Birthdays:
1961 ~ Bonnie Hunt (née Bonnie Lynn Hunt), American actress. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1959 ~ Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, and recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
1958 ~ Joan Jett (née Joan Marie Larkin), American singer and frontwoman for the band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. She was born in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
1947 ~ Norma McCorvey (née Norma Leah Nelson; d. Feb. 18, 2017), American abortion rights activist and plaintiff who challenged abortion laws in the Supreme Court Decision of Roe v. Wade. She later changed her position and advocated against abortion. She was born in Simmesport, Louisiana. She died of heart failure at age 69 in Katy, Texas.
1942 ~ David Stern (né David Joel Stern; d. Jan. 1, 2020), American businessman and commissioner of the National Basketball Association from 1984 until 2014. He was the NBA boss who built a global powerhouse. He was born and died in Manhattan, New York. He died following emergency surgery for a brain hemorrhage at age 77.
1939 ~ Junko Tabei (née Junko Ishibashi; d. Oct. 20, 2016), Japanese pioneering climber who conquered Mount Everest. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and was the first woman to ascend the Seven Summits ~ climbinb the highest peak on every continent. In 1975, while asleep in a camp on Mt. Everest, she and 15 of her fellow climbers were buried under an avalanche. Remarkably, no one was seriously injured. She died of stomach cancer about a month before her 78th birthday.
1932 ~ Ingemar Johansson (né Jens Ingemar Johansson; d. Jan. 30, 2009), Swedish world heavyweight champion who beat Floyd Patterson. He was known as The Hammer Thor. He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. He died at age 76 in Kungsbacka, Sweden.
1931 ~ Fay Weldon (née Franklin Birkinshaw; d. Jan. 4, 2023), Novelist author. She was born in Birmingham, England. She died at age 91 in Northampton, England.
1927 ~ Tommy Lasorda (né Thomas Charles Lasorda; d. Jan. 7, 2021), American baseball player and manager who bled Dodger blue. He managed the Los Angeles Dodgers for over 20 years. He was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He died in Fullerton, California at age 93.
1925 ~ Russ Solomon (né Russell Malcolm Solomon, d. Mar. 4, 2018), American entrepreneur and art collector who founded Tower Records. He was born and died in Sacramento, California. He died at age 92.
1924 ~ J. William Middendorf (né John William Middendorf, II), United States Secretary of the Navy. He served in that Office from April 1974 until January 1977, during the Nixon and Ford Administrations. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1920 ~ Eric Baker (d. July 11, 1976), British activist and co-founder of Amnesty International. He was born in Southminster, Essex, England. He died at age 55.
1912~ Martha Scott (née Martha Ellen Scott; d. May 28, 2003), American actress. She was featured in many major early films, including The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. She died at age 90. She was born in Jamesport, Missouri and she died in Van Nuys, California.
1904 ~ Ellen Church (d. Aug. 22, 1965), American nurse and first female flight attendant. She was born in Cresco, Iowa. She died in Terre Haute, Indiana a month before her 61st birthday from injuries sustained from a horse-riding accident.
1902 ~ John Houseman (né Jacques Haussmann, d. Oct. 31, 1988), Romanian-born actor. He was born in Bucharest, Romania. He died of spinal cancer at age 86 in Malibu, California.
1901 ~ Charles B. Huggins (né Charles Brenton Huggins; d. Jan. 12, 1997), Canadian-born physician and recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers. His specialty was prostate cancer. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He died at age 95 in Chicago, Illinois.
1896 ~ Uri Zvi Grinberg (d. May 8, 1981), Israeli poet and journalist. He was born in Bily Kamin, Ukraine. He died at age 84 in Ramat Gan, Israel.
1880 ~ Dame Christabel Pankhurst (née Christabel Harriette Pankhurst; d. Feb. 13, 1958), British leader of the women’s suffrage movement. She died at age 77 in Santa Monica, California.
1876 ~ André Tardieu (d. Sept. 15, 1945), Prime Minister of France. He served 3 terms as Prime Minister. He was born in Paris, France. He died a week before his 69th birthday in Menton, France.
1863 ~ Alexandre Yersin (né Alexandre Emil Jean Yersin; b. Mar. 1, 1943), Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is known for isolating and discovering the bacterium responsible for the bubonic plague. This bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is named in his honor. He was born in Aubonne, Vuad, Switzerland. He died at age 79 in Nha Trang, Annam, French Indochina, current day Vietnam.
1791 ~ Michael Faraday (d. Aug. 25, 1867), British chemist and physicist who discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction. He died a month before his 76th birthday.
