International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Birthdays:
1974 ~ Jimmy Fallon (né James Thomas Fallon), American actor and talk show host. He was born in New York, New York.
1962 ~ Cheri Oteri (née Cheryl Ann Oteri), American comedian. She is best known for being a member of Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2000. She was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
1950 ~ Michael Proctor (né Michael Richard Edward Proctor), British physicist and mathematician. He was born in Bournemouth, England.
1949 ~ Twiggy (née Leslie Hornby), English model. She was born in Neasden, England.
1948 ~ Jeremy Irons (né Jeremy John Irons), English actor. He was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England.
1941 ~ “Mama” Cass Elliot (née Ellen Naomi Cohen; d. July 29, 1974), American singer and member of The Mamas and Papas. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She died of a heart attack at age 32 in London, England.
1939 ~ Moshe Weinberg (d. Sept. 5, 1972), Israeli wrestling coach who was murdered in the massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He was born in Haifa, Israel. He died 14 days before his 33rd birthday.
1934 ~ Brian Epstein (d. Aug. 27, 1967), British businessman and manager of The Beatles. He was born in Liverpool. He died of an accidental drug overdose in London, England about 3 weeks before his 33rd birthday.
1933 ~ David McCallum (né David Keith McCallum, Jr.), Scottish actor. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
1932 ~ Mike Royko (né Michael Royko, Jr.; d. Apr. 29, 1997), American columnist. He was born and died in Chicago, Illinois. He died of a brain aneurysm at age 64.
1928 ~ Adam West (né William West Anderson; d. June 9, 2017), American actor best known for his role as Batman in the 1960s television show of the same name. He was born in Walla Walla, Washington. He died of leukemia at age 88 in Los Angeles, California.
1927 ~ Harold Brown (d. Jan. 4, 2019), 14th United States Secretary of Defense. He served from January 1977 until January 1981 during the Jimmy Carter Administration. He also served as the 8th United States Secretary of the Air Force from October 1965 until Feb. 1969 during the Lyndon Johnson administration. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 91 in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
1926 ~ James Lipton (né Louis James Lipton; d. Mar. 2, 2020), American TV host who went inside the actors’ minds. He was known as the longtime host of the Brava show Inside the Actors Studio in which he interviewed Hollywood stars. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died in Manhattan, New York at age 93 of bladder cancer.
1926 ~ Masatoshi Koshiba (d. Nov. 12, 2020), Japanese physicist and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. He died at age 94 in Tokyo, Japan.
1925 ~ Yuri Drozdov (d. June 21, 2017), Russian spymaster who planted agents across the West. He was born in Minsk, Belarus. He died at age 91 in Moscow, Russia.
1920 ~ Roger Angell (d. May 20, 2022), American baseball scribe who lifted the game to poetry. He was an essayist and sportswriter known for his love of baseball. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died at age 101.
1913 ~ Frances Farmer (née Frances Elena Farmer; d. Aug. 1, 1970), American actress. She was born in Seattle, Washington. She died in Indianapolis, Indiana at age 56 of esophageal cancer.
1911 ~ Sir William Golding (né William Gerald Golding; d. June 19, 1993), English writer and recipient of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his novel, The Lord of the Flies. He died at age 81.
1909 ~ Ferdinand Porsche (né Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche; d. Mar. 27, 1998), Austrian automobile designer. He died at age 88.
1907 ~ Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (né Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., d. Aug. 25, 1998), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Richard Nixon. He served on the Court from January 1972 until his retirement in June 1987. He replaced Hugo Black on the Court and was succeeded by Anthony Kennedy. He was born in Suffolk, Virginia. He died 25 days before his 91st birthday in Richmond, Virginia.
1905 ~ Leon Jaworski (né Leonidas Jaworski, d. Dec. 9, 1982), American attorney. He served as the Special Prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal. He was born in Waco, Texas. He died at age 77 in Wimberley, Texas.
1889 ~ Sadie Delany (née Sarah Louise Delany; d. Jan. 25, 1999), African-American physician and author. She and her younger sister, Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany (1891 ~ 1995) wrote the book, Having Our Say: The First 100 Years. The book was published when both sisters were over 100 years old. Sarah was born in Lynch’s Station, Virginia and died in Mount Vernon, New York. Bessie was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and died in Mount Vernon, New York. Sarah Delany died at age 109 and Bessie died at age 104.
1888 ~ James Waddell Alexander II (d. Sept. 23, 1971), American mathematician and topologist. He was born in Sea Bright, New Jersey. He died 4 days after his 84th birthday in Princeton, New Jersey.
1883 ~ Mabel Vernon (d. Sept. 2, 1975), American suffragist. She was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She died 3 weeks before her 92nd birthday in Washington, D.C.
