Birthdays:
2007 ~ Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau. She is of the House of Orange-Nassau. She is the daughter of Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands and Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti.
1988 ~ Haley Joel Osment, American actor. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
1959 ~ Brian Setzer (né Brian Robert Setzer), American musician and frontman for the Stray Cats. He was born in Massapequa, New York.
1954 ~ Anne Lamott, American author, and political activist. She was born in San Francisco, California.
1954 ~ Peter MacNicol, American actor. He was born in Dallas, Texas.
1941 ~ Paul Theroux (né Paul Edward Theroux), American travel writer and novelist. He was born in Medford, Massachusetts.
1938 ~ Don Meredith (né Joseph Don Meredith; d. Dec. 5, 2010), American professional football quarterback who lit up the broadcast booth. His nickname was “Dandy Don.” He was born in Mount Vernon, Texas. He died at age 72 of a brain hemorrhage in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1936 ~ John Madden (né John Earl Madded; d. Dec. 28, 2021), American NFL Hall of Fame football coach who led the Oakland Raiders to their first Super Bowl victory in 1977 and went on to become one of football’s greatest ambassador, reaching generations of fans from broadcasting booth and through the best-selling video game that bears his name. He was born in Austin, Minnesota. He died at age 85 in Pleasanton, California.
1934 ~ David Halberstam (d. Apr. 23, 2007), American journalist and author. He was born in New York, New York. He was killed in a car accident in Menlo Park, California, just 13 days before his 73rd birthday.
1932 ~ Blaze Starr (née Fannie Belle Fleming; d. June 15, 2015), American burlesque star and stripper who had a long affair with Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long. She was known as the Hottest Blaze in Burlesque. She was born and died in Wayne County, West Virginia. She was 83 years old.
1932 ~ Omar Sharif (né Michel Dimitri Chalhoub; d. July 10, 2015), Egyptian actor and playboy who excelled in exotic roles. He was best known for his role as Dr. Zhivago in the movie of the same name and for his role in Lawrence of Arabia. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He died of a heart attack at age 83 in Cairo, Egypt.
1929 ~ Max von Sydow (né Carl Adolf von Sydow; d. Mar. 8, 2020), Swedish actor who played chess with Death. He is best known for his role as a disillusioned medieval knight who challenged Death to a game of chess in Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 movie The Seventh Seal. He was born in Lund, Sweden. He died about a month before his 91st birthday in Provence, France.
1929 ~ Ann Sullivan (née Sara Ann McNeese; d. Apr. 13, 2020), American Disney animator who brought to life Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, and other classics. She was born in Fargo, North Dakota. She died in Los Angeles, California of complications of Covid-19, just 3 days after her 91st birthday.
1927 ~ Marshall Warren Nirenberg (d. Jan. 15, 2010), American biochemist and recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for breaking the genetic code. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died at age 82.
1927 ~ Joan Quigley (née Joan Ceciel Quigley; d. Oct. 23, 2014), American astrologer who guided First Lady Nancy Reagan. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She died at age 87 in San Francisco, California.
1926 ~ Gustav Metzger (d. Mar. 1, 2017), German artist who made a career out of destruction. He died at age 90 in London, England.
1921 ~ Chuck Connors (né Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors; d. Nov. 10, 1992), American professional baseball player, professional basketball player, and actor. He is best known for his role in the television western, The Rifleman. He played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers and basketball for the Boston Celtics. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died of lung cancer at age 71 in Los Angeles, California.
1919 ~ John Houbolt (né John Cornelius Houbolt; d. Apr. 15, 2014), American engineer who helped NASA reach the moon. He was born in Altoona, Iowa. He died of Parkinson’s disease in Scarborough, Maine 5 days after his 95thbirthday.
1917 ~ Robert Burns Woodward (d. July 8, 1979), American organic chemist and recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He died of a heart attack at age 62.
1915 ~ Harry Morgan (né Harry Bratsberg; d. Dec. 7, 2011), American hardest-working actor in Hollywood. He was best known for his role as Col. Sherman Potter on the television sit-com M*A*S*H. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died at age 96 in Los Angeles, California.
1910 ~ Yosef Shalom Eliashiv (d. July 18, 2012), Lithuanian-Israeli Haredi rabbi. He died at age 102 in Jerusalem, Israel.
1909 ~ Jimmy Cannon (d. Dec. 5, 1973), American sports journalist. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for his coverage of boxing. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died at age 64.
1903 ~ Clare Turlay Newberry (d. Feb. 12, 1970), American children’s author and illustrator. She was born in Enterprise, Oregon. She died at age 66 in San Diego, California.
1887 ~ Bernardo Houssay (né Bernardo Alberto Houssay; d. Sept. 21, 1971), Argentine physiologist and recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role of the pituitary homes in regulating blood sugar levels. He was born and died in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died at age 84.
