Birthdays:
1987 ~ Darren Criss (né Darren Everett Criss), American actor best known for his role Blaine Anderson in the television series Glee. He was born in San Francisco, California.
1972 ~ Mary (née Mary Elizabeth Donaldson), Crown Princess of Denmark and wife of Crown Prince Frederik. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
1969 ~ Michael Sheen (né Michael Christopher Sheen), Welsh actor. He was born in Newport, Wales.
1962 ~ Jennifer Jason Leigh (née Jennifer Leigh Morrow), American actress. She was born in Hollywood, California.
1961 ~ Timothy Meadows, American comedian and actor. He was born in Highland Park, Michigan.
1948 ~ Christopher Guest, British and American film director and actor. He is formally known as Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guess. He is married to Jamie Lee Curtis. He was born in New York, New York.
1948 ~ Barbara Hershey (née Barbara Lynn Herzstein), American actress. She was born in Hollywood, California.
1948 ~ Errol Morris (né Errol Mark Morris), American documentary film director. He is best known for his film The Thin Blue Line. He was born in Hewlett, New York.
1948 ~ Tom Wilkinson (né Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson), English actor. He is best known for his role as Gerald in The Full Monty. He was born in Wharfedale, England.
1947 ~ Mary L. Cleave (née Mary Louise Cleave), American engineer and astronaut. She was born in Southampton, New York.
1946 ~ Charlotte Rampling (née Tessa Charlotte Rampling), English actress. She was born in Sturmer, Essex, England.
1942 ~ Roger Staubach (né Roger Thomas Staubach), American professional football player. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1941 ~ Stephen J. Cannell (né Stephen Joseph Cannell; d. Sept. 30, 2010), American scriptwriter and movie producer. He died at age 69 of cancer.
1940 ~ H.R. Giger (né Hans Rudolf Giger; d. May 12, 2014), Swiss artist who made monsters. He died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall.
1939 ~ Jane Bryant Quinn, American finance journalist. She was born in Niagara Falls, New York.
1937 ~ Alar Toomre, Estonian-born American astronomer and mathematician. He was born in Rakvere, Estonia. His family emigrated to the United States in 1949 following the Soviet occupation of Estonia.
1934 ~ Hank Aaron (né Henry Louis Aaron; d. Jan. 22, 2021), African-American baseball player. He was the home run king who bested Babe Ruth. He played for 21 seasons for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves. He is known as Hammerin’Hank. He was born in Mobile, Alabama. He died just 14 days before his 87th birthday in Atlanta, Georgia.
1929 ~ Hal Blaine (né Harold Simon Belsky; d. Mar. 11, 2019), American session drummer who defined the pop beat. He was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He died about a month after his 90th birthday.
1928 ~ Andrew Greeley (d. May 29, 2013), American Catholic maverick priest who chided his church. He also wrote novels of straying priests and detective thrillers. He died at age 85.
1927 ~ Ruth Fertel (née Ruth Ann Udstad; d. Apr. 16, 2002), founder of Ruth’s Chris Steak House. She was a Louisiana businesswoman, born and died in New Orleans. She died at age 75.
1926 ~ Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (d. Sept. 29, 2012), American newspaper chief who published the Pentagon Papers the New York Times. He was known as Punch. He was born in New York City. He died in Southampton, New York at age 86.
1919 ~ Cornelia Clark Fort (d. Mar. 21, 1943), First American female pilot to be killed during United States Military service. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She died in Merkel, Texas. She was 24 years old at the time of her death.
1919 ~ Andreas Papandreou (d. June 23, 1996), Prime Minister of Greece. He died at age 77.
1919 ~ Red Buttons (né Aaron Chwatt; d. July 13, 2006), American actor. He died of vascular disease at age 87.
1915 ~ Robert Hofstadter (d. Nov. 17, 1990), American physicist and recipient of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died in Stanford, Connecticut at age 75.
1915 ~ Margaret Millar (née Margaret Ellis Sturm; d. Mar. 26, 1994), American-Canadian mystery writer. She died at age 79 in Santa Barbara, California.
1914 ~ William S. Burroughs (né William Seward Burroughs, II; d. Aug. 2, 1997), American author. He died at age 83.
1914 ~ Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (d. Dec. 20, 1998), British biophysicist and recipient of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died at age 84.
1908 ~ Peg Entwistle (née Millicent Lilian Entwistle; d. Sept. 16, 1932), Welsh-born American actress. She was a stage actress who appeared in one movie. She is best known for her suicide. She jumped off the “H” in the Hollywood sign. She was 24 years old.
