Birthdays:
1967 ~ Anderson Cooper (né Anderson Hays Cooper), American journalist and son of Gloria Vanderbilt. He was born in New York, New York.
1954 ~ Susan Landau, American mathematician and engineer.
1946 ~ Dame Penelope Wilton (née Penelope Alice Wilton), British actress. She was born in Scarborough, England.
1936 ~ Larry McMurtry (né Larry Jeff McMurtry), American author. He is best known for his western novel, Lonesome Dove. He was born in Archer City, Texas.
1931 ~ Norman Brinker (né Norman Eugene Brinker; d. June 9, 2009), American restaurateur who pioneered the salad bar. He was born in Denver, Colorado. He died 6 days after his 78th birthday in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1931 ~ Raúl Castro, President of Cuba and younger brother of Fidel Castro. He assumed the Office of President in February 2008. He is also the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba. He was born in Biran, Cuba.
1930 ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley (née Marion Eleanor Zimmer; d. Sept 25, 1999), American author. She is best known for her Arthurian novel, The Mists of Avalon. She died of heart failure at age 69.
1930 ~ Joe Coulombe (né Joseph Hardin Coulombe; d. Feb. 28, 2020), American businessman and founder of Trader Joe’s. he was born in San Diego, California. He died at age 89 in Pasadena, California.
1929 ~ Chuck Barris (né Charles Hirsch Barris; d. Mar. 21, 2017), American game show producer who embraced bad taste. He is best remembered for hosting The Gong Show, and creating The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game. He died of natural causes at age 87.
1929 ~ Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. He was the recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1926 ~ Allen Ginsberg (né Irwin Allen Ginsberg; d. Apr. 5, 1997), American beat-poet. He died of liver cancer at age 70.
1925 ~ Tony Curtis (né Bernard Schwartz; d. Sept. 29, 2010), American actor and singer. He died at age 85.
1924 ~ Colleen Dewhurst (née Colleen Rose Dewhurst; b. Aug. 22, 1991), Canadian actress. She died of cancer at age 67.
1924 ~ Torsten Wiesel (né Torsten Nils Wiesel), Swedish neurophysiologist and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in Uppsala, Sweden.
1923 ~ Igor Shafarevich (d. Feb. 19, 2017), Russian mathematician. He died at age 93.
1922 ~ Alain Resnais (d. March 1, 2014), the French filmmaker who challenged viewers. He died at age 91. He was born in Vannes, France.
1913 ~ Azellia White (d. Sept. 15, 2019), African-American aviator who found freedom in the sky. She was one of the first African-American women to earn a pilot’s license. She was born in Gonzales, Texas. She died at age 106 in Houston, Texas.
1910 ~ Paulette Goddard (née Marion Levy; d. Apr. 23, 1990), American actress and model. She died of heart failure at age 79.
1906 ~ Josephine Baker (née Freda Josephine McDonald; d. Apr. 12, 1975), French actress, activist and humanitarian. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but as an African-American, was not able to perform in America. She became a French citizen and was able to become a well-known and respected artist. She supported the French Resistance during World War II. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 68.
1906 ~ Sir Roy George Douglas Allen (d. Sept. 29, 1983), British economist and mathematician. He died at age 77.
1904 ~ Charles Drew (né Charles Richard Drew; d. Apr. 1, 1950), African-American physician and surgeon. He was active in blood research and blood transfusions. He was at age 45 killed in a car accident in North Carolina. A school in New Orleans was named after him.
1904 ~ Jan Peerce (né Jacob Pincus Perlemuth; d. Dec. 15, 1984), American tenor. He died at age 80.
1900 ~ Adelaide Ames (d. June 26, 1932), American astronomer. She died in a boating accident on Swam Lake in New Hampshire just 3 weeks after her 32nd birthday.
1900 ~ Leo Picard (d. Apr. 4, 1997), German-Israeli geologist. He died at age 96.
1899 ~ Georg von Békésy (d. June 13, 1972), Hungarian biophysicist and recipient of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in hearing. He became a professor at the University of Hawaii. He died in Honolulu, Hawaii 10 days after his 73rd birthday.
1882 ~ Dudley Field Malone (d. Oct. 5, 1950), American attorney and political activist. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 68 in Culver City, California.
1873 ~ Otto Loewi (d. Dec. 25, 1961), German pharmacologist and recipient of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of how acetylcholine helped enhance medical therapy. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but immigrated to the United States. He died at age 88.
1865 ~ King George V of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India (d. Jan. 20, 1936). He was King from May 1910 until his death 26 years later. He was married to Mary of Teck. He died at age 70.
1864 ~ Ransom E. Olds (né Ransom Eli Olds; d. Aug. 26, 1950), American automobile pioneer. He died at age 86.
1844 ~ Garret Hobart (né Garrett Augustus Hobart; d. Nov. 21, 1899), 24th Vice President of the United States. He served under President William McKinley, however, he died while in office of heart disease at age 55 and was replaced by Theodore Roosevelt.
