Birthdays:
1981 ~ Alicia Keys (née Alicia Augello Cook), American singer-songwriter. She was born in New York City.
1951 ~ Steve Prefontaine (né Steve Roland Prefontaine; d. May 30, 1975), American runner. He was born in Coos Bay, Oregon. He died at age 24 in a car accident in Eugene Oregon.
1950 ~ Gloria Naylor (d. Sept. 28, 2016), 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.
1949 ~ Sir Paul Nurse (né Paul Maxime Nurse), English biochemist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the discovery of protein molecules and their role in cell division. He was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England.
1943 ~ Tobe Hooper (né Willard Tobe Hooper; d. Aug. 26, 2017), American film director who combined horror and chain saws. He is best known for directing 1974 film, The Chain Saw Massacre. He was born in Austin, Texas. He died at age 74 in Los Angeles, California.
1938 ~ Etta James (née Jamesetta Hawkins; d. Jan. 20, 2012), American singer hailed as the Queen of Rhythm and Blues. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She died 5 days before her 74th birthday in Riverside California.
1936 ~ Donald Featherstone (d. June 22, 2015), American kitsch artist who, in 1957, crafted the lawn flamingo when he was just 21 years old. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He died at age 79 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
1933 ~ Corazon Aquino (née Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco; d. Aug. 1, 2009), 11th President of the Philippines. She was in office from February 1986 until June 1992. She died of cancer at age 76.
1931 ~ Dean Jones (né Dean Carroll Jones; d. Sept. 1, 2015), American clean-cut Disney star who found faith. He had leading roles in several Disney films, including The Love Bug and That Darn Cat! In the early 1970s, he became a born-again Christian. He was born in Decatur, Alabama. He died of Parkinson’s disease at age 84 in Los Angeles, California.
1924 ~ Dick Tuck (né Richard Gregory Tuck; d. May 28, 2018), American Democratic operative who punked Nixon. He was a political consultant and political prankster for the Democratic National Committee. He was born in Hayden, Arizona. He died at age 94 in Tucson, Arizona.
1923 ~ Arvid Carlsson (d. June 29, 2018), Swedish biochemist and recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson’s disease. He died at age 95.
1919 ~ Edwin Newman (né Edwin Harold Newman; d. Aug. 13, 2010), American journalist. He was born in New York, New York. He died of pneumonia at age 91 in Oxford, England.
1917 ~ Ilya Prigogine (né Ilya Romanovich Prigogine; d. May 28, 2003), Russian-born Belgian chemist and recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Moscow, Russian Empire. He died at age 86 in Brussels, Belguim.
1882 ~ Virginia Woolf (née Adeline Virginia Stephen; d. Mar. 28, 1941), English writer. She was born in London, England. She died by suicide by drowning at age 59 in Lewes, England.
1874 ~ W. Somerset Maugham (né William Somerset Maugham; d. Dec. 16, 1965), English writer best known for his novel Of Human Bondage. He was born in Paris, France. He died at age 91 in Nice, France.
1860 ~ Charles Curtis (d. Feb. 8, 1936), 31st United States Vice President. He served under President Herbert Hoover, from March 1929 until March 1933. He was a member of the Kaw Nation; thus, he was also the first Native American to be elected a United States Senator when he was as a Senator from Kansas in 1907. He served two non-consecutive terms in the United States Senate. He was born in North Topeka, Kansas Territory. He died of a heart attack 15 days after his 76th birthday in Washington, D.C.
1816 ~ Anna Gardner (d. Feb. 18, 1901), American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. She was born and died in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She died 24 days after her 85th birthday.
1813 ~ J. Marion Sims (né James Marion Sims; d. Nov. 13, 1883), American physician and gynecologist. He is known as the father of modern gynecology. His work, however, is controversial because he performed surgery without the benefit of anesthesia on slave women. He was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina. He died at age 70 in New York, New York.
1783 ~ William Colgate (d. Mar. 25, 1857), British soap manufacturer who founded what would become the Colgate-Palmolive Company. Colgate University in New York State was named in recognition of the Colgate family. He died at age 74 in New York, New York.
1759 ~ Robert Burns (d. July 21, 1796), Scottish poet. He died at age 37.
1736 ~ Joseph-Louis Lagrange (né Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia; d. Apr. 10, 1813), Italian-born mathematician. He died at age 77.
1627 ~ Robert Boyle (d. Dec. 31, 1691), Irish chemist and physicist. He is considered to be the father of modern chemistry. He was born in Waterford, Ireland. He died 25 days before his 65th birthday in London, England.
