Birthdays:
1980 ~ Virgil Abloh (d. Nov. 28, 2021), African-American fashion designer who won acclaim for his fusion and haute couture, and who in 2018 became the first Black artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton. He was born in Rockford, Illinois. He died of cardiac angiosarcoma, a rare cancer, at age 41 in Chicago, Illinois.
1975 ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates (né Ta-Nehisi Paul Coats), African-American journalist, author and comic book writer. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1971 ~ Jenna Elfman (née Jennifer Mary Butala), American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1970 ~ Tony Hale (né Anthony Russell Hale), American actor, best known for his role as Buster Bluth on the television sit-com Arrested Development. He was born in West Point, New York.
1961 ~ Eric Stoltz (né Eric Cameron Stoltz), American actor. He was born in Whittier, California.
1957 ~ Fran Drescher (née Francine Joy Drescher), American actress and comedian. She is best known for her nasal voice. She was born in New York, New York.
1951 ~ Barry Marshall (né Barry James Marshall), Austrian physician and recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for showing that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers. This reversed the common medical theory that most ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods and too much acid. He was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia.
1950 ~ Laura Esquivel, Mexican author, best known for her novel, Like Water for Chocolate. She was born in Mexico City, Mexico.
1945 ~ Ehud Olmert, 12th Israeli Prime Minister. He served as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2009. He would later be convicted for accepting bribes and obstruction of justice during his terms in political offices.
1943 ~ Jody Powell (né Joseph Lester Powell, Jr.; d. Sept. 14, 2009), American White House Press Secretary to President Jimmy Carter. He was born in Cordele, Georgia. He died in Cambridge, Maryland of a heart attack 16 days before his 66th birthday.
1943 ~ Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis. He was born in Zusamaltheim, Germany.
1943 ~ Marilyn McCoo, American singer and member of The 5th Dimension. She was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1939 ~ Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, and recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his synthesis of cryptands. He was born in Rosheim, France.
1936 ~ Bobby Zarem (né Robert Myron Zarem; d. Sept. 26, 2021), American publicist who boosted big stars and the Big Apple. In 1974, he started his own publicity agency and had many big named stars. He was born and died in Savannah, Georgia. He died 4 days before his 85th birthday.
1931 ~ Angie Dickinson (née Angeline Brown), American actress. She was born in Kulm, North Dakota.
1930 ~ T.J. Moran (né Thomas J. Moran; d. May 18, 2015), American businessman and restauranteur. He bought the first franchise of Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. He owned and ran TJ Ribs, where LSU sports memorabilia was on display. He was born in Evanston, Illinois. He died in Baton Rouge at age 84.
1928 ~ Elie Wiesel (né Eliezer Wiesel; d. July 2, 2016), Romanian-born Jewish-American writer and Holocaust survivor who refused to let the world forget. His book, Night, was based on his experience in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust. He was the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in Sighet, Kingdom of Romania. He died at age 87 in New York, New York.
1927 ~ W.S. Merwin (né William Stanley Merwin; d. Mar. 15, 2019), American poet. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 91 in Haiku, Hawaii.
1924 ~ Truman Capote (né Truman Streckfus Persons; d. Aug. 25, 1984), American author best known for his true crime novel, In Cold Blood, which recounted the 1959 murder of a Kansas family by two drifters. Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and much of his work is set in the South. He died of liver disease at age 59 in Los Angeles, California.
1921 ~ Deborah Kerr (née Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer; d. Oct. 16, 2007), Scottish actress who was a proper leading lady. She is best remembered for the kiss scene with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She died 17 days after her 86th birthday.
1917 ~ Buddy Rich (né Bernard Rich; d. Apr. 2, 1987), American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was born in New York, New York. He died of a brain tumor at age 69 in Los Angeles, California.
1915 ~ Lester Maddox, Sr. (né Lester Garfield Maddox; d. June 25, 2003), American politician and 75th Governor of Georgia. He served as Governor of Georgia from January 1967 until January 1971. He was a staunch segregationist. He was born and died in Atlanta, Georgia. He died at age 87.
1911 ~ Ruth Gruber (d. Nov. 17, 2016), American courageous photo-journalist who fought injustice. In 1944, she escorted nearly 1000 refugees from Nazi-occupied Italy across the Atlantic to the United States and recorded their stories. She also witnessed and recorded when Jews on the Exodus 1947 were refused entry into British-controlled Palestine and sent back to Nazi Germany. She was born in New York, New York to Russian Jewish immigrants. She died in Manhattan, New York at age 105.
1905 ~ Sir Nevill Mott (né Nevill Francis Mottt; d. Aug. 8, 1996), 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.
1898 ~ Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (d. Nov. 16, 1977). She was the Hereditary Princess of Monaco. In 1920, she married Count Pierre de Polignac. They divorced 13 years later. She was of the House of Grimaldi. She was the illegitimate daughter of Louis II, Prince of Monaco and his mistress, Marie Juliette Louvet. She was the mother of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. She renounced her right to the throne upon her son’s 21st birthday. She was born in Constantine, French Algeria. She died at age 77 in Paris, France.
