Birthdays:
1976~ Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress best known for her role as Dr. Elliot Reid on the television sit-com, Scrubs.
1952~ Paul Reubens (né Paul Rubenfeld), American actor best known as “Pee Wee Herman.”
1947~ Harry Reems (né Herbert Streicher; d. Mar. 19, 2013), American porn pioneer who became a cause Célèbre. He is best known for his role in Deep Throat. He died at age 65 of pancreatic cancer.
1943~ Tuesday Weld (née Susan Ker Weld), American model and actress.
1942~ Daryl Dragon (né Daryl Frank Dragon; d. Jan. 2, 2019), American musician and half of the duo Captain and Tennille. He died of kidney failure at age 76.
1933~ Nancy Friday (née Nancy Colbert Friday; d. Nov. 5, 2017), American writer who chronicled women’s sexual fantasies. She is best known for her book, My Secret Garden. She died at age 84.
1932~ Harry Lee (d. Oct. 1, 2007), American sheriff from Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. He was born and died in New Orleans. He died of leukemia at age 75.
1932~ Lady Antonia Fraser (née Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham), English historian and author. She is best known for her biographies and detective fiction. Her 2nd husband was playwright Harold Pinter.
1929~ Ira Levin (né Ira Marvin Levin; d. Nov. 12, 2007), American author. He is best known for such novels as The Stepford Wives and Rosemary’s Baby. He died at age 78.
1928~ Joan Kroc (née Joan Beverly Mansfield; b. Oct. 12, 2003), American philanthropist and third wife of Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s. Upon her death, she bequeathed millions of dollars to National Public Radio. She died of a brain tumor at age 75.
1928~ Péter Boross, Prime Minister of Hungary from December 1993 until July 1994.
1925~ Ernest A. Michael (né Ernest Arthur Michael; b. Apr. 29, 2013), American mathematician. He died at age 87.
1918~ Sheldon Hoard Kinney (d. Dec. 11, 2004), United States Admiral who sank three U-boats in one night during World War II. He died of cancer at age 86.
1916~ Martha Raye (née Margy Reed; d. Oct. 19, 1994), American actress and singer. She died at age 78.
1915~ Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. (d. Nov. 4, 2011), American physicist and recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 96.
1908~ Lyndon B. Johnson (né Lyndon Baines Johnson; d. Jan. 22, 1973), 36th President of the United States. He began his Presidency after the assassination of President Kennedy. He served from November 1963 until January 1969. He served as the 37th Vice President from January 1961 until November 22, 1963. He died of a heart attack at age 64.
1904~ Norah Lofts (née Norah Ethel Robinson; d. Sept. 10, 1983), British author of historical romantic novels. She died about 2 weeks after her 79th birthday.
1899~ C.S. Forester (né Cecil Louis Troughton Smith; d. Apr. 2, 1966), English author. He was the author of The African Queen. He died at age 66.
1890~ Man Ray (né Emmanuel Radnitzky; d. Nov. 18, 1976), American photographer and artist. He died at age 86.
1887~ George, Crown Prince of Serbia (d. Oct. 17, 1972). He relinquished his right to the throne after he killed his valet by kicking him to death when he was in his early 20s. He married for the first time at age 60. He died at age 85.
1884~ Vincent Auriol (né Vincent Jules Auriol; d. Jan. 1, 1966), French politician and first President of the Fourth Republic. He served as President from January 1947 until January 1954. He died at age 81.
1877~ Charles Rolls (né Charles Stewart Rolls; d. July 12, 1910), English engineer and businessman. He co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited. He was killed in an airplane crash at age 32.
1877~ Lloyd C. Douglas (né Lloyd Cassel Douglas; d. Feb. 13, 1951), American minister and author best known for his novel, The Robe. He died at age 73.
1875~ Katharine McCormick (née Katharine Moore Dexter; d. Dec. 28, 1967), American biologist and philanthropist. She was an advocate for women’s reproductive rights. She funded much of the research for the development of the birth control pill. She died at age 92.
1874~ Carl Bosch (d. Apr. 26, 1940), German chemist and recipient of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 65.
