Birthdays:
1975 ~ A-Rod Rodriguez (né Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez), American baseball player. He was born in New York, New York.
1972 ~ Maya Rudolf (née Maya Khabira Rudolph), American actress. She was a member of the ensemble on Saturday Night Live. She was born in Gainsville, Florida.
1957 ~ Bill Engvall (né William Ray Engvall, Jr.), American comedian and actor. He was born in Galveston, Texas.
1952 ~ Marvin Barnes (né Marvin Jerome Barnes; d. Sept. 8, 2014), American basketball star who struggled off-court. He was born and died in Providence, Rhode Island. He died at age 62.
1949 ~ Maury Chaykin (né Maury Alan Chaykin; d. July 27, 2010), Canadian character actor. He died on his 61stbirthday from complications of a heart valve infection.
1948 ~ Peggy Fleming (né Peggy Gail Fleming), American figure skater. She was born in San Jose, California.
1947 ~ Kathleen Norris, American poet and essayist. She was born in Washington, D.C.
1947 ~ Betty Thomas (née Betty Lucille Nienhauser), American actress best known for her role as Lucy Bates on the television drama Hill Street Blues. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
1942 ~ John Pleshette, American actor. He is best known for his role as Richard Avery on the television drama, Knots Landing. He was born in New York, New York.
1938 ~ Gary Gygax (né Ernest Gary Gygax; d. Mar. 4, 2008), American “nerd” who invented Dungeons and Dragons. He died of an abdominal aneurysm at age 69.
1937 ~ Don Galloway (né Donald Poe Galloway; d. Jan. 8, 2009), American actor. He is best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown on the television drama Ironsides. He died of a stroke at age 71.
1937 ~ Andre Blay (d. Aug. 24, 2018), American businessman and VHS innovator who brought movies home. He died at age 81.
1933 ~ Nick Reynolds (né Nicholas Wells Reynolds; d. Oct. 1, 2008), American folk musician and master of harmony who founded the Kingston Trio. He was a bongo player. He died of acute respiratory disease at age 75.
1931 ~ Jerry Van Dyke (né Jerry McCord Van Dyke; d. Jan. 5, 2018), American actor and younger brother of Dick Van Dyke. He is best known for his role as Tag in the television sit-com, The Middle. He died of congestive heart failure at age 86.
1929 ~ Jack Higgins (né Henry Patterson), English suspense novelist. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1927 ~ Guy Carawan (né Guy Hughes Carawan, Jr.; d. May 2, 2015), American folksinger who popularized We Shall Overcome. He died at age 87.
1924 ~ Vincent Canby (d. Oct. 15, 2000), American journalist and critic. He died of cancer at age 76.
1922 ~ Norman Lear (né Norman Milton Lear), American television writer and producer. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
1916 ~ Elizabeth Hardwick (d. Dec. 2, 2007), American literary critic and novelist. She died at age 91.
1907 ~ Irene Fischer (née Irene Kaminka; d. Oct. 22, 2009), Austrian-American mathematician. They fled Nazi Germany in 1939. She died in Boston, Massachusetts at age 102.
1905 ~ Leo Durocher (né Leo Ernest Durocher; d. Oct. 7, 1991), American baseball player and manager. He died at age 86.
1904 ~ Lyudmila Rudenko (d. Mar. 4, 1986), Russian chess master. She was the first woman to be awarded the International Master title. She died at age 81.
1882 ~ Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (d. May 21, 1965), English aircraft designer and engineer. He died at age 82 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
1881 ~ Hans Fischer (d. Mar. 31, 1945), German chemist and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died by suicide at age 63.
1835 ~ Giosuè Carducci (né Giosuè Alessandro Guiseppe Carducci; d. Feb. 16, 1970), Italian poet and recipient of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 71.
1824 ~ Alexandre Dumas, the Younger (d. Nov. 27, 1895), French author. He was the illegitimate son of the more well-known author Alexandre Dumas, the Elder. He is best known for Camille. He died at age 71.
