Birthdays:
1967 ~ Mira Sorvino (née Mira Katherine Sorvino), American actress. She was born in Manhattan, New York.
1964 ~ Janeane Garofalo (née Ganeane Marie Garafalo), American actress and comedian.
1957 ~ Bill Cassidy (né William Morgan Cassidy), United States Republican Senator from Louisiana. He assumed the Office in January 2015. He is also a physician. He was born in Highland Park, Illinois.
1956 ~ Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla, Colombian-Italian mathematician. She was born in Pacho, Columbia.
1950 ~ John Sayles (né John Thomas Sayles), American movie director. He was born in Schenectady, New York.
1947 ~ Rhonda Hughes (née Rhonda Jo Weisberg), American mathematician.
1943 ~ J.T. Walsh (né James Thomas Patrick Walsh, d. Feb. 27, 1998), American actor. He was born in San Francisco, California. He died of a heart attack at age 54 in Lemon Grove, California.
1938 ~ Ben E. King (né Benjamin Earl Nelson; d. Apr. 30, 2015), American soul legend who sang Stand by Me. He was 76 years old.
1934 ~ Brigitte Bardot (née Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot), French actress. She was born in Paris, France.
1925 ~ Martin Kruskal (né Martin David Kruskal; d. Dec. 26, 2006), American physicist and mathematician. He died at age 81.
1924 ~ Marcello Mastroianni (né Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni; d. Dec. 19, 1996), Italian actor. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 72.
1916 ~ Peter Finch (né Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch; d. Jan. 14, 1977), English actor. He is best known for his role as television anchorman Howard Beale in the movie Network. He died at age 60 of a heart attack.
1915 ~ Ethel Rosenberg (d. June 19, 1953), American who was executed along with her husband, Julius (1918 ~ 1953), for allegedly spying for the Soviet Union. She was 37 years old at the time of her execution.
1914 ~ Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina von Trapp (d. Feb. 18, 2014), the singer whose life inspired The Sound of Music. She was the second oldest daughter of Captain von Trapp. She died at age 99 in Stowe, Vermont.
1909 ~ Al Capp (né Alfred Gerald Caplin; d. Nov. 5, 1979), American cartoonist. His is best known for his comic strip Li’l Abner. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He died of emphysema in South Hampton, New Hampshire at age 70.
1905 ~ Max Schmeling (né Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling; d. Feb. 2, 2005), German boxer who defeated, then lost to, Joe Louis. He died at age 99.
1901 ~ Ed Sullivan (né Edward Vincent Sullivan; d. Oct. 13, 1974), American television show host. He died of esophageal cancer 15 days after his 73rd birthday.
1901 ~ William S. Paley (né William Samuel Paley; d. Oct. 26, 1990), American radio and television executive. He died a month after his 89th birthday.
1900 ~ Isabel Pell (née Isabel Townsend Pell; d. June 5, 1951), American socialite and fighter in the French Resistance during World War II. She died at age 50.
1899 ~ Boris Yefimov (d. Oct. 1, 2008), Soviet political cartoonist who was a favorite of Joseph Stalin. He was known for his critical political caricatures of Adolf Hitler and other Nazis. He was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. He died 3 days after his 109th birthday in Moscow, Russia.
1893 ~ Hilda Geiringer (d. Mar. 22, 1973), Austrian mathematician. In the early 1930, she and her then fiancé moved to Turkey to escape the Nazis. She later moved to the United States. She died at age 79.
1887 ~ Avery Brundage (d. May 8, 1975), American businessman and 5th President of the International Olympic Committee. He served in that office from August 1952 until September 1972. He died at age 87.
1863 ~ King Carlos I (d. Feb. 1, 1908), King of Portugal. He was King of Portugal from October 19, 1889 until his assassination 19 years later. He was of the House of Bragaza. He was killed, along with his son, Luis Filipe, Prince Royal (1887 ~ 1908). The King was 44 years old; his son 20 years old. His wife, Amélie of Orléans, was born on the same day 2 years later.
1860 ~ Paul Ulrich Vallard (d. Jan. 13, 1934), French chemist and physicist. He discovered gamma rays. He died at age 73.
1856 ~ Kate Douglas Wiggin (née Kate Douglas Smith; d. Aug. 24, 1923), American author. She is best known for her children’s novel, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She died of pneumonia at age 66.
