Birthdays:
1971 ~ Emmanuel Lewis, American actor. He is best known for playing the title character in the television 1980s sit-com, Webster. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1964 ~ Juliette Binoche, French actress. She was born in Paris, France.
1959 ~ Takaai Kajita, Japanese physicist and recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Hagashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan.
1958 ~ Linda Fiorentino (née Clorinda Fiorentino), American actress. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her birth year is sometimes listed as being 1960.
1954 ~ Bobby Sands (né Robert Gerard Sands; d. May 5, 1981), Irish activist. He died in the Long Kesh prison following a 66-day hunger strike. He was 27 years old.
1943 ~ Jef Raskin (né Jeff Raskin; d. Feb. 26, 2005), American tech genius who created the Macintosh for Apple. He was born in New York, New York. He died in Pacifica, California of pancreatic cancer 11 days before his 62nd birthday.
1943 ~ Bobby Fischer (né Robert James Fischer; d. Jan. 17, 2008), American chess player. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of renal failure at age 64 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1941 ~ Ernesto Miranda (né Ernesto Arturo Miranda; d. Jan. 31, 1976), American criminal who was convicted of kidnap, rape and armed robbery based on his confession under police interrogation. He was the Miranda in the United States Supreme Court Case, Miranda v. Arizona, which ruled that criminal suspects must be informed of their Constitutional rights. This case set the police standard of reading arrestees their Constitutional rights. He was born in Mesa, Arizona. He was stabbed to death in a bar fight at age 34 in Phoenix, Arizona.
1940 ~ Raúl Juliá (d. Oct. 24, 1994), Puerto Rican actor. He is best known for his role in Kiss of the Spider Woman. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He died at age 54 of a stroke in Manhasset, New York.
1936 ~ Marty Ingels (né Martin Ingerman; d. Oct. 21, 2015), American wild comic who wed a Hollywood star, Shirley Jones. She was his second wife. He was born in New York, New York. He died of a stroke at age 79 in Los Angeles, California.
1936 ~ Mickey Gilley (né Mickey Leroy Gilley; d. May 7, 2022), American country music singer-songwriter. He was born in Natchez, Mississippi. He died at age 86 in Branson, Missouri.
1934 ~ Yuri Gagarin (d. Mar. 27, 1968), Soviet cosmonaut and first human in space. He was later killed in a test flight, just 13 days after his 34th birthday.
1930 ~ Ornette Coleman (né Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman; d. June 11, 2015), African-American alto saxophonist and composer. He was a musical maverick who revolutionized Jazz. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He died of cardiac arrest at age 85 in New York, New York.
1928 ~ Peggy Charren (née Peggy Sundelle Walzer; d. Jan. 22, 2015), American activist who campaigned for quality children’s television. She was the founder of Action for Children’s Television. She was born in New York, New York. She died in Denham, Massachusetts at age 86.
1926 ~ Joe Franklin (né Joseph Fortgang; d. Jan. 24, 2015), American radio and television talk show host who bantered 300,000 guests. He was born in The Bronx, New York. He died at age 88 of prostate cancer in Manhattan, New York.
1926 ~ Robert Vlasic (d. May 8, 2022), American pickle mogul who didn’t take business too seriously. He was born in Detroit Michigan. He died at age 96 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
1923 ~ André Courrèges (d. Jan. 7, 2016), French designer who created space-age fashions in the 1960s. He, along with Mary Quant, pioneered the miniskirt. He was known for A-line dresses, go-go boots. He also dressed such stars as Jacqueline Kennedy, Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot, and Miley Cyrus. He died at age 92.
1923 ~ James Buckley (né James Lane Buckley; d. Aug. 18, 2023), American senator who saw money as speech. He served as a Senator from the Conservative Party from New York from January 1971 until January 1977. He is best known for being the plaintiff in the 1976 lawsuit Buckley v. Valeo, that challenged campaign spending limits. He was the older brother of William F. Buckley, Jr. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 100 in Washington, D.C.
1923 ~ Walter Kohn (d. Apr. 19, 2016), Austrian-born physicist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the understanding of the electronic properties of materials. He was born in Vienna, Austria, but arrived in England as part of the Kindertransport. He died at age 93 in Santa Barbara, California.
1918 ~ Mickey Spillane (né Frank Morrison Spillane; d. July 17, 2006), American author of detective novels and actor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 88 in Murrells Inset, South Carolina.
1895 ~ Beatrice Alexander (née Bertha Alexander; d. Oct. 3, 1990), American dollmaker and founder of the Alexander Doll Company. She was known as Madame Alexander. She was born in New York, New York. She died at age 95 in Palm Beach, Florida.
1892 ~ Vita Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson (née Victoria Mary Sackville-West; d. June 2, 1962), English novelist and garden designer. She died of cancer at age 70.
