Birthdays:
1982 ~ Whitney Cummings (née Whitney Ann Cummings), American comic and actress. She was born in Washington, D.C.
1963 ~ Claudia Rankine, African-American poet and professor. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica.
1962 ~ Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with adult stem cells. He determined that mature cells can be converted to stem cells. He was born in Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan.
1957 ~ Khandi Alexander (née Harriet Rene Alexander), African-American actress best known for her role as the coroner on CSI: Miami. She was born in Jacksonville, Florida.
1951 ~ Judith Ivey (née Judith Lee Ivey), American actress. She was born in El Paso, Texas.
1934 ~ Sir Clive Granger (né Clive William John Granger; d. May 27, 2009), Welsh economist and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was born in Swansea, Wales. He died at age 74 in San Diego, California.
1932 ~ Bevo Francis (né Clarence Francis; d. June 3, 2015), American basketball player who broke college records with his high scoring. He was born in Hammondsville, Ohio. He died in Highlandtown, Ohio. He was 82 years old.
1931 ~ Mitzi Gaynor (née Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber), American actress, singer, and dancer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1929 ~ Thomas Eagleton (né Thomas Francis Eagleton; d. Mar. 4, 2007), American United States Senator from Missouri. He was briefly the vice-presidential nominee with George McGovern in the 1972 election. He was born and died in St. Louis, Missouri. He died heart and respiratory problems at age 77.
1928 ~ Dick York (né Richard Allen York; d. Feb. 20, 1992), American actor. He is best known as being cast as the first Darren on Bewitched. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He died of emphysema at age 63 in East Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1927 ~ John McCarthy (d. Oct. 24, 2011), American mathematician and father of artificial intelligence. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 84 in Stanford, California.
1926 ~ Ivan Dominic Illich (d. Dec. 2, 2002), Austrian theologian, Catholic priest, and philosopher. He was born in Vienna, Austria. He died at age 76 in Bremen, Germany.
1924 ~ Joan Aiken (née Joan Delano Aiken; d. Jan. 4, 2004), English author of gothic novels. She died at age 79.
1920 ~ Craig Claiborne (d. Jan. 22, 2000), American journalist, restaurant critic and cookbook author. He was born in Sunflower, Mississippi. He died at age 79 in New York, New York.
1918 ~ Paul Harvey (né Paul Harvey Aurandt; d. Feb. 28, 2009), American radio broadcaster. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He died at age 90 in Phoenix, Arizona.
1913 ~ Stanford Moore (d. Aug. 23, 1982), American biochemist and recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died in New York, New York less than 2 weeks before his 69th birthday.
1913 ~ Kenzō Tange (d. Mar. 22, 2005), Japanese architect. He was born in Sakai, Japan. He died at age 91 in Tokyo, Japan.
1908 ~ Richard Wright (né Richard Nathaniel Wright, d. Nov. 28, 1960), African-American author who wrote about race relations. He is best known for his book, Native Son. He was born in Roxie, Mississippi. He died of a heart attack at age 52 in Paris, France.
1906 ~ Max Delbrück (né Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück; d. Mar. 9, 1981), German biologist and recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with bacteriophages. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He died at age 74 in Pasadena, California.
1905 ~ Mary Renault (née Eileen Mary Challans; d. Dec. 13, 1983), English novelist of historical fiction. She was born in London, England. She died at age 78 in Cape Town, South Africa.
1901 ~ Sir William Lyons (d. Feb. 8, 1985), English industrialist and businessman. He was a co-founder of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which became Jaguar cars. He died at age 83.
1895 ~ Xiang Jingyu (d. May 1, 1928), Chinese revolutionary. She is considered a pioneer of the women’s movement in China. She was one of the first female members of the Communist Party of China. In 1922, she became the first director of the Chinese Communist Women’s Bureau. She advocated for women’s education and organized mass labor strikes. She was ultimately arrested and executed for her political activities. She was killed at age 32.
1846 ~ Daniel Burnham (né Daniel Hudson Burnham, d. June 1, 1912), American architect. He designed such iconic buildings as the Flat Iron Building in New York City. He was born in Henderson, New York. He died at age 65 in Heidelberg, Germany while on a European tour with his wife.
