Birthdays:
1982 ~ Colin Jost (né Colin Kelly Jost), American comedian. He was born in New York, New York.
1972 ~ Samantha Smith (née Samantha Reed Smith; d. Aug. 25, 1985), American peace activist from Houlton, Maine. In 1982, she wrote a letter to Russian General Secretary Yuri Andropov and received a personal reply and an invitation to visit the Soviet Union. She was born in Houlton, Maine. She was killed in a small private plane crash at age 13 in Auburn, Maine.
1961 ~ Sharon Lawrence (née Sharon Elizabeth Lawrence), American actress. She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1949 ~ Ann Veneman (née Ann Margaret Veneman), 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture. She served under President George W. Bush from January 2001 through January 2005. She was born in Modesto, California.
1948 ~ Fred Grandy (né Frederick Lawrence Grandy), American actor and politician. He is best known for his portrayal of Gopher on the Love Boat. He later went on to become a United States Representative from Iowa. He was born in Sioux City, Iowa.
1947 ~ Richard Lewis (né Richard Philip Lewis), American comedian. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1944 ~ Gary Busey (né William Gary Busey), American actor. He was born in Baytown, Texas.
1941 ~ Stokely Carmichael (né Stokley Standiford Churchill Carmichael; d. Nov. 15, 1998), Trinidadian-American civil rights activist. He died of prostate cancer at age 57.
1936 ~ Harmon Killebrew (né Harmon Clayton Killebrew, Jr.; d. May 17, 2011), American baseball player. He was the gentle slugger who was beloved by his team. He was born in Payette, Idaho. He died at age 74 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
1930 ~ Robert Evans (né Robert J. Shapera; d. Oct. 26, 2019), American actor and movie producer who lived a Hollywood fairy tale. He is best known his work on Love Story and The Godfather. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 89 in Beverly Hills, California.
1929 ~ Orina Fallaci (d. Sept. 15, 2006), Italian journalist and writer. She was born and died in Florence, Italy. She died of lung cancer at age 77.
1926 ~ Sir Rex Hunt (né Rex Masterman Hunt, d. Nov. 11, 2012), British governor who defied Argentina during the Falkland Islands War in 1982. He died at age 86.
1925 ~ Francis S. Curry (né Francis Sherman Curry; d. Oct. 8, 2019), American Army Private and Medal of Honor recipient who fought off a Nazi attack during the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. In December 1944, age 19, Curry was guarding a bridge crossing when German tanks suddenly rolled out in front of him and his company. During intense fighting, Curry rushed out to grab ammunition and fired a bazooka, disabling the German tanks. He was born in Loch Sheldrake, New York. He died at age 94 in South Bethlehem, New York.
1920 ~ Ray Harryhausen (né Raymond Frederick Harryhausen; d. May 7, 2013), American animator who made onscreen magic. He is best known for stop motion model animation, known as Dynamation. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He died at age 92 in London, England.
1919 ~ Slim Pickens (né Louis Burton Lindley, Jr.; d. Dec. 8, 1983), American actor. He is best remembered for his role in Dr. Strangelove. He was born in Kingsburg, California. He died following complications of surgery to remove a brain tumor in Modesto, California. He was 64 years old.
1916 ~ Ruth Warrick (née Ruth Elizabeth Warrick; d. Jan. 15, 2005), American singer and actress who made her screen debut in Citizen Kane. She played Emily Norton Kane, the aloof, icy first wife of the fictional publisher Charles Foster Kane in the film. She was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri. She died of pneumonia at age 88 in Manhattan, New York.
1914 ~ Christos Papakyriakopoulos (d. June 29, 1976), Greek mathematician. He was born in Athens, Greece. He died on his 62nd birthday of stomach cancer in Princeton, New Jersey.
1911 ~ Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. Dec. 1, 2004), Prince consort of the Netherlands. He was the husband of Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands. He was of the House of Lippe. He was the son of Prince Bernhard of Lippe and Armgard von Cramm. He died at age 93.
1904 ~ Witold Hurewics (d. Sept. 6, 1956), Polish mathematician. He was born in Łódź, Poland. He died at age 52 from a fall from a Mayan step pyramid in Mexico City.
1901 ~ Nelson Eddy (né Nelson Ackerman Eddy; d. Mar. 6, 1967), American singer and actor. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He died at age 65 of a cerebral hemorrhage in Palm Beach, Florida.
1900 ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (disappeared July 31, 1944), French pilot and writer, best known for The Little Prince. During World War II, while on a reconnaissance mission in July 1944, he disappeared and was presumed killed. He was born in Lyon, France. He was 44 years old.
1880 ~ Harry Frazee (né Harry Herbert Frazee; d. June 4, 1929), American theatrical agent and former owner of the Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923. He is best known for being responsible for selling Babe Ruth to the rival team, the New York Yankees. He was born in Peoria, Illinois. He died of kidney failure three weeks before his 49th birthday in New York, New York.
