Birthdays:
2013 ~ His Highness Prince George Alexander Louis. Member of the British Royal Family. He is of the House of Windsor. He is the eldest son of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge.
2002 ~ Prince Felix of Denmark, Count of Monpezat. He is a member of the Danish Royal Family. He is of the House of Monpezat. He is the son of Prince Joachim of Denmark and his first wife, Alexandra Manley.
1964 ~ John Leguizamo (né John Alberto Leguizamo), Colombian-born American actor. He was born in Bogotá, Colombia.
1963 ~ Rob Estes (né Robert Estes), American actor. He is best known for his role as Sgt. Chris Lorenzo on the television crime drama Silk Stalkings. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia.
1955 ~ Willem Dafoe (né William James Dafoe), American actor. He was born in Appleton, Wisconsin.
1948 ~ S.E. Hinton (née Susan Eloise Hinton), American novelist, best know for her novel, The Outsiders, written when she was 16 years old. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1947 ~ Albert Brooks (né Albert Lawrence Einstein), American comedian and actor. He was born in Beverly Hills, California.
1947 ~ Don Henley (né Donald Hugh Henley), American singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of the band The Eagles. He was born in Gilmer, Texas.
1946 ~ Danny Glover (né Danny Lebern Glover), African-American actor. He was born in San Francisco, California.
1941 ~ Estelle Bennett (d. Feb. 11, 2009), African-American sassy ‘60s singer who rocked with the Ronettes. She was born in New York, New York. She died of colon cancer at age 67 in Englewood, New Jersey.
1940 ~ Alex Trebek (né George Alexander Trebek; d. Nov. 8, 2020), Canadian unflappable quizmaster and game show host who captained Jeopardy! He was born in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 80 in Los Angeles, California.
1939 ~ Mildred Loving (née Mildred Delores Jeter; d. May 2, 2008), African-American woman who, along with her white husband Richard (1933 ~ 1975), helped legalize interracial marriage in the United States. They were arrested and sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their case eventually went to the United States Supreme Court as Loving v. Virginia, which unanimously held that the prohibition against interracial marriage was unconstitutional. It was also portrayed in the 2016 film, Loving. She was born in Central Point, Virginia. She died at age 68 in Milford, Virginia.
1938 ~ Terence Stamp (né Terence Henry Stamp), English actor. He was born in London, England.
1936 ~ Geraldine Claudette Darden, African-American mathematician. She was born in Nansemond, Virginia.
1934 ~ Louise Fletcher (née Estelle Louise Fletcher), American actress. She is best known for her role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1932 ~ Oscar de la Renta (né Óscar Arístides Renta Fiallo; d. Oct. 20, 2014), Dominican-American fashion designer who dressed the rich and fabulous. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He died of cancer at age 82 in Kent, Connecticut.
1930 ~ Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (d. Nov. 2, 2012), Indian-American mathematician. He was born in Ujjain, India. He died at age 82 in West Lafayette, Indiana.
1928 ~ Kevin Reilly, Sr. (né Kevin Patrick Reilly, Sr.; d. Oct. 28, 2012), American politician who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but served from Louisiana. He died of Parkinson’s disease in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at age 84.
1928 ~ Orson Bean (né Dallas Frederick Burrows; d. Feb. 7, 2020), American actor and game show host. He was born in Burlington, Vermont. He was struck and killed by a car in Los Angeles, California. He was 91 years old.
1926 ~ Dorcas Reilly (d. Oct. 15, 2018), American culinary inventor who created a Thanksgiving staple. In 1955, while working for the Campbell’s Soup Company, she created the Green Bean Casserole. She was born in Woodbury, New Jersey. She died of Alzheimer’s disease at age 92 in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
1923 ~ Bob Dole (né Robert Joseph Dole; d. Dec. 5, 2021), American World War II hero who became a United States Senate Stalwart. He was a United States Senator from Kansas. He was a politician and 1996 Republican Presidential candidate. He was born in Russell, Kansas. He died at age 98 in Washington, D.C.
1922 ~ Dan Rowan (né Daniel Hale David, d. Sept. 22, 1987), American actor, best known for being the straight man to Dick Martin on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. He was born in Beggs, Oklahoma. He died of lymphoma at age 65 in Englewood, Florida.
1910 ~ Ruthie Thompson (née Ruth Irene Thompson; d. Oct. 10, 2021), American animator and artist who shaped Disney classics. She was a supercentenarian and lived through the 1918 Influenza as well as Covid-19. She was born in Portland, Maine. She died in Woodland Hills, California at age 111.
1908 ~ Amy Vanderbilt (née Amy Osborne Vanderbilt; d. Dec. 27, 1974), American etiquette authority. She was born in Staten Island, New York. She died at age 66 from injuries sustained from a fall from a window in New York, New York. It is not clear whether or not the fall was accidental or a suicide.
1898 ~ Stephen Vincent Benét (d. Mar. 13, 1943), American writer. He was born in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania. He died at age 44 of a heart attack in New York, New York.