1765 ~ Paolo Ruffini (d. May 10, 1822), Italian mathematician. He died at age 56.
1694 ~ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (d. Mar. 24, 1773), British statesman and diplomat. He died at age 78.
1606 ~ Li Zicheng (d. 1645), Chinese emperor of the Shun Dynasty. He was the Chinese rebel who overthrew the Ming Dynasty. The exact date of his death is not known, but he is believed to have been about 38 or 39 at the time of his death.
1601 ~ Infanta Anne of Austria (d. Jan. 20, 1666), Queen consort of France and wife of Louis XIII, King of France (1601 ~ 1643). They married in 1615. They were the parents of Louis XIV, King of France. She was of the House of Habsburg. She was the daughter of Philip III, King of Spain and Archduchess Margaret of Austria. She was Roman Catholic. She died of breast cancer at age 64.
1547 ~ Philipp Nocodemus Frischlin (d. Nov. 29, 1590) German astronomer, mathematician, and writer. He was arrested in March 1590 for writing libelous letters. He is believed to have been killed at age 43 from a fall while trying to escape from prison.
1515 ~ Anne of Cleves (d. July 16, 1557), English noblewoman and fourth wife of Henry VIII, King of England (1491 ~ 1547). The marriage was never consummated and was annulled after a few months; thus, Anne did not lose her head. She outlived all of Henry’s other wives. She was of the House of La Marck. She was the daughter of John III, Duke of Cleves and Maria of Jülich-Berg. She died at age 41.
1013 ~ Richeza of Poland (d. May 21, 1075), Queen consort of Hungary. She was married to Béla I, King of Hungary (1015 ~ 1063). She was of the House of Piast. She was the daughter of Mieszko II Lambert, King of Poland and Richeza of Lotharingia. She died at age 61.
Events that Changed the World:
2017 ~ Second Day of Rosh Hashanah.
2015 ~ Yom Kippur began at sunset.
1993 ~ A barge struck a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama. Forty-seven passengers were killed in the ensuing accident.
1991 ~ The Dead Seas Scrolls were made available for the first time to the public.
1980 ~ Iraq invaded Iran. The War lasted nearly 8 years.
1975 ~ Sara Jane Moore (b. 1930) tried to assassinated President Gerald Ford (1913 ~ 2006). She was later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. She was paroled in December 2007 after serving 32 years in prison.
1957 ~ François Duvalier (1907 ~ 1971), known as Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti.
1948 ~ Colonel Gail Halvorsen (1920 ~ 2022) officially began parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
1941 ~ German SS troops murdered 6,000 Jews who had survived a massacre a few days earlier in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. The murders occurred on Rosh Hashanah.
1888 ~ The first issue of the National Geographic Magazine was published.
1869 ~ Das Rheingold, the opera by Richard Wagner (1813 ~ 1883), premiered in Munich.
1789 ~ The office of the United States Postmaster General was established.
1776 ~ Nathan Hale (1755 ~ 1776) was hanged by the British for being a spy for the American Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
1761 ~ George III (1738 ~ 1830) and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744 ~ 1818) were crown King and Queen of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1692 ~ Martha Corey was the last of the convicted “witches” from the Salem witch trials was hanged. The remaining witches were eventually all released.
1598 ~ English playwright Ben Jonson (1572 ~ 1637), killed an actor in a duel and was indicted for manslaughter.
Good-Byes:
2022 ~ Dame Hilary Mantel (née Hilary Mary Thompson; b. July 6, 1952), British novelist who brought history to life. She is best known for novel Wolf Hall, which is about Thomas Cromwell’s rise in the court of Henry VIII. She was born in Glossip, Derbyshire, England. She died at age 70 of complications of a stroke in Exeter, Devon, England.
2015 ~ Yogi Berra (né Lawrence Peter Berra; b. May 12, 1925), American baseball player and manager. He was the baseball great who became a fount of wisdom. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He died at age 90 in West Caldwell, New Jersey.
2013 ~ David H. Hubel (né David Hunter Hubel, b. Feb. 27, 1926), Canadian neurophysiologist and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He died at age 87 in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
2012 ~ Irving Adler (b. Apr. 27, 1913), American mathematician. He was born in Harlem, New York. He died in Bennington, Vermont at age 99.
2010 ~ Eddie Fisher (né Edwin John Fisher; b. Aug. 10, 1928), American singer and one of the many husbands of Elizabeth Taylor. He left his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, for Taylor. He was the father of actress Carrie Fisher. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 82 from complications of hip surgery in Berkeley, California.
