Birthdays:
1978 ~ Ben Sheets (né Benjamin Michael Sheets), American professional baseball player and coach. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and went to college at Northeast Louisiana University.
1969 ~ Elizabeth M. Gilbert, American writer, best known for her memoir Eat, Pray Love. She was born in Waterbury, Connecticut.
1967 ~ Vin Diesel (né Mark Sinclair), American actor. He was born in Alameda County, California.
1961 ~ Elizabeth McGovern (née Elizabeth Lee McGovern), American actress. She was born in Evanston, Illinois.
1951 ~ Margo Martindale, American actress. She had the recurring role of Claudia in the television series, The Americans. She was born in Jacksonville, Texas.
1950 ~ Sir Richard Branson (né Richard Charles Nicholas Branson), British businessman who founded the Virgin Group. He was born in London, England.
1948 ~ Hartmut Michel, German biochemist and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
1940 ~ James Brolin (né Craig Kenneth Bruderlin), American actor. He played the family patriarch on the television sit-com, Life in Pieces. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
1937 ~ Hunter S. Thompson (né Hunter Stockton Thompson; d. Feb. 20, 2005), American journalist. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He died by suicide at age 67 in Woody Creek, Colorado.
1937 ~ Roald Hoffmann (né Roald Safran), Polish chemist and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Złoczów, Ukraine.
1933 ~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko (d. Apr. 1, 2017), Russian poet and author. He was born in Zima, Soviet Union. He died at age 83 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1927 ~ Kurt Masur (d. Dec. 19, 2015), German conductor. He was known as one of the last old-style maestros. He died at age 88 in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1921 ~ John Glenn, Jr. (né John Herschel Glenn, Jr.; d. Dec. 8, 2016), American astronaut and politician. He was the first American astronaut to circle the earth in Space. He also served as a United States Senator from Ohio from December 1974 until January 1999. He was born in Cambridge, Ohio. He died at age 95 in Columbus, Ohio.
1921 ~ Aaron Beck (né Aaron Temkin Beck; d. Nov. 1, 2021), American pragmatic psychologist who changed therapy. He abandoned Freudian analysis and pioneered cognitive behavioral therapy that is now used to treat depression, anxiety, and many other conditions. He is considered the father of cognitive therapy. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He died at age 100 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1918 ~ Nelson Mandela (né Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela; d. Dec. 5, 2013), 1st President of South Africa and recipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the anti-apartheid icon who forged a new South Africa. He died at age 95 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1916 ~ L. Patrick Gray (né Louis Patrick Gray, III; d. July 6, 2005), Acting Director of the FBI following the death of J. Edgar Hoover. He was appointed to head the FBI by President Richard Nixon. He served in that office from May 1972 until April 1973. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He died in Atlantic Beach, Florida 12 days before his 89th birthday.
1913 ~ Red Skelton (né Richard Bennett Skelton; d. Sept. 17, 1997), American actor and comedian. He was born in Vincennes, Indiana. He died at age 84 in Rancho Mirage, California.
1911 ~ Hume Cronyn (né Hume Blake Cronyn, Jr.; d. June 15, 2003), Canadian actor. He was born in London, Ontario, Canada. He died of prostate cancer about a month before his 92nd birthday in Fairfield, Connecticut.
1909 ~ Andrei Gromyko (d. July 2, 1989), Soviet politician. He died two weeks before his 80th birthday in Moscow, Soviet Union.
1909 ~ Harriet Nelson (née Peggy Lou Snyder; d. Oct. 2, 1994), American actress. She is best known for her role in the television comedy The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa. She died of congestive heart failure at age 85 in Laguna Beach, California.
1908 ~ Beatrice Aitchison (d. Sept. 22, 1997), American mathematician and transportation economist. She was the director of the Transport Economic Division of the United States Department of Commerce. She was born in Portland, Oregon. She died of heart failure at age 89 in Washington, D.C.
1906 ~ Clifford Odets (d. Aug. 14, 1963), American playwright. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died of stomach cancer less than a month after his 57th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1902 ~ Jessamyn West (née Mary Jessamyn West; d. Feb. 23, 1984), American writer. She was born in Vernon, Indiana. She died in California at age 81.
1895 ~ Machine Gun Kelly (né George Kelly Barnes; d. July 18, 1954), American gangster. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He died in prison of a heart attack on his 59th birthday in Leavenworth Penitentiary, Kansas.
1891 ~ Emil Julius Gumbel (d. Sept. 10, 1966), German mathematician. The Nazi regime forced him to flee Germany. He first moved to France, then in 1940, immigrated to the United States. He was born in Munich, Germany. He died at age 75 in New York, New York.
