September 14

On Sundisk; 7/20/2017

Birthdays:

1983 ~ Amy Jade Winehouse (d. July 23, 2011), British diva dogged by self-destruction.  She died at age 27 of alcohol poisoning.

1964 ~ Faith Ford, Louisiana-born American actress.

1961 ~ Wendy Thomas, the namesake of the fast food restaurant chain, Wendy’s.

1960 ~ Melissa Leo, American actress.

1955 ~ Geraldine Brooks, Australian-American journalist and writer, best known for her historical novels.

1947 ~ Sam Neill (né Nigel John Dermot Neil), New Zealand actor.

1936 ~ Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist.  He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

1929 ~ Larry Collins (né John Lawrence Collins, d. June 20, 2005), American writer and journalist who wrote Is Paris Burning?, about the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, and O Jerusalem!, about the birth of Israel.  He died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 75.

1920 ~ Alberto Calderón (d. Apr. 16, 1998), Argentine mathematician.  He died at age 77.

1920 ~ Mario Benedetti (d. May 17, 2009), Uruguayan writer and political activist.  He died at age 88.

1920 ~ Lawrence Klein (d. Oct. 20, 2013), American economist and recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.  He died at age 93.

1915 ~ John Dobson (d. Jan. 15, 2014), American former Hindu monk who looked to the stars.  He was an amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope.  He died at age 98.

1914 ~ Clayton Moore (d. Dec. 28, 1999), American actor best known for playing the role of the Lone Ranger on the television series of the same name.  He died at age 85.

1914 ~ Robert McCloskey (d. June 30, 2003), American children’s author and illustrator.  He is best known for his book, Make Way for Ducklings.  He died at age 88 in Deer Isle, Maine.

1902 ~ Hilda Crosby Standish (d. June 1, 2005), American physician who was a leader in the birth control movement.  She was 102 at the time of her death.

1891 ~ Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov (d. Mar. 20, 1983), Russian mathematician.  He died at age 91.

1879 ~ Margaret Sanger (née Margaret Louise Higgins Singer, d. Sept. 6, 1966), American birth control activist.  She died a week before her 87^th birthday.

1873 ~ Simion Stoilow (d. Apr. 4, 1961), Romanian mathematician.  He died at age 87 of a brain stroke.

1867 ~ Charles Dana Gibson (d. Dec. 23, 1944), American illustrator.  He is best known for the creation of the Gibson Girls.  He died at age 77.

1864 ~ Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil, 1^st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (d. Nov. 24, 1958), English lawyer and politician.  He was one of the architects of the League of Nations.  He was the recipient of the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize.  He died at age 94.

1857 ~ Julia Platt (d. 1935), American embryologist and politician.  Although she earned her Ph.D., she was unable to secure a position at a university.  She became a politician and in 1931, at age 74, she became the mayor of Pacific Grove, California.  She died at age 78.

1837 ~ Nikolai Bugaev (d. June 11, 1903), Russian mathematician.  He died at age 65.

1755 ~ William Bradford (d. Aug. 23, 1815), 2^nd United States Attorney General.  He served under President George Washington from January 1795 until his death in office in August 1795.  He died 22 days before his 40^th birthday.

1713 ~ Johann Kies (d. July 29, 1781), German mathematician.  The crater on the moon Kies is named in his honor.  He died at age 67.

Events that Changed the World:

2015 ~ Twenty (20) people died in flash flooding in Utah.

1994 ~ The Major League Baseball season was cancelled because of a strike.

1975 ~ Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) was canonized by Pope Paul VI (1897 ~ 1978), thus becoming the first American saint.

1969 ~ The United States Selective Service selected September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.

1960 ~ OPEC, The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was founded.  The OPEC countries include: Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.

1917 ~ Russia officially proclaimed itself a republic.

1901 ~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) became the 26^th President of the United States following the assassination of William McKinley (1843 ~ 1901).  Roosevelt later became the recipient of the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.

1814 ~ Francis Scott Key (1779 ~ 1843) wrote the poem entitled, Defence of Fort McHenry.  It was later became known as the Star-Spangled Banner.

1752 ~ The British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, thus skipping calendar days, going from September 2 to September 14.

1741 ~ George Frederic Handel (1685 ~ 1759) completed his oratorio, Messiah.

