickettsia, was named after him. He was born in Findlay, Ohio. He died at age 39 after contracting typhus in Mexico City, Mexico.
1854 ~ Aletta Jacobs (née Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs; d. Aug. 10, 1929), Dutch physician, social activist, and women’s suffrage activist. She died at age 75.
1814 ~ Samuel J. Tilden (né Samuel Jones Tilden; d. Aug. 4, 1886), Governor of New York State. He was Governor from January 1875 until December 1876. He was born in New Lebanon, New York. He died at age 72 in Yonkers, New York.
1800 ~ Hyrum Smith (d. June 27, 1844), Mormon elder. He and his brother Joseph Smith (Dec. 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844), were murdered by a mob in a jail in Carthage, Illinois. Hyrum was born in Tunbridge, Vermont. Joseph died at age 38 and Hyrum was 44.
1789 ~ Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (d. Jan. 4, 1849), German inventor of stenography. He was born and died in Munich, Germany. He died about a month before his 60th birthday.
1775 ~ Farkas Bolyai (d. Nov. 20, 1856), Hungarian mathematician. He died at age 81.
1773 ~ William Henry Harrison (d. Apr. 4, 1841), 9th President of the United States. He caught pneumonia during his inauguration speech and died a month after taking Office. He was the first President to die in office and he served for the shortest term in American history. He was born in Virginia. He died at age 68 in Washington, D.C.
1769 ~ George Washington Campbell (d. Feb. 17, 1848), 5th Secretary of the United States Treasury. He served under President James Madison for 9 months from February 1814 until October 1814. He subsequently became a United States Senator from Tennessee. He was born in Scotland. He died 8 days after his 79th birthday in Nashville, Tennessee.
1737 ~ Thomas Paine (né Thomas Pain; d. June 8, 1809), American revolutionary, writer and radical liberal philosopher. He was born in England. He died at age 72 in New York, New York. [Note: Under the Julian calendar in effect at the time of his birth, Paine’s birth is sometimes listed as being on January 29, 1737.]
1313 ~ Princess Maria of Portugal (d. Jan. 18, 1357), Queen consort of Castile and León and second wife of Alfonso XI, King of Castile. She was of the Portuguese House of Burgundy. She was the daughter of Afonso IV, King of Portugal and Beatrice of Castile. She died 22 days before her 44th birthday.
1060 ~ Pope Honorius II (né Lamberto Scannabecchi, d. Feb. 13, 1130), Pope from December 1124 until his death in 1130. He died 4 days after his 70th birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2021 ~ The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump (b. 1946) began in the United States Senate.
2018 ~ The 2018 Winter Olympics opened in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
2016 ~ Mardi Gras.
2013 ~ A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck southwest Colombia. Although there was major disruption to the region, no one was killed.
1986 ~ Halley’s Comet appeared in the inner Solar System.
1971 ~ Satchel Paige (1906 ~ 1982) was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was the first African-American to be voted into the Hall.
1971 ~ A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck Greater Los Angeles.
1969 ~ The first test flight of the Boeing 747.
1965 ~ The first United States troops are sent to South Viet Nam.
1964 ~ The Beatles made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
1950 ~ United States Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908 ~ 1957) accused the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1907 ~ The United Procession of Women, known as the Mud March, was the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in support of women’s suffrage. The march took place in London, England.
1895 ~ William G. Morgan (1870 ~ 1942) invented the game now known as Volleyball.
1889 ~ President Grover Cleveland (1837 ~ 1908) signed into a law creating the United States Department of Agriculture into a Cabinet-level agency.
1870 ~ President Ulysses Grant (1822 ~ 1885) signed a joint resolution of Congress establishing the United States Weather Bureau.
1861 ~ Jefferson Davis (1808 ~ 1889) was elected as Provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1825 ~ The United States House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams (1767 ~ 1848) as the President of the United States after no presidential candidate received a majority of the electoral votes in the 1824 election.
1775 ~ The British Parliament declared Massachusetts in rebellion during the American Revolutionary War.
1621 ~ Pope Gregory XV (1554 ~ 1623) became the last Pope elected by acclamation.
Good-Byes:
2021 ~ Chick Corea (né Armando Anthony Corea; b. June 12, 1941), American jazz and virtuoso pianist and composer who helped drive the jazz-rock fusion boom of the 1970s. He was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He died of cancer at age 79 in Tampa Bay, Florida.
2010 ~ Walter Frederick Morrison (b. Jan. 23, 1920), American Space Age toymaker and inventor who created the Frisbee. He sold the rights to the Frisbee on his 37th birthday. He was born in Richfield Utah. He died 17 days after his 90th birthday in Monroe, Utah.
2006 ~ Sir Freddie Laker (né Frederick Alfred Laker, b. Aug. 6, 1922), English businessman and founder of Laker Airways. He was born in Canterbury, Kent, England. He died at age 83 in Hollywood, Florida.