1843 ~ King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. May 12, 1912). He was King from January 1906 until his death 6 years later. He died 20 days before his 69th birthday.
1808 ~ Jefferson Davis (né Jefferson Finis Davis; d. Dec. 6, 1889), President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He has previously served as the United States Secretary of War from March 1853 until March 1857, under Franklin Pierce. Following the Civil War, he was imprisoned at Fort Monroe, in Virginia. He died at age 81 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1771 ~ Sydney Smith (d. Feb. 22, 1845), British author and humorist. He died at age 73.
1761 ~ Henry Shrapnel (d. Mar. 13, 1842), British general and inventor. He invented the Shrapnel Shell. He died at age 80.
1659 ~ David Gregory (d. Oct. 10, 1708), Scottish-English mathematician and astronomer. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but it is believed to have been June 3, 1659. He died at age 49.
1554 ~ Pietro de’Medici (d. Apr. 25, 1604), Italian nobleman. He was the youngest son of Cosimo I de’Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo. He married his 1st cousin, Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo, whom he later accused of adultery. He strangled his wife with a dog leash in July 1576. He later married Beatriz de Lara. He died deeply in debt at age 49.
1421 ~ Giovanni de Comiso de’Medici (d. Sept. 23, 1463), Italian noble. He died at age 42.
Events that Changed the World:
2018 ~ The Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupted suddenly with no warning. At least 25 people were killed from ash.
2017 ~ A terrorist attack in London left 8 people dead and several others wounded. A van struck several people on the London Bridge. The suspects then left the vehicle and began stabbing others.
2012 ~ The Thames Diamond Jubilee pageant celebrating Queen Elizabeth II years of reign consisted of 670 boats on the River Thames.
2006 ~ The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro came to an end when Montenegro formally declared its independence. The two republics had united following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991.
1991 ~ The volcanic mountain, Mount Unzen in Japan, erupted. Forty-three people were killed.
1989 ~ The Chinese government sent out troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1982 ~ Shlomo Argov (1929 ~ 2003), the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, was shot in London. He survived, but was permanently paralyzed.
1979 ~ A blowout at the Mexican-owned Ixtoc I oil well in the Gulf of Mexico caused at least 3,000,000 barrels of oil to be spilled into the Gulf, making it one of the worst accidental oil spills.
1962 ~ Air France Flight 007 overran the runway at the Orly Airport in Paris, and exploded. 130 passengers and crew members were killed.
1943 ~ The Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles, California began when United States Navy sailors and Marines clashed with Latino youths.
1937 ~ The Duke of Windsor (1894 ~ 1972), formerly King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, married the twice divorced American Wallis Simpson (1896 ~ 1986).
1889 ~The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States was completed. It ran 14 miles from a generator at Willamette Falls to downtown Portland, Oregon.
1888 ~ Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s (1863 ~ 1940) poem, Casey at the Bat, was first published. It appeared in the San Francisco Examiner.
1839 ~ Lin Tse-Hsü (1785 ~ 1850), a Chinese scholar of the Qing Dynasty who opposed the opium trade, destroyed over a million kilograms of opium that had been confiscated from British merchants. This act led to the First Opium War.
1621 ~ The Dutch West India Company received its charter for New Netherlands, which is now New York City.
1539 ~ Hernando de Soto (1500 ~ 1542) claimed what is now the State of Florida for Spain.
1140 ~ French scholar and theologian Peter Abelard (1079 ~ 1142) was found guilty of heresy.
Good-Byes:
2017 ~ Jimmy Piersall (né James Anthony Piersall; b. Nov. 14, 1929), American eccentric baseball player who battled mental illness. He was best known for his well-publicized battle with bipolar disorder that was the subject of the book, Fear Strikes Out. He died at age 87.
2016 ~ Muhammad Ali (né Cassius Marcellus Clay; b. Jan. 17, 1942), African-American heavyweight boxing champion who shook up the wall. He died at age 74.
2015 ~ Horst Brandstätter (b. June 27, 1933), German toymaker who encouraged imaginative play. His company began the production of the Playmobil toys that had been created by Hans Beck. He died 24 days before his 82ndbirthday.
2015 ~ Bevo Francis (né Clarence Francis; b. Sept. 4, 1932), American basketball player who broke college records with his high-scoring. He was born in Hammondsville, Ohio. He died at age 82 years old in Highlandtown, Ohio.
2013 ~ Frank Lautenberg (né Frank Raleigh Lautenberg; d. Jan. 23, 1924), American politician and United States Senator from New Jersey who retired only to return again. He served New Jersey as senator for nearly 30 years. He died in office at age 89.
2011 ~ Jack Kevorkian (né Murad Kervorkian; b. May 26, 1928), American pathologist and activist for assisted suicide. Ironically, he chose not to die by suicide. He died 8 days after his 83rd birthday.
2011 ~ James Arness (b. May 26, 1923), American rugged actor who played Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke. His brother was Peter Graves. Arness died 8 days after his 88th birthday.