1868 ~ George Ellery Hale (d. Feb. 21, 1938), American astronomer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died at age 69 in Pasadena, California.
1861 ~ William James Mayo (d. July 28, 1939), American physician and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He was born in Le Sueur, Minnesota. He died a month after his 78th birthday in Rochester, Minnesota.
1858 ~ Julia Lathrop (née Julia Clifford Lathrop; d. Apr. 15, 1932), American social activist. She served as the 1stDirector of the United States Children’s Bureau. She was the first woman to head a federal bureau. She was born and died in Rockford, Illinois. She died at age 73.
1858 ~ George Washington Goethals (d. Jan. 21, 1928), American general and civil engineer. He was the co-designer of the Panama Canal. He served as the 1st Governor of the Panama Canal Zone. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 69 in Manhattan, New York.
1849 ~ Pedro Montt (né Pedro Elias Pablo Montt Montt; d. Aug. 16, 1910), 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.
1884 ~ Peter I, King of Serbia (d. Aug. 16, 1921). He was the 1st King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He was King from December 1918 until his death. He was married to Princess Zorka of Montenegro. He was of the House of Karađorđević. He was the son of Alexander Karađorđević and Persida Nenadović. He died at age 77.
1801 ~ Frédéric Bastiat (né Claude-Frédéric Bastiat; d. Dec. 24, 1850), French economist and diplomat. He was born in Bayonne, France. He died at age 49 in Rome, Italy.
1793 ~ Josef Ressel (né Josef Ludwig Franz Ressel; d. Oct. 9, 1857), Bohemian inventor who designed the ship propeller. He died at age 64.
1482 ~ Maria of Aragon (d. Mar. 7, 1517), Queen consort of Portugal and the Algarves. She was the 2nd wife of Manuel I, King of Portugal. She was of the House of Trastámara. She was the daughter of Ferdinand II, King of Aragon and Isabella I, Queen of Castile. She died of complications of pregnancy at age 34.
1398 ~ John II, King of Aragon (d. Jan. 23, 1479). He ruled Aragonn from June 1458 until his death. He was also the King of Sicily from June 1458 until 1468. He was known as both John the Great and John the Faithless. He was married twice. His first wife was Blanche I, Queen of Navarre. His second wife was Juana Enríquez. He was of the House of Trastámara. He was the son of Ferdinand I, King of Aragon and Eleanor of Albuquerque. He died at age 80.
1136 ~ Petronilla, Queen of Aragon (d. Oct. 15, 1173). She became Queen of Aragon after her father abdicated. She reigned until her abdication in 1164. She was married to Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona. She was the last ruling member of the Jiménez dynasty. She was the daughter of Ramon II, King of Aragon and Agnes of Aquitaine. She died at age 37.
Events that Changed the World:
2014 ~ The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq. This group is sometimes referred to as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
2012 ~ A derecho hit the eastern United States leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
2009 ~ Bernard Madoff (1938 ~ 2021) was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his Ponzi scheme.
2007 ~ The first iPhones were made available from Apple, Inc.
1995 ~ The United States Space Shuttle Program, the STS-71 Mission (Atlantis Mission) docked with the Russian space station, Mir, for the first time.
1976 ~ The Seychelles became independent from the United Kingdom.
1974 ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov (b. 1948) defected from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Bolshoi Ballet.
1974 ~ Isabel Perón (b. 1931) was sworn in as the first female president of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Perón (1895 ~ 1974) had delegated the responsibilities to her, citing ill health. He died on July 1, 1974, two days after Isabel became president.
1972 ~ In the case of Furman v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 per curium opinion that the arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore constituted cruel and unusual punishment.
1956 ~ The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 became law, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1889 ~ Hyde Park and several other townships in Illinois voted to be annexed by Chicago, thereby making the largest city in the United States in area and the second largest in population.
1613 ~ The Globe Theater in London, England burned to the ground. Many Shakespeare plays were staged in this theater. It would be over 300 years before a new Globe Theater would be rebuilt.
1534 ~ Jacques Cartier (1491 ~ 1557) became the first recorded European to reach what is now known as Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Good-Byes:
2021 ~ Donald Rumsfeld (né Donald Henry Rumsfeld; b. July 9, 1932), 13th and 21st United States Secretary of Defense. He was the hawk who oversaw the United States invasion of Iraq. He served under Presidents Gerald Ford from November 1975 until January 1977 and again from January 2001 until December 2006 during the George W. Bush administration. Thus, he was both the youngest (under Ford) and oldest (under Reagan) Secretary of Defense. He also served as the 6th White House Chief of Staff from September 1974 until November 1975 during the Ford administration. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died in Taos, New Mexico 10 days before his 89th birthday.
2020 ~ Carl Reiner (b. Mar. 20, 1922), American comedy legend who happily played second fiddle. American film director and comedian. He was born in The Bronx, New York. He died at age 98 in Beverly Hills, California.
