Birthdays:
1970 ~ Matthew Syed (né Matthew Philip Syed), British journalist and table tennis player.
1966 ~ David Schwimmer (né David Lawrence Schwimmer), American actor. He is best known for his role as Ross Geller on the television sit-com Friends. He was born in New York, New York.
1944 ~ Keith Emerson (né Keith Noel Emerson; d. Mar. 11, 2016), British virtuoso keyboardist who mixed classical and rock. He played in the progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer. He was born in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England. He died by suicide at age 71 in Santa Monica, California.
1942 ~ Shere Hite (née Shirley Diana Gregory; d. Sept. 9, 2020), American-born German sexologist and author. She was a researcher who upended views of sexuality. She is best known for her 1976 book, The Hite Report. She was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri. She died in London, England at age 77.
1938 ~ Sofía of Greece and Denmark, Queen consort of Spain and wife of Juan Carlos I, King of Spain (b. 1938). They married in 1962. She is of the House of Glücksburg. She is the daughter of Paul, King of Greece and Frederica of Hanover. Upon her marriage, she converted from Greek Orthodox to Roman Catholicism.
1932 ~ Melvin Schwartz (d. Aug. 28, 2006), American physicist and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in New York, New York. He died of Parkinson’s Disease at age 73 in Twin Falls, Idaho.
1929 ~ Amar Bose (né Amar Gopal Bose; d. July 12, 2013), American engineer who pioneered acoustic excellence. He was the founder of the Bose Company. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 83 in Wayland, Massachusetts.
1929 ~ Richard E. Taylor (né Richard Edward Taylor; d. Feb. 22, 2018), Canadian physicist and recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. He died at age 88 in Stanford, California.
1927 ~ Steve Ditko (né Stephen John Ditko; d. June 29, 2018), American enigmatic comic artist who helped create Spider-Man. He was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He died at age 90 in New York, New York.
1924 ~ Rudy Van Gelder (né Rudolph Van Gelder; d. Aug. 25, 2016), American recording and audio engineer who helped define recorded jazz. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He died at age 91 in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
1918 ~ Alexander Vraciu (d. Jan. 29, 2015), American flying ace in the United States Navy who dominated the Pacific during World War II. He was born in East Chicago, Indiana. He died at age 96 in West Sacramento, California.
1914 ~ Ray Walston (né Herman Raymond Walston; d. Jan. 1, 2001), American actor best known for his role as the Martian on the television show, My Favorite Martian. He was born in Laurel, Mississippi. He died of lupus at age 86 in Beverly Hills, California.
1913 ~ Burt Lancaster (né Burton Stephen Lancaster; d. Oct. 20, 1994), American actor. He was born in New York, New York. He died 13 days before his 81st birthday in Century City, California.
1911 ~ Raphael M. Robinson (né Raphael Mitchel Robinson; d. Jan. 27, 1995), American mathematician. He was born in National City, California. He died at age 83 in Berkeley, California.
1911 ~ Odysseas Elytis (d. Mar. 18, 1996), Greek poet and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 84 in Athens, Greece.
1865 ~ Warren G. Harding (né Warren Gamaliel Harding, d. Aug. 2, 1923), 29th President of the United States. He was President from March 1921 until his death of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 57 while in Office. He was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio. He died in San Francisco, California.
1844 ~ John J. Loud (né John Jacob Loud; d. Aug. 10, 1916), American inventor and attorney. He is credited with developing the first ballpoint pen. He was born and died in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He died at age 71.
1815 ~ George Boole (d. Dec. 8, 1864), English mathematician and philosopher. He was born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. He died about a month after his 49th birthday in Ballintemple, Cork, Ireland.
1795 ~ James K. Polk (né James Knox Polk; d. June 15, 1849), 11th President of the United States. He served as President from March 1854 through March 1849. He had previously served as the 13th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, from December 1835 until March 1839. He was born in Pineville, North Carolina and died in Nashville, Tennessee. He died at age 53, shortly after his term as President ended.
1767 ~ Prince Edward (né Edward Augustus; d. Jan. 23, 1820), Duke of Kent and Strathearn. He was a member of the British royal family. In 1818, he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786 ~ 1861). He was of the House of Hanover. He was the son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was the father of Queen Victoria. He died of pneumonia at age 52.
1755 ~ Marie Antoinette (née Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; d. Oct. 16, 1793), Queen consort of France and Austrian wife of Louis XVI, King of France (1754 ~ 1793). They married in 1770. She was of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. She was the daughter of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor and Empress Maria Theresa. She was guillotined during the French Revolution. She was executed less than 3 weeks before her 38th birthday.
1734 ~ Daniel Boone (d. Sept. 26, 1820), 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 died at age 85 in Defiance, Missouri.
1709 ~ Anne, Princess Royal (d. Jan. 12, 1759), Princess consort of Orange and wife of William IV, Prince of Orange. They married in 1734. She was a member of the British royal family. She was of the House of Hanover. She was the second child and eldest daughter of George II, King of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach. She died of dropsy at age 49.
