Birthdays:
1969~ Ken Jeong (né Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong), American actor who holds a medical degree from Tulane University. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1963 ~ Helen Hunt (née Helen Elizabeth Hunt), American actress. She was born in Culver City, California.
1958 ~ Wade Boggs (né Wade Anthony Boggs), American baseball player. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska.
1955 ~ Polly Draper (née Polly Carey Draper), American actress best known for her role in the 1980s television drama Thirtysomething. She was born in Gary, Indiana.
1955 ~ Julie Hagerty (née Julie Beth Hagerty), American actress best known for her role in the 1980 movie Airplane! She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1954 ~ Jim Belushi (né James Adam Belushi) American actor and brother of John Belushi. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1953 ~ Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of China. He assumed the office of General Secretary in November 2012; and became President in March 2013. He was born in Beijing, China.
1941 ~ Harry Nilsson (né Harry Edward Nilsson, III; d. Jan. 15, 1994), American singer-songwriter and musician. He died of a heart attack at age 52.
1939 ~ Brian Jacques (né James Brian Jacques; d. Feb. 5, 2011), British milkman and writer who sold 20 million books. He was born and died in Liverpool, United Kingdom. He died at age 71.
1932 ~ Mario Cuomo (né Mario Matthew Cuomo; d. Jan. 1, 2015), American politician and 52nd Governor of New York. He was governor from January 1983 until December 1994. He was considered the liberal who flirted with a presidential run. He died at age 82.
1924 ~ Ezer Weizman (d. Apr. 24, 2005), 7th President of Israel. He served in that Office from May 1993 until July 2000. He was born in Tel Aviv before the creation of the State of Israel. He died of respiratory failure at age 80.
1923 ~ Johnny Most (né John M. Most; d. Jan. 3, 1993), American sports announcer. He was the radio voice of the Boston Celtics. He died of a heart attack at age 69.
1923 ~ Erland Josephson (d. Feb. 25, 2012), Swedish actor who stood for Ingmar Bergman. He and Bergman collaborated on more than 40 plays and films over 60 years. In Bergman’s films, he often became something of a Bergman surrogate and a thinly veiled stand-in for the director in many of the movies. He died at age 88.
1922 ~ Mo Udall (né Morris King Udall; d. Dec. 12, 1998), American politician and United States Representative from Arizona. He was born in Saint Johns, Arizona. He died at age 76 in Washington, D.C.
1917 ~ John Fenn (né John Bennett Fenn; d. Dec. 10, 2010), American chemist and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 93.
1916 ~ Herbert Simon (né Herbert Alexander Simon; d. Feb. 9, 2001), American economist and recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 84.
1915 ~ Thomas Huckle Weller (d. Aug. 23, 2008), American virologist and recipient of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died at age 93 in Needham, Massachusetts.
1914 ~ Yuri Andropov (d. Feb. 9, 1984), Russian politician. He died at age 69.
1906 ~ Gordon Welchman (né William Gordon Welchman; d. Oct. 8, 1985), British mathematician and code-breaker during World War II. He died at age 79 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
1894 ~ Nikolai Chebotaryov (d. July 2, 1947), Ukrainian mathematician. He died 17 days after his 53rd birthday.
1882 ~ Ion Antonescu (d. June 1, 1946), Romanian Marshal and 43rd Prime Minister of Romania. He served in that Office from September 1940 until August 1944. After World War II, he was convicted of war crimes and was executed 14 days before his 64th birthday.
1843 ~ Edvard Grieg (né Edvard Hagerup Grieg; d. Sept. 4, 1907), Norwegian composer. He died of heart failure at age 64.
1805 ~ William B. Ogden (né William Butler Ogden, d. Aug. 3, 1877), 1st Mayor of Chicago. He was a railroad executive before becoming Mayor. He was Mayor from 1837 until 1838. He died at age 72.
1801 ~ Benjamin Wright Raymond (d. Apr. 6, 1883), Mayor of Chicago. He served first from 1839 to 1840, and served his second term from 1842 until 1843. He died at age 81.
1767 ~ Rachel Jackson (née Rachel Donelson, d. Dec. 22, 1828), wife of President Andrew Jackson. She died at age 61. She died after Jackson had been elected President, but before his inauguration, hence, she never served as First Lady.