1840 ~ William, Prince of Orange (d. June 11, 1879). He was the heir apparent to the Dutch throne. He never married. He was of the House of Orange-Nassau. He was the son of William III, King of the Netherlands and Sophie of Württemberg. He predeceased his father at age 38, thus was never became king.
1809 ~ Manuel Montt (né Manuel Francisco Antonio Julián Montt Torres; d. Sept. 21, 1880), President of Chile. He served as President from September 1851 through September 1861. He died 17 days weeks after his 71st birthday in Santiago, Chile.
1803 ~ Sarah Polk (née Sarah Childress; d. Aug. 14, 1891), First Lady of the United States and wife of President James Polk. She was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She died 21 days before her 88th birthday in Nashville, Tennessee.
1729 ~ Louis, Dauphin of France (d. Dec. 20, 1765), member of the French royal family. Although he was the heir apparent to the French throne, he predeceased his father. He was married twice, first to Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (1726 ~ 1746). After her death, he married Duchess Maria Josepha of Saxony. He was of the House of Bourbon. He was the son of Louis XV, King of France and Marie Laszczyńska. He died of tuberculosis at age 36.
1729 ~ Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (d. Oct. 10, 1796), Queen consort of Denmark and second wife of Frederick V, King of Denmark. She was of the House of Welf. She was the daughter of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Duchess Antionette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She was Lutheran. She died at age 67.
1563 ~ Wanli Emperor (d. Aug. 18, 1620), 14th Emperor of the Ming dynasty. He died 17 days before his 57th birthday.
1557 ~ Sophie of Meckleburg-Güstrow (d. Oct. 14, 1631), Queen consort of Denmark and Norway. She was the wife of Frederick II, King of Denmark (1534 ~ 1588). They married in 1572. She was of the House of Meckleburg-Schwerin. She was the daughter of Ulrich III, Duke of Meckleburg-Güstrow and Princess Elizabeth of Denmark. She was Lutheran. She died at age 74.
1383 ~ Antipope Felix V (né Amadeus VIII, Count of Savoy; d. Jan. 7, 1451). He was a claimant to the papacy from 1391 to 1416. He is considered the last historical anitpope. He was married to Mary of Burgundy from 1386 until her death in 1428. He died at age 67.
1241 ~ Alexander III, King of Scotland (d. Mar. 19, 1286). He became King in July 1249 at age 9 following the death of his father. He remained King until his death at age 44 from a fall from a horse. He was married twice. His first wife was Margaret of England. After her death, he married Yolande de Dreux. He was of the House of Dunkeld. He was the son of Alexander II, King of Scotland and Marie de Coucy.
973 ~ Al-Biruni (d. Dec. 9, 1048), Persian mathematician, physician, and polymath. The exact dates of his birth and death are not known, but these are the traditional dates of his lifespan. He died at age 75.
Events that Changed the World:
2023 ~ Labor Day in the United States.
2017 ~ Labor Day in the United States.
2014 ~ Kenneth Lacovara (b. 1961) published his discovery of the giant dinosaur, Dreadnoughtus schrani, in Scientific Reports. The fossilized bones had been found in Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina. The plant-eating dinosaur is believed to have been the largest creature to walk on earth.
2013 ~ Erev Rosh HaShanah.
2012 ~ The Democratic National Convention began in Charlotte, North Carolina. It ran through September 6. The delegates chose Barack Obama (b. 1961) and Joe Biden (b. 1942) as the 2012 Democratic candidates.
2010 ~ The Canterbury earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand at a magnitude of 7.1, causing widespread damage.
1998 ~ Google was founded by two Standard University students, Larry Page (b. 1973) and Sergey Brin (b. 1973).
1975 ~ The Sinai Interim Agreement was signed in Geneva between Israel and Egypt. It was a diplomatic agreement stating that any disagreement between the countries would be resolved by peaceful means, and not by war.
1972 ~ The Price is Right premiered in CBS. Bob Barker (1923 ~ 2023) hosted the show from 1972 until 2007.
1972 ~ Mark Spitz (b. 1950) became the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
1970 ~ Salvador Allende (1908 ~ 1973) was elected President of Chile. He was ousted in a military coup on September 11, 1973 and the official governmental version of his death was suicide.
