Birthdays:
1977 ~ Jessica Chastain (née Jessica Michelle Chastain), American actress. She was born in Sacramento, California.
1976 ~ Payton Manning (né Payton William Manning), American football player. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1962 ~ Star Jones (née Starlet Marie Jones), African-American journalist and television personality. She was born in Badin, North Carolina.
1953 ~ Louie Anderson (né Louis Perry Anderson; d. Jan. 21, 2022), American comedian and actor. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He died of cancer in Las Vegas, Nevada at age 68.
1951 ~ Tommy Hilfiger (né Thomas Jacob Hilfiger), American fashion designer. He was born in Elmira, New York.
1946 ~ Kitty O’Neil (née Kitty Linn O’Neil; d. Nov. 2, 2018), 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.
1944 ~ R. Lee Ermey (né Ronald Lee Ermey; d. Apr. 15, 2018), American drill instructor who became a war movie icon. He is best known for his role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. He was born in Emporia, Kansas. He died of pneumonia 22 days after his 74th birthday in Santa Monica, California.
1941 ~ Michael Masser (d. July 9, 2015), American ex-stockbroker who wrote hit romantic ballads. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died at age 74 in Rancho Mirage, California.
1940 ~ Bob Mackie (né Robert Gordon Mackie), American fashion designer. He was born in Monterey Park, California.
1936 ~ David Suzuki (né David Takayoshi Suzuki), Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1930 ~ Steve McQueen (né Terence Steven McQueen, d. Nov. 7, 1980), American actor. He died of cancer at age 50.
1926 ~ Dario Fo (d. Oct. 13, 2016), Italian writer and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 90.
1924 ~ Norman Fell (né Norman Noah Fell; d. Dec. 14, 1998), American actor. He died of bone marrow cancer at age 74.
1919 ~ Robert L. Heilbroner (d. Jan. 4, 2005), American economics and historian of economic thought. He was the educator who made economics interesting. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died at age 84.
1919 ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti (né Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti; d. Feb. 22, 2021), American author and poet who became a counterculture icon. He championed and published the Beats. He was a co-founder of, and for seven decades was the proprietor of, the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. He was born in Yonkers, New York. He was brought up in France. He died about a month before his 102nd birthday in San Francisco, California.
1917 ~ Sir John Kendrew (né John Cowdery Kendrew; d. Aug. 23, 1997), British molecular biologist and recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 80.
1915 ~ Paul Lorenzen (d. Oct. 1, 1994), German mathematician and philosopher. He was born in Kiel, Germany. He died at age 79 in Göttingen, Germany.
1911 ~ Joseph Barbera (né Joseph Roland Barbera; d. Dec. 18, 2006), American animator and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera. He died at age 95.
1909 ~ Clyde Barrow (d. May 23, 1934), American criminal, who along with his partner, Bonnie Parker (1910 ~ 1934), robbed banks throughout the South and Midwest until he was killed in a shoot-out in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. He died at age 25.
1903 ~ Malcolm Muggridge (né Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge, d. Nov. 14, 1990), British journalist and satirist. He was a British soldier and spy during World War II. He helped to bring Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West. He died at age 87.
1903 ~ Adolf Butenandt (d. Jan. 18, 1995), German chemist and recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sex hormones. He was a member of the Nazi party and in accordance with government policy did not accept the award when it was granted. Following World War II, however, he accepted the award. He died at age 91.
1902 ~ Thomas E. Dewey (né Thomas Edmund Dewey; d. Mar. 16, 1971), American presidential candidate. He ran against Harry S. Truman and papers erroneously concluded he had won the 1948 election. He also served as the 47thGovernor of New York State from January 1943 through December 1954. He was born in Owosso, Michigan. He died of a heart attack 8 days before his 69th birthday while on vacation in Miami, Florida.
1901 ~ Ub Iwerks (né Ubbe Eert Iwerks; d. July 7, 1971), American animator and co-creator of Mickey Mouse. He died at age 70.
1892 ~ Marston Morse (né Harold Calvin Marston Morse; d. June 22, 1977), American mathematician. He was born in Waterville, Maine. He died at age 85.
