Birthdays:
1981 ~ Jared Kushner (né Jared Corey Kushner), American real estate investor and son-in-law to President Donald Trump. He became the Director of the Office of American Innovation during the Trump administration. He also served as Senior Advisor to President Trump. He was born in Livingston, New Jersey.
1961 ~ Evan Handler, American actor. He is best known for playing Harry Goldenblatt on Sex and the City. He was born in New York, New York.
1953 ~ Pat Benatar (née Patricia Mae Andrzejewski), American musician. She was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1945 ~ Baxter Black (d. June 10, 2022), American cowboy poet who sang the American West. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died of leukemia at age 77 in Benson, Arizona.
1949 ~ Linda Lovelace (née Linda Susan Boreman; d. Apr. 22, 2002), American porn actress who was best known for her role in Deep Throat. She was born in The Bronx, New York. She was killed in a car accident at age 53 in Denver, Colorado.
1949 ~ George Foreman (né George Edward Foreman), American boxer. He has 12 children: five sons, all of whom are named George, and seven daughters. He was born in Marshall, Texas.
1948 ~ Donald Fagen (né Donald Jay Fagen), American musician and member of the band, Steely Dan. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey.
1945 ~ Spider Sabich (né Vladimir Peter Sabich, Jr.; d. Mar. 21, 1976), American alpine ski racer. He was shot and killed by Claudine Longet (b. 1941), his live-in girlfriend and former wife of Andy Williams, in what she claimed to have been an accident. She was later convicted of misdemeanor criminal negligence in his death. He was born in Sacramento, California. He was killed in Aspen, Colorado. He was 31 years old at the time of his death.
1945 ~ Sir Rod Stewart (né Roderick David Stewart), Scottish singer. He was born in London, England.
1944 ~ Frank Sinatra, Jr. (né Francis Wayne Sinatra; d. Mar. 16, 2016), American singer who performed in his father’s shadow. He was the son of Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He died of a cardiac arrest at age 72 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
1943 ~ Jim Croce (né James Joseph Croce, d. Sept. 20, 1973), American singer and songwriter. He was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was killed in a plane crash at age 30 that had taken off from Natchitoches, Louisiana.
1939 ~ Sal Mineo (né Salvatore Mineo, Jr.; d. Feb. 12, 1976), American actor. He was born in New York, New York. He was murdered about a month after his 37th birthday in West Hollywood, California.
1938 ~ Jim Bailey (né James William Bailey, d. May 30, 2015), American entertainer and female impersonator who became a diva. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died of complications of pneumonia at age 77 in Los Angeles, California.
1936 ~ Stephen Ambrose (né Stephen Edward Ambrose; d. Oct. 13, 2002), American historian. He was a history professor at the University of New Orleans. He was born in Lovington, Illinois. He died of lung cancer at age 66 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
1936 ~ Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and astronomer. He was the recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. He was born in Houston, Texas.
1934 ~ Leonid Kravchuk (né Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk; d. May 10, 2022), Ukrainian Communist who midwifed a new Ukraine. He was the first President of Ukraine. He served from December 1991 until July 1994. He was born in Velykyi Zhytyn, Ukraine. He died at age 88 in Munich, Germany.
1933 ~ Kevin Duffy (né Kevin Thomas Duffy; d. Apr. 1, 2020), American United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. He presided over decades of high-profile trials in Manhattan, including those of mob bosses and the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. He was born in New York, New York. He died of complications of Covid-19 in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was 87 years old.
1931 ~ Marlene Sanders (d. July 14, 2015), American reporter who blazed a trail for newswomen. She was the mother of writer Jeffrey Toobin. She was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She died of cancer at age 84 in Manhattan, New York.
1930 ~ Roy E. Disney (né Roy Edward Disney; d. Dec. 16, 2009), American businessman and nephew of Walt and Lillian Disney. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He died less than a month before his 80th birthday in Newport Beach, California.
1925 ~ Billie Sol Estes (d. May 14, 2013), Texas businessman and con man who bilked the government. He is best known for his involvement in a business fraud scheme and his connection to Lyndon Johnson. He spent several years in prison for swindling, mail fraud and conspiracy. He was born in Clyde, Texas. He died at age 88 in DeCordova, Texas.
1924 ~ Earl Bakken (né Earl Elmer Bakken; d. Oct. 21, 2018), American engineer and medical pioneer who kept hearts ticking. He developed the first external, battery-operated transistorized wearable artificial pacemaker. He was born in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. He died at age 94 in Hawaii.
1920 ~ Roberto M. Levingston (d. June 17, 2015), Argentine general and President of Argentina from June 1970 to March 1971. He was president during the Revolusión Argentine, following the military dictatorship. He was deposed by another military junta. He died at age 95 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1919 ~ Milton Parker (d. Jan. 30, 2009), American businessman, restaurateur and co-founder of the Carnegie Deli. He made the Carnegie Deli famous. He died 20 days after his 90th birthday.
