Birthdays:
1965 ~ Rodney King (né Rodney Glen King; d. June 17, 2012), American victim and symbol of police violence in Los Angeles. He died at age 47 of an accidental drowning and drug overdose.
1961 ~ Christopher Meloni (né Christopher Peter Meloni), American actor. He is best known for his role as Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: SVU. He was born in Washington, D.C.
1947 ~ Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1947 ~ Camille Paglia (née Camille Anne Paglia), American social critic. She was born in Endicott, New York.
1945 ~ Linda Hunt (née Lydia Susanna Hunter), American actress best known for her role as Billy in the movie, The Year of Living Dangerously. She was born in Morristown, New Jersey.
1943 ~ Lynn Kellogg Simpers (née Lynn Kellogg; d. Nov. 12, 2020), American singer and actress. She is best known for her breakthrough role of Sheila in the original 1968 Broadway production of Hair. She later helped develop children’s television shows such as Animals, Animals, Animals. She was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. She died of Covid-19 at age 77 in St. Louis, Missouri.
1942 ~ Larry Selman (d. Jan. 20, 2013), American street philanthropist of Greenwich Village. He weighed 3 pounds at birth and was not expected to live. He went on to overcome a mental disability and became a skilled charity fundraiser. He died at age 70.
1942 ~ Leon Russell (né Claude Russell Bridges, d. Nov. 13, 2016), American singer-songwriter. He died at age 74 while recovering from heart surgery.
1941 ~ Dr. Demento (né Barrett Eugene Hansen), American radio host. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1939 ~ Marvin Gaye (né Marvin Pentz, Gay, Jr.; d. Apr. 1, 1984), American singer. He was shot and killed by his father 1 day before his 45th birthday.
1939 ~ Anthony Lake (né William Anthony Kirsopp Lake), 18th National Security Advisor. He served under President Bill Clinton from January 1993 until March 1997. He was born in New York, New York.
1934 ~ Paul Cohen (né Paul Joseph Cohen; d. March 23, 2007), American mathematician. He was the recipient of the 1966 Fields Medal. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. He died 10 days before his 73rd birthday in Stanford, California.
1934 ~ Carl Kasell (né Carl Ray Kasell; d. Apr. 17, 2018), American newscaster and radio personality. For many years, he was the announcer on NPR’s Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me. He retired from the radio show in 2014. He died 15 days after his 84th birthday.
1929 ~ Catherine Gaskin (d. Sept. 6, 2009), Irish-Australian romance novelist. She was born in Dunkalk Bay, Ireland. She died at age 80 of ovarian cancer in Sydney, Australia.
1928 ~ Serge Gainsbourg (né Lucien Ginsburg; d. Mar. 2, 1991), French singer and screenwriter. He was born and died in Paris, France. He died of a heart attack a month before his 63rd birthday.
1927 ~ Kenneth Tynan (né Kenneth Peacock Tynan; d. July 26, 1980), British theater critic and writer. He was born in Birmingham, England. He died of pulmonary emphysema at age 53 in Santa Monica, California.
1927 ~ Bo Callaway, Sr. (né Howard Hollis Callaway; d. Mar. 15, 2014), American soldier and 11th United States Secretary of the Army. He served under Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford from May 1973 until July 1975. He was born in LaGrange, Georgia. He died 13 days before his 87th birthday in Columbus, Georgia.
1923 ~ G. Spencer-Brown (né George Spencer-Brown, d. Aug. 25, 2016), English mathematician. He died at age 93.
1922 ~ Martha White (d. June 5, 2021), American house cleaner who sparked a civil rights protest. On June 15, 1953, after a long day a work, she stepped on a Baton Rouge city bus and sat down in the only empty seat behind the driver in the “whites only” section. She was ordered to move, but she refused. She was ultimately kicked off the bus. This action caused a bus boycott, which was ended in a settlement to reduce the number of “whites only” seats. She was born in Woodville, Mississippi. She died at age 99 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her memorial was held on June 19, 2021, the nation’s first Juneteenth Day.
1920 ~ Jack Webb (né John Randolph Webb; d. Dec. 23, 1982), American actor. He is best known for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday from the television series Dragnet. He died of a heart attack at age 62.
1914 ~ Sir Alec Guinness (né Alec Guinness de Cuffe; d. Aug. 5, 2000), English actor. He died of cancer at age 86.
1908 ~ Buddy Ebsen (né Christian Ludolf Ebsen, Jr.; d. July 6, 2003), American actor best known for his role as Jed Clampett in the Beverly Hillbillies. He died at age 95.
1898 ~ Chiungtze C. Tsen (d. Oct. 1, 1940), Chinese mathematician. He died of a stomach ulcer at age 42.
