Birthdays:
1998 ~ Paris Jackson (née Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson), daughter of singer Michael Jackson. She was born in Beverly Hills, California.
1987 ~ Rachel Bloom (née Rachel Leah Bloom), American actress best known for her role as Rebecca Bunch on the television series, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1973 ~ Adam Scott (né Adam Paul Scott), American actor best known for his role as Ben Wyatt on the television sit-com, Parks and Recreation. He was born in Santa Cruz, California.
1971 ~ Picabo Street, American alpine skier. She was born in Triumph, Idaho.
1961 ~ Eddie Murphy (né Edward Regan Murphy), American comedian. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1959 ~ David Hyde Pierce, American actor best known for his role as Nigel on Frasier. He was born in Saratoga Springs, New York.
1958 ~ Alec Baldwin (né Alexander Rae Baldwin, III), American actor. He was born in Amityville, New York.
1953 ~ Sandra Boynton (née Sandra Keith Boynton), American illustrator. She was born in Orange, New Jersey.
1944 ~ Tony Orlando (né Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis), American musician. He was born in New York, New York.
1942 ~ Marsha Mason, American actress. He second husband was playwright Neil Simon. She was born in St. Louis, Minnesota.
1942 ~ Wayne Newton (né Carson Wayne Newton), American Las Vegas singer. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia.
1941 ~ John von Sternberg (d. May 7, 2020), American real estate agent who served as a volunteer firefighter in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died of Covid-19 at age 79.
1935 ~ Harold Kushner (né Harold Samuel Kushner; d. Apr. 27, 2023), American rabbi who wrote a book of comfort. He wrote several books, including When Bad Things Happen to Good People. He was born in New York, New York. He died 24 days after his 88th birthday in Canton, Massachusetts.
1934 ~ Dame Jane Goodall (née Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall), English primatologist and anthropologist. She was born in London, England.
1930 ~ Helmut Kohl (né Helmut Josef Michael Kohl; d. June 16, 2017), German powerhouse chancellor who reunited Germany. He engineered the reunification of West Germany with the Communist East Germany. He served as Chancellor of West Germany from October 1982 until October 1998. He died at age 87.
1928 ~ Earl Lloyd (né Earl Francis Lloyd; d. Feb. 26, 2015), African-American professional NBA player who broke the color barrier. In 1950, he became the first African-American to play in the National Basketball Association. He was drafted by the Washington Capitols. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia. He died at age 86 in Crossville, Tennessee.
1926 ~ Gus Grisson (né Virgil Ivan Grissom; d. Jan. 27, 1967), American astronaut and crewmember of the ill-fated Apollo 1, which caught fire during a pre-launch test of the spacecraft. He was also one of the original astronauts in the Mercury program. He was born in Mitchell, Indiana. He was 40 at the time of his death in Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1925 ~ Tony Benn (né Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn; d. Mar. 14, 2014), British lawmaker. He was born and died in London, England. He died 3 weeks before his 89th birthday.
1924 ~ Roza Shanina (d. Jan. 28, 1945), Soviet army sergeant and sniper. During World War II, she is credited with 59 confirmed kills, including 12 soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius. She was killed in action at age 20.
1924 ~ Marlon Brando, Jr. (d. July 1, 2004), American actor. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He died at age 80 in Los Angeles, California.
1922 ~ Doris Day (née Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; d. May 13, 2019), sunny film star who became America’s girl next door. She was an actress and singer. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She died at age 97 in Carmel Valley, California.
1920 ~ John Demjanjuk (né Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk; d. Mar. 17, 2012), Ukrainian-American convicted Nazi war criminal who managed to escape detection for many years. He was convicted of murdering many Jews while a guard at concentration camps during World War II. He was ultimately convicted of war crimes in 2011 and sentenced to 5 years in prison. He died 17 days before his 92nd birthday.
1916 ~ Herb Caen (né Herbert Eugene Caen; d. Feb. 1, 1997), American journalist, humorist, and gossip columnist. He was born in Sacramento, California. He died at age 80 in San Francisco, California.
1904 ~ Sally Rand (née Hattie Helen Gould Beck; d. Aug. 31, 1979), American burlesque dancer. She was born in Elkton, Missouri. She died at age 75 from congestive heart failure in Glendora, California.
1898 ~ Henry Luce (né Henry Robinson Luce; d. Feb. 28, 1967), American publisher who launched Time and Lifemagazines. He was born in Tengchow, China. He died at age 68 in Phoenix, Arizona.
1893 ~ Leslie Howard (né Leslie Howard Steiner; d. June 1, 1943), English actor, best known for his role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind. He died at age 50 when the plane he was in was shot down by a German fighter plane during World War II.
1859 ~ Alexandru Averescu (d. Oct. 2, 1938), Romanian field marshal and Prime Minister of Romania. He served as Prime Minister during the reign of King Ferdinand. He died at age 79.