1916 ~ Sune Bergström (né Karl Sune Detlof Bergström; d. Aug. 15, 2004), Swedish biochemist and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died at age 88.
1913 ~ Gustáv Husák (d. Nov. 18, 1991), 9th President of Czechoslovakia. He served in that office from May 1975 until December 1989. He died at age 78.
1911 ~ Norman Heatley (né Norman George Heatley; d. Jan. 5, 2004), British biologist and chemist who co-developed penicillin. He died 5 days before his 93rd birthday in Oxford, England.
1904 ~ Ray Bolger (né Raymond Wallace Bolger; d. Jan. 15, 1987), American actor best known for his role as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He died in Los Angeles, California of cancer 5 days after his 83rd birthday.
1900 ~ Violette Cordery (d. Dec. 30, 1983), British race car driver. In the 1920s she competed in many car races. She broke long distance records. She died 11 days before her 84th birthday.
1898 ~ Katharine Burr Blodgett (d. Oct. 12, 1979), American physicist and chemist. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge. She was born and died in Schenectady, New York. She died at age 81.
1891 ~ Heinrich Behmann (d. Feb. 3, 1970), German mathematician. He was a member of the Nazi Party. He was born and died in Breman, Germany. He died 24 days after his 79th birthday.
1883 ~ Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (d. Feb. 23, 1945), Russian journalist and author. His research in the investigation of the atrocities committed in the Stavropol region was recognized by prosecutors during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war crimes. He died at age 62.
1875 ~ Issai Schur (d. Jan. 10, 1941), Russian-born mathematician. He died in Tel Aviv before the creation of the State of Israel. He died on his 66th birthday.
1850 ~ John Wellborn Root (d. Jan. 15, 1891), American architect who helped develop the “Chicago School” style of architecture. He designed the Rookery Building in Chicago. He was born in Lumpkin, Georgia. He died of pneumonia 5 days after his 41st birthday in Chicago, Illinois.
1843 ~ Frank James (né Alexander Franklin James; d. Feb. 18, 1915), American wild west outlaw. He also served as a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War. He was the older brother of outlaw Jesse James. He was born and died in Kearney, Missouri. He died at age 72.
1836 ~ Charles Ingalls (né Charles Phillip Ingalls; d. June 8, 1902), American farmer and father of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the writer of the Little House series of books. He was born in Cuba, New York. He died at age 66 in Kingsbury County, South Dakota.
1834 ~ Lord Acton (né John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton; d. June 19, 1902), English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was born in Naples, Two Sicilies. He died at age 68 in Tegernsee, Bavaria, German Empire.
1810 ~ Jeremiah S. Black (né Jeremiah Sullivan Black; d. Aug. 19, 1883), 24th United States Attorney General under the Buchanan administration. He served in this position from March 1857 until December 1860. He also served in the James Buchanan administration as the 23rd United States Secretary of State from December 1860 until March 1861. He was born in Stony Creek, Pennsylvania. He died at age 73 in York, Pennsylvania.
1769 ~ Michel Ney, 1st Duc d’Elchingen (d. Dec. 7, 1815), French Marshal and commander during the Napoleonic Wars. He was executed for treason about a month before his 47th birthday.
1480 ~ Archduchess Margaret of Austria (d. Dec. 1, 1530), Duchess consort of Savoy through her marriage to her second husband Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (1480 ~ 1504). She was his second wife. She had previously been married to John, Prince of Asturias (1478 ~ 1497). He died within a few months of their marriage. She was of the House of Habsburg. She was the daughter of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Mary, Duchess of Burgundy. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 50.
Events that Changed the World:
1990 ~ Time Warner was formed by the merger of Time, Inc., and Warner Communications.
1946 ~ The first United Nations General Assembly convened in London. Fifty-one countries were represented.
1929 ~ The Adventures of Tintin, Europe’s most popular comic books, was first published in Belgium.
1927 ~ The silent science-fiction film, Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang (1890 ~ 1976), was first released.
1920 ~ The League of Nations was established.
1920 ~ The Treaty of Versailles took effect, officially ending World War I for all combatant nations except the United States.
1901 ~ The first great Texas oil strike occurred making Beaumont, Texas the first petroleum boom town in Texas. This was the death knoll for the town of Galveston, Texas, which, after the devastation of the 1900 hurricane, was trying to rebuild its rivalry with Houston, Texas for major port cities along the Gulf Coast.
1870 ~ The Standard Oil Company was incorporated by John D. Rockefeller (1839 ~ 1937).
