Birthdays:
1987 ~ Naya Rivera (née Naya Marie Rivera), American actress. She is best known for her role as Santana Lopez on the television show, Glee. She was born in Santa Clarita, California.
1978 ~ Hannah Gadsby, Australian comedian. She was born in Smithton, Tasmania, Australia.
1966 ~ Olivier Martinez, French actor. He was briefly married to actress Halle Berry. He was born in Paris, France.
1964 ~ Jeff Bezos (né Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen), American businessman and founder of Amazon.com. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1960 ~ Oliver Platt (né Oliver James Platt), Canadian-born American actor. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
1956 ~ Marie Colvin (née Marie Catherine Colvin; d. Feb. 22, 2012), American war reporter determined to bear witness. She was a foreign war correspondent who followed wars throughout the world, primarily in the Middle East. She was killed covering the war in Syria at age 56. Her story is depicted in the 2018 film A Private War.
1954 ~ Howard Stern (né Howard Allen Stern), American radio personality. He was born in Queens, New York.
1952 ~ Walter Mosley (né Walter Ellis Mosley), African-American author. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
1951 ~ Kirstie Alley (née Kirstie Louise Alley), American actress. She is best known for her role as Rebecca Howe on Cheers. She was born in Wichita, Kansas.
1949 ~ Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist, best known for surrealism and magical realism. He was born in Kyoto, Japan.
1947 ~ Tom Dempsey (né Thomas John Dempsey), American football player. He began his career in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints. He was known for his kicking style. He had been born with no toes on his right foot, so wore a special shoe. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1946 ~ André De Shields, African-American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1944 ~ Joe Frazier (né Joseph William Frazier; d. Nov. 7, 2011), American heavyweight champ whose rivalry with Muhammad Ali defined an era. He died at age 67.
1944 ~ Cynthia Robinson (d. Nov. 23, 2015), African-American trumpeter who was the soul of The Family Stone. She died of cancer at age 71.
1925 ~ Katherine MacGregor (née Dorlee Deane McGregor; d. Nov. 13, 2018), American actress who put the spice in Little House on the Prairie, in her role as the scheming Mrs. Oleson. She died at age 93.
1923 ~ Alice Miller (née Alicija Englard; d. Apr. 14, 2010), the Polish-born psychologist who explored childhood trauma. She died at age 87.
1916 ~ Moshe Davis (d. Apr. 10, 1996), American rabbi and scholar of American Jewish history. He died at age 80.
1916 ~ P.W. Botha (né Pieter Willem Botha, d. Oct. 31, 2006), South African politician. He was President of South Africa from 1978 to 1989. He had a reputation as being a tough and ruthless leader. He died of a heart attack at age 90.
1916 ~ Ruth R. Benerito (née Ruth Mary Rogan; d. Oct. 5, 2013), American chemist and inventor. She worked in the textile industry and developed wash-and-wear cotton fabrics. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned a degree in chemistry and mathematics from the Sophie Newman College, the women’s college of Tulane University. She died at age 97.
1906 ~ Kurt Hirsch (né Kurt August Hirsch; d. Nov. 4, 1986), German-born mathematician. He left Germany for England to escape Nazi persecution. He died at age 80.
1905 ~ Tex Ritter (né Woodward Maurice Ritter; d. Jan. 2, 1974), American actor and country music singer. He died of a heart attack 10 days before his 69th birthday.
1899 ~ Paul Hermann Müller (d. Oct. 12, 1965), Swiss chemist and recipient of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. He died at age 66 following a short illness.
1895 ~ Leo Aryeh Mayer (d. Apr. 6, 1959), Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He died at age 64.
1880 ~ Daniele Varè (d. Feb. 27, 1956), Italian diplomat and author. He is best known for his novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers. He died at age 86.
1877 ~ Frank Corr (d. June 3, 1934), Mayor of Chicago. He became interim mayor after the assassination of Anton Cermak in March 1933. Corr served as mayor for less than a month, from March 1933 until April 1933. He died at age 57.
1876 ~ Jack London (né John Griffith Chaney; d. Nov. 22, 1916), American writer, best known for his novels, White Fang, and The Call of the Wild. He died at age 40.