1883 ~ Nora Stanton Blatch Barney (née Nora Stanton Blatch; d. Jan. 18, 1971), American civil engineer, architect, and women’s rights activist. She was one of the first American women to earn a degree in engineering. She was the first woman to earn an engineering degree from Cornell University. She was the granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was born in England. She died in Greenwich, Connecticut at age 87.
1882 ~ Hans Geiger (né Johannes Wilhelm Geiger; d. Sept. 24, 1945), German physicist best known as being the co-inventor of the Geiger Counter. Unfortunately, the name of his co-inventor, Walther Muller, who was Geiger’s student, has been lost to history. Geiger died 6 days before his 63rd birthday in Potsdam, Germany.
1870 ~ Jean Perrin (né Jean Baptiste Perrin, d. Apr. 17, 1942), French physicist and recipient of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Lille, France. He died at age 71 in New York, New York.
1861 ~ William Wrigley, Jr. (né William Mills Wrigley, Jr.; d. Jan. 26, 1932), American chewing gum industrialist and founder of the Wrigley Company. He was also the owner of the Chicago Cubs, hence the name of the Cubs home field, Wrigley’s field. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 70 in Phoenix, Arizona.
1836 ~ Remigio Morales Bermúdez (d. Apr. 1, 1894), President of Peru. He served from August 1890 until his death at age 57 on April 1, 1894. He died in Lima, Peru.
1832 ~ Ann Jarvis (née Ann Maria Reeves; d. May 9, 1905), American social activist and community organizer during the American Civil War. She inspiration for the creation of Mother’s Day. It was her daughter, Anna Marie Jarvis (1864 ~ 1948) who is recognized as the founder of Mother’s Day. She was born in Culpeper, Virginia. She died at age 72 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1827 ~ Ellis H. Roberts (né Ellis Henry Roberts; d. Jan. 8, 1918), 20th Treasurer of the United States. He served under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt from July 1897 until June 1905. He had previously served as a United States Representative from New York. He was born and died in Utica, New York. He died at age 90.
1814 ~ Lucinda Hinsdale Stone (née Lucinda Hinsdale; d. Mar. 14, 1900), American educator, women’s rights activist, and philanthropist. She was born in Hinesburg, Vermont. She died at age 85.
1550 ~ Michael Maestlin (d. Oct 20, 1631), German mathematician and astronomer. He died 3 weeks after his 81stbirthday.
1227 ~ Pope Nicholas IV (né Girolamo Masci; d. Apr. 4, 1292). He was Pope from February 1288 until his death 4 years later. He was 64 at the time of his death.
1207 ~ Rumi (d. Dec. 17, 1273), Turkish poet and Islamic Sufi mystic. His poetry is some of the most widely read in the world today. Rumi is also known as the founder of the sect of Whirling Dervishes. He is buried in Konya, Turkey, which is a major pilgrimage site. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 65 or 66 at the time of his death.
Events that Changed the World:
2017 ~ Yom Kippur.
2016 ~ Hurricane Matthew, which formed in the Caribbean Sea, became a Category 5 hurricane. The storm, which formed on September 28, 2016, dissipated on October 10, 2016.
2009 ~ A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit Sumatra, killing over 1100 people.
1993 ~ A 6.2 magnitude earthquake in India killed thousands of people.
1972 ~ Roberto Clemente (1934 ~ 1972), records his 3,000th and final hit of his baseball career. He would be killed in a plane crash 3 months later.
1962 ~ James Meredith (b. 1933) enrolled at the University of Mississippi, the first African-American to be a student at this institution.
1962 ~ César Chávez (1927 ~ 1993) founded the National Farm Workers Association. It later became known as the United Farm Workers.
1954 ~ The United States Navy submarine the USS Nautilus was commissioned. It was the first nuclear reactor powered vessel. It was decommissioned in March 1980.
1949 ~ The Berlin Airlift ended.
1947 ~ The Baseball World Series was televised for the first time. The series was between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The New York Yankees beat the Dodgers.
1935 ~ The Hoover Dam was dedicated. During its construction during the Roosevelt administration, the dam was known as the Boulder Dam. The name Hoover Dam was restored by Congress in 1947.
1927 ~ Babe Ruth (1895 ~ 1948) became the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1901 ~ Hubert Cecil Booth (1871 ~ 1955) received a patent for the powered vacuum cleaner.
1889 ~ Ten months before becoming a State, lawmakers in Wyoming drafted its constitution that granted women the right to vote.
1882 ~ Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant began operating on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin. The plant later became known as the Appleton Edison Light Company.
1868 ~ The first volume of the serialized novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1832 ~ 1888) was published.
1813 ~ At the Battle of Bárbula, Simón Bolíva (1783 ~ 1827) defeated Santiago Bobadilla (1783 ~ 1830).
