Birthdays:
1980 ~ Michelle Kwan (née Michelle Wingshan Kwan), American figure skater. She was born in Torrance, California.
1968 ~ Jorja Fox (née Jorja-An Fox), American actress. She is best known for her role as Sara Sidle in the television drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She was born in New York, New York.
1966 ~ Jim Gaffigan (né James Christopher Gaffigan), American comedian and actor. He was born in Elgin, Illinois.
1949 ~ Shelley Duvall (née Shelley Alexis Duvall), American actress. She was born in Fort Worth, Texas.
1940 ~ Ringo Starr (né Richard Starkey), British drummer for the Beatles. He was knighted and is now known as Sir Richard Starkey. He was born in Liverpool, England.
1936 ~ Egbert Brieskorn (d. July 11, 2013), German mathematician. He died 4 days after his 77th birthday.
1935 ~ Kitty Genovese (née Catherine Susan Genovese; d. Mar. 13, 1964), American murder victim. She was murdered in New York City while her neighbors allegedly did nothing to help her. This became known as the By-stander or Genovese Effect. She was born and died in New York, New York. She was 28 years old at the time of her murder.
1933 ~ David McCullough (né David Gaub McCullough), American historian and author. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1929 ~ Helen Rodríguez Trías (d. Dec. 27, 2001), American pediatrician, educator and woman’s rights activist. She was the first Hispanic president of the American Public Health Association. She was born in New York, New York. She died of cancer at age 72 in Santa Cruz, California.
1928 ~ Pat Hitchcock O’Connell (née Patricia Alma Hitchcock; d. Aug. 9, 2021), English actress and daughter of movie director Alfred Hitchcock. She lived in her father’s shadow. She was born in London, England. She died in Thousand Oaks, California about a month after her 93rd birthday.
1927 ~ Doc Severinsen (né Carl Hilding Severinsen), American conductor and trumpet player. He is best known for leading the NBC orchestra on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He was born in Arlington, Oregon.
1921 ~ William Worthy, Jr. (d. May 4, 2014), African-American defiant journalist who reported from forbidden lands. He was a civil rights activist and dissident who pressed his right to travel regardless of the regulations issued by the United States Department of State. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 92 in Brewster, Massachusetts.
1919 ~William Kunstler (né William Moses Kunstler; d. Sept. 4, 1995), American lawyer and political activist. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died of heart failure at age 76.
1917 ~ Larry O’Brien (né Lawrence Francis O’Brien, Jr.; d. Sept. 28, 1990), 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 in New York, New York.
1916 ~ Chia-Chiao Lin (d. Jan. 13, 2013), Chinese-born mathematician. He was born and died in Beijing, China. He died at age 96.
1916 ~ Julia Ruth Stevens (née Julia Ruth; d. Mar. 9, 2019), American proud daughter who built a baseball legacy. She was the adopted daughter of Babe Ruth. She was born in Georgia. She died at age 102 in Henderson, Nevada. She was buried in New Hampshire.
1915 ~ Margaret Walker (née Margaret Abigail Walker; d. Nov. 30, 1998), African-American poet. She was a part of the African-American literary moment in Chicago known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She died of breast cancer at age 83 in Chicago, Illinois.
1907 ~ Robert A. Heinlein (né Robert Anson Heinlein; d. May 8, 1988), American science fiction writer, best known for his novel, Stranger in a Strange Land. He wrote over 50 novels. He was born in Butler, Missouri. He died at age 80 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
1906 ~ William Feller (né Vilibald Srećko Feller; d. Jan. 14, 1970), Croatian-American mathematician. He specialized in probability theory. He was born in what is now known as Zabreb, Croatia (then the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy). He died at age 63 in New York, New York.
1906 ~ Satchel Paige (né Leroy Robert Paige, d. 1982), African-American professional baseball player. He was born in Mobile, Alabama. He died a month before his 76th birthday in Kansas City, Missouri.
1905 ~ Marie-Louise Dubriel-Jacotin (d. Oct. 19, 1972), French mathematician. She was only the second woman to earn a doctorate in France in pure mathematics. She was the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics in France. She died at age 67.
1985 ~ Marc Chagall (né Moishe Shagal; d. Mar. 28, 1887), Russian-born painter. He is best known as one of the world’s preeminent Jewish artists and is best known for creating the Jerusalem windows at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. His father was a fish merchant, so he often incorporated fish into his work to honor his father. He died at age 97.
