Birthdays:
1985 ~ Anna Kendrick (née Anna Cooke Kendrick), American actress. She was born in Portland, Maine.
1968 ~ Gillian Anderson (née Gillian Leigh Anderson), American actress. She is best known for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on television drama, The X-Files. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1968 ~ Eric Bana (né Eric Banadinović), Australian actor. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
1963 ~ Whitney Houston (née Whitney Elizabeth Houston; d. Feb. 11, 2012), American pop goddess who fell from grace. She was born in Newark, New Jersey. She died of drowning due to a drug overdose in Beverly Hills, California. She was 48 years old.
1959 ~ Michael Kors (né Karl Anderson, Jr.), American fashion designer. He was born in Long Island, New York.
1957 ~ Melanie Griffith (née Melanie Richards Griffith), American actress. She was born in Manhattan, New York.
1953 ~ Jean Tirole, French economist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. He was born in Troyes, France.
1944 ~ Patricia McKissack (née Patricia L’Ann Carwell; d. Apr. 7, 2017), African-American children’s author who championed black heroes. She was born in Smyrna, Tennessee. She died at age 72 in Bridgeton, Missouri.
1944 ~ Sam Elliot (né Samuel Pack Elliot), American actor. He was born in Sacramento, California
1943 ~ Ken Norton, Sr. (né Kenneth Howard Norton; d. Sept. 18, 2013), heavyweight boxer who broke Muhammad Ali’s jaw in a 12-round victory in 1973. He beat and then befriended Ali. He was born in Jacksonville, Illinois. He died at age 70 in Henderson, Nevada.
1941 ~ Way Bandy (né Ronald Duane Wright; d. Aug. 13, 1986), American make-up artist. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He died of AIDS in New York, New York 4 days after his 45th birthday.
1940 ~ Linda Keen (née Linda Jo Goldway), American mathematician. She was born in New York, New York.
1928 ~ Bob Cousy (né Robert Joseph Cousy), American professional basketball player. He had a long career with the Boston Celtics. He was born in Manhattan, New York.
1922 ~ Conchita Cintrón (d. Feb. 17, 2009), Chilean female bullfighter known as the “Golden Goddess.” She was born in Antofagasta, Chile. She died at age 86 in Lisbon, Portugal.
1915 ~ Mareta N. West (née Mareta Nelle West; d. Nov. 2, 1998), American astronomer and geologist. She was the first female astrogeologist. She chose the site of the first manned lunar landing. She was born in Elk City, Oklahoma. She died at age 83.
1914 ~ Tove Jansson (née Tove Marika Jansson; d. June 27, 2001), Finnish author and painter. She was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. She died at age 86.
1911 ~ William Fowler (né William Alfred Fowler; d. Mar. 14, 1995), American astrophysicist and recipient of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died at age 83 in Pasadena, California.
1910 ~ Bunny Mellon (née Rachel Lowe Lambert; d. Mar. 17, 2014), the American heiress who redesigned the Rose Garden. She died at age 103 in Upperville, Virginia.
1909 ~ Willa Beatrice Player (d. Aug. 29, 2003), African-American educator. She was the first African-American woman to become a collage president. She was the president at Bennett College, a historically black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. She served as President from 1955 until 1966. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi. She died 20 days after her 94th birthday in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1908 ~ Mary G. Ross (née Mary Golda Ross; d. Apr. 29, 2008), Native American engineer. She was one of the original 40 members of Skunk Works, the name of Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs, which was responsible for designing military aircraft. She was born in Park Hill, Oklahoma. She died at age 99 in Los Altos, California.
1899 ~ Pamela Lyndon Travers (née Helen Lyndon Goff; d. Apr. 23, 1996), Australian author, best known for her children’s novel, Mary Poppins. She took the penname Pamela L. Travers; but went by P.L. Travers. She was the subject of the 2013 movie Saving Mr. Banks. She was born in Mayborough, Colony of Queensland, Australia. She died at age 96 in London, England.
1878 ~ Eileen Gray (née Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; d. Oct. 31, 1976), Irish architect and furniture designer. She died at age 98 in Paris, France.
