Birthdays:
1974~ Amber Valletta (née Amber Evangeline Valletta), American fashion model.
1949~ Judith Light (née Judith Ellen Light), American actress.
1946~ Jim Webb (né James Henry Webb, Jr.), 18th United States Secretary of the Navy. He served under President Ronald Reagan from May 1987 to February 1988.
1945~ Mia Farrow (née María de Lourdes Villiers Farrow), American actress.
1945~ Carol Saunders Wood, American mathematician.
1944~ Alice Walker, African-American writer.
1943~ Joseph E. Stiglitz (né Joseph Eugene Stiglitz), American economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
1942~ Carole King (née Carol Joan Klein), American singer and songwriter.
1940~ J.M. Coetzee (né John Maxwell Coetzee), South African-born Australian writer and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1930~ Garner Ted Armstrong (d. Sept. 15, 2003), American televangelist. He died of complications due to pneumonia at age 73.
1928~ John A. Stormer (d. July 10, 2018), American right-wing author who warned of a communist conspiracy. He died at age 90.
1928~ Roger Mudd (né Roger Harrison Mudd), American journalist and television news reporter.
1926~ Letitia Baldridge (d. Oct. 29, 2012), American manners guru who served the Kennedys in the White House. She was the 11th White House Social Secretary from 1961 until 1963. She died at age 86.
1920~ Thomas M. Messer (né Thomas Maria Messer, d. May 15, 2013), Czech-American museum director who tended the Guggenheim Foundation. He died at age 93.
1914~ Bill Veeck (né William Louis Veeck, Jr.; d. Jan. 2, 1986), American baseball executive. He owned the Chicago Cubs. He died of lung cancer at age 71.
1910~ Jacques Monod (né Jacques Lucien Monod; d. May 31, 1976), French biologist and recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died of leukemia at age 66.
1909~ Carmen Miranda (née Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha; d. Aug. 5, 1955), Portuguese-born Brazilian actress and singer. She died of a heart attack at age 46.
1909~ Guilio Racah (d. Aug. 28, 1965), Italian-born Israeli physicist and mathematician. He died at age 56 of asphyxiated of an apparent faulty heater.
1909~ Dean Rusk (né David Dean Rusk; d. Dec. 20, 1994), 54thUnited States Secretary of State. He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from January 1961 until January 1969. He died of heart failure at age 85.
1907~ Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (d. Mar. 31, 2003), British-born Canadian mathematician. He is known for the study of geometry. He died at age 96.
1880~ Lipót Fejér (d. Oct. 15, 1959), Hungarian mathematician. He died at age 79.
1874~ Amy Lowell (née Amy Lawrence Lowell; d. May 12, 1925), American poet. She was from Brookline, Massachusetts. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 51.
1871~ Howard Taylor Ricketts (d. May 3, 1910), American pathologist. He is known for identifying the disease agent causing Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. The pathogen, Rickettsia, was named after him. He died at age 39 after contracting typhus.
1814~ Samuel J. Tilden (né Samuel Jones Tilden; d. Aug. 4, 1886), Governor of New York State. He was Governor from January 1875 until December 1876. He died at age 72.
1800~ Hyrum Smith (d. June 27, 1844), Mormon elder. He and his brother Joseph Smith (Dec. 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844), were murdered by a mob in an Illinois jail. Joseph died at age 38 and Hyrum was 44.
1789~ Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (d. Jan. 4, 1849), German inventor of stenography. He died about a month before his 60th birthday.
1775~ Farkas Bolyai (d. Nov. 20, 1856), Hungarian mathematician. He died at age 81.
1773~ William Henry Harrison (d. Apr. 4, 1841), 9th President of the United States. He caught pneumonia during his inauguration speech and died a month after taking Office. He was the first President to die in office and he served for the shortest term in American history. He died at age 68.
1769~ George Washington Campbell (d. Feb. 17, 1848), 5th Secretary of the United States Treasury. He served under President James Madison for 9 months from February 1814 until October 1814. He subsequently became a United States Senator from Tennessee. He died 8 days after his 79th birthday.
1737~ Thomas Paine (né Thomas Pain; d. June 8, 1809), American revolutionary, writer and radical liberal philosopher. He died at age 72.
1313~ Princess Maria of Portugal (d. Jan. 18, 1357), Queen consort of Castile and León and wife of Alfonso XI of Castile. She died 22 days before her 44th birthday.
1060~ Pope Honorius II (né Lamberto Scannabecchi, d. Feb. 13, 1130), Pope from December 1124 until his death in 1130. He died 4 days after his 70th birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2018~ The 2018 Winter Olympics opened in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
2016~ Mardi Gras.
2013~ A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck southwest Colombia. Although there was major disruption to the region, no one was killed.