1863 ~ London’s Underground, the world’s oldest subway system, opened its first passenger line, which ran between Paddington Station and Farringdon Station.
1861 ~ Florida seceded from the Union before the Civil War. It was the 3rd State to do so.
1812 ~ The first steamboat trip, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to New Orleans, Louisiana traveling on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, was completed.
1776 ~ Common Sense, by Thomas Paine (1737 ~ 1809), was published.
1072 ~ Robert Guiscard (1015 ~ 1085) conquered Palermo in Sicily for the Normans.
236 ~ Pope Fabian (200 ~ 250) became the 20th Pope of Rome. He was Pope until his death in 250.
9 ~ The Western Han dynasty (206 BCE ~ CE 9) ended when Wang Mang (45 BCE ~ CE 23) began his own dynasty, the Xin dynasty.
49 BCE ~ The traditional date ascribed to when Julius Caesar (100 ~ 44 BCE) crossed the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
Good-Byes:
2023 ~ Jeff Beck (né Geoffrey Arnold Beck; b. June 24, 1944), British guitar virtuoso who couldn’t be pigeonholed. He rose to prominence with The Yardbirds. He was born in Surrey, England. He died of a bacterial meningitis infection at age 78.
2023 ~ Constantine II, King of Greece (b. June 2, 1940). He was the last king of Greece. He reigned from March 1964 until the abolishment of the monarchy in 1973. In 1964, he married Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark (b. 1946). He was of the House of Glücksburg. He was the son of Paul, King of Greece and Frederica, Princess of Hanover. He was Greek Orthodox. He died at age 82.
2021 ~ Pat Loud (b. Oct. 4, 1926). American forthright California mother of five who laid bare her life in the pioneering 1970s reality TV show An American Family. She was married to Bill Loud and was the mother of Kevin, Lance, Michele, Delilah, and Grant. She was born in Eugene, Oregon. She died at age 94
2021 ~ Nancy Bush Ellis (née Nancy Walker Bush; b. Feb. 4, 1926), American sister of President George Herbert Walker Bush and aunt of President George W. Bush. Although she was a longtime Democrat, she campaigned tirelessly to get both Republicans to the White House. She was born in Milton, Massachusetts. She died at age 94 in Concord, Massachusetts of complications of Covid-19.
2017 ~ Clare Hollingworth (b. Oct. 10, 2011), British reporter who broke the news of World War II. While traveling from Germany to Poland in 1939, she spotted and reported German forces amassing on the Polish border. Three days later she was the first to report of the German invasion of Poland, which was called the “scoop of the century.” She died at age 105 in Hong Kong.
2016 ~ David Bowie (né David Robert Jones; b. Jan. 8, 1947), English musical chameleon who never stopped changing. He was the ever-changing British rocker who transcended music, art, and fashion. He was born in London, England. He died of liver cancer 2 days after his 69th birthday in Manhattan, New York.
2015 ~ Robert Stone (b. Aug. 21, 1937), American novelist who chronicled American dreams gone south. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 77 in Key West, Florida.
2014 ~ Larry Speakes (né Larry Melvin Speakes; b. Sept. 13, 1939), American journalist and 16th White House Press Secretary. He served under President Ronald Reagan. He was technically the acting press secretary because James Brady, who had been shot during the assassination attempt on President Reagan, retained his position and title even though he was unable to perform those duties. He was born and died in Cleveland, Mississippi. Speakes died of Alzheimer’s disease at age 74.
2007 ~ Carlos Ponti, Sr. (né Carlos Fortunato Pietro Ponti; b. Dec. 11, 1912), Italian film producer and husband of Sophia Loren. He died a month after his 94th birthday in Geneva, Switzerland.
2005 ~ Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (b. Oct. 11, 1927), Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg and wife of Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1921 ~ 2019). They married in 1953. She was of the House of Belgium. She was the daughter of Leopold III, King of Belgium and Astrid of Sweden. She died of lung cancer at age 77.
2005 ~ James Forman (b. Oct. 4, 1928), African-American civil rights pioneer who espoused confrontation. He was a leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of colon cancer at age 76 in Washington, D.C.
2004 ~ Harriet B. Braiker (b. Nov. 22, 1948), American psychologist and self-help author. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She died of pneumonia at age 55 in Pasadena, California.
1997 ~ Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd (né Alexander Robertus Todd; b. Oct. 2, 1907), Scottish chemist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes. He died at age 89.
1986 ~ Jaroslav Seifert (b. Sept. 23, 1901), Czech poet and journalist. He was the recipient of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born and died in Prague. He died at age 84.
1982 ~ Mohammed Helmy (b. July 25, 1901), Egyptian physician. He saved several Jews from the Nazis during World War II and has been recognized as Righteous Among Nations by Yad Vashem. He was born in Khartoum, Sudan. He died at age 80 in Berlin, Germany.