1867 ~ Margaret Brown (née Margaret Tobin, d. Oct. 26, 1932), American socialite and social activist. She is best known, however, as being a Titanic survivor. The 1960 Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown was based on her life. She was born in Hannibal, Missouri. She died of a brain tumor at age 65 in New York, New York.
1853 ~ Hendrik Lorentz (né Hendrick Antoon Lorentz; d. Feb. 4, 1928), Dutch physicist and recipient of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Arnhem, Netherlands. He died at age 74 in Haarlem, Netherlands.
1843 ~ Virgil Earp (né Virgil Walter Earp; d. Oct. 19, 1905), United States lawman in the American Wild West. He was born in Hartford, Kentucky. He died at age 62 in Goldfield, Nevada.
1818 ~ Baron Louis Gerhard De Geer (d. Sept. 24, 1896), 1st Prime Minister of Sweden. He served as Prime Minister from March 1876 until April 1880. He died at age 78.
1811 ~ William Makepeace Thackerary (d. Dec. 24, 1863), British author. He is best known for his satirical novel Vanity Fair. He was born in Calcutta, British India. He died at age 52 in London, England.
1724 ~ Maria Antonia of Bavaria (d. Apr. 28, 1730), Electress consort of Saxony. She was the wife of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony. She was of the House of Wittelsbach. She was the daughter of Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Amalia of Austria. She died at age 56.
1552 ~ Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. Jan. 20, 1612). He ruled as the Holy Roman Emperor from October 1576 until his death in January 1612. He was regarded as an ineffective leader whose actions led to the Thirty Years’ War. He never married but had at least one illegitimate child. He was of the House of Habsburg. He was the son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Empire and Maria of Austria. He died at age 59.
1501 ~ Isabella of Austria (d. Jan. 19, 1526), Queen consort of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden and wife of Christian II, King of Denmark. She was also known as Elisabeth. She was of the House of Habsburg. She was the daughter of Joanna, Queen of Castile and Philip I, King of Castile. She died of an illness at age 24.
1013 ~ Hermann of Reichenau (d. Sept. 24, 1054), German composer, astronomer and mathematician. He died in a monastery at age 41.
Events that Changed the World:
2016 ~ The 2016 Republican National Convention began in Cleveland, Ohio. The event ran through July 21. By the end of the Convention, Donald Trump (b. 1946) was the presidential nominee and Mike Pence (b. 1959) was the vice-presidential nominee.
2013 ~ The City of Detroit, Michigan filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, claiming up to $20 billion in debt. It was the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in debt in the United States.
2012 ~ A bomb exploded on an Israeli tour bus at the Burgas Airport in Bulgaria, killing 7 people and injuring 32 others.
1994 ~ The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentinean Jewish Communal Center) in Buenos Aires killed 85 people and injured over 300. Most of the victims were Jewish.
1984 ~ At a McDonald restaurant in San Ysidro, California, a gunman opened fire, killing 21 people and injured 19 others before being shot and killed by police. At the time of this shooting, it was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States. It has since been surpassed by numerous other mass shootings.
1976 ~ During the Summer Olympics, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comǎneci (b. 1961) became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics.
1969 ~ Ted Kennedy (1932 ~ 2009) drove his vehicle off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne (1940 ~ 1969), who died just 8 days before her 29th birthday. This event was depicted in the 2018 film, Chappaquiddick.
1968 ~ Intel, a semiconductor chip manufacturer, was founded in California.
1966 ~ Gemini 10 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that involved docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle. It was the 8th manned Gemini flight. The two astronauts were John Young (1930 ~ 2018) and Michael Collins (b. 1930).
1936 ~ An army uprising in Spanish Morocco initiated the Spanish Civil War.
1870 ~ The First Vatican Council degreed the dogma of papal infallibility.
1290 ~ Edward I, King of England (1239 ~ 1307) issued the Edict of Expulsion banishing all Jews from England. This event occurred on Tisha b’Av on the Hebrew calendar, which is a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities, including the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. It was not until 1635, when Oliver Cromwell (1599 ~ 1658) allowed Jews to return to England.
Good-Byes:
2018 ~ Adrian Cronauer (né Adrian Joseph Cronauer; b. Sept. 8, 1938), American United States airman and innovative disc jockey who inspired the 1987 movie, Good Morning, Vietnam. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died at age 79 in Troutville, Virginia.
2018 ~ Burton Richter (b. Mar. 22, 1931), American physicist and recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 87 in Palo Alto, California.
