Birthdays:
1988 ~ Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary. She is a member of the British royal family. She is of the House of Windsor. She is the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York. In 2020, she married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.
1981 ~ Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player. He was born in Basel, Switzerland.
1974 ~ Manjul Bhargava, Canadian-born mathematician. He was the recipient of the 2014 Fields Medal. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1952 ~ Anton Fig, South African drummer. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa.
1952 ~ Robin Quivers (née Robin Ophelia Quivers), African-American radio personality. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1951 ~ Mohamed Morsi (d. June 17, 2019), 5th President of Egypt. He became president following the Arab Spring and ouster of Hosni Mubaruk. He served as President from June 2012 until July 2013 when he was ousted. He collapsed and died during his corruption trial in Cairo, Egypt. He was 67 years old.
1950 ~ Sarah Dunant, English author. She is best known for her 2003 novel, The Birth of Venus. She was born in London, England.
1949 ~ Keith Carradine (né Keith Ian Carradine), American actor. He was born in San Mateo, California.
1948 ~ Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian engineer and cosmonaut. She was the first women to take a spacewalk. She was born in Moscow, Russia.
1937 ~ Dustin Hoffman (né Dustin Lee Hoffman), American actor. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
1935 ~ Donald P. Bellisario (né Donald Paul Bellisario), American television director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for such television creations as Quantum Leap and NCSI. He was born in Cokeburg, Pennsylvania.
1931 ~ Sir Roger Penrose, English mathematician and physicist. He was born in Colchester, England.
1930 ~ Joan Mondale (née Joan Adams; d. Feb. 3, 2014), American wife of Vice President Walter Mondale. She was born in Eugene, Oregon. She died at age 83 in Minneapolis. Minnesota.
1930 ~ Jerry Tarkanian (né Jerry Esther Tarkanian; d. Feb. 11, 2015), American rebel basketball coach who battled the NCAA. He was the long-term head coach for the men’s basketball team at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he was known as Tark the Shark. He was born in Euclid, Ohio. He died at age 84 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1929 ~ Colonel William Nolde (né William Benedict Nolde; d. Jan. 27, 1973), last American combat casualty of the Vietnam War. He died the day the Peace Accords were being signed in Paris ending the conflict. He was born in Menominee, Michigan. He died at age 43 in An Lộc, Bình Phước, Vietnam.
1929 ~ Ronnie Briggs (né Ronald Arthur Briggs; d. Dec. 18, 2013), English criminal who was involved in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, which he committed on his 34th birthday. He was most known for his 1965 escape from prison and lived on the lam for the next 36 years. He was born and died in London, England. He died at age 84.
1921 ~ Esther Williams (née Esther Jane Williams; d. June 6, 2013), American athlete who swam to Hollywood stardom. She was also an actress. She was born in Inglewood, California. She died at age 91 years in Beverly Hills, California.
1919 ~ Dino De Laurentiis (né Agostine De Laurentiis; d. Nov. 10, 2010), Italian-born film producer who made classics and flops. Some of his films included The Silence of the Lambs, War and Peace and Barbarella. He was born in Torre Annunziata, Italy. He died at age 91 in Beverly Hills, California.
1908 ~ Arthur Goldberg (né Arthur Joseph Goldberg; d. Jan. 19, 1990), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Following his time on the Court, he served as the 6th American Ambassador to the United Nations. He was nominated to the High Court by President John F. Kennedy. He served in the Court from September 1962 until July 1965. He replaced Felix Frankfurter on the Court and was succeeded by Abe Fortas. Prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court, he served as the 9th United States Secretary of Labor during the Kennedy Administration. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died at age 81 in Washington, D.C.
1902 ~ Paul Dirac (né Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac; d. Oct. 20, 1984), English physicist and recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in atomic theory. He was born in Bristol, England. He died at age 82 in Tallahassee, Florida.
1901 ~ Ernest Lawrence (né Ernest Orlando Lawrence; d. Aug. 27, 1958), American nuclear physicist and recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the cyclotron. The chemical element number 103 was named lawrencium in his honor. He was born in Canton, South Dakota. He died of cancer 19 days after his 57th birthday in Palo Alto, California.
1896 ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (née Marjorie Kinnan; d. Dec. 14, 1953), American novelist who is best known for her novel, The Yearling. She was born in Washington, D.C. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 57 in St. Augustine, Florida.