1880 ~ Frances Perkins (née Fannie Coralie Perkins; b. May 14, 1965), first woman to be appointed to a United States cabinet position when she was appointed as the 4th United States Secretary of Labor. She served under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman from March 1933 through June 1945. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She died at age 85 in New York, New York.
1861 ~ Ray Frank (née Rachel Frank; d. Oct. 10, 1948), American Jewish religious leader. She was the first Jewish woman to formally preach from a pulpit in the United States. She was from San Francisco and was known as the “Girl Rabbi of the Golden West”. She was a role model for women in Judaism. She died at age 87.
1847 ~ Joseph Pulitzer (né József Pulitzer; d. Oct. 29, 1911), Hungarian-American publisher. He introduced the technique of yellow journalism, journalism with little well researched news. He became and American citizen and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York State. He was born in Hungary. He died at age 64 in Charleston, South Carolina.
1829 ~ William Booth (d. Aug. 20, 1912), English Methodist minister and founder of the Salvation Army. He died at age 83 in London, England.
1827 ~ Lew Wallace (né Lewis Wallace; d. Feb. 15, 1905), American lawyer, General in the American Civil War, and novelist, who’s best known book was Ben-Hur. He was born in Brookville, Indiana. He died at age 77 in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
1794 ~ Matthew C. Perry (né Matthew Calbraith Perry; d. Mar. 4, 1858), Commodore of the United States Navy. He was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He died of rheumatic fever about a month before his 64th birthday in New York, New York.
1778 ~ William Hazlitt (d. Sept. 18, 1830), British writer, literary critic, social commentator, and philosopher. He died at age 52 in London, England.
1755 ~ Samuel Hahnemann (né Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, d. July 2, 1843), German physician best known for creating an alternative form of medicine now known as homeopathy. He died at age 88 in Paris, France.
1651 ~ Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (d. Oct. 11, 1708), German mathematician. He died at age 57.
1603 ~ Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark (d. June 2, 1647). He was heir apparent to the throne of Norway but died before becoming king. He was married to Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony. He was of the House of Oldenburg. He was the son of Christian IV, King of Denmark and Anne Catherine of Brandenburg. He died at age 44.
1512 ~ James V, King of Scotland (d. Dec. 14, 1542). He reigned over Scotland from September 1513 until his death 29 years later. He was married to Madeleine of Valois. She died 6 months after they married. He then married Mary of Guise, who was the mother of his successor, Mary, Queen of Scots. He was of the House of Stewart. He was the son of James IV, King of Scotland and Margaret Tudor. He died at age 30, probably of cholera or dysentery.
1472 ~ Princess Margaret of York (d. Dec. 11, 1472), English princess. She was of the House of York. She was the fifth child and fourth daughter of Edward IV, King of England and Elizabeth Woodville. She died at age 8 months.
Events that Changed the World:
2022 ~ Palm Sunday.
2019 ~ Massive gas explosion in downtown Durham, North Carolina. At least 1 person was killed, and numerous others were injured.
2017 ~ Passover began at sunset.
2017 ~ Neil Gorsuch (b. 1967) was sworn is as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1971 ~ The United States table tennis team visited China. This event became known as the Ping-pong diplomacy in an attempt to thaw relations between China and the United States.
1970 ~ Paul McCartney (b. 1942) announced that he was leaving the Beatles for personal reasons.
1963 ~ The nuclear submarine USS Thresher sank off the coast of Massachusetts, killing 129 American sailors. The submarine had begun its voyage from Bath, Maine.
1957 ~ The Suez Canal was reopened. It had been closed during the Suez crisis.
1953 ~ Warner Brothers released the first 3-D movie in New York, New York. The movie was entitled House of Wax, and starred Vincent Price (1911 ~ 1993).
1944 ~ Rudolf Vrba (1924 ~ 2006) and Alfréd Wetzler (1918 ~ 1988) escaped from the Birkenau concentration camp. They reported what was going on in the camps. Their report helped to end the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews to the concentration camps.
1925 ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 ~ 1940) was first published.
1912 ~ The Titanic left port in Southhampton, England on her first and only voyage. It would hit an iceberg and sink 5 days later.
1906 ~ The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry (1862 ~ 1910) was first published.
1866 ~ The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCAP was founded in New York City by Henry Bergh (1813 ~ 1888), a philanthropist and diplomat. He had been appointed to a diplomatic post in Russia and was horrified to see how the work horses there were beaten by their drivers.
1816 ~ The United States government approved of the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
1815 ~ The Mount Tambora volcano on an island in Indonesia, began its three-month long eruption, which lasted through July 15, 1815. The volcano killed over 71,000 people and affected the Earth’s climate for over 2 years.
1710 ~ The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, became effective in Great Britain.
1606 ~ James I, King of England (1566 ~ 1625) established the Virginia Company of London for the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
Good-Byes:
2013 ~ Sir Robert G. Edwards (né Robert Geoffrey Edwards; b. Sept. 27, 1925), English physiologist and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was a pioneer in vitro fertilization research who changed the rules of conception. He died at age 87.
