Birthdays:
2003 ~ Greta Thunberg (née Greta Tintin Eleonora Emman Thunberg), Swedish environmental activist. In 2019, her campaign on climate change gained her world-wide recognition. She was Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1981 ~ Eli Manning (né Elisha Nelson Manning, IV), American professional football player. He is of the Manning football family. He is the son of Archie Manning and the younger brother of Payton Manning. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1975 ~ Danica McKellar (née Danica Mae McKellar), American actress and mathematician. She was born in La Jolla, California.
1969 ~ Marie Darrieussecq, French writer, and psychoanalyst.
1956 ~ Mel Gibson (né Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson), American actor. In his later years, he became a controversial figure, spewing anti-Semitic and anti-gay ideology. He was born in Peekskill, New York.
1950 ~ Victoria Principal (née Vicki Ree Principal), American actress. She is best known for her role as Pam Ewing on the television drama Dallas. She was born in Fukuoka, Japan. He father was in the United States Air Force and was stationed in Japan when she was born.
1941 ~ Franklin McCain (né Franklin Eugene McCain; d. Jan. 9, 2014), African-American civil rights activist and man who lead the Greensboro Four at the Woolworth lunch counter in 1960 when he was a student at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He was born in Union County, North Carolina and died in Greensboro, North Carolina. He died 6 days after his 73rd birthday of respiratory complications.
1939 ~ Bobby Hull (né Robert Marvin Hull; d. Jan. 30, 2023), Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was born in Point Anne, Ontario, Canada. He died 27 days after his 84th birthday in Wheaton, Illinois.
1938 ~ Robert Morin (d. Mar. 31, 2015), American librarian. He worked for nearly 50 years as a librarian at the University of New Hampshire’s Diamond Library. He was known as being frugal. When he died, he left his estate, and estimated $4M to the University. The money has been used to fund scholarships. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire. He died at age 77.
1937 ~ Glen Larson (né Glen Albert Larson; d. Nov. 14, 2014), American writer-producer who churned out hit television shows. He created such shows as Battleship Galactica and Quincy, M.D. He was born in Long Beach, California. He died at age 77 of esophageal cancer in Santa Monica, California.
1934 ~ Carla Anderson Hills (née Carla Anderson), 5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. She served in the Gerald Ford administration from March 1975 until January 1977. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1932 ~ Dabney Coleman (né Dabney Wharton Coleman), American character actor. He is best known for his role as the boss in the movie 9 to 5. He was born in Austin, Texas.
1930 ~ Robert Loggia (né Salvatore Loggia; d. Dec. 4, 2015), American actor. He was born in New York, New York. He died of Alzheimer’s disease a month before his 86th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1929 ~ Sergio Leone (d. Apr. 30, 1989), Italian movie director and producer. He is best known for being a pioneer of the spaghetti Western. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. He died of a heart attack at age 60.
1929 ~ Gordon Moore (né Gordon Earle Moore; d. Mar. 24, 2023), American businessman and tech visionary who wrote Moore’s Law. Moore’s Law is the observation that the numbers of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years. He was also the co-founder of Intel Corporation. He was born in Pescadero, California. He died at age 94 in Waimea, Hawaii.
1926 ~ Sir George Martin (né George Henry Martin; d. March 8, 2016), British experimental recording producer who guided the Beatles. He was sometimes referred to as the Fifth Beatle because of his involvement in each of the Beatles’ albums. He was born in London, England. He died at age 90 in Wiltshire, England.
1926 ~ Joan Walsh Anglund (d. Mar. 9, 2021), American poet and children’s author. She was born in Hinsdale, Illinois. She died of heart failure at age 95 in Litchfield, Connecticut.
1926 ~ W. Michael Blumenthal (né Werner Michael Blumenthal), 64th United States Secretary of the Treasury. He served under President Jimmy Carter from January 1977 until August 1979. He was born in Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Weimar Republic. He and his family moved immigrated to the United States in 1939 to escape from the Nazi regime.
1921 ~ Isabella Bashmakova (d. July 17, 2005), Russian historian of mathematics. She died at age 84.
