Birthdays:
1959~ Ryan Lee Stiles, American-Canadian actor.
1952~ Marilyn Chambers (née Marilyn Ann Briggs, d. Apr. 12, 2009), American pornographic actress. She began her career as a baby model for Ivory Snow detergent. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage 10 days before her 57th birthday.
1950~ Peter Kenneth Frampton, English musician.
1946~ John Waters (né John Samuel Waters, Jr.), American film director.
1944~ Steve Fossett (né James Stephen Fossett, d. Sept. 2007), American millionaire adventurer who set over 100 world records or firsts on sea, land and air. He is presumed to have perished on September 3, 2007, after the single-engine plane he was in disappeared. He died at age 63.
1943~ Janet Evanovich (née Janet Schneider), American author of detective novels.
1938~ Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer.
1937~ Jack Nicholson (néJohn Joseph Nicholson), American actor.
1936~ Glen Travis Campbell (d. Aug. 8, 2017), American musician and songwriter. He died of Alzheimer’s disease at age 81.
1935~ Bhama Srivivasan, Indian-American mathematician. She is best known for her work in the representation theory of finite groups.
1932~ Kenneth Jay Lane (d. July 20, 2017), American jewelry designer who specialized in fabulous fakes. He died at age 85.
1929~ Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, British mathematician.
1923~ Aaron Spelling (d. June 23, 2006), American television producer. He died of a stroke at age 83.
1922~ Charles Mingus, Jr. (d. Jan. 5, 1979), African-American bassist, composer and bandleader. He died at age 56 of ALS.
1919~ Donald James Cram (d. June 17, 2001), American chemist and recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Chester, Vermont. He died at age 82.
1916~ Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (d. Mar. 12, 1999), American-born violinist. He died of bronchitis at age 82.
1916~ Hanfried Lenz (d. June, 1, 2013), German mathematician. He died at age 97.
1914~ Jan de Hartog (d. Sept. 22, 2002), Dutch author. He died at age 88.
1910~ Norman Steenrod (d. Oct. 14, 1971), American mathematician who specialized in algebraic topology. He died at age 61.
1909~ Rita Levi-Montalcini (d. Dec. 30, 2012), Italian neurologist and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She was of Sephardic ancestry. She died at age 103.
1906~ Eddie Albert (né Edward Albert Heimberger, d. May 26, 2005), American actor. He is best known for his role as Oliver Wendell Douglas on the sit-com Green Acres. He died of complications of pneumonia at age 99.
1904~ J. Robert Oppenheimer (né Julius Robert Oppenheimer, d. Feb. 18, 1967), American physicist. He is known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb. He died of throat cancer at age 62.
1899~ Vladimir Nabokov (d. July 2, 1977), Russian novelist, best known for Lolita. He died at age 78.
1891~ Nicola Sacco (d. Aug. 23, 1927), Italian-American anarchist. He, along with Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888 ~ 1927), was an anarchists who was convicted of murdering two men during a botched robbery in 1920. Because they were Italian immigrants, it has been suggested that they did not receive a fair trial. He was 36 years old at the time of his execution.
1891~ Laura Gilpin (d. Nov. 30, 1978), American photographer. She is best known for her portraiture of Native Americans and their culture. She died at age 88.
1891~ Sir Harold Jeffreys (d. Mar. 18, 1989), English mathematician. He died at age 97.
1876~ Róbert Bárány (d. Apr. 8, 1936), Austrian physician and recipient of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died 14 days before his 60th birthday.
1873~ Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (d. Nov. 21, 1945), American author. She died at age 72.
1870~ Vladimir Lenin (d. Jan. 21, 1924), Russian revolutionary. He died at age 53.
1854~ Henri La Fontaine (né Henri Marie La Fontaine, d. May 14, 1943), Belgian lawyer and recipient of the 1913 Nobel Peace Prize. He died less than a month after his 89th birthday.
1832~ Julius Sterling Morton (d. Apr. 27, 1902), 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture. He served in that Office from March 1893 until March 1897 in the Grover Cleveland administration. He died 5 days after his 70th birthday.
1825~ Anson Stager (d. Mar. 26, 1885), American businessman who co-founded Western Union. He died less than a month before his 60thbirthday.
1792~ Uriah Phillips Levy (d. Mar. 26, 1862), Commodore of the United States Navy. He was the first Jewish Commodore of the Navy. He is best known for stopping flogging and corporal punishment. He died less than a month before his 70th birthday.
1766~ Germaine de Staël (née Anne Louise Germaine Necker, but known as Madame de Staël, d. July 14, 1817), French author. She died at age 51.
1744~ James Sullivan (d. Dec. 10, 1808), 7thGovernor of Massachusetts. He was Governor from May 1807 until his death at age 64 on December 10, 1808.
1729~ Michael Hillegas (d. Sept. 29, 1804), American politician and 1st Treasurer of the United States. He served in that office from July 1775 until September 1789. He died at age 75.
1724~ Immanuel Kant (d. Feb. 12, 1804), German philosopher. He died at age 79.
1711~ Eleazar Wheelock (d. Apr. 24, 1779), American minister and educator. He was the founder of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He died 2 days after his 68thbirthday.
