October 22

Birthdays:

1952 ~ Jeff Goldblum, American actor.

1943 ~ Catherine Deneuve, French actress.

1942 ~ Annette Funicello (d. Apr. 8, 2013), American actress.  She was one of the original Mickey Mouseketeers.  She died at age 70 of complications from multiple sclerosis.

1938 ~ Derek Jacobi, English actor.

1938 ~ Christopher Lloyd, America actor.

1936 ~ Bobby Seale, American activist and co-founder of the Black Panther Party.

1931 ~ Ann Rule (née Ann Rae Stackhouse, d. July 26, 2015), American true-crime writer who profiled serial killers. She began her career as a police officer.  She was 83 years old.

1925 ~ Robert Rauschenberg (né Milton Ernest Rauschenberg, d. May 12, 2008), American graphic artist.  He died of heart failure at age 82.

1921 ~ Alexander Kronrod (d. Oct. 6, 1986), Russian mathematician.  He died 16 days before his 65^th birthday.

1920 ~ Timothy Leary (b. May 31, 1996), American psychologist and proponent of the use of psychedelic drugs, such as LSD.  He was 75 years old.

1919 ~ Doris Lessing (d. Nov. 17, 2013), English author and recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.  She died 26 days after her 94^th birthday.

1917 ~ Joan Fontaine (né Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, d. Dec. 15, 2013), English American actress who stayed clear of her sister, Olivia de Havilland.  She died at age 96.

1915 ~ Yitzhak Shamir (né Yitzhak Yezernitsky, d. June 30, 2012), Prime Minister of Israel.  He served as Prime Minister for two terms.  His first term ran from October 1983 until September 1984.  His second term ran from October 1986 until July 1992.  He was born in Russia.  He died at age 96 in Tel Aviv.

1913 ~ Robert Capa (né Entre Friedmann, d. May 25, 1954), Hungarian photographer and journalist.  He was a well-known war correspondent.  While covering the Indochina war, he stepped on a landmine and was killed.  He was 40 years old.

1903 ~ Curly Howard (né Jerome Lester Horwitz, d. Jan. 18, 1952), American actor and comedian.  He was one of the Three Stooges.  He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 48.

1903 ~ George Wells Beadle (d. June 9, 1898), American geneticist and recipient of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He died at age 85.

1898 ~ Oscar Littleton Chapman (d. Feb. 8, 1978), 34^th United States Secretary of the Interior.  He served under President Harry S. Truman from December 1949 until January 1953.  He died at age 81.

1897 ~ Ettore Boiardi (d. June 21, 1985), Italian-born chef and founder of Chef Boyardee.  His Anglicized name was Hector Boyardee.  He died at age 87.

1895 ~ Rolf Nevanlinna (d. May 28, 1980), Finnish mathematician.  He died at age 84.

1887 ~ John Reed (d. Oct. 17, 1920), American journalist and socialist activist.  He is best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution in his book Ten Days that Shook the World.  He died in Moscow of spotted typhus just 5 days before his 33^rd birthday.

1882 ~ N.C. Wyeth (né Newell Convers Wyeth, d. Oct. 19, 1945), American artist and illustrator.  He died 3 days before his 63^rd birthday.

1881 ~ Clinton Davisson (d. Feb. 1, 1958), American physicist and recipient of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics.  He died at age 76.

1870 ~ Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (d. Nov. 8, 1953), Russian author and recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature.  He died 2 weeks after his 83^rd birthday.

1844 ~ Sarah Bernhardt (d. Mar. 26, 1923), French actress.  She died at age 78.

1811 ~ Franz Liszt (d. July 31, 1886), Hungarian pianist and composer.  He died at age 74.

1511 ~ Erasmus Reinhold (d. Feb. 19, 1553), German astronomer and mathematician.  He died at age 41.

Events that Changed the World:

2015 ~ Hillary Clinton testified for 11 hours before a Congressional Committee on the Benghazi attacks.

2005 ~ Tropical Storm Alpha formed in the Atlantic basic, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active, with a record 22 named storm, which included the devastating Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

1976 ~ Red Dye No. 4 was banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it was found to cause cancer in animals.  The dye is still used in Canada.

1968 ~ After orbiting the Earth 163 times, Apollo 7, commanded by Wally Schirra (1923 ~ 2007), safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.

1966 ~ The Supremes became the first all-female musical group to reach a Number 1 selling album ~ The Supremes A’Go-Go.

1964 ~ Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 ~ 1980) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, however, he turned down the award on the grounds that he always declined official honors.

1964 ~ The Maple Leave was selected by a Canadian Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee to be the new official flag of Canada.

1953 ~ Laos gained its independence from France

1884 ~ Greenwich in London, England was adopted as Universal Time Meridian of Longitude by the International Meridian Conference.

1883 ~ The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opened.  The first performance was Faust by Charles Gounod (1818 ~ 1893).

1836 ~ Sam Houston (1793 ~ 1863) became the first President of the Republic of Texas.

1777 ~ In the Battle of Red Bank during the American Revolutionary War, American forces at Fort Mercer repulsed repeated attacks by Hessian soldiers.

1746 ~ The College of New Jersey, now known as Princeton University, received its charter.

Good-Byes:

2012 ~ Russell Means (b. Nov. 10, 1939), Native American rabble-rouser who fought for American Indians.  He died of esophageal cancer 18 days before his 73^rd birthday.

2009 ~ Soupy Sales (né Milton Supman, b. Jan. 8, 1926), American comedian and actor who relished pies in the face.  He died at age 83.

2009 ~ Irene Fischer (b. July 27, 1907), Austrian-American mathematician.  She died in Boston, Massachusetts at age 102.

2007 ~ Ève Curie (b. Dec. 6, 1904), French journalist.  She was the youngest daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie.  She died at age 102.

2006 ~ Nelson de la Rosa (b. Sept. 6, 1968), Dominican-born little person who was the Boston Red Sox’s good luck charm.  The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 38 years old at the time of his death.

1998 ~ Francis W. Sargent (b. July 29, 1915), 64^th Governor of Massachusetts.  He served as governor from January 22, 1969 through January 2, 1975.  He died at age 83.

1998 ~ Eric Ambler (b. June 28, 1909), English writer.  He is best known for his spy novels.  He died at age 87.

1986 ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi (b. Sept. 16, 1893), Hungarian physiologist credited with discovering vitamin C and the importance of the citric acid cycle.  He was the 1937 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He died in Woods Hole, Massachusetts at age 93.

1973 ~ Pablo Casals (b. Dec. 29, 1876), Spanish cellist and conductor.  He died at age 96.

1965 ~ Paul Tillich (b. Aug. 20, 1866), German-born American Christian theologian.  He died at age 79.

1934 ~ Pretty Boy Floyd (né Charles Arthur Floyd, b. Feb. 3, 1904), American gangster and notorious bank robber.  He was shot and killed by FBI agents in Ohio.  He was 30 years old.

1906 ~ Paul Cézanne (b. Jan. 19, 1839), French painter.  He died in Aix-en-Provence at age 67.

1853 ~ Juan Antonio Lavalleja (b. June 24, 1784), Uruguayan general and President of Uruguay.  He is best remembered as a rebel who led the fight against Brazil.  He died at age 68.

1751 ~ William IV, Prince of Orange (b. Sept. 1, 1711).  He died at age 40.

1725 ~ Alessandro Scarlatti (b. May 2, 1660), Italian composer.  He died at age 65.