1986~ Halley’s Comet appeared in the inner Solar System.
1971~ Satchel Paige (1906 ~ 1982) was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971~ A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck Greater Los Angeles.
1969~ The first test flight of the Boeing 747.
1965~ The first United States troops are sent to South Viet Nam.
1964~ The Beatles made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
1950~ Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908 ~ 1957) accused the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1889~ President Grover Cleveland (1837 ~ 1908) signed into a law creating the United States Department of Agriculture into a Cabinet-level agency.
1870~ President Ulysses Grant (1822 ~ 1885) signed a joint resolution of Congress establishing the United States Weather Bureau.
1861~ Jefferson Davis (1808 ~ 1889) was elected as Provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1825~ The United States House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams (1767 ~ 1848) as the President of the United States after no presidential candidate received a majority of the electoral votes in the 1824 election.
1775~ The British Parliament declared Massachusetts in rebellion during the American Revolutionary War.
1621~ Pope Gregory XV (1554 ~ 1623) became the last Pope elected by acclamation.
Good-Byes:
2010~ Walter Frederick Morrison (b. Jan. 23, 1920), American Space Age toymaker and inventor who created the Frisbee. He sold the rights to the Frisbee on his 37th birthday. He died 17 days after his 90th birthday.
2006~ Sir Freddie Laker (né Frederick Alfred Laker, b. Aug. 6, 1922), English businessman and founder of Laker Airways. He died at age 83.
2005~ Robert Kearns (né Robert William Kearns; b. Mar. 10, 1927), American engineer who invented the intermittent windshield wiper. He died of brain cancer a month before his 78th birthday.
2003~ Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda (b. Feb. 25, 1926), Turkish-Japanese mathematician. He died 16 days before his 77th birthday.
2002~ Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (b. Aug. 21, 1930), sister of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. She died following a stroke at age 71.
2001~ Herbert Simon (né Herbert Alexander Simon, b. June 15, 1916), American economist and recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 84.
1996~ Albert Jean Amateau (b. Apr. 20, 1889), Turkish rabbi. He died at age 106.
1995~ David Wayne (né Wayne James McMeekan; b. Jan. 30, 1914), American actor. He died of lung cancer 10 days after his 81st birthday.
1995~ J. William Fulbright (né James William Fulbright, b. Apr. 9, 1905), United States 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.
1994~ Howard Temin (né Howard Martin Temin; b. Dec. 10, 1934), American geneticist and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died of lung cancer at age 59.
1984~ Yuri Andropov (b. June 15, 1914), Russian politician. He died at age 69.
1981~ Bill Haley (né William John Clifton Haley; b. July 6, 1925), American musician and guitarist. He was the frontman for his band, Bill Haley and the Comets. He died at age 55.
1979~ Dennis Gabor (b. June 5, 1900), Hungarian-English engineer and physicist. He was the recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is best known for inventing the holography. He died at age 78.
1973~ Max Yasgur (b. Dec. 15, 1919), American farmer and owner of the Woodstock festival site. He died of a heart attack at age 53.
1966~ Sophie Tucker (née Sonya Kalish, b. Jan. 13, 1884), Ukrainian-born singer and performer. She was known as the Last of the Red Hot Mamas. She died 27 days after her 79th birthday.
1942~ Lauri Kristian Relander (b. May 31, 1883), 2nd President of Finland. He served in Office from March 1925 until March 1931. He died of heart failure at age 58.
1936~ Caroline Ellen Furness (b. June 24, 1869), American astronomer. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Columbia University. She died at age 66.
1894~ Maxime Du Camp (b. Feb. 8, 1822), French photographer and journalist. He died 1 day after his 72nd birthday.
1881~ Fyodor Dostoyevesky (né Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevesky; b. Nov. 11, 1821), Russian novelist, best known for his novel, Crime and Punishment. He died at age 59 of a pulmonary hemorrhage.
1873~ Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (b. Feb. 8, 1792), Queen consort of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary. She was the 4th and final wife of Francis I of Austria. He had previously been the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, however, he had abdicated that throne prior to his marriage to Caroline. Francis was her second husband. Her first marriage was an arranged political marriage to William, Crown Prince of Wüttemberg. This marriage was annulled. She died 1 day after her 81stbirthday.
1670~ King Frederick III of Denmark (b. Mar. 18, 1609). He ruled Denmark and Norway from February 1648 until his death 14 years later. He died at age 60.
1450~ Agnès Sorel (b. 1421), French mistress of King Charles VII of France. She died in childbirth following the birth of her 4th child. The exact date of her birth is not known. She is believed to have been 28 at the time of her death.
1135~ Tai Zong (b. Nov. 25, 1075), 2nd Chinese emperor of the Jin dynasty. He ruled from September 1123 until his death 30 years later. He died at age 59.
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