Birthdays:
1986 ~ Lea Michele (née Lea Michele Sarfati), American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Rachel Berry on the television series Glee. She was born in the Bronx, New York.
1967 ~ Neil Gorsuch (né Neil McGill Gorsuch), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by Donald Trump. He assumed office in April 2017. His first recorded vote on the Supreme Court was on April 20, 2017. His vote was a tiebreaker that allowed Arkansas to execute its first death row inmate in 12 years. He replaced Antonin Scalia on the Court. He was born in Denver, Colorado.
1959 ~ Rebecca De Mornay (née Rebecca Jane Pearch), American actress. She is best known for her role as Lana in the 1983 movie Risky Business. She was born in Santa Rosa, California.
1959 ~ Stephan Wolfram, English-born physicist, and mathematician. He was born in London, England.
1958 ~ Michael Jackson (né Michael Joseph Jackson, d. June 25, 2009), African-American singer. He was born in Gary, Indiana. He died at age 50 of a drug overdose in Los Angeles, California.
1955 ~ Jack Lew (né Jacob Joseph Lew), 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury. He assumed that office in February 2013. He previously served as the White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, from January 2012 until January 2013. He served in both positions during the Obama administration. He was born in New York, New York.
1947 ~ Neal M. Sher (d. Oct. 3, 2021), American federal investigator who brought Nazi war criminals to justice. He served as an attorney as the Head of the United States’ Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 74 in Manhattan, New York.
1943 ~ Arthur B. McDonald (né Arthur Bruce McDonald), Canadian astrophysicist and recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1940 ~ James Brady (né James Scott Brady; d. Aug. 4, 2014) 14th White House Press Secretary. He served under President Ronald Reagan. He was the Reagan staffer who championed gun control. He was seriously injured when he was shot in the head during an assassination attempt on President Reagan in 1981 and spent the last 33 years in a wheelchair. Following his injury, he became a gun control advocate. He was born in Centralia, Illinois. He died at age 73, just 25 days before his 74th birthday in Alexandria, Virginia.
1939 ~ Joel T. Schumacher (d. June 22, 2020), American eclectic film director who made the Brat Pack. He made such films as A Time to Kill and St. Elmo’s Fire. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died at age 80.
1938 ~ Elliott Gould (né Elliot Goldstein), American actor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1938 ~ Robert Rubin (né Robert Edward Rubin), 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury. He served in the Clinton administration from January 1995 until July 1999. He was born in New York, New York.
1937 ~ James Florio (né James Joseph Florio; d. Sept. 25, 2022), 49th Governor of New Jersey. He served as Governor from January 1990 until January 1994. He had previously served as a Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey from 1975 until 1990. He was born in New York, New York. He died of heart failure less than a month after his 85th birthday in Voorhees, New Jersey.
1936 ~ John McCain (né John Sidney McCain, III; d. Aug. 25, 2018), American politician and war hero who served as a Senate maverick. He served in Vietnam and from 1967 until 1973, he was a Prisoner of War. He was born in the Panama Canal Zone. He died of brain cancer 4 days before his 82nd birthday in Cornville, Arizona.
1935 ~ William Friedkin (né William David Friedkin; d. Aug. 7, 2023), American film director who made horror prestigious. He directed the 1971 crime thriller film, The French Connection, which won five Academy Awards. He also filmed the 1973 movie The Exorcist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died 3 weeks before his 88th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1929 ~ Theodore S Kanamine (né Theodore Shigeru Kanamine; d. Mar. 2, 2023), Japanese-American United States brigadier general who was interned as a boy. During World War II, he and his family were relocated to an internment camp. He served in the military police and investigated the My Lai massacre. He was born in Hollywood, California. He died at age 93 in Naples, Florida.