1880 ~ Otto Rohwedder (né Otto Frederick Rohwedder; d Nov. 8, 1960), American engineer and inventor of sliced bread. Interestingly, the first loaves of sliced bread began to be sold on his 48th birthday. He was born in Davenport, Iowa. He died at age 80 in Concord, Michigan.
1861 ~ Nettie Stevens (née Nettie Maria Stevens; d. May 4, 1912), American geneticist. She is best known for her work on the XY sex-determination system. She was born in Cavendish, Vermont. She died of breast cancer at age 50 in Baltimore, Maryland.
1860 ~ Gustav Mahler (d. May 18, 1911), Czech-Austrian composer. He was born in Kaliště, Bohemia, which is now the Czech Republic. He died of bacterial endocarditis at age 50.
1843 ~ Camillo Golgi (d. Jan. 21, 1926), Italian physician, anatomist and recipient of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is best known for his work in the central nervous system. Golgi bodies are named in his honor. He died at age 82.
1752 ~ Joseph Marie Jacquard (d. Aug. 7, 1834), French merchant and inventor of the Jacquard loom. He died a month after his 82nd birthday.
1616 ~ John Leverett (d. Mar. 16, 1679), Early American soldier and 19th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The exact date of his birth is unknown, however, he was baptized on July 7, 1616. He is believed to have been 62 or 63 at the time of his death.
1540 ~ John Sigismund Zápolya, King of Hungary (d. Mar. 14, 1571). His first reign was from 1540 to 1551. His second reign was from 1556 to 1570. He was of the House of Zápolya. He was the son of John Zápolya and Isabella Jagiellon. He never married and died childless. He died of an illness at age 30.
1528 ~ Archduchess Anna of Austria (d. Oct. 16, 1590), Duchess consort of Bavaria. She was the wife of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria. She was of the House of Habsburg. She was the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. She died at age 62.
1207 ~ St. Elizabeth of Hungary (d. Nov. 17, 1231). She was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungry. She was married at 14 to Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia. She was widowed at age 20. She then began building hospitals to tend to the sick. She was of the House of Árpád Dynasty. She was the daughter of Andrew II, King of Hungary and his first wife, Gertrude of Merania. She died at age 24.
Events that changed the World:
2005 ~ In a series of four explosions, rush-hour terrorist bombings on the London public transit system killed 52 people, plus four of the alleged suicide bombers. Over 700 others were injured.
1985 ~ Boris Becker (b. 1967), at age 17, became the youngest player to win at Wimbledon.
1983 ~ Maine native Samantha Smith (1972 ~ 1985) wrote to Yuri Andropov (1914 ~ 1984), the newly elected Secretary General of the Soviet Union and received a personal invitation to visit the country. Two years later she was killed when the small plane she and her father were flying crash landed in Maine.
1981 ~ Sandra Day O’Connor (b. 1930) was appointed to become the first female justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1980 ~ Sharia law was instituted in Iran.
1976 ~ The United States Military Academy at West Point allowed women to enroll. Four years later, in May 1980, 62 of the initial class of women were commissioned as second lieutenants.
1954 ~ Elvis Presley (1935 ~ 1977) made his first radio debut when WHBQ in Memphis played is first recording for Sun Records, That’s All Right.
1946 ~ Future United States President Jimmy Carter () married Rosalyn Smith (b. 1927).
1930 ~ Construction began on the Boulder Dam, now known as the Hoover Dam.
1928 ~ The Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri sold the first loaves of sliced bread.
1911 ~ The United States, Great Britain, Japan and Russia signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, which banned open-water seal hunting. This was the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
1907 ~ Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. (1867 ~ 1932), staged his first Ziegfeld Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
1898 ~ President William McKinley (1843 ~ 1901) signed the Newlands Resolution, which annexed Hawaii as a territory of the United States. The bill had been approved by Congress a few days earlier.
1863 ~ The United States began its first military draft for soldiers for the American Civil War. Exemptions from the draft cost $300.
1777 ~ During the American Revolutionary War, American forces retreated from Fort Ticonderoga and were defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
1456 ~ A retrial verdict acquitted Joan of Arc (1412 ~ 1431) of heresy 25 years after her death.
Good-Byes:
2014 ~ Dick Jones (né Richard Percy Jones; b. Feb. 25, 1927), American actor who voiced Disney’s Pinocchio. He was born in Snyder, Texas. He died of injuries sustained in a fall at age 87 in Northridge, California.
2014 ~ Anthony Smith (né Anthony John Francis Smith; b. Mar. 30, 1926), British adventurer who crossed land, sea and air. In 2011, well into his 80s, he sailed from the Canary Islands to the Bahamas. He died at age 88.
