March 7

Birthdays:

1974 ~ Jenna Fischer (née Regina Marie Fischer), American actress best known for her role as Pam in the television sit-com, The Office.

1956 ~ Bryan Lee Cranston, American actor.

1945 ~ John Heard, Jr. (d. July 21, 2017), American actor.  He died of a heart attack at age 71.

1942 ~ Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (d. July 20, 2007), American televangelist.  He had been married to Jim Bakker before his sex scandal.  She died of colon cancer at age 65.

1942 ~ Michael Dammann Eisner, American businessman.

1940 ~ Daniel J. Travanti (né Danielo Giovanni Travanti), American actor.  He is best known for his role as Captain Frank Furillo on Hill Street Blues.

1938 ~ Janet Guthrie, American racecar driver.  She was the first woman to qualify and compete in the Indianapolis  500 and the Daytona 500.

1938 ~ David Baltimore, American biologist and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

1934 ~ Willard Herman Scott, Jr., American television broadcaster.

1933 ~ Jane Juska (d. Oct. 24, 2017), American memoirist who wrote of lust in later life.  After she retired as a school teacher, she authored a memoir entitled A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance.  She was 84 years old.

1930 ~ Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1^st Earl of Snowdon (né Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, d. Jan. 13, 2017), the British photographer who married British royalty.  His wedding to Princess Margaret was the first televised royal wedding.  They divorced after 18 years.  He died at age 86.

1927 ~ James David Watkins (b. July 26, 2012), 6^th Secretary of Energy.  He served under President George H. W. Bush from March 1989 until January 1993.  He died of congestive heart failure at age 85.

1922 ~ Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (d. Jan. 12, 2004), Russian mathematician.  She died at age 81.

1886 ~ Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (d. June 27, 1975), British mathematician.  He died at age 89.

1875 ~ Maurice Ravel (né Joseph Maurice Ravel, d. Dec. 28, 1937), French composer.  He is best known writing Boléro.  He died at age 62.

1872 ~ Piet Mondriaan (né Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, d. Feb. 1, 1944), Dutch artist.  He died of pneumonia at age 71.

1857 ~ Julius Wagner-Jauregg (d. Sept. 27, 1940), Austrian neuroscientist and recipient of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  In later years, he became know as a Nazi sympathizer and advocated eugenics.  He died at age 83.

1850 ~ Champ Clark (né James Beauchamp Clark,, b. Mar. 2, 1921), American lawyer and politician from Missouri.  He served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.  He died 5 days before his 71^st birthday.

1849 ~ Luther Burbank (d. Apr. 11, 1926), American horticulturist.  He was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts.  He died just over a month after his 77^th birthday.

1792 ~ Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1^st Baronet (d. May 11, 1871), English mathematician and astronomer.  He died at age 79.

1765 ~ Nicéphore Niépce (d. July 5, 1833), French inventor who is credited with creating the first known photograph.  He died of a stroke at age 68.

1693 ~ Pope Clement XIII (né Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, d. Feb. 2, 1769).  He was Pope from July 1758 until his death in February 1769.  He died just over a month before his 76^th birthday.

1671 ~ Rob Roy MacGregor (d. Dec. 28, 1734), Scottish outlaw who became a folk hero.  The exact date of his birth is not know, but he was baptized on March 7, 1671.  He died at age 63.

Events that Changed the World:

1994 ~ The US Supreme Court, in the case of Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, ruled that parodies of an original work are generally qualify as fair use under the copyright law.

1965 ~ In what became known as Bloody Sunday, 600 civil rights marchers were forcefully broken up and dispersed in Selma, Alabama.

1923 ~ Robert Frost’s poem, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, was first published.

1912 ~ Roald Amundsen announced that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.

1876 ~ Alexander Graham Bell (1847 ~ 1922) was granted a patent for the invention of the telephone.

Good-Byes:

2017 ~ Hans Georg Dehmelt (b. Sept. 9, 1922), German-American physicist and recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics.  He died at age 94.

2015 ~ F. Ray Keyser, Jr. (né Frank Ray Keyser, Jr., b. Aug. 17, 1927), 72^nd Governor of Vermont.  He served as Governor from January 1961 until January 1963.  He died at age 87.

2006 ~ Gordon Parks (b. Nov. 30, 1912), African American photographer and film director.  He died at age 93.

2004 ~ Paul Winfield (b. May 22, 1941), African American actor.  He died of a heart attack at age 64.

2000 ~ Edward Hirsch Levi (b. June 26, 1911), 71^st United States Attorney General.  He served under President Gerald Ford from February 1975 until January 1977.  He died at age 88.

1999 ~ Stanley Kubrick (b. July 26, 1928), American film director.  He died of a heart attack at age 70.

1997 ~ Edward Mills Purcell (b. Aug. 30, 1912), American physicist and recipient of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics.  He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts at age 84.

1988 ~ Divine (né Harris Glenn Milstead, b. Oct. 19, 1945), American actor, singer and drag queen.  He appeared in many films directed by John Waters.  He died of an enlarged heart at age 42.

1986 ~ Jacob Koppel Javits (b. May 18, 1904), American politician from New York State.  He died of ALS at age 81.

1982 ~ Ida Barney (b. Nov. 6, 1886), American mathematician and astronomer.  She was born and died in New Haven, Connecticut.  She died at age 95.

1971 ~ Richard Montague (b. Sept. 20, 1930), American mathematician.  He was murdered in an unsolved crime.  He was 40 years old.

1967 ~ Alice Babette Toklas (b. Apr. 30, 1877), American writer and companion of Gertrude Stein.  She died at age 89.

1954 ~ Otto Diels (b. Jan. 23, 1876), German chemist and recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  He died at age 78.

1932 ~ Aristide Briand (b. Mar. 28, 1862), French politician and recipient of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize.  He died 21 days before his 70^th birthday.

1889 ~ Angelo Genocchi (b. Mar. 5, 1817), Italian mathematician.  He died 2 days after his 72^nd birthday.

1767 ~ Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (b. Feb. 23, 1680), French colonizer and 2^nd colonial Governor of Louisiana.  He died 2 weeks after his 87^th birthday.

1724 ~ Pope Innocent XIII (né Michelangelo Conti, b. May 13, 1655).  He was Pope from May 1721 until his death on this date 3 years later.  He died at age 68.

1274 ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas (b. 1225), Italian priest and philosopher.  The date of his birth is unknown.  He is believed, however, to have been about 48 or 49 at the time of his death.