Birthdays:
2000 ~ Princess Salma bint Abdullah. Member of the Jordanian royal family. She is of the House of Hashemite. She is the daughter of Abdullah II, King of Jordan and Rania Al-Yassin. She was born in Amman, Jordan.
1981 ~ Serena Williams (née Serena Jameka Williams), American tennis player. She was born in Saginaw, Michigan.
1972 ~ Beto O’Rourke (né Robert Francis O’Rourke), American politician from Texas. He served in the United States House of Representatives from Texas from January 2013 until January 2019. He sought the Democratic nomination for President in 2020. He was born in El Paso, Texas.
1968 ~ Anthony Shadid (d. Feb. 16, 2012), American journalist and reporter who captured the Middle East. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He died in Damascus, Syria of an acute asthma attack while trying to leave war-torn country. He was 43 years old.
1956 ~ Linda Hamilton (née Linda Carroll Hamilton), American actress. She is best known for her role as Sarah Connor in the Terminator series of movies. She was born in Salisbury, Maryland.
1949 ~ Jane Smiley, American novelist. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1948 ~ Dame Olivia Newton-John (d. Aug. 8, 2022), Australian dulcet-voiced crooner who starred in Grease. She was born in Cambridge, England. She died at age 73 of breast cancer in Santa Ynez Valley, California.
1947 ~ Lynn Anderson (née Lynn Rene Anderson; d. July 30, 2015), American singer. She was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She died at age 67 of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee.
1946 ~ Andrea Dworkin (née Andrea Rita Dworkin; d. Apr. 9, 2005), American feminist activist and writer. She was born in Camden, New Jersey. She died of myocarditis at age 58 in Washington, D.C.
1946 ~ Christine Todd Whitman (née Christine Temple Todd), American politician and 50th Governor of New Jersey. She was the Republican Governor from January 1994 until January 2001. She was appointed as the 9th Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency by President George W. Bush. She served in that Office from January 2001 until June 2003. She was born in New York, New York.
1944 ~ Jan Brewer (né Janice Jay Drinkwine), 22nd Governor of Arizona. She was a Republican Governor from January 2009 until January 2015. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1943 ~ Marilynne Robinson (née Marilynne Summers), American novelist. She was born in Sandpoint, Idaho.
1938 ~ Andrey Lukanov (d. Oct. 2, 1996), 40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria. He served as Prime Minister from February 1990 until December 1990. He was the last communist Prime minister of Bulgaria. He was born in Moscow, Russia. He was assassinated in Sofia, Bulgaria just 5 days after his 58th birthday.
1937 ~ Jerry Weintraub (né Jerome Charles Weingraub; d. July 6, 2015), American impresario who triumphed in music and film. He began his career as a talent agent. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 77 in Santa Barbara, California.
1936 ~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (née Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; d. Apr. 2, 2018), South African anti-apartheid leader who embraced brutality. She was married to Nelson Mandela. She died of complications of diabetes at age 81.
1932 ~ Donna Douglas (née Doris Ione Smith; d. Jan. 1, 2015), American actress, best known for her role as Elly May Clampett on the Beverly Hillbillies. She was born in Pride, Louisiana. She died of pancreatic cancer at age 82 in Zachary, Louisiana.
1927 ~ Robert Cade (né James Robert Cade; d. Nov. 27, 2007), American doctor and inventor of Gatorade. He was born in San Antonio, Texas. He died at age 80 in Gainesville, Florida.
1927 ~ C. Michael Harper (né Charles Michael Harper; d. May 28, 2016), American businessman. He was the Chief Operating Executive of ConAgra who made healthy eating mainstream. Following a heart attack, he developed a line of Healthy Choice meals. He was born in Lansing, Michigan. He died at age 88 in Omaha, Nebraska.
1914 ~ Jack LaLanne (né François Henri Jack LaLanne; d. Jan. 23, 2011), American fitness and nutritional expert. He was an affable salesman who made fitness popular. He was born in San Francisco, California. He died at age 96 in Morro Bay, California.
1913 ~ Berthold Beitz (d. July 30, 2013), German industrialist who saved Jews. In 1973, he received the Righteous Among the Nations Award. He was born in Bentzin, Germany. He died at age 99 in Sylt, Germany.
1909 ~ Bill France, Sr. (né William Henry Getty France; d. June 7, 1992), American race car driver and founder of NASCAR, which came into being in February 1948. He was born in Washington, D.C. he died at age 82 in Ormond Beach, Florida.
1907 ~ Sir Anthony Blunt (né Anthony Frederick Blunt; d. Mar. 26, 1983), English historian and confessed spy for the Soviet Union. He died at age 75 in Westminster, London, England.
1898 ~ George Gershwin (né Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz; d. July 11, 1937), American composer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 38 of a brain tumor in Los Angeles, California.
1897 ~ Pope Paul VI (né Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; d. Aug. 6, 1978). He was Pope for 15 years, from June 21, 1963 until his death at age 80.
