Birthdays:
1988~ Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary, eldest daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York.
1981~ Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player.
1974~ Manjul Bhargava, Canadian-born mathematician.
1952~ Robin Quivers (née Robin Ophelia Quivers), American radio personality.
1951~ Mohamed Morsi, 5th President of Egypt. He became president following the Arab Spring and ouster of Hosni Mubaruk. He served as President from June 2012 until July 2013 when he was ousted.
1950~ Sarah Dunant, English author. She is best known for her 2003 novel, The Birth of Venus.
1937~ Dustin Hoffman (né Dustin Lee Hoffman), American actor.
1935~ Donald P. Bellisario (né Donald Paul Bellisario), American television director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for such television creations as Quantum Leap and NCSI.
1931~ Sir Roger Penrose, English mathematician and physicist.
1930~ Joan Mondale (née Joan Adams, d. Feb. 3, 2014), American wife of Vice President Walter Mondale. She died at age 83.
1930~ Jerry Tarkanian (né Jerry Esther Tarkanian, d. Feb. 11, 2015), American rebel basketball coach who battled the NCAA. He was the long-term head coach for the men’s basketball team at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he was known as Tark the Shark. He was 84.
1929~ William Nolde (né William Benedict Nolde, d. Jan. 27, 1973), last American combat casualty of the Vietnam War. He died the day the Peace Accords were being signed in Paris ending the conflict. He was 43 years old.
1929~ Ronnie Briggs (né Ronald Arthur Briggs, d. Dec. 18, 2013), English criminal who was involved in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, which he committed on his 34th birthday. He died at age 84.
1921~ Esther Williams (née Esther Jane Williams, d. June 6, 2013), American athlete who swam to Hollywood stardom. She was also an actress. She was 91 years old.
1919~ Dino De Laurentiis (né Agostine De Laurentiis, d. Nov. 10, 2010), Italian-born film producer who made classics and flops. Some of his films included The Silence of the Lambs, War and Peace and Barbarella. He died at age 91.
1908~ Arthur Goldberg (né Arthur Joseph Goldberg, d. Jan. 19, 1990), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Following his time on the Court, he served as the 6th American Ambassador to the United Nations. He was nominated 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 9th United States Secretary of Labor during the Kennedy Administration. He died at age 81.
1902~ Paul Dirac (né Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, d. Oct. 20, 1984), English physicist and recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in atomic theory. He died at age 82.
1901~ Ernest Lawrence (né Ernest Orlando Lawrence, d. Aug. 27, 1958), American nuclear physicist and recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died of cancer 19 days after his 57th birthday.
1896~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (d. Dec. 14, 1953), American novelist who is best known for her novel, The Yearling. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 57.
1884~ Sara Teasdale (d. Jan. 29, 1833), American poet. She committed suicide at age 48.
1882~ Oscar K. Allen, Sr. (né Oscar Kelly Allen, d. Jan. 28, 1936), Governor of Louisiana. He was Governor from May 1932 until his death. He is best known for signing into law the homestead exemption. He died in Baton Rouge at age 53 of a cerebral hemorrhage while in Office.
1879~ Emiliano Zapata (né Emiliano Zapata Salazar, d. Apr. 10, 1919), Mexican general and revolutionary. He was ambushed and killed by government forces. He died at age 39.
1879~ Bob Smith (né Robert Holbrook Smith, d. Nov. 16, 1950), American physician and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He died at age 71.
1866~ Matthew Henson (né Matthew Alexander Henson, d. Mar. 9, 1955), African-American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on his expedition to the North Pole. He died at age 88.
1814~ Esther Hobart Morris (d. Apr. 3, 1902), American attorney and judge. She was the first female Justice of the Peace in the United States. She was appointed to that office in 1870. She died at age 87.
1605~ Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (d. Nov. 30, 1675), British colonial governor of Maryland. He died at age 70.
1170~ Saint Dominic (d. Aug. 6, 1221), Castilian priest and founder of the Dominicans. He died 2 days before his 51st birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2010~ A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, as a result of massive flooding, killed more than 1,400 people.
2008~ The opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
2000~ The Confederate submarine H.L. Huntley was raised from the ocean floor after having sunk during the American Civil War.
1974~ President Richard Nixon (1913 ~ 1994) announced that he would resign effective at noon on the following day, August 9, 1974.
1963~ Fifteen British robbers stole over 2.6 Million pounds in what is now known as the Great Train Robbery. Most of the money has yet to be recovered.
1876~ Thomas Edison (1847 ~ 1931) received a patent for the mimeograph.
1844~ Brigham Young (1801 ~ 1858) was chosen to lead the Mormons after the death of Joseph Smith.
1530~ King James IV (1473 ~ 1513) of Scotland married Margaret Tudor (1489 ~ 1541), the daughter of King Henry VII (1457 ~ 1509) of England.
Good-Byes:
2017~ Ken Kaiser (né Kenneth John Kaiser, b. July 26, 1945), American Major League Baseball umpire who gave as good as he got. He died of complications of diabetes 13 days after his 72nd birthday.
2017~ Glen Campbell (né Glen Travis Campbell, b. Apr. 22, 1936), American musician and songwriter. He died of Alzheimer’s disease at age 81.
2015~ Ann McGovern (née Ann Weinberger, b. May 25, 1930), American author whose book Stone Soup became a children’s favorite. She died of cancer at age 85.
2013~ Karen Black (née Karen Blanche Ziegler, b. July 1, 1939), American actress best known for her roles in Nashville and Five Easy Pieces. She died of cancer at age 74.
2010~ Patricia Neal (née Patsy Louise Neal, b. Jan. 20, 1926), American actress. She died in Edgartown, Massachusetts at age 84 of lung cancer.
2005~ Barbara Bel Geddes (b. Oct. 31, 1922), American actress best known for her role as Miss Ellie on the television series, Dallas. She died of lung cancer at age 82 in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
2004~ Fay Wray (née Vina Fay Wray, b. Sept. 15, 1907), Canadian-American actress best known for her role as the lead female character in King Kong. She died at age 96.
1996~ Sir Nevill Francis Mott (b. Sept. 30, 1905), English physicist and recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics for his work English physicist and recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. He died at age 90. He died at age 90.
1987~ Danilo Blanuša (b. Dec. 7, 1903), Croatian mathematician. He died at age 83.
1965~ Shirley Jackson (née Shirley Hardie Jackson, b. Dec. 14, 1916), American author best known for her short story The Lottery. She died at age 48 of heart failure in North Bennington, Vermont.
1911~ William P. Frye (né William Pierce Frye, b. Sept. 2, 1830), United States Senator from Maine. He served as Senator from March 1881 until his death in August 1911. He was born and died in Lewiston, Maine. He died less than a month before his 81st birthday.
1895~ Howell Edmunds Jackson (b. Apr. 8, 1832), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Benjamin Harrison. He served on the court from February 1893 until his death at age 63 two years later.
1827~ George Canning (d. Apr. 11, 1770), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was the Prime Minister from April 1827 until August 1827. He died in office at age 57. He served only 119 days as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1694~ Antoine Arnauld (b. Feb. 6, 1612), French philosopher and mathematician. He died at age 82.
1555~ Oronce Finé (b. Dec. 20, 1494), French mathematician. He died at age 60.
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