2016 ~ Matilda Rapaport (b. Jan. 29, 1986), Swedish daredevil skier who chased big mountain highs. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She was killed in an avalanche accident while skiing in the Andes in Chile. She was buried under the snow and fell into a coma. She died in a hospital in Santiago, Chile at age 30.
2015 ~ Alex Rocco (né Alessandro Federico Petricone, Jr.; b. Feb. 29, 1936), American character actor who found fame with The Godfather. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 79 in Studio City, California.
2012 ~ Yosef Shalom Eliashiv (b. Apr. 10, 1910), Lithuanian-Israeli Haredi rabbi. He died at age 102 in Jerusalem.
2005 ~ General William Westmoreland (né William Childs Westmoreland, b. Mar. 26, 1914), American general who was in charge of all military commands during the Vietnam War from 1964 until 1968. He served as the 25th Chief of Staff of the United States Army from July 1963 through June 1972. He was born in Saxon, South Carolina. He died at age 91 in Charleston, South Carolina.
1999 ~ Meir Ariel (b. Mar. 2, 1942), Israeli singer-songwriter. He was born in Mishmarot, Israel. He died of Mediterranean Spotted Fever at age 57 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1990 ~ Karl Menninger (né Karl Augustus Menninger, b. July 22, 1893), American psychiatrist and founder of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He was born and died in Topeka, Kansas. He died of abdominal cancer 4 days before his 97th birthday.
1989 ~ Rebecca Schaeffer (née Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer; d. Nov. 6, 1967), American actress who was murdered by a deranged fan at age 21. She was born in Eugene, Oregon. She died in Los Angeles, California.
1969 ~ Mary Jo Kopechne (b. July 26, 1940), American secretary and aide to Teddy Kennedy. She was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She was killed when the car she was riding in that was driven by Ted Kennedy went off the road into Chappaquiddick Bay. Her story is told in the 2017 movie entitled Chappaquiddick. She died 8 days before her 29thbirthday.
1968 ~ Corneille Heymans (né Corneille Jean François Heymans; b. Mar. 28, 1892), Belgian physiologist and recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for showing how blood pressure and the oxygen content of blood are transmitted to the brain. He died of a stroke at age 76.
1954 ~ Machine Gun Kelly (né George Kelly Barnes; b. July 18, 1895), American gangster. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He died in prison of a heart attack on his 59th birthday in Leavenworth Penitentiary, Kansas.
1942 ~ George Sutherland (né George Alexander Sutherland; b. Mar. 25, 1862), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was born in Stony Stratford, England, but his family moved to Utah territory when he was a year old because his father had converted to Mormonism. He was appointed to the High Court by President Warren Harding. He served on the court from September 1922 until January 1938. He replaced John Clarke on the Court. He was succeeded by Stanley Reed. He died in while on vacation in Stockbridge, Massachusetts at age 80.
1938 ~ Marie of Romania (née Princess Marie of Edinburgh; b. Oct. 29, 1875), Queen consort of Romania. She was the wife of Ferdinand I, King of Romania. She was the last queen of Romania. She was of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She was the daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. She was the granddaughter of Victoria., Queen of the United Kingdom. She died at age 62.
1935 ~ Annie Smith Peck (b. Oct. 19, 1850), American mountaineer. She wrote several books encouraging Americans to travel and explore. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She died of bronchial pneumonia at age 84 in Manhattan, New York.
1899 ~ Horatio Alger, Jr. (b. Jan. 13, 1832), American author and journalist. He is best known for his rags-to-riches novels. He was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts and died in Natick, Massachusetts at age 67.
1892 ~ Thomas Cook (b. Nov. 22, 1808), English travel agent and founder of the Thomas Cook Group. He died at age 83.
1872 ~ Benito Juárez (b. Mar. 21, 1806), President of Mexico. He served as President from January 1858 until his death of a heart attack in July 1872 in Mexico City, Mexico. He was 66 years old.
1817 ~ Jane Austen (b. Dec. 16, 1775), English novelist. She died at age 41.
1792 ~ John Paul Jones (né John Paul, b. July 6, 1747), American naval commander during the American Revolution. He is sometimes referred to as the Father of the American Navy. He was born in Scotland. He died 12 days after his 45thbirthday in Paris, France.
1721 ~ Jean-Antoine Watteau (b. Oct. 10, 1684), French painter. He died of tuberculosis at age 36.
1610 ~ Caravaggio (né Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, b. Sept. 28, 1571), Italian artist. He died under mysterious circumstances at age 38.
912 ~ Zhu Wen (b. Dec. 5, 852), Chinese emperor at the end of the Tang dynasty. He reigned from June 907 until his death 5 years later. He died at age 59.
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