1858 ~ Mary Harrison McKee (née Mary Scott Harrison; d. Oct. 30, 1930), American daughter of President Benjamin Harrison. She served as First Lady during her father’s presidency after her mother, Caroline died. She assumed the role of First Lady at age 34 and served from October 1892 until March 1893. She was born and died in Indianapolis, Indiana. She died at age 72.
1831 ~ Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (d. Dec. 16, 1909), wife of Miguel I, King of Portugal. They married in 1851 after he was forced into exile, thus was never the queen consort. She was of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. She was the daughter of Constantine, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein and Princess Agnes of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 78.
1823 ~ Boss Tweed (né William Magear Tweed; d. Apr. 12, 1878), American political figure. He was known as the Boss of Tammany Hall, a corrupt political machine in New York City. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died in jail of pneumonia 9 days after his 55th birthday.
1807 ~ Mary Carpenter (d. June 14, 1877), British educational and social reformer. She was also an advocate for women’s rights. She died at age 70.
1791 ~ Anne Lister (d. Sept. 22, 1840), British diarist, mountaineer, and traveler. She died at age 49.
1783 ~ Washington Irving (d. Nov. 28, 1859), American author. He is best known for his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 76 in Tarrytown, New York.
1778 ~ Pierre Bretonneau (né Pierre-Fidèle Bretonneau; d. Feb. 18, 1862), French physician who performed the first successful tracheotomy. He studied the spread of various infectious diseases and named diphtheria, which at the time was one of the leading causes of death for young children. The term was derived from the Greek word Diphtheria, which means leather, and was a reference to the disease’s signature physical feature in the back of a patient’s throat. He died at age 83 in Paris, France.
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.
1540 ~ Maria de’Medici (d. Nov. 19, 1557), Italian noblewoman and member of the Medici family. She was the eldest daughter of Cosimo I de’Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. She is believed to have died of malaria at age 17.
1529 ~ Michael Neander (d. Oct. 23, 1581), German mathematician and astronomer. The Neander crater on the moon is named after him. He died at age 52 in Jena, Germany.
1461 ~ Princess Anne of France (d. Nov. 14, 1522), member of the French royal family. She married Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (1438 ~ 1503) in 1473 and became the Duchess consort of Bourbon. She was the older sister of Charles VIII, King of France and acted as Regent during her brother’s minority. She was of the House of Valois. She was the daughter of Louis XI, King of France and Charlotte of Savoy. She died at age 61.
1016 ~ Emperor Xingzong of Liao (d. Aug. 28, 1055), 7th Chinese Emperor of the Liao Dynasty. He died at age 39.
Events that Changed the World:
2023 ~ Finland joined NATO as its 31st member.
2018 ~ A gunwoman entered the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California and opened fire. She injured three people before turning the gun on herself. No one else died.
2017 ~ A bomb exploded in the St. Petersburg, Russia metro system. Fourteen people were killed, and numerous others were injured.
2015 ~ Good Friday.
2015 ~ Passover began at sundown.
2013 ~ Over 50 people died in flooding that resulted from extraordinary heavy rainfalls in Buenos Aries, Argentina.
2010 ~ The first generation of the iPad, the Apple tablet computer, was first made available to the public.
2008 ~ Over 500 women and children were taken into custody from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, a community of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, in Texas. State law officers entered the community after Texas Child Protection Services received calls of child abuse taking place in the community.
2000 ~ The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in United States v. Microsoft that Microsoft’s business practices violated the United States antitrust laws.
1996 ~ A United States Air Force plane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown (1941 ~ 1996) crashed in Croatia, killing Brown and the other 34 crew and passengers aboard.
1996 ~ Theodore Kaczynski (1942 ~ 2023), the suspect in the Unabomber bombings, was captured in Montana.
1978 ~ Annie Hall, a film directed by Woody Allen (b. 1935), won an Oscar for Best Picture.
1948 ~ President Harry Truman (1884 ~ 1972) signed the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries for rebuilding after World War II.
1948 ~ The Louisiana Hayride, a radio country music program, began broadcasting in Shreveport, Louisiana.
1922 ~ Joseph Stalin (1878 ~ 1953) became the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1888 ~ The first of eleven unsolved murders of women was committed in or near the Whitechapel district of East London. These murders became known as the “Jack the Ripper” murders due to the brutal nature of the killing.
1885 ~ Gottlieb Daimler (1834 ~ 1900) was granted a German patent for his engine design.
1865 ~ During the American Civil War, Union forces captured Richmond, Virginia, which was the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1860 ~ The Pony Express service began in the United States, running horses and mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. It ceased to operate in October 1861.
1721 ~ Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Oxford (1676 ~ 1745) was appointed the First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, which effectively made him the Prime Minister of Great Britain. It was a newly formed office making him the first Prime Minister, although Walpole denied calling himself that title. He served during the reign of Kings George I and George II. He held that Office until February 1742, when he was succeeded by the Earl of Wilmington (1674 ~ 1743).
1043 ~ Edward the Confessor (1003 ~ 1066) was crowned King of England.
33 ~ The traditional date for the historical crucifixion of Jesus.