326 ~ This is the date traditionally ascribed to Helena of Constantinople discovering the True Cross and Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Good-Byes:

2015 ~ Fred DeLuca (né Frederick Adrian DeLuca, b. Oct. 3, 1947), American businessman and co-founder of the Subway sandwich shops.  He died less than 3 weeks before his 68^th birthday.

2011 ~ Malcolm Wallop (b. Feb. 27, 1933), American rancher senator from Wyoming who pushed hard for missile defense.  He died at age 78.

2009 ~ Patrick Swayze (b. Aug. 18, 1952), American actor and dancer.  He died of pancreatic cancer a month after his 57^th birthday.

2009 ~ Jody Powell (né Joseph Lester Powell, Jr., b. Sept. 30, 1943), American White House Press Secretary to President Jimmy Carter.  He died of a heart attack 16 days before his 66^th birthday.

2009 ~ Henry Gibson (né James Bateman, b. Sept. 21, 1935), American actor best known for his role in Laugh-In.  He died of cancer a week before his 74^th birthday.

2006 ~ Mickey Hargitay (né Miklós Hargitay, b. Jan. 6, 1926), Hungarian bodybuilder and husband of Jayne Mansfield.  He was the father of actress Mariska Hargitay.  He died of multiple myeloma at age 80.

1996 ~ Juliet Prowse (b. Sept. 25, 1937), South-African singer and dancer.  She died of pancreatic cancer 9 days before her 60^th birthday.

1982 ~ Grace Kelly (b. Nov. 12, 1929), American actress and Princess of Monaco.  Upon her marriage, she became the Princess consort of Monaco.  She died at age 52 in a car accident.

1981 ~ William Loeb, III (b. Dec. 26, 1905), American publisher and editor of the Manchester (NH) Union Leader.  He died at age 75.

1927 ~ Isadora Duncan (née Angela Isadora Duncan, b. May 27, 1877), American dancer.  She was killed at age 50 when the scarf around her neck became entangled in the spokes of the automobile in which she was riding.

1916 ~ Pierre Duhem (b. June 9, 1861), French mathematician and physicist.  He died at age 55.

1916 ~ José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (b. Apr. 19, 1832), Spanish writer, civil engineer and mathematician.  He was the recipient of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature.  He died at age 84.

1901 ~ William McKinley (b. Jan. 29, 1843), 25^th President of the United States.  He died from injuries suffered in the assassination attempt on September 6, 1901.  He was 58 years old at the time of his death.

1852 ~ Arthur Wellesley, 1^st Duke of Wellington (b. May 1, 1769), Irish-English field marshal.  He served as the Prime Minister for two terms in the early 1800s.  Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  He served as Prime Minister from January 1828 until November 1830, during the reigns of King George IV and King William IV.  He served a second term for a month from November 1834 until December 1834 during the reign of King William IV.  He is the individual referred to when one is speaking of The Duke of Wellington.  He died at age 83.

1836 ~ Aaron Burr (b. Feb. 6, 1756), 3^rd Vice President of the United States.  He served during the President Thomas Jefferson administration from March 1801 until March 1805.  He is best known for killing political rival, Alexander Hamilton, in a duel.  He died at age 80.

1715 ~ Dom Pierre Pérignon (b. Dec. 1638), French monk and champagne pioneer.  The exact date of his birth is not known.  He died at age 71.

1712 ~ Giovanni Domenico Cassini (b. June 8, 1625), Italian mathematician and astronomer.  He died at age 87.

1638 ~ John Harvard (b. Nov. 26, 1607), American clergyman whose deathbed bequest provided the seed funding for a school of higher education that would ultimately be known as Harvard University.  He died at age 30 of tuberculosis.

1523 ~ Pope Adrian VI (né Adriaan Florenzoon Boeyens, b. Mar. 2, 1459).  He was Pope from January 1522 until his death a year later.  He died at age 64.

1321 ~ Dante Alighieri (b. 1265), Italian author, best known for his book, Divine Comedy.  The exact date of his birth and death is unknown.  He is believed to have died on either September 13 or 14, 1321, and was about 56 at the time of his death.

891 ~ Pope Stephen V.  He was Pope for 6 years, from September 885 until his death on this date in 891.  The date of his birth is unknown.