Birthdays:
1952 ~ Carol Kane (née Carolyn Laurie Kane), American actress. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
1952 ~ Isabella Rossellini (née Isabella Firoella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini), Italian actress and daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. She has a twin sister, Isotta Ingrid Rossellini. She was born in Rome, Italy.
1950 ~ Mike Johanns (né Michael Owen Johanns), 28th United States Secretary of Agriculture. He served during the George W. Bush administration from January 2005 until September 2007. He subsequently became a United States Senator from Nebraska, where he served from January 2009 until January 2015. He was born in Osage, Iowa.
1949 ~ Lech Kaczyński (d. Apr. 10, 2010), President of Poland. He was killed in a plane crash in Russia. He was 60 years old.
1948 ~ Eliezer Halfin (d. Sept. 6, 1972), Israeli wrestler. He was killed by Palestinian terrorists in Munich during the 1972 Olympics. He was born in Riga, Latvia. He was 24 years old.
1942 ~ Roger Ebert (né Roger Joseph Ebert; d. Apr. 4, 2013), American journalist and movie critic who gave cinema a big thumbs-up. He died at age 70 following a long battle with cancer.
1942 ~ Sir Paul McCartney (né James Paul McCartney), British singer and musician, one of the members of the Beatles. He was born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
1939 ~ Lou Brock (né Louis Clark Brock), American baseball player. He was born in El Dorado, Arkansas.
1932 ~ Dudley Herschback (né Dudley Robert Herschback), American chemist and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in San Jose, California.
1926 ~ Tom Wicker (né Thomas Grey Wicker; d. Nov. 25, 2011), American journalist who witnessed JFK’s death. He was best known as a political reporter and columnist for the New York Times. He died in Rochester, Vermont at age 85.
1924 ~ George Mikan (né George Lawrence Mikan, Jr.; d. June 1, 2005), the Lakers legend who was basketball’s first superstar. He was known as Mr. Basketball. He died less than 2 weeks before his 81st birthday.
1918 ~ Franco Modigliani (d. Sept. 25, 2003), Italian economist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts at age 85.
1918 ~ Jerome Karle (né Jerome Karfunkle; d. June 6, 2013), American chemist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques. He died 12 days before his 95th birthday.
1917 ~ Richard Boone (né Richard Allen Boone; d. Jan. 10, 1981), American actor best known for his Westerns. He died of pneumonia and throat cancer at age 63.
1915 ~ Red Adair (né Paul Neal Adair; d. Aug. 7, 2004), American oil field firefighter. He was born and died in Houston, Texas. He died at age 89.
1915 ~ Alice T. Schafer (née Alice Elizabeth Turner; d. Sept. 27, 2009), American mathematician. She was a founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics. She died in Lexington, Massachusetts at age 94.
1914 ~ E.G. Marshall (né Everett Eugene Grunz; d. Aug. 24, 1998), American actor. He died at age 84.
1913 ~ Oswald Teichmüller (né Paul Julius Oswald Teichmüller; d. Sept. 11, 1943), German mathematician. He was killed in action during World War II. He was 30 years old.
1913 ~ Sylvia Porter (née Sylvia Field Feldman; d. June 5, 1991), American economist and journalist. She died 13 days before her 78th birthday.
1913 ~ Sammy Cahn (né Samuel Cohen; d. Jan. 15, 1993), American lyricist who wrote many songs for Broadway shows. He is also known for his winter song, Let it Snow! He died at age 79.
1913 ~ Robert Mondavi (né Robert Gerald Mondavi; d. May 16, 2008), American winemaker. He died about a month before his 95th birthday.
1901 ~ Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia (d. July 17, 1918), youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, she was murdered along with the rest of her family on July 17, 1918, by Bolshevik secret police. She was killed a month before her 18th birthday.
1884 ~ Édouard Daladier (d. Oct. 10, 1970), three-time Prime Minister of France. He died at age 86.
1882 ~ Georgi Dimitrov (d. July 2, 1949), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was the first Communist leader of Bulgaria. He was in office from December 1946 until July 1949. He died 14 days after his 67th birthday.
1870 ~ Édouard Le Roy (né Édouard Louis Emmanuel Le Roy; d. Nov. 10, 1954), French philosopher and mathematician. He died at age 83.
1858 ~ Andrew Forsyth (né Andrew Russell Forsyth; d. June 2, 1942), British mathematician. He died 2 weeks before his 84thbirthday.
1857 ~ Henry Clay Folger, Jr. (d. June 11, 1930), American businessman and philanthropist and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. He died 7 days before his 73rd birthday.
1845 ~ Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (d. May 18, 1922), French physician and recipient of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria. He died a month before his 77th birthday.
1294 ~ King Charles IV of France (d. Feb. 1, 1328). He was King from January 1322 until his death in February 1328. He died at age 33.
Events that Changed the World:
2018 ~ Osaka, Japan was hit by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake.
2017 ~ Father’s Day in the United States.
1983 ~ Astronaut Sally Ride (1951 ~ 2012) became the first American woman in space.
1979 ~ The United States and the Soviet Union signed the SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) treaty.
1953 ~ The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ended with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
1940 ~ Winston Churchill (1874 ~ 1965) gave his “Finest Hour” speech to the British House of Commons.
1928 ~ Amelia Earhart (1897 ~ 1937) became the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. She was a passenger at the time.
1923 ~ The first taxies, owned by Checker Taxi, began appearing on the streets of New York City.
1900 ~ The Empress Dowager Cixi of China (1868 ~ 1913) ordered all foreigners, including diplomats and their families, to be killed.
