Birthdays:
1962 ~ Steve Carell (né Steven John Carell), American actor and comedian. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts.
1958 ~ Madonna (née Madonna Louise Ciccone), American singer-songwriter. She was born in Bay City, Michigan.
1953 ~ James Cameron (né James Francis Cameron), Canadian film director and producer. He is best known for his 1997 movie The Titanic. He was born in Kaspushasing, Ontario, Canada.
1946 ~ Lesley Ann Warren, American actress best known for her role as Cinderella in the movie of the same name. She was born in New York, New York.
1944 ~ Kevin Ayers (d. Feb. 18, 2013), British psychedelic guitarist who shunned stardom. He died at age 68.
1933 ~ Julie Newmar (née Julia Chalene Newmeyer), American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1931 ~ Alessandro Mendini (d. Feb. 18, 2019), Italian postmodernist who brought joy to design. He was an architect and designer. He was born and died in Milan, Italy. He died at age 87.
1930 ~ Robert Culp (né Robert Martin Culp; d. Mar. 24, 2010), American actor. He died of a heart condition at age 79.
1930 ~ Frank Gifford (né Francis Newton Gifford; d. Aug. 9, 2015), American football hero who became a broadcast icon. He died 1 week before his 85th birthday.
1929 ~ Evelyn Y. Davis (d. Nov. 4, 2018), Dutch-born corporate gadfly who shamed CEOs. She was known as the Queen of the Corporate Jungle. She owned stock in more than 80 public companies and would travel to shareholder meetings to fight for lower executive pay and greater transparency and accountability. She died at age 89.
1928 ~ Eydie Gormé (née Edith Garmezano; d. Aug. 10, 2013), American singer who often performed with her husband, Steve Lawrence. She died 6 days before her 85th birthday.
1926 ~ Channing Pollock (d. Mar. 19, 2006), American magician and actor. He was born in Sacramento, California. He died of cancer in Las Vegas, Nevada at age 79.
1924 ~ Fess Parker (né Fess Elisha Parker, Jr.; d. Mar. 18, 2010), American actor, best known for his role as Daniel Boone in the TV series of the same name. He died at age 85.
1920 ~ Charles Bukowski (né Heinrich Karl Bukowski; d. Mar. 9, 1994), German-born American poet and novelist. He was born in Andernach, Germany. He died of leukemia at age 73 in Los Angeles, California.
1916 ~ James B. Morehead (né James Bruce Morehead; d. Mar. 11, 2012), American World War II fighter ace who hunted big game. He was born in Paoli, Oklahoma. He died at age 95 in Petaluma, California.
1913 ~ Menachem Begin (b. Mar. 9, 1992), 6th Israeli Prime Minister and recipient of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. He served as Prime Minister from June 1977 until October 1983. He died of a heart attack at age 78.
1911 ~ E.F. Schumacher (né Ernst Friedrich Schumacher; d. Sept. 4, 1977), German-born economist and statistician. He was born in Bonn, Germany. He died of a heart attack in Switzerland while on a lecture tour just 19 days after his 66th birthday.
1904 ~ Wendell Meredith Stanley (d. June 15, 1971), American biochemist and virologist. He was the recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 66.
1902 ~ Georgette Heyer (d. July 4, 1974), English writer of gothic novels and historical romance novels. She died of lung cancer at age 71.
1900 ~ Ida Browne (née Ida Alison Browne; d. Oct. 21, 1976), Australian geologist and paleontologist. She died at age 76.
1896 ~ Tina Modotti (née Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, d. Jan. 5, 1942), Italian photographer and model. She was also a revolutionary political activist. She was born in Udine, Italy. She died of heart failure in Mexico City, Mexico at age 45.
1894 ~ George Meany (né William George Meany; d. Jan. 10, 1980), American labor union leader. He was the first president of the AFL-CIO. He died at age 85.
1892 ~ Otto Messmer (né Otto James Messmer; d. Oct. 28, 1983), American cartoonist and co-creator of Felix the Cat. He was born and died in New Jersey. He died at age 91.
1888 ~ T.E. Lawrence (né Thomas Edward Lawrence, d. May 19, 1935), British army officer and writer. He was known as Lawrence of Arabia. He died at age 46 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
1845 ~ Gabriel Lippmann (né Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann; d. July 13, 1921), French physicist who was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in color photography. He died about a month before his 76thbirthday.
1842 ~ Jakob Rosanes (d. Jan. 6, 1922), Austrian mathematician and chess master. He was born in Bordy, which is now a part of the Ukraine. He died at age 79.
1821 ~ Arthur Cayley (d. Jan. 26, 1895), British mathematician. He died at age 73.
1645 ~ Jean de la Bruyère (d. May 11, 1696), French philosopher and moralist. He is best known for his satire. He died at age 50.
1378 ~ Hongxi (d. May 29, 1425), 4th Chinese Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He died at age 46.
1355 ~ Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster (d. Jan. 5, 1382). She married Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March. Her cousin was King Richard II, who was childless, making the children of Philippa and her husband to be in line for the throne, setting the stage for the War of the Roses in the 1400s. She died at age 26.
Events that Changed the World:
1960 ~ Cyprus gained independence from the United Kingdom.
1954 ~ Sports Illustrated was published for the first time by Time, Inc.
1920 ~ Ray Chapman (1891 ~ 1920) for the Cleveland Indians was hit on the head by a fastball thrown by New Yorks Yankee Carl Mays (1891 ~ 1971). He would die the following day from injuries sustained by the hit. He was 29 years old. This was the first and, to date, only, fatality due to pitching in baseball.
