Birthdays:
1986 ~ Shaun White (né Shaun Roger White), American snowboarder and skateboarder. He was born in San Diego, California.
1965 ~ Charlie Sheen (né Carlos Irwin Estévez), American actor. He was born in New York, New York.
1963 ~ Malcolm Gladwell (né Malcolm Timothy Gladwell), English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He was born in Fareham, Hampshire, England.
1945 ~ Peter Goddard, English physicist, and mathematician.
1943 ~ Valerie Perrine (née Valerie Ritchie Perrine), American actress. She was born in Galveston, Texas.
1938 ~ Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Kobe, Japan.
1932 ~ Eileen Brennan (née Verla Eileen Brennan; d. July 28, 2013), American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She died of cancer at age 80 in Burbank, California.
1927 ~ Herb Goldsmith (né Herbert Martin Goldsmith; d. Feb. 22, 2020), American clothing entrepreneur and founder of Members Only who created an ‘80s men’s fashion essential. He was born in The Bronx, New York. He died in Long Island, New York of lymphoma at age 92.
1926 ~ Alison Lurie (née Alison Stewart Lurie; d. Dec. 3, 2020), American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel, Foreign Affairs. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She died at age 94 in Ithaca, New York.
1926 ~ Irene Papas (née Irene Lelekou; d. Sept. 14, 2022), Greek actress and singer. She starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years, including the 1961 film, The Guns of Navarone and the 1964 film Zorba the Greek. She died just 11 days after her 96th birthday.
1923 ~ Glen Bell (né Glen William Bell, Jr.; d. Jan. 16, 2010), American businessman and founder of Taco Bell restaurants. He was born in Lynwood, California. He died at age 86 in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
1923 ~ Mort Walker (né Addison Morton Walker; d. Jan. 27, 2018), American cartoonist who chuckled at Army life. He created Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois. He was born in El Dorado, Kansas. He died at age 94 in Stamford, Connecticut.
1914 ~ Dixy Lee Ray (née Marguerite Ray; d. Jan. 2, 1994), American politician. She served as the 17th Governor of the State of Washington. She was Washington’s first female governor. She served as Governor from January 1977 through January 1981. She was born in Tacoma, Washington. She died at age 79 in Fox Island, Washington.
1913 ~ Alan Ladd (né Alan Walbridge Ladd; d. Jan. 29, 1964), American actor. He was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He died in Palm Springs, California of a cerebral edema caused by an accidental overdose. He was 50 years old.
1910 ~ Kitty Carlisle (née Catherine Conn; d. Apr. 17, 2007), American actress and television personality. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She died at age 96 in Manhattan, New York.
1908 ~ Lev Pontryagin (d. May 3, 1988), Soviet mathematician. He was legally blind. He was born and died in Moscow, Russia. He died at age 79.
1905 ~ Carl David Anderson (d. Jan. 11, 1991), American physicist and recipient of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the positron. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 85 in San Marino, California.
1900 ~ Urho Kekkonen (d. Aug. 31, 1986), 8th President of Finland. He served as President from March 1956 through January 1982. He died 3 days before his 86th birthday in Helsinki, Finland.
1899 ~ Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (d. Aug. 31, 1985), Australian virologist and recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contribution to the study of immunology. He was born in Traralgon, Victoria, Australia. He died 3 days before his 86th birthday in Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia.
1891 ~ Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany (d. Sept. 25, 1995) African-American dentist and author. She and her older sister, Sarah Delany (1889 ~ 1999) wrote the book, Having Our Say: The First 100 Years. The book was published when both sisters were over 100 years old. Sarah Delany died at age 109 and Bessie died 22 days weeks after her 104thbirthday. Bessie was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Sadie was born in Lynch’s Station, Campbell County, Virginia. Both sisters died in Mount Vernon, New York.
1878 ~ Dorothea Lambert Chambers (née Dorothea Katherine Douglass; d. Jan. 7, 1960), British tennis player and coach. She won 7 Wimbledon Women’s Singles titles and a gold medal in the 1908 Olympics. She died at age 81.
1875 ~ Ferdinand Porsche (d. Jan. 30, 1951), Austrian-German engineer and businessman. He founded the Porsche automobile company. He joined the Nazi party in connection with his contract to develop cars for Germany. He died of a stroke at age 75.
1869 ~ Fritz Pregl (d. Dec. 13, 1930), Slovenian-born Austrian chemist and recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 61 Graz, Austria.