1888 ~ T.S. Eliot (né Thomas Stearns Eliot; d. Jan. 4, 1965), American-born British poet and recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He died of emphysema at age 76 in London, England.
1886 ~ Archibald Hill (né Archibald Vivian Hill; d. June 3, 1977), English physiologist and recipient of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was one of the founders of biophysics and operations research. He was born in Bristol, England. He died at age 90 in Cambridge, England.
1877 ~ Bertha De Vriese (née Bertha Coletta Constantia De Vriese; d. Mar. 17, 1958), Belgian physician. She was the first woman physician to graduate from Ghent University, where she also became a researcher. She was born and died in Ghent, Belgium. She died at age 80.
1876 ~ Edith Abbott (d. July 28, 1957), American economist, statistician and educator. She was born and died in Grand Island, Nebraska. She died at age 80.
1874 ~ Lewis Hine (né Lewis Wickes Hine; d. Nov. 3, 1940), American photographer and social activist. His photographs were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States. He was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He died following surgery at age 66 in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
1870 ~ Christian X, King of Denmark (d. Apr. 20, 1947). He ruled over Denmark from May 1912 until his death in April 1947. In 1898, he married Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879 ~ 1952). They were the parents of Frederick IX, King of Denmark. He was of the House of Glücksburg. He was the son of Frederick VIII of Denmark and Princess Louise of Sweden. He was Lutheran. He died at age 76.
1849 ~ Ivan Pavlov (d. Feb. 27, 1936), Russian physiologist and recipient of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is best known for his studies in classical conditioned responses. He died at age 86 in Leningrad, Russia.
1774 ~ Johnny Appleseed, (né John Chapman; b. Mar. 18, 1845), American pioneer in horticulture, who introduced the apple tree to large parts of the American mid-west. He was born in Leominster, Massachusetts. He died at age 70 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1329 ~ Anne of Bavaria (d. Feb. 2, 1353), Queen consort of Germany and Bohemia. She was the second wife of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316 ~ 1378). They married in 1349. She died before he became the Holy Roman Emperor, thus was never the Empress consort. She was of the House of Wittelsbach. She was the daughter of Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Anne of Tirol. She died at age 23. In 1998, Asteroid 100733 Annaflacká was named in her memory.
Events that Changed the World:
2020 ~ President Donald Trump (b. 1946) nominated Amy Coney Barrett (b. 1972) to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933 ~ 2020) on the United States Supreme Court. She is an ultra-conservative. She would be confirmed and join the Supreme Court on October 27, 2020.
2016 ~ The first Presidential general-election debate between Hillary Clinton (b. 1947) and Donald Trump (b. 1946) took place. NBC’s Lester Holt (b. 1959) was the moderator.
2009 ~ Typhoon Ketsana struck in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. At least 700 people were killed by the storm, which had formed on September 24 and dissipated on September 30, 2009.
1997 ~ The Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi collapsed following a series of two earthquakes in the region around Assisi. The church was closed for two years for restoration.
1977 ~ The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant official opened. It was the first nuclear power plant in the Ukrainian SSR. In April 1986, it suffered a major meltdown, considered to be the worst nuclear disaster, spewing large quantities of radioactive materials into the air and surrounding land.
1975 ~ The cult film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, opened.
1969 ~ The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, was released.
1960 ~ The first televised Presidential debates were broadcast between candidates Richard Nixon (1913 ~ 1994) and John F. Kennedy (1917 ~ 1963). The debate took place in Chicago, Illinois.
1959 ~ Typhoon Vera struck Japan killing over 4,500 people. The storm had formed on September 20 and dissipated on September 29, 1959.
1933 ~ Machine Gun Kelly (né George Kelly Barnes; 1895 ~ 1954) surrendered to the FBI. He is credited with coining the term G-Men for FBI agents when he called out “Don’t shoot, G-Men!” before being arrested.
1914 ~ The United States Federal Trade Commission was established.
1789 ~ As the new country of the United State began, Thomas Jefferson (1743 ~ 1826) was appointed as the 1st United States Secretary of State; John Jay (1745 ~ 1829) as the 1st Chief Justice; Samuel Osgood (1847~ 1813) as the 1st United States Postmaster General; and Edmund Randolph (1753 ~ 1813) as the 1st United States Attorney General.
1688 ~ The city council of Amsterdam voted to support William of Orange’s invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1580 ~ Sir Francis Drake (1540 ~ 1596) ended his circumnavigation of the Earth.
1087 ~ William II (1056 ~ 1100) was crowned King of England. He ruled until his death in 1100.
Good-byes:
2021 ~ Bobby Zarem (né Robert Myron Zarem; b. Sept. 30, 1936), American publicist who boosted big stars and the Big Apple. In 1974, he started his own publicity agency and had many big named stars. He was born and died in Savannah, Georgia. He died 4 days before his 85th birthday.
