Birthdays:
1966 ~ Cynthia Nixon (née Cynthia Ellen Nixon), American actress best known for her role in Sex and the City. She was born in Manhattan, New York.
1965 ~ Paulina Porizkova, Czech-American model. She was married to Ric Ocasek, frontman for the Cars.
1963 ~ Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer. He was born in New York, New York.
1963 ~ Joe Scarborough (né Charles Joseph Scarborough), American journalist and news anchor on Morning Joe. He was a former United States House of Representative from Florida. In 2018, he married co-anchor Mika Brzezinksi, who became his 3rd wife. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1957 ~ Seve Ballesteros (né Severiano Ballesteros Sota; d. May 7, 2011), Spanish golfer. He died of a brain tumor a month after his 54th birthday.
1954 ~ Dennis Quaid (né Dennis William Quaid), American actor. He was born in Houston, Texas.
1937 ~ Marty Kroft (né Marty Yolas; d. Nov. 25, 2023), Canadian producer who created fantastical kids’ Television. Along with his older brother Sid (b. 1929), they created and produced several television shows, including H.R. Pufnstufand the Land of the Lost. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He died of kidney failure at age 86 in Los Angeles, California.
1933 ~ Jean Paul Belmondo (né Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo; d. Sept. 6, 2021), French actor and New Wave star who personified Gallic cool. He became the face of French New Wave cinema after being cast as a flippant, amoral gangster in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960’s film Breathless. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He died at age 88 in Paris, France.
1932 ~ Carl Perkins (né Carl Lee Perkins; d. Jan. 19, 1998), American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for writing Blue Suede Shoes. He was born in Tiptonville, Tennessee. He died of throat cancer at age 65 in Jackson, Tennessee.
1930 ~ Nathaniel Branden (né Nathan Blumenthal; d. Dec. 3, 2014), Canadian-American psychologist who became Ayn Rand’s lover. He was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. He died at age 84 in Los Angeles, California.
1930 ~ Jim Fowler (né James Mark Fowler; d. May 8, 2019), American daredevil naturalist who hosted Wild Kingdom. He was born in Albany, Georgia. He died a month after his 89th birthday in Norwalk, Connecticut.
1928 ~ Tom Lehrer (né Thomas Andrew Lehrer), American satirist and mathematician. He was born in Manhattan, New York.
1926 ~ Hugh Hefner (né Hugh Marston Hefner; d. Sept. 27, 2017), American founder of Playboy magazine who brought sex to the mainstream. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died at age 91 in Los Angeles, California.
1921 ~ Mary Jackson (née Mary Winston; d. Feb. 11, 2005), African-American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA. Her story was portrayed in the 2016 movie, Hidden Figures. She was born and died in Hampton, Virginia. She died at age 83.
1921 ~Yatzhak Navon (né Yatzhak Rachamim Navon; d. Nov. 7, 2015), Israeli president who bridged community divides. He was the first Sephardic Jew to hold the Office of President of Israel. He served from May 1978 until May 1983. He was born and died in Jerusalem, Israel. He died at age 94.
1919 ~ J. Presper Eckert (né John Adams Presper Eckert, Jr.; d. June 3, 1995), American electrical engineer and inventor of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died of leukemia at age 76 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
1918 ~ Jørn Oberg Utzon (d. Nov. 29, 1908), Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House in Australia. He died at age 90.
1917 ~ Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr. (d. Feb. 26, 2010), American photographer who put the powerful at ease. He is best known for his photographs of celebrities, politicians, and presidents. He was born and died in Newton, Massachusetts. He died at age 92.
1910 ~ Abraham Ribicoff (né Abraham Alexander Ribicoff; d. Feb. 22, 1998), 4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He served during the Kennedy administration from January 1961 until July 1962. He had previously served as the 80th Governor of Connecticut, from January 1955 until January 1961. He was born in New Britain, Connecticut. He died at age 87 in New York, New York.