1884 ~ Sara Teasdale (née Sara Trevor Teasdale; d. Jan. 29, 1833), American poet. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She died by suicide at age 48 in New York, New York.
1882 ~ Oscar K. Allen, Sr. (né Oscar Kelly Allen; d. Jan. 28, 1936), 42nd Governor of Louisiana. He was Governor from May 1932 until his death. He is best known for signing into law the homestead exemption. He was born in Winn Parish, Louisiana. He died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at age 53 of a cerebral hemorrhage while in Office.
1879 ~ Emiliano Zapata (né Emiliano Zapata Salazar; d. Apr. 10, 1919), Mexican general and revolutionary. He was ambushed and killed by government forces. He died at age 39.
1879 ~ Bob Smith (né Robert Holbrook Smith; d. Nov. 16, 1950), American physician and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He died at age 71 in Akron, Ohio.
1866 ~ Matthew Henson (né Matthew Alexander Henson; d. Mar. 9, 1955), African-American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on his expedition to the North Pole. He was born in Nanjemoy, Maryland. He died at age 88 in The Bronx, New York.
1814 ~ Esther Hobart Morris (née Esther Hobart McQuigg; d. Apr. 3, 1902), American attorney and judge. She was the first female Justice of the Peace in the United States. She was appointed to that office in 1870. She was born in Spencer, New York. She died at age 87 in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
1605 ~ Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (d. Nov. 30, 1675), British colonial governor of Maryland. He was also the Governor of Newfoundland. He was born in Kent, England. He died at age 70 in Middlesex, England.
1306 ~ Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria (d. Oct. 4, 1353). He was the Count Palatine of the Rhine. He ruled from 1329 until his death. He was known at Rudolf the Blind, but he was only blind during the last few years of his life. He was married twice. His first wife was Anne of Carinthia-Tyrol. After he death, he married Anne of the Palatinate. He was the son of Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria and Mechtild of Nassau. He died at age 47.
1170 ~ Saint Dominic (d. Aug. 6, 1221), Castilian priest and founder of the Dominicans. He died 2 days before his 51stbirthday.
Events that Changed the World:
2010 ~ A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, as a result of massive flooding, killed more than 1,400 people.
2009 ~ Sonia Sotomayor (b. 1954) was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
2008 ~ The opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The Games continued through August 24.
2000 ~ The Confederate submarine H.L. Huntley was raised from the ocean floor after having sunk during the American Civil War.
1993 ~ A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck in Guam. Nearly 100 people were injured.
1988 ~ Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs, hosted its first night baseball game. The Chicago Cubs played against the Philadelphia Phillies. The game, however, was rained out during the fourth inning.
1974 ~ President Richard Nixon (1913 ~ 1994) announced that he would resign effective at noon on the following day, August 9, 1974.
1963 ~ Fifteen British robbers stole over 2.6 Million pounds in what is now known as the Great Train Robbery. Most of the money has yet to be recovered.
1945 ~ The London Charter was signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States. The Charter established the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials.
1903 ~ A section of the balcony at the National League Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania collapsed during a baseball game between the Boston Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies. Twelve people were killed.
1876 ~ Thomas Edison (1847 ~ 1931) received a patent for the mimeograph.
1863 ~ Following the defeat at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee (1807 ~ 1870) submitted his resignation as commander of the Confederate Army. Confederate President Jefferson Davis (1808 ~ 1889), however, refused to accept the resignation.
1844 ~ Brigham Young (1801 ~ 1858) was chosen to lead the Mormons after the death of Joseph Smith.
1530 ~ James IV, King of Scotland (1473 ~ 1513) married Margaret Tudor (1489 ~ 1541), the daughter of Henry VII, King of England (1457 ~ 1509).
Good-Byes:
2021 ~ Bobby Bowden (né Robert Cleckler Bowden; b. Nov. 8, 1929), American football coach who brought glory to Florida State University. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He died at age 91 in Tallahassee, Florida.
2017 ~ Ken Kaiser (né Kenneth John Kaiser; b. July 26, 1945), American Major League Baseball umpire who gave as good as he got. He was born and died in Rochester, New York. He died of complications of diabetes 13 days after his 72nd birthday.
2017 ~ Glen Campbell (né Glen Travis Campbell; b. Apr. 22, 1936), American musician and songwriter. He was born in Delight, Arkansas. He died of Alzheimer’s disease at age 81 in Nashville, Tennessee.