1898 ~ Alexander Calder (d. Nov. 11, 1976), American sculptor and inventor. He is best known for his mobiles. He was born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania. He died at age 78 in New York, New York.
1893 ~ Karl Menninger (né Karl Augustus Menninger; d. July 18, 1990), 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.
1890 ~ Rose Kennedy (née Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald; d. Jan. 22, 1995), Kennedy family matriarch and wife of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She died at age 104 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
1888 ~ Selman Waksman (né Selman Abraham Waksman; d. Aug. 16, 1973), Ukrainian-born American biochemist and microbiologist. He was the recipient of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of streptomycin. He died 25 days after his 85th birthday in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
1887 ~ Gustav Ludwig Hertz (d. Oct. 30, 1975), German physicist and recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 88 in East Berlin, East Germany.
1882 ~ Edward Hopper (d. May 15, 1967), American realist painter. He died at age 84.
1849 ~ Emma Lazarus (d. Nov. 19, 1887), American poet. She is best known for her poem, The New Colossus, a portion of which is found on a plaque at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. She was born and died in New York, New York. She died of an illness at age 38.
1844 ~ William Archibald Spooner (d. Aug. 29, 1930), English priest and scholar. His name is given to the linguistic phenomenon of spoonerism. He was born in London, England. He died at age 86.
1784 ~ Friedrich Bessel (né Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel; d. Mar. 17, 1846), German mathematician and astronomer. He died at age 61.
1755 ~ Gaspard de Prony (né Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony; d. July 29, 1839), French mathematician. His name is one of 72 inscribed in the Eiffel Tower. He died 7 days after his 84th birthday.
1596 ~ Michael I, Tsar of Russia (d. July 23, 1645). He ruled from February 1613 until his shortly before his death in 1645. He was married twice. His first wife was Maria Vladimirovna Dolgorukova. She died after only 4 months into their marriage. His second wife was Eudoxia Lukyanovna Streshneva. He was the first Russian Tsar of the House of Romanov. He was the son of Feodor Nikitich Romanov and Kseniya Shestova. He died the day after his 49th birthday.
1535 ~ Catherine Stenbock (d. Dec. 13, 1621), Swedish wife of Gustav I, King of Sweden. She was his 3rd wife. She was the Queen consort from August 1552 until her husband’s death in 1560. She was of the House of Stenbock. She was the daughter of Gustaf Olofsson Stenbock and Brita Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud. She died at age 86.
1510 ~ Alessandro de’Medici, Duke of Florence (d. Jan. 6, 1537). He ruled as Duke of Florence from May 1532 until his assassination 5 years later. He was married to Margaret of Parma (1522 ~ 1586). He was of the Noble House of Medici. He was the son of Lorenzo de’Medici, Duke of Urbina and Simonetta da Collevecchio. Other sources indicate that he may have been the illegitimate son of Pope Clement VII. He was born and died in Florence, Italy. He was assassinated at age 26 by a distant cousin, Lorenzino de’Medici.
1478 ~ Philip I, King of Castile (d. Sept. 25, 1506). He reigned from July to September 1506. He was known as Philip the Handsome. He was married to Joanna of Castile. He was of the House of Habsburg. He was the son of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Mary, Duchess of Burgundy. He died suddenly at age 28, probably of typhoid fever.
1210 ~ Joan of England (d. Mar. 4, 1238), Queen consort of Scotland and first wife of Alexander II, King of Scots. She married Alexander in 1221. She was of the House of Plantagenet. She was the daughter of John, King of England and Isabella of Angoulême. She died at age 27.
Events that Changed the World:
2013 ~ A series of earthquakes in China killed at least 90 people and killed hundreds of others.
2011 ~ Anders Behring Breivik (b. 1979) went on a criminal rampage, setting off a bomb in a governmental building in Oslo, then on a shooting spree at a youth camp on the island of Utøya, killing 77 people in all, many of whom were young adults.
2003 ~ The United States 101st Airborne attacked a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein’s sons, Uday (1965 ~ 2003) and Qusay (1966 ~ 2003).
1993 ~ The levees along the Mississippi River in Kaskaskia, Illinois ruptured forcing the town to be evacuated.
1946 ~ The Irgun, a militant Zionist underground organization, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which was being used as the civil administration and military headquarters for British Mandate Palestine. Ninety-one people were killed in the explosion.
1942 ~ The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto began on this date.
1942 ~ The United States government began compulsory gasoline rationing due to demands of the military during World War II.
1937 ~ The United States Senate voted down President Franklin Roosevelt’s proposal to “pack” the Supreme Court. Since this date, Court has limited the number of Justices to 9.
1934 ~ FBI agents gunned down John Dillinger (1903 ~ 1934), known as Public Enemy No. 1, in front of Chicago’s Biograph Theater.
1933 ~ Wiley Post (1898 ~ 1935) became the first person to fly solo around the world, which took just over 7 days.
