Birthdays:
1978 ~ Andy Samberg (né David A.J. Samberg), American actor. He was born in Berkeley, California.
1974 ~ Nicole Krauss, American novelist. She was married to author Jonathan Safran Foer for 10 years, from 2004 to 2014. She was born in Manhattan, New York.
1970 ~ Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor best known for his role as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1969 ~ Edward Norton (né Edward Harrison Norton), American actor. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1969 ~ Christian Slater (né Christian Michael Leonard Slater), American actor. He was born in New York, New York.
1969 ~ Timothy D. Snyder (né Timothy David Snyder), American historian. His specialty is the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. He was born in Dayton, Ohio.
1961 ~ Timothy Geithner (né Timothy Franz Geithner), 75th Secretary of the United States Treasury. He served in President Obama’s first administration from January 2009 through January 2013. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1961 ~ Bob Woodruff (né Robert Warren Woodruff), American journalist. He was born in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
1958 ~ Madeleine Stowe (née Madeleine Marie Stowe), American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1957 ~ Denis Leary (né Dennis Colin Leary), American actor and comedian. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1952 ~ Patrick Swayze (né Patrick Wayne Swayze; d. Sept. 14, 2009), American actor and dancer. He was born in Houston, Texas. He died of pancreatic cancer a month after his 57th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1952 ~ Elayne Boosler, American comedian. She was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1943 ~ Martin Mull (né Martin Eugene Mull), American actor and comedian. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1936 ~ Robert Redford (né Charles Robert Redford, Jr.), American actor. He was born in Santa Monica, California.
1934 ~ Roberto Clemente (né Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker; d. Dec. 31, 1972), Puerto Rican baseball player who was killed an in plane crash during a humanitarian mission delivering aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He was 38 years old.
1933 ~ Roman Polanski (né Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański), French-born Polish film director. He was the husband of slain actress Sharon Tate. He has been a fugitive from the United States since 1978. He fled the country after having pled guilty to statutory rape. He was born in Paris, France.
1932 ~ Luc Montagnier (né Luc Antoine Montagnier; d. Feb. 8, 2022), French microbiologist and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). He was born in Chabris, France. He died at age 89 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
1927 ~ Rosalynn Carter (née Eleanor Rosalynn Smith), First Lady of the United States and wife of President Jimmy Carter. She was born in Plains, Georgia.
1925 ~ Brian Aldiss (né Brian Wilson Aldiss; d. Aug. 19, 2017), British author who wrote darkly imaginative science fiction. He died 1 day after his 92nd birthday in Oxford, England.
1920 ~ Shelley Winters (née Shirley Schrift; d. Jan. 14, 2006), American actress best known for her role in The Poseidon Adventure. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She died of heart failure at age 85 in Beverly Hills, California.
1917 ~ Caspar Weinberger (né Caspar Willard Weinberger; d. Mar. 28, 2006), American politician and 15th United States Secretary of Defense. He served as Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from January 1981 until November 1987. He had previously served as the 10th United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He was born in San Francisco, California. He died of pneumonia at age 88 in Bangor, Maine.
1914 ~ Lucy Ozarin (née Lucy Dorothy Ozarin; d. Sept. 17, 2017), American United States Navy lieutenant commander and psychiatrist. She was one of the first female psychiatrists in the Navy. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died a month after her 103rd birthday.
1904 ~ Max Factor, Jr. (né Francis Factor; d. June 7, 1996), American cosmetics entrepreneur. He was the son of the Max Factor, Sr. (né Maksymilian Faktorowicz), the Polish-born founder of the cosmetics company. Max, Jr. continued in the family business. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He died of a heart attack at age 91 in Los Angeles, California.
1902 ~ Margaret Murie (née Margaret Thomas; d. Oct. 19, 2003), American environmentalist and author. She is known as the Grandmother of the Conservation Movement. She was born in Seattle, Washington. She died at age 101 in Moose, Wyoming.
1834 ~ Marshall Field (d. Jan. 16, 1906), American merchant and founder of Marshall Field’s and Company, a famous department store in Chicago. He was born in Massachusetts. He died at age 71 from pneumonia in New York, New York.
1830 ~ Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria (d. Nov. 21, 1916). He reigned in Austria from December 1848 until his death in 1916. He was married to Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria. He was of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was the son of Franz Karl, Archduke of Austria and Princess Sophie of Bavaria. He was Roman Catholic. He was born and died in Vienna, Austria. He died at age 86.
1819 ~ Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. Feb. 21, 1876), Duchess consort of Leuchtenberg and wife of Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg. He was her first husband. After he died, she married Count Grigori Aleksandrovich Stroganov. This was a morganatic marriage. She was of the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov. She was the daughter of Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (née Princess Charlotte of Prussia). She died at age 56, probably of a bone disease.