1856 ~ John Singer Sargent (d. Apr. 14, 1925), American artist and painter. He died of heart disease at age 69.
1853 ~ Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (d. Aug. 6, 1925), Italian mathematician. He died at age 72.
1822 ~ Étienne Lenoir (né Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir; d. Aug. 4, 1900), Belgium engineer and designer of the internal combustion engine. He died at age 78.
1799 ~ Priscilla Susan Bury (née Priscilla Susan Falkner; d. Mar. 8, 1872), British botanist and illustrator. She died at age 73.
1729 ~ Edmund Burke (d. July 9, 1797), English philosopher and statesman. He died at age 68.
1716 ~ Antonio de Ulloa (né Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Giral; d. July 3, 1795), Spanish general and 1st Spanish Colonial Governor of Louisiana. He served in that position from 1763 until 1768. He died at age 79.
1628 ~ Charles Perrault (d. May 16, 1703), French author known for laying the foundation for the fairy tale. He died at age 75.
1587/88 ~ John Winthrop (d. Mar. 26, 1649), the English-born Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but this is typically the date ascribed to his birth.
Events that Changed the World:
2016 ~ A bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey killed 10 people and wounded several others.
2010 ~ A massive 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, killing approximately 316,000 people and destroying the majority of the country’s capital of Port-au-Prince.
1991 ~ An Act of the United States Congress authorized the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait in the Gulf War.
1971 ~ All in the Family made its television debut.
1969 ~ Super Bowl III between the New York Jets and the Baltimore Colts was played. The Jets beat the Colts in one of the greatest upsets in sports history. The Jets were the underdogs, but beat the Colts in a score of 16-7.
1967 ~ Dr. James Bedford (1893 ~ 1967) became the first person to be cryonically preserved.
1932 ~ Hattie W. Caraway (1878 ~ 1950), became the first woman to be elected to serve a full term as a United States Senate. She was from Arkansas. Previously, a provision of the law allowed widows to complete the terms of their deceased spouse.
1921 ~ Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866 ~ 1944) was elected as Major League Baseball’s first Commissioner. This post was created in the wake of the Black Sox Scandal and was intended to restore the public’s confidence in the sport.
1918 ~ Finland’s Mosaic Confessors law went into effect making Finish Jews full rights of citizenship. The Act had passed on December 22, 1917.
1915 ~ The United States House of Representatives rejected a proposal to allow women the right to vote. Women wouldn’t be granted the vote until the enactment of the 19th Amendment, which was ratified in 1920.
1888 ~ A huge blizzard swept through the American Great Plains. The storm, known as the Schoolhouse Blizzard, came on a relatively warm day and people were not expecting bad weather. As a result, when the storm came, many people were away from home, including many children attending one-room school houses throughout the Plains. After the storm passed, 235 people had frozen to death.
1848 ~ The Sicilian Revolution of 1848 began in Palermo, Sicily. It was the first of several revolutions to occur between January 12, 1848 and May 15, 1849 against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Good-Byes:
2018 ~ Keith Jackson (né Keith Max Jackson; b. Oct. 18, 1928), American sportscaster who became a football legend. He had a long career with ABC Sports. He died at age 89.
2017 ~ William Peter Blatty (b. Jan. 7, 1928), American comedy writer who spooked readers with The Exorcist. He died of multiple myeloma 5 days after his 89th birthday.
2015 ~ Darrell H. Winfield (b. July 30, 1929), American rancher and cowboy who defined the Marlboro Man. He was the real-life cowboy who appeared in the Marlboro cigarette advertisements. He was 85 years old.
2013 ~ Eugene Patterson (né Eugene Corbett Patterson; b. Oct. 15, 1923), American Southern editor who fostered racial equality. He was the editor of The Atlanta Constitution from 1960 until 1968. He died of cancer at age 89.
2012 ~ William J. Janklow (né William John Janklow; b. Sept. 13, 1939), South Dakota governor who hurried too much. He was Governor for 16 years over two terms, first from January 1979 to January 1987, and then from January 1995 until January 2003. He went on to be a congressman in the United States House of Representative, but his career was cut short in 2004 after his conviction of second-degree manslaughter for killing a Minnesota farmer in an automobile accident. He died of brain cancer at age 72.
