Birthdays:
1990 ~ Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena, member of the British royal family. In 2018, she married Jack Brooksbank. She is of the House of Windsor. She is the youngest daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York.
1976 ~ Keri Russell (née Keri Lynn Russell), American actress. She is best known for her role as KGB agent Elizabeth Jennings in the television series, The Americans. She was born in Fountain Valley, California.
1974 ~ Randall Park, American actor best known for his role on Fresh Off the Boat. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
1964 ~ Hope Davis, American actress. She was born in Englewood, New Jersey.
1959 ~ Catherine Keener (née Catherine Ann Keener), American actress. She was born in Miami, Florida.
1955 ~ Moses Malone (né Moses Eugene Malone; d. Sept. 13, 2015) African-American professional basketball player. He was the NBA star who mastered the rebound. He was born in Petersburg, Virginia. He died of heart disease at age 60 in Norfolk, Virginia.
1954 ~ Kenneth Cole, American fashion designer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1952 ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, American science-fiction writer. He was born in Waukegan, Illinois.
1952 ~ Rex Tillerson (né Rex Wayne Tillerson), 69th United States Secretary of State. He served during the Trump administration from February 1, 2017 through March 31, 2018. He had previously served as the CEO of the Exxon Corporation. He was born in Wichita Falls, Texas.
1945 ~ David Milch (né David Sanford Milch), American television writer and producer. He was born in Buffalo, New York.
1944 ~ Ric Ocasek (né Richard Theodore Otcasek; d. Sept. 15, 2019), American musician and frontman for The Carswho drove rock’s new wave. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He died at age 75 in Manhattan, New York.
1934 ~ Ludvig Faddeev (d. Feb. 26, 2017), Russian mathematician. He was born and died in St. Petersburg, Soviet Union. He died less than a month before his 83rd birthday.
1929 ~ Sir Roger Bannister (né Roger Gilbert Bannister; d. Mar. 3, 2018), English student athlete who was the first to run a mile in under 4 minutes. He went on to become a neurologist. He was born in Harrow, England. He died 20 days before his 89th birthday in Oxford, England.
1927 ~ Yang Bing-yi (d. Mar. 25, 2023), Taiwanese businessman and restaurateur who brought the world the soup dumpling. He was the founder of the restaurant chain Din Tai Fung. He was born in Shanxi province in China and immigrated to Taiwan in 1948. He died just 2 days after his 96 birthday.
1924 ~ Bette Nesmith Graham (née Bette Clair McMurray; d. May 12, 1980), American inventor of Liquid Paper. She was born in Dallas, Texas. She died in Richardson, Texas at age 56 of a stroke. Her son, Michael Nesmith, was in the band The Monkees.
1922 ~ Marty Allen (né Morton David Alpern; d. Feb. 12, 2018), American comedian and actor. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died of complications of pneumonia at age 95 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1918 ~ Stanley Dunham (né Stanley Armour Dunham; d. Feb. 8, 1992), maternal grandfather of President Barack Obama. He was born in Wichita, Kansas. He died at age 73 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1915 ~ Jack Rollins (né Jacob Rabinowitz; d. June 18, 2015), American talent spotter who discovered comic greats. His first major success came in the 1950s when he helped to create and promote the comedy of Nichols and Elaine May. He was born in New York, New York. He died in Manhattan, New York at 100 years old.
1912 ~ Wernher von Braum (d. June 16, 1977), German-born physicist, rocket-scientist and engineer. He was credited with inventing the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany. He was a former member of the Nazi party and decorated Nazi war hero before being brought to the United States where he was allowed to work on nuclear rockets and was involved in the development of rockets that led to the first United States satellites. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 65 in Alexandria, Virginia.
1910 ~ Akira Kurasawa (d. Sept. 6, 1998), Japanese film director. He is best known for his film, Seven Samurai. He was born and died in Tokyo, Japan. He died of a stroke at age 88.
1907 ~ Daniel Bovet (d. Apr. 8, 1992), Swiss-born pharmacologist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that certain drugs can block the action of specific neurotransmitters. He died 16 days after his 85th birthday in Rome, Italy.
