Birthdays:
1969 ~ Gwen Stefani (née Gwen Renée Stefani), American singer-songwriter.
1966 ~ Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane (d. Dec. 31, 2000), American-Israeli rabbi and scholar. He was the son of Rabbi Meir Kahane. He and his wife were shot and killed in a settlement near Ofra in Israel. He was 34 years old.
1964 ~ Clive Owen, British actor.
1962 ~ Tommy Lee (né Thomas Lee Bass), American songwriter and drummer.
1959 ~ Greg Proops (né Gregory Everett Proops), American comedian and actor.
1954 ~ Stevie Ray Vaughn (né Stephen Ray Vaughn; d. Aug. 27, 1990), American musician. He was killed in a helicopter accident at age 35.
1954 ~ Dennis Eckersley (né Dennis Lee Ekersley), American baseball player.
1947 ~ Fred DeLuca (né Frederick Adrian DeLuca; d. Sept. 14, 2015), American businessman and co-founder of the Subway sandwich shops. He died of leukemia less than 3 weeks before his 68th birthday.
1947 ~ John Perry Barlow (d. Feb. 7, 2018), American rock lyricist for the Grateful Dead who became an internet activist. Born in Wyoming, he was a cattle rancher and a cyberlibertarian political activist. He died at age 70.
1945 ~ Michael C. Gross (d. Nov. 16, 2015), American designer and graphic artist who created the Ghostbusters logo. He died at age 70.
1944 ~ Pierre Deligne, Vicount Deligne, Belgian mathematician.
1944 ~ Roy Horn (né Uwe Ludwig Horn), German-American magician and half of the Siegfried and Roy duo. He was seriously mauled by a tiger during a show on his 59th birthday.
1941 ~ Avi Lerner (né Avinoam Lerner), Israeli-American film producer.
1941 ~ Chubby Checkers (né Ernest Evans), American singer-songwriter.
1925 ~ Gore Vidal (né Eugene Louis Vidal; d. July 31, 2012), American author and literary juggernaut who charted America’s decline. He died at age 86.
1919 ~ James Buchanan (né James McGill Buchanan, Jr., d. Jan. 9, 2013), American economist and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 93.
1916 ~ James Herriot (né James Alfred Wight; d. Feb. 23, 1995), English veterinarian and author. He is best known for his autobiographical books of stories of his experience as a country veterinarian, such as All Creatures Great and Small. He died of prostate cancer at age 78.
1904 ~ Charles J. Pedersen (né Charles John Pedersen; d. Oct. 26, 1989), American chemist and recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died 3 weeks after his 85th birthday.
1900 ~ Thomas Wolfe (né Thomas Clayton Wolfe; d. Sept. 15, 1938). American author best known for his novel, Look Homeward, Angel. He died 18 days before his 38th birthday of complications of “military” tuberculosis of the brain.
1897 ~ Louis Aragon (d. Dec. 24, 1982), French poet and leader in the French surrealist movement in France. He died at age 85.
1894 ~ Elmer Robinson (né Elmer Edward Robinson; d. June 9, 1982), American politician and 33rd Mayor of San Francisco. He served as Mayor from 1948 until 1856. He died at age 87.
1889 ~ Carl von Ossietzky (d. May 4, 1938), German pacifist and recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German re-armament. He died at age 48 under Gestapo surveillance from complications of tuberculosis and from the after-effects of abuse he had suffered after having been arrested by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp.
1837 ~ Nicolás Avellandeda (né Nicholás Remingio Aurelio Avellaneda Silva; d. Nov. 24, 1885), President of Argentina. He was in Office from October 1874 until October 1880. He died at age 48.
1800 ~ George Bancroft (d. Jan. 17, 1891), 17th United States Secretary of the Navy. He served in that capacity from March 1845 until September 1846. During his tenure as Secretary of the Navy, in 1845 he established the United States Navy Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He died at age 90.
1390 ~ Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester (d. Feb. 23, 1447), son of King Henry IV of England and Mary de Bohun. He was of the House of Lancaster. He died at age 56.
Events that Changed the World:
2016 ~ Rosh HaShanah.
2003 ~ On his 50th birthday, Roy Horn (b. 1944), half of the entertainment duo of Siegfried and Roy, was attacked by one of his tigers. The show was cancelled during his recovery, but restarted again in 2009.
1995 ~ O.J. Simpson (b. 1947) was acquitted of the murders of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson (1959 ~ 1994) and her friend, Ronald Goldman (1968 ~ 1994).
1990 ~ The German Democratic Republic ceased to exist as it merged into the Federal Republic of Germany. Former East German citizens became part of the European Union.
1985 ~ The Space Shuttle Atlantis made its maiden flight.