1549 ~ Archduchess Anna of Austria (d. Oct. 26, 1580), Queen consort of Spain and 4th wife of her uncle, Philip II, King of Spain (1527 ~ 1598). They married in 1570. She was of the House of Habsburg. She was the daughter of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and Archduchess Maria of Austria. She was Roman Catholic. She died of influenza a week before her 31st birthday.
1475 ~ Princess Anne of York (d. Nov. 23, 1511), member of the English royal family. She was the 5th daughter of Edward IV, King of England and Elizabeth Woodville. She was born on the fifth birthday of her brother, Edward V, King of England. She was married to Thomas Howard (1473 ~ 1554), who later became the 3rd Duke of Norfolk. She was his 1st wife. She was of the House of York. She died 21 days after her 36th birthday.
1470 ~ Edward V, King of England (d. 1483). He reigned for just a few months. He was one of the two princes in the Tower of London. He was of the House of York. He was the son of Edward IV, King of England and Elizabeth Woodville. The exact date of his death is not known, but he is believed to have been 12 at the time of his death.
1299 ~ Alfonso IV, King of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia and Corsica (d. Jan. 24, 1336). King of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia and Corsica. He ruled as King from November 1327 until his death 9 years later. He was known as Alfonso the Kind. His first wife was Teresa d’Entença (1300 ~ 1327). They were both 14 years old at the time of their marriage. She died in childbirth in 1327. His second wife was Infanta Eleanor of Castile (1307 ~ 1359), whom he married in 1329. He was of the House of Barcelona. He was the son of James II, King of Aragon and Blanche of Anjou. He was born in Naples, Italy. He died at age 36 in Barcelona, Spain. He was succeeded by his son Peter IV, King of Aragon.
1154 ~ Constance I, Queen of Sicily (d. Nov. 27, 1198). She ruled Sicily jointly with her husband, Henry, from 1194 until her death in 1198. She was also the Holy Roman Empress consort. She was the wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1165 ~ 1197). At 40, she gave birth to her only child, who would become Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. She was of the House of Hauteville. She was the daughter of Roger II, King of Sicily and Beatrice of Rethel. She was born and died in Palermo, Sicily. She died 25 days after her 44th birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2016 ~ The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in the Baseball World Series. The series went to the full seven games. It was the Cub’s first pennant in 108 years. Technically, the game was won on November 3, as the game ended after midnight.
1983 ~ President Ronald Reagan (1911 ~ 2004) signed a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a national holiday.
1964 ~ Saudi Arabian King Saud (1902 ~ 1969) was deposed by a family coup. He was replaced by his half-brother, King Faisal (1906 ~ 1975).
1960 ~ In the trial of R. v. Penguin Books, Ltd, the British jury found that the book publisher was not guilty of obscenity for publishing Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
1959 ~ Game show contestant, Charles Van Doren (1926 ~ 2019), admitted to cheating on the Twenty One game show.
1948 ~ Harry Truman (1884 ~ 1972) defeated Thomas Dewey (1902 ~ 1971) in the Presidential election. The Chicago Tribune had issued an early edition with the banner proclaiming that Dewey had beaten the incumbent President.
1936 ~ The British Broadcasting Corporation began the BBC Television Service.
1936 ~ The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was established.
1930 ~ Haile Selassie (1892 ~ 1975) was crowned emperor of Ethiopia. He had ruled the country since April 1930. He would rule the country until September 1974.
1920 ~ The first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, began broadcasting. The first broadcast reported the results of the United States presidential election.
1917 ~ The Balfour Declaration was issued, which proclaimed British support for the establishment in Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people.
1889 ~ North Dakota became the 39th State of the Union.
1889 ~ South Dakota became the 40th State of the Union.
1783 ~ General George Washington (1732 ~ 1799) gave his “Farewell Address to the Army” in Rocky Hill, New Jersey.
1675 ~ Josiah Winslow (1628 ~ 1680), the Plymouth Colony governor, lead a colonial militian against the Narragansett tribe during the King Philip’s War.
Good-Byes:
2018 ~ Kitty O’Neil (née Kitty Linn O’Neil; b. Mar. 24, 1946), American deaf stuntwoman who sped into record books. She was a race car driver and was known as the fastest woman in the world. A childhood illness left her deaf. She was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. She died of pneumonia at age 72 in Eureka, South Dakota.
2012 ~ Milt Campbell (né Milton Gray Campbell; b. Dec. 9, 1933), African-American superb athlete who won the 1952 Olympic decathlon. He was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. He died in Gainesville, Georgia about a month before his 79th birthday.
2012 ~ Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (b. July 22, 1930), Indian-American mathematician. He died at age 82 in West Lafayette, Indiana.