1872 ~ Archduke Joseph August of Austria (d. July 6, 1962). He was a field marshal of the Austro-Hungary Army. He was married to Princess Auguste of Bavaria. He was of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was the son of Archduke Joseph Karl, Palatine of Hungary and Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was Roman Catholic. He died a month before his 90th birthday.
1861 ~ Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (née Dorothea Klumpke; d. Oct. 5, 1942), American astronomer. She studied astronomy at the University of Paris, where she earned her Ph.D., in 1893. She was born and died in San Francisco, California. She died at age 81.
1847 ~ Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo (d. Nov. 8, 1875), Queen consort and first wife of Amadeo I, King of Spain. When they married, he was Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta. She was of the House of Pozzo della Cisterna. She was the daughter of Carlo Emanuele dal Pozzo della Cisterna and Louise de Mérode. She died of tuberculosis at age 29.
1783 ~ Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. Mar. 15, 1801), Auchduchess of Austria and first wife of Archduke Joseph, Prince of Hungary. They married in 1799. She was of the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov. She was the third child and eldest daughter of Paul I, Tsar of Russia and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. She died of complications of childbirth at age 17.
1776 ~ Amedeo Avogadro (né Amedeo Carlo Avogadro; d. July 9, 1856), Italian chemist. He is best known for his contribution to molecular theory, now known as Avogadro’s law. He was born and died in Turin, Italy. He died a month before his 80th birthday.
1757 ~ Elizabeth Hamilton (née Elizabeth Schuyler; d. Nov. 9, 1854), American wife of Alexander Hamilton. She was born in Albany, Province of New York. She died at age 97 in Washington, D.C.
1726 ~ Francesco Cetti (d. Nov. 20, 1778), Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician. He died at age 52.
1722 ~ Prince Augustus William of Prussia (d. June 12, 1758). He served as a General in the army of his brother, Frederick the Great. He incurred the wrath of his brother after the fatal retreat in the Battle of Kolin during the Seven Years’ War. He was married to Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. He was of the House of Hohenzollern. He was the son of Frederick William I, King of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. He died at age 35 of a brain tumor.
1669 ~ Eudoxia Lopukhina (d. Sept. 7, 1731), Tsaritsa consort of Russia and first wife of Peter I, Tsar of Russia, also known as Peter the Great. She was also the last ethnic Russian and non-foreign spouse of a Russian monarch. She was of the House of Lopukhin. She was the daughter of Feodor Abramovich Lopukhin and Ustinia Bogdanovna Rtishcheva. She was Eastern Orthodox. She died a month after her 62nd birthday.
1537 ~ Francesco Barozzi (d. Nov. 23, 1604), Italian mathematician and astronomer. The lunar crater Barocius is named in his honor. He died at age 67.
Events that Changed the World:
2014 ~ Michael Brown (1996 ~ 2014), a young African-American man, was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri by a white police officer. His killing sparked wide-spread of the Black Lives Matter movement and initiated protests and riots throughout the United States.
1974 ~ Gerald Ford (1913 ~ 2006) took over the Office of President, the only United States President to take office without having been elected, after Richard Nixon (1913 ~ 1994) became the first United States President to resign from that Office.
1970 ~ LANSA Flight 502 crashed after takeoff from the Alejandro Valasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru. All but one of the 100 passengers and crew aboard were killed as well as 2 people on the ground. Forty-nine of the passengers were American high school exchange students visiting Peru from Buffalo, New York. An investigation determined that the crash was due to improper piloting and poor maintenance.
1969 ~ Charles Manson (1934 ~ 2017) and his followers murdered actress Sharon Tate (1943 ~ 1969), coffee heiress Abigail Folger (Aug. 11, 1943 ~ 1969), actor Wojciech Frykowski (1936 ~ 1969), Jay Sebring (1933 ~ 1969) and Steven Parent (1951 ~ 1969).
1945 ~ The United States dropped another atomic bomb three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. The second bomb, dubbed Fat Man, was exploded over Nagasaki. 35,000 people were immediately killed.
1944 ~ The United States Forest Service released posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
1936 ~ Jesse Owens (1913 ~ 1980) won his fourth gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games. He was the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
1930 ~ The cartoon character Betty Boop made her debut in Dizzy Dishes.
