Birthdays:
1987 ~ Naya Rivera (née Naya Marie Rivera; d, July 8, 2020), American actress. She is best known for her role as Santana Lopez on the television show, Glee. She was born in Santa Clarita, California. She disappeared while boating on Lake Piru, California. Her body was found several days later. She was 33 years old at the time of her death.
1985 ~ Issa Rae (née Jo-Issa Rae Diop), African-American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1978 ~ Hannah Gadsby, Australian comedian. She was born in Smithton, Tasmania, Australia.
1966 ~ Olivier Martinez, French actor. He was briefly married to actress Halle Berry. He was born in Paris, France.
1964 ~ Jeff Bezos (né Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen), American businessman and founder of Amazon.com. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1960 ~ Oliver Platt (né Oliver James Platt), Canadian-born American actor. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
1956 ~ Marie Colvin (née Marie Catherine Colvin; d. Feb. 22, 2012), American war reporter determined to bear witness. She was a foreign war correspondent who followed wars throughout the world, primarily in the Middle East. She was born in New York, New York. She was killed in Homs, Syria covering the war in that country at age 56. Her story is depicted in the 2018 film A Private War.
1954 ~ Howard Stern (né Howard Allen Stern), American radio personality. He was born in Queens, New York.
1952 ~ Walter Mosley (né Walter Ellis Mosley), African-American author. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
1951 ~ Rush Limbaugh (né Rush Hudson Limbaugh, III; d. Feb. 17, 2021), ultra-conservative right-wing American radio talk show host. He reshaped the Republican Party with his inflammatory brand of conservatism. He was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He died of lung cancer about a month after his 70th birthday in Palm Beach, Florida.
1951 ~ Kirstie Alley (née Kirstie Louise Alley; d. Dec. 5, 2022), American actress. She is best known for her role as Rebecca Howe on Cheers. She was born in Wichita, Kansas. She died of cancer about a month before her 72nd birthday.
1949 ~ Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist, best known for surrealism and magical realism. He was born in Kyoto, Japan.
1947 ~ Tom Dempsey (né Thomas John Dempsey; d. Apr. 4, 2020), American toeless professional football kicker who blasted field goals. He began his career in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints. He was known for his kicking style. He had been born with no toes on his right foot, so wore a special shoe. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana at age 73 of Covid-19.
1946 ~ André De Shields (né André Robin De Shields), African-American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1945 ~ Steven Hoffenberg (né Steven Jude Hoffenberg; d. Aug. 2022), American Ponzi fraudster who swindled thousands. He was the founder and owner of Towers Financial, a debt-collection firm that was later discovered to be an elaborate Ponzi scheme. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, for which he served 18 years. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was found dead in his apartment in Derby, Connecticut in August 2022. Police estimated that he had died approximately a week prior to the time his body was discovered. He was 77 years old at the time of his death.
1944 ~ Joe Frazier (né Joseph William Frazier; d. Nov. 7, 2011), American heavyweight champ whose rivalry with Muhammad Ali defined an era. He was born in Beaufort, North Carolina. He died at age 67 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1944 ~ Cynthia Robinson (d. Nov. 23, 2015), African-American trumpeter who was the soul of The Family Stone. She was born in Sacramento, California. She died of cancer at age 71 in Carmichael, California.
1925 ~ Katherine MacGregor (née Dorlee Deane McGregor; d. Nov. 13, 2018), American actress who put the spice in Little House on the Prairie, in her role as the scheming Mrs. Oleson. She was born in Glendale, California. She died at age 93 in Los Angeles, California.
1923 ~ Alice Miller (née Alicija Englard; d. Apr. 14, 2010), the Polish-born psychologist who explored childhood trauma. She escaped Poland during World War II. She died at age 87 in France.
1916 ~ Moshe Davis (d. Apr. 10, 1996), American rabbi and scholar of American Jewish history. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 80.
1916 ~ P.W. Botha (né Pieter Willem Botha, d. Oct. 31, 2006), South African politician. He was President of South Africa from 1978 to 1989. He had a reputation as being a tough and ruthless leader. He died of a heart attack at age 90.
1916 ~ Ruth R. Benerito (née Ruth Mary Rogan; d. Oct. 5, 2013), American chemist and inventor. She worked in the textile industry and developed wash-and-wear cotton fabrics. She earned a degree in chemistry and mathematics from the Sophie Newman College, the women’s college of Tulane University. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She died at age 97 in Metairie, Louisiana.
1906 ~ Kurt Hirsch (né Kurt August Hirsch; d. Nov. 4, 1986), German-born mathematician. He left Germany for England to escape Nazi persecution. He died at age 80 in London, England.
1906 ~ Emmanuel Levinas (d. Dec. 25, 1995), French philosopher. He was born in Kovno, Russian Empire (currently Kaunas, Lithuania). He died 19 days after his 89th birthday in Paris France.