1765 ~ Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (d. Apr. 19, 1831), German mathematician. The moon crater Bohnenberger is named in his honor. He died at age 65.
1765 ~ Martin Baum (d. Dec. 14, 1831), Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. He died at age 66 during an influenza epidemic.
1640 ~ Bernard Lamy (d. Jan. 29, 1715), French mathematician. He died at age 74.
1519 ~ Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (d. July 23, 1536), illegitimate son of King Henry VIII of England. He died at age 17. He is believed to have died of tuberculosis.
1479 ~ Lisa del Giocondo (d. July 15, 1542), Italian woman believed to be the subject of diVinci’s Mona Lisa. She the exact date of her death is unknown. She is believed to have been 63 at the time of her death.
1330 ~ Edward of Woodstock (d. June 8, 1376), son of King Edward III of England and father of King Richard II of England. He was known as the Black Prince. He died 7 days before his 46th birthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2014 ~ Father’s Day in the United States.
2008 ~ Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This was the start of the 2008 financial crisis.
1994 ~ Israel and the Vatican City established full diplomatic relations.
1991 ~ Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines began to erupt, killing over 800 people.
1978 ~ King Hussein of Jordan (1935 ~ 1999) married American Lisa Halaby (b. 1951). She became known as Queen Noor following her marriage.
1970 ~ The trial of Charles Manson (1934 ~ 2017) for the murder of actress Sharon Tate (1943 ~ 1969) and others began.
1934 ~ The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park was founded.
1916 ~ President Woodrow Wilson (1856 ~ 1924) signed the bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America. This is the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
1905 ~ Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882 ~ 1920) married Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden (1882 ~ 1973).
1896 ~ A deadly tsunami killed more than 22,000 people in Japan.
1888 ~ Crown Prince Wilhelm became Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859 ~ 1941). He was the last emperor of the German Empire. He was the grandson of Queen Victoria (1819 ~ 1901) of England.
1878 ~ Eadweard Muybridge (1830 ~ 1904) took a series of photographs, which proved that all four feet of the horse leave the ground when it runs. This series of photographs became the basis of motion pictures.
1877 ~ Henry Ossian Flipper (1856 ~ 1940), a former slave, became the first African-American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1864 ~ Arlington National Cemetery was established after 200 acres surrounding the Arlington Mansion, which had formerly been owned by General Robert E. Lee (1807 ~ 1870), was set aside as a military cemetery by United States Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (1814 ~ 1869).
1844 ~ Charles Goodyear (1800 ~ 1860) was granted a patent for rubber vulcanization, which strengthens rubber.
1836 ~ Arkansas became the 25th State of the Union.
1804 ~ New Hampshire approved the 12th Amendment to the United States Constitution. It refined the procedure for electing the President and Vice President of the United States.
1752 ~ The traditional date ascribed to Benjamin Franklin’s experimentation proving that lightning is electricity. The actual date is unknown.
1667 ~ The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643 ~ 1704). He is said to have transfused sheep’s blood into a 15-year old boy. The boy survived the transfusion.
1648 ~ Margaret Jones (1613 ~ 1648) was hanged in Boston for witchcraft. She was supposedly one of the first persons to be executed for witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1520 ~ In papal bull Exsurge Domine, Pope Leo X (1475 ~ 1521) threatened to excommunicate Martin Luther (1483 ~ 1546).
1389 ~ In the Battle of Kosovo, the Ottoman Empire defeated the Serbs and Bosnians.
1300 ~ The city of Bilbao in northern Spain was founded.
1215 ~ King John of England (1166 ~ 1216) signed and sealed the Magna Carta.
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ Charles A. Reich (né Charles Alan Reich; b. May 20, 1928), American academic and hippy professor who promised The Greening of America, a book of the counterculture of the 1960s. He was born in New York, New York. He died 26 days after his 91st birthday in San Francisco, California.
2019 ~ Franco Zeffirelli (né Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli; b. Feb. 12, 1923), Italian opera and film director who embraced grandeur. He is best known for his 1968 rendition of Romeo and Juliet. He died at age 96.