2006 ~ Syd Barrett (né Roger Keith Barrett; b. Jan. 6, 1946), British singer-songwriter and founding member of Pink Floyd. He was born and died in Cambridge, England. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 60.
1990 ~ Bill Cullen (né William Lawrence Francis Cullen; b. Feb. 18, 1920), American game show host. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died of lung cancer at age 70 in Bel Air, California.
1973 ~ Veronica Lake (née Constance Frances Marie Ockelman; b. Nov. 14, 1922), American actress. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died in Burlington, Vermont at age 50 of renal failure.
1972 ~ Esther Applin (née Esther Richards; b. Nov. 24, 1895), American geologist and paleontologist. She is best known for her work with microfossils and their use in determining the age of rock formations. This was important in the oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. She was born in Newark, Ohio. She died at age 76.
1971 ~ Ub Iwerks (né Ubbe Eert Iwerks; b. Mar. 24, 1901), American animator and co-creator of Mickey Mouse. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He died at age 70 in Los Angeles, California.
1970 ~ Sir Allen Lane (né Allen Lane Williams; b. Sept. 21, 1902), British publisher and founder of Penguin Books. He died of cancer at age 67.
1965 ~ Moshe Sharett (né Moshe Shertok; b. Oct. 15, 1894), 2nd Prime Minister of Israel. He served as Prime Minister from January 1954 until November 1955. He died at age 70 in Jerusalem, Israel.
1930 ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (né Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle; b. May 22, 1859), Scottish physician and writer. He was the creator of Sherlock Holmes. He died at age 71.
1927 ~ Gösta Mittag-Leffer (né Magnus Gustaf Mattig-Leffer; b. Mar. 16, 1846), Swedish mathematician. He was a strong advocate of women’s rights. He was a member of the Nobel Prize Committee in 1903 and was instrumental in seeing that, in 1903, Marie Curie was awarded the prize in Physics as well has her husband, Pierre. Mattig-Leffer died at age 81.
1901 ~ Johanna Spyri (née Johanna Louise Heusser; b. June 12, 1827), Swiss writer best known for her children’s book, Heidi. She died about 3 weeks after her 74th birthday.
1893 ~ Samuel Blatchford (né Samuel Millard Blatchford; b. Mar. 9, 1820), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Chester Arthur. He replaced Ward Hunt on the Court. He was succeeded by Edward White. He served on the Court from March 1882 until his death 11 years later. He was born in Albany, New York. He died in Newport, Rhode Island at age 73.
1890 ~ Henri Nestlé (né Heinrich Nestle; b. Aug. 10, 1814), German-born Swiss confectioner and businessman. He was the founder of the Nestlé’s corporation. He died about a month before his 76th birthday.
1701 ~ William Stoughton (b. 1631), Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have died at age 70.
1647 ~ Thomas Hooker (b. July 5, 1586), English-born minister and founder of the Colony of Connecticut. He dissented with the Puritan colony in Massachusetts and left to create the Colony of Connecticut. He died in Hartford, Connecticut Colony 2 days after his 61st birthday.
1572 ~ Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (b. Aug. 1, 1520). He reigned from April 1538 until his death in July 1572. He was married 3 times. His first wife was Elisabeth of Austria. She died at age 18. His second wife was his mistress, Barbara Radziwiłł. The king was her second husband. After her death, he married Catherine of Austria. There were no children of any of his marriages. He was of the Jagiellon Dynasty. He was the son of Sigismund I, King of Poland, also known as Sigismund the Old, and Bona Sforza. He died about 3 weeks before his 52nd birthday.
1307 ~ Edward, King I of England (b. June 17, 1239). He was also known as Edward the Longshanks and The Hammer of the Scots. He ruled England from November 1272 until his death in July 1307. He was married twice. His first wife was Eleanor of Castile. After her death, he married Margaret of France. He was of the House of Plantagenet. He was the son of Henry III, King of England and Eleanor of Provence. He died about 3 weeks after his 68th birthday.
1304 ~ Pope Benedict XI (né Nicola Boccasini; b. 1240). He was Pope from October 1303 until his death 9 months later. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been 64 years old at the time of his death.
1162 ~ Haakon II, King of Norway (b. 1147). He was also known as Haakon II Sigurdsson. He reigned from 1157 until his death in 1162. He was of the House of Gille. He was the illegitimate son of Sigurd II, King of Norway and Thora. The exact date of his birth is not known. He was killed in the Battle of Sekken.
No comments:
Post a Comment