2017 ~ Cathleen Synge Morawetz (b. May 5, 1923), Canadian mathematician. She is best known for her work in partial differential equations of mixed type and aerodynamics. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She died at age 94 in New York, New York.
2016 ~ Edward Daly (né Edward Kevin Daly; b. Dec. 5, 1933), the Irish priest who became the face of Bloody Sunday. In 1972, while participating in a civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, British soldiers open fired on the protesters. A teenager was shot in the back, as two men picked up the teen while Father Daly waived a bloody white handkerchief, leading them to safety. Daly went on to become the Bishop of Derry. He died at age 82 in Derry, Northern Ireland.
2015 ~ Ann McGovern (née Ann Weinberger, b. May 25, 1930), American author whose book Stone Soup became a children’s favorite. She was born and died in New York, New York. She died of cancer at age 85.
2013 ~ Karen Black (née Karen Blanche Ziegler; b. July 1, 1939), American actress best known for her roles in Nashvilleand Five Easy Pieces. She was born in Park Ridge, Illinois. She died of cancer at age 74 in Santa Monica, California.
2010 ~ Patricia Neal (née Patsy Louise Neal; b. Jan. 20, 1926), American actress. She was married to writer Roald Dahl. She was born in Packard, Kentucky. She died in Edgartown, Massachusetts at age 84 of lung cancer.
2005 ~ Barbara Bel Geddes (b. Oct. 31, 1922), American actress best known for her role as Miss Ellie on the television series, Dallas. She was born in New York, New York. She died of lung cancer at age 82 in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
2004 ~ Fay Wray (née Vina Fay Wray; b. Sept. 15, 1907), Canadian-American actress best known for her role as the lead female character in King Kong. She was born in Cardson, Alberta, Canada. She died at age 96 in New York, New York.
1998 ~ Anna J. Harrison (née Anna Jane Harrison; b. Dec. 23, 1912), American organic chemist. She was a professor at Mount Holyoke College for over 40 years. She was also the first female president of the American Chemical Society. She was born in Benton City, Missouri. She died at age 85 in Holyoke, Massachusetts’
1996 ~ Sir Nevill Francis Mott (b. Sept. 30, 1905), English physicist and recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics for his work English physicist and recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. He died at age 90.
1987 ~ Danilo Blanuša (b. Dec. 7, 1903), Croatian mathematician. He died at age 83.
1974 ~ Elisabeth Abegg (née Luise Wilehmine Elisabeth Abegg; b. Mar. 3, 1882), German educator and anti-Nazi resistance fighter. She sheltered over 80 Jews during World War II and is recognized a Righteous Among the Nations in Jerusalem. She died at age 92.
1965 ~ Shirley Jackson (née Shirley Hardie Jackson; b. Dec. 14, 1916), American author best known for her short story The Lottery. She was born in San Francisco, California. She died at age 48 of heart failure in North Bennington, Vermont.
1911 ~ William P. Frye (né William Pierce Frye; b. Sept. 2, 1830), United States Senator from Maine. He served as Senator from March 1881 until his death in August 1911. He was the President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate from February 1896 until his death. He was born and died in Lewiston, Maine. He died less than a month before his 81stbirthday.
1895 ~ Howell Edmunds Jackson (b. Apr. 8, 1832), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Benjamin Harrison. He replaced Lucius Lamar on the Court. He was succeeded by Rufus Wheeler Packham. He served in the Confederacy as a receiver of seized property during the Civil War. He was born in Paris, Tennessee. He served on the Court from February 1893 until his death at age 63 two years later in Nashville, Tennessee.
1827 ~ George Canning (d. Apr. 11, 1770), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was the Prime Minister from April 1827 until August 1827. He died in office at age 57. He served only 119 days as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1694 ~ Antoine Arnauld (b. Feb. 6, 1612), French philosopher, Catholic theologian and mathematician. He was born in Paris, France. He died at age 82 in Brussels, Belgium.
1555 ~ Oronce Finé (b. Dec. 20, 1494), French mathematician. He died at age 60 in Paris, France.
869 ~ Lothair II, King of Lotharingia (b. 835). He ruled from 855 until his death. He was married twice. His first wife was Teutberga. His second wife was Waldrada. He was of the Carolingian Dynasty. He was the son of Lothair I, Emperor of the Carolingian Empire and Ermengarde of Tours. The exact date of his birth is not known.
753 ~ Hildegar, Bishop of Cologne. He was the Bishop of Cologne from 750 until his death. The date of his birth is not known.
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