1904 ~ Joan Crawford (née Lucille Faye LeSueur; d. May 10, 1977), American actress. She was born in San Antonio, Texas. She died of a heart attack in New York, New York. The year of her birth is disputed, but is generally accepted as being in 1904, making her 73 at the time of her death.
1900 ~ Erich Fromm (né Erich Seligmann Fromm; d. Mar. 18, 1980), German-born psychoanalyst and philosopher. He died 5 days before his 80th birthday.
1887 ~ Juan Gris (né José Victoriano González-Pérez; d. May 11, 1927), Spanish painter and sculptor. He was born in Madrid, Spain. He died of renal failure at age 40 in Paris, France.
1887 ~ Josef Čapek (d. Apr. 1945), Czech writer. He invented the word Robot, which was introduced into literature by his brother, the writer Karel Čapek. He died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust. The exact date of his death is not known.
1882 ~ Emmy Noether (née Amalie Emmy Noether; d. Apr. 14, 1935), German mathematician. She was one of the leading mathematicians of her time. Because she was Jewish, when Hitler came into power, she lost her professorship at the University of Göttingen. She fled to the United States where she took a university position at Bryn Mawr. She developed theories in ring theory. She is best known for her 1921 paper Theory of Ideals in Ring Domains. Her proofs about conservation of energy resolved a quirk in Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Einstein considered Noether to be a creative mathematical genius. She was born in Erlangen, Germany. She died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania of uterine cancer 3 weeks after her 53rd birthday.
1881 ~ Roger Martin du Gard (d. Aug. 22, 1958), French writer and recipient of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was also a trained paleographer. He was 77 years old.
1881 ~ Hermann Staudinger (d. Sept. 8, 1965), German chemist and recipient of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing the existence of macromolecules, which are known as polymers. He was born in Worms, German Empire. He died at age 84 in Freiburg, West Germany.
1858 ~ Ludwig Quidde (b. Mar. 4, 1941), German pacifist and recipient of the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in the Free City of Bremen. He died 19 days before his 83rd birthday in Geneva, Switzerland.
1842 ~ Susan Jane Cunningham (d. Jan. 24, 1921), American mathematician. She was instrumental in founding Swarthmore College. She was born in Harford County, Maryland. She died of heart failure at age 78.
1823 ~ Schuyler Colfax, Jr. (d. Jan. 13, 1885), 17th Vice President of the United States. He served under President Ulysses S. Grant from March 1869 until March 1873. He had previously served as the 25th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Representative from Indiana. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He died of a heart attack at age 61 in Mankato, Minnesota.
1754 ~ Baron Jurij Vega (d. Sept. 26, 1802), Slovenian mathematician and physicist. The crater on the moon, Vega, is named in his honor. He was 48 years old.
1749 ~ Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (d. Mar. 5, 1827), French mathematician and astronomer. He died 18 days before his 78th birthday in Paris, France.
1732 ~ Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (d. Feb. 27, 1800). member of the French royal family. She never married. She was of the House of Bourbon. She was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Louis XV, King of France and Marie Leszczyńska. She died about a month after her 67th birthday.
1514 ~ Lorenzino de’Medici (d. Feb. 26, 1548), Italian nobleman, writer, and politician. He is best known for assassinating his cousin, Alessandro de’Medici. He was of the House of Medici. He was the son of Pierfrancesco II de’Medici and Maria Soderini. He was subsequently murdered about a month before his 34th birthday.
1430 ~ Margaret of Anjou (d. Aug. 25, 1482), Queen consort of England and wife Henry VI, King of England (1421 ~ 1471). They married in 1445. She was of the House of Valois-Anjou. She was the daughter of René, King of Naples and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. She died at age 52.
Events that Changed the World:
2024 ~ Purim began at sunset.
2021 ~ A huge container ship, the Ever Given, became lodged sideways in the Suez Canal blocking traffic of more than 400 other vessels from passing through. The Ever Given weighed 220,000 tons empty and could carry up to 20,000 20-foot containers. It took nearly a week before the ship was freed.
2020 ~ Colorado Governor Jared Polis (b. 1975) signed legislation abolishing the death penalty in that State.
2020 ~ The United Kingdom became the first country to be put into a national lockdown in response to Covid-19.
2011 ~ A bus bomb at a bus station in Jerusalem killed 2 people and injured many more. This was the first serious bombing in Israel after a 3-year lull.
