Birthdays:
1990 ~ JonBenét Ramsey (d. Dec. 26, 1996), American child beauty queen and murder victim. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She died at age 6 years old in Boulder, Colorado.
1973 ~ Vera Farmiga (née Vera Ann Farmiga), American actress. She was born in Clifton, New Jersey.
1972 ~ Geri Halliwell (née Geraldine Estelle Horner), British singer and member of The Spice Girls. She was known as Ginger Spice.
1970 ~ M. Night Shyamalan (né Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan), Indian-American film director. He was born in Mahé, India.
1959 ~ Deborah Levy, British novelist. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1957 ~ Jim McGreevy (né James Edward McGreevy), 52nd Governor of New Jersey. He was Governor from January 2002 until November 2004. He resigned following a sex scandal. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1938 ~ Paul Bartel (d. May 13, 2000), American actor best known for his movie, Eating Raoul. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died of a heart attack at age 61.
1931 ~ Chalmers Johnson (né Chalmers Ashby Johnson; d. Nov. 20, 2010), American scholar who decried an empire. He was a political scientist who specialized in comparative politics. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He died at age 79 in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California.
1929 ~ Don Larsen (né Donald James Larsen; d. Jan. 1, 2020), American hard-partying Yankee pitcher who achieved perfection. In Game 5 of the 1956 World Series, he pitched a perfect game, allowing the New York Yankees defeat the defending champion Brooklyn Dodgers. He was born in Michigan City, Indiana. He died at age 90 in Hayden Idaho.
1928 ~ Andy Warhol (né Andrew Warhola; d. Feb. 22, 1987), American pop artist. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died at age 58 following complications of gall bladder surgery in New York, New York.
1924 ~ Sophie Freud (née Miriam Sophie Freud; d. June 3, 2022), Austrian-born grandchild of Sigmund Freud who became his severe critic. She considered psychoanalysis a “narcissistic indulgence.” She was born in Vienna, Austria. She died at age 97 in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
1922 ~ Sir Freddie Laker (né Frederick Alfred Laker; d. Feb. 9, 2006), English businessman and founder of Laker Airways. He was born in Canterbury, Kent, England. He died at age 83 in Hollywood, Florida.
1920 ~ Selma Diamond (d. May 13, 1985), Canadian-American actress best known for her role as Selma Hacker on the Television sit-com, Night Court. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She died of lung cancer at age 64 in Los Angeles, California.
1917 ~ Robert Mitchum (né Robert Charles Durman Mitchum; d. July 1, 1997), American actor. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He died of lung cancer and emphysema about a month before his 80th birthday in Santa Barbara, California.
1916 ~ Richard Hofstadter (d. Oct. 24, 1970), American historian. He was born in Buffalo, New York. He died of leukemia at age 54 in New York, New York.
1911 ~ Lucille Ball (née Lucille Désirée Ball; d. Apr. 26, 1898), American actress and comedian. She was born in Jamestown, New York. She died at age 77 in Los Angeles, California.
1902 ~ Dutch Schultz (né Arthur Simon Flegenheimer; d. Oct. 24, 1935), Jewish-American gangster and crime figure. He was born in The Bronx, New York. He was shot and killed at age 33 in Newark, New Jersey.
1900 ~ Cecil Howard Green (d. Apr. 11, 2003), British-born American businessman and founder of Texas Instruments. He was born in Whitefield, England. He died at age 102.
1883 ~ Scott Nearing (d. Aug. 24, 1983), American writer and educator who lived in Maine. He was an advocate for simple living. He was born in Morris Run, Pennsylvania. He died 18 days after his 100th birthday in Harborside, Maine.
1881 ~ Sir Alexander Fleming (d. Mar. 11, 1955), Scottish biologist and pharmacologist known for his discovery of penicillin, for which he shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine. He died of a heart attack at age 73 in London, England.
1881 ~ Louella Parsons (née Louella Rose Oettinger; d. Dec. 9, 1972), American screenwriter and gossip columnist. She was born in Freeport, Illinois. She died at age 91 in Santa Monica, California.