1906 ~ John Carradine (né Richmond Reed Carradine; d. Nov. 27, 1988), American actor. He died at age 82. His body was buried at sea.
1900 ~ Adlai E. Stevenson, II (né Adlai Ewing Stevenson, II; d. July 14, 1965), American politician and 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations. He was the Democratic candidate for President in the 1952 presidential campaign. He had previously served as the Governor of Illinois. He died of a massive heart attack at age 65.
1878 ~ André Citroën (né André-Gustave Citroën; d. July 3, 1935), French industrialist and founder of the Citroën Company. He died of stomach cancer at age 57.
1858 ~ Mahlon Pitney (d. Dec. 9, 1924), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President William Taft. He served on the Court from March 1912 through December 1922. He wrote the majority opinion in Frank v. Magnum, which upheld the wrongful murder conviction of Leo Frank. He replaced John Harlan on the Court. He was succeeded by Edward Sanford. He was born in Morristown, New Jersey. He died in Washington, D.C., at age 66, two years after his retirement from the Court.
1848 ~ Belle Starr (née Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr; d. February 3, 1889), American Wild West outlaw. She was born in Carthage, Missouri. She was killed in Briartown, Oklahoma just 2 days before her 41st birthday under mysterious circumstances. Her murderer was never found.
1788 ~ Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (d. July 2, 1850), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served two terms as Prime Minister, the first from December 1834 to April 1835 during the reign of King William IV, and second from August 1841 until June 1846 during the reign of Queen Victoria. He died at age 62.
1784 ~ Nancy Hanks Lincoln (née Nancy Hanks; d. Oct. 5, 1818), American mother of Abraham Lincoln. She died at age 34 when Abraham Lincoln was only 9 years old.
1725 ~ James Otis, Jr. (d. May 23, 1783), early American lawyer and patriot. He died at age 58 after being struck by lightening.
1608 ~ Gaspar Schott (d. May 22, 1666), German mathematician and Jesuit priest. He died at age 66.
Events that Changed the World:
2020 ~ The United States Senate acquitted President Donald Trump (b. 1946) of all impeachment charges. All Republican Senators, with the exception of Mitt Romney (b. 1947), voted to acquit the president.
2017 ~ The New England Patriots beat the Atlanta Falcons in a score of 34 to 28 in Super Bowl LI, which was held in Houston, Texas.
2008 ~ A series of major tornados swept across the Southern United States, killing at least 57 people.
2000 ~ Russian forces massacred over 60 civilians in Grozny, Chechnya.
1997 ~ The so-called Big Three Banks in Switzerland announced the creation of a $71M fund to assist Holocaust survivors and their families.
1994 ~ Byron De La Beckwith (1920 ~ 2001) was convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers (1925 ~ 1963).
1988 ~ Manuel Noriega (1934 ~ 2017) was indicted in drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1978 ~ The Great Blizzard of 1978 swept through the American mid-west and Great Lakes region bring heavy snow and winds up to 100 miles per hour. It would hit New England the following day.
1976 ~ A swine flu outbreak was recognized at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The flu had begun to spread a few days earlier.
1975 ~ In Lima, Peru, the police forces went on strike, which resulted in massive riots throughout the city. The riots, known as the Limazo, was suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1971 ~ The Apollo 14 mission landed on the moon. The crew on the mission were Alan Shepard (1923 ~ 1998), Stuart Roosa (1933 ~ 1994) and Edgar Mitchell (1930 ~ 2016).
1958 ~ During an exercise practice by the United States Air Force, an F-86 fighter plane collided with a B-47 bomber that was carrying a hydrogen bomb. The bomb, known as the Tybee Bomb, was jettisoned of the coast of Savannah, Georgia, near Tybee Island. The bomb has never been recovered.
1958 ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 ~ 1970) was nominated as the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1939 ~ Generalísimo Francisco Franco (1892 ~ 1975) became the dictator of Spain. He would rule Spain until his death in 1975.
1937 ~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 ~ 1945) announced his plan to pack the Supreme Court by increasing the number of justices who could serve on the United States Supreme Court at any given time. This would have given him authority to appoint additional justices who would, presumably support his policies.
1919 ~ United Artists studio was created by Charlie Chaplin (1889 ~ 1977), Mary Pickford, (1892 ~ 1979) Douglas Fairbanks (1883 ~ 1939) and D.W. Griffith (1875 ~ 1948).
1917 ~ The United States Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917, which banned immigration from nearly all south and southeast Asia. The Act was passed over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto.
1909 ~ Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland (1863 ~ 1944) created Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic.
1885 ~ King Leopold II (1835 ~ 1909) of Belgium established the Congo has his personal possession.