1902 ~ Edward VII (1841 ~ 1910) and his wife, Alexandra of Denmark (1844 ~ 1925), were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1892 ~ Thomas Edison (1847 ~ 1931) received a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1854 ~ Henry David Thoreau’s book, Walden, was published.
1173 ~ Construction of the campanile of the cathedral of Pisa was begun. It would ultimately take over 200 years to complete and is now affectionately known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
70 ~ Traditional date when Roman General Titus began the siege of Jerusalem following the Jewish revolts against the Romans. The date of the complete destruction of the second Temple corresponded with the 9th of Av on the Hebrew calendar.
Good-Byes:
2021 ~ Walter Yetnikoff (b. Aug. 11, 1933), American music kingpin who created and berated stars. He was president of CBS Records International in the 1970s. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died of bladder cancer 2 days before his 88th birthday in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
2021 ~ Pat Hitchcock O’Connell (née Patricia Alma Hitchcock; b. July 7, 1928), 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.
2020 ~ Yolanda Coar (née Yolanda Shari Gordy), African-American nurse manager at Georgia’s Augusta University and mother of two who was working on her master’s degree in nursing. She died at age 40 of Covid-19.
2020 ~ James Harris (né James Arthur Harris; b. May 28, 1950), African-American Mississippi sharecropper and truck driver who later found fame in the professional wrestling world as Kamala, the Ugandan Giant. He was born in Senatobia, Mississippi. He died at age 70 of Covid-19 in Oxford, Mississippi.
2015 ~ Frank Gifford (né Francis Newton Gifford, b. Aug. 16, 1930), American football hero who became a broadcast icon. His third wife was television personality Kathie Lee Johnson, who after their marriage became known as Kathie Lee Gifford. The two shared the same birthday, although she was 23 years younger than he was. He was born in Santa Monica, California. He died 1 week before his 85th birthday in Greenwich, Connecticut.
2010 ~ Ted Stevens, Sr. (né Theodore Fulton Stevens; b. Nov. 18, 1923), American politician and United States Senator from Alaska. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was killed at age 86 in small plane crash in Dillingham, Alaska. Sean O’Keefe was also a passenger in the plane, but he survived.
2008 ~ Bernie Mac (né Bernard Jeffrey McCullough; b. Oct. 5, 1957), American straight-talking comedian who specialized in crankiness. He was born and died in Chicago, Illinois. He died of complications of pneumonia at age 50.
2006 ~ James Van Allen (né James Alfred Van Allen; b. Sept. 7, 1914), American physicist. The Van Allen radiation belts are named in his honor. He was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He died a month before his 92nd birthday in Iowa City, Iowa.
2005 ~ Judith Rossner (née Judith Louise Perelman, b. Mar. 31, 1935), American author, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar. She was born and died in New York, New York. She died of leukemia and complications from diabetes at age 70.
2003 ~ Gregory Hines (né Gregory Oliver Hines; b. Feb. 14, 1946), American actor and dancer. He was born in New York, New York. He died of liver cancer at age 57 in Los Angeles, California.
2000 ~ John Harsanyi (né Harsányi János Károly; b. May 29, 1920), Hungarian-born American economist and recipient of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was born in Budpest, Hungary. He died at age 80 in Berkeley, California.
1996 ~ Sir Frank Whittle (d. June 1, 1907), British inventor and pioneer in the development of the turbojet engine. He was born in Coventry, England. He died at age 89 in Columbia, Maryland.
1995 ~ Jerry Garcia (né Jerome John Garcia; b. Aug. 1, 1942), American musician and front man for the band The Grateful Dead. He was born in San Francisco, California. He died of a heart attack 8 days after his 53rd birthday in Forest Knolls, California.
1994 ~ Helena Rasiowa (b. June 20, 1917), Polish mathematician. She was born in Vienna, Austria. She died at age 77 in Warsaw, Poland.
1980 ~ Jacqueline Cochran (née Bessie Lee Pittman; b. May 11, 1906), American aviator and test pilot. In 1953, she became the first woman to break the sound barrier. She was born in Pensacola, Florida. She died at age 74 in Indio, California.
1975 ~ Dmitri Shostakovich (b. Sept. 25, 1906), Soviet composer and pianist. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He died of heart failure in Moscow, Soviet Union at age 68.