1887 ~ Fatty Arbuckle (né Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle; d. June 29, 1933), American actor. He was one of the most popular silent film stars of the 1910s. He was accused of the rape and manslaughter of a young actress, but was ultimately acquitted after three trials. He died of a heart attack at age 46.
1886 ~ Edward Weston (né Edward Henry Weston; d. Jan. 1, 1958), American photographer. He died at age 71.
1884 ~ Peter Debye (né Peter Joseph William Debye; d. Nov. 2, 1966), Dutch chemist and recipient of 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 82.
1874 ~ Harry Houdini (né Erik Weiss; d. Oct. 31, 1926), Hungarian-born American magician. He died of gangrene following a rupture of his appendix after he had been punched in the gut two weeks earlier. He died at age 52.
1862 ~ Frank Weston Benson (d. Nov. 15, 1951), American painter. He was born and died in Salem, Massachusetts. He died at age 89.
1855 ~ Andrew Mellon (né Andrew William Mellon; d. Aug. 26, 1937), American banker, industrialist and financier. He was the 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury and served under Presidents Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. He was in that Office from March 1921 until February 1932. He died at age 82.
1835 ~ Jožef Stefan (d. Jan. 7, 1893), Slovenian physicist and mathematician. He died at age 57.
1834 ~ William Morris (d. Oct. 3, 1896), English poet, artist, textile designer, and social reformer. He died at age 62.
1828 ~ Horace Gray (d. Sept. 15, 1902), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Chester Arthur. He served from December 1881 until his death in September 1902. He replaced Nathan Clifford on the Court. He was succeeded by Oliver Wendell Holmes. He sided with the majority in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, which upheld segregation. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Nahant, Massachusetts. He died at age 74.
1826 ~ Matilda Joslyn Gage (née Matilda Electa Joslyn; d. Mar, 18, 1898), American social activist who advocated for women’s rights, rights of Native Americans and the abolishment of slavery. She was born in Cicero, New York. She died 6 days before her 72nd birthday in Chicago, Illinois.
1809 ~ Joseph Liouville (d. Sept. 8, 1882), French mathematician. The lunar crater, Liouville, is named in his honor. He died at age 73.
1733 ~ Joseph Priestly (d. Feb. 6, 1804), English clergyman and chemist who shares credit for the discovery of oxygen with Carl Scheele. His birthday is sometimes listed as March 13 because of the calendar in use at the time of his birth. He died at age 70.
1693 ~ John Harrison (d. Mar. 24, 1776), British carpenter and clockmaker. He invented the Marine chronometer. Under the Julian calendar, which was in effect when he was born, indicates he died on his 83rd birthday, however under the Gregorian calendar, is birthday is April 3, 1776.
1628 ~ Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Calenberg (d. Feb. 20, 1685), Queen consort of Denmark and Norway and wife of Frederick III, King of Denmark (1609 ~ 1670). When they married in 1643, he was the Frederick, Prince of Denmark. He later became Frederick III, King of Denmark. They were the parents of Christian V, King of Denmark. They were also the parents of Ulrika Eleanora, Queen consort of Sweden. She was of the House of Hanover. She was the daughter of George, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg and Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was Lutheran. She died about a month before her 57th birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2024 ~ Palm Sunday.
2023 ~ Severe weather and a tornado outbreak began affecting several southern states, including Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. A tornado emergency was issued for the town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, a small town of fewer than 2,000 residents, after most of the buildings in the small town were severely damaged or destroyed. Twenty-six people in Rolling Fork were killed and dozens of others were injured.
2018 ~ The March for Our Lives was held across the country to protest the sale of assault weapons. The March was led and organized by students in response to the mass killing at the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida that had occurred a month earlier.
2015 ~ GermanWings Airbus Flight 9525, carrying 150 passengers and crew crashed in the French Alps, after it reached its cruising altitude, killing all aboard. Flight data recordings suggested that the co-pilot deliberately caused the plane to crash in a massive mass murder-suicide.
1989 ~ The Exxon Valdez spilled over 240,000 barrels of petroleum after running aground in the Prince William Sound in Alaska. The oil spill ultimately impacted over 1,300 miles of the Alaskan coastline.