1905 ~ J. William Fulbright (né James William Fulbright; d. Feb. 9, 1995), United States Senator from Arkansas who worked to establish an international exchange program, which eventually lead to the creation of the Fulbright fellowship program. He was born in Sumner, Missouri. He died at age 89 in Washington, D.C.
1903 ~ Gregory Goodwin Pincus (d. Aug. 22, 1967), American biologist and co-creator of the birth control pill. He was born in Woodbine, New Jersey. He died of a blood disease in Boston, Massachusetts at age 64.
1899 ~ James McDonnell (né James Smith McDonnell; d. Aug. 22, 1980), American pilot and founder of McDonnell Aircraft. He was born in Denver, Colorado. He died at age 81 in St. Louis, Missouri.
1898 ~ Paul Robeson (né Paul Leroy Robeson; d. Jan. 23, 1976), African-American actor, singer and civil rights activist. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey. He died at age 77 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1872 ~ Léon Blum (né André Léon Blum, d. Mar. 30, 1950), Jewish-French lawyer and Prime Minister of France. He served in that office for three terms, first for a month from March to April 1938; second from June 1936 until July 1937; and then for a month from December 1946 until January 1047. He was influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 1800s. Post-World War II, he was a transitional leader in French politics. He was born in Paris, France. He died 10 days before his 78th birthday.
1869 ~ Élie Cartan (né Élie Joseph Cartan; d. May 6, 1951), French mathematician. His focus of study was Lie groups. He died a month after his 82nd birthday in Paris, France.
1865 ~ Charles Proteus Steinmetz (né Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz; d. Oct. 26, 1923), Polish born mathematician. He died at age 58 in Schenectady, New York.
1835 ~ Leopold II, King of Belgium (d. Dec. 17, 1909). He reigned over Belgium from December 1865 until his death exactly 44 years later. He was the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State. He is known for exploiting the people living in the Congo. He was married to Archduchess Marie Henrietta of Austria. After her death, he may have married his mistress, Caroline Lacroix. He was of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was the son of Leopold I, King of Belgium and Louise of Orléans. He died at age 74. The horrifying account of how Leopold exploited the Congo depicted King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild.
1830 ~ Eadweard Muybridge (né Edward James Muggeridge; d. May 8, 1904), English-born photographer. He was known for his photographic studies of motion. In 1874, he shot and killed his wife’s lover, but was acquitted by a jury on the grounds of justified homicide. He died a month after his 74th birthday.
1821 ~ Charles Baudelaire (né Charles Pierre Baudelaire; d. Aug. 31, 1867), French post, essayist and art critic. He was a pioneering translator of Edgar Allen Poe. He was born and died in Paris, France. He died at age 46.
1597 ~ John Davenport (d. May 30, 1670), English-American clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Connecticut colony. He died of apoplexy at age 73.
1285 ~ Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan (d. Mar. 1, 1320), Chinese Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. He was also the 8th Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. He died at age 34.
Events that Changed the World:
2023 ~ Easter Sunday.
2017 ~ Palm Sunday.
2017 ~ ISIS bombed two Coptic churches in Egypt, one in Tanta and the other in Alexandria, during the Eastern Palm Sunday services.
2013 ~ A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit in Iran killing over 30 people and injuring nearly 900 others.
2005 ~ Charles III, King of the United Kingdom (b. 1948) married Camilla Parker Bowles (b. 1947) in a civil ceremony. At the time of their marriage, he was Prince Charles. Upon their marriage, she became known as the Duchess of Cornwall.
2003 ~ Baghdad, Iraq fell to American forces. Jubilant citizens tore down the statue of Saddam Hussein (1937 ~ 2006).
1992 ~ Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega (1934 ~ 2017) was found guilty of drug trafficking and money laundering by a United States Federal Court. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was released from a United States prison and extradited to France for convictions in absentia for murder and money laundering. He was found guilty in a French court. He was later extradited to Panama to serve 20 years for human rights violations.