1856 ~ Louis Sullivan (né Louis Henry Sullivan; d. Apr. 14, 1924), American architect. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 67 in Chicago, Illinois.
1849 ~ Sarah Orne Jewett (née Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett, d. June 24, 1909), American writer, whose work centered around the State of Maine. She was born and died in South Berwick, Maine. She died of a stroke at age 59.
1814 ~ James Joseph Sylvester (d. Mar. 15, 1897), British mathematician. He was born and died in London, England. He died at age 82.
1704 ~ Joseph de Jussieu (d. Apr. 11, 1779), French explorer, botanist and mathematician. He is best known for introducing the common garden heliotrope to European gardeners. He was born in Lyon, France. He died at age 74 in Paris, France.
1596 ~ Niccolò Amati (d. Apr. 12, 1684), Italian instrument and violin maker. He was the grandson of Andrea Amati, the founder of the Amati family of violin makers. He was born and died in Cremona, Italy. He died at age 87.
Events that Changed the World:
2018 ~ Labor Day.
1976 ~ The Viking 2 spacecraft landed at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
1971 ~ Qatar gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
1951 ~ The long-running soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, began airing on CBS. The final episode of the series aired on December 26, 1986, on NBC, a different television network.
1944 ~ Anne Frank (1929 ~ 1945) and her family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp from the Westerbork transit camp. They would arrive at Auschwitz on September 6.
1942 ~ In response to news of the coming liquidation of Łachwa, Poland, Dov Lopatyn (d. 1944) led one of the first ghetto uprisings of World War II. The Jews were to have been rounded up for deportation. During the uprising, more than half of the ghetto population was either killed in the fighting or was captured and executed.
1941 ~ Experiments with Zyklon B began at the Auschwitz concentration camp by gassing Soviet Prisoners of War.
1935 ~ Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885 ~ 1948) became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph, when he reached a speed of 304.33 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
1875 ~ The first official Polo game was played in Argentina.
1783 ~ Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, thereby ending the American Revolutionary War.
1777 ~ During the Battle of Cooch’s Bridge during the American Revolutionary War, the Stars and Stripes Flag of the United States was flown for the first time.
1666 ~ The Royal Exchange was burned down in the Great Fire of London, which had begun the day before.
1658 ~ Upon the death of Oliver Cromwell (1599 ~ 1658), his son, Richard Cromwell (1626 ~ 1712), became the Lord Protector of England.
1651 ~ At the Battle of Worcester during the Third English Civil War, Charles II, King of England (1630 ~ 1685) was defeated in the last major battle of the war.
1650 ~ At the Battle of Dunbar during the Third English Civil War, English parliamentarian forces, led by Oliver Cromwell (1599 ~ 1658), defeated the army loyal to Charles II, King of England (1630 ~ 1685).
1189 ~ Richard I, King of England (1157 ~ 1199), also known as Richard the Lionheart, was crowned King at Westminster.
301 ~ San Marino, one of the smallest countries in the world was founded by Saint Marinus (275 ~ 366). This country is still in existence and is the world’s oldest republic.
Good-Byes:
2017 ~ Walter Becker (né Walter Carl Becker, b. Feb. 20, 1950), American sly songwriter who co-founded Steely Dan. He was born in Queens, New York. He died at age 67 following a long illness in Manhattan, New York.
2017 ~ John Ashbery (né John Lawrence Ashbery; b. July 28, 1927), American poet and art critic. He was born in Rochester, New York. He died at age 90 in Hudson, New York.
2015 ~ Judy Carne (née Joyce Audrey Botterill, b. Apr. 27, 1939), British actress. She is best known for her performances in Laugh-In. She died of pneumonia at age 76.
2012 ~ Sun Myung Moon (né Mun Yong-myeong, b. Feb. 25, 1920), South Korean super-rich “messiah” who founded the Moonies. He was the religious leader who founded the Unification Church. The date of his birth is somewhat foggy. Some records indicate he may have been born on January 6, 2021. He died at age 92.
2007 ~ Steve Fossett (né James Stephen Fossett, b. Apr. 22, 1944), American millionaire adventurer who set over 100 world records or firsts on sea, land and air. He is presumed to have perished on September 3, 2007, after the single-engine plane he was in disappeared in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. He was born in Jackson, Tennessee. He was at age 63.