2011 ~ Harry Bernstein (né Harry Louis Bernstein, b. May 30, 1910), British-born journalist and author. He is best known for his book, The Invisible Wall, which described his life as a Jewish young child in a small town in England. This book was published when he was 96 years old. He died just 4 days after his 101st birthday in New York City.
2010 ~ Vladimir Arnold (b. June 12, 1937), Russian-born mathematician. He was born in Odesa, Ukraine. He died 9 days before his 73rd birthday in Paris, France.
2009 ~ David Carradine (né John Arthur Carradine; b. Dec. 8, 1936), American actor, best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine in the TV show, Kung Fu. He died at age 72.
2004 ~ Frances Shand Kydd (née Frances Ruth Roche; b. Jan. 20, 1936), British mother of Diana, Princess of Wales. She was born in Sandringham, Norfolk, England. She died of Parkinson’s disease at age 68.
2001 ~ Anthony Quinn (né Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca; b. April 21, 1915), Mexican-American actor. He died of throat cancer and respiratory failure in Boston, Massachusetts at age 86.
2000 ~ William E. Simon (né William Edward Simon; b. Nov. 27, 1927), 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury. He served during the Nixon and Ford administrations from May 1974 until January 1977. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He died of complications of pulmonary fibrosis at age 72 in Santa Barbara, California.
2000 ~ Merton Miller (né Merton Howard Miller; b. May 16, 1923), American economist and recipient of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died 23 days after his 77thbirthday in Chicago, Illinois.
1995 ~ J. Presper Eckert (né John Adams Presper Eckert, Jr.; b. Apr. 9, 1919), American electrical engineer and inventor of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died of leukemia at age 76 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
1992 ~ Robert Morley (né Robert Adolph Wilton Morley; b. May 26, 1908), British actor. He died 8 days after his 84th birthday.
1991 ~ Lê Văn Thiêm (b. Mar. 29, 1918), Vietnamese mathematician. He died at age 73.
1990 ~ Robert Noyce (né Robert Norton Noyce, b. Dec. 12, 1927), American inventor of the microchip. He was also the co-founder of the Intel Corporation. He died at age 62 of a heart attack.
1989 ~ Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (b. Sept. 24, 1902), Iranian Shi’ite spiritual leader during the Iranian revolution. He was the 1st Supreme Leader of Iran. He died at age 86.
1977 ~ Roberto Rossellini (b. May 8, 1906), Italian movie director. He was the father of actress Isabella Rossellini. He died of a heart attack less than a month after his 71st birthday.
1977 ~ Archibald Hill (né Archibald Vivian Hill; b. Sept. 26, 1886), English physiologist and recipient of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died at age 90.
1975 ~ Ozzie Nelson (né Oswald George Nelson; b. Mar. 20, 1906), American bandleader and actor. He died of liver cancer at age 69.
1975 ~ Eisaku Satō (b. Mar 27, 1901), Prime Minister of Japan. He served three terms between November 1964 and July 1972. He was the recipient of the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize for representing the Japanese’s desire for peace and signing the nuclear arms Non-Proliferation treating in 1970. He died of a stroke at age 74.
1971 ~ Heinz Hopf (b. Nov. 19, 1894), German mathematician whose major field was topology and geometry. He died at age 76.
1964 ~ Frans Eemil Sillanpää (b. Sept. 16, 1888), Finish writer and recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 75.
1963 ~ Pope Saint John XXIII (né Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, b. Nov. 25, 1881). He was known for the institution of Vatican II. He was Pope from October 1958 until his death on this date 4.5 years later. He was canonized as a Saint in April 2014. He died at age 81.
1934 ~ Frank Corr (b. Jan. 12, 1877), Acting 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 was born in Brooklyn, New York, He died at age 57 in Chicago, Illinois.
1924 ~ Franz Kafka (b. July 3, 1883), Czech novelist. He died of tuberculosis a month before his 41st birthday.
1900 ~ Mary Kingsley (née Mary Henrietta Kingsley; b. Oct. 13, 1862), British explorer and author. She traveled and explored extensively in Africa. She was born in London, England. She worked as a nurse in South Africa during the Boer War. She contracted typhoid fever at age 37 in Simon’s Town, South Africa.
1899 ~ Johann Strauss II (b. Oct. 25, 1825), Austrian composer best known as the Waltz King. He died of pleuropneumonia at age 73.
1875 ~ Georges Bizet (né Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; b. Oct. 25, 1838), French composer, best known for his opera, Carmen. He died of a heart attack at age 36.
1861 ~ Stephen A. Douglas (né Stephen Arnold Douglas; b. Apr. 23, 1813), United States Senator and Presidential candidate who ran against Abraham Lincoln. He was born in Brandon, Vermont. He died at age 48 of typhoid fever.
1780 ~ Thomas Hutchinson (b. Sept. 9, 1711), early American politician and Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He died at age 68.
1657 ~ William Harvey (b. April 1, 1578), English physician. He is best known for his study of blood and the circulatory system. He died at age 79.
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