1917 ~ Vernon Walters (né Vernon Anthony Walters; d. Feb. 10, 2002), 17th Ambassador to the United Nations during the Ronald Reagan administration, from May 1985 until March 1989. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 85 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
1917 ~ Roger Williams Straus, Jr. (d. May 25, 2004), American journalist and publisher and co-founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died at age 87.
1916 ~ Betty Furness (née Elizabeth Mary Furness; d. Apr. 2, 1994), American actress and television journalist. She was also a consumer advocate. She was born and died in New York, New York. She died of stomach cancer at age 78.
1909 ~ Victor Borge (né Børge Rosenbaum; d. Dec. 23, 2000), Danish-born comedian and pianist. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He died at age 91, just 11 days before his 92nd birthday, in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1905 ~ Anna May Wong (d. Feb. 3, 1961), Asian-American actress. She was a Cinematic trailblazer. She is considered the first Chinese-American Hollywood movie star. She became a silent film star in the 1920s. Because of miscegenation laws prevented interracial couples to appear on screen, her acting opportunities were limited to stereotype roles. She moved to Europe where audiences were more receptive to her talents. She ultimately returned to the United States and continued to speak out against discrimination. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She died of a heart attack a month after her 56th birthday in Santa Monica, California.
1901 ~ Ngô Đinh Diêm (d. Nov. 2, 1963), 1st President of South Vietnam. He served as President from October 1955 until his assassination in Saigon, South Vietnam following a military coup in November 1963. He was 62 at the time of his death.
1892 ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (né John Ronald Reuel Tolkien; d. Sept. 2, 1973), British author best known for his novels The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series. He was born in South Africa. He died at age 81 in England.
1883 ~ Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (né Clement Richard Attlee; d. Oct. 8, 1967), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as Prime Minister from July 1845 until October 1951 during the reign of King George VI. He died of pneumonia at age 84 in London, England.
1879 ~ Grace Coolidge (née Grace Anna Goodhue; d. July 8, 1957), First Lady of the United States and wife of President Calvin Coolidge. She was born in Burlington, Vermont. She died of heart disease at age 78 in Northampton, Massachusetts.
1840 ~ Father Damien (né Jozef De Veuster; d. Apr. 15, 1889) Roman Catholic priest from Belgium who was known for his ministry to people with leprosy in Moloka’i, Hawai’i. He was born in Tremelo, Brabant, Belgium. He died of leprosy at age 49 in Kalaupapa, Moloka’i, Hawai’i.
1793 ~ Lucretia Mott (née Lucretia Coffin; d. Nov. 11, 1880), American leader of the abolitionist and women’s rights movements in the United States. She was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She died at age 87 in La Mott, Cheltenham, Pennsylvania.
1290 ~ Constance of Portugal (d. Nov. 18, 1313), Queen consort of Castile and León. She was the wife of Ferdinand IV, King of Castile (1285 ~ 1312). They married in 1302 and were the parents of Alfonso IX, King of Castile. She was of the Portuguese House of Burgundy. She was the daughter of Denis, King of Portugal and Princess Elizabeth of Aragon. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 23.
106 BCE ~ Marcus Tillius Cicero (d. BCE Dec. 7, 43), Roman statesman and philosopher. These are the dates ascribed to his birth and assassination. He died at age 63.
Events that Changed the World:
2022 ~ Elizabeth Holmes (b. 1984), former biotechnology entrepreneur, was found guilty of four charges of criminal fraud by defrauding investors in her company Theranos. She was ultimately sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison
2018 ~ For the first time in its history, the Netherlands closed all five major storm surge gates in anticipation of storm Eleanor, which crossed the North Sea with wind speeds of up to 120 kph.
2004 ~ Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashed into the Red Sea. With 148 deaths, it was one of Egypt’s deadliest aviation accidents.
1993 ~ United States President George H.W. Bush (1924 ~ 2018) and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin (1931 ~ 2007) signed the Second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1990 ~ Manuel Noriega (1934 ~ 2017), the former dictator of Panama, surrendered to American forces.