1824 ~ Leland Stanford (né Amasa Leland Stanford; d. June 21, 1893), American businessman and founder of Stanford University in California, which he named after his son, Leland, who died at age 15. He served as the 8th Governor of California from January 1862 through December 1863. He was also a United States Senator from California. He was born in Watervliet, New York. He died of heart failure at age 69 in Palo Alto, California.
1820 ~ Samuel Blatchford (né Samuel Millard Blatchford; d. July 7, 1893), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Chester Arthur. He replaced Ward Hunt on the Court. He was succeeded by Edward White. He served on the Court from March 1882 until his death 11 years later. He was born in Auburn, New York. He died in Newport, Rhode Island at age 73.
1818 ~ Ferdinand Joachimsthal (d. Apr. 5, 1861), German mathematician. He died less than a month after his 43rdbirthday.
1815 ~ David Davis (d. June 26, 1886), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Abraham Lincoln. He served on the Court from October 1862 until March 1877. He replaced John Campbell on the Court. He was succeeded by John Harlan. He went on to be elected a United States Senator from Illinois and became the President pro tempore of the United States Senate. He was born in Cecil County, Maryland. He died in Bloomington, Illinois at age 71.
1749 ~ Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (d. Apr. 2, 1791), French journalist and politician who played a role in the French revolution. He died of illness at age 42 in Paris, France.
1454 ~ Amerigo Vespucci (d. Feb. 22, 1512), Italian explorer, navigator, and cartographer. The continents of North and South America were named after him. He was born in Florence, Italy. He died 15 days before his 58th birthday in Seville, Castile (current-day Spain).
Events that Changed the World:
2011 ~ The Space Shuttle Discovery made its final landing after 39 flights.
1990 ~ Dr. Antonia Novello (b. 1944) was sworn in as the 14th Surgeon General of the United States. She was the first woman to serve in that position. She served in that position under both President George W.H. Bush (1924 ~ 2018) and President Bill Clinton (b. 1946) from March 9, 1990 until June 1993.
1989 ~ Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.
1981 ~ Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine performed the first heart-lung transplant in Baltimore, Maryland.
1977 ~ Armed Hanafi Muslims seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., during a 39-hour standoff. 149 hostages were taken, and two people were killed before the siege was over.
1960 ~ Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner (1921 ~ 2003) invented a shunt that would allow a patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis. The shunt was implanted for the first time on this date.
1959 ~ The Barbie doll, created by Ruth Handler (1916 ~ 2002), made its debut at the American International Toy Fair.
1957 ~ An 8.6 magnitude earthquake hit the Andreanof Islands off Alaska. This caused a huge Pacific-wide tsunami that caused extensive damage to the Hawaiian Islands.
1945 ~ The United States Army Air Forces began the Bombing of Tokyo, which was one of the most destructive bombing raids of World War II.
1944 ~ Soviet Air Forces conducted heavy bombing on Tallinn, Estonia. 757 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the attack.
1933 ~ During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 ~ 1945) signed the Emergency Banking Act that declared a “bank holiday” and closed all United States banks and froze all financial transactions.
1842 ~ The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred 6 years before California Gold Rush when gold was found at Ranch San Francisco.
1796 ~ Napoléon Bonaparte (1769 ~ 1821) married his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763 ~ 1814).
1776 ~ The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1723 ~ 1790) was first published.
Good-byes:
2023 ~ Robert Blake (né Michael James Gubitosi; b. Sept. 19, 1933), American talented, troubled actor accused of murder. In 2000, he was accused of murdering his second wife, although was ultimately acquitted of the charges. He was born in Nutley, New Jersey. He died at age 89 in Los Angeles, California.
2021 ~ James Levine (né James Lawrence Levine; b. June 23, 1943), American maestro whose triumph gave way to scandal following allegations of sexual misconduct. For forty years he was the music director of the Metropolitan Opera. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He died at age 77 in Palm Springs, California on March 9, 2021.
2021 ~ Roger Mudd (né Roger Harrison Mudd; b. Feb. 9, 1928), American broadcast journalist and television news reporter. He was born in Washington, D.C. He died a month after his 93rd birthday in McLean, Virginia.
2021 ~ Joan Walsh Anglund (b. Jan. 3, 1926), American poet and children’s author. She was born in Hinsdale, Illinois. She died of heart failure at age 95 in Litchfield, Connecticut.
2019 ~ Julia Ruth Stevens (née Julia Ruth; b. July 7, 1916), American proud daughter who built a baseball legacy. She was the adopted daughter of Babe Ruth. She died at age 102. She was buried in New Hampshire.
2014 ~ William Clay Ford, Sr. (b. Mar. 14, 1925), the last surviving grandchild of Henry Ford, William Clay Ford was the executive who kept the Fords in the Ford Motor Company. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died five days before his 89th birthday in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan.