1807 ~ Charles F. Adams, Sr. (né Charles Francis Adams; d. Nov. 21, 1886), American diplomat. He served as a Representative from Massachusetts in Congress. He was the son of President John Quincy Adams and the grandson of President Adams. He was born and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 79.
1803 ~ Nathan Clifford (d. July 25, 1881), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President James Buchanan. He served on the Court from January 1858 until his death on this date 23 years later. He replaced Benjamin Curtis and was succeeded by Horace Gray. Prior to his appointment to the High Court, he served as the 19th United States Attorney General. He served as Attorney General during the James Polk administration. He was born in Rumney, New Hampshire and died in Cornish, Maine. He died 24 days before his 78thbirthday.
1792 ~ John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (d. May 28, 1878), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as Prime Minister for two terms, the first from June 1846 to February 1852 and again from October 1865 until June 1866. Both terms were during the reign of Queen Victoria. He died at age 85.
1774 ~ Meriwether Lewis (d. Oct. 11, 1809), American explorer, who, along with William Clark, lead the famous Lewis and Clark expedition and the Oregon Trail. He also served as the 2nd Governor of the Louisiana territory. He died under mysterious circumstances that might either have been murder or suicide. He was 35 years old.
1750 ~ Antonio Salieri (d. May 7, 1825), Italian composer. He died at age 74.
1685 ~ Brook Taylor (d. Dec. 29, 1731), English mathematician. He died at age 46 in London, England.
1606 ~ Infanta Maria Anna of Spain (d. May 13, 1646), Holy Roman Empress consort and first wife of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. She was of the House of Habsburg. She was the daughter of Philip III, King of Spain and Margaret, Archduchess of Inner Austria. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 39 of complications from childbirth.
1587 ~ Virginia Dare (d. unknown), the first English child born in North America. She was the granddaughter of John White, the governor of the Roanoke colony. When he returned to the colony on this date in 1590, following a supply trip to England, the Roanoke colony was gone.
1579 ~ Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau (d. Apr. 16, 1640), member of the House of Orange. She was the daughter of Prince William of Orange, also known as William the Silent and his third wife, Charlotte of Bourbon. After her mother’s death, she was raised to become a Catholic by her maternal grandparents. She became a French abbess. She died at age 70.
Events that Changed the World:
2017 ~ Finland experienced its first terrorist attack that was classified as a crime. Two women were killed, and 8 others were injured when the attacker, a Moroccan asylum seeker began stabbing people. The attacker was ultimately sentenced to life in prison.
1983 ~ Hurricane Alicia struck the Texas coast killing 22 people. The storm caused significant damage in the Greater Houston area. The storm had formed on August 15 and dissipated on August 21, 1983.
1963 ~ James Meredith (b. 1933) became the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1958 ~ The controversial novel, Lolilta, by Vladimir Nabokov (1899 ~ 1977) was published in the United States.
1938 ~ President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 ~ 1945) dedicated the Thousand Island Bridge, which connected New York State with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River.
1920 ~ The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified thereby guaranteeing woman’s right to vote.
1868 ~ French astronomer Pierre Janssen (1824 ~ 1907) discovered helium.
1826 ~ Major Gordon Laing (1794 ~ 1826) became the first European and non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu. He was killed about a month later, shortly after leaving Timbuktu, by Tuareg raiders.
1572 ~ Henry III, King of Navarre (1553 ~ 1610) married Princess Margaret of Valois (1553 ~ 1615) in an attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics. Henry was a Protestant Huguenot and Margaret was Catholic. Henry went on to become Henry IV, King of France. Margaret was the daughter of Henry II, King of France.
Good-Byes:
2021 ~ Stephen Vizinczey (né István Vizinczey; b. May 12, 1933), Hungarian author who sang the praises of older women. He was born in Káloz, Hungary. He fled to Canada after the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution and settled in Canada. He is best known for his 1965 semi-autobiographical novel In Praise of Older Women. He died at age 88 in London, England.
2019 ~ Kathleen Blanco (née Kathleen Babineaux; b. Dec. 15, 1942), American politician and 54th Governor of Louisiana. She was the first female Governor of Louisiana. She served from January 2004 through January 2008, during which Hurricane Katrina swept through the State. She was born in New Iberia, Louisiana. She died of cancer at age 76 in Lafayette, Louisiana.
2018 ~ Kofi Annan (né Kofi Atta Annan; b. Apr. 8, 1938), Ghanaian United Nations leader who pushed for humanitarian intervention. He was a diplomat and 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations. He served as Secretary-General from January 1997 through December 2006. He died at age 80.
