Birthdays:
1972~ Cameron Diaz (née Cameron Michelle Diaz), American actress.
1953~ Robert Parish, American basketball player from Shreveport, Louisiana. He had a long career with the Boston Celtics, where he was known as Chief.
1948~ Lewis Black (né Lewis Niles Black), American comedian.
1946~ Peggy Lipton (née Margaret Ann Lipton; d. May 11, 2019), American model and actress best known for her role on The Mod Squad. She is the mother of Rashida Jones. She died of cancer at age 72.
1944~ Molly Ivins (née Mary Tyler Ivans; d. Jan. 31, 2007), American political humorist. She died at age 62 of breast cancer.
1943~ Tal Brody (né Talbot Brody), American-Israeli basketball player.
1943~ Jean-Claude Killy, French skier.
1935~ Alexandra Bellow, Romanian-American mathematician.
1930~ Warren Buffett (né Warren Edward Buffett), American entrepreneur.
1927~ Geoffrey Beene (né Samuel Albert Bozeman, Jr.; d. Sept. 28, 2004), American fashion designer. He was from Hayesville, Louisiana. He died of cancer 29 days after his 77th birthday.
1926~ Daryl Gates (né Darrel Francis Gates; d. Apr. 16, 2010), American police chief of the City of Los Angeles. He was the co-founder of the D.A.R.E. Program (Drugs Abuse Resistance Education). He is best known for having been the Chief of Police for the City of Los Angeles during the Rodney King beatings and subsequent riots. He died of cancer at age 83.
1922~ Robert Rines (né Robert Harvey Rines; d. Nov. 1, 2009), lawyer and inventor who is best known as the man who hunted “Nessie” the Loch Ness monster. He was also an accomplished violinist and composer. He died at age 87.
1922~ Robert W. Blakeley (né Robert Wilson Blakeley; d. Oct. 25, 2017), American graphic artist and civil servant who designed the iconic fallout shelter sign. He died at age 95.
1921~ Angelo Dundee (né Angelo Mirena; d. Feb. 1, 2012), American boxing trainer in the coming of boxing’s best. He died at age 90.
1919~ Kitty Wells (née Ellen Muriel Deason; d. July 16, 2012), the American trailblazing “Queen of Country Music.” She died at age 92.
1919~ Joachim Rønneberg (né Joachim Holmboe Rønneberg; d. Oct. 21, 2018), Norwegian who thwarted the Nazi atomic bomb. He was best known for his resistance work during World War II, most notably commanding Operation Gunnerside. He died at age 99.
1918~ Ted Williams (né Theodore Samuel Williams; d. July 5, 2002), American baseball player who spent his entire 21-year major league baseball career with the Boston Red Sox. He died of cardiac arrest at age 83.
1915~ Princess Lilian of Sweden, Duchess of Halland (née Lillian May Davies; d. Mar. 10, 2013), Welsh coalminer’s daughter who became a princess. She was the wife of Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland. He was her 2nd husband. She had previously been married to Walter Ivan Craig. She and Prince Bertil lived together for many years before they married in 1976. Because she was a commoner, had they married earlier, he would have lost his right to the succession to the Swedish throne. She died at age 97.
1913~ Sir Richard Stone (né John Richard Nicholas Stone; d. Dec. 6, 1991), British economist and recipient of the 1984 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 78.
1912~ Edward Mills Purcell (d. Mar. 7, 1997), American physicist and recipient of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts at age 84.
1912~ Nancy Wake (née Nancy Grace Augusta Wake; d. Aug. 7, 2011), French secret agent during World War II. She was a leading figure on the French resistance. She died 23 days before her 99th birthday.
1908~ Fred MacMurray (né Frederick Martin MacMurray; d. Nov. 5, 1991), American actor, best known for his role as the father on the television series, My Three Sons. He died of pneumonia at age 83.
1906~ Olga Taussky-Todd (d. Oct. 7, 1995), Austrian-born mathematician. She died at age 89.
1901~ John Gunther (d. May 29, 1970), American journalist and author. He is best known for his 1949 memoir, Death Be Not Proud, which chronicled the death of his young son from a brain tumor. Gunther died of liver cancer at age 68.
1898~ Shirley Booth (née Marjory Ford; d. Oct. 16, 1992), American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Hazel on the sit-com of the same name. She died in North Chatham, Massachusetts at age 94.
1893~ Huey P. Long (néHuey Pierce Long, Jr., d. Sept. 10, 1935), 40th Governor of Louisiana. He was also a United States Senator. He was assassinated in the Louisiana Capital building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1935. He was killed 11 days after his 42nd birthday.
1884~ Theodor Svedberg (d. Feb. 25, 1971), Swedish chemist and recipient of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 86.
1871~ Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (d. Oct. 19, 1937), British physicist and recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is known as the Father of Nuclear Physics. He died at age 66.
1856~ Carl Runge (né Carl David Tolmé Runge; d. Jan. 3, 1927), German mathematician. He died at age 70.