1877 ~ Wallace White, Jr. (né Wallace Humphry White, Jr.; d. Mar. 31, 1952), United States Senator from the State of Maine. He was born in Lewiston, Maine. He died at age 74 in Auburn, Maine.
1861 ~ Edith Roosevelt (Edith Kermit Carow; d. Sept. 30, 1948), First Lady of the United States and second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt. She was born in Norwich, Connecticut. She died at age 87 in Sagamore Hill, New York.
1848 ~ Susie Taylor (née Susan Ann Baker; d. Oct. 6, 1912), American nurse. She was the first African-American Army nurse. She served in the all-Black army troop, the 1st South Carolina Volunteer unit during the American Civil War. She, like many other nurses at the time, was never paid for her service. She was also an educator and opened a school for freed slaves in Georgia. She was born in Liberty County, Georgia. She died at age 64 and is buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Roslindale, Massachusetts.
1844 ~ Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. July 30, 1900). He was a member of the British royal family. He was married to the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. He was of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was the second son and fourth child of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He died of throat cancer just a week before his 56th birthday.
1809 ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (né Alfred Tennyson; d. Oct. 6, 1892), British poet. He died at age 83.
1697 ~ Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. Jan. 20, 1745). He ruled from January 1742 until his death 3 years later. He also reigned as the King of Bohemia from December 1741 until May 1743. He was married to Maria Amalia of Austria. He was of the House of Wittelsbach. He was the son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria and Theresa Sobieska. He died of gout at age 47.
1667 ~ Johann Bernoulli (d. Jan. 1, 1748), Swiss mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus. He was also the teacher of mathematician Leonhard Euler. He was born and died in Basel, Switzerland. He died at age 80.
1666 ~ Maria Sophia of Neuburg (d. Aug. 4, 1699), Queen consort of Portugal and second wife of Peter II, King of Portugal. She was of the House of Wittelsbach. She was the daughter of Philip William, Elector of Palatine and Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was Roman Catholic. She died of a fever 2 days before her 33rd birthday.
1644 ~ Louise de La Vallière (née Françoise Louise de La Blaume Le Blanc de La Vallière; d. June 7, 1710), French noblewoman and first mistress of Louis XIV, King of France. After leaving the court, she pursued a religious life and became a nun. She was born in Tours, Kingdom of France. She died at age 65 in Paris, Kingdom of France.
1619 ~ Barbara Strozzi (née Barbara Valie; d. Nov. 11, 1677), Italian composer and singer-songwriter. During her lifetime, she published 8 volumes of music. She was able to do this without the support of the church or any known patron. She was also believed to have been a courtesan. She was born in Venice, Italy. The actual date of her birth is not known, but she was baptized on August 6, 1619. She died at age 58 in Padua, Italy.
Events that Changed the World:
2012 ~ NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars.
1996 ~ The Ramones played their farewell concert in Los Angeles, California.
1991 ~ Sir Tim Berners-Lee (b. 1955), released files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
1965 ~ President Lyndon Johnson (1908 ~ 1973) signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1962 ~ Jamaica gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
1945 ~ The United States B-29 Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan. Approximately 70,000 people were instantly killed. Tens of thousands of other individuals died from burns and radiation poisoning.
1942 ~ Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands (1880 ~ 1962) of the Netherlands became the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1930 ~ New York City Judge Joseph Crater (b. 1889 ~ disappeared 1930) got into a taxi in New York City and was never seen again. His disappearance remains a mystery. He was declared dead in 1939. A fictionalized account of his disappearance was depicted in the 2014 novel The Wife, the Maid and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon.
1926 ~ Gertrude Ederle (1906 ~ 2003) became the first woman to swim the English Channel.
1914 ~ During World War I, Serbia declared war on Germany.
1890 ~ In Auburn Prison in New York state, the electric chair was used for the first time to execute convicted murderer William Kemmler (1860 ~ 1890).