1926 ~ Donn Fendler (né Donn Charles Fendler; d. Oct. 9, 2016), American boy scout who became a national hero. When he was 12 years old, he and his father, 2 brothers and 2 friends set off to climb Mt Katahdin in Maine. As they neared the summit, he got lost in the fog and for 9 days his disappearance became headline news. The story of his misadventure became the best seller, Lost on a Mountain in Maine. He used the skills he learned as a Boy Scout and survived on wild berries and evaded bears. He was born in Rye, New York. He died at age 90 in Bangor, Maine.
1924 ~ Dinah Washington (née Ruth Lee Jones; d. Dec. 14, 1963), African-American singer and pianist. She was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She died in Chicago, Illinois of a drug overdose at age 39.
1923 ~ Sir Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough (né Richard Samuel Attenborough; d. Aug. 24, 2014), British actor and film director. He was the Gandhi director who championed against injustice. He was born in Cambridge, England. He died in London, England 4 days before his 91st birthday.
1922 ~ John Edwards Williams (d. Mar. 3, 1994), American author. He was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. He died at age 71 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
1922 ~ Richard Blackwell (né Richard Sylvan Selzer; d. Oct. 19, 2008), American fashion designer known as Mr. Blackwell, who skewered the worst-dressed celebrities. He is best known for creating the “10 Worst Dress Women List.” He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 86 in Los Angeles, California.
1922 ~ Arthur Anderson (né Arthur John Miles Anderson, d. Apr. 9, 2016), American versatile actor who voiced the Luck Charms leprechaun. He was born on Staten Island, New York. He died at age 93 in Manhattan, New York.
1920 ~ Charlie Parker (né Charles Parker, Jr.; d. Mar. 12, 1955), American jazz saxophonist. He was known as Bird. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas. He died of lobar pneumonia and a bleeding ulcer at age 34 in New York, New York.
1919 ~ Jay Marshall (né James Ward Marshall; d. May 10, 2005), American magician and ventriloquist. He was born in Abington, Massachusetts. He died of a heart attack at age 85 in Chicago, Illinois.
1917 ~ Isabel Sanford (née Eloise Gwendolyn Sanford; d. July 9, 2004), American actress best known for her role as “Weezy” Jefferson on the sit-com The Jeffersons. She was born in Harlem, New York. She died at age 86 in Los Angeles, California.
1915 ~ Ingrid Bergman (d. Aug. 29, 1982), Swedish actress. She was also the mother of actress Isabella Rossellini. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She died in London, England of breast cancer on her 67th birthday.
1910 ~ Vivien Thomas (né Vivien Theodore Thomas; d. Nov. 26, 1985), African-American surgeon and pioneer in cardiac research. He developed a procedure to treat blue-baby syndrome. He became an Instructor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was born in New Iberia, Louisiana. He died at age 75 in Baltimore, Maryland.
1910 ~ Georges Loinger (d. Dec. 28, 2018), French soldier and teacher who saved Jewish children during World War II. He was in the French Resistance. He was born in Strasbourg, France. He died at age 108 in Paris, France.
1904 ~ Werner Forssmann (b. June 1, 1979), German physician and recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with heart catheterization. From 1932 until 1945, he was a member of the Nazi Party. He was born in Berlin, German Empire. He died of heart failure at age 74.
1876 ~ Charles F. Kettering (né Charles Franklin Kettering; d. Nov. 25, 1958), American engineer and inventor and automobile pioneer. In 1945 he and Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., founded the Sloan-Kettering Institution, a research institution. He was born in Loudonville, Ohio. He died at age 82 in Dayton, Ohio.
1871 ~ Albert Lebrun (né Albert François Lebrun; d. Mar. 6, 1950), President of France. He was the last president of the Third Republic. He served in that office from May 1932 until July 1940. He died of pneumonia at age 78 in Paris, France.
1862 ~ Maurice Maeterlinck (d. May 6, 1949), Belgian writer and recipient of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Ghent, Belgium. He died at age 86 in Nice, France.