1981 ~ Richard Boone (né Richard Allen Boone, b. June 18, 1917), American actor best known for his Westerns. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He died of pneumonia and throat cancer at age 63 in St. Augustine, Florida.
1980 ~ George Meany (né William George Meany; b. Aug. 16, 1894), American plumber and labor union leader. He was the first president of the AFL-CIO. He was born in Harlem, New York. He died at age 85 in Washington, D.C.
1977 ~ Ruth Graves Wakefield (née Ruth Jones Graves; b. June 17, 1903), American chef best known for creating the Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie. She was born in East Walpole, Massachusetts. She died at age 73 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1976 ~ Howlin’ Wolf (né Chester Arthur Burnett; b. June 10, 1910), African-American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was born in White Station, Mississippi. He died at age 65 in Hines, Illinois of complications from kidney surgery.
1971 ~ Coco Chanel (née Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel; b. Aug. 19, 1883), French clothing designer and founder of the House of Chanel. She was born in Saumur, France. She died at age 87 in Paris, France.
1961 ~ Dashiell Hammett (né Samuel Dashiell Hammett; b. May 27, 1894), American writer of the detective novel. He and Lillian Hillman were long-time partners. He was born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. He died of lung cancer at age 66 in Manhattan, New York.
1957 ~ Gabriela Mistral (née Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga; b. Apr. 7, 1889), Chilean writer, educator, and diplomat. She was the recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was the first Latin American woman to be awarded this Prize. She was born in Vicuña, Chile. She died of pancreatic cancer at age 67 in Hempstead, New York.
1951 ~ Sinclair Lewis (né Harry Sinclair Lewis; b. Feb. 7, 1885), American writer. In 1930, he was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He his best known for his books Main Street and Arrowsmith. He was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. He died about a month before his 66th birthday in Rome, Italy.
1941 ~ Issia Schur (b. Jan. 10, 1875), Russian-born mathematician. He died in Tel Aviv before the creation of the State of Israel. He died on his 66th birthday.
1917 ~ Buffalo Bill Cody (né William Frederick Cody; b. Feb. 26, 1846), American frontiersman and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory. He died of kidney failure at age 70 in Denver, Colorado.
1910 ~ Dr. Patrick Francis Healy (b. Feb. 27, 1834), African-American educator, priest, and President of Georgetown University. His father saw to his education and he when he entered the Jesuit order, he became the first African-American to do so. He was ordained as a priest in 1864. When he became the President of Georgetown in 1874, he became the first African-American to become the president of a predominantly white educational institution. He was born into slavery in Macon, Georgia and was the son of a plantation owner and Mary Eliza Smith, a slave. He died at age 75 in Washington, D.C.
1883 ~ Dr. Samuel Mudd (né Samuel Alexander Mudd; b. Dec. 20, 1833), American physician, who was convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. President Andrew Johnson, however, pardoned him after he had spent only a few years in prison. He died of pneumonia 21 days after his 49th birthday in Waldorf, Maryland.
1862 ~ Samuel Colt (b. July 19, 1814), American firearms inventor and founder of the Colt’s Manufacturing Company. He invented the modern revolver that bears his name. He was born and died in Hartford, Connecticut. He died of gout at age 47.
1840 ~ Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (b. May 22, 1700), member of the British royal family. After her 1818 marriage to Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1769 ~ 1829), she became the landgravine consort of Hesse-Homburg. She was of the House of Hanover. She was the seventh child of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. She died at age 69.
1824 ~ Victor Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia (b. July 24, 1759). He reigned from June 1802 until March 12, 1921. He married Archduchess Maria Teresa of Austria-Estes (1773 ~ 1832). He was of the House of Savoy. He was the son of Victor Amadeus III, King of Sardinia and Infanta Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain. He died at age 64.
1778 ~ Carolus Linnæus (b. May 23, 1707), Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist. He is credited for setting the foundation for scientific nomenclature. He died at age 70.
1662 ~ Honoré II, Prince of Monaco (b. Dec. 24, 1597). He was the first to be called the Prince of Monaco. He was married to Ippolita Trivulzio. He was of the House of Grimaldi. He was the son of Hercule, Lord of Monaco and Marina Landi. He died 16 days after his 64th birthday. He was succeeded by his grandson, Louis I, Prince of Monaco.
1276 ~ Pope Gregory X (né Teobaldo Visconti, b. 1210). He was Pope for just over 4 years, from September 1271 until his death on this date in 1276. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 66 at the time of his death.
681 ~ Pope Agatho. He was Pope for about 2 ½ years from June 678 until his death on this date in 681. The date of his birth is not known.
314 ~ Pope Miltiades. He is believed to have been North African. He became Pope in July 311. The date of his birth is not known.
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