January 19

Birthdays:

1981 ~ Bitsie Tulloch (née Elizabeth Tulloch), American actress.

1954 ~ Cindy Sherman, American photographer.

1949 ~ Robert Palmer (d. Sept. 26, 2003), English musician best known for his song, Addicted to Love.  He died of a heart attack at age 54.

1946 ~ Dolly Parton, American country singer and actress.

1943 ~ Janis Joplin (d. Oct. 4, 1970), American singer.  She died of a drug overdose at age 27.

1939 ~ Phil Everly (d. Jan. 3, 2014), the American harmonizer who inspired the Beatles.  Together with his brother, Don, they formed the Everly Brothers.  He died of lung disease 16 days before his 75^th birthday.

1935 ~ Owsley Stanley (né Augustus Owsley Stanley, III, d. Mar. 12, 2011), American-born blue blood who mass produced LSD.  He was an audio engineer and a key figure in the counter-culture in San Francisco in the 1960s.  He was killed in a car accident in Australia.  He was 76 years old.

1930 ~ Tippi Hedren (née Nathalie Kay Hedren), American actress best known for her role in The Birds.  She is the mother of actress Melanie Griffin.

1924 ~ Nicholas Colasanto (d. Feb. 12, 1985), American actor best known for his role as Coach on Cheers.  He was born in Providence, Rhode Island.  He died of a heart attack 24 days before his 62^nd birthday.

1923 ~ Jean Stapleton (née Jeanne Murray, d. May 31, 2013), American theater actress best known for her portrayal of Edith Bunker on All in the Family.  She was 90 years old.

1921 ~ Patricia Highsmith (née Mary Patricia Plangman, d. Feb. 4, 1995), American author.  She is best known for writing psychological thrillers, such as Strangers on a Train.  Her novel The Price of Salt was adapted in to the 2015 movie Carol.  She died 3 weeks after her 74^th birthday.

1920 ~ Roberto M. Levingston (d. June 17, 2015), Argentine general and 26^th President of Argentina.  He was president during the Revolusión Argentine, following the military dictatorship.  He died at age 95.

1920 ~ Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian diplomat and 5^th General-Secretary of the United Nations.  He served in this position from January 1982 through December 1991.  He also served as the 135^th Prime Minister of Peru from November 2000 until July 2001.

1912 ~ Leonid Kantorovich (d. Apr. 7, 1986), Russian mathematician and economist.  He was the recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics.  He died at age 74.

1908 ~ Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh (d. May 18, 1971), Russian mathematician.  He died at age 63.

1889 ~ Sophie Taeuber-Arp (d. Jan. 13, 1943), Swiss painter and sculptor.  She was the wife of Dada artist, Jean Arp.  She died 6 days before her 54^th birthday of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.

1839 ~ Paul Cézanne (d. Oct. 22, 1906), French painter.  He died in Aix-en-Provence at age 67.

1833 ~ Alfred Clebsch (d. Nov. 7, 1872), German mathematician.  He died at age 39.

1809 ~ Edgar Allan Poe (d. Oct. 7, 1849), American writer and poet.  His short story, The Murder in the Rue Morgue, is considered the first modern detective story.  He died at age 40.

1807 ~ Robert Edward Lee (d. Oct. 12, 1870), American Confederate general and commander of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.  He died at age 63.

1544 ~ King Francis II of France (d. Dec. 5, 1560).  He was King from July 1559 until his death 18n months later.  He died at age 16.

Events that Changed the World:

2015 ~ Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was observed.

1993 ~ The Czech Republic and Slovakia joined the United Nations.

1991 ~ Iraq fired a Scud missiles into Israel in furtherance of the Gulf War.

1983 ~ Steve Jobs announces the Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse.

1983 ~ Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie (1913 ~ 1991) was arrested in Bolivia.  He was extradited to France where he stood trial.  He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life in prison.

1981 ~ The United States and Iranian officials signed an agreement to release 52 American hostages who had been capture 14 months earlier.

1977 ~ Snow fell in Miami, Florida and the Bahamas.  This marked the only time in recorded history of the Miami to have snow.

1949 ~ Cuba recognized Israel as a sovereign entity.

1946 ~ General Douglas MacArthur (1880 ~ 1964) established the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.  It was set up in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.

1945 ~ Soviet forces liberated the Łódź ghetto.  Of the more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, only 900 had survived treatment by the Nazis.

1942 ~ During World War II, Japan invaded Burma.

1920 ~ The United States Senate voted against joining the League of Nations.

1915 ~ French engineer Georges Claude (1870 ~ 1960) patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising signs.

1883 ~ The first electric lighting system using overhead wires began service in Roselle, New Jersey.

1861 ~ Georgia seceded from the Union, joining South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi and Alabama in the Confederate States.

639 ~ Clovis II (634 ~ 657), king of Neustria and Burgundy, was crowned.

Good-Byes:

2017 ~ Miguel José Ferrer (b. Feb. 7, 1955), American actor.  He died of throat cancer 19 days before his 62^nd birthday.

2013 ~ Earl Weaver (b. Aug. 14, 1930), longtime manager of the Baltimore Orioles.  He died at age 82.

2013 ~ Stan Musial (né Stanisław Franciszek Musiał, b. Nov. 21, 1920), American baseball players.  He was the St. Louis slugger known as “the Man.”  He was the son of Polish immigrants, who gave him a Polish name.  He was one of the greatest hitters in baseball history.  He died at age 92.

2011 ~ Wilfrid Sheed (b. Dec. 27, 1930), English-born American writer.  He died 23 days after his 80^th birthday in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

2009 ~ Hortense Calisher (b. Dec. 20, 1911), American novelist and author of Sunday Jews.  She was the second woman president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  She died 24 days after her 97^th birthday.

2008 ~ Suzanne Pleshette (b. Jan. 31, 1937), American actress.  She died of respiratory failure just 12 days before her 71^st birthday.

2000 ~ Hedy Lamarr (née Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, b. Nov. 9, 1914), Austrian actress, mathematician, and inventor.  He died at age 85.

1998 ~ Carl Perkins (b. Apr. 9, 1932), American singer and guitarist.  He died at age 65.

1990 ~ Arthur Goldberg (b. Aug. 8, 1908), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.  Following his time on the Court, he served as the 6^th American Ambassador to the United Nations.  He was appointed to the High Court by President John F. Kennedy.  He served in the Court from September 1962 until July 1965.  Prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court, he served as the 9^th United States Secretary of Labor during the Kennedy Administration.  He died at age 81.

1980 ~ William O. Douglas (b. Oct. 16, 1898), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.  He was appointed to the High Court by President Franklin Roosevelt.  He served on the Court from April 1939 until November 1975.  He died at age 81.

1975 ~ Thomas Hart Benton (b. Apr. 15, 1889) American painter and muralist.  He died at age 85.

1954 ~ Theodor Kaluza (d. Nov. 9, 1885), German mathematician.  He died at age 68.

1930 ~ Frank Plumpton Ramsey (b. Feb. 22, 1903), British mathematician.  He died of liver disease about a month before his 27^th birthday.

1906 ~ Bartolomé Mitre (b. June 26, 1821), President of Argentina.  He was president from October 1862 until October 1868.  He died at age 84.

1795 ~ Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (b. Oct. 17, 1720), Italian composer.  She died at age 74.

1755 ~ Jean-Pierre Christin (b. May 31, 1683), French mathematician and physicist.  He is also known for inventing the Celsius thermometer.  He died at 71.

1526 ~ Isabella of Austria, also known as Elisabeth of Burgundy (b. July 18, 1501), wife of Christian II of Denmark.  She died of an illness at age 24.