1991 ~ The country of Georgia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1965 ~ The Astrodome in Houston, Texas opened, and the first indoor baseball game was played.
1959 ~ NASA announced the selection of the United States first seven Astronauts, who were known as the Mercury Seven. The original seven astronauts were: Scott Carpenter (1925 ~ 2013), Gordon Cooper (1927 ~ 2004), John Glenn (1921 ~ 2016), Gus Grissom (1926 ~ 1967), Wally Shirra (1923 ~ 2007), Alan Shepard (1923 ~ 1998), and Deke Slayton (1924 ~ 1993). All were military test pilots.
1957 ~ The Suez Canal in Egypt was cleared and opened for shipping vessels after being closed for three months.
1948 ~ Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem. Over 100 people were killed.
1945 ~ The United States Atomic Energy Commission was formed. The agency was abolished in 1975.
1942 ~ The Bataan Death March began. After the Luzon, the main Philppine Island, surrendered to Japanese forces, over 75,000 Filipino and American troops who had been captured were forced to march over 85 miles to a prison camp. They were forced to march the route over a period of 6 days and were given only one meal of rice during the trek.
1939 ~ Marian Anderson (1897 ~ 1993) sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall.
1867 ~ The United States Senate ratified a treaty with Russia for the purchase of the Alaskan territory.
1865 ~ Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807 ~ 1870) surrendered to United States General Ulysses S. Grant (1822 ~ 1885) at Appomattox, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
1682 ~ Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643 ~ 1687) discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed it for France, naming the territory Louisiana in honor of the French King Louis XIV (1638 ~ 1715).
1609 ~ Philip III, King of Spain (1578 ~ 1621) issued the decree of the Expulsion of the Moriscos, forcing the Muslim population to flea Spain.
1413 ~ Henry V (1386 ~ 1422) was crowned King of England.
Good-Byes:
2022 ~ Jack Higgins (né Henry Patterson; b. July 27, 1929), English novelist and military veteran who specialized in espionage and mystery. After the success of his novel, The Eagle Has Landed, he churned out many best-sellers. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He died at age 92 in Jersey, Channel Islands.
2021 ~ DMX (né Earl Simmons; b. Dec. 18, 1970), American chart-topping rapper who battled demons in his lyrics and life. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York. He died following complications of a drug overdose at age 50 in White Plains, New York.
2021 ~ June Newton (née Julie Brown; b. June 3, 1923), Australian photographer who took soul-stealing shots. She worked as a photographer under the name Alice Springs. She was the wife of photographer Helmut Newton. She was also an actress and model. She was born in Melbourne, Australia. She died at age 97 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
2021 ~ Ramsey Clark (né William Ramsey Clark; b. Dec. 19, 1927), 66th Attorney General of the United States. He was the Attorney General who became a rebel. He is likely the most liberal top prosecutor in modern history. He fought employment discrimination and ordered a halt to federal executions. He served under President Lyndon B. Johnson from November 1966 until January 1969. He was born in Dallas, Texas. He died at age 93 in New York, New York.
2021 ~ Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (né Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark; b. June 10, 1921), prince consort and husband of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (1926 ~ 2022). He was the naval officer who became patriarch of Britain’s royal family and played a steadfast supporting rule as husband of Elizabeth II. He was of the House of Glücksburg until 1947, when the name was changed to Mountbatten. He was the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. He died at age 99.
2019 ~ Marilynn Smith (née Marilynn Louise Smith; d. Apr. 13, 1929), American golfer who put women on an even par. She was one of the co-founders of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) in the 1950s. She was born in Topeka, Kansas. She died 4 days before her 90th birthday in Goodyear, Arizona.
2019 ~ Charles Van Doren (né Charles Lincoln Van Doren; b. Feb. 12, 1926), American quiz show fraud who fooled America. He is best known for having been given answers on the game show quiz Twenty-One in the 1950s. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 93 in Canaan, Connecticut.