1801 ~ Sir George Biddell Airy (d. Jan. 2, 1892), English mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Alnwick, England. He died at age 90 in Greenwich, England.
1768 ~ Charlotte Corday (née Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d’Armont; d. July 17, 1768), assassin of Jean-Paul Marat. She was executed by guillotine 4 days after killing Marat and 10 days before her 25th birthday.
1733 ~ Jeremiah Dixon (d. Jan. 22, 1779), English surveyor. He is best known for his work with Charles Mason (1728 ~ 1786) in determining what was later called the Mason-Dixon Line, after both surveyors. Dixon died at age 45.
1452 ~ Ludovico Sforza (d. May 27, 1508), Duke of Milan from October 1494 until September 1499. He is best known for commissioning di Vinci’s The Last Supper. He died at age 55.
Events that Changed the World:
2012 ~ The 2012 Summer Olympics opened in London, England. The games ran through August 12, 2012.
1996 ~ A pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1996 Summer Olympics. One woman was killed and 111 people were injured.
1995 ~ The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1981 ~ Six-year old Adam Walsh (1974 ~ 1981) was kidnapped in Hollywood, Florida. His body was found two weeks later. His father, John Walsh (b. 1945), became an advocate for victims of violent crime and went on to host a television show entitled America’s Most Wanted.
1974 ~ President Richard Nixon (1913 ~ 1994) was charged with three articles of impeachment for obstruction of justice.
1955 ~ El Al Flight 402 was shot down by 2 fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 passengers and crew members were killed in the incident.
1953 ~ The Korean War ended with the signing of a truce. The President of South Korea refused to sign the armistice, but agreed to observe it. The United States, China and North Korea were signatories of the armistice agreement.
1929 ~ The Geneva Convention of 1929, which deals with the treatment of prisoners of war, was signed by 53 countries.
1921 ~ Frederick Banting (1891 ~ 1941) and his team of researchers at the University of Toronto proved that insulin regulates blood sugar.
1890 ~ The artist Vincent van Gogh (1853 ~ 1890) shot himself. He would die two days later, on July 29 at age 37.
1866 ~ The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable was successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
1865 ~ Welsh settlers began arriving in Chubut, Argentina.
1794 ~ Maximilien Robespierre (1758 ~ 1794) was arrested following for encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 “enemies of the French Revolution.” He was executed the following day, on July 28.
1789 ~ The first United States federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, was established. It was later renamed the Department of State.
1694 ~ The Bank of England was granted a Royal Charter.
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ John Robert Schrieffer (b. May 31, 1931), American physicist and recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He died at age 88 in Tallahassee, Florida.
2017 ~ Sam Shepard (né Samuel Shepard Rogers, III; b. Nov. 5, 1943), American playwright who became a reluctant star. He died of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at age 73.
2017 ~ Marty Sklar (né Martin A. Sklar; b. Feb. 6, 1934), American Disney imaginer who dreamed up theme parks. He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He died at age 83 in Los Angeles, California.
2015 ~ Samuel Pisar (b. Mar. 18, 1929), Polish lawyer and author. He was also a Holocaust survivor. He was born in Białystok, Poland. He died of pneumonia at age 86 in New York, New York.
2013 ~ Bud Day (né George Everette Day; b. Feb. 24, 1925), American war hero who was imprisoned in Vietnam for five years. He was a Colonel in the United States Air Force and served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida at age 88.
2013 ~ Lindy Boggs (née Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne; b. Mar. 13, 1916), American politician and first woman from Louisiana to be elected to Congress. She served as a member of the House of Representatives who legislated with charm. She was born in New Roads, Louisiana. She was also the mother of Cokie Roberts. She died at age 97.
2011 ~ John Stott (né John Robert Walmsley Stott; b. Apr. 27, 1921), British Anglican priest and Christian who evangelized the world. He was born in London, England. He died at age 90.