2019 ~ Jacques Chirac (né Jacques René Chirac; b. Nov. 29, 1932), French politician and 22nd president of France from May 1995 until May 2007 who defied a rush to war. Following 9/11, he vowed to stand by the United States against the war on terrorism, however, when United States President George W. Bush sought his assistance in Iraq, Chirac balked. He was born and died in Paris, France. He died at age 86.
2012 ~ Sam Steiger (né Samuel Steiger; b. Mar. 10, 1929), American conservative politician from Arizona who courted trouble. He served as a United States Representative from Arizona from 1967 to 1977. He is known for shooting two burros, allegedly in self-defense, much to the outrage of his constituents. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 83 in Prescott, Arizona.
2008 ~ Paul Newman (né Paul Leonard Newman; b. Jan. 26, 1925), American irresistible star who made rogues lovable. He was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He died of lung cancer at age 83 in Westport, Connecticut.
2003 ~ Robert Palmer (né Robert Allen Palmer; b. Jan. 19, 1949), English musician best known for his song, Addicted to Love. He died of a heart attack at age 54 in Paris, France.
2000 ~ Richard Mulligan (b. Nov. 13, 1932), American actor. He was born in The Bronx, New York. He died at age 67 of colorectal cancer in Los Angeles, California.
1996 ~ Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (b. July 14, 1921), English chemist and recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Todmorden, England. He died in London, England at age 75.
1978 ~ Manne Siegbahn (né Karl Manne Siegbahn; b. Dec. 3, 1886), Swedish physicist and recipient of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in X-ray spectroscopy. He died at age 91 in Stockholm, Sweden.
1976 ~ Leopold Ružička (d. Sept 13, 1887), Croatian chemist and recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died two weeks after his 89th birthday.
1968 ~ Ben Shlomo Lipman Heilprin (b. 1902), Israeli physician. He was the director of the Neurology Department at Hadassah Hospital. He died at age 66.
1952 ~ George Santayana (né Jorge Agustín Nicholás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás; b. Dec. 16, 1863), Spanish-American author and philosopher. He was born in Madrid, Spain. He died at age 88 in Rome. Italy.
1947 ~ Hugh Lofting (né Hugh John Lofting; b. Jan. 14, 1886), English author and creator of Doctor Dolittle. He died at age 61 in Topanga, California.
1946 ~ William Strunk, Jr. (b. July 1, 1869), American author and educator. He is best known for writing The Elements of Style. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He died at age 77 following a mental breakdown in Poughkeepsie, New York.
1945 ~ Béla Bartók (b. Mar. 25, 1881), Hungarian composer. He refused to perform in Nazi Germany. He died at age 64 of complications from leukemia.
1940 ~ Walter Benjamin (né Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin; b. July 15, 1892), German-Jewish philosopher. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He left Germany in 1932 to escape from Nazi Germany. He died by suicide at age 48 in Portbou, Spain.
1937 ~ Bessie Smith (b. Apr. 15, 1894), American singer. She was known as the Empress of the Blues. She was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She died at age 43 after being fatally injured in a car accident in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
1902 ~ Levi Strauss (né Löb Strauß; Feb. 26, 1829), German-born American clothing manufacturer. He founded Levi Strauss & Company, the first company to manufacture denim blue jeans, which were worn by gold miners during the California Gold Rush. He died at age 73 in San Francisco, California.
1877 ~ Hermann Grassmann (né Hermann Günther Grassmann; b. Apr. 15, 1809), German mathematician and linguist. He died at age 68.
1868 ~ August Ferdinand Möbius (d. Nov. 17, 1790), German mathematician and astronomer. He is best known for the Möbius Strip. Möbius was a pioneer in the branch of geometry known as topology. He died at age 77.
1820 ~ Daniel Boone (b. Nov. 2, 1734), American frontiersman. This is the date of his birth under the Gregorian calendar. Under the Julian calendar, his birthday is noted as October 22. He was born in Oley Valley, Pennsylvania, British America. He died at age 85 in Defiance, Missouri.
1802 ~ Baron Jurij Vega (b. Mar. 23, 1754), Slovenian mathematician and physicist. The crater on the moon, Vega, is named in his honor. He was 48 years old.
1716 ~ Antoine Parent (b. Sept. 16, 1666), French mathematician. He was born and died in Paris, France. He died 10 days after his 50th birthday.
1620 ~ Taichang (b. Aug. 28, 1582), 15th Chinese Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He was emperor for only a month, from August 28 until his death on September 26, 1620. He died a month after his 38th birthday.
1290 ~ Margaret, Maid of Norway (b. 1290), Queen of Scotland. She ruled over Scotland from 1286 until her death in 1290. She was of the House of Sverre Dunkeld. She was the daughter of Eric II, King of Norway and Margaret of Scotland. The actual dates of her birth and death are not known, but she is believed to have been about age 7 at the time of her death.
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