1843 ~ David B. Hill (né David Bennett Hill; d. Oct. 20, 1910), 29th Governor of New York State. He served as Governor from January 1885 through December 1891. He was born in Havana, New York. He died at age 67 in Albany, New York.
1813 ~ Henry Bergh (d. Mar. 12, 1888), American activist and founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). He was born and died in New York, New York. He died at age 74.
1809 ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (d. Oct. 7, 1894), American physician and author. He was the father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 85.
1780 ~ Richard Rush (d. July 30, 1859), 8th United States Attorney General. He served under Presidents James Madison and James Monroe. He held the position of Attorney General from February 1814 until November 1817. He subsequently went on to serve as the 8th United States Secretary of the Treasury, from March 1825 until March 1829. He was born and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died a month before his 79th birthday.
1780 ~ Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (d. Jan. 14, 1867), French painter and artist. He died at age 86 in Paris, France.
1728 ~ Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (d. Feb. 17, 1797), Electress consort of Bavaria and wife of Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (1727 ~ 1777). They married in 1747. She was of the House of Wettin. She was the daughter of Augustus III, King of Poland and Maria Josepha of Austria. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 68.
1756 ~ Jan Śniadecki (d. Nov. 9, 1830), Polish mathematician and astronomer. The lunar crater Śniadecki on the moon is named in his honor. He died at age 72.
1632 ~ John Locke (d. Oct. 28, 1704), English philosopher and physician. He is considered one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers. He died at age 72.
1619 ~ Jean-Baptiste Colbert (d. Sept. 6, 1683), French statesman and finance minister under the reign of Louis XIV, King of England. He was born in Reims, France. He died 8 days after his 64th birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2022 ~ The water infrastructure in Jackson, Mississippi failed when the pumps in the city’s main water station failed. The city’s 150,000 residents had no access to water, not even to flush toilets or fight fires. The water crisis lasted for months.
2021 ~ Hurricane Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm. It was the second most destructive hurricane to hit Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. The storm formed on August 26 and dissipated on September 5, 2021.
2012 ~ Hurricane Isaac made landfall in Louisiana. The storm had formed in the Atlantic on August 21 and dissipated on September 2, 2012.
2005 ~ Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast creating severe damage along the coast of Mississippi, Louisiana and the City of New Orleans. Nearly 2000 people were killed. The storm had formed on August 23 and dissipated on August 31, 2005.
1997 ~ Netflix began as an internet DVD rental service.
1966 ~ The Beatles last concert was held in Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1958 ~ The United States Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs Colorado.
1898 ~ The Goodyear tire company was founded.
1885 ~ Gottlieb Daimler (1834 ~ 1900) patented the first internal combustion motorcycle.
1869 ~ The Mount Washington Cog Railway opened in New Hampshire.
1842 ~ The signing of the Treaty of Nanking marked the end of the First Opium War.
1831 ~ Michael Faraday (1791 ~ 1867) discovered electromagnetic induction.
1786 ~ Armed farmers rebelled against the high debt and tax burdens in what became known as Shays’ Rebellion.
1758 ~ The first American Indian Reservation was established at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1756 ~ Frederick the Great, King of Prussia (1712 ~ 1786) attacked Saxony, thereby initiating the Seven Years’ War.
1541 ~ The Ottoman Turks captured Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1484 ~ Pope Innocent VIII (1432 ~ 1942) began his reign as Pope. He was Pope until his death in July 1492. He succeeded Pope Sixtus IV (1414 ~ 1484).
1261 ~ Pope Urban IV (1195 ~ 1264) began his reign as Pope. He was Pope until his death in October 1264. He succeeded Pope Alexander IV (d. 1261) to become the 182nd Pope.
1009 ~ The Mainz Cathedral in Mainz, Germany, suffered extensive damage from a fire that occurred on its inauguration day.