2018 ~ Steve Ditko (né Stephen J. Ditko, b. Nov. 2, 1927), American enigmatic comic artist who helped create Spider-Man. He was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He died at age 90 in New York, New York.
2018 ~ Arvid Carlsson (b. Jan. 25, 1923), 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.
2003 ~ Katherine Hepburn (née Katherine Houghton Hepburn; b. May 12, 1907), American actress. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She died at age 96 in Fenwick, Connecticut.
2002 ~ Rosemary Clooney (b. May 23, 1928), American singer and actress. She was born in Maysville, Kentucky. She died of lung cancer a little over a month after her 74th birthday in Beverly Hills, California.
1995 ~ Lana Turner (née Julia Jean Turner; b. Feb. 8, 1921), American actress. She had 7 husbands. She was born in Wallace, Idaho. She died of esophageal cancer at age 74 in Los Angeles, California.
1990 ~ Irving Wallace (b. Mar. 19, 1916), American journalist and author. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 74 in Los Angeles, California.
1987 ~ Elizabeth Cotton (b. Jan. 5, 1983), African-American blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter. She was a self-taught musician who played left-handed in her own style. She is known for playing a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down. She was born in Carroboro, North Carolina and died at age 94 in Syracuse, New York.
1978 ~ Bob Crain (né Robert Edward Crane; b. July 13, 1928), American actor best known for his role as Colonel Hogan on the TV show Hogan’s Heroes. He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. He was murdered under mysterious circumstances two weeks before his 50th birthday in Scottsdale, Arizona. His murder has not been solved.
1977 ~ Magda Lupescu (née Elena Lupescu, b. Sept 15, 1895), Romanian mistress of King Carol II of Romania. After his abdication, she became his wife. She died at age 81.
1976 ~ Christos Papakyriakopoulos (b. June 29, 1914), He was born in Athens, Greece. He died on his 62nd birthday of stomach cancer in Princeton, New Jersey.
1967 ~ Jayne Mansfield (née Vera Jayne Palmer; b. Apr. 19, 1933), American actress. She was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She was killed in a car accident in Slidell, Louisiana. She was 34 years old at the time of her death. One of her daughters is Mariska Hargitay (b. 1964), an actress known for her role as Detective Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit.
1940 ~ Paul Klee (b. Dec. 18, 1879), Swiss-German painter. He died at age 60.
1938 ~ Frederick William Vanderbilt (b. Feb. 2, 1856), American railway magnate. He was the director of the New York Central Railroad for 61 years. He was the son of William Henry Vanderbilt and Marie Louisa Kissam. His grandfather was The Commodore, Cornelius Vanderbilt. He was born in Staten Island, New York. He died at age 82 in Hyde Park, New York.
1933 ~ Fatty Arbuckle (né Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle; b. Mar. 24, 1887), American actor. He was one of the most popular silent film stars of the 1910s. He was accused of the rape and manslaughter of a young actress but was ultimately acquitted after three trials. He was born in Smith Center, Kansas. He died of a heart attack at age 46 in Manhattan, New York.
1925 ~ Christian Michelsen (né Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen; b. Mar. 15, 1857), 1st Prime Minister of independent Norway. He served as Prime Minister from March 1905 until October 1907 during the reign of King Haakon VII. He is best known for his role in the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905. He died at age 68.
1921 ~ Lady Randolph Churchill, Jeanette Jerome (née Jennie Jerome; b. Jan. 9, 1854), American socialite and mother of Winston Churchill. When she married her first husband, Lord Randolph Churchill, she became Lady Randolph Churchill. She died of a hemorrhage following the amputation of her left leg. Her leg required the amputation as a result an injury from a fall in which she broke her ankle. She was 67 years old.
1900 ~ Ivan Mekheevich Pervushin (b. Jan. 15, 1827), Russian mathematician. He died at age 73.
1895 ~ Thomas Huxley (né Thomas Henry Huxley; b. May 4, 1825), English botanist. He died at age 70.
1882 ~ Joseph Hansom (né Joseph Aloysius Hansom; b. Oct. 26, 1803), English architect and inventor of the Hansom cab. He died at age 73 in London, England.
1861 ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett; b. Mar. 6, 1806), English poet. She died of an illness at age 55 in Florence, Italy.
1852 ~ Henry Clay, Sr. (b. Apr. 12, 1777), 9th United States Secretary of State. He served under President John Quincy Adams from March 1825 until March 1929. He had also served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Hanover County, Virginia. He died at age 75 in Washington, D.C.
1252 ~ Abel, King of Denmark (b. 1218). He became king following the death of his brother, Eric IV, of whom he is suspected of murdering. He reigned as king from November 1250 until his death a year and a half later. He was married to Matilda of Holstein. He was of the House of Estridsen. He was the son of Valdemar II, King of Denmark and Berengaria of Portugal. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 33 or 34 at the time of his death.
226 ~ Cao Pi (b. 187), Chinese emperor of the Cao Wei. The exact date of his birth is not known.
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