1905 ~ Tex Ritter (né Woodward Maurice Ritter; d. Jan. 2, 1974), American actor and country music singer. He was born in Murvaul, Texas. He died of a heart attack 10 days before his 69th birthday in Nashville, Tennessee.
1899 ~ Paul Hermann Müller (d. Oct. 12, 1965), Swiss chemist and recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. He died in Basel, Switzerland at age 66 following a short illness.
1895 ~ Leo Aryeh Mayer (d. Apr. 6, 1959), Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He died at age 64.
1880 ~ Daniele Varè (d. Feb. 27, 1956), Italian diplomat and author. He is best known for his novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. He died at age 86.
1877 ~ Frank Corr (d. June 3, 1934), Mayor of Chicago. He became interim mayor after the assassination of Anton Cermak in March 1933. Corr served as mayor for less than a month, from March 1933 until April 1933. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 57 in Chicago, Illinois.
1876 ~ Jack London (né John Griffith Chaney; d. Nov. 22, 1916), American writer, best known for his novels, White Fang, and The Call of the Wild. He was born in San Francisco, California. He died at age 40 in Glen El,en, California.
1874 ~ Laura Adams Armer (née Laura May Adams; d. Mar. 16, 1963), American author, artist and photographer. She was born in Sacramento, California. She died at age 89.
1856 ~ John Singer Sargent (d. Apr. 14, 1925), American artist and painter. He was born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Florence. He died of heart disease at age 69 in London, England.
1853 ~ Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (d. Aug. 6, 1925), Italian mathematician. He died at age 72 in Bologna, Italy.
1822 ~ Étienne Lenoir (né Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir; d. Aug. 4, 1900), Belgium engineer and designer of the internal combustion engine. He died at age 78.
1810 ~ Ferdinand II, King of the Two Sicilies (b. May 22, 1859). He ruled from November 1830 until his death in 1859. He was married twice. His first wife was Maria Cristina of Savoy (1812 ~ 1836). They married in 1832. She died of complications of childbirth at age 23. His second wife was Maria Theresa of Austria (1816 ~ 1867). They married in 1837. He was of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He was the son of Francis I, King of the Two Sicilies and Maria Isabella of Spain. He was Roman Catholic. He died at age 49.
1799 ~ Priscilla Susan Bury (née Priscilla Susan Falkner; d. Mar. 8, 1872), British botanist and illustrator. She was born in Liverpool, England. She died at age 73 in Croydon, England.
1751 ~ Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies (d. Jan. 4, 1825). He reigned from December 1816 until his death in January 1825. He was married first to Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria (1752 ~ 1814). It was not a happy marriage. After her death, he married Lucia Migliaccio (1770 ~ 1826). Theirs was a morganatic marriage, so she never became the queen consort. He was of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He was the son of Charles II, King of Spain and Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony. He was Roman Catholic. He was born and died in Naples, Italy. He died 8 days before his at age 74thbirthday.
1729 ~ Edmund Burke (d. July 9, 1797), English philosopher and statesman. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. He died at age 68 in Beaconsfield, England.
1716 ~ Antonio de Ulloa (né Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Giral; d. July 3, 1795), Spanish general and 1st Spanish Colonial Governor of Louisiana. He served in that position from 1763 until 1768. He was born in Seville, Spain. He died at age 79 in Isla de León, Spain.
1673 ~ Rosalba Carriera (d. Apr. 15, 1757), Venetian Rococo painter. She was known for her portrait painting. She was born and died in Venice, Italy. She died at age 84.
1628 ~ Charles Perrault (d. May 16, 1703), French author known for laying the foundation for the fairy tale. He was born and died in Paris, France. He died at age 75.
1587/88 ~ John Winthrop (d. Mar. 26, 1649), the English-born Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but this is typically the date ascribed to his birth. He died in Boston, Massachusetts.
Events that Changed the World:
2020 ~ The Taal Volcano in the Philippines erupted.
2016 ~ A bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey killed 10 people and wounded several others.
2010 ~ A massive 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, killing approximately 316,000 people, and destroying most of the country’s capital of Port-au-Prince.
1991 ~ An Act of the United States Congress authorized the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait in the Gulf War.
1971 ~ All in the Family made its television debut. The show ran until April 1979.
1969 ~ Super Bowl III between the New York Jets and the Baltimore Colts was played. The Jets beat the Colts in one of the greatest upsets in sports history. The Jets were the underdogs; but beat the Colts in a score of 16-7.
1967 ~ Dr. James Bedford (1893 ~ 1967) became the first person to be cryonically preserved.
1962 ~ The first American combat mission in the Vietnam War occurred in a mission known as Operation Chopper.
