Birthdays:
1994 ~ Otto Warmbier (né Otto Frederick Warmbier; d. June 19, 2017), American student who had been arrested and tortured by the North Korean regime. He was returned to the United States in a coma six days before his death. He died at age 22.
1975 ~ Mayim Bialik (née Mayim Chaya Bialki), American actress. She is best known for her role as Amy Fowler on the television sit-com The Big Bang Theory. She also holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience.
1970 ~ Jennifer Connelly (née Jennifer Lynn Connelly), American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Alicia Nash in the 2002 movie A Beautiful Mind. She was born in Cairo, New York.
1952 ~ Cathy Rigby (née Cathleen Roxanne Rigby), American gymnast. She was born in Long Beach, California.
1949 ~ Bill Nighy (né William Francis Nighy), British actor. He was born in Caterham, United Kingdom.
1942 ~ John Casablancas (d. July 20, 2013), modeling agent who ushered in the era of the supermodel. He was the founder of the Elite Model Management. He was 70 years old.
1940 ~ Dionne Warwick (née Marie Dionne Warrick), American singer. She was born in Orange, New Jersey.
1934 ~ Miguel de la Madrid (d. Apr. 1, 2012), President of Mexico. He served as president from December 1982 until November 30, 1988. He led Mexico in hard times. He died at age 77.
1932 ~ Bob Pettit (né Robert Lee Pettit), American basketball player who was born Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He played basketball for Louisiana State University before playing for the NBA. In 1956, he became the first basketball player to be awarded the Most Valuable Player Award.
1927 ~ Robert Noyce (né Robert Norton Noyce, d. June 3, 1990), American inventor of the microchip. He was also the co-founder of the Intel Corporation. He died at age 62 of a heart attack.
1925 ~ Anne V. Coates (née Anne Voase Coates; d. May 8, 2018), British film editor who became a Hollywood icon. She is best known for her editing of the 1962 film, Lawrence of Arabia. She died at age 92.
1924 ~ Ed Koch (né Edward Irving Koch; d. Feb. 1, 2013), American outspoken mayor who embodied New York City. He was the 105th Mayor of New York City. He served three terms as Mayor from January 1978 through December 1989. He died at age 88.
1923 ~ Bob Dorough (né Robert Lrod Dorough; d. Apr. 23, 2018), American jazzman who created Schoolhouse Rock!, a series of television cartoons on Saturday morning television from the 1970s to the 1990s. He died at age 94.
1923 ~ Bob Barker (né Robert William Barker), American game show host. He was the host of The Price is Rightfrom 1972 to 2007. He was born in Darrington, Washington.
1915 ~ Frank Sinatra (né Francis Albert Sinatra; d. May 14, 1998), American singer and actor. He died of a heart attack at age 82.
1905 ~ Vasily Grossman (d. Sept. 14, 1964), Russian writer and journalist. He died of stomach cancer at age 56.
1893 ~ Edward G. Robinson (né Emanuel Goldenberg; d. Jan. 26, 1973), American actor. He was born in Bucharest, Romania. He died at age 79.
1881 ~ Harry Warner (né Hirsz Mojżwa Wonsal; d. July 25, 1958), Polish-born American movie studio executive. He, along with his brothers, Albert (né Abraham Wonsal, 1884 ~ 1967), Sam (né Szmuel Wonsal; 1887 ~ 1927) and Jack (né Jacob Wonsal, 1892 ~ 1978), founded Warner Brothers. Harry Warner was 76 years old at the time of his death.
1866 ~ Alfred Werner (d. Nov. 15, 1919), German inorganic chemist and recipient of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died 27 days before his 53rd birthday.
1863 ~ Edvard Munch (d. Jan. 23, 1944), Norwegian painter, best known for his painting, The Scream. He died at age 80.
1862 ~ J. Bruce Ismay (né Joseph Bruce Ismay; d. Oct. 17, 1937), English businessman who was the managing director of the White Star Line, which owned the RMS Titanic. He is best known as being a survivor of the Titanic, for which he received much criticism. He died of a stroke at age 74.
1821 ~ Gustave Flaubert (d. May 8, 1880), French novelist, best known for Madame Bovary. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 58.
1805 ~ Henry Wells (d. Dec. 10, 1878), American businessman and co-founder of Wells Fargo and American Express. He was from Thetford, Vermont. He died two days before his 73rd birthday.