2008 ~ Madelyn Dunham (née Madelyn Lee Payne; b. Oct. 26, 1922), American grandmother of President Barack Obama. She was born in Peru, Kansas. She died in Honolulu, Hawaii a week after her 86th birthday and just 2 days before Obama was elected President.
2008 ~ Henry Loomis (b. Apr. 19, 1919), American physicist who led the Voice of America and Public Broadcasting. He was born in Tuxedo Park, New York. He died at age 88 in Jacksonville, Florida.
2004 ~ Theo van Gogh (né Theodoor van Gogh; b. July 23, 1957), Dutch actor and director. He was born in The Hague, Netherlands. He was murdered in Amsterdam, Netherlands at age 47 by a radical Muslim for his criticism of Islam.
2002 ~ Charles Sheffield (b. June 25, 1935), British mathematician, physicist and writer. He died of a brain tumor in Silver Spring, Maryland at age 67.
1998 ~ Mareta N. West (née Mareta Nelle West; b. Aug. 9, 1915), American astronomer and geologist. She was the first female astrogeologist. She chose the site of the first manned lunar landing. She was born in Elk City, Oklahoma. She died at age 83.
1970 ~ Cardinal Richard Cushing (né Richard James Cushing; b. Aug. 24, 1895), Cardinal and Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts. He served as the Archbishop of Boston from September 1944 until his resignation in September 1970. He was born and died in Boston. He died at age 75.
1966 ~ Peter Debye (né Peter Joseph William Debye; b. Mar. 24, 1884) Dutch chemist and recipient of 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Maastricht, Netherlands. He died at age 82 in Ithaca, New York.
1963 ~ Ngô Đinh Diêm (b. Jan. 3, 1901), 1st President of South Nam. He served as President from October 1955 until his assassination following a military coup in November 1963. He was 62 at the time of his death.
1961 ~ James Thurber (né James Grover Thurber; b. Dec. 8, 1894), American writer and humorist. He was born in Columbus, Ohio. He died about a month before his 67th birthday in New York, New York.
1950 ~ George Bernard Shaw (b. July 26, 1856), Irish playwright and recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 94.
1945 ~ Princess Thyra of Denmark (b. Mar. 14, 1880), member of the Danish royal family. She never married. She was of the House of Glücksburg. She was the daughter of Frederick VIII, King of Denmark and Louise of Sweden. She never married. She died at age 65.
1887 ~ Jenny Lind (née Johanna Marie Lind; b. Oct. 6, 1820), Swedish soprano opera singer. She was known as the Swedish Nightingale. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She died less than a month after her 67th birthday in Herefordshire, England.
1859 ~ James Curtiss (b. Mar. 29, 1806), 11th and 13th Mayor of Chicago. He served his first term from 1847 to 1848, and his second term from 1850 to 1851. He was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He died at age 53 after a long illness in Joliet, Illinois.
1618 ~ Maximilian II, Archduke of Austria (b. Oct. 12, 1558). He reigned over Further Austria from 1612 until his death in 1618. He never married. He was of the House of Habsburg. He was the son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria of Spain. He was Roman Catholic. He died about 3 weeks after his 60th birthday.
1327 ~ James II, King of Aragon and Valencia, James I, King of Sicily (b. Apr. 10, 1267). He ruled Aragon and Valencia from June 1291 until his death in 1327. He ruled Sicily from November 1285 until June 1295. He married four times. His first wife was Isabelle of Castile (1283 ~ 1328). They married in 1291 when the bride was only 8 years old. The marriage was never consummated and was annulled by Pope Boniface VIII, who refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage. His second wife was Blanche of Anjou (1280 ~ 1310) whom he married in 1295. They were the parents of Alfonso IV, King of Aragon. His third wife was Marie of Lusigan (1273 ~ 1319) whom he married in 1315. Theirs was a strictly political marriage and there were no children of this union. His fourth and final wife was Elisenda of Montcada (1292 ~ 1364). They married in 1322. There were no children of this marriage either. He was of the House of Barcelona. He was the son of Peter III, King of Aragon and Constance of Sicily. He was Roman Catholic. His death is sometimes listed on November 5, 1327. He died at age 60.
1285 ~ Peter III, King of Aragon (b. 1239). He ruled Aragon from 1276 until his death in November 1285. He was married to Constance II, Queen of Sicily. He was of the House of Barcelona. He was the son of James I, King of Aragon and Violant of Hungary. He was Roman Catholic. The actual dates of his birth and death are not known, but he is believed to have been about age 45 or 46 at the time of his death.
1261 ~ Bettisia Gozzadini (b. 1209), Italian jurist and lecturer at the University of Bologna. She is believed to be the first woman to have taught at a university. The exact date of her birth is not known. She was killed in a flood.
1083 ~ Matilda of Flanders (b. 1031), Queen consort of England. She was the wife of William I, King of England, also known as William the Conqueror. She was of the House of Flanders. She was the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders and Adela of France. The exact date of her birth is not known, but she is believed to have been about age 52 at the time of her death.
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