1839 ~ George Cadbury (d. Oct. 24, 1922), British businessman and founder of the Cadbury’s cocoa and chocolate company. He was born and died in Birmingham, England. He died about a month after his 93rd birthday.
1811 ~ Orson Pratt, Sr. (d. Oct. 3, 1881), American mathematician and religious leader in the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. He was born in Hartford, New York. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah less than 3 weeks after his 70th birthday.
1805 ~ Roswell B. Mason (d. Jan. 1, 1892), 25th Mayor of Chicago. He served as Mayor from 1869 until 1971. The town of Mason, Illinois was named in his honor. He was born in New Hartford, New York. He died at age 86 in Chicago, Illinois.
1803 ~ Maria Anna of Savoy (d. May 4, 1884), Empress of Austria and wife of Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria. She was of the House of Savoy. She was the daughter of Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia and Maria Theresa of Austria-Este. She died at age 80.
1749 ~ Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (d. Aug. 19, 1822), French mathematician. He died a month before his 73rdbirthday.
1551 ~ Henry III, King of France (d. Aug. 2, 1589). He reigned as King from May 30, 1574 to his death on August 2, 1589. He was married to Louise de Lorraine (Apr. 30, 1553 ~ Jan. 29, 1601). There were no children of this marriage. He was of the House of Valois-Angoulême. He was the 4th son of Henry II, King of France and Catherine de’Medici. He was Roman Catholic. He was assassinated at age 37 and was the last of the Valois French kings.
1416 ~ Piero di Cosimo de’Medici (d. Dec. 2, 1469), Italian banker and politician. He was the de facto ruler of Florence. He was in perpetual poor health, and so he turned his bedroom into his office, where he conducted political meetings. He was married to Lucrezia Tornabuoni. He was of the noble family of Medici. He was the son of Cosimo de’Medici and Constessina de’Bardi. He died at age 53 of gout and lung disease.
1377 ~ Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. Sept. 14, 1404). He reigned over Austria from 1395 until his death in 1404. He was married to Joanna Sophia of Bavaria. He was of the House of Habsburg. He was the son of Albert III, Duke of Austria (Albert the Pigtail) and Beatrix of Nuremberg. He was born in Vienna, Austria. He died 5 days before his 27thbirthday.
931 ~ Mu Zong (d. Mar. 12, 969), Chinese emperor of the Liao Dynasty. He reigned from October 951 until his death in March 969. He was 37 years old at the time of his death.
866 ~ Leo VI the Wise (d. May 11, 912), Byzantine Emperor. He died at age 45.
Events that Changed the World:
2022 ~ The funeral of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (1926 ~ 2022).
2018 ~ Yom Kippur.
2017 ~ A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck in Mexico City, Mexico. Over 370 people were killed and over 6,000 others were injured.
2010 ~ The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which began in April 2010, was finally sealed almost 5 months to the day when the environmental disaster occurred. A financial settlement was reached in 2016, with funding available for coastal restoration along the Gulf Coast.
1991 ~ Ötzi the Iceman was discovered in the Alps between Italy and Austria. This was a well-preserved mummy believed to have lived around BCE 3300.
1985 ~ A strong earthquake near Mexico City killed thousands of individuals.
1972 ~ A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London, England exploded and killed an Israeli diplomat.
1970 ~ The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered on CBS. The show ran until March 1977.
1959 ~ Due to security reasons, Nikita Khrushchev (1894 ~ 1971) was not permitted to visit Disneyland on his trip to the United States.
1940 ~ Witold Pilecki (1901 ~ 1948), founder of the Secret Polish Army resistance group, was voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz. While there he was able to smuggle out intelligence to the outside world and start a resistance to the actions of the Nazis. He was ultimately arrested for his actions, tortured and executed.
1934 ~ Bruno Hauptmann (1899 ~ 1936) was arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
1893 ~ Women in New Zealand were granted the right to vote.
1881 ~ Chester A. Arthur (1829 ~ 1886) became United States President upon the death of James A. Garfield (1831 ~ 1881), who had been shot on July 2, 1881.
1778 ~ The Continental Congress passed the first budget of the United States.
1356 ~ Edward (1330 ~ 1376), the Black Prince of England, won the Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years War. John II, King of France (1319 ~ 1364) was captured.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ Adeline Marie Fagan (b. Feb. 4, 1992), American medical doctor. She was a second-year ob-gyn resident in Houston, Texas. She was doing a rotation treating Covid-19 patients when she caught the disease. She continued working despite a medical history of asthma. She was born in La Fayette, New York. She died of Covid-19 at age 28 in Houston, Texas.