1852~ Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff (d. Mar. 1, 1911), Dutch physical and organic chemist. He was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which awarded in 1901. He was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize given in this category. He died of tuberculosis at age 58.
1837~ Nell Arthur (née Ellen Lewis Herndon, d. Jan. 12, 1880), American wife of President Chester Arthur. She died of pneumonia at age 42 before her husband became President so she was never the First Lady.
1818~ Alexander H. Rice (né Alexander Hamilton Rice; d. July 22, 1895), 30th Governor of Massachusetts. He served as Governor from January 1876 through January 1879. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts and died in Melrose, Massachusetts. He died at age 76 following a long illness.
1797~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; d. Feb. 1, 1851), English author best known for her gothic novel, Frankenstein. She died at age 53.
1748~ Jacques-Louis David (d. Dec. 29, 1825), French painter. He died at age 77.
1400~ Vlad II Dracul (d. Dec. 2, 1447). He was the father of Vlad the Impaler. His name in English means Vlad the Dragon. He was assassinated. The exact dates of his birth and death are not known. He is believed to have been about 51 or 52 at the time of his death.
Events that Changed the World:
1995~ NATO launched Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serbs during the Bosnian War.
1967~ Thurgood Marshall (1908 ~ 1993) was confirmed as the first African-American Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1956~ The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway connecting New Orleans with the North Shore opened in Louisiana.
1918~ Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin (1870 ~ 1924) was seriously injured during an assassination attempt by Fanya Kaplan (1890 ~ 1918). She was executed in early September for her actions.
1862~ The Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as Manassas, which ended in a Confederate victory during the American Civil War. The battle had begun 2 days earlier.
1835~ The City of Melbourne, Australia was founded.
1464~ Pope Paul II (1417 ~ 1471) succeeds Pope Pius II (1405 ~ 1464) to become the 211th Pope.
Good-Byes:
2018~ Marie Severin (b. Aug. 21, 1929), American pioneering comic book artist who created Spider-Woman. She was one of the first women to become a major comic book artist. She died 8 days after her 89th birthday.
2017~ Louise L. Hay (née Helen Vera Lunney; b. Oct. 8, 1926), American professional speaker and self-help guru who pushed positive thinking. She died at age 90.
2015~ Wes Craven (né Wesley Earl Craven; b. Aug. 2, 1939), American film director who was the master of horror creating the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and bringing Freddy Krueger to life. He died of brain cancer 28 days after his 76th birthday.
2015~ Oliver Sacks (né Oliver Wolf Sacks; b. July 9, 1933), English neurologist and author who explored the human mind. He was 82 years old.
2013~ Seamus Heaney (né Seamus Justin Heaney; b. Apr. 13, 1939), Irish writer and poet who wrote of mud, history and country. He was the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 74.
2009~ Nancy Talbot (née Nancy Orr; b. Aug. 17, 1920), American women’s clothier who sold classic looks. She and her husband established Talbot’s in 1947 to sell timeless, fashionable clothing. She died 2 weeks after her 89th birthday.
2006~ Naguib Mahfouz (b. Dec. 11, 1911), Egyptian author and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He died at age 94.
1993~ Richard Jordan, Jr. (né Robert Anson Jordan, Jr.; b. July 19, 1937), American actor. He starred in Taylor Caldwell’s adaptation of Captains and the Kings. He died of a brain tumor at age 56.
1985~ Taylor Caldwell (née Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell; b. Sept. 7, 1900), English-born American novelist. She is best known for her novel entitled Captains and the Kings. She died 8 days before her 85th birthday.
1970~ Abraham Zapruder (b. May 15, 1905), Ukrainian-born American businessman and clothing manufacturer. He is best known for being the man who filmed the famous Zapruder film showing the assassination of President John Kennedy. He died of stomach cancer at age 65.
1940~ Sir J. J. Thomson (né Joseph John Thomson, b. Dec. 18, 1856), English physicist and recipient of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the electron and for his work on the conduction of electricity in gases. He died at age 83.
1938~ Max Factor, Sr. (né Maksymilian Faktorowicz,b. Sept. 15, 1877), Polish-born American make-up artist and founder of the Max Factor Company, a cosmetics manufacturer. He died of an illness following a fright just 16 days before his 66th birthday.
1928~ Wilhelm Wien (né Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Frantz Franz Wien; b. Jan. 13, 1864), German physicist and recipient of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in heat radiation. He died at age 64.
1890~ Marianne North (b. Oct. 24, 1830), British biologist and botanical artist. She died at age 59.
1879~ John Bell Hood (b. June 1, 1831), Confederate General during the American Civil War. He died of yellow fever in New Orleans, Louisiana at age 48.
1483~ King Louis XI of France (b. July 3, 1423). He was known as Louis the Prudent. He was King from July 1461 until his death at age 60 in August 1483.
1181~ Pope Alexander III. He was Pope from September 1159 until his death on this date 22 years later. The date of his birth is unknown.
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