2019 ~ Richard E. Cole (né Richard Eugene Cole; b. Sept. 7, 1915), American career Air Force officer and aviator who raided Tokyo with Lt. Col. James Dooley. He was the last living Doolittle Raider. He was born in Dayton, Ohio. He died at age 103 in San Antonio, Texas.
2016 ~ Duane Clarridge (né Duane Ramsdell Clarridge; b. Apr. 16, 1932), American veteran spy who was linked to Iran-Contra. He was a top CIA agent in the 1970s and ‘80s. He was instrumental in Iran-Contra, the controversial operation in which the United States secretly sold arms to Iran to secure the release of hostages in Lebanon and to fund the right-wing contra in Nicaragua. He later pled guilty to seven counts of perjury and making false statements relating to the arms shipments to Iran. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire. He died a week before his 84th birthday in Leesburg, Virginia of esophageal cancer.
2016 ~ Arthur Anderson (né Arthur John Miles Anderson; b. Aug. 29, 1922), American versatile actor who voiced the Luck Charms leprechaun. He was born and died in New York, New York. He was 93 years old.
2011 ~ Sidney Lumet (né Sidney Arthur Lumet; b. June 25, 1924), American film director. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 86 in New York, New York.
2005 ~ Andrea Dworkin (née Andrea Rita Dworkin, b. Sept. 26, 1946), American feminist activist and writer. She was born in Camden, New Jersey. She died of myocarditis at age 58 in Washington, D.C.
2002 ~ Leopold Vietoris (b. June 4, 1891), Austrian mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to topology. He died at age 110.
2001 ~ Willie Stargell (né Wilver Dornell Stargell; b. Mar. 6, 1940), African-American professional baseball player. He was born in Earlsboro, Oklahoma. He died of complications from surgery about a month after his 61st birthday in Wilmington, North Carolina.
1996 ~ Richard Condon (né Richard Thomas Condon; b. Mar. 18, 1915), American political novelist. He is best known for his novel The Manchurian Candidate. He was born in New York, New York. He died 22 days after his 81st birthday in Dallas, Texas.
1993 ~ Joseph B. Soloveitchik (né Joseph Ber Soloveitchik; b. Feb. 27, 1903), American rabbi and philosopher. He was born in the Russian Empire. He died at age 90 in Boston, Massachusetts.
1979 ~ Phil Ochs (né Philip David Ochs; b. Dec. 19, 1940), American singer and songwriter. He was born in El Paso, Texas. He died by suicide at age 35 in New York, New York.
1972 ~ James Byrnes (né James Francis Byrnes; b. May 2, 1882), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He replaced James McReynolds on the Court. He was succeeded by Wiley Rutledge. He served on the Court from July 1941 until October 1942. He resigned after serving 15 months to head the Office of Economic Stabilization. His tenure on the Court is one of the shortest in Court history. He went on to become the 49th United States Secretary of State under President Harry Truman. He served in that capacity from July 1945 until January 1947. He then became the 104th Governor of South Carolina. He listed his birthday as May 2, 1879 so that he could apply for work after his father died. His actual birthdate, however, was May 2, 1882. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He died a month before his 90th birthday in Columbia, South Carolina.
1965 ~ Sherman Minton (b. Oct. 20, 1890), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Harry Truman. He replaced Wiley Blount Rudledge on the Court. He was replaced by William J. Brennan, Jr. He served on the Court from October 1949 until October 1956. Prior to serving on the Court, he had been a United States Senator from Indiana from January 1935 until January 1941. He was born in Georgetown, Indiana. He died at age 74 in New Albany, Indiana.
1964 ~ Hesketh Pearson (né Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson; b. Feb. 20, 1887), British theater actor and writer, best known for his biographies. He died at age 77 in London, England.
1959 ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (né Frank Lincoln Wright; b. June 8, 1867), American architect. He was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. He died at age 91 in Phoenix, Arizona.