2019 ~ John L. Keenan (b. Dec. 18, 1919), American war hero who led the hunt for the Son of Sam. He was the chief of detectives of the New York Police Department in 1977 when there was a search for serial killer, David Berkowitz. He was born in County Durham, England. He died of congestive heart failure at age 99 in Mineola, New York.
2018 ~ Arthur Mitchell (b. Mar. 27, 1924), American ballet dancer who broke ballet’s color barrier. He was the first African-American dancer with the New York City Ballet. He was born in Harlem, New York. He died at age 84 in Manhattan, New York.
2017 ~ Jake LaMotta (né Giacobbe LaMotte; b. July 10, 1922), American boxer. He was known as The Raging Bull. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He died at age 95 in Aventura, Florida.
2015 ~ Jackie Collins (née Jacqueline Jill Collins, b. Oct. 4, 1937), British-American author who wrote about lust and power. She was born in London, England. She died of breast cancer less than three weeks before her 78th birthday in Beverly Hills, California.
2013 ~ Hiroshi Yamauchi (b. Nov. 7, 1927), Japanese gruff president who made Nintendo a giant. He died of pneumonia at age 85.
2011 ~ Brian Kelley (b. Jan. 8, 1943), American CIA counterintelligence officer. He was falsely accused of being a double agent, spying for the USSR; however, he was not. He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. He died at age 68 in Vienna, Virginia.
2011 ~ Delores Hope (née Delores DeFina, b. May 27, 1909), American singer and philanthropist. She was the wife of comedian Bob Hope (1903 ~ 2003). She was born in New York, New York. She died at age 102 in Toluca Lake, California.
2010 ~ Joseph Kruskal (né Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr., b. Jan. 29, 1929), American mathematician. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 82 in Maplewood, New Jersey.
2002 ~ Etta Zuber Falconer (née Etta Zuber; b. Nov. 21, 1933), African-American educator and mathematician. She was one of the first African-American women to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics. She earned her degree from Emory University in 1969. She was from Tupelo, Mississippi. She died of pancreatic cancer at age 68 in Atlanta, Georgia.
1995 ~ Orville Redenbacher (né Orville Clarence Redenbacher, b. July 16, 1907), American farmer and businessman. He was the founder of the Orville Redenbacher’s Company that manufactured popcorn. He was born in Brazil, Indiana. He died at age 88 in Coronado, California.
1976 ~ Yehezkel Abramsky (b. 1886), Russian rabbi. The exact date of his birth is not known.
1968 ~ Chester Carlson (né Chester Floyd Carlson; b. Feb. 8, 1906), American physicist and inventor of Xerography or mimeograph. He was born in Seattle, Washington. He died of a heart attack at age 62 in New York, New York.
1942 ~ Condé Nast (né Condé Montrose Nast; b. Mar. 26, 1873), American publisher. He was born in New York, New York. He was 69 years old.
1935 ~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (b. Sept. 17, 1857), Russian rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. He died 2 days after his 78th birthday.
1891 ~ Joseph Petzval (b. Jan. 6, 1807), German-Hungarian mathematician. He died at age 84.
1881 ~ James Garfield (né James Abram Garfield, b. Nov. 19, 1831), 20th President of the United States. He was the last United States President to have been born in a log cabin. He was assassinated shortly after taking office, becoming the second President to be assassinated, and the fourth President to die in office. He began his term as President in March 1881. He was born in Moreland Hills, Ohio. He died from wounds suffered after being shot by an assassin on July 2, 1881. He is believed to have contracted an infection due to poor medical practices. He died in Elberon, New Jersey at age 49.
1843 ~ Gaspart-Gustave Coriolis (b. May 21, 1792), French mathematician and engineer. The term Coriolis Effect was named after him. His name is inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. He was born and died in Paris, France. He died at age 51.
1812 ~ Mayer Rothschild (né Mayer Amschel Rothschild; b. Feb. 23, 1744), German-born banker. He died at age 68.
1785 ~ Maria Antonia Ferdinanda (b. Nov. 17, 1729), Queen consort of Sardinia and wife of Victor Amadeus III, King of Sardinia. She was of the House of Bourbon. She was the youngest daughter of Philip V, King of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese. She died at age 55.
1724 ~ Glückel of Hameln (b. 1646), German Jewish businesswoman diarist. Her diary provided a slice of life in the 17thcentury Jewish Ghetto. The exact date of her birth is unknown.
1123 ~ Taizu (b. Aug. 1, 1068), 1st Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty. He ruled from January 1115 until his death 8 years later. He died at age 55.
655 ~ Pope Martin I, Pope from July 649 until his death 6 years later. The date of his birth is not known.
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