1871~ Theodore Dreiser (né Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser; d. Dec. 28, 1945), American author best known for his novels Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. He died at age 74 of heart failure.
1865~ Charles G. Dawes (néCharles Gates Dawes, d. Apr. 23, 1951), 30th Vice President of the United States. He served under President Calvin Coolidge from March 1925 until March 1929. He had previously served as the 1st Director of the United States Bureau of the Budget, which was during the Warren Harding administration. He was also the co-recipient of the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations. He died at age 85.
1858~ Guiseppe Peano (d. Apr. 20, 1932), Italian mathematician. He died at age 73.
1812~ Bertalan Szemere (d. Jan. 18, 1869), Hungarian poet. He also served as the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary. He was in Office from May 1849 until August 1849 during the short period of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He died at age 56.
1809~ Hannibal Hamlin (d. July 4, 1891), 15th Vice President of the United State. He served during Abraham Lincoln’s first term, from March 1861 until March 1865. He had previously served as the 26th Governor of the State of Maine, but only for 2 months, from January 1857 through February 1857. He was born in Paris, Maine and died in Bangor, Maine at the age of 81.
1770~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (d. Nov. 14, 1831), German philosopher. He died at age 61.
1637~ Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (d. Feb. 21, 1715), governor of the province of Maryland. He inherited the colony of Maryland upon the death of his father. He died at age 77.
Events that Changed the World:
2012~ The Republican National Convention began in Tampa Bay, Florida. By the end of the conference, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were the Republican nominees for the 2012 presidential campaign.
2011~ Hurricane Irene struck the east coast of the United State, killing 47 people. The hurricane made landfall in North Carolina, New Jersey and New York. On August 29, Irene transitioned into an extratropical cyclone and ran through Vermont.
1991~ Moldova declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991~ The European Community recognized the independence of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1979~ A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb killed Louis Mountbatten (1900 ~ 1979), cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, and three others.
1962~ NASA launched the unmanned Mariner 2, whose mission was to travel to Venus. The last contact had with Mariner 2 was on January 3, 1963.
1942~ The two-day Sarny Massacre began in the Ukrainian city of Sarny in which approximately 18,000 Jews were murdered.
1916~ The Kingdom of Romania entered World War I as one of the Allied nations after declaring war on Austria-Hungary.
1896~ The Anglo-Zanzibar War began and ended 45 minutes later between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar. It is the shortest war in recorded history.
1893~ The Sea Islands hurricane struck near Savannah, Georgia, killing nearly 2,000 people. This hurricane occurred on the anniversary of the devastating hurricane of 1881.
1883~ Four enormous explosions erupted at the volcano Krakatoa, totally destroying the island. The ash from the explosions impacted the climate on earth for years.
1881~ A massive hurricane make landfall near Savannah, Georgia. Approximately 700 people were killed in the storm.
1859~ Commercial petroleum production began in the United States after Edwin Drake (1819 ~ 1880) struck oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
1832~ The leader of the Sauk tribe, Black Hawk (d. 1838), surrendered to United States authorities, thus ending the Black Hawk War.
1776~ In the Battle of Long Island during the American Revolution, British forced under General William Howe (1729 ~ 1814) defeated the American troops under General George Washington (1732 ~ 1799).
1172~ Henry the Young King (1155 ~ 1183) and Margaret of France (1157 ~ 1197) were crowned as junior King and Queen of England. Henry was crown king during the reign of his father, which was a practice of the French Capetian dynasty. The newly crowned royals, however, had no actual authority.
Good-Byes:
2015~ Darryl Dawkins (b. Jan. 11, 1957), African-American basketball player. He died of a heart attack at age 58.
2011~ Stetson Kennedy (né William Stetson Kennedy, b. Oct. 5, 1916), American writer who unmasked the Ku Klux Klan. He infiltrated the KKK and reported what he learned to journalists. His revelations were chronicled in his semi-fictional 1954 book I rode with the Ku Klux Klan. He died at age 94.
1997~ Brandon Tartikoff (b. Jan. 13, 1949), American television executive. He died of Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 48.