1977 ~ Apple Computer was incorporated.
1962 ~ Pope John XXIII (1881 ~ 1963) excommunicated Fidel Castro (1926 ~ 2016).
1961 ~ The United States severed its diplomatic relations with Cuba. It would be 54 years before relations were re-established.
1959 ~ Alaska became the 49th State of the Union.
1957 ~ The first electric watches were introduced by the Hamilton Watch Company.
1956 ~ A fire damaged the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1953 ~ Frances Bolton (1885 ~ 1977) and her son, Oliver (1917 ~ 1972) became the first mother and son to serve in the United States Congress at the same time. Mrs. Bolton served as a member of the United States House of Representative from the 22nd District of Ohio. Oliver Bolton served as a Representative from the 11th District of Ohio.
1949 ~ Chinese Communists captured Chongqing.
1947 ~ The proceedings of the United States Congress were televised for the first time.
1938 ~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 ~ 1945) established the March of Dimes campaign to fight polio.
1935 ~ Bruno Hauptmann (1899 ~ 1936) went on trial for the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles and Anna Lindbergh. He was ultimately found guilty and was executed.
1933 ~ Minnie D. Craig (1883 ~ 1966) became the first woman to be elected Speaker of the House in any state of the Union. She was elected as the Speaker of the House in North Dakota.
1932 ~ Martial law was declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers who had been fired by the United Fruit Company. This event is recounted in Rich Cohen’s book, The Fish that Ate the Whale.
1925 ~ Benito Mussolini (1883 ~ 1945) announced he was taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
1920 ~ A 6.4 magnitude struck in Mexico, known as the 1920 Xalapa earthquake, and killed over 640 people.
1919 ~ At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq (1885 ~ 1933) signed an agreement with Chaim Weizmann (1874 ~ 1952), a Zionist leader, pertaining to the development of a Jewish homeland in what was referred to as Palestine.
1916 ~ The Sykes-Picot Agreement was created. It was a secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France that set the boundaries in the former Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. The agreement effectively divided the Ottoman empire into areas of British and French control and influence. Under the agreement, the area that is now southern Israel, Jordan and southern Iraq fell under the control of the United Kingdom and the area in southeast Turkey, Kurdistan Region, Syria, and Lebanon was under French control.
1911 ~ A 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroyed the Almaty, Turkestan.
1870 ~ Construction on the Brooklyn Bridge began. It would open in May 1883.
1861 ~ During the period leading up to the American Civil War, the State of Delaware voted not to secede from the United States.
1848 ~ Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809 ~ 1876), an African-American merchant was sworn in as the 1st President of Liberia. He had been born free in Norfolk, Virginia. He emigrated to Liberia in the 1820s under the American Colonization Society, an organization designed to create a colony of Liberia on Africa’s west coast for the relocation of African-American slaves. He died at age 66 in Monrovia, Liberia.
1823 ~ Stephen Austin (1793 ~ 1836) received a land grant in Texas from the government of Mexico.
1777 ~ During the American Revolutionary War, General George Washington’s army defeated British General Charles Cornwallis (1738 ~ 1805) at the Battle of Princeton.
1749 ~ Benning Wentworth (1696 ~ 1770), the colonial governor of New Hampshire, issued the first of the New Hampshire Grants, which ultimately lead to the establishment of the State of Vermont.
1521 ~ Martin Luther (1483 ~ 1546) was excommunicated by Pope Leo X (1475 ~ 1521).
Good-Byes:
2023 ~ Walter Cunningham (né Ronnie Walter Cunningham; b. Mar. 16, 1932), American astronaut. In 1968, he flew on Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo flight that orbited earth. He was born in Creston, Iowa. He died at age 90 in Houston, Texas.
2021 ~ Ashley Gornick-Gomez (b. 1990), American nurse who was 37 weeks pregnant when she was rushed to the hospital with breathing difficulties. She died 2 weeks after her 6th child was born via an emergency C-section of complications of Covid-10. She was 30 years old at the time of her death.