2005 ~ William Rehnquist (né William Hubbs Rehnquist, b. Oct. 1, 1924), 16th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Richard Nixon, where he served as an Associate Justice from January 1972 until September 1986. He was elevated to Chief Justice by Ronald Reagan, and continued on the Court in that position from September 1986 until his death 19 years later. He had a summer home in northern Vermont and was even listed in the local phone book. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He died about a month before his 81st birthday in Arlington, Virginia.
2001 ~ Pauline Kael (b. June 19, 1919), American writer and film critic. She was born in Petaluma, California. She died at age 82 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
1999 ~ Emma Bailey (née Emma Parascandola; b. Mar. 6, 1910), American auctioneer and author. In 1952, she became the first woman to be admitted into the National Auctioneers Association. She was born in New York, New York. She died at age 89.
1991 ~ Frank Capra (né Francesco Rosario Capra; b. May 18, 1987), Italian-born American movie director and producer best known for his film, It’s a Wonderful Life. He was born in Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy. He died at age 94 in La Quinta, California.
1981 ~ Alec Waugh (né Alexander Raban Waugh, b. July 8, 1898) English writer. He was the brother of writer Evelyn Waugh. He was born in London, England. He died at age 83 in Tampa, Florida.
1970 ~ Vince Lombardi (né Vincent Thomas Lombardi, b. June 11, 1913), American football coach. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died of cancer at age 57 in Washington, D.C.
1962 ~ e.e. cummings (né Edward Estlin Cummings, b. Oct. 14, 1894), American poet. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and he died in Madison, New Hampshire. He died of a stroke at age 67.
1948 ~ Edvard Beneš (b. May 28, 1884), 2nd and 4th President of Czechoslovakia. He initially served from December 1935 to October 1938; his second term was from April 1945 until June 1948. He died at age 64.
1918 ~ Fanya Kaplan (née Feiga Haimovna Roytblat; b. Feb. 10, 1890), Ukrainian-Russian social activist. She was executed after an attempt to assassinate Lenin. She was 28 at the time of her execution in Moscow, Russia.
1883 ~ Ivan Turgenev (b. Nov. 9, 1818), Russian novelist. He died at age 64 in France.
1877 ~ Adolphe Thiers (b. Apr. 15, 1797), 2nd elected President of France and the 1st President of the Third Republic. He was born in Marseille, France. He died at age 80.
1820 ~ Benjamin Henry Latrobe (né Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe, b. May 1, 1764), English-American architect, most famous for his design of the United States Capitol. He has been known as the Father of American Architecture. He died at age 56 of yellow fever in New Orleans.
1658 ~ Oliver Cromwell (b. Apr. 25, 1599), Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland; British general and politician. He died at age 59.
1634 ~ Sir Edward Coke (b. Feb. 1, 1552), English judge and politician. He died at age 82.
1467 ~ Infanta Eleanor of Portugal (b. Sept. 18, 1434), Holy Roman Empress consort and wife of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor. She was of the House of Aviz. She was the daughter of Edward, King of Portugal and Eleanor of Aragon. She was Roman Catholic. She died 15 days before her 33rd birthday.
1420 ~ Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (d. 1340), member of the Scottish royal family. He was married twice. In 1363, he married Margaret, Countess of Menteith. After her death, he married Muriella Keith. He was of the Albany branch of the House of Stewart. He was the son of Robert II, King of Scotland and Elizabeth Mure. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been about age 80 at the time of his death.
1338 ~ Anne of Bohemia (b. Mar. 27, 1323), Duchess consort of Austria and second wife of Otto, Duke of Bavaria (1301 ~ 1339). They married in 1335 when she was 7 years old. There were no children of this marriage. She was of the House of Luxembourg. She was the daughter of John, King of Bohemia (also known as John the Blind) and Elizabeth of Bohemia. She died at age 15.
1313 ~ Anne of Bohemia (b. Oct. 15, 1290) Queen consort of Bohemia. She was the first wife of Henry of Bohemia, who was also known as Henry of Carinthia. They married in 1306 when she was 16 years old. There were no children of this marriage. She was of the Přemyslid dynasty. She was the daughter of Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia and Judith of Habsburg. She died at age 22.
1189 ~ Jacob of Orléans, French Talmudic scholar. The date of his birth is unknown. He was killed during anti-Sematic riots in Paris.
618 ~ Xue Ju, Chinese Emperor of the Qin Dynasty. The date of his birth is not known.
264 ~ Sun Xiu (b. 235), Chinese Emperor of Eastern Wu. The exact date of his birth is unknown.
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