2010 ~ Maury Chaykin (né Maury Alan Chaykin; b. July 27, 1949), Canadian character actor. He died on his 61stbirthday from complications of a heart valve infection.
2003 ~ Bob Hope (né Leslie Townes Hope; b. May 29, 1903), English-American comedian and actor. He died at age 100.
1999 ~ Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (b. Aug. 4, 1912), Russian mathematician. He died a week before his 87th birthday.
1993 ~ Reggie Lewis (b. Nov. 21, 1965), American basketball player. He played for the Boston Celtics from 1987 until his death in 1993. While practicing off-season at Brandeis University, he went into cardiac arrest and died. He was 27 years old.
1988 ~ Frank Zamboni (né Frank Joseph Zamboni, Jr.; b. Jan. 16, 1901), American inventor of the ice re-surfacer that smoothes the ice for hockey and skating rinks. The ice re-surfacer that clears the ice on skating rinks was named after him. He died at age 87.
1985 ~ Michel Audiard (né Paul Michel Audiard; b. May 15, 1920), French film director. He died at age 65.
1980 ~ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (b. Oct. 26, 1919), the last Shah of Iran. He was overthrow by the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and sent into exile. He died of cancer in Cairo, Egypt at age 60.
1963 ~ Garrett Morgan (b. Mar. 4, 1877), African-American inventor. He is credited with inventing the gas mask, known at the time as a respiratory protective hood. He died at age 86.
1960 ~ Julie Vinter Hansen (née Julie Marie Vinter Hansen; b. July 20, 1890), Danish astronomer. She died of heart failure 7 days after her 70th birthday.
1958 ~ Claire Chennault (né Claire Lee Chennault; b. Sept. 6, 1893), American military aviator. The Chennault International Airport in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the former Chennault Air Force Base, is named in his honor. He died of lung cancer in New Orleans, Louisiana at age 64.
1951 ~ Grace Andrews (b. May 30, 1869), American mathematician. She was one of only 2 women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science in 1906. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died at age 82.
1946 ~ Gertrude Stein (b. Feb. 3, 1874), American writer and art collector. She died following surgery for stomach cancer at age 72.
1931 ~ Jacques Herbrand (b. Feb. 12, 1908), French mathematician. He died from a fall while mountain climbing in the French Alps. He was born in Paris, France. He was 23 years old.
1917 ~ Emil Theodor Kocher (b. Aug. 25, 1841), Swiss physician. He was the recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the thyroid gland. He died a month before his 76th birthday.
1883 ~ Montgomery Blair (b. May 10, 1813), 20th Postmaster General of the United States. He served in that office from March 1861 until September 1864 during the Lincoln administration. He died at age 70.
1864 ~ John Putnam Chapin (b. Apr. 21, 1810), 10th Mayor of Chicago. He was in office from 1846 to 1847. He was born in Bradford, Vermont. He died at age 54 in Chicago, Illinois.
1844 ~ John Dalton (b. Sept. 6, 1776), English physicist and chemist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory. He died at age 77.
1759 ~ Pierre Louis Maupertuis (né Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertius; b. July 17, 1759), French mathematician. He died 10 days before his 61st birthday.
1510 ~ Giovanni Sforza (b. July 5, 1466), Italian lord and ruler. He was the first husband of Lucrezia Borgia, but their marriage was annulled due to his impotence. He died 22 days after his 44th birthday.
1276 ~ King James I of Aragon (b. Feb. 2, 1208). He was known as James the Conqueror. He was King of Aragon from September 1213 until his death in 1276. He died at age 68.
1061 ~ Pope Nicholas II. He was Pope from January 1059 until his death on this date 2 years later. The date of his birth is unknown.
959 ~ Chai Rong (b. Oct. 27, 921), 2nd Chinese Emperor of the Later Zhou during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He ruled from February 954 until his death 4 years later. He died of an illness at age 37.
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