2019 ~ Herb Kelleher (né Herbert David Kehheler; b. Mar. 12, 1931), American fun-loving CEO who shook up air travel. He was the founder and later CEO and chairman of Southwest Airlines. He was born in Camden, New Jersey. He died at age 87 in Dallas, Texas.
2015 ~ Edward Brooke, III (né Edward William Brooke, III; b. Oct. 26, 1919), African-American pioneering United States Senator from Massachusetts who transcended America’s racial divide. He was a Republican politician who became the first African-American to win a Senate seat in a popular election. He also served as the Attorney General of Massachusetts. He was born in Washington, D.C. He died at age 95 in Coral Gables, Florida.
2014 ~ Phil Everly (né Philip Everly; b. Jan. 19, 1939), the American harmonizer who inspired the Beatles. Together with his brother, Don (1937 ~ 2021), they formed the Everly Brothers. Phil was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of lung disease 16 days before his 75th birthday in Burbank, California.
2014 ~ Saul Zaentz (b. Feb. 28, 1921), American film producer who put literature on the screen. He is best known for such films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The English Patient, and The Lord of the Rings. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He died of complications of Alzheimer’s disease in San Francisco at age 92.
2013 ~ Marianne Grunberg-Manago (b. Jan. 6, 1921), Soviet-born French biochemist. Her work included finding keys to the genetic code. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union. She died 3 days before her 92nd birthday in Paris, France.
2010 ~ Mary Daly (b. Oct. 16, 1928), American radical feminist lesbian philosopher and scholar who barred men from her classes. She taught at Boston College. She was born in Schenectady, New York. She died at age 81 in Gardner, Massachusetts.
2009 ~ William Devereux Zantzinger (b. Feb. 7, 1939), American farmer from Maryland who inspired a Bob Dylan classic civil rights song, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll. Zantzinger had killed a black barmaid with his cane. He served 6 months for the murder. He died at age 69.
2009 ~ Pat Hingle (né Martin Patterson Hingle; b. July 19, 1924), American character actor. He was born in Miami, Florida. He died at age 84 in Carolina Beach, North Carolina.
2009 ~ Betty Freeman (née Betty Wishnick; b. June 2, 1921), American philanthropist and photographer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She died at age 87 in Beverly Hills, California.
2007 ~ William Verity, Jr. (né Calvin William Verity, Jr.; b. Jan. 26, 1917), 27th United States Secretary of Commerce. He served in the Ronald Reagan administration from October 1987 until January 1989. He was born in Middletown, Ohio. He died 23 days before his 90th birthday in Beaufort, South Carolina.
1993 ~ Johnny Most (né John M. Most; b. June 15, 1923), American sports announcer. He was the radio voice of the Boston Celtics. He was born in New York, New York. He died of a heart attack at age 69 in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
1989 ~ Sergei Sobolev (né Sergei Lvovich Sobolev; b. Oct. 6, 1908), Russian mathematician. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. He died at age 80 in Moscow, Soviet Union.
1988 ~ Rose Ausländer (née Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer; b. May 11, 1901), Hungarian Jewish poet. She died at age 86.
1981 ~ Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. Feb. 25, 1883), member of the British royal family and last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria (1819 ~ 1901). In 1904, she married to Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874 ~ 1957). She was of the House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until 1917, when the family became the House of Windsor. Her father was Prince Leopold, the eighth and youngest son of Queen Victoria, and Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont. She died at age 97.
1980 ~ Joy Adamson (née Friederike Victoria Gessner; b. Jan. 20, 1910), Czech conservationist best known for her books about Elsa the lion raised in her home in Africa, including Born Free, Living Free, and Forever Free. She was born in Austria-Hungary. She was murdered in the Shaba National Reserve in Kenya by a former and disgruntled employee just 17 days before her 70th birthday. Her 2nd husband, George Adamson was also murdered, just 9 years later.
1979 ~ Conrad Hilton, Sr. (né Conrad Nicholson Hilton; b. Dec. 25, 1887), American hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotels. His second wife was Zsa Zsa Gabor. They married in 1942 and divorced 5 years later. He was born in San Antonio, New Mexico Territory. He died 9 days after his 91st birthday in Santa Monica, California.