1976 ~ Armed forced overthrew the government of Argentinean President Isabel Perón (b. 1931), which began a 7-year dictatorial period called the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, this has become a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.
1958 ~ Elvis Presley (1935 ~ 1977) was drafted into the United States Army.
1944 ~ 76 American prisoners began to break out of Stalag Luft III. Of the 76 escapees, 73 were ultimately captured. Fifty of the men were executed. This event was later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape.
1921 ~ The 1921 Women’s Olympiad began in Monte Carlo, Monaco. It was the first international women’s sports event. It was a 5-day multi-sports event.
1900 ~ Ground was broken in New York City for the underground Rapid Transit Railroad, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1882 ~ Robert Koch (1843 ~ 1910) reported his discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
1854 ~ Venezuela abolished slavery.
1837 ~ Canada gave African-Canadian men the right to vote.
1829 ~ The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Roman Catholic Relief Act, which allowed Catholics to serve in Parliament.
1765 ~ The British Parliament passed the Quartering Act which required the American colonies to provide food and housing to British troops.
1721 ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 ~ 1750) dedicated six concertos to Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. These concertos are now referred to as the Brandenburg Concertos.
1707 ~ The Union with England Act of 1707 was signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, thereby creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Act took effect on May 1, 1707.
1603 ~ James VI (1566 ~ 1625) of Scotland became King James I of England upon the death of Queen Elizabeth I (1533 ~ 1603).
Good-Byes:
2023 ~ Gordon Moore (né Gordon Earle Moore; b. Jan. 3, 1929), 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.
2021 ~ Jessica Walter (b. Jan. 31, 1941), American actress. She is best known for her role as Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development. She was born and died in New York, New York. She died at age 80.
2020 ~ Terrance McNally (b. Nov. 3, 1938), American Tony-Award winning playwright. He was born in St. Petersburg, Florida. He died at age 81 in Sarasota, Florida of complications from Covid-19.
2017 ~ Jean Rouverol (b. July 8, 1916), American screenwriter who became a Hollywood exile. She was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. She died at age 100.
2016 ~ Garry Shandling (né Garry Emmanuel Shandling; b. Nov. 29, 1949), American comedian and actor who broke TV’s “fourth wall”. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of a heart attack at age 66 in Santa Monica, California.
2010 ~ Robert Culp (né Robert Martin Culp; b. Aug. 16, 1930), American actor. He is best known for his role as Kelly Robinson in the television show I Spy. He was born in Oakland, California. He died of a heart condition at age 79 in Los Angeles, California.
2002 ~ César Milstein (b. Oct. 8, 1927), Argentine biochemist and recipient of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in antibody research. He died of a heart condition at age 74.
1993 ~ John Hersey (né John Richard Hersey; b. June 17, 1914), American journalist and author best known for his novels A Bell for Adono, Hiroshima, and The Wall. He was born in Tianjin, China where his parents were Christian missionaries. He died at age 78 in Key West, Florida.
1990 ~ An Wang (b. Feb. 7, 1920), Chinese-American engineer and founder of Wang Laboratories. He was born in Shanghai, China. He died of cancer at age 70 in Boston, Massachusetts.
1956 ~ Sir E.T. Whittaker (né Edmund Taylor Whittaker; b. Oct. 24, 1873), British mathematician and physician. He died at age 82.
1955 ~ John Davis (né John William Davis; b. Apr. 13, 1873), 14th United States Solicitor General. He served in this Office from August 1913 until November 1918 during the Woodrow Wilson administration. He was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He died in Charleston, South Carolina 20 days before his 82nd birthday.
1953 ~ Mary of Teck (née Princess Victoria Mary of Teck; b. May 26, 1867), Queen consort of the United Kingdom and wife of George V, King of the United Kingdom (1865 ~ 1936). They married in 1893. They were the parents of Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom and George VI, King of the United Kingdom. She was the grandmother of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom. She was of the House of Teck. She was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge. She died at age 85.
1950 ~ James Garfield (né James Rudolph Garfield; b. Oct. 17, 1865), 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under President Theodore Roosevelt from March 1907 until March 1909. He was also the son of slain President James Garfield. He died at age 84.
1946 ~ Charles Hurley (né Charles Francis Hurley; b. Nov. 24, 1893), 54th Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1937 until January 1939. He was born and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 52.