2010 ~ The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, became effective. Although it faced numerous legal challenges, and Republican members of Congress made several attempts to overturn the Act, it survived the challenges.
2005 ~ During a test on a distillation tower at the Texas City Refinery, liquid waste built up and flowed out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignited and exploded, killing 15 workers.
1977 ~ David Frost (1939 ~ 2013) began the first of the Nixon Interview of former President Richard Nixon (1913 ~ 1994) about the Watergate scandal.
1965 ~ Gemini 3 was launched, carrying astronauts Gus Grissom (1926 ~ 1967) and John Young (1930 ~ 2018).
1956 ~ Pakistan became the first Islamic republic in the world.
1933 ~ The Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler (1889 ~ 1945) the dictator of Germany.
1919 ~ Benito Mussolini (1883 ~ 1945) founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.
1903 ~ The Wright brothers applied for a patent for their design of the airplane. The patent was issued on May 22, 1906.
1868 ~ The University of California was founded in Oakland, California.
1857 ~ Elisha Otis’ first passenger safety elevator was installed in New York City. Otis (1811 ~ 1861) had invented a safety device that would prevent the elevator cab from falling in the event a cable broke.
1775 ~ American Revolutionary and statesman Patrick Henry (1736 ~ 1799) gave his “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” speech in Richmond, Virginia.
Good-Byes:
2022 ~ Madeleine Albright (née Marie Jana Korbelová; b. May 15, 1937), Czech-born American 64th United States Secretary of State. She was the refugee who became America’s top diplomat. She was also the first female to hold that position. She served under President William Clinton from January 1997 until January 2001. Her parents were Jewish but converted to Catholicism in 1941 and Madeleine was raised Roman Catholic. It was not until she was an adult that she learned of her Jewish heritage. She was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She died of cancer at age 84 in Washington, D.C.
2021 ~ George Segal (né George Segal, Jr.; b. Feb. 13, 1934), American actor. He was born in New York, New York. He died of complications from by-pass surgery in Santa Rosa, California at age 87.
2019 ~ Larry Cohen (né Lawrence George Cohen; b. July 15, 1936), American B-movie director who made schlock with a purpose. He was known for his horror and sci-fi films. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 82 in Beverly Hills, California.
2019 ~ Rafi Eitan (né Rafael Eitan; b. Nov. 23, 1926), legendary Israeli spy who captured Eichmann. He led the Mossad mission that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. He died at age 92 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
2018 ~ Zell Miller (né Zell Bryan Miller; b. Feb. 24, 1932), American United States Senator from Georgia who bucked the Democratic party. In 2004, he supported George W. Bush for President. He was born and died in Young Harris, Georgia. He died a month after his 86th birthday.
2016 ~ Ken Howard (né Kenneth Joseph Howard, Jr.; b. Mar. 28, 1944), American actor. He was born in El Cento, California. He died of cancer 5 days before his 72nd birthday in Valencia, California.
2016 ~ Joe Garagiola, Sr. (né Joseph Henry Garagiola; b. Feb. 12, 1926), American professional baseball player and sportscaster. He was the baseball catcher who became a wry broadcaster. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He died at age 90 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
2015 ~ Gary Dahl (né Gary Ross Dahl; b. Dec. 18, 1936), American ad man and copywriter who, in 1975, invented the Pet Rock. He was born in Bottineau, North Dakota. He died of pulmonary disease at age 78 in Jacksonville, Oregon.
2015 ~ Lee Kuan Yee (né Harry Lee Kuan Yew; b. Sept. 16, 1923), the uncompromising statesman who built modern Singapore. He is considered to be the founding father of Singapore and was the country’s first Prime Minister. He died at age 91.
2013 ~ Boris Berezovsky (b. Jan. 23, 1946), Russian mathematician. He was born in Moscow, Russia. He died at age 67, probably of a suicide in Sunninghill, Berkshire, England.
2011 ~ Dame Elizabeth Taylor (née Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor; b. Feb. 27, 1932), English-American actress. She was born in London, England. She died of congestive heart failure about a month after her 79th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
2011 ~ Jean Bartik (née Betty Jean Jennings; b. Dec. 27, 1924), American computer programmer and mathematician. She was one of the first programmers for the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). She was born in Alanthus Grove, Missouri. She died at of congestive heart failure age 86 in Poughkeepsie, New York.