1894 ~ The first motorized racing event was held in France between Paris and Rouen, a distance of 76 miles. The winner was the Marquis Jules Felix Philippe Albert de Dion (1856 ~1946), who was a French automotive pioneer. He was not awarded the prize, however, because his steam vehicle required a stoker. Instead, Albert Lemaître (1865 ~ 1906) was awarded the prize.
1893 ~ Katharine Lee Bates (1859 ~ 1929) wrote America the Beautiful after seeing the view from Pikes Peak in Colorado.
1706 ~ The Acts of Union with Scotland in 1706 and the Acts of Union with England in 1707 were agreed upon by the commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which ultimately led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1686 ~ Albany, New York was formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan (1634 ~ 1715).
1298 ~ At the Battle of Falkirk during the Wars of Scottish Independence, King Edward I, King of England (d. 1307) defeated William Wallace (d. 1305).
1099 ~ During the First Crusade, Godfrey of Bouillon (1060 ~ 1100) was elected as the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He held that position until his death almost a year to the day later.
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ Chris Kraft (né Christopher Columbus Kraft, Jr.; b. Feb. 28, 1924), American NASA visionary who led Mission Control. He was born in Pheobus, Virginia. He died in Houston, Texas at age 95.
2016 ~ David Bald Eagle (né David William Beautiful Bald Eagle; b. Apr. 8, 1919), Native American Lakota chief who taught John Wayne how to shoot. He was an actor, soldier, stuntman, and musician. He was born and died on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, South Dakota. He died at age 97.
2013 ~ Dennis Farina (b. Feb. 29, 1944), American character actor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of a pulmonary embolism at age 69 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
2008 ~ Estelle Getty (née Estelle Scher; b. July 25, 1923), American sharp-tongued actress who brightened The Golden Girls. She was born in New York, New York. She died 3 days of Lewy body dementia before her 85th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1996 ~ Jessica Mitford (née Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, b. Sept. 11, 1917), British writer. She was born in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. She died of lung cancer at age 78 in Oakland, California.
1967 ~ Carl Sandburg (né Carl August Sandburg; b. Jan. 6, 1878), American poet. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois. He died at age 89 in Flat Rock, North Carolina.
1934 ~ John Dillinger (né John Herbert Dillinger, b. June 22, 1903), American bank robber. J. Edgar Hoover labeled him as “Public Enemy No. 1.” He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was killed in a shoot-out by Federal Agents at the Biography Theater in Chicago, Illinois. He was killed a month after his 31st birthday.
1932 ~ Flo Ziegfeld, Jr. (né Florenz Edward Ziegfeld, Jr.; b. Mar. 21, 1867), American theater producer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of pleurisy at age 65 in Hollywood, California.
1915 ~ Sir Sandford Fleming (b. Jan. 7, 1827), Scottish-born Canadian engineer who introduced the Universal Standard Time to the world. He was born in Kirkaldy, Scotland. He died at age 88 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1908 ~ Sir Randal Cremer (né William Randal Cremer; b. Mar. 18, 1828), English politician and recipient of the 1903 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the international arbitration movement. He died at age 80 in London, England.
1895 ~ Alexander H. Rice (né Alexander Hamilton Rice, b. Aug. 30, 1818), 30th Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1876 through January 1879. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts and died in Melrose, Massachusetts. He died at age 76 following a long illness.
1869 ~ John A. Roebling (né Johann August Röbling; b. June 12, 1806), German-born engineer and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge. He died of tetanus at age 63 in New York, New York.
1832 ~ Napoleon II (b. Mar. 20, 1811), French emperor. He ruled for less than a month: from June 22, 1815 until July 7, 1815. He was of the House of Bonaparte. He was the son of Napoleon I, Emperor of France and Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma. He died of tuberculosis at age 21.
1826 ~ Guiseppe Piazzi (b. July 16, 1746), Italian mathematician. He died 6 days after his 80th birthday in Naples, Kingdom of Naples.
1676 ~ Pope Clement X (né Emilio Bonaventura Altieri; b. July 13, 1590). He was Pope from April 29, 1670 until his death nine days after his 86th on July 22, 1676. He was born and died in Rome, Papal States.
1540 ~ John Zápolya, King of Hungary (b. 1490). He reinged from 1526 until his death in 1540. He was married to Isabella Jagiellon. He was of the House of Zápolya. He was the son of Stephen Zápolya and Hedwig of Cieszyn. The exact date of his birth is not known.
1461 ~ Charles VII, King of France (b. Feb. 22, 1403). He was known as Charles the Victorious. He was King from October 1422 until his death 39 years later. He was married to Marie of Anjou. He was of the House of Valois. He was the son of Charles VI, King of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. He died at age 58.
1274 ~ Henry I, King of Navarre (b. 1244). He reigned from 1270 until his death in 1274. He was also the Count of Champagne. He was married to Blanche of Artois. He was of the House of Blois. He was the son of Theobald I, King of Navarre and Margaret of Bourbon. The exact date of his birth is not known.
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