1957 ~ The Edsel was introduced by the Ford Motor Company. It was not successful.
1957 ~ Orval Faubus (1910 ~ 1994), governor of Arkansas, called the state’s National Guard to prevent 9 African American students from entering the Central High School in Little Rock. A federal judge ordered the school district to allow the students to enter the school. A mob of with citizens, along with the National Guard, jeered and again prevented the students from entering the school.
1948 ~ Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands (1880 ~ 1962), abdicated the throne for health reasons. Her daughter, Juliana (1909 ~ 2004) became Queen of the Netherlands until she abdicated in favor of her daughter, Beatrix, in 1980.
1888 ~ George Eastman (1854 ~ 1932) registered the trademark Kodak and received a patent for his camera that used roll film.
1886 ~ Apache leader Geronimo (1829 ~ 1909) surrendered to United States government troops. He had been battling the government for over 30 years in an attempt to protect his tribe’s homeland. By 1886, the tribe was exhausted and outnumbered.
1882 ~ The Age of Electricity began when Thomas Edison (1847 ~ 1831) turned on the first commercial electrical power plant, which covered one square mile of lower Manhattan.
1781 ~ The City of Los Angeles, California was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula, or the Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola.
1282 ~ Peter III, King of Aragon (1239 ~ 1285) became the King of Sicily.
626 ~ Li Shimin (598 ~ 649), known as the Emperor Taizong of Tang, became the Emperor over the Tang dynasty.
Good-Byes:
2021 ~ Willard Scott (né Willard Herman Scott, Jr.; b. Mar. 7, 1934) American television broadcaster. He is best known for being the weather presenter on NBC’s Today show. He also portrayed the original Ronald McDonald in the early McDonald advertisements. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia. He died at age 87 in Delaplane, Virginia.
2015 ~ Claus Moser, Baron Moser (né Claus Adolf Moser; b. Nov. 24, 1922), British statistician. He was born in Berlin, Germany. His family moved to England before World War II. He died at age 92 in Chur, Switzerland.
2014 ~ Joan Rivers, (né Joan Alexandra Molinksy, b. June 8, 1933) American comedian. She was the driven diva who paved the way for female comedians. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died in Manhattan, New York at age 81 following complications following surgery for a minor throat procedure.
2012 ~ Abraham Avigdorov (b. July 2, 1929), Israeli soldier. He died at age 83 in Haifa, Israel.
2009 ~ Keith Waterhouse (né Keith Spencer Waterhouse, b. Feb. 6, 1929), British comic author who wrote Billy Liar. He died at age 80 in London, England.
2006 ~ Steve Irwin (né Stephen Robert Irwin, b. Feb. 22, 1962), Australian naturalist and television personality. He was nicknamed The Crocodile Hunter. He died at age 44 after being stung by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary.
1996 ~ Joan Clark (née Joan Elisabeth Lowther Clark; b. June 24, 1917), British cryptanalyst and numismatist. She was involved in the Enigma project that decrypted Nazi German secret communications during World War II. She died at age 79.
1995 ~William Kunstler (né William Moses Kunstler, b. July 7, 1919), American lawyer and political activist. He is best known for defending the Chicago Seven. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died of heart failure at age 76.
1990 ~ Irene Dunne (née Irene Marie Dunn, b. Dec. 20, 1898), American actress. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She died at age 91 in Los Angeles, California.
1986 ~ Hank Greenberg (né Hyman Benjamin Greenberg; b. Jan. 1, 1911), American Jewish baseball who, in 1934, refused to play baseball on Yom Kippur, the one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar, even though his team, the Detroit Tigers, were in the middle of a pennant race. He was known as The Hebrew Hammer for his batting skills. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He died of kidney cancer at age 75 in Beverly Hills, California.
1977 ~ E.F. Schumacher (né Ernst Friedrich Schumacher; b. Aug. 16, 1911), German-born economist and statistician. He was born in Bonn, Germany. He died of a heart attack in Switzerland while on a lecture tour just 19 days after his 66thbirthday.
