Birthdays:
1975 ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates (né Ta-Nehisi Paul Coats), African-American journalist, author and comic book writer.
1971 ~ Jenna Elfman (née Jennifer Mary Butala), American actress.
1970 ~ Tony Hale (né Anthony Hale), American actor, best known for his role as Buster Bluth on the television sit-com Arrested Development.
1961 ~ Eric Stoltz, American actor.
1957 ~ Fran Drescher (née Francine Joy Drescher), American actress and comedian. She is best known for her nasal voice.
1951 ~ Barry Marshall (né Barry James Marshall), Austrian physician and recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for showing that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers. This reversed the common medical theory that most ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods and too much acid.
1950 ~ Laura Esquivel, Mexican author, best known for her novel, Like Water for Chocolate.
1945 ~ Ehud Olmert, 12th Israeli Prime Minister. He served as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2009.
1943 ~ Jody Powell (né Joseph Lester Powell, Jr.; d. Sept. 14, 2009), American White House Press Secretary to President Jimmy Carter. He died of a heart attack 16 days before his 66th birthday.
1943 ~ Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.
1943 ~ Marilyn McCoo, American singer and member of The 5th Dimension.
1939 ~ Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his synthesis of cryptands.
1931 ~ Angie Dickinson (née Angeline Brown), American actress.
1930 ~ T.J. Moran (né Thomas J. Moran; d. May 18, 2015), American businessman and restauranteur. He bought the first franchise of Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. He owned and ran TJ Ribs, where LSU sports memorabilia is on display. He died in Baton Rouge at age 84.
1928 ~ Elie Wiesel (né Eliezer Wiesel; d. July 2, 2016), Romanian-born Jewish-American writer and Holocaust survivor who refused to let the world forget. His book Night, was based on his experience in the Auschwitz, Buna and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust. He was the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. He died at age 87.
1927 ~ W.S. Merwin (né William Stanley Merwin; d. Mar. 15, 2019), American poet. He died at age 91.
1924 ~ Truman Capote (né Truman Streckfus Persons; d. Aug. 25, 1984), American author best known for his true crime novel, In Cold Blood, which recounted the 1959 murder of a Kansas family by two drifters. Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and much of his work is set in the South. He died of liver disease at age 59.
1921 ~ Deborah Kerr (née Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer; d. Oct. 16, 2007), Scottish actress who was a proper leading lady. She is best remembered for the kiss scene with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity. She died 17 days after her 86th birthday.
1917 ~ Buddy Rich (né Bernard Rich; d. Apr. 2, 1987), American jazz drummer and bandleader. He died of a brain tumor at age 69.
1915 ~ Lester Maddox, Sr. (né Lester Garfield Maddox; d. June 25, 2003), American politician and 75th Governor of Georgia. He died at age 87.
1905 ~ Sir Nevill Francis Mott (d. Aug. 8, 1996), 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.
1882 ~ Hans Geiger (né Johannes Wilhelm Geiger; d. Sept. 24, 1945), German physicist best known as being the co-inventor of the Geiger Counter. Unfortunately, the name of his co-inventor, Walther Muller (1905 ~ 1979), who was Geiger’s student, has been lost to history. Geiger died 6 days before his 63rd birthday.
1870 ~ Jean Perrin (né Jean Baptiste Perrin, d. Apr. 17, 1942), French physicist and recipient of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 71.
1861 ~ William Wrigley, Jr. (d. Jan. 26, 1932), American chewing gum industrialist and founder of the Wrigley Company. He was also the owner of the Chicago Cubs, hence the name of the Cubs home field, Wrigley’s field. He died at age 70.
1836 ~ Remigio Morales Bermúdez (d. Apr. 1, 1894), President of Peru. He served from August 1890 until his death at age 57 on April 1, 1894.
1832 ~ Ann Jarvis (née Anne Maria Reeves; d. May 9, 1905), American activist and co-founder of Mother’s Day. She died at age 72.
1827 ~ Ellis H. Roberts (né Ellis Henry Roberts; d. Jan. 8, 1918), 20th Treasurer of the United States. He served under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt from July 1897 until June 1905. He died at age 90.
1550 ~ Michael Maestlin (d. Oct 20, 1631), German mathematician. He died 3 weeks after his 81st birthday.
1227 ~ Pope Nicholas IV (né Girolamo Masci, d. Apr. 4, 1292). He was Pope from February 1288 until his death 4 years later. He was 64 at the time of his death.
1207 ~ Rumi (d. Dec. 17, 1273), Turkish poet and Islamic Sufi mystic. His poetry is some of the most widely read in the world today. Rumi is also known as the founder of the sect of Whirling Dervishes. He is buried in Konya, Turkey, which is a major pilgrimage site. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 65 or 66 at the time of his death.
Events that Changed the World:
2017 ~ Yom Kippur.
2016 ~ Hurricane Matthew, which formed in the Caribbean Sea, became a Category 5 hurricane.
2009 ~ A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit Sumatra, killing over 1100 people.
1993 ~ A 6.2 magnitude earthquake in India killed thousands of people.
1972 ~ Roberto Clemente (1934 ~ 1972), recorded his 3,000th and final hit of his baseball career.