1862 ~ During the American Civil War, the Confederate ship, CSS Arkansas, was scuttled on the Mississippi River after catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1825 ~ Bolivia gained its independence from Spain.
1819 ~ Norwich University was founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1806 ~ The Holy Roman Empire came to an end after France defeated the Hapsburgs and Francis II (1768 ~ 1835), the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicated. Francis, however, retained his power in the Austrian Empire.
1538 ~ The city of Bogotá, Columbia was founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (d. 1579).
135 ~ Roman armies entered Betar in Israel, brutally slaughtering thousands of Jews, effectively ending the Bar Kokhba revolt.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ Brent Scowcroft (b. Mar. 19, 1925), 9th and 17th United States National Security Advisor. He served under President Gerald Ford from November 1975 until January 1977; and George H.W. Bush from January 1989 until January 1993. He was born in Ogden, Utah. He died in Falls Church, Virginia at age 95.
2018 ~ Joël Robuchon (b. Apr. 7, 1945), French chef who created a culinary empire. He died of cancer at age 73.
2018 ~ Margaret Heckler (née Margaret Mary O’Shaugnhessy; b. June 21, 1931), 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. She served under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush from January 1986 until August 1989. She was born in New York, New York. She died at age 87 in Arlington, Virginia.
2017 ~ Betty Cuthbert (née Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert; b. Apr. 20, 1938), Australian sprinter who won it all. She competed in the 1956 and 1964 Olympics in Melbourne and Tokyo, respectively, where she won gold medals. She died at age 79.
2016 ~ Pete Fountain (né Pierre Dewey LaFountaine, Jr.; b. July 3, 1930), American jazz clarinet player. He played traditional Dixieland and Creole music. He was born and died in New Orleans, Louisiana. He died about a month after his 86th birthday.
2013 ~ Ze’ev Ben-Haim (né Ze’ev Wolf Goldman, b. Dec. 28, 1907), Russian-born Israeli linguist. He was a strong advocate for modernizing the Hebrew language. He died at age 105.
2012 ~ Marvin Hamlisch (né Marvin Frederick Hamlisch; b. June 2, 1944), American composer, conductor and pianist who rewrote Hollywood’s songbook. He was born in New York, New York. He died of respiratory failure at age 68 in Los Angeles, California.
2012 ~ Robert Hughes (né Robert Studley Forrest Hughes; b. July 28, 1938), Australian critic and writer and pugnacious popularize of fine art. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He died following a long illness a week after his 74th birthday in TNew York, New York.
2009 ~ John Hughes (né John Wilden Hughes, Jr.; b. Feb. 18, 1950), American filmmaker who gently captured teenage angst. He is best known for such teen films as The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. He was born in Lansing, Michigan. He died of a heart attack at age 59 in New York, New York.
2009 ~ Antonia Ferrín Moreiras (b. May 13, 1914), Spanish mathematician and astronomer. She was born in Ourense, Spain. She died at age 95 in Santiago de Composteia, Spain.
2007 ~ Atle Selberg (b. June 14, 1917), Norwegian mathematician. He was 1950 recipient of the Fields Medal. He was born in Langesund, Norway. He died at age 90 in Princeton, New Jersey.
2006 ~ Ivo Pitanguy (né Ivo Hélcio Jardim de Campos Pitanguy; b. July 5, 1926), Brazilian plastic surgeon who nipped and tucked the rich and famous. He was known as the Michelangelo of the scalpel. In 1961, he treated dozens of children who had been badly burned when a burning circus tent fell on spectators. He died a month after his 90th birthday.
1998 ~ André Weil (b. May 6, 1906), French mathematician. He is best known for his work in number theory and algebraic geometry. His sister was the philosopher Simone Weil. He was born in Paris, France. He died at age 92 in Princeton, New Jersey.
1991 ~ Harry Reasoner (né Harry Truman Reasoner; b. Apr. 17, 1923), American journalist and co-founder of 60 Minutes. He was born in Dakota City, Iowa. He died in Westport, Connecticut of a blood clot to the brain after a fall. He was 68 years old.