2007 ~ Paul Cohen (né Paul Joseph Cohen; b. Apr. 2, 1934), American mathematician. He was the recipient of the 1966 Fields Medal. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. He died 10 days before his 73rd birthday in Stanford, California.
1992 ~ Friedrich Hayek (né Friedrich August von Hayek; b. May 8, 1899), Austrian economist and recipient of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was 92 years old.
1983 ~ Barney Clark (b. 1921), American dentist and the first artificial heart recipient. On December 2, 1982, the Javik-7 artificial heart was implanted into his body. Although he survived only 112 following his heart surgery, the operation proved that the technology was nearing heart replacement. He was 62 years old.
1981 ~ Beatrice Tinsley (née Beatrice Muriel Hill; b. Jan. 27, 1941), British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist. She became an astronomy professor at Yale University. She was born in Chester, England. She died of cancer in New Haven, Connecticut at age 40.
1964 ~ Peter Lorre (né László Löwenstein; b. June 26, 1904), Hungarian-born actor. His film career began in Germany, but he left that country in 1933 with the rise of Nazism. He died of a stroke at age 59 in Los Angeles, California.
1963 ~ Thoralf A. Skolem (né Thoralf Albert Skolem; b. May 23, 1887), Norwegian mathematician. He is best known for his work in mathematical logic and set theory. He died at age 75 in Oslo, Norway.
1960 ~ Franklin Pierce Adams (né Franklin Leopold Adams; b. Nov. 15, 1881), American journalist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died at age 78 in New York, New York.
1942 ~ Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear (b. Oct. 4, 1868), 20th President of Argentina. He served as President from October 1922 until October 1928. He was born and died in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died at age 72.
1888 ~ Morrison Waite (né Morrison Remick Waite; b. Nov. 29, 1816), 7th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Ulysses S. Grant. He replaced Salmon Chase on the Court. He was succeeded by Melville Fuller. He served in office from March 1874 until his death on this date 14 years later. He was born in Lyme, Connecticut. He died in Washington, D.C., at age 71.
1842 ~ Stendhal (né Marie-Henri Beyle; b. Jan. 23, 1783), French writer, best known for his novel Le Rouge et le Noir. He died at age 59 in Paris, France.
1801 ~ Paul I, Tsar of Russia (b. Oct. 1, 1754). He ruled from November 1768 until his death in March 1801. He was married twice. His first wife was Princess Wilhelmina Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (1755 ~ 1776). They married in 1773. She died in childbirth at age 20. His second wife was Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg (1759 ~ 1828). They married in 1776. He was of the House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp. He was the son of Catherine II, known as Catherine the Great, and Peter III, Tsar of Russia. He was murdered in his bedroom at St. Michael’s Castle. He was first hit with a sword, then strangled and finally trampled to death. He was 46 years old. [Note: under the Julian calendar, his death is recorded as March 11, 1801.]
1555 ~ Pope Julius III (né Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte; b. Sept. 10, 1487). He served as Pope from February 1550 until his death on this date 5 years later. He died at age 67.
1369 ~ Peter, King of Castile and León (b. Aug. 30, 1334). He was known as Peter the Cruel. He was excommunicated by Pope Urban V for his cruelty towards the clergy. He was married either two or three times. Some historians believe Peter may have married María de Padilla (1334 ~ July 1361) in secret in 1353. They had 4 children together. He was forced into a marriage with Blanche of Bourbon (1339 ~ 1361) for the purpose of creating an alliance with France. He abandoned her within 3 days of their marriage. His last wife was Juana de Castro (d. Aug. 1374). He abandoned her, too, after just a few days of marriage. He was the last ruler of the Castilian House of Ivrea. He was the son of Alfonso XI, King of Castile and Maria of Portugal. He was assassinated at age 34 by his rival and successor, Henry II, King of Castile and León.
1022 ~ Zhen Zong (b. Dec. 23, 968), 3rd Chinese emperor of the Song Dynasty. He ruled from May 997 until his death in March 25 years later. He died at age 53.
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