2007 ~ Marcel Marceau (né Marcel Mengel; b. Mar. 22, 1923), French mime artist. He was born in Strasbourg, France. He died at age 84 in Cahors, France.
2003 ~ Gordon Jump (né Alexander Gordon Jump; b. Apr. 1, 1932), American actor. He is best known for his role as Arthur Carlson in WKRP in Cincinnati and as the Maytag Repairman in the advertisements. He was born in Dayton, Ohio. He died of respiratory failure at age 71 in Los Angeles, California.
2002 ~ William Rosenberg (b. June 10, 1916), American entrepreneur and founder of Dunkin’ Donuts. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts and died in Mashpee, Massachusetts at age 86.
2002 ~ Jan de Hartog (b. Apr. 22, 1914), Dutch author. He was born in Haarlem, Netherlands. He died in Houston, Texas at age 88.
2001 ~ Isaac Stern (b. July 21, 1920), Polish-born Ukrainian violinist. He was born in what was then Kremenets, Poland (now Ukraine). He died of heart failure at age 81 in Manhattan, New York.
2000 ~ Yehuda Amichai (b. May 3, 1924), German-born Israeli poet. He died at age 76.
1999 ~ George C. Scott (né George Campbell Scott, b. Oct. 18, 1927), American actor. He was born in Wise, Virginia. He died of a rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm less than a month before his 72nd birthday in Westlake Village, California.
1997 ~ Beatrice Aitchison (b. July 18, 1908), 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.
1996 ~ Dorothy Lamour (née Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton, b. Dec. 10, 1914), American actress. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She died at age 81 in Los Angeles, California.
1989 ~ Irving Berlin (né Israel Isidore Beilin, b. May 11, 1888), Russian-born American songwriter and composer. He died at age 101 in New York, New York.
1987 ~ Dan Rowan (né Daniel Hale David; b. July 22, 1922), American actor, best known for being the straight man to Dick Martin on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. He was born in Beggs, Olkahoma. He died of lymphoma at age 65 in Englewood, Florida.
1970 ~ Alice Hamilton (b. Feb. 27, 1869), American academic and pioneer in toxicology research. She was a leading expert in occupational health. She was the first woman appointed to the faculty at Harvard University. She was born in Manhattan, New York. She died at age 101 in Hadlyme, Connecticut.
1956 ~ Frederick Soddy (b. Sept. 2, 1877), English radiochemist and recipient of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in nuclear reactions. He died less than 3 weeks after his 79th birthday.
1952 ~ Kaarlo Ståhlberg (né Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg; b. Jan. 28, 1865), 1st President of Finland. He served in this office from July 1919 until March 1925. He died at age 87 in Helsinki, Finland.
1851 ~ Levi Woodbury (b. Dec. 22, 1789), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President James K. Polk. He served on the Court from September 1845 until his death 6 years later in September 4, 1851. He replaced Joseph Story on the Court. He was succeeded by Benjamin Curtis. He had previously served as the 13th United States Secretary of the Treasury during the administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. He also served as the 9th United States Secretary of the Navy from May 1831 until June 1834 during the Andrew Jackson administration. Prior to that, he had served as the 9th Governor of New Hampshire from June 1823 until June 1824. He was also a United States Senator from New Hampshire, a position he held from March 1841 until November 1845. He was born in Francetown, New Hampshire and died at age 61 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1840 ~ Anne Lister (b. Apr. 3, 1791), British diarist, mountaineer, and traveler. She died at age 49.
1840 ~ Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (b. Nov. 8, 1768), member of the British royal family. She never married. She was of the House of Hanover. She was the daughter of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. She died at age 71.
1776 ~ Nathan Hale (b. June 6, 1755), American patriot during the American Revolutionary War. He was a captain in the Continental Army. He was hanged by the British as a spy. Before he died, he stated: I only regret that I have but one life to give my country. He was born in Coventry, Connecticut Colony, British America. He died at age 21 years old in New York, Province of New York.
1774 ~ Pope Clement XIV (né Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli; b. Oct. 31, 1705). He was Pope from May 19, 1769 until his death on this date 5 years later. He was 68 at the time of his death.
1703 ~ Vincenzo Viviani (b. Apr. 5, 1622), Italian mathematician. He was born and died in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He died at age 81.
1554 ~ Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (b. 1494), Spanish conquistador. He led a large exploration from Mexico into what is now Kansas. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 43 or 44 at the time of his death.
904 ~ Zhao Zong (b. Mar. 31, 867), Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He is believed to have been 37 at the time of his death.
530 ~ Pope Felix IV. He was Pope from July 526 until his death 4 years later. He was Emperor from April 888 until December 900. The date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been about 40 at the time of his death.
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