1979 ~ Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (b. Apr. 6, 1911), German biochemist and recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the regulation of cholesterol. He was born and died in Munich, Germany. He died at age 68 following surgery for an aneurism.
1978 ~ Pope Paul VI (né Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, b. Sept. 26, 1897). He was Pope for 15 years, from June 21, 1963 until his death at age 80.
1973 ~ Fulgencio Batista (né Rubén Zaldívar; b. Jan. 16, 1901), Cuban military leader and President of Cuba he was overthrown in the Cuban Revolution in 1959. He died of a heart attack at age 72.
1925 ~ Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (b. Jan 12. 1853), Italian mathematician. He is best known for inventing tensor calculus. He died at age 72 in Bologna, Italy.
1914 ~ Ellen Wilson (née Ellen Louise Axson; b. May 15, 1860), First Lady of the United States and 1st wife of President Woodrow Wilson. She was born in Savannah, Georgia. She died in Washington, D.C., at age 54 of Bright’s disease during her husband’s Presidency.
1746 ~ Christian VI, King of Denmark and Norway (b. Nov. 30, 1699). He reigned as King from October 1730 until his death 16 years later. He was married to Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. He was of the House of Oldenburg. He was the son of Frederick IV, King of Denmark and Louise of Mecklenburg-Glüstrow. He had always been in poor health. He died at age 46.
1660 ~ Diego Valázquez (né Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez; b. June 6, 1599), Spanish painter. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he was baptized on June 6, 1599. He was born in Seville, Crown of Castile. He died at age 61 in Madrid, Crown of Castile.
1637 ~ Benjamin Jonson (b. June 11, 1572), English playwright. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but June 11 is generally ascribed to his birth date. He died at age 65 in London, England.
1623 ~ Anne Hathaway (b. June 8, 1555), wife of William Shakespeare. The exact date of her birth is unknown, but she is believed to have been born on or about June 8, 1555, making her 67 at the time of her death.
1520 ~ Kunigunde of Austria (b. Mar. 16, 1465), Duchess consort of Bavaria and wife of Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria. She was of the House of Habsburg. She was the daughter of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal. She died at age 55.
1458 ~ Pope Callixtus III (né Alfons de Borja; b. Dec. 31, 1378). He was Pope from April 8, 1455 until his death on this date in 1458. He was responsible for the retrial of Joan of Arc that saw her vindicated. He was the uncle to Pope Alexander VI. He died at age 79.
1414 ~ Ladislaus, King of Naples (b. Feb. 15, 1377). He was King of Naples from February 1386 until his death in 1414. He was married three times. His first wife was Costanza Chiaramonte. This marriage was annulled after 2 years of marriage. His second wife was Mary of Lusignan. After her death, he married is his third wife, Mary of Enghien. He was of the House of Anjou-Durazzo. He was the son of Charles III, King of Naples and Margaret of Durazzo. He died at age 37 of an illness, possibly a poisoning.
1412 ~ Margaret of Durazzo (b. July 28, 1347), Queen consort of Naples. She was married to Charles III, King of Naples. She was of the House of Anjou-Durazzo. She was the daughter of Charles, Duke of Durazzo and Maria of Calabria. She died just 9 days after her 65th birthday.
1272 ~ Stephen V, King of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1239). He ruled Hungary from 1270 until his death 2 years later. He was married to Elizabeth the Cuman. He was of the Árpád Dynasty. He was the son of Béla IV, King of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. He was Roman Catholic. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 32 or 33 at the time of his death.
1221 ~ Saint Dominic (b. Aug. 8, 1170), Castilian priest and founder of the Dominicans. He died 2 days before his 51stbirthday.
523 ~ Pope Hormisdas (b. 450). He was pope from July 20, 514 until his death on this date three years later. The date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 73 at the time of his death.
258 ~ Pope Sixtus II. He was Pope from August 31, 257 until his death on this date when he was martyred during the persecution by Emperor Valerian. The date of his birth is unknown.
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