1526 ~ Adolf, 1st Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. Oct. 1, 1586). He was married to Christine of Hesse. He was of the House of Oldenburg. He was the son of Frederick I, King of Denmark and Sophie of Pomerania. He died at age 60.
1477 ~ Anne, Duchess of Brittany (d. Jan. 9, 1514), Queen consort of France and wife of Charles VIII, King of France and Louis XII, King of France. Her first marriage to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor was annulled. She then married Charles VIII, King of France. Following his death, she married his successor, Louis XII, King of France. She was of the House of Dreux-Montfort. She was the daughter of Francis II, Duke of Brittany and Margaret of Foix. She died at age 36. She is believed to have been born on January 25, 1477, so died just 16 days before her 37th birthday.
750 ~ Leo IV the Khazar (d. Sept. 8, 780), Byzantine emperor. He ruled the Byzantine Empire from 775 until his death 5 years later. He died of a violent fever at age 30.
Events that Changed the World:
2020 ~ The Chinese New Year festival marking the Year of the Rat.
2011 ~ The Egyptian revolution began in Cairo and Alexandria with a series of street demonstrations, marches, acts of civil disobedience, and labor strikes to protest the Mubarak regime.
1999 ~ A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck western Columbia killing at least 1,000 people.
1971 ~ Idi Amin (d. 2003) lead a coup and deposed Milton Obote (1925 ~ 2005), thereby claiming Uganda’s presidency for himself.
1971 ~ Charles Manson (1934 ~ 2017) and his three female “family” members were found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
1960 ~ The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union was officially abolished. The labor camps began in 1918; but reached their peak during the Stalin era.
1961 ~ President John F. Kennedy (1917 ~ 1963) delivered the first live presidential television news conference.
1946 ~ The United Mine Workers union rejoined the American Federation of Labor.
1945 ~ The World War II battle, the Battle of the Bulge, ended.
1937 ~ The soap opera, The Guiding Light, debuted on NBC radio. In 1952, it moved to CBS television where it aired until it was finally cancelled on September 18, 2009.
1924 ~ The 1924 Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, in the French Alps.
1918 ~ The Ukraine People’s Republic declared its independence from Bolshevik Russia.
1890 ~ Journalist Nellie Bly (1864 ~ 1922) completed her around-the-world journey in 72 days.
1858 ~ Victoria, Princess Royal (1840 ~ 1901), daughter of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819 ~ 1901) and Prince Albert (1819 ~ 1861), married Friedrich III, King of Prussia (1831 ~ 1888). Felix Mendelssohn’s The Wedding March was played and subsequently became a popular wedding recessional.
1765 ~ The British founded Port Egmont, their first settlement in the Falkland Islands.
1585 ~ Walter Raleigh (1550s ~ 1618) was knighted shortly after renaming the British controlled of land in the New World Virginia in honor of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533 ~ 1603).
1533 ~ Henry VIII, King of England (1491 ~ 1547) secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn (1501 ~ 1536).
1494 ~ Alfonso II (1448 ~ 1495) became King of Naples. He ruled for just one year before he was forced to abdicate by the army of Charles III, King of France (1470 ~ 1498).
Good-byes:
2019 ~ Florence Knoll Bassett (née Florence Marguerite Schust; b. May 24, 1917), American designer who revolutionized the workplace. She was an architect and furniture designed. She created modern post-war streamlined office furniture. She was born in Saginaw, Michigan. She died at age 101 in Coral Gables, Florida.
2017 ~ Sir John Hurt (né John Vincent Hurt; b. Jan. 22, 1940), British actor who made outsiders his specialty. He died of pancreatic cancer 3 days after his 77th birthday.
2017 ~ Mary Tyler Moore (b. Dec. 29, 1936), American sit-com star who defined the modern career woman. She was born in New York, New York. She died of cardiopulmonary arrest due to pneumonia. She died 27 days after her 80thbirthday in Greenwich, Connecticut.
2014 ~ Heini Halberstam (b. Sept. 11, 1926), Czech-born English mathematician. He is best known for his work in analytic number theory. He was among the children transported to England in the Kindertransport during World War II. He died at age 87 in Champaign, Illinois.
2010 ~ Charles Mathias (né Charles McCurdy Mathias, Jr., b. July 24, 1922), American United States Senator from Maryland who was one of the last liberal Republicans. He was born in Frederick, Maryland. He died at age 87 in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
2009 ~ Eleanor Helin (b. Nov. 19, 1932), American astronomer. She is best known for discovering numerous minor planets. She died at age 76.