1707~ Henry Fielding (d. Oct. 8, 1754), English novelist, best known for his book, Tom Jones. He died at age 47.
1610~ Pope Alexander VIII (né Pietro Vito Ottoboni, d. Feb. 1, 1691). He was Pope from October 1689 until his death less than 2 years later. He died at age 80.
1592~ Wilhelm Schickard (d. Oct. 24. 1635), German mathematician and Hebrew professor. He is considered the father of the computing age. He died at age 42.
1451~ Queen Isabella I (d. Nov. 26, 1504), of Castile, Spain, and patron of Christopher Columbus. She, along with her husband, King Ferdinand, were the Catholic monarchs who implemented the Spanish Inquisition. She died at age 53.
Events that Changed the World:
2018~ Earth Day.
2016~ Passover began at sunset.
2000~ Federal agents seized 6-year old Elián González (b. 1993) from his relatives home in Miami, Florida and ultimately deported him to his father in Cuba. He and his mother had attempted to enter the US. His mother died during the journey and he was placed with other family members.
1970~ The first Earth Day was celebrated.
1915~ Poison gas, in the form of chlorine gas, was released as a chemical weapon during the Second Battle of Ypres during World War I.
1889~ The Oklahoma Land Rush began. Those individuals who began to claim prior to the Land Rush were called Sooners, hence the nickname of the State.
1876~ The first National League game was played in Philadelphia between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Baseball club. Boston won, 6-5.
1864~ The United States Congressed passed the Coinage Act of 1864, mandating that the words In God We Trust, be inscribed on all US coins.
1836~ After the Battle of San Jacinto, Texas forces under the direction of General Sam Houston (1793 ~ 1863) captured Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794 ~ 1876).
1529~ The Treaty of Zaragoza divided the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal.
1519~ Hernán Cortés (1485 ~ 1547) established a settlement in what is now Veracruz, Mexico.
Good-Byes:
2017~ Erin Moran (b. Oct. 18, 1960), American Happy Daysstar who fell on hard times. She died at age 56.
2017~ Norman Thomas Hatch (b. Mar. 2, 1921), the American Marine who filmed World War II in the Pacific. He died at age 96.
2013~ Richie Havens (néRichard Pierce Havens, b. Jan. 21, 1941), African-American eclectic singer who opened Woodstock. He died at age 72.
2013~ James L. Tolbert (b. Oct. 26, 1926), African-American Hollywood lawyer who fought for civil rights. He was born in New Orleans to a jazz family. He died at age 86.
2009~ Jack Cardiff (b. Sept. 18, 1917), British cinematographer. He died at age 94.
2005~ Phillip Morrison (b. Nov. 7, 1917), American physicist who helped assemble the first atomic bomb. He died at age 89.
2004~ Patrick Daniel “Pat” Tillman (b. Nov. 6, 1976), American football player and soldier. He was killed at age 27 by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
2002~ Linda Lovelace (née Linda Susan Boreman, b. Jan. 10, 1949), American porn actress who was best known for her role in Deep Throat. She was killed in a car accident at age 53.
1996~ Erma Louise Bombeck (b. Feb. 21, 1927), American humorist. She died of complications from a kidney transplant at age 69.
1994~ Richard Milhous Nixon (b. Jan. 9, 1913), 37 thPresident of the United States. He was the only President to leave office when facing impeachment for his actions in the Watergate scandal. He died at age 81.
1989~ Emilio Gino Segrè (b. Feb. 1. 1905), Italian physicist and recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died of a heart attack at age 84.
1984~ Ansel Easton Adams (b. Feb. 20, 1902), American photographer. He died of cardiovascular disease at age 82.
1946~ Harlan Fiske Stone (b. Oct. 11, 1972), 12th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was first appointed to the High Court by President Calvin Coolidge and took office in February 1925. In July 1941, he was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be the Chief Justice, where he served until his death on this date in 1946. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 73.
1945~ Wilhelm Cauer (b. June 24, 1900), German mathematician. He was killed at age 44 by Soviet soldiers during the fall of Berlin in 1945.
1933~ Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet (b. Mar. 27, 1863), English automobile pioneer who, along with Charles Rolls (1877 ~ 1910) founded Rolls-Royce Limited. He died 26 days after his 70thbirthday.
1908~ Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (b. Sept. 7, 1836), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was Prime Minister from December 1905 until his death on this date in April 1908 during the reign of King Edward VII. He died at age 71, just 19 days after he resigned as Prime Minister.
1854~ Nicolás Bravo (b. Sept. 10, 1786), President of Mexico. He died at age 67.
1778~ James Hargreaves (b. Dec. 13, 1720), English inventor of the Spinning Jenny. He died at about age 57; the exact date of his birth is unknown, but is assumed to have been December 13.
846~ Wuzong (b. July 2, 814), Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He died at age 31.
536~ Pope Agapetus I. He was Pope from May 535 until his death less than a year later. The date of his birth is unknown.
296~ Pope Caius. He was Pope from December 283 until his death on this date 12 years later. The date of his birth is unknown.
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