1932 ~ Hattie W. Caraway (1878 ~ 1950), became the first woman to be elected to serve a full term as a United States Senate. She was from Arkansas. Previously, a provision of the law allowed widows to complete the terms of their deceased spouse.
1921 ~ Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866 ~ 1944) was elected as Major League Baseball’s first Commissioner. This post was created in the wake of the Black Sox Scandal and was intended to restore the public’s confidence in the sport.
1918 ~ Finland’s Mosaic Confessors law went into effect making Finish Jews full rights of citizenship. The Act had passed on December 22, 1917.
1915 ~ The United States House of Representatives rejected a proposal to allow women the right to vote. Women wouldn’t be granted the vote until the enactment of the 19th Amendment, which was ratified in 1920.
1888 ~ A huge blizzard swept through the American Great Plains. The storm, known as the Schoolhouse Blizzard, came on a relatively warm day and people were not expecting bad weather. As a result, when the storm came, many people were away from home, including many children attending one-room schoolhouses throughout the Plains. After the storm passed, 235 people had frozen to death.
1848 ~ The Sicilian Revolution of 1848 began in Palermo, Sicily. It was the first of several revolutions to occur between January 12, 1848, and May 15, 1849 against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Good-Byes:
2023 ~ Lisa Marie Presley (b. Feb. 1, 1968), American tortured singer and only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She died of heart failure just 3 weeks before her 55th birthday.
2023 ~ Harold Brown (b. Aug. 19, 1924), African-American Tuskegee Airman who escaped a lynching. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force during World War II. During a strafing mission over Austria, his engine stalled. He parachuted out and was surrounded by Austrian villages who attempted to lynch him. He was saved by a German police officer and sent to prisoner of war camp. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He died at age 98 in Port Clinton, Ohio.
2022 ~ Ronnie Spector (née Veronica Yvette Bennnett; b. Aug. 10, 1943), African-American pop star who escaped her abusive Svengali. She was the lead singer of the Ronnettes and was sometimes referred to as the original bad girl of rock and roll. Her first husband was Phil Spector. He was abusive, both mentally and physically to her. In 1972, she fled their house with nothing but the clothing on her back. She was born in East Harlem, New York. She died of cancer at age 78 in Danbury, Connecticut.
2018 ~ Keith Jackson (né Keith Max Jackson; b. Oct. 18, 1928), American sportscaster who became a football legend. He had a long career with ABC Sports. He was born in Roopville, Georgia. He died at age 89 in Los Angeles, California.
2017 ~ William Peter Blatty (b. Jan. 7, 1928), American comedy writer who spooked readers with The Exorcist. He was born in New York, New York. He died of multiple myeloma 5 days after his 89th birthday in Bethesda, Maryland.
2013 ~ Eugene Patterson (né Eugene Corbett Patterson; b. Oct. 15, 1923), American Southern editor who fostered racial equality. He was the editor of The Atlanta Constitution from 1960 until 1968. He was born in Valdosta, Georgia. He died of cancer at age 89.
2012 ~ William J. Janklow (né William John Janklow; b. Sept. 13, 1939), South Dakota governor who hurried too much. He was Governor for 16 years over two terms, first from January 1979 to January 1987, and then from January 1995 until January 2003. He went on to be a congressman in the United States House of Representative, but his career was cut short in 2004 after his conviction of second-degree manslaughter for killing a Minnesota farmer in an automobile accident. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of brain cancer at age 72 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
2009 ~ Claude Berri (né Claude Berel Langmann; b. July 1, 1934), French actor, director and writer. He was born and died in Paris, France. He died of a stroke at age 74.
2007 ~ Roger Corless (b. June 26, 1938), American religious scholar. He was born in England. He died at age 69 in San Francisco, California.
2004 ~ Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (b. Mar. 7, 1922), Russian mathematician. She died at age 81.
2003 ~ Maurice Gibb (né Maurice Ernest Gibb; b. Dec. 22, 1949), British musician and member of the Bee Gees. He was the twin brother of Robin Gibb (1949 ~ 2012). He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man. Maurice died 3 weeks after his 53rdbirthday in Miami Beach, Florida.
2003 ~ Leopoldo Galtieri (b. July 15, 1926), 44th President of Argentina. He was president from December 1981 until June 1982, during the last military dictatorship. He was removed following the British invasion of the Falkland Islands. He died at age 76 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2002 ~ Cyrus Vance (né Cyrus Roberts Vance; b. Mar. 27, 1917), 57th United States Secretary of State. He served during the Carter administration from January 1977 until April 1980. He had previously served as the 7th United States Secretary of the Army from July 1962 until January 1964 under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He died of pneumonia at age 84 in New York, New York.
2001 ~ William Hewlett (né William Reddington Hewlett; b. May 20, 1913), American engineer and co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He died at age 87 in Palo Alto, California.