2005 ~ Robert Kearns (né Robert William Kearns; b. Mar. 10, 1927), American engineer who invented the intermittent windshield wiper. He was born in Gary, Indiana. He died of brain cancer a month before his 78th birthday in Baltimore, Maryland.
2003 ~ Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda (b. Feb. 25, 1926), Turkish-Japanese mathematician. He was born in Tokyo, Japan. He died 16 days before his 77th birthday in Ankara, Turkey.
2002 ~ Princess Margaret Rose of York, Countess of Snowdon (b. Aug. 21, 1930), sister of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. She was to Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon. They divorced after 18 years of marriage. She was of the House of Windsor. She was the daughter of George VI, King of Great Britain, and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. She died following a stroke at age 71 in London, England.
2001 ~ Herbert Simon (né Herbert Alexander Simon; b. June 15, 1916), American economist and recipient of the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He died at age 84 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1996 ~ Albert Jean Amateau (b. Apr. 20, 1889), Turkish rabbi. He was born in Milas, Turkey. He died at age 106 in Santa Rosa, California.
1995 ~ David Wayne (né Wayne James McMeekan; b. Jan. 30, 1914), American actor. He was born in Traverse City, Michigan. He died of lung cancer 10 days after his 81st birthday in Santa Monica, California.
1995 ~ J. William Fulbright (né James William Fulbright; b. Apr. 9, 1905), United States Senator from Arkansas who worked to establish an international exchange program, which eventually lead to the creation of the Fulbright fellowship program. He was born in Sumner, Missouri. He died at age 89 in Washington, D.C.
1994 ~ Howard Temin (né Howard Martin Temin; b. Dec. 10, 1934), American geneticist and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died of lung cancer at age 59 in Madison, Wisconsin.
1984 ~ Yuri Andropov (b. June 15, 1914), Russian politician. He died at age 69 in Moscow USSR.
1981 ~ Bill Haley (né William John Clifton Haley; b. July 6, 1925), American musician and guitarist. He was the frontman for his band, Bill Haley and the Comets. He was born in Highland Park, Michigan. He died at age 55 in Harlingen, Texas.
1979 ~ Dennis Gabor (né Günszberg Dénes; b. June 5, 1900), Hungarian-English engineer and physicist. He was the recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is best known for inventing the holography. He was born into a Jewish family and later converted to Lutherism. Nazi Germany, however, considered him to be Jewish, thus he fled to England in 1933. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He died at age 78 in London, England.
1973 ~ Max Yasgur (b. Dec. 15, 1919), American farmer and owner of the Woodstock festival site. He was born in New York, New York. He died of a heart attack at age 53 in Marathon, Florida.
1966 ~ Sophie Tucker (née Sofia Kalish; b. Jan. 13, 1886), Ukrainian-born singer and performer. She was known as the Last of the Red-Hot Mamas. She died 27 days after her 80th birthday in Manhattan, New York.
1942 ~ Lauri Kristian Relander (b. May 31, 1883), 2nd President of Finland. He served in Office from March 1925 until March 1931. He died of heart failure at age 58.
1936 ~ Caroline Ellen Furness (b. June 24, 1869), American astronomer. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Columbia University. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She died at age 66 in New York, New York.
1894 ~ Maxime Du Camp (b. Feb. 8, 1822), French photographer and journalist. He was born in Paris, France. He died 1 day after his 72nd birthday in Baden-Baden, Germany.
1881 ~ Fyodor Dostoyevesky (né Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevesky; b. Nov. 11, 1821), Russian novelist, best known for his novel, Crime and Punishment. He was born in Moscow, Russian Empire. He died at age 59 of a pulmonary hemorrhage in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire.
1873 ~ Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (b. Feb. 8, 1792), Queen consort of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary. She was the 4th and final wife of Francis I, Emperor of Austria. He had previously been known as Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, however, he had abdicated that throne prior to his marriage to Caroline. Francis was her second husband. Her first marriage was an arranged political marriage to William, Crown Prince of Württemberg. This marriage was annulled. She was of the House of Wittelsbach. She was the daughter of Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria and Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. She died 1 day after her 81st birthday.
1670 ~ Frederick III, King of Denmark (b. Mar. 18, 1609). He ruled Denmark and Norway from February 1648 until his death 14 years later. He was married to Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He was of the House of Oldenburg. He was the son of Christian IV, King of Denmark and Anne Catherine of Brandenburg. He died at age 60.
1450 ~ Agnès Sorel (b. 1421), French royal mistress of Charles VII, King of France. She died in childbirth following the birth of her 4th child. The exact date of her birth is not known. She is believed to have been 28 at the time of her death.
1135 ~ Tai Zong (b. Nov. 25, 1075), 2nd Chinese emperor of the Jin dynasty. He ruled from September 1123 until his death 30 years later. He died at age 59.
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