1969 ~ Sharon Tate (née Sharon Marie Tate; b. Jan. 24, 1943), American actress murdered by Charles Manson and his gang. Killed along with her were Abigail Folger (b. 1943) the coffee heiress, Wojciech Frykowski (b. 1936), a Polish writer, Jay Sebring (b. 1933), and Steven Parent (b. Feb. 12, 1951). At the time of her death, she was married to Roman Polanski. She was born in Dallas, Texas. She was pregnant when she was murdered at age 26 in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California.
1969 ~ Abigail Folger (née Abigail Anne Folger, d. Aug. 11, 1943), American heiress to the Folger coffee fortune and murder victim of Charles Manson. She was killed just two days before her 26th birthday.
1969 ~ Jay Sebring (né Thomas John Kummer; b. Oct. 10, 1933), American hair stylist and former boyfriend of Sharon Tate. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He was murdered by members of the Manson Family in Los Angeles, California. He was 35 years old at the time of his death.
1969 ~ C.F. Powell (né Cecil Frank Powell, b. Dec. 5, 1903), English physicist and recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died of a heart attack at age 65 while on vacation in Italy.
1962 ~ Hermann Hesse (né Hermann Karl Hesse; b. July 2, 1877), German-born writer and recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His is best known for his novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha. He died about a month after his 85thbirthday.
1948 ~ Hugo Boss (né Hugo Ferdinand Boss; b. July 8, 1885), German fashion designer and founder of Hugo Boss. He had joined the Nazi Party two years before Hitler came into power. In the 1930s, his company produced uniforms for the Nazi Party. He died of a tooth abscess a month after his 63rd birthday.
1943 ~ Chaim Soutine (b. Jan. 13, 1894), Belarusian painter. He died of a perforated ulcer at age 50 in Paris, France.
1942 ~ Edith Stein (b. Oct. 12, 1891), was a Carmelite Catholic nun. She was born Jewish but converted to Catholicism. During World War II, she was seized by the Nazis and was executed at Auschwitz. She was murdered at age 50. Pope John Paul II canonized her as a saint in 1998.
1936 ~ Lincoln Steffens (né Lincoln Joseph Steffens; b. Apr. 6, 1866), American journalist. He is best known for investigating corruption in municipalities and his support for the Soviet Union. He was born in San Francisco, California. He died of a heart attack at age 70 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
1932 ~ John Charles Fields (b. May 14, 1863), Canadian mathematician and founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He died at age 69 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Fields Medal was first awarded in 1936 for outstanding achievement in mathematics. Since 1950, it has been awarded every 4 years to a mathematician under the age of 40.
1929 ~ Pierre Fatou (né Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou; b. Feb. 28, 1878), French mathematician. He died at age 51.
1611 ~ John Blagrave (b. 1560s), English mathematician and astronomer. He is best known for designing astronomical instruments. The date of his birth is not known. He was born and died in Reading, Berkshire, England.
1516 ~ Hieronymus Bosch (né Jheronimus van Aken; b. 1450), Dutch painter. He is best known for his triptych entitled The Garden of Earthly Delights. The exact dates of his birth and death are unknown. He was buried on August 9, 1516. He is believed to have been about 65 or 66 at the time of his death.
1354 ~ Stephen, Duke of Slavonia (b. Aug. 20, 1332). He was a Hungarian royal prince. He was married to Margaret of Bavaria. He was of the Capetian House of Anjou. He was the son of Charles I, King of Hungary and Elizabeth of Poland. He was Roman Catholic. He died 11 days before his 22nd birthday.
1341 ~ Eleanor of Anjou (Aug. 1289), Queen consort of Sicily and wife of Frederick II, King of Sicily. He was her second husband. She had previously been married to Philippe II de Toucy. Her first marriage was dissolved after a year because the two were related and had not sought permission from the Pope to marry. She was of the House of Anjou-Sicily. She was the daughter of Charles II, King of Naoles and Mary of Hungary. The exact date of her birth is not known. She died at about age 51 or 52.
1048 ~ Pope Damasus II (né Poppo de’Curagnoni). He was pope for only 23 days, from July 17, 1048 until his death. The date of his birth is unknown.
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