2014 ~ Don Pardo (né Dominick George Pardo; b. Feb. 22, 1918), American radio and television announcer who became one of televisions most recognizable voices. His career spanned over 70 years. He was born in Westfield, Massachusetts. He died at age 96 in Tuscon, Arizona.
2009 ~ Robert Novak (né Robert David Sanders Novak; b. Feb. 26, 1931), American journalist. He was born in Joliet, Illinois. He died at age 78 of complications due to brain cancer in Washington, D.C.
2009 ~Kim Dae-jung (b. Jan. 6, 1925), 8th President of South Korea. He served in Office from February 1998 through February 2003. He was the recipient of the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for his work for democracy and human rights in Korea and Asia. He died at age 85 in Seoul, South Korea.
1994 ~ Richard Synge (né Richard Laurence Millington Synge; b. Oct. 28, 1914), British biochemist and recipient of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 79.
1990 ~ B.F. Skinner (né Burrhus Frederick Skinner; b. Mar. 20, 1904), American psychologist. He was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts at age 86.
1981 ~ Anita Loos (née Corinne Anita Loos; b. Apr. 26, 1889), American writer. She is best known for her comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She was born in Sisson, California. She died at age 93 in New York, New York.
1961 ~ Learned Hand (né Billings Learned Hand; b. Jan. 27, 1872), American Federal judge. He served on the United States Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1924 until 1951. For the last 3 years of his tenure on the Court, he served as the Chief Judge. He was appointed to the Federal Bench by President Calvin Coolidge. He was born in Albany, New York. He died at age 89 in New York City.
1940 ~ Walter Chrysler (né Walter Percy Chrysler, b. Apr. 2, 1875), American automobile pioneer and founder of the Chrysler company. He was born in Wamego, Kansas. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 65 in Kings Point, New York.
1919 ~ Joseph E. Seagram (né Joseph Emm Seagram; b. Apr. 15, 1841), Canadian politician, philanthropist and founder of the Seagram Company, Ltd. He was born in Fisher’s Mills, Ontario, Canada (now Cambridge, Ontario). He died at age 78 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
1886 ~ Eli Whitney Blake, Sr. (b. Jan. 27, 1795), American engineer and inventor of the Mortise lock. He was the nephew of inventor Eli Whitney. He was born in Westborough, Massachusetts. He died at age 91 in New Haven, Connecticut.
1850 ~ Honoré de Balzac (b. May 20, 1799), French novelist. He died at age 51 in Paris, France.
1765 ~ Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. Dec. 8, 1708). He reigned as the Holy Roman Emperor from September 1745 until his death 20 years later. He was married to Maria Theresa of Austria. He was of the House of Lorraine. He was of the son of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine and Élisabeth Charlotte d’Orléans. He died suddenly at age 56.
1620 ~ Wanli Emperor (b. Sept. 4, 1563), 14th Emperor of the Ming dynasty. He died 17 days before his 57th birthday.
1559 ~ Pope Paul IV (né Gian Pietro Carafa; b. June 28, 1476). He was Pope from May 1555 until his death 4 years later in August 1559. He was 83 years old.
1503 ~ Pope Alexander VI (né Roderic Liançoi i de Borja; b. Jan. 1, 1431). He was Pope from August 11, 1492 until his death 11 years later. He died at age 72.
1500 ~ Infante Alfonso of Aragon (b. 1481), Spanish prince. He was the 2nd husband of Lucrezia Borgia. He was of the House of Trastámara. He was the illegitimate son of Alfonso II, King of Naples and his mistress, Trogia Gazzela. The exact date of his birth is not known. He was assassinated at about age 18 or 19.
1276 ~ Pope Adrian V (né Ottobuono de’Fieshi; b. 1220). He was Pope for approximately 1 month, from July 11 until his death on this date. The exact date of his birth is unknown.
1227 ~ Genghis Khan (b. 1162), leader of the Mongol Empire. He is believed to have been about 65 at the time of his death. This date of his birth is unknown.
1095 ~ Olaf I, King of Denmark (b. 1050). The reigned from 1089 until his death in 1095. He was known as Olaf Hunger. He was married to Ingegerd of Norway. He was of the House of Estridsen. He was the son of Sweyn II Estridsson, King of Denmark and an unnamed mother. The date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 45 at the time of his death. He died under mysterious circumstances. He was succeeded by his brother, Eric I, King of Denmark.
440 ~ Pope Sixtus III. He was Pope from July 31, 432 until his death on this date 8 years later. The date of his birth is unknown.
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