Birthdays:
1966~ Cynthia Ellen Nixon, American actress best known for her role in Sex and the City.
1965~ Paulina Porizkova, Czech-American model. She is married to Ric Ocasek, fromtman for the Cars.
1963~ Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer.
1957~ Seve Ballesteros (d. May 7, 2011), Spanish golfer. He died of a brain tumor a month after his 54thbirthday.
1954~ Dennis William Quaid, American actor. He was born in Houston, Texas.
1932~ Carl Lee Perkins (d. Jan. 19, 1998), American singer and guitarist. He died at age 65.
1928~ Tom Lehrer (néThomas Andrew Lehrer), American satirist and mathematician.
1926~ Hugh Marston Hefner (d. Sept. 27, 2017), American founder of Playboymagazine who brought sex to the mainstream. He died at age 91.
1921~ Mary Winston Jackson (d. Feb. 11, 2005), African-American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA. Her story was portrayed in the 2016 movie, Hidden Figures. She died at age 83.
1921~ Yitzhak Rachamim Navon (d. Nov. 6, 2015), 5thPresident of Israel. He was President from May 1978 until May 1983. He died at age 94.
1918~ Jørn Oberg Utzon (d. Nov. 29, 1908), Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House in Australia. He died at age 90.
1917~ Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr. (d. Feb. 26, 2010), American photographer who put the powerful at ease. He is best known for his photographs of celebrities, politicians and presidents. He was born and died in Newton, Massachusetts. He died at age 92.
1910~ Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (d. Feb. 22, 1998), 4thUnited States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He served during the Kennedy administration from January 1961 until July 1962. He had previously served as the 80thGovernor of Connecticut, from January 1955 until January 1961. He died at age 87.
1905~ J. William Fulbright (né James William Fulbright, d. Feb. 9, 1995), American Senator from Arkansas who worked to establish an international exchange program, which eventually lead to the creation of the Fulbright fellowship program. He died at age 89.
1903~ Gregory Goodwin Pincus (d. Aug. 22, 1967), American biologist and co-creator of the birth control pill. He died of a blood disease in Boston, Massachusetts at age 64.
1899~ James McDonnell (d. Aug. 22, 1980), American pilot and founder of McDonnell Aircraft. He died at age 81.
1898~ Paul Leroy Robeson (d. Jan. 23, 1976), African-American actor, singer and civil rights activist. He died at age 77.
1872~ Léon Blum (né André Léon Blum, d. Mar. 30, 1950), Jewish-French lawyer and Prime Minister of France. He served in that office for three terms, first for a month from March to April 1938; second from June 1936 until July 1937; and then for a month from December 1946 until January 1047. He was influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 1800s. Post-World War II, he was a transitional leader in French politics. He died 10 days before his 78thbirthday.
1869~ Élie Joseph Cartan (d. May. 6, 1951), French mathematician. He died a month after his 82ndbirthday.
1865~ Charles Proteus Steinmetz (né Carl August Rudolph Steinmetz, d. Oct. 26, 1923), Polish born mathematician. He died at age 58.
1830~ Eadweard Muybridge (d. May 8, 1904), English-born photographer. In 1874, he shot and killed his wife’s lover, but was acquitted by a jury on the grounds of justified homicide. He died a month after his 74thbirthday.
1597~ John Davenport (d. May 30, 1670), English-American clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Connecticut colony. He died at age 73.
1285~ Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan (d. Mar. 1, 1320), Chinese Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. He was also the 8thGreat Khan of the Mongol Empire. He died at age 34.
Events that Changed the World:
2017~ Palm Sunday.
2017~ ISIS bombed two Coptic churches in Egypt during the Eastern Palm Sunday services.
2013~ A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit in Iran killing over 30 people and injuring nearly 900 others.
2005~ England’s Prince Charles (b. 1948) married Camilla Parker Bowles (b. 1947) in a civil ceremony. Upon her marriage, she became known as the Duchess of Cornwall.
2003~ Baghdad, Iraq fell to American forces. Jubilant citizens tore down the statue of Saddam Hussein.
1992~ Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega (1934 ~ 2017) was found guilty of drug trafficking and money laundering by a U.S. Federal Court. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was released from a US prison and extradited to France for convictions in absentia for murder and money laundering. He was found guilty in a French court. He was later extradited to Panama to serve 20 years for human rights violations.
1965~ The Astrodome in Houston, Texas opened and the first indoor baseball game was played.