2015 ~ Blaze Starr (née Fannie Belle Fleming; b. April 10, 1932), American burlesque star and stripper who had a long affair with Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long. She was known as the Hottest Blaze in Burlesque. She was born and died in Wilsondale, West Virginia. She was 83 years old.
2015 ~ Kirk Kerkorian (né Kerkor Kerkorian; b. June 6, 1917), American businessman and high-rolling investor who shook up Las Vegas. He is known for having been one of the most important figures in shaping Las Vegas. He built the world’s largest hotels in Las Vegas, including the International Hotel, the MGM Grand Hotel and the MGM Grand. He was instrumental in producing the movie, The Promise, about the Armenian genocide, however, he died before the film was released. He died a week before his 98th birthday.
2014 ~ Casey Kasem (né Kemal Amin Kasem; b. Apr. 27, 1932), American radio disc jockey and personality, best known for being the host of American Top 40. He democratized rock ‘n roll. He died at age 82.
2013 ~ Kenneth G. Wilson (né Kenneth Geddes Wilson; b. June 8, 1936), American physicist and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Waltham, Massachusetts. He died in Saco, Maine 7 days after his 77thbirthday.
2013 ~ Paul Soros (né Paul Schwartz; b. June 5, 1926), Hungarian-born holocaust survivor who fled to the United States and went on to make millions in the cargo shipping industry. His younger brother is George Soros. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He died 10 days after his 87th birthday in New York, New York.
2013 ~ Edgar Gilbert (né Edgar Nelson Gilbert; b. July 25, 1923), American mathematician. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 89 following a fall in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
2011 ~ Bill Haast (b. Dec. 30, 1910), American snake handler who charmed tourists and saved lives. He learned how to extract venom from poisonous snakes for medical and research use. He was the director of the Miami Serpentarium Laboratories in Florida. He was 100 years old.
2003 ~ Hume Cronyn (né Hume Blake Cronyn, Jr.; b. July 18, 1911), Canadian actor. He died of prostate cancer about a month before his 92nd birthday.
1996 ~ Ella Fitzgerald (née Ella Jane Fitzgerald; b. Apr. 25, 1917), American jazz singer. She died of diabetes at age 79.
1993 ~ John Connally, Jr. (né John Bowden Connally, Jr.; b. Feb. 27, 1917), 61st Secretary of the Treasury. He served under President Richard Nixon from February 1971 until June 1972. He was also the 55th United States Secretary of the Navy under President John F. Kennedy from January 1961 until December 1961. He has also served as the 39th Governor of Texas and was in the motorcade when President Kennedy was killed. He died at age 76.
1992 ~ Chuck Menville (né Charles David Menville; b. Apr. 17, 1940), American animator and screenwriter. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at age 52 in Malibu, California.
1991 ~ Sir Arthur Lewis (né William Arthur Lewis; b. Jan. 23, 1915), San Lucian economist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 76.
1984 ~ Meredith Willson (né Robert Meredith Willson; b. May 18, 1902), American playwright and composer. He is best known for writing the music and lyrics of the Broadway musical The Music Man. He was born in Mason City, Iowa. He died less than a month after his 82nd birthday in Santa Monica, California.
1971 ~ Wendell Meredith Stanley (b. Aug. 16, 1904), American biochemist and virologist. He was the recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 66.
1971 ~ Hillel Oppenheimer (né Heinz Reinhard Oppenheimer; b. Apr. 4, 1899), German-Israeli botanist. He was born in Berlin, Germany but emigrated to what is now Israel in 1925. He died at age 72 in Rehovot, Israel.
1962 ~ Grace Marie Bareis (b. Dec. 19, 1875), American mathematician. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate degree in mathematics from Ohio State University. She was born in Canal Winchester, Ohio. She died at age 86 in Columbus, Ohio.
1849 ~ James K. Polk (né James Knox Polk; b. Nov. 2, 1795), 11th President of the United States. He served as President from March 1854 through March 1849. He had previously served as the 13th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, from December 1835 until March 1839. He died at age 53 shortly after his term as President ended.
1184 ~ Magnus Erlingsson (b. 1156), King of Norway. The exact date of his birth is not known. He was killed in battle at age 27 or 28.
923 ~ Robert I of France (b. 866). The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 56 or 57 years old at the time of his death.
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