1891 ~ Max Ernst (b. Apr. 1, 1976), German artist. He died 1 day before his 85th birthday.
1875 ~ Walter Chrysler (né Walter Percy Chrysler; d. Aug. 18, 1940), American automobile pioneer and founder of the Chrysler company. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 65.
1862 ~ Nicholas Murray Butler (d. Dec. 7, 1947), American philosopher and diplomat. He was President of Columbia University. He was, ironically, the recipient of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, considering his stance on Italy and Germany during World War II. He exhibited anti-Semitic views and enforced the quotas on the number of Jews who could attend Columbia University. He died at age 85.
1840 ~ Émile Zola (né Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola; d. Sept. 29, 1902), French novelist and critic. He is best known for his article, J’Accuse, which was instrumental in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, an army officer who had been convicted of a crime simply because he was Jewish. The article brought to light the false accusations against Dreyfus. Zola died at age 62 of carbon monoxide poisoning, which some believe was murder.
1814 ~ Eratus Brigham Bigelow (d. Dec. 6, 1879), American industrialist and inventor of weaving machines. He was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He was 65 at the time of his death.
1807 ~ Alexander Stuart (né Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart; d. Feb. 13, 1891), 3rd United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under Presidents Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce from September 1850 until March 1853. He was born and died in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He died at age 83.
1805 ~ Hans Christian Andersen (d. Aug. 4, 1875), Danish writer of children’s stories and fairy tales. He died at age 70.
1725 ~ Giacomo Casanova (d. June 4, 1798), Italian adventurer and womanizer. He died at age 73 years old.
1647 ~ Maria Sibylla Merian (d. Jan. 13, 1717), German-born naturalist, entomologist botanist, and illustrator. She died at age 69.
1618 ~ Francesco Maria Grimaldi (d. Dec. 28, 1663), Italian mathematician, physicist and priest. The Grimaldi crater on the moon is named in his honor. He died at age 45.
742 ~ Charlemagne (d. Jan. 28, 814), Holy Roman Emperor. He is also sometimes referred to as Charles the Great. He was the creator of the Carolingian Dynasty. He was the son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon. He died pleurisy at age 71.
181 ~ Emperor Xian of Han (d. Apr. 21, 234), 14th and last emperor of the Han Dynasty. He reigned from September 189 until November 220. The exact date of his birth is not known, but it is believed to have been on April 2, 181. He died 19 days before his 53rd birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2021 ~ Good Friday.
2014 ~ A mass shooting spree at the Fort Hood army base in Texas left 4 people dead and 16 others injured.
2006 ~ Over 60 tornadoes hit across the United States. Tennessee was hit the hardest and nearly 30 people were killed by the storm.
1982 ~ Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands.
1979 ~ An accidental leak of anthrax spores in a Soviet microbiology facility in Sverdlovsk, Russia caused approximately 100 people to fall ill and die. The actual number of victims is not known.
1973 ~ LexisNexis began its computerized legal research services.
1956 ~ CBS television premiered two 30-minute soap operas ~ As the World Turns and The Edge of Night.
1930 ~ Haile Selassie (1892 ~ 1975) was proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
1917 ~ President Woodrow Wilson (1856 ~ 1924) asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany, thus marking the entry of the United States in World War I.
1902 ~ The first full-time movie theater in the United States opened in Los Angeles. It was called the Electric Theatre.
1900 ~ The Foraker Act was passed granting Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
1863 ~ Food shortages caused by the American Civil War incited hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies.
1792 ~ The Coinage Act was passed thereby establishing the United States Mint.
1513 ~ Juan Ponce de León (1474 ~ July 1521) is believed to have first sighted land, which is not the State of Florida in his quest to find the Fountain of Youth.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ Sergio Rossi (b. July 31, 1935), Italian luxury shoe designed best known for his elegant heels. He was born in San Mauro Pascoli, Italy. He died at age 84 in Cesena, Italy from complications of Covid-19.
2020 ~ Patricia Bosworth (née Patricia Crum; b. Apr. 24, 1933), American actress, biographer, and memoirist. She was born in Oakland, California. She died in New York, New York 22 days before her 87th birthday of complications of Covid-19.
2020 ~ Lila Fenwick (née Lila Althea Fenwick; b. May 24, 1932), African-American attorney who, in 1956, became the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School. She went on to work as a human rights official at the United Nations. She was born in Manhattan. She died from complications of Covid-19 at age 87.
2020 ~ Forrest Compton (b. Sept. 15, 1925), American actor and World War II veteran. He is best known for his portrayal of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Gray on the 1960s sit-com Gomer Pyle. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He died at age 95 in Shelter Island, New York from complications of Covid-19.