1967 ~ Jack Ruby (né Jacob Leonard Rubenstein; b. Apr. 25, 1911), American assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby shot Oswald while the news cameras were rolling while Oswald was being transported from a prison in Dallas. Ruby was convicted of murder. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died in prison in Dallas, Texas of lung cancer at age 55.
1927 ~ Carl Runge (né Carl David Tolmé Runge; b. Aug. 30, 1856), German mathematician. He died at age 70.
1920 ~ Zygmunt Janiszweski (b. June 12, 1888), Polish mathematician. He was born in Warsaw, Poland. He died at age 31 during the influenza pandemic in Lviv, Ukraine.
1898 ~ Sul Ross (né Lawrence Sullivan Ross; b. Sept. 27, 1838), 19th Governor of Texas. He served as Governor from January 1887 until January 1891. He had previously served as a General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He was born in Bentonsport, Iowa Territory. He died at age 59.
1895 ~ James M. Ives (né James Merritt Ives; b. Mar. 5, 1824), American lithographer and businessman. He was a cofounder, along with Nathaniel Currier (1813 ~ 1888), of Currier and Ives. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died at age 70.
1894 ~ Elizabeth P. Peabody (née Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; b. May 16, 1801), American educator who funded the first kindergarten in the United States. She was born in Billerica, Massachusetts. She died at age 89 in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts.
1865 ~ Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony (b. Apr. 27, 1796), Grand Duchess consort of Tuscony. She was the second wife of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1769 ~ 1824). They married in 1821. He was 27 years her senior. There were no children of this marriage. She was of the House of Wettin. She was the daughter of Maximilian, Crown Prince of Saxony and Princess Carolina of Parma. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 68.
1795 ~ Josiah Wedgwood (b. July 12, 1730), English potter and founder of the Wedgwood Company. He died at age 64.
1701 ~ Louis I, Prince of Monaco (b. July 25, 1642). He was Prince of Monaco from January 1662 until his death 9 years later. In 1660, he married Catherine Charlotte de Gramont (1639 ~ 1678). They had 7 children, 6 of whom lived to adulthood. He was of the House of Grimaldi. He was the son of Prince Hercule, Marquis of Baux and Maria Aurelia Spinola. He died at age 58.
1690 ~ Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (b. 1615), Lithuanian rabbi. The exact date of his birth is not known.
1641 ~ Jeremiah Horrocks (b. 1618), English mathematician and astronomer. He was the first person to demonstrate that the moon revolved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been 22 when he suddenly died of unknown causes.
1497 ~ Beatrice d’Este (b. June 29, 1475), Duchess consort of Milan and wife of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. They married in 1491. She played an important part in Italian politics and patron of the arts and fashion. She was of the House of Este. She was the daughter of Ecole I, Duke of Ferrara and Princess Leonora of Naples. She died of complications of childbirth at age 21.
1437 ~ Catherine of Valois (b. Oct. 27, 1401), Queen consort and wife of Henry V of England (1386 ~ 1422). They married in 142o and were the parents of Henry IV, Kign of England. She was Queen Consort of England from June 1420 until August 1422 when her husband died. Henry was her first husband. She later entered into a relationship with Owen Tudor (1400 ~ 1461). She was of the House of Valois. She was the daughter of Charles VI, King of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. She was born in Paris, France. She died at age 35 following complications of childbirth in London, England.
1322 ~ Philip V, King of France (b. 1292). He reigned France and Navarre from November 1316 until his death 6 years later. He was known as Philip the Tall. He was married to Joan II, Countess of Burgundy. He was of the House of Capet. He was the son of Philip IV, King of France and Joan I, Queen of Navarre. The exact date of his birth is unknown. He died of dysentery at about age 29.
323 ~ Emperor Yuan (b. 276), Chinese emperor of the Jin dynasty. The date of his birth is not known.
235 ~ Pope St. Anterus. He was Pope for only 44 days. The date of his birth is not known.
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