1852 ~ Henri Moissan (né Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan; d. Feb. 20, 1907), French chemist and recipient of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. He died at age 54 from an acute case of appendicitis.
1852 ~ Isis Pogson (née Elizabeth Isis Pogson; d. May 14, 1945), British astronomer and meteorologist. She died at age 92.
1841 ~ Georges Clemenceau (né Georges Benjamin Clemenceau; d. Nov. 24, 1929), Prime Minister of France. He was Prime Minister during World War I, from November 1917 until January 1920. He died at age 88.
1836 ~ Thomas Crapper (d. Jan. 27, 1910), English plumber and inventor of the ballcock in the modern toilet. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he was baptized on September 28, 1836. He died at age 73.
1735 ~ Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (b. Mar. 14, 1811), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was Prime Minister from October 1768 until January 1770 during the reign of King George III. He died at age 75.
1605 ~ Ismaël Bullialdus (d. Nov. 25, 1694), French mathematician and astronomer. He died at age 89.
1571 ~ Caravaggio (né Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, d. July 18, 1610), Italian artist. He died under mysterious circumstances at age 38.
551 BCE ~ The traditional date ascribed to the birth of Confucius (d. 479 BCE). He is believed to have died at about age 71 or 72.
Events that Changed the World:
2020 ~ Yom Kippur.
2015 ~ Sukkot began at sunset.
2000 ~ Ariel Sharon (1928 ~ 2014) visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a site generally off-limits to Jews, and known as the Al Aqsa Mosque to the Muslims.
1995 ~ Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1922 ~ 1995) and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (1929 ~ 2004) signed the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
1971 ~ The Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971 was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom banning the medical use of cannabis.
1961 ~ A military coup in Damascus, Syria ended the United Arab Republic, which had been the union between Egypt and Syria.
1951 ~ CBS made the first color televisions available for sale to the public. Unfortunately, the product was short-lived and was discontinued less than a month later.
1950 ~ Indonesia was admitted to the United Nations.
1939 ~ Warsaw, Poland surrendered to Nazi Germany in World War II.
1928 ~ Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 ~ 1955), discovered that the penicillin mold could kill bacteria. In 1945, he would be the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this discovery.
1885 ~ Riots broke out in Montreal, Canada in protest of the government’s mandatory smallpox vaccinations.
1867 ~ Toronto was named the capital of Ontario.
1844 ~ Oscar I of Sweden-Norway (1799 ~ 1859) was crowned King of Sweden.
1791 ~ France became the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
1787 ~ The newly completed United States Constitution was voted on by the United States Congress to be sent to the individual state legislatures for approval.
1779 ~ Samuel Huntington (1731 ~ 1796) was elected President of the Continental Congress. He succeeded John Jay (1745 ~ 1829).
1066 ~ William the Conqueror (1028 ~ 1087) landed in England and began the Norman Conquest of England. At the time of the invasion of England, he was known as William the Bastard.
Good-Byes:
2016 ~ Gloria Naylor (b. Jan. 25, 1950), African-American novelist. She is best known for her novel The Women of Brewster Place. She was born in New York, New York. She died of a heart attack while visiting in Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Island at age 66.
2016 ~ Agnes Nixon (née Agnes Eckhardt; b. Dec. 10, 1922), American soap opera writer who put taboo subjects on television. She died of Parkinson’s disease at age 93.
2016 ~ Shimon Peres (né Szymon Perski; b. Aug. 2, 1923), Israeli politician. He served as Prime Minister of Israel from November 1995 until June 18, 1996. He served as the President of Israel from July 2007 until July 2014. He died at age 93.
2004 ~ Geoffrey Beene (né Samuel Albert Bozeman, Jr.; b. Aug. 30, 1927), American fashion designer. He was from Hayesville, Louisiana. He died of cancer 29 days after his 77th birthday.
2003 ~ Althea Gibson (b. Aug. 25, 1927), African-American tennis player and golfer. She was the first Black to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she was the first African-American to win a Grand Slam in tennis. She died about a month after her 76th birthday.
2003 ~ Elia Kazan (né Elias Kazantzoglou, b. Sept. 7, 1909), Greek-American actor and movie director. He died 3 weeks after his 94th birthday.