2012 ~ Peter Bergman (né Peter Paul Bergman; b. Nov. 29, 1939), American who pioneered surreal radio comedy. He is best known for being a member of the Fireside Theater. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He died of complications from leukemia at age 72 in Santa Monica, California.
2011 ~ David S. Broder (né David Salzer Broder; b. Sept. 11, 1929), American journalist and courtly dean of Washington’s press corps. He was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He died of complications from diabetes at age 81 in Arlington, Virginia.
2006 ~ John Profumo, 5th Baron Profomo (né John Dennis Profumo; b. Jan. 30, 1915), British Secretary of State for War. His career was ended after he was caught in a sex scandal in the 1960s. He died of a stroke at age 91 in London, England.
1996 ~ George Burns (né Nathan Birmbaum; b. Jan. 20, 1896), American actor and comedian. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 100 in Beverly Hills, California.
1994 ~ Charles Bukowski (né Heinrich Karl Bukowski; b. Aug. 16, 1920), German-born American poet and novelist. He was born in Andernach, Germany. He died of leukemia at age 73 in Los Angeles, California.
1993 ~ C. Northcote Parkinson (né Cyril Northcote Parkinson; b. July 30, 1993), British naval historian and author. He was born in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England. He died at age 83 in Canterbury, Kent, England.
1993 ~ Max August Zorn (b. June 6, 1906), German mathematician. He was born in Krefeld, Germany. He died of congestive heart failure at age 86 in Bloomington, Indiana.
1992 ~ Menachem Begin (b. Aug 16. 1913) 6th Israeli Prime Minister and recipient of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. He served as Prime Minister from June 1977 until October 1983. He was born in Brest, Russian Empire (now Belarus). He died of a heart attack at age 78 in Tel Aviv.
1989 ~ Robert Mapplethorpe (b. Nov. 4, 1946), American photographer and artist. He was born in Floral Park, New York. He died of AIDS at age 42 in Boston, Massachusetts.
1983 ~ Ulf von Euler (né Ulf Svante von Euler; b. Feb. 7, 1905), Swedish physiologist and recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on neurotransmitters. He was born and died in Stockholm, Sweden. He died about a month after his 78th birthday.
1981 ~ Max Delbrück (né Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück; b. Sept. 4, 1906), German biologist and recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with bacteriophages. He emigrated to the United States in 1937. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He died at age 74 in Pasadena, California.
1974 ~ Earl Wilber Sutherland, Jr. (b. Nov. 19, 1915), American physiologist and pharmacologist. He was the recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in Burlingame, Kansas. He died of complications from an esophageal hemorrhage at age 58 in Miami, Florida.
1955 ~ Matthew Henson (né Matthew Alexander Henson; b. Aug. 8, 1866), African-American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on his expedition to the North Pole. He was born in Nanjemoy, Maryland. He died at age 88 in the Bronx, New York.
1947 ~ Carrie Chapman Catt (née Carrie Clinton Lane; b. Jan. 9, 1859), American women’s suffrage leader and founder of the League of Women Voters. She was a strong advocate for the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. She was born in Ripon, Wisconsin. She died of a heart attack at age 88 in New Rochelle, New York.
1917 ~ Agnes Sime Baxter (b. Mar. 18, 1870), Canadian mathematician. She earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University. She was only the 4th woman in North America to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canadia. She died in Columbia, Missouri following a long illness 9 days before her 47th birthday.
1881 ~ Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderborg-Augustenburg (b. June 28, 1796), Queen consort of Denmark and second wife of Christian VIII, King of Denmark (1786 ~ 1848). They married in 1815. She was of the House of Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. She was the daughter of Frederick Christian II, Duke of Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark. She was Lutheran. She was born and died in Copenhagen, Denmark. She died at age 84.
1888 ~ Wilhelm I, German Emperor (b. Mar. 22, 1797). He was the first German Emperor. He reigned as German Emperor from January 18, 1871 until his death in March 1888. He was also the King of Prussia from January 2, 1861 until his death. In 1829, he married Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar (1811 ~ 1890). They had 2 children. He was of the House of Hohenzollern. He was the son of Frederick William III, King of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was Lutheran. He died 13 days before his 91st birthday. He was succeeded by his son, Frederick III, German Emperor.
1847 ~ Mary Anning (b. May 21, 1799), British paleontologist. She was a fossil collector who is known for her important finds in Jurassic marine fossil beds along the English Channel in her hometown of Lyme Regis, England. She was born and died in Lyme Regis. She died at age 47 of breast cancer.
1202 ~ Sverre, King of Norway (b. 1140s). He ruled from 1184 until his death in March 1202. He is also known as Sverre Sigurdsson. He was married to Margaret of Sweden. He was of the House of Sverre. He was the son of Sigurd II, King of Norway and Gunnhild. The date of his birth is not known.
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