1873 ~ Susan B. Anthony (1820 ~ 1906) was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1815 ~ Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.
1812 ~ The United States Congress declared war on the United Kingdom, initiating its involvement in the War of 1812.
1633 ~ Charles I (1600 ~ 1649) was crowned King of Scots.
1429 ~ Under the leadership of Joan of Arc (1412 ~ 1431), French forces defeated the main English army under Sir John Fastolf (1380 ~ 1459) at the Battle of Patay. This was a turning point in the Hundred Year’s War.
Good-Byes:
2015 ~ Ralph Roberts (né Ralph Joel Roberts; b. Mar. 13, 1920), American businessman and co-founder of Comcast Communications. He died at age 95.
2015 ~ Jack Rollins (né Jacob Rabinowitz; b. Mar. 23, 1915), American talent spotter who discovered comic greats. His first major success came in the 1950s when he helped to create and promote the comedy of Nichols and Elaine May. He was born and died in New York, New York. He was 100 years old.
2014 ~ Stephanie Kwolek (née Stephanie Louise Kwolek; b. July 31, 1923), American chemist and inventor of Kevlar. She died at age 90.
2013 ~ Michael Hastings (né Michael Mahon Hastings; b. Jan. 28, 1980), journalist whose article on General Stanley McCrystal let to the Afghanistan Commander’s dismissal from the military. He died in a car crash at age 33.
2011 ~ Clarence Clemmons (né Clarence Anicholas Clemmons, Jr.; b. Jan. 11, 1942), African-American saxophonist who was the Big Man who gave Springsteen soul. He was a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. He died of a stroke at 69 years old.
2011 ~ Yelena Bonner (b. Feb. 15, 1923), Soviet human rights activist and dissident who never waivered. She was the wife of Andrei Sakharov (1921 ~ 1989). She died at age 88.
2010 ~ José Saramago (né José de Sousa Saramago; b. Nov. 16, 1922), Portuguese novelist and journalist. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was 87 years old.
2008 ~ Tasha Tudor (née Starling Burgess; b. Aug. 28, 1915), American author and illustrator. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Marlboro, Vermont. She was 92 years old.
2007 ~ Bernard Manning (né Bernard John Manning; b. Aug. 13, 1930), British comedian. He died of a heart attack at age 76.
2005 ~ Manuel Sadosky (b. Apr. 13, 1914), Argentine mathematician. His family was originally from Russia, but fled to Argentina to escape the pogroms. He died at age 91.
2000 ~ Nancy Marchand (b. June 19, 1928), American actress. She is best known for her roles as Margaret Pynchon on the television drama Lou Grant, and Livia Soprano on The Sopranos. She died of lung cancer 1 day before her 72nd birthday.
1992 ~ Peter Allen (né Peter Richard Woolnough; b. Feb. 10, 1944), Australian singer and songwriter, and first husband of Liza Minelli. He died of AIDS at age 48.
1992 ~ Mordecai Ardon (né Max Bronstein; b. July 13, 1896), Israeli painter. He died less than a month before his 96th birthday.
1989 ~ I.F. Stone, (né Isidor Feinstein Stone; b. Dec. 24, 1907), American investigative journalist and writer. He died of myocardial infarction at age 81 in Boston, Massachusetts.
1982 ~ John Cheever (né John William Cheever; b. May 27, 1912), American author. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. He died of cancer about 3 weeks after his 70th birthday.
1980 ~ Kazimierz Kuratowski (b. Feb. 2, 1896), Polish mathematician and logician. He was born in Warsaw, Poland. He died at age 84.
1974 ~ Júlio César de Mello e Souza (b. May 6, 1895), Brazilian mathematician. He died of a heart attack at age 79.
1971 ~ Paul Karrer (b. Apr. 21, 1889), Swiss organic chemist and recipient of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on vitamins. He died at age 82.
1959 ~ Ethel Barrymore (née Ethel Mae Blythe; b. Aug. 15, 1879), American actress. She died of cardiovascular disease at age 79.
1944 ~ Lilli Jahn (née Lilli Schlüchterer; b. Mar. 5, 1900), German-Jewish physician. She perished in the Breitenau concentration camp during World War II. She became known following the posthumous publication of her letters to her children in which she described the conditions of her imprisonment in the concentration camp. She was murdered at age 44.
1937 ~ Gaston Doumergue (b. Aug. 1, 1836), President of France from June 1924 until June 1931. He died at age 73.
1936 ~ Maxim Gorky (né Alexei Maximovich Peshkov; b. Mar. 28, 1868), Russian author. His birthday is sometimes shown in accordance with the Julian calendar, which would be March 16. He was 68 years old at the time of his death.
1928 ~ Roald Amundsen (b. July 16, 1872), Norwegian explorer who is credited with leading the first expedition to reach the South Pole. He died about a month before his 56th birthday when the plane he was flying on a rescue mission over the Artic presumably crashed. The bodies of those in the plane were never found.
1917 ~ Titu Maiorescu (b. Feb. 15, 1840), Prime Minister of Romania. He served as Prime Minister from March 1913 until December 1913. He died at age 77.
1902 ~ Samuel Butler (b. Dec. 4, 1835), English author and poet. He died at age 66.
1673 ~ Jeanne Mance (b. Nov. 12, 1606), French-Canadian nurse and founder of the Hôtel-Dieu do Montréal. She died at age 66.
1464 ~ Rogier van der Weyden (b. 1400), Flemish painter. The actual date of his birth is unknown.
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