1962 ~ Astronaut Wally Schirra (1923 ~ 2007) orbited the Earth six times in the Sigma 7 space craft in a nine-hour flight that was part of the Mercury program.
1957 ~ The California State Superior Court ruled that Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems was not obscene material.
1955 ~ The Mickey Mouse Club TV made its debut on ABC television.
1932 ~ Iraq gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
1929 ~ The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes became known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1918 ~ King Boris III of Bulgaria (1894 ~ 1943) began his reign over the country. He was king until his death at age 49 in August 1943.
1872 ~ The Bloomingdale brothers, Joseph (1842 ~ 1904) and Lyman (1841 ~ 1905), opened their first department store in New York City.
1863 ~ President Abraham Lincoln (1809 ~ 1865) declared the last Thursday of November to be declared Thanksgiving Day.
1849 ~ Edgar Allan Poe (1809 ~ 1949) was found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the last time he was seen alive in public. He was taken to the Washington Medical College where he died 4 days later.
1789 ~ President George Washington (1732 ~ 1799) made the first Thanksgiving Day designated as a national holiday.
Good-Byes:
2018 ~ Leon Lederman (né Leon Max Lederman; b. July 15, 1922), American physicist and mathematician. He was the recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is known for his 1993 book The God Particle, which established the importance of the Higgs boson. He died at age 96.
2006 ~ John Crank (b. Feb. 6, 2016), British mathematician. He died at age 90.
2004 ~ Janet Leigh (née Jeanette Helen Morrison; b. July 6, 1927), American actress. She is best remembered for her role as Marion Crane, the murder victim, in the Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho. She died of a heart attack at age 77.
2003 ~ William Steig (b. Nov. 14, 1907), American cartoonist and children’s author, whose most familiar character is the ogre, Shrek. He died in Boston, Massachusetts at age 95.
1999 ~ Akio Morita (b. Jan. 26, 1921), Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony. He died of pneumonia at age 78.
1967 ~ Woody Guthrie (né Woodrow Wilson Guthrie; b. July 14, 1912), American folksinger and musician. He died of complications of Huntington’s disease at age 55.
1953 ~ Florence R. Sabin (née Florence Rina Sabin; b. Nov. 9, 1871), American medical scientist. She was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She died at age 81.
1937 ~ Edgar W. Howe (né Edgar Watson Howe; b. May 3, 1853), American novelist and magazine editor. He died at age 84.
1936 ~ John Heisman (né John William Heisman; b. Oct. 23, 1869), American football player and coach. The college Heisman Trophy is named in his honor. He died of pneumonia 20 days before his 67th birthday.
1929 ~ Gustav Stresemann (né Gustav Ernst Stresemann; b. May 10, 1878), German politician and Chancellor of German during the Weimar Republic. He served as Chancellor from August 1923 until November 1923. He was also the recipient of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the reconciliation between Germany and France following World War I. He died of a stroke at age 51.
1910 ~ Lucy Hobbs Taylor (née Lucy Beaman Hobbs; b. Mar. 14, 1833), the first female dentist in the United States. She died at age 77.
1896 ~ William Morris (b. Mar. 24, 1834), English poet, artist, textile designer, and social reformer. He died at age 62.
1891 ~ Édouard Lucas (b. Apr. 4, 1842), French mathematician. He died of septicemia at age 49. He had attended a banquet when a waiter dropped a plate, cutting his cheek, thereby causing a fatal infection.
1881 ~ Orson Pratt, Sr. (b. Sept. 19, 1811), American mathematician and religious leader in the Church of the Latter Day Saints. He died at age less than 3 weeks after his 70th birthday.
1867 ~ Elias Howe, Jr. (b. July 9, 1819), American inventor who is credited with inventing the sewing machine. He was from Massachusetts. He died at age 48 of gout.
1860 ~ Rembrandt Peale (b. Feb. 22, 1778), American artist best known for his portraits of early American patriots, such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. He died at age 82.
1859 ~ John Y. Mason (né John Young Mason; b. Apr. 18, 1799), 18th United States Attorney General. He served during the James Polk administration from March 1845 until October 1946. He also served as the 16th United States Secretary of the Navy during the John Tyler administration from March 1844 until March 1945. From September 1846 until March 1849, he served as the 18th Secretary of the Navy during the Polk administration. He died at age 60.
1656 ~ Myles Standish (b. 1584), English pilgrim and passenger on the Mayflower. He was a leader in the Plymouth colony. The exact date of his birth is not known. He died in what is now Duxbury, Massachusetts at age 72.
1226 ~ Saint Francis of Assisi (né Giovanni di Bernardone; b. 1181), Italian friar and saint. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 44 at the time of his death.
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