1852 ~ The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia opened to the public. It is one of the oldest and largest museums in the world.
1783 ~ A series of massive earthquakes struck in Calabria, Italy.
1778 ~ South Carolina became the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1649 ~ The Parliament of Scotland proclaimed King Charles II (1630 ~ 1685) of England and Scotland to be the King of Great Britain. Neither the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland ratified this action. England entered the period known as the English Interregnum, or the English Commonwealth. England became a de facto republic, lead by Oliver Cromwell (1599 ~ 1658), who was a virtual dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1631 ~ Roger Williams (1603 ~ 1683) immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts from London, England.
62 ~ Pompeii, Italy is believed to have been struck by a severe earthquake.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ Beverly Pepper (né Beverly Stoll; b. Dec. 20, 1922), American sculptor who found beauty in medal. She is known for her monumental works and land art. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died at age 97 in Todi, Italy.
2020 ~ Stanley N. Cohen (b. Nov. 17, 1922), American biologist and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the isolation of nerve growth factor and the discovery of epidermal growth factor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 97 in Nashville, Tennessee
2020 ~ Kirk Douglas (né Issur Danielovitch; b. Dec. 9, 1916), American actor. He was the Spartacus star who blazed his own path in Hollywood. He was born in Amsterdam, New York. He died at age 103 in Beverly Hills, California.
2015 ~ Val Logsdon Fitch (b. Mar. 10, 1923), American nuclear physicist and recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 91.
2013 ~ Stuart Freeborn (b. Sept. 5, 1914), British makeup artist who gave Star Wars life. He was born and died in London, England. He died at age 98.
2011 ~ Brian Jacques (né James Brian Jacques; b. June 15, 1939), British milkman and writer who sold 20 million books. He died at age 71.
1999 ~ Wassily Leontief (b. Aug. 5, 1905), Russian economist and recipient of the 1973 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 93.
1988 ~ Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (b. Apr. 11, 1914), American mathematician. She was the first woman elected to be president of the Mathematics Association of American. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She died at age 73 in Providence, Rhode Island.
1983 ~ Margaret Oakley Dayoff (né Margaret Belle Oakley; b. Mar. 11, 1925), American biochemist and physical chemist. She was a pioneer in bioinformation. She died of a heart attack at age 57.
1981 ~ Ella Grasso (née Ella Rosa Giovianna Oliva Tambussi; b. May 10, 1919), 83rd Governor of Connecticut. She served as Governor from January 1975 through December 31, 1980. She died of ovarian cancer at age 61.
1972 ~ Marianne Moore (née Marianne Craig Moore; b. Nov. 15, 1887), American poet. She died at age 84.
1967 ~ L. L. Bean (né Leon Leonwood Bean; b. Oct. 13, 1872), American inventor, author, outdoor enthusiast and founder of L.L. Bean’s Sporting Goods Store. He was born in Greenwood, Maine. He died at age 94.
1953 ~ Iuliu Maniu (b. Jan. 8, 1873), Prime Minister of Romania. He served for three terms as Prime Minister between 1928 and 1933. He died less than a month after his 80th birthday.
1947 ~ Hans Fallada (né Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen, b. July 21, 1893), German novelist best known for his novel, Every Man Dies Alone. He died at age 53.
1931 ~ Athanasios Eftaxias (b. 1849), Prime Minister of Greece. He served as Prime Minister briefly from July to August in 1926. The exact date of his birth is not known.
1922 ~ Slavoljub Penkala (né Slavoljub Eduard Penkala; b. Apr. 20, 1871), Croatian engineer and inventor. He invented the mechanical pencil. He died of pneumonia at age 50.
1882 ~ Elizabeth Louisa Mather (née Elizabeth Louisa Foster; b. Jan. 7, 1815), American writer and social activist. She was born in East Haddam, Connecticut. She died about a month after her 67th birthday.
1881 ~ Thomas Carlyle (b. Dec. 4, 1795), Scottish writer, historian, and mathematician. He died at age 85.
1819 ~ Hannah Van Buren (née Hannah Hoes; b. Mar. 8, 1783), wife of United States President Martin Van Buren. Even though she died before her husband became president, she is sometimes considered to be a First Lady. She was born in Kinderhook, New York. She died of tuberculosis in Albany, New York about a month before her 36thbirthday.
1818 ~ Charles XIII of Sweden (b. Oct. 7, 1748). He was of the House of Holstein-Gottorp. He died at age 69.
1661 ~ Shunzhi Emperor (b. Mar. 15, 1638), 2nd Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. He was also the first emperor to rule over China proper. He died at age 22.
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