September 19

Birthdays:

1974 ~ Jimmy Fallon, American actor and talk show host.

1950 ~ Michael Proctor, British mathematician.

1949 ~ Twiggy (née Leslie Hornby), English model.

1948 ~ Jeremy Irons, English actor.

1941 ~ “Mama” Cass Elliot (né Ellen Naomi Cohen, d. July 29, 1974), American singer and member of The Mamas and Papas.  She died of a heart attack at age 32.

1939 ~ Moshe Weinberg (d. Sept. 5, 1972), Israeli wrestling coach who was murdered in the massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He died 14 days before his 33^rd birthday.

1933 ~ David McCallum, Scottish actor.

1932 ~ Mike Royko (d. Apr. 29, 1997), American columnist.  He died of a brain aneurysm at age 64.

1928 ~ Adam West (né William West Anderson, d. June 9, 2017), American actor best known for his role as Batman in the 1960s television show of the same name.  he died at age 88.

1926 ~ Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.

1925 ~ Yuri Drozdov (d. June 21, 2017), Russian spymaster who planted agents across the West.  He died at age 91.

1913 ~ Frances Farmer (d. Aug. 1, 1970), American actress.  She died at age 56 of esophageal cancer.

1911 ~ Sir William Golding (d. June 19, 1993), English writer and recipient of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.  He is best known for his novel, The Lord of the Flies.  He died at age 81.

1909 ~ Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (d. Mar. 27, 1998), Austrian automobile designer.  He died at age 88.

1907 ~ Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (d. Aug. 25, 1998), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.  He was appointed to the High Court by President Richard Nixon.  He served on the Court from January 1972 until his retirement in June 1987.  He died 25 days before his 91^st birthday.

1905 ~ Leon Jaworski (d. Dec. 9, 1982), American attorney and Special Prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal.  He died at age 77.

1889 ~ Sarah Louise Delany (d. Jan. 25, 1999), American physician and author.  She and her younger sister, Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany (1891 ~ 1995) wrote the book, Having Our Say: The First 100 Years.  The book was published when both sisters were over 100 years old.  Sarah Delany died at age 109 and Bessie died at age 104.

1888 ~ James Waddell Alexander, II (d. Sept. 23, 1971), American mathematician and topologist.  He died 4 days after his 84^th birthday.

1883 ~ Mabel Vernon (d. Sept. 2, 1975), American suffragist.  She died 3 weeks before her 92^nd birthday.

1811 ~ Orson Pratt, Sr.  (d. Oct. 3, 1881), American mathematician and religious leader in the Church of the Latter Day Saints.  He died at age less than 3 weeks after his 70^th birthday.

1749 ~ Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (d. Aug. 19, 1822), French mathematician.  He died a month before his 73^rd birthday.

1551 ~ King Henry III of France (d. Aug. 2, 1589).  He was assassinated at age 37.

931 ~ Mu Zong (d. Mar. 12, 969), Chinese emperor of the Liao Dynasty.  He reigned from October 951 until his death in March 969.  He was 37 years old at the time of his death.

866 ~ Leo VI the Wise (d. May 11, 912), Byzantine Emperor.  He died at age 45.

Events that Changed the World:

2010 ~ The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which began in April 2010, was finally sealed almost 5 months to the day when the environmental disaster occurred.  A financial settlement was reached in 2016, with funding available for coastal restoration along the Gulf Coast.

1985 ~ A strong earthquake near Mexico City killed thousands of individuals.

1972 ~ A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London, England exploded and killed a diplomat.

1970 ~ The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered on CBS.  The show ran until March 1977.

1959 ~ Due to security reasons, Nikita Khurshchev was not permitted to visit Disneyland on his trip to the United States.

1940 ~ Witold Pilecki (1901 ~ 1948), founder of the Secret Polish Army resistance group, was voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz.  While there he was able to smuggle out intelligence to the outside world and start a resistance to the actions of the Nazis.

1934 ~ Bruno Hauptmann (1899 ~ 1936) was arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.

1893 ~ Women in New Zealand were granted the right to vote.

1881 ~ Chester A. Arthur (1829 ~ 1886) became United States President upon the death of James A. Garfield (1831 ~ 1881), who had been shot on July 2. 1881.

1778 ~ The Continental Congress passed the first budget of the United States.

1356 ~ Edward (1330 ~ 1376), the Black Prince of England, won the Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years War.  King John II (1319 ~ 1364) of France was captured.

Good-Byes:

2015 ~ Jackie Collins (née Jacqueline Jill Collins, b. Oct. 4, 1937), British-American author who wrote about lust and power.  She died of breast cancer less than three weeks before her 78^th birthday.

2011 ~ Brian Kelley (b. Jan. 8, 1943), American CIA counterintelligence officer.  He was suspected as a double agent, but wasn’t.  He died at age 68.

2011 ~ Delores DeFina Hope (b. May 27, 1909), American singer and philanthropist.  She was the wife of comedian Bob Hope (1903 ~ 2003).  She died at age 102.

1995 ~ Orville Redenbacher (b. July 16, 1907), American farmer and businessman.  He was the founder of the Orville Redenbacher’s Company that manufactured popcorn.  He died at age 88.

1942 ~ Condé Nast (b. Mar. 26, 1873), American publisher.  He was 69 years old.

1881 ~ James Garfield (b. Nov. 19, 1831), 20^th President of the United States.  He was the last United States President to have been born in a log cabin.  He was assassinated shortly after taking office, becoming the second President to be assassinated, and the fourth President to die in office.  He began his term as President in March 1881.  He died from wounds suffered after being shot by an assassin on July 2, 1881.  He is believed to have contracted an infection due to poor medical practices.  He was 49 years old at the time of his death.

1843 ~ Gaspart-Gustave Coriolis (b. May 21, 1792), French mathematician and engineer.  The term Coriolis Effect was named after him.  His name is inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.  He died at age 51.

1724 ~ Glückel of Hameln (b. 1646), German Jewish businesswoman diarist.  Her diary provided a slice of life in the 17^th century Jewish Ghetto.  The exact date of her birth is unknown.