2020 ~ William Frankland (né Alfred William Frankland; b. Mar. 19, 1912), British immunologist and allergist. He transformed the world’s understanding of allergies and helped millions of hay fever sufferers by developing the idea of a pollen count. He was born in Sussex, England. He died in London, England of complications of Covid-19. He died 14 days after his 108th birthday.
2018 ~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (née Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela, b. Sept. 26, 1936), South African anti-apartheid leader who embraced brutality. She was married to Nelson Mandela. She died at age 81.
2013 ~ Jane Henson (née Jane Ann Nebel, b. June 16, 1924), American puppeteer and widow of puppeteer Jim Hanson, creator of The Muppets. She was born in New York, New York. She died of cancer at age 78 in Grenwich, Connecticut.
2013 ~ Milo O’Shea (né Milo Donal O’Shea; b. June 2, 1926), Irish character actor. He died at age 86.
2011 ~ Paul Violi (né Paul Randolph Violi; b. July 20, 1944), American poet. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died of cancer at age 66 in Cortlandt Manor, New York.
2005 ~ Pope Saint John Paul II (né Karol Józef Wojtyla; b. May 18, 1920). He served as Pope from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was 84 at the time of his death.
1995 ~ Hannes Alfvén (b. May 30, 1908), Swedish physicist and recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 86.
1994 ~ Betty Furness (née Elizabeth Mary Furness; b. Jan. 3, 1916), American actress and television journalist. She was also a consumer advocate. She died of stomach cancer at age 78.
1987 ~ Buddy Rich (né Bernard Rich, b. Sept. 30, 1917), American jazz drummer and bandleader. He died of a brain tumor at age 69.
1980 ~ Stanley Forman Reed (b. Dec. 31, 1884), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Franklin Roosevelt. He served on the Court from January 1938 until February 1957. He replaced George Sutherland on the Court. He was succeeded by Charles Whittaker. He was born in Minerva, Kentucky. He died at age 95 in Huntington, New York.
1978 ~ Aurelio Baldor (b. Oct. 22, 1906), Cuban mathematician and lawyer. He was born in Havana, Cuba. He died of pulmonary emphysema at age 71 in Miami, Florida.
1974 ~ Georges Pompidou (b. July 5, 1911), French politician and President of France from June 1969 until April 1974. He died in office at age 62.
1966 ~ C.S. Forester (né Cecil Louis Troughton Smith; b. Aug. 27, 1899), English author. He was the author of The African Queen. He died at age 66.
1928 ~ Theodore William Richards (b. Jan. 31, 1868), American chemist and recipient of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in determining the atomic weights of a number of chemical elements. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 60 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1914 ~ Paul von Heyse (né Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse; b. Mar. 15, 1830), German writer and recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He died 18 days before his 85th birthday in Munich, Germany.
1872 ~ Samuel Morse (né Samuel Finley Breese Morse; b. Apr. 27, 1791), American painter and inventor of the Morse code. His contribution greatly advanced the use of the commercial telegraph. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He died three weeks before his 81st birthday.
1791 ~ Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (b. Mar. 9, 1749), French journalist and politician who played a role in the French revolution. He died of illness at age 42.
1787 ~ Thomas Gage (b. Mar. 10, 1719), British general and American Revolutionary War figure. He had also served as Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The exact year of his birth is not known. He is believed to have been born in either 1719 or 1720. He died at age 67 or 68.
1720 ~ Joseph Dudley (b. Sept. 23, 1647), Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He died at age 72.
1657 ~ Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. July 13, 1608). He died at age 48.
1502 ~ Prince Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales (b. Sept. 20, 1486), son of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. He married Catherine of Aragon, but died before marriage was said to have been consummated. He died before his father, Henry VII, so his younger brother, Henry, ultimately became King Henry VIII, who married Arthur’s widow. Arthur was 15 years old at the time of his death.
1416 ~ Ferdinand I, King of Aragon (b. Nov. 27, 1380). He reigned from September 1412 until his death less than 4 years later. He was of the House of Trastámara. He was the son of John I, King of Castile and Eleanor of Aragon. He was married to Eleanor of Albuquerque. He died at age 35.
1305 ~ Joan I, Queen of Navarre (b. Jan. 14, 1273), She reigned from July 1274 until her death in April 1305. She was also the Countess of Champagne in her own right. She was the Queen consort of France and wife of Philip IV, King of France. She was of the House of Blois. She was the daughter of Henry I, King of Navarre and Blanche of Artois. She died at age 32, probably in childbirth.
1272 ~ Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (b. Jan. 5, 1209). He was of the House of Plantagenet. He was one of the richest men in Europe. He married three times. His first wife was Isabel Marshal. After her death, he married Sanchia of Provence. After her death, he married Beatrice of Falkenburg. He was the son of John, King of England and Isabella, Countess of Angoulême. He died at age 63.
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