1959~ NASA announced the selection of the United States first seven Astronauts, who were known as the MercurySeven. The original seven astronauts were: Scott Carpenter (1925 ~ 2013), Gordon Cooper (1927 ~ 2004), John Glenn (1921 ~ 2016), Gus Grissom (1926 ~ 1967), Wally Shirra (1923 ~ 2007), Alan Shepard (1923 ~ 1998), and Deke Slayton (1924 ~ 1993).
1957~ The Suez Canal in Egypt was cleared and opened for shipping vessels after being closed for three months.
1948~ Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem. Over 100 people were killed.
1939~ Marian Anderson (1897 ~ 1993) sang at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall.
1867~ The United States Senate ratified a treaty with Russia for the purchase of the Alaskan territory.
1865~ Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1807 ~ 1870) surrendered to United States General Ulysses S. Grant (1822 ~ 1885) at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War.
1682~ Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643 ~ 1687) discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed it for France, naming the territory Louisiana in honor of the French King Louis XIV.
1413~ Henry V (1386 ~ 1422) was crowned King of England.
Good-Byes:
2016~ Arthur John Miles Anderson (b. Aug. 29, 1922), American versatile actor who voiced the Luck Charms leprechaun. He was 93 years old.
2011~ Sidney Arthur Lumet (b. June 25, 1924), American film director. He died at age 86.
2005~ Andrea Dworkin (b. Sept. 26, 1946), American feminist activist and writer. She died of myocarditis at age 58.
2002~ Leopold Vietoris (b. June 4, 1891), Austrian mathematician. He died at age 110.
2001~ Willie Stargell (né Wilver Dornell Stargell, b. Mar. 6, 1940), American baseball player. He died of complications following surgery about a month after his 61stbirthday.
1996~ Richard Thomas Condon (b. Mar. 18, 1915), American political novelist. He is best known for his novel The Manchurian Candidate. He died 22 days after his 81stbirthday.
1993~ Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (b. Feb. 27, 1903), American rabbi and philosopher. He died at age 90.
1979~ Phil Ochs (néPhilip David Ochs, b. Dec. 19, 1940), American singer and songwriter. He committed suicide at age 35.
1972~ James Francis Byrnes (b. May 2, 1882), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the High Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served on the Court from July 1941 until October 1942. He went on to become the 49thUnited States Secretary of State under President Harry Truman. He served in that capacity from July 1945 until January 1947. He then became the 104thGovernor of South Carolina. He listed his birthday as May 2, 1879 so that he could apply for work after his father died. His actual birthdate, however, was May 2, 1882. He died a month before his 90thbirthday.
1965~ Sherman Minton (b. Oct. 20, 1890), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the High Court by President Harry Truman. He served on the Court from October 1949 until October 1956. He died at age 74.
1959~ Frank Lloyd Wright (néFrank Lincoln Wright, b. June 8, 1867), American architect. He died at age 91.
1945~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer (b. Feb. 4, 1906), German theologian. He was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship and the persecution of the Jews. He was arrested in April 1943 and sent to Fossenbürg concentration camp, where he died at age 39.
1915~ Friedrich Loeffler (b. June 24, 1852), German bacteriologist. He died at age 62.
1914~ Eben Sumner Draper (b. June 17, 1858), 44thGovernor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1909 through January 1911. He died at age 55.
1904~ Isabella II of Spain (b. Oct. 10, 1830). She died at age 73.
1899~ Stephen Johnson Field (b. Nov. 4, 1816), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was appointed to the High Court by President Abraham Lincoln. He served on the Court from March 1863 until December 1897. He died at age 82.
1882~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti (b. May 12, 1828), English poet and illustrator. He died of kidney disease at age 53.
1806~ William V, Prince of Orange (b. Mar. 8, 1748). He died a month after his 58thbirthday.
1768~ Sarah Fielding (b. Nov. 8, 1710), British author and sister of writer Henry Fielding. She died at age 58.
1626~ Sir Francis Bacon, 1stViscount St. Alban (b. Jan. 22, 1561), English statesman. He died at age 65.
1553~ François Rabelais (b. Between 1483 and 1494), French Renaissance writer, physician, monk and Greek scholar. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he was born sometime between 1483 and 1494.
1483~ King Edward IV of England (b. Apr. 28, 1442). He was the first Yorkist King of England. He died 19 days before his 41stbirthday.
1283~ Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (b. Feb. 28, 1261). She died at age 22 in childbirth.
1024~ Pope Benedict VIII (né Theophylactus, b. 980). He was Pope from May 1012 until his death 12 years later. The date of his birth is unknown.
715~ Pope Constantine (b. 664). He was Pope from March 708 until his death 7 years later. The date of his birth is unknown.
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