1965 ~ Albert Schweitzer (né Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer b. Jan. 14, 1875), German physician, philosopher, musician, and medical missionary. Schweitzer was the recipient of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “Reverence for Life,” and the founding of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in the west central African country of Gabon. He died at age 90 in Gabon.
1913 ~ Henry Billings Brown (b. Mar. 2, 1836), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Benjamin Harrison. He served on the Court from December 1890 through May 1906. He is best known for being the author of the 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which solidified the “separate but equal” doctrine. He replaced Samuel Freeman Miller on the Court and was replaced by William Henry Moody. He was born in Lee, Massachusetts. He died at age 77 in Bronxville, New York.
1907 ~ Edvard Grieg (né Edvard Hagerup Grieg, b. June 15, 1843), Norwegian composer. He is best known for Peer Gynt. He was born and died in Bergen, Norway. He died of heart failure at age 64.
1727 ~ Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b. Dec. 19, 1671), Queen consort of Poland and wife of Augustus II, King of Poland (1670 ~ 1733). They married in 1693 when she was 21 years old. They were the parents of Augustus III, Kign of Poland. She never lived in Poland but chose to live in a self-imposed exile in Saxony. She was of the House of Hohenzollern. She was the daughter of Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and Sophie Luise of Württemberg. She was Lutheran. She died at age 55.
1588 ~ Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. June 24, 1532), English statesman and political advisor to Elizabeth I, Queen of England. He died at age 56.
1515 ~ Barbara of Brandenburg (b. May 30, 1464), Queen consort of Bohemia and wife of Vladislaus II, King of Bohemia. He was her second husband; she was his first wife. They were married by proxy in 1476 and it was a purely political marriage. Vladislaus never saw Barbara and immediately tried to have the marriage dissolved, thus she was the Queen consort in name only. During their marriage, he secretly married his second wife in 1490. The marriage between Barbara and Vladislaus, however, was not legally dissolved until 1500. Barbara’s first husband was Henry XI, Duke of Głogów (1435 ~ 1476). They married in 1472, when she was just 8 years old. Henry was about 30 years her senior. She was of the House of Hohenzollern. She was the daughter of Albrecht III, Elector of Brandenburg and Anna Saxony. She died at age 51.
1458 ~ Infanta Maria of Castile (b. Nov. 14, 1401), Queen consort of Aragon and wife of Alfonso V, King of Aragon (1396 ~ 1458). They married in 1415. There were no children of their marriage. She was also the Princess of Asturias in her own right. She was of the House of Trastámara. She was the daughter of Henry III, King of Castile and Catherine of Lancaster. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 56.
1404 ~ Princess Mary of Lusignan (b. 1381), Queen consort of Naples and second wife of Ladislaus, King of Naples. There were no children of this marriage. She was the daughter of James I, King of Cyprus and Helvis of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. The date of her birth is not known, but she was about 22 or 23 at the time of her death.
1323 ~ Gegeen Khan (b. Feb. 22, 1302), Chinese Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and 9th Khan of the Mongol Empire. He died at age 21.
1308 ~ Margaret of Burgundy (b. 1250), Queen consort of Sicily. She was the second wife of Charles I, King of Sicily. They married in 1268. She was also the ruling Countess of Tonnerre. She was the daughter of Odo, Count of Nevers and Maud of Dampierre. The exact date of her birth is not known. She is believed to have been about age 58 at the time of her death.
1199 ~ Princess Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily (b. Oct. 1165). She was the wife of William II, King of Sicily. They married in 1177. He was her first husband. After his death, she married Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse. She was of the House of Plantagenet / Angevin. She was the 7th child of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. The exact date of her birth is unknown. She died of childbirth at age 33.
1037 ~ Bermudo III, King of León (b. 1015). He ruled León from 1028 until his death in 1037. He was married to Jimena Sánchez. He was of the Astur-Leonese dynasty. He was the son of Alfonso V, King of León and Elvira Menéndez. He was Roman Catholic. The exact date of his birth is not known. He was killed fighting against his brother-in-law, Ferdinand of Castile, in the battle of Tamarón at age 22.
422 ~ Pope Boniface I. He was Pope from December 418 until his death 4 years later. The date of his birth is not known.
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