1996~ Greg Morris (né Francis Gregory Alan Morris, b. Sept. 27, 1933), African-American actor best known for his role as Barney Collier in Mission: Impossible. He died of brain cancer a month before his 63rd birthday.
1990~ Stevie Ray Vaughn (né Stephen Ray Vaughn; b. Oct. 3, 1954), American musician. He was killed in a helicopter accident at age 35.
1980~ Sam Levenson (né Samuel Levenson; b. Dec. 28, 1911), American humorist, teacher and television host. He hosted the television game show Two for the Money in the 1960s. He died of a heart attack at age 68.
1979~ Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl of Mountbatten of Burma (b. June 25, 1900), British admiral and statesman. He was an uncle of Prince Philip and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. He was assassinated by a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army that was planted on his yacht. He was 79 years old.
1975~ Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (b. July 23, 1892). He died at age 83.
1971~ Margaret Bourke-White (née Margaret White; b. June 14, 1904), American photojournalist. She died of Parkinson’s disease at age 67.
1971~ Bennett Cerf (né Bennett Alfred Cerf, b. May 25, 1898), American publisher and co-founder of Random House. He is best known for his compilation of jokes and puns. He died at age 73.
1965~ Le Corbusier (né Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris; b. Oct. 6, 1887), Swiss-born French architect and designer. He died at age 77.
1964~ Gracie Allen (née Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen; b. July 26, 1895), American actress and comedian. She was the wife of George Burns. She died of a heart attack a month after her 69th birthday.
1963~ Inayatullah Khan Masriqi (b. Aug. 25, 1888), Pakistani mathematician. He died 2 days after his 75th birthday.
1963~ W.E.B. Du Bois (né William Edward Burghardt Du Bois; b. Feb. 23, 1868), African-American historian, sociologist and political activist. He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He died at age 95 in Ghana.
1958~ Ernest Lawrence (né Ernest Orlando Lawrence; b. Aug. 8, 1901), American nuclear physicist and recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died of cancer 19 days after his 57th birthday.
1948~ Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (b. Apr. 11, 1862), 11th United States Supreme Court Chief Justice. He was nominated to be the Chief Justice by President Herbert Hoover. He served on the High Court from February 1930 until June 1941. He had previously been nominated to the High Court by President William Taft, where he served as an Associate Justice from October 1910 until June 1916. He replaced William Howard Taft on the Court. He resigned from the Court to make a run for President. He also served as the 44th United States Secretary of State from March 1921 until March 1925, serving under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Prior to his federal appointments, he served as the 36th Governor of New York State. He died at age 86 in Osterville, Massachusetts.
1935~ Childe Hassam (né Frederick Childe Hassam; b. Oct. 17, 1959), American artist. During the early 1900s, Hassam painted many scenes of New England, including the shore, country-side and life in Boston. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 75.
1919~ Louis Botha (b. Sept. 27, 1862), 1st Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. He held that position from May 1910 until his death in August 1919. He died a month before his 57th birthday.
1909~ Emil Christian Hansen (b. May 8, 1842), Danish physiologist and mycologist and fermentation physiologist. He died at age 67.
1903~ Kusumoto Ine (b. May 31, 1827), Japanese doctor. She was the first Japanese female doctor of Western Medicine. She was the daughter of a Japanese courtesan and a German physician. She died at age 76.
1869~ Rebecca Gratz (b. Mar. 4, 1781), American-Jewish educator and philanthropist. She died at age 88.
1590~ Pope Sixtus V (né Felice Peretti di Montalto; b. Dec. 13, 1521). He was Pope from April 1585 until his death 5 years later. He died at age 68.
1576~ Titian (né Tiziano Vecelli; b. 1488), Italian painter. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 88 years old at the time of his death.
1146~ King Eric III of Denmark (b. 1120). He was King from 1137 until his abdication 9 years later. The date of his birth is unknown but he is believed to have been about 25 or 26 at the time of his death.
827~ Pope Eugene II. He was Pope from June 824 until his death on this date 3 years later. The date of his birth is unknown.
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