2009 ~ Claude Berri (né Claude Berel Langmann; b. July 1, 1934), French actor, director and writer. He died of a stroke at age 74.
2004 ~ Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (b. Mar. 7, 1922), Russian mathematician. She died at age 81.
2003 ~ Maurice Gibb (né Maurice Ernest Gibb; b. Dec. 22, 1949), Australian musician and member of the Bee Gees. He was the twin brother of Robin Gibb (1949 ~ 2012). Maurice died 3 weeks after his 53rd birthday.
2003 ~ Leopoldo Galtieri (b. July 15, 1926), 44th President of Argentina. He was president from December 1981 until June 1982, during the last military dictatorship. He was removed following the British invasion of the Falkland Islands. He died at age 76.
2002 ~ Cyrus Vance (né Cyrus Roberts Vance; b. Mar. 27, 1917), 57th United States Secretary of State. He served during the Carter administration from January 1977 until April 1980. He had previously served as the 7th United States Secretary of the Army from July 1962 until January 1964 under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He died of pneumonia at age 84.
2001 ~ William Hewlett (né William Reddington Hewlett; b. May 20, 1913), American engineer and co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. He died at age 87.
2000 ~ Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau (né Margaret Hutchinson; b. Oct. 27, 1910). American chemical engineer. She designed the first commercial penicillin production plant. She was also the first female member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. She received her doctorate from MIT. She was born in Houston, Texas and died at age 89 in Weston, Massachusetts.
1997 ~ Charles B. Huggins (né Charles Brenton Huggins; b. Sept. 22, 1901), Canadian-born physician and recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers. His specialty was prostate cancer. He died at age 95.
1996 ~ Joachim A. Nitsche (b. Sept. 2, 1926), German mathematician. He died at age 69.
1990 ~ Laurence J. Peter (né Laurence Johnston Peter; b. Sept. 16, 1919), Canadian educator and hierachiologist, best known for formulating the Peter Principle, whereby every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetency. He died at age 70.
1976 ~ Dame Agatha Christie, Lady Mallowan (née Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller; b. Sept. 15, 1890), British mystery writer. She died at age 85.
1960 ~ Nevil Shute (né Nevil Shute Norway; b. Jan. 17, 1899), British-born Australian author best known for his novel On the Beach, about a nuclear holocaust and A Town Like Alice. He died 5 days before his 61st birthday.
1922 ~ Helen Blanchard (née Helen Augusta Blanchard; b. Oct. 25, 1840), American inventor. She received 28 patents between 1873 and 1915, many of which were improvements on the sewing machine. She was born in Portland, Maine and died in Providence, Rhode Island. She died at age 81.
1909 ~ Hermann Minkowski (d. June 22, 1864), German mathematician. He died suddenly of appendicitis at age 44.
1899 ~ Hiram Walker (b. July 4, 1816), American businessman and distiller. He founded Canadian Club whiskey. He was born in East Douglas, Massachusetts. He died at age 82.
1880 ~ Nell Arthur (née Ellen Lewis Herndon, b. Aug. 30, 1837), 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.
1834 ~ William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (né William Wyndham Grenville; b. Oct. 25, 1759), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as Prime Minister from February 1806 until March 1807 during the reign of King George III. During his term, slave trade in Britain was abolished. He died at age 74.
1759 ~ Anne, Princess Royal (b. Nov. 2, 1709), Princess consort of Orange and wife of William IV, Prince of Orange. She was the second child and eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Queen consort Caroling of Ansbach. She died of dropsy at age 49.
1665 ~ Pierre de Fermat (b. Oct. 31, 1607), French mathematician. The exact date of his birth is unknown, although it is generally attributed to have been 1601 it may have been as late as 1607. Also, he may have been born as late as December 7, 1607. He was, thus, either 57 or 63 at the time of his death. He did pioneering work in analytic geometry.
1519 ~ Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. Mar. 22, 1459). He ruled as the Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519. He died at age 59.
1321 ~ Marie of Brabant (b. May 13, 1254), Queen consort of France and wife of King Philip III of France. She died at age 67.
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