2005 ~ Philip Johnson (né Philip Cortelyou Johnson; b. July 8, 1906), American architect gadfly who changed America’s skyline. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He died at age 98 in New Canaan, Connecticut.
2000 ~ Herta Freitag (née Herta Taussig; b. Dec. 6, 1908), Austrian-born American mathematician. Her family emigrated from Austria to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi regime. She died at age 91.
1999 ~ Sadie Delany (née Sarah Louise Delany; b. Sept. 19, 1889), African-American physician and author. She and her younger sister, Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany (1891 ~ 1995) wrote the book, Having Our Say: The First 100 Years. The book was published when both sisters were over 100 years old. Sarah was born in Lynch’s Station, Virginia and died in Mount Vernon, New York. Bessie was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and died in Mount Vernon, New York. Sarah Delany died at age 109 and Bessie died at age 104.
1997 ~ Jeane Dixon (née Lydia Emma Pinckert; b. Jan. 5, 1904), American astrologer and psychic. She is best known for advising Nancy Reagan. She was born in Medford, Wisconsin. She died in Washington, D.C., of cardiac arrest 20 days after her 93rd birthday.
1994 ~ Stephen Kleene (né Stephen Cole Kleene; b. Jan. 5, 1909), American mathematician. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He died 20 days after his 85th birthday in Madison, Wisconsin.
1990 ~ Ava Gardner (née Ava Lavinia Gardner; b. Dec. 24, 1922), American actress. She was married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra. She was born in Grabtown, North Carolina. She died of pneumonia a month after her 67thbirthday in London, England.
1981 ~ Adele Astaire, Lady Charles Cavendish (née Adele Marie Austerlitz; b. Sept. 10, 1896), American dancer and elder sister of Fred Astaire. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She died at age 84 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
1969 ~ Irene Castle (née Irene Foote; b. Apr. 17, 1893), American dancer. She was born in New Rochelle, New York. She died at age 75 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
1947 ~ Al Capone (né Alphonse Gabriel Capone, b. Jan. 17, 1899), American gangster. He was ultimately arrested on tax evasion. He was born in New York, New York. He died 8 days after his 48th birthday of cardiac arrest following a stroke in Miami Beach, Florida.
1891 ~ Theo van Gogh (né Theodorus van Gogh; b. May 1, 1857), Dutch art dealer and younger brother of painter Vincent van Gogh. He died of Dementia paralytic just six months after Vincent van Gogh’s suicide. Theo was 33 years old at the time of his death.
1881 ~ Konstantin Thon (b. Oct. 26, 1794), Russian architect. He designed the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow. He was born and died in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He died at age 86.
1742 ~ Edmond Halley (b. Nov. 8, 1656), British astronomer and mathematician. He is best known for calculating the orbit of the comet that was ultimately named in his honor ~ Halley’s Comet. He died at age 85. [Note: under the Julian calendar, his birth and date are noted as October 29, 1656 ~ January 14, 1742,]
1586 ~ Lucas Cranach the Younger (b. Oct. 4, 1515), German painter. He died at age 70.
1559 ~ Christian II, King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (b. July 1, 1481). He reigned as King of Denmark and Norway from July 1513 until Jan. 1523; as King of Sweden from November 1520 until August 1521. He was married to Isabella of Austria. He was deposed by his uncle Frederick I and his children were denied the throne. He was of the House of Oldenburg. He was the son of John, King of Denmark and Christina of Saxony. He died at age 77.
1494 ~ Ferdinand I, King of Naples (b. June 2, 1423). He ruled Naples from June 1458 until his death in January 1494. He was married twice. His first wife was Isabella of Clermont. His second wife was Joanna of Aragon. He was of the House of Trastámara. He was the illegitimate son of Alfonso V, King of Aragon and his mistress, Giraldona Carlino. He died at age 70.
1067 ~ Emperor Yingzong of Song (b. Feb. 16, 1032), 5th Emperor of the Song Dynasty. He was emperor from May 1063 until his death 4 years later. He died 22 days before his 35th birthday.
951 ~ Ma Xiguang, Chinese ruler during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period State of Chu. The date of his birth is not known.
863 ~ Charles of Provence (b. 845), Frankish king. He was the youngest son of Holy Roman Emperor Lothair I. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been about 17 or 18 at the time of his death.
844 ~ Pope Gregory IV (né Gregorius; b. 827). He was Pope from October 827 until his death in this date nearly 17 years later. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been about 54 at the time of his death.
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