Good-Byes:
2021 ~ Ed Asner (né Eddie Asner; b. Nov. 15, 1929), American outspoken actor who embraced activism. He is best known for his role as the coarse but idealistic newsman Lou Grant on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. He was also a political activist. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He died at age 91 in Tarzana, California.
2018 ~ Sir James Mirrlees (né James Alexander Mirrlees; b. July 5, 1936), Scottish economist and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 82 in Cambridge, England.
2018~ Stan Brock (né Stanley Edmunde Brock; b. Apr. 21, 1936), British-born cowboy who became a health care-activist. When he was 17 years old, he was badly injured while working as a cowboy in the Amazon basin. The nearest doctor was a 26-day trek away, so he stayed and recovered among the Wapishana Indians. Recognizing the importance of medical care, he founded the charity Remote Area Medical in 1985. He died at age 82 in Rockford, Tennessee.
2018 ~ Paul Taylor (né Paul Belville Taylor, Jr.; b. July. 29, 1930), American choreographer who found light in darkness. He was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. He died of renal failure a month after his 88th birthday in Manhattan, New York.
2016 ~ Gene Wilder (né Jerome Silberman; b. June 11, 1933), American actor and husband of Gilda Radner. He was the understated actor who spun neuroses into quirky comedy. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He died at age 83 in Stamford, Connecticut.
2015 ~ Wayne Dyer (né Wayne Walter Dyer; b. May 10, 1940), American self-help guru who preached self-reliance. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died of a heart attack at age 75 years old in Maui, Hawaii.
2013 ~ Robert Taylor (né Robert Ridgley Taylor; b. Sept. 1, 1935), American entrepreneur who put soap in a bottle. He invented Softsoap and sold it to Colgate-Palmolive. He died of cancer just 4 days before his 78th birthday in Newport Beach, California.
2012 ~ Shoshichi Kobayashi (b. Jan. 4, 1932), Japanese mathematician. His research focused on Riemannian and complex manifolds and Lie algebra. He was born and died in Kōfu, Japan. He was 80 years old.
2011 ~ David Edwards (b. June 28, 2015), African-American guitarist and last of the original Delta bluesmen. He was known as Honeyboy. He was born in Shaw, Mississippi. He died of heart failure at age 96 in Chicago, Illinois.
2007 ~ Alfred H. Peet (b. Mar. 10, 1920), Dutch-born businessman and founder of Peet’s Coffee & Tea. He died at age 87 in Ashland, Oregon.
2003 ~ Willa Beatrice Player (b. Aug. 9, 1909), African-American educator. She was the first African-American woman to become a college president. She was the president at Bennett College, a historically black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. She served as President from 1955 until 1966. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi. She died 20 days after her 94th birthday in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1987 ~ Lee Marvin (né Lamont Waltman, Marvin, Jr.; b. Feb. 19, 1924). American actor. He is best known for his palimony lawsuit in which his live-in girlfriend sued him for financial support after their break-up. He was born in New York, New York. He died of a heart attack at age 63 in Tucson, Arizona.
1982 ~ Ingrid Bergman (b. Aug. 29, 1915), Swedish actress. She was also the mother of actress Isabella Rossellini. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She died in London, England of breast cancer on her 67th birthday.
1981 ~ Lowell Thomas (né Lowell Jackson Thomas, b. Apr. 6, 1892), American travel writer and journalist. He was born in Woodington, Ohio. He died at age 89 in Pawling, New York.
1975 ~ Éamon de Valera (né George de Valera; b. Oct. 14, 1882), American-born President of the Irish Republic. He served as President from August 1921 until January 1922. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 92 in Dublin, Ireland.
1971 ~ Nathan F. Leopold, Jr. (né Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr.; b. Nov. 19, 1904), American murderer. In 1924, he, along with his college friend, Richard Albert Loeb (1905 ~ 1936), kidnapped and murdered 14-year Robert Franks simply because they thought they could get away with the “perfect crime.” They were quickly arrested and tried for the crime. Both were sentenced to life in prison. Loeb was killed in prison by a fellow inmate. Leopold was paroled in 1958. He died of a heart attack at age 66.