1791 ~ Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria (d. Dec. 17, 1847), 2nd wife of Napoleon. She was the Duchess of Palma in her own right. After Napoleon died, she married Adam Albert von Neipperg. They had two children. After his death, she married Charles René de Bombelles. She died of what is believed to be pleurisy just 5 days after her 56th birthday.
1786 ~ William L. Marcy (né William Learned Marcy; d. July 4, 1857), 21st United States Secretary of State. He served under President Franklin Pierce from March 1853 until March 1857. He served as the 20th United States Secretary of War in the James Polk administration from March 1845 until March 1849. He was also the 11thGovernor of New York State. He died at age 70.
1574 ~ Anne of Denmark (d. Mar. 2, 1619). She was the Queen consort of Scotland, England and Ireland as the wife of King James VI. She died at age 44.
Events that Changed the World:
2017 ~ Chanukah began at sunset.
2017 ~ Doug Jones (b. 1954) beat Roy Moore (b. 1947) in the Alabama special United States Senate race to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessons (b. 1946), who took the job as United States Attorney General.
2000 ~ The United States Supreme Court decided that George W. Bush beat Al Gore in the presidential election in the case of Bush v. Gore.
1991 ~ The Russian Federation became independent from the USSR.
1985 ~ Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed after takeoff in Newfoundland, killing all 256 crew and passengers aboard, including 236 members of the United States Army’s 101st Airborne Division.
1979 ~ An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck in Columbia and Ecuador killing between 300 and 600 people. The earthquake also caused a large tsunami.
1964 ~ Jomo Kenyatta (1891 ~ 1978) became the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
1963 ~ Kenya became independent from the United Kingdom.
1950 ~ Paula Ackerman (1893 ~ 1989) became the first woman appointed to function as a rabbi in the United States. She led the congregation at Temple Beth Israel in Meridian, Mississippi, following the sudden death of her husband two weeks earlier.
1941 ~ Adolf Hitler (1889 ~ 1945) announced the extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.
1941 ~ During World War II, the United Kingdom declared war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania declared war on the United States and India declared war on Japan.
1936 ~ In the Xi’an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek (1887 ~ 1975), the leader of the China Nationalist government, was kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang (1901 ~ 2001).
1925 ~ Reza Khan (1878 ~ 1944) was crown as the new Shah of Iran, thereby beginning the Pahlavi dynasty.
1917 ~ Monsignor Edward Flanagan (1886 ~ 1948) founded Boys Town in Nebraska as a farm village to assist delinquent boys.
1911 ~ King George V (1865 ~ 1936) of the United Kingdom and Mary of Tech (1867 ~ 1953) were enthroned as the Emperor and Empress of India.
1911 ~ Delhi became the capital of India, replacing Calcutta.
1901 ~ The first transatlantic wireless transmission, sent in Morse Code, was sent from Cornwall, England to Signal Hill in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
1862 ~ During the American Civil War, the USS Cairo sank on the Yazoo River in Mississippi, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electronically detonated mine.
1787 ~ Pennsylvania became the 2nd State to ratify the United States Constitution.
1098 ~ During the First Crusade, the Crusaders breached the walls of Ma’arrat al-Numan, in what is now modern day Syria, and massacred its 20,000 inhabitants. Then, finding insufficient food, the Crusaders began to eat the bodies.
Good-Byes:
2017 ~ Ed Lee (né Edwin Mah Lee; b. May 5, 1952), American politician and Mayor of San Francisco. He served as Mayor from January 2011 until his sudden death in December 2017. He died of cardiac arrest at age 65.
2016 ~ Shirley Hazzard (b. Jan. 30, 1931), Australian writer best known for her book The Transit of Venus. She died at age 85.
2014 ~ Ivor Grattan-Guinness (né Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness; b. June 23, 1941), British historian of mathematics. He died at age 73.
2014 ~ Norman Bridwell (né Norman Ray Bridwell; b. Feb. 15, 1928), American illustrator. He is best known for his illustrations in the Clifford the Big Dog series. He died at age 86.
2008 ~ Daniel C. Gajduske (né Daniel Carleton Gajdusek; b. Sept. 9, 1923), American physician and recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with kuru. He died at age 85.