1962 ~ James Meredith (b. 1933) enrolled at the University of Mississippi, the first African-American to be a student at this institution.
1962 ~ César Chávez (1927 ~ 1993) founded the National Farm Workers Association. It later became known as the United Farm Workers.
1954 ~ The United States Navy submarine the USS Nautilus was commissioned. It was the first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1949 ~ The Berlin Airlift ended.
1947 ~ The Baseball World Series was televised for the first time. The series was between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The New York Yankees beat the Dodgers.
1935 ~ The Hoover Dam was dedicated.
1927 ~ Babe Ruth (1895 ~ 1948) became the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1901 ~ Hubert Cecil Booth (1871 ~ 1955) received a patent for the vacuum cleaner.
1882 ~ Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant began operating on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin. The plant later became known as the Appleton Edison Light Company.
1813 ~ At the Battle of Bárbula, Simón Bolíva (1783 ~ 1827) defeated Santiago Bobadilla (1783 ~ 1830).
1791 ~ The Magic Flute, Mozart’s last opera, made its debut in Vienna, Austria.
1399 ~ Henry IV (1367 ~ 1413) was proclaimed as King of England. He was King from September 1399 until his death 14 years later.
Good-Byes:
2017 ~ Monty Hall (né Monte Halparin; b. Aug. 25, 1921), Canadian game show host. He died at age 96.
2014 ~ Martin Lewis Perl (b. June 24, 1927), American physicist and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the Tau Lepton. He died of a heart attack at age 87.
2014 ~ Jerrie Mock (née Geraldine Fredritz; b. Nov. 22, 1925), American housewife who flew around the world. In 1960, she became the first woman to fly solo around the world. The journey took her 29 days, 11 hours and 59 minutes. She died at age 88.
2012 ~ Barry Commoner (b. May 28, 1917), American cellular biologist and political activist. He died at age 95.
2011 ~ Ralph Steinman (né Ralph Marvin Steinman; b. Jan. 14, 1943), Canadian biologist and recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the dentritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity. He died of pancreatic cancer 3 days before the Nobel Prize committee announced the 2011 recipients so was awarded the Nobel Prize posthumously. He was 68 years old at the time of his death.
2011 ~ Roger G. Kennedy (né Roger George Kennedy; b. Aug. 3, 1926), American polymath and preservationist with a broad view of America’s past. He served as the Director of the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of American History from 1979 to 1992 before heading the National Park Service in 1993. He was responsible for putting Dorothy’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz in display. He died at age 85.
2010 ~ Stephen J. Cannell (né Stephen Joseph Cannell; b. Feb. 5, 1941), American scriptwriter and movie producer. He died at age 69 of cancer.
2003 ~ Robert Kardashian (né Robert George Kardashian; b. Feb. 22, 1944), Armenian-American lawyer, best known for being on the defense team during the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial. He died at age 59 of esophageal cancer.
1994 ~ André Michel Lwoff (b. May 8, 1902), French microbiologist and recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the mechanism by which some viruses can infect bacteria. He died at age 92.
1994 ~ Roberto Eduardo Viola (b. Oct. 13, 1924), Argentine general, President of Argentina and military dictator. He served in the Office of President from March 1981 until December 1981. He died 14 days before his 70th birthday.
1990 ~ Patrick White (né Patrick Victor Martindale White; b. May 28, 1912), Australian writer and recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 78.
1990 ~ Ruth Cheney Streeter (née Ruth Cheney; b. Oct. 2, 1895), first director of the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. In 1943, she became the first woman to reach the rank of Major in the United States Marine Corps. She was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. She died in Morristown, New Jersey 2 days before her 95th birthday. She is buried in Peterboro, New Hampshire.
1985 ~ Charles Francis Richter (b. Apr. 26, 1900), American geophysicist and creator of the Richter magnitude scale that measures the strength of earthquakes. He died at age 85.
1978 ~ Edgar Bergen (né Edgar John Berggren; b. Feb. 16, 1903), American actor and ventriloquist. He was the father of actress Candice Bergen. He died at age 75.
1955 ~ James Dean (né James Bryon Dean; b. Feb. 8, 1931), American actor, best known for his role in Rebel Without a Cause. He was killed in an automobile accident. He died at age 24.
1948 ~ Edith Roosevelt (née Edith Kermit Carow; b. Aug. 6, 1861), First Lady of the United States and second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt. She died at age 87.
1931 ~ Jane Meade Welch (b. Mar. 11, 1854), American journalist and historian. She died at age 77.
1910 ~ Maurice Lévy (b. Feb. 28, 1838), French mathematician. He died at age 72.
1837 ~ 10th Dalai Lama (né Tsultrum Gyatso; b. Mar. 29, 1816). He died at age 21.
1632 ~ Thomas Allen (b. Dec. 21, 1542), English mathematician and astrologer. He died at age 89.
1627 ~ Tianqi Emperor (d. Dec. 23, 1605), 16th Chinese Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He ruled from October 1620 until his death 7 years later. He died at age 21.
1626 ~ Nurhaci (b. Apr. 8, 1559), Chinese Emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty. He died at age 67.
420 ~ St. Jerome (b. Mar. 347), Roman Catholic priest and theologian. The exact date of his birth is not known. He died at about age 73.
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