Good-byes:
2015 ~ Sarah Brady (née Sarah Jane Kemp; b. Feb. 6, 1942), prominent campaigner for gun control after her husband former White House Press Secretary, James Brady, was shot along with when President Ronald Reagan was shot. She was a tireless campaigner who pushed for gun control. She was born in Kirksville, Missouri. She died at age 73 in Alexandria, Virginia.
2015 ~ Robert Rietti (né Lucio Herbert Rietti; b. Feb. 8, 1923), British voice actor who played Bond villains again and again. He was born and died in London, England. He was 92 years old.
2013 ~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (b. May 7, 1927), German-born American novelist and screenwriter. Her family fled to Britain in 1939 to escape the Nazism. She wrote the screenplay for The Remains of the Day. She was born in Cologne, Weimar Republic. She died just over a month before her 86th birthday in New York, New York.
2007 ~ Eddie Robinson (né Eddie Gay Robinson, Sr., b. Feb. 13, 1919), American football coach and Louisiana native. He was the head football coach at Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana. He was born in Jackson, Louisiana. He died at age 88 in Ruston, Louisiana.
1998 ~ Dame Mary Cartwright (née Mary Lucy Cartwright; b. Dec. 17, 1900), English mathematician. She was one of the first people to study chaos theory. She died at age 97 in Cambridge, England.
1996 ~ Ron Brown (né Ronald Harmon Brown; b. Aug. 1, 1941), 30th United States Secretary of Commerce. He was the first African-American to hold this position. He served under President Bill Clinton from January 1993 until his death 3 months later. He was born in Washington, D.C. He was killed while in Office when the plane he was in crashed near Dubrovnik, Croatia. He was 54 years old. All 35 crew and passengers aboard the plane were killed.
1991 ~ Graham Greene (né Henry Graham Greene; b. Oct. 2, 1904), English writer. He is best known for such novels at The End of the Affair and The Quiet American. He died in Switzerland of leukemia at age 86.
1990 ~ Sarah Vaughan (née Sarah Lois Vaughan; b. Mar. 27, 1924), African-American jazz singer. She was born in Newark, New Jersey. She died of lung cancer a week after her 66th birthday in Hidden Hills, California.
1981 ~ Juan Trippe (né Juan Terry Trippe; b. June 27, 1899), American aviation pioneer and founder of Pan American World Airways. He was born in Sea Bright, New Jersey. He died of a stroke at age 81 in New York, New York.
1954 ~ Aristides de Sousa Mendes (né Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches; b. July 19, 1885), Portuguese consul-general during World War II. He was assigned to Bordeaux, France. He defied the director’s orders of Portugal’s government and issued thousands of visas that allowed Jews fleeing from the Nazis to escape. As a result of his actions, he was forced into retirement and was denied a pension. He died in poverty at age 68. In 1966, Israel recognized his as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, the first diplomat to be so honored.
1950 ~ Kurt Weill (né Kurt Julian Weill; b. Mar. 2, 1900), German composer best known for The Threepenny Opera. He grew up in a religious Jewish family. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933. He became an American citizen in 1943. He died of a heart attack about a month after his 50th birthday in New York, New York.
1950 ~ Carter G. Woodson (né Carter Godwin Woodson; b. Dec. 19, 1875), African-American historian, author and journalist. He was born in New Canton, Virginia. He died at age 74 in Washington, D.C.
1936 ~ Bruno Hauptmann (né Bruno Richard Hauptmann; b. Nov. 26, 1899), German convicted kidnapper and killer of the son of Charles Lindbergh. He was executed for his crime although there has been some question as to whether or not he was actually guilty. He was executed at the Trenton State Prison in Trenton, New Jersey. He was 36 years old.
1933 ~ Wilson Mizner (b. May 19, 1876), American playwright. He was born in Benicia, California. He died at age 56 in Los Angeles, California.
1902 ~ Esther Hobart Morris (née Esther Hobart McQuigg; b. Aug. 8, 1814), American attorney and judge. She was the first female Justice of the Peace in the United States. She was appointed to that office in 1870. She was born in Spencer, New York. She died at age 87 in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
1897 ~ Johannes Brahms (b. May 7, 1833), German composer. He died about a month before his 64th birthday in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
1882 ~ Jesse James (né Jesse Woodson James; b. Sept. 5, 1847), American outlaw in the Wild American West. He was born in Missouri. He was killed at age 34 by Robert Ford, another outlaw, in St. Joseph, Missouri.
1862 ~ Sir James Clark Ross (b. Apr. 15, 1800), British captain and explorer. He is best known for exploration of the Antarctic. The Ross Ice Shelf on Antarctica is named after him, which he had discovered it on an exploration in 1841. He was born in London, England. He died 12 days before his 62nd birthday.
1718 ~ Jacques Ozanam (b. June 16, 1640), French mathematician. He died at age 77 in Paris, France.
1287 ~ Pope Honorius IV (né Giacomo Savelli; b. 1210). He was Pope from April 1285 until his death 2 years later. He was born and died in Rome, Papal States. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 77 years old at the time of his death.
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