2000 ~ Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau (né Margaret Hutchinson; b. Oct. 27, 1910). American chemical engineer. She designed the first commercial penicillin production plant. She was also the first female member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. She received her doctorate from MIT. She was born in Houston, Texas and died at age 89 in Weston, Massachusetts.
1999 ~ William H. Whyte (b. William Hollingsworth Whyte, Jr.; b. Oct. 1, 1917), American urbanist, sociologist, and journalist. He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He died at age 81 in New York, New York.
1997 ~ Charles B. Huggins (né Charles Brenton Huggins; b. Sept. 22, 1901), Canadian-born physician and recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers. His specialty was prostate cancer. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He died at age 95 in Chicago, Illinois.
1996 ~ Joachim A. Nitsche (b. Sept. 2, 1926), German mathematician. He died at age 69.
1990 ~ Laurence J. Peter (né Laurence Johnston Peter; b. Sept. 16, 1919), Canadian educator and hierachiologist, best known for formulating the Peter Principle, whereby every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetency. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He died at age 70 in Palos Verdes Estates, California.
1989 ~ Paula Ackerman (née Paula Herskovitz; b. Dec. 7, 1893), the first woman appointed to function as a rabbi in the United States. She led the congregation at Temple Beth Israel in Meridian, Mississippi, following the sudden death of her husband two weeks earlier. She was never formally ordained as a rabbi, however. She was born in Pensacola, Florida. She died about a month after her 95th birthday in Thomaston, Georgia.
1976 ~ Dame Agatha Christie, Lady Mallowan (née Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller; b. Sept. 15, 1890), British mystery writer. She died at age 85.
1974 ~ Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. Mar. 17, 1886), member of the royal family. When she married Sir Alexander Ramsay (1881 ~ 1972) in 1919, she relinquished her royal title. She was of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until 1917 when the family became known as Windsor. She was the daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. She was the granddaughter of Victoria, Queen of the British Empire. She died at age 87.
1965 ~ Lorraine Hansberry (née Lorraine Vivian Hansberry; b. May 19, 1930), African-American playwright. She is best known for her play, A Raison in the Sun. She was the first female African-American to have a play performed on Broadway. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She died of pancreatic cancer at age 34 in New York, New York.
1960 ~ Nevil Shute (né Nevil Shute Norway; b. Jan. 17, 1899), British-born Australian author best known for his novel On the Beach, about a nuclear holocaust and A Town Like Alice. He died of a stroke 5 days before his 61st birthday in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
1922 ~ Helen Blanchard (née Helen Augusta Blanchard; b. Oct. 25, 1840), American inventor. She received 28 patents between 1873 and 1915, many of which were improvements on the sewing machine. She was born in Portland, Maine and died in Providence, Rhode Island. She died at age 81.
1909 ~ Hermann Minkowski (d. June 22, 1864), German mathematician. He died suddenly of appendicitis at age 44.
1899 ~ Hiram Walker (b. July 4, 1816), American businessman and distiller. He founded Canadian Club whiskey. He was born in East Douglas, Massachusetts. He died at age 82 in Detroit, Michigan.
1880 ~ Nell Arthur (née Ellen Lewis Herndon, b. Aug. 30, 1837), American wife of President Chester Arthur. She died of pneumonia at age 42 before her husband became President so she was never the First Lady. She was born in Culpeper, Virginia. She died in New York, New York.
1834 ~ William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (né William Wyndham Grenville; b. Oct. 25, 1759), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as Prime Minister from February 1806 until March 1807 during the reign of George III, King of the United Kingdom. During his term, slave trade in Britain was abolished. He died at age 74.
1759 ~ Anne, Princess Royal (b. Nov. 2, 1709), 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.
1665 ~ Pierre de Fermat (b. Oct. 31, 1607), French mathematician. The exact date of his birth is unknown, although it is generally attributed to have been 1601 it may have been as late as 1607. Also, he may have been born as late as December 7, 1607. He was, thus, either 57 or 63 at the time of his death. He pioneered work in analytic geometry.
1519 ~ Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. Mar. 22, 1459). He ruled as the Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519. He was married three times. His first wife was Mary, Duchess of Burgundy (1457 ~ 1482). They married in 1477. After her death, he married his second wife, Anne, Duchess of Brittany (1477 ~ 1514). They married in 1490. This marriage was annulled for political reasons. His third and final wife was Bianca Maria Sforza (1472 ~ 1510). They married in 1494. He was of the House of Habsburg. He was the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Infanta Eleanor of Portugal. He was Roman Catholic. He died at age 59.
1322 ~ Marie of Brabant (b. May 13, 1254), Queen consort of France and second wife of Philip III, King of France. They married in 1274. She was of the House of Reginar. She was the daughter of Henry III, Duke of Brabant and Adelaide of Burgundy. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 67.
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