1916 ~ Canada and the United States signed the Migratory Bird Treaty.
1906 ~ An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck Valparaíso, Chile, killing over 3800 people.
1896 ~ Gold was discovered in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, beginning the Klondike Gold Rush.
1812 ~ During the War of 1812, American General William Hull (1753 ~ 1825) surrendered Fort Detroit to the British Army without a fight.
1780 ~ The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Camden, South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War.
1777 ~ During the Battle of Bennington, the Americans, led by General John Stark (1728 ~ 1822), routed out the British. August 16 is still commemorated as Bennington Battle Day in Vermont.
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ Peter Fonda (né Peter Henry Fonda; b. Feb. 23, 1940), America actor and son of Henry Fonda. He was the Hollywood rebel who made Easy Rider. He was also well known for his role in Ulee’s Gold. He was the father of actress Bridget Fonda. He died of lung cancer at age 79.
2019 ~ Richard Williams (né Richard Edmund Williams; b. Mar. 19, 1933), Canadian animator who really framed Roger Rabbit. He was a film animator and voice actor. He was best known for serving as the animation director for the 1988 movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? He was born in Toronto, Ontaria, Canada. He died of cancer at age 86 in Bristol, England.
2018 ~ Aretha Franklin (née Aretha Louise Franklin; b. Mar. 25, 1942), American soul singer who captured our attention. She was known as the Queen of Soul. She died at age 76.
2016 ~ John McLaughlin (né John Joseph McLaughlin, b. Mar. 29, 1927), American journalist and host of The McLaughlin Group on public television. He died at age 89.
2013 ~ David Rees (b. May 29, 1918), Welsh mathematician. He died at age 95.
2011 ~ Creed Black (né Creed Carter Black, b. July 15, 1925), American newsman who made a mantra of fearless reporting. He was born in Harlan, New York. He died of complications from a stroke a month after his 86thbirthday in Miami, Florida.
2010 ~ Bobby Thomson (né Robert Brown Thomson, b. Oct. 25, 1923), Scottish-born baseball player who hit “the shot heard ‘round the world.” He hit a three-run homer run for the New York Giants during the 1951 season, which gave the Giants a win over the Brooklyn Dodger and the pennant. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He died at age 86 in Skidaway Island, Georgia.
2003 ~ Idi Amin (b. 1928), Ugandan dictator. The exact date of his birth is unknown. He is believed to have been between 75 and 80 at the time of his death.
1989 ~ Amanda Blake (née Beverly Louise Neill, b. Feb. 20, 1929), American actress best known for her role as Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke. She died at age 60 of cancer.
1977 ~ Elvis Presley (né Elvis Aaron Presley, b. Jan. 8, 1935), American singer. He died at age 42.
1973 ~ Selman Waksman (né Selman Abraham Waksman, b. July 22, 1888), Ukrainian-born American biochemist and microbiologist. He was the recipient of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of streptomycin. He died 25 days after his 85th birthday.
1959 ~ William Halsey, Jr. (né William Frederick Halsey, Jr.; b. Oct. 30, 1882), American Navy Admiral during World War II. He died at age 76.
1957 ~ Irving Langmuir (b. Jan. 31, 1881), American chemist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in surface chemistry. He died in Woods Hole, Massachusetts at age 76.
1956 ~ Bela Lugosi (né Béla Ferenc Dezsö Blaskó, b. Oct. 20, 1882), Hungarian actor, best known for his roles in early horror films and as portraying Count Dracula on both Broadway and in the film version. He died at age 73.
1949 ~ Margaret Mitchell (née Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, b. Nov. 8, 1900), American novelist who wrote Gone with the Wind. She died at age 48 after having been struck by a speeding car as she crossed a street in Atlanta, Georgia.
1948 ~ Babe Ruth (né George Herman Ruth, Jr., b. Feb. 6, 1895), American baseball player. He played for the Boston Red Sox before being traded to the New York Yankees. He died of cancer at age 53.
1938 ~ Robert Johnson (né Robert Leroy Johnson, b. May 8, 1911), American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He died at age 27 of unknown causes.
1921 ~ Peter I of Serbia (b. June 29, 1844), 1st King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He was King from December 1918 until his death at age 77 in 1921.
1910 ~ Pedro Montt (né Pedro Elias Pablo Montt Montt; d. June 29, 1849), President of Chile. He served as President from September 1906 until his death at age 61 of a stroke in August 1910. He was born in Santiago, Chile and died in Bremen, Germany. He was in Germany for medical treatment when he died.
1899 ~ Robert Bunsen (né Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen, b. Mar. 30, 1811), German chemist and inventor. He developed the Bunsen burner. He died at age 88.
1888 ~ John Pemberton (né John Stith Pemberton, b. July 8, 1831), American pharmacist and inventor of Coca-Cola. He died at age 57 of stomach cancer.
1836 ~ Marc-Antoine Parseval (b. Apr. 27, 1755), French mathematician. He died at age 81.
1705 ~ Jacob Bernoulli (b. Jan. 6, 1654), Swiss mathematician. Under the Julian calendar, his birthday is cited as being on December 27, 1654. Under the Gregorian calendar, his birthdate is considered to be January 6, 1655. He was 50 at the time of his death.
1419 ~ Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (b. Feb. 26, 1361). He died at age 58.
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