2007 ~ Ike Turner (né Izear Luster Turner, Jr., b. Nov. 5, 1931), American singer and songwriter. He was the former husband of singer Tina Turner. He died at age 76.
2006 ~ Peter Boyle (né Peter Lawrence Boyle; b. Oct. 18, 1935), American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the monster in Mel Brook’s film, Young Frankenstein. He died at age 71.
2002 ~ Dee Brown (né Dorris Alexander Brown; b. Feb. 29, 1908), American author and historian best known for his book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. He was born in Alberta, Louisiana. He died at age 94.
1999 ~ Joseph Heller (b. May 1, 1923), American novelist, best known for his novel, Catch-22. He died of a heart attack at age 76.
1998 ~ Mo Udall (né Morris King Udall; b. June 15, 1922), American politician and United States Representative from Arizona. He died at age 76.
1997 ~ Evgenii Landis (b. Oct. 6, 1921), Ukranian mathematician. He died at age 76.
1996 ~ Vance Parkard (né Vance Oakley Packard; b. May 22, 1914), American journalist, author and social critic. He died at age 82.
1993 ~ József Antall, Jr. (b. Apr. 8, 1932), Prime Minister of Hungary. He was the first democratically elected Prime Minister after the fall of communism. He served from May 1990 until his death in December 1993. He died of cancer at age 61.
1987 ~ Clifton Chenier (b. June 25, 1925), American singer and songwriter from Opelousas, Louisiana. He died of complications from diabetes at age 62 in Lafayette, Louisiana.
1985 ~ Anne Baxter (b. May 7, 1923), American actress. Her grandfather was Frank Lloyd Wright. She died of a brain aneurysm at age 62.
1977 ~ Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (née Clemenetine Ogilvy Hozier; b. Apr. 1, 1885), wife of Winston Churchill. She died at age 92.
1971 ~ Yechezkel Kutscher (b. June 1, 1909), Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist. He died at age 63.
1971 ~ David Sarnoff (b. Feb. 27, 1891), Russian-born American businessman and pioneer in radio and television. He was the founder of RCA. He also founded NBC. He died at age 80.
1968 ~ Tallulah Bankhead (née Tallulah Brockman Bankhead; b. Jan. 31, 1902), American actress. She died at age 66 of pneumonia.
1958 ~ Milutin Milanković (b. May 28, 1879), Serbian mathematician and astronomer. He died at age 79.
1939 ~ Douglas Fairbanks (né Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman, b. May 23, 1883), American actor during the silent film era. He died of a heart attack at age 56.
1921 ~ Henrietta Swan Leavitt (b. July 4, 1868), American astronomer. She was born and died in Massachusetts. She died of cancer at age 53.
1889 ~ Robert Browning (b. May 7, 1812), English poet. He died at age 77.
1889 ~ Viktor Bunyakovsky (b. Dec. 16, 1804), Russian mathematician. He died 4 days before his 86th birthday.
1858 ~ Jacques Viger (b. May 7, 1787), 1st Mayor of Montreal, Quebec. He was Mayor from 1833 until 1836. He died at age 71.
1851 ~ Joel Poinsett (né Joel Roberts Poinsett; b. Mar. 2, 1779), 15th United States Secretary of War. He served under President Martin Van Buren from March 1837 until March 1841. He died at age 72.
1843 ~ King William I of the Netherlands (b. Aug. 24, 1772). He was the King of the Netherlands from March 1815 until he abdicated the throne in October 1840 in favor of his son, William II. He died at age 71.
1685 ~ John Pell (b. Mar. 1, 1611), English mathematician. He died at age 74.
1204 ~ Maimonides (né Moshe ben Maimon, also known as the Rambam, which stands for Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon, b. Mar. 30, 1135), preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher, rabbi and Torah scholar. The exact date of his birth is not known. It has been recorded as early as March 29 and as late as April 4, 1135. March 30 is the generally accepted date of his birth. Although he was born in Córdoba, Spain, he traveled extensively throughout the Mediterranean. He died in Egypt at age 69.
894 ~ Guy III. King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor. He reigned as Holy Roman Emperor from 891 until his death 3 years later. He was killed while fighting for the Italian peninsula. The date of his birth is not known.
884 ~ Carloman II, King of the West Franks (b. 866). He reigned as King of West Francia from April 879 until his death 5 years later. He died in a hunting accident. The date of his birth is not known.
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