1930 ~ Henry Faulds (b. June 1, 1843), Scottish physician best known for the development of fingerprinting. He died at age 86.
1915 ~ Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Lady Huggins (née Margaret Lindsay Murray; b. Aug. 14, 1848), Irish astronomer and author. She died at age 66.
1915 ~ Karol Olszewski (né Karol Stanisław Olszewski; b. Jan. 29, 1846), Polish chemist, mathematician and physicist. He died at age 69.
1905 ~ Jules Verne (né Jules Gabriel Verne; b. Feb. 8, 1828), French science fiction writer. He is best known for such novels as Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He died of diabetes at age 77.
1886 ~ Ward Hunt (b. June 14, 1810), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the High Court by President Ulysses S. Grant. He served from December 1872 until January 1882. He replaced Samuel Nelson on the Court. He was succeeded by Samuel Blatchford. He was born in Utica, New York. He died in Washington, D.C., at age 75.
1885 ~ Jacob Thompson (b. May 15, 1810), 5th United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under President James Buchanan from March 1857 until Jan. 1861. He resigned is position as Secretary of the Interior to become the Inspector General of the Confederacy. He was born in Leasburg, North Carolina. He died at age 74 in Memphis, Tennessee.
1882 ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (b. Feb. 27, 1807), American poet. He was born in Portland, Maine. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts less than a month after his 75th birthday.
1877 ~ Walter Bagehot (b. Feb. 3, 1826), British journalist, businessman and essayist. He was born and died in Langport, United Kingdom. He died at age 51.
1866 ~ Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (b. Apr. 26, 1782), Queen consort of France and wife of Louis Philippe I, King of France. They married in 1809. They had 10 children together. She was of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. She was the daughter of Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolia of Austria. She was Roman Catholic. She died about a month after her 83rd birthday.
1776 ~ John Harrison (b. Apr. 3, 1693), British carpenter and clockmaker. He invented the Marine chronometer. Under the Julian calendar, which was in effect when he was born, indicates he died on his 83rd birthday, however under the Gregorian calendar, is birthday is April 3, 1776.
1773 ~ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (b. Sept. 22, 1694), British statesman and diplomat. He died at age 78.
1771 ~ William Shirley (b. Dec. 2, 1694), British lawyer and politician. He served as the Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was born in Sussex, United Kingdom. He died at age 76 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
1644 ~ Cecilia Renata of Austria (b. July 16, 1611), Queen consort of Poland. She was the first wife of Władysław IV Vasa, King of Poland (1595 ~ 1648). They married in 1637. She was of the House of Habsburg. She was the daughter of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Anna of Bavaria. She died at age 32, most likely of complications of childbirth.
1603 ~ Elizabeth I, Queen of England (b. Sept. 7, 1533). She ruled England from 1558 until her death in 1603, nearly 50 years later. She never married. She was of the House of Tudor. She was the daughter of Henry VIII, King of England and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. She died at age 69.
1575 ~ Joseph ben Ephraim Karo (b. 1488), Spanish-Portuguese rabbi. The exact date of his birth is unknown.
1558 ~ Anna van Egmont (b. Mar. 1533), Princess consort of Orange and first wife of William I, Prince of Orange. They married in 1551. She was of the House of Egmond. She was the daughter of Maximiliaan van Egmond and Françoise de Lannoy. The exact date of her birth is not known, but she died of an illness at age 25.
1455 ~ Pope Nicholas V (né Tommaso Parentucelli; b. Nov. 13, 1397). He was Pope from March 1447 until his death on this date 8 years later. He was 57 at the time of his death.
1394 ~ Infanta Constance of Castile (b. 1354), Duchess consort of Lancaster. She was the second wife of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster. She was of the Castilian House of Ivrea. She was the daughter of Peter, King of Castile and Maria de Padilla. She was Roman Catholic. The exact date of her birth is not known, but she is believed to have been about 30 or 40 at the time of her death.
1275 ~ Beatrice of England (b. June 25, 1242). In 1260, she married John II, Duke of Brittany. She was of the House of Plantagenet. She was the daughter of Henry III, King of England and Eleanor of Provence. She died at age 32.
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