2012 ~ Raymond Aubrac (né Raymond Samuel; b. July 31, 1914), French hero of the French Resistance. Following World War II, he became a civil engineer. He died at age 97 in Paris, France.
2010 ~ Lech Kaczyński (b. June 18, 1949), President of Poland. He served as President from December 2005 until his death. He was killed in a plane crash in Russia. He was 60 years old.
2010 ~ Dixie Carter (née Dixie Virginia Carter, b. May 25, 1939), American actress. She is best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker on the television sit-com Designing Women. She was born in McLemoresville, Tennessee. She died in Houston, Texas of endometrial cancer at age 70.
1996 ~ Moshe Davis (b. Jan. 12, 1916), American rabbi and scholar of American Jewish history. He died at age 80.
1992 ~ Peter Mitchell (né Peter Dennis Mitchell; b. Sept. 29, 1920), English biochemist and recipient of the 1878 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemiosmotic mechanism of the ATP synthesis. He died at age 71.
1990 ~ Wealthy Babcock (née Wealthy Consuelo Babcock; b. Nov. 11, 1895), American mathematician. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and had a long teaching career at that university. She was born in Washington County, Kansas. She died at age 94 in Lawrence, Kansas.
1981 ~ Howard Thurman (né Howard Washington Thurman; b. Nov. 18, 1899), African-American theologian, educator, philosopher and civil rights activist. He was born in Daytona Beach, Florida. He died at age 81 in San Francisco, California.
1975 ~ Walker Evans (b. Nov. 3, 1903), American photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his work with the Farm Security Administration, which documented the effects of the Great Depression. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He died in New Haven, Connecticut at age 71.
1967 ~ Oscar Chisini (b. Mar. 4, 1889), Italian mathematician. He died at age 78 in Milan, Italy.
1966 ~ Evelyn Waugh (né Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh; b. Oct. 28, 1903), English writer. He died of heart failure at age 62.
1962 ~ Stuart Sutcliffe (né Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe; b. June 23, 1940), Scottish bass player who was briefly with the Beatles. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 21 in Hamburg, West Germany.
1954 ~ Auguste Lumière (né Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière; b. Oct. 19, 1862), French movie director. He, along with his brother, Louis Jean Lumière (1864 ~ 1948), were considered to be the first filmmakers in history. They patented the cinematograph. Louis Jean died in Bandol, Fance at age 83; Auguste died in Lyon, France and was 91 at the time of his death.
1933 ~ Henry van Dyke, Jr. (né Henry Jackson van Dyke, Jr.; b. Nov. 10, 1852), American author, educator and clergyman. He also served as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg during the Woodrow Wilson administration. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 80 in Princeton, New Jersey.
1931 ~ Khalil Gibran (b. Jan. 6, 1883), Lebanese poet and painter. He is best known for his book of poetry entitled The Prophet. He died at age 48 in New York, New York.
1920 ~ Moritz Cantor (né Moritz Benedikt Cantor; b. Aug. 23, 1829), German mathematician and math historian. He died at age 90.
1919 ~ Emiliano Zapata (né Emiliano Zapata Salazar; b. Aug. 8, 1879), Mexican general and revolutionary. He was ambushed and killed by government forces. He died at age 39.
1813 ~ Joseph-Louis Lagrange (né Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia; b. Jan. 25, 1736), Italian-born mathematician. He was born in Turin, Italy. He died at age 77 in Paris France.
1806 ~ Horatio Gates (né Horatio Lloyd Gates; b. July 26, 1727), retired British soldier who served as an American General in the American Revolutionary War. He is credited for the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga. He died at age 78 in New York, New York.
1585 ~ Pope Gregory XIII (né Ugo Boncompagni, b. Jan. 7, 1502). He was Pope from May 1572 until his death 13 years later. He is best known for commissioning, and being the namesake of, the Gregorian calendar. He died at age 83.
1533 ~ Frederick I, King of Denmark (b. Oct. 7, 1471). He was King from 1523 until his death 10 years later. He was married twice. His first wife was Anna of Brandenburg. His second wife was Sophie of Pomerania. He was of the House of Oldenburg. He was the son of Christian I, King of Denmark and Dorothea of Brandenburg. He died at age 61.
1216 ~ Eric X of Sweden (b. 1180). Little is known of his life. He married Richeza of Denmark. He was of the House of Eric. He was the son of Canute I, King of Sweden and an unnamed mother. The exact date of his birth is unknown.
879 ~ Louis the Stammerer (b. Nov. 1, 846), Frankish King. He was formally known as Louis II, King of West Francia. He was married twice. His first wife was Ansgarde of Burgundy. His second wife was Adelaide of Paris. He was of the Carolingian Dynasty. He was the son of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans. He died of an illness at age 32.
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