1970 ~ Ralph W. Sockman (né Ralph Washington Sockman; b. Oct. 1, 1970), American minister and radio host. He was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He died at age 80 in New York, New York.
1966 ~ Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (b. Aug. 19, 1890), Queen consort of Portugal. In 1913, she married Manuel II, King of Portugal (1889 ~ 1932), who by then had been deposed. He died in 1932. In 1939, she married Count Robert Douglas. She was of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. She was the daughter of William, Prince of Hohenzollern and Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. She died just 10 days after her 76th birthday.
1960 ~ Vicki Baum (née Hedwig Baum; b. Jan. 24, 1888), Austrian writer. She is best known for her novel The Grand Hotel, which later became a Broadway musical. She was born in Vienna, Austria. She died of leukemia at age 72 in Hollywood, California.
1935 ~ Princess Astrid of Sweden (née Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra; b. Nov. 17, 1905), Queen consort of the Belgians and 1st wife of Leopold III, King of Belgium. Theyn married in 1926. She was of the House of Bernadotte. She was the daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland and Princess of Ingeborg of Denmark. She was killed in a car accident at age 29.
1931 ~ David T. Abercrombie (né David Thomas Abercrombie; b. June 6, 1867), American businessman and co-founder of the clothing store, Abercrombie and Fitch. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He died at age 64 in Ossining, New York.
1930 ~ William Archibald Spooner (b. July 22, 1844), 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.
1891 ~ Pierre Lallement (b. Oct. 25, 1843), French inventor of the bicycle. He died at age 47 in Boston, Massachusetts.
1877 ~ Brigham Young (b. June 1, 1801), American religious leader of the Mormons. He was born in Whitingham, Vermont. He died at age 76 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.
1856 ~ Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (née Mary Anne Galton, b. Nov. 25, 1778), British writer and activist in the anti-slavery movement. She died at age 77.
1799 ~ Pope Pius VI (né Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, b. Dec. 25, 1717). He reigned as Pope from February 15, 1775 until his death on this date 24 years later. He succeeded Pope Clement XIV and was followed by Pope Pius VII. He was 81 years old at the time of his death.
1526 ~ Louis II, King of Hungary (b. July 1, 1506). He reigned from 1516 until his death in 1526. He was married to Mary of Austria (1505 ~ 1558). They married in 1515. There were no children of the marriage. He was of the House of Jagiellon. He was the son of Vladislaus II, King of Bohemia and Hungary and Anne of Foix-Candale. He was Roman Catholic. He was killed during the Battle of Mohács fighting the Ottomans at age 20.
1395 ~ Albert III, Duke of Austria (b. Sept. 9, 1349). He was the Duke of Austria from 1365 until his death in 1395. He was known as Albert with the Braid. He was married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth of Bohemia, whom he married in 1366. There were no children of this marriage and she died at age 15. His second wife was Beatrice of Nuremberg. He was of the House of Habsburg. He was the third son of Albert II, Duke of Austria and Joanna of Pfirt. He died 11 days before his 46th birthday.
1298 ~ Princess Eleanor of England (b. June 18, 1269), member of the English royal family. She was Countess consort of Bar and wife of Henry III, Count of Bar (1259 ~ 1302). She was of the House of Plantagenet. She was the daughter of Edward I, King of England and Eleanor of Castile. She died at age 29.
1123 ~ Eystein I, King of Norway (b. 1088). He reigned from 1103 until his death in 1123. He was married to Ingebjørg Guttormsdatter. He was of the House of Hardrada. He was the son of Magnus III, King of Norway and an unnamed mother. He was Roman Catholic. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been between 33 and 35 at the time of his death.
939 ~ Wang Jipeng, Chinese Emperor of the Min Dynasty. The date of his birth is not known.
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