1945 ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer (b. Feb. 4, 1906), German theologian. He was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship and the persecution of the Jews. He was arrested in April 1943 and sent to Fossenbürg concentration camp, where he was hanged at age 39.
1917 ~ Edward Thomas (né Philip Edward Thomas; b. Mar. 3, 1878), British poet. He was bon in London, England. He was killed in action during World War I in Pas-de-Calais, France about a month after his 39th birthday.
1915 ~ Friedrich Loeffler (b. June 24, 1852), German bacteriologist. He is best known for identifying the bacterium that causes diphtheria. He was born in Frankfort, Germany. He died at age 62 in Berlin, Germany.
1914 ~ Eben Sumner Draper (b. June 17, 1858), 44th Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1909 through January 1911. He was born in Hopedale, Massachusetts. He died at age 55 in Greenville, South Carolina.
1904 ~ Isabella II, Queen of Spain (b. Oct. 10, 1830). She reigned in Spain in her own right from September 1833 until September 1868. She was crowned Queen when she was just 3 years old. She was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1868 and formally abdicated in 1870. During her reign, Spain went from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy. She was married to Infante Francis, Duke of Cádiz (1822 ~ 1902). They married in 1846. She was of the House of Bourbon. She was the daughter of Ferdinand VII, King of Spain and Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 73 in Paris, France.
1899 ~ Stephen Field (né Stephen Johnson Field; b. Nov. 4, 1816), 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 March 1863 until December 1897. This seat on the Court was established by the President. He was succeeded by Joseph McKenna on the Court. He had previously served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California from September 1859 to March 1863. He was born in Haddam, Connecticut. He died at age 82 in Washington, D.C.
1882 ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti (b. May 12, 1828), English poet and illustrator. He was born in London, England. He died of kidney disease at age 53.
1806 ~ William V, Prince of Orange (b. Mar. 8, 1748). He was the last stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. He was married to Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751 ~ 1820). They married in 1767. They were the parents of William I, King of the Netherlands. He was of the House of Orange. He was the son of William IV, Prince of Orange and Anne, Princess Royal of Great Britain. He died a month after his 58th birthday.
1768 ~ Sarah Fielding (b. Nov. 8, 1710), British author and sister of writer Henry Fielding. She died at age 58.
1693 ~ Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (b. Apr. 13, 1618), French author and memoirist. He died 4 days before his 75th birthday.
1626 ~ Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban (b. Jan. 22, 1561), English statesman and philosopher. He died of pneumonia at age 65 in London, England.
1553 ~ François Rabelais (b. between 1483 and 1494), French Renaissance writer, physician, monk and Greek scholar. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he was born sometime between 1483 and 1494. He died in Paris, France.
1484 ~ Edward of Middleheim, Prince of Wales (b. Dec. 1470s), English prince. He was of the House of York. He was the only legitimate child of Richard III, King of England and Anne Neville. The date and year of his birth is not known. He died suddenly between the age of 7 and 10.
1483 ~ Edward, King IV of England (b. Apr. 28, 1442). He reigned from March 4, 1461 until Oct. 3, 1470 and again from April 11, 1471 until his death in April 1483. He was the first Yorkist King of England. He married Elizabeth Woodville (1437 ~ 1492) in 1464. They had 10 children together. He also had several illegitimate children with his numerous mistresses. He was of the House of York. He was the son of Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville. He died 19 days before his 41st birthday.
1283 ~ Princess Margaret of Scotland (b. Feb. 28, 1261) Queen consort of Norway and first wife of Eric II, King of Norway (1268 ~ 1200). She was of the House of Dunkeld. She was the daughter of Alexander III, King of Scotland and Princess Margaret of England. She died at age 22 in childbirth.
1024 ~ Pope Benedict VIII (né Theophylactus; b. 980). He was Pope from May 1012 until his death 12 years later. The date of his birth is unknown.
715 ~ Pope Constantine (b. 664). He was Pope from March 708 until his death 7 years later. The date of his birth is unknown.
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