2000 ~ Pierre Trudeau (Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, b. Oct. 18, 1919), 15th Prime Minister of Canada. In 2015, his son, Justin (b. 1971) became the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada. Pierre died 20 days before his 81st birthday.
1993 ~ Peter de Vries (b. Feb. 27, 1910), American novelist. He died at age 83.
1991 ~ Miles Davis (né Miles Dewey Davis, III; b. May 26, 1926), African-American Jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer. He died at age 65.
1990 ~ Larry O’Brien (né Lawrence Francis O’Brien; b. July 7, 1917), 57th United States Postmaster General. He served under President Lyndon Johnson from November 1965 until April 1968. He subsequently served as the 3rdCommissioner of the NBA from 1975 until 1984. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He died at age 73.
1989 ~ Ferdinand Marcos (né Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos; b. Sept. 11, 1917), Filipino politician and 10thPresident and dictator of the Philippines. He died 16 days after his 72nd birthday.
1978 ~ Pope John Paul I (né Albino Luciani; b. Oct. 17, 1912). He served as Pope for only 33 days, from August 26 until September 28, 1978. He died 19 days before his 66th birthday.
1976 ~ Margherita Piazzola Beloch (b. July 12, 1879), Italian mathematician. She is best known for her contribution to mathematical paper folding. She was born in Frascati, Italy. She died at age 97 in Rome, Italy.
1970 ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser (b. Jan. 15, 1918), second president of Egypt. He died of a heart attack at age 52 while still in office. Anwar Sadat was named his successor.
1970 ~ John Dos Passos (né John Roderigo Dos Passos; b. Jan. 14, 1896), American novelist. He is best known for his trilogy U.S.A. He died at age 74.
1964 ~ Harpo Marx (né Adolph Marx; b. Nov. 23, 1888), second-oldest of the Marx brothers, American comedian and actor. He died at age 75.
1956 ~ William E. Boeing (né Wilhelm Böing; b. Oct. 1, 1881), American aviation pioneer and founder of the Boeing Company. He died just 3 days before 75th birthday.
1953 ~ Edwin Hubble (né Edwin Powell Hubble; b. Nov. 20, 1889), American astronomer. The Hubble telescope is named in his honor. He died of cerebral thrombosis at age 63.
1938 ~ Charles Duryea (né Charles Edgar Duryea; b. Dec. 15, 1861), American automobile pioneer. He died at age 76.
1914 ~ Richard Sears (né Richard Warren Sears; b. Dec. 7, 1863), American businessman and co-founder of the department store, Sears and Roebuck. He died at age 50 of Bright’s disease.
1898 ~ Thomas F. Bayard (né Thomas Francis Bayard; b. Oct. 29, 1828), 30th United States Secretary of State. He served from March 1885 until March 1889 during the administrations of Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He died in Dedham, Massachusetts about a month before his 70th birthday.
1895 ~ Louis Pasteur (b. Dec. 27, 1822), French microbiologist who made major contributions to medicine. He is best known for developing a process of using heat to kill germs, which is used today to preserve milk. This process is known as pasteurization. He died at age 78.
1891 ~ Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819), American novelist best known for his novel Moby Dick. He was heavily influenced by Richard Henry Dana’s novel, Two Years Before the Mast, when he wrote Moby Dick. Interestingly, they were both born on the same day, just 4 years apart. He died at age 72.
1869 ~ Gugleilmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja (b. Jan. 1, 1803), Italian mathematician. He is best known for his love and theft of ancient and precious manuscripts. He was born in Florence, Italy. He died at age 66 in Fiesole, Italy.
1694 ~ Gabriel Mouton (b. 1618), French mathematician. The exact date of his birth is not known.
1330 ~ Elizabeth of Bohemia (b. Jan. 20, 1292), Queen consort of Bohemia and first wife of John of Luxembourg. She died of tuberculosis at age 38.
1197 ~ Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. Nov. 1165). He was 31 years old. The exact date of his birth is not known.
935 ~ King Wenceslas I (b. 907), also known as Saint Wenceslas, was murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia. He was about 28 years old at the time of his death. The exact date of is birth is not known.
48 B.C.E. ~ Pompey (b. Sept. 29, 106 B.C.E.), the date the Roman General was believed to have been assassinated. He is believed to have died 1 day before his 58th birthday.
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