1791 ~ The Magic Flute, Mozart’s last opera, made its debut in Vienna, Austria.
1520 ~ Suleiman the Magnificent (1494 ~ 1566) was proclaimed the sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1399 ~ Henry IV (1367 ~ 1413) was proclaimed as King of England. He reigned as king from September 1399 until his death 14 years later.
Good-Byes:
2017 ~ Monty Hall (né Monte Halparin; b. Aug. 25, 1921), Canadian game show host. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He died at age 96 in Beverly Hills, California.
2016 ~ Trịnh Thị Ngọ (b. 1931), North Vietnamese propagandist who taunted American GIs. She was known as Hanoi Hannah. During the Vietnam War, she became famous for her propaganda broadcasts on Radio Hanoi. The exact date of her birth is not known. She was born in Hanoi. She died at age 85 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
2014 ~ Martin Lewis Perl (b. June 24, 1927), American physicist and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the Tau Lepton. He was born in New York, New York. He died of a heart attack at age 87 in Palo Alto, California.
2014 ~ Jerrie Mock (née Geraldine Fredritz; b. Nov. 22, 1925), American housewife who flew around the world. In 1960, she became the first woman to fly solo around the world. The journey took her 29 days, 11 hours and 59 minutes. She was born in Newark, Ohio. She died at age 88 in Quincy, Florida.
2012 ~ Barry Commoner (b. May 28, 1917), American cellular biologist and political activist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 95 in Manhattan, New York.
2011 ~ Ralph Steinman (né Ralph Marvin Steinman; b. Jan. 14, 1943), Canadian biologist and recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity. He died of pancreatic cancer 3 days before the Nobel Prize committee announced the 2011 recipients so was awarded the Nobel Prize posthumously. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He died in Manhattan, New York. He was 68 years old at the time of his death.
2011 ~ Roger G. Kennedy (né Roger George Kennedy; b. Aug. 3, 1926), American polymath and preservationist with a broad view of America’s past. He served as the Director of the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of American History from 1979 to 1992 before heading the National Park Service in 1993. He was responsible for putting Dorothy’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz in display. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He died at age 85 in Rockville, Maryland.
2010 ~ Stephen J. Cannell (né Stephen Joseph Cannell; b. Feb. 5, 1941), American scriptwriter and movie producer. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He died at age 69 of cancer in Pasadena, California.
2003 ~ Robert Kardashian (né Robert George Kardashian; b. Feb. 22, 1944), Armenian-American lawyer, best known for being on the defense team during the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial. He was born and died in Los Angeles, California. He died at age 59 of esophageal cancer.
1996 ~ Frances Lear (née Evelyn Loeb; b. July 14, 1923), American social activist and wife of television producer Norman Lear. She was born in Hudson, New York. She died of breast cancer at age 73 in New York, New York.
1994 ~ André Michel Lwoff (b. May 8, 1902), French microbiologist and recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the mechanism by which some viruses can infect bacteria. He died at age 92 in Paris, France.
1994 ~ Roberto Eduardo Viola (b. Oct. 13, 1924), Argentine general, President of Argentina and military dictator. He served in the Office of President from March 1981 until December 1981. He was born and died in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died 14 days before his 70th birthday.
1990 ~ Patrick White (né Patrick Victor Martindale White; b. May 28, 1912), Australian writer and recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 78 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
1990 ~ Ruth Cheney Streeter (née Ruth Cheney; b. Oct. 2, 1895), first director of the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. In 1943, she became the first woman to reach the rank of Major in the United States Marine Corps. She was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. She died in Morristown, New Jersey 2 days before her 95th birthday. She is buried in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1985 ~ Charles Francis Richter (b. Apr. 26, 1900), American geophysicist and creator of the Richter magnitude scale that measures the strength of earthquakes. He was born in Overpeck, Ohio. He died at age 85 in Pasadena, California.
1978 ~ Edgar Bergen (né Edgar John Berggren; b. Feb. 16, 1903), American actor and ventriloquist. He was the father of actress Candice Bergen. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died at age 75 in Paradise, Nevada.
1955 ~ James Dean (né James Bryon Dean; b. Feb. 8, 1931), American actor, best known for his role in Rebel Without a Cause. He was born in Marion, Indiana. He was killed in an automobile accident in Cholame, California. He died was 24 years old.
1948 ~ Edith Roosevelt (née Edith Kermit Carow; b. Aug. 6, 1861), 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 Cove Neck, New York.
1931 ~ Jane Meade Welch (b. Mar. 11, 1854), American journalist and historian. She was born in Buffalo, New York. She died at age 77.
1910 ~ Maurice Lévy (b. Feb. 28, 1838), French mathematician. He died at age 72 in Paris, France.
1837 ~ 10th Dalai Lama (né Tsultrum Gyatso; b. Mar. 29, 1816). He died at age 21.
1632 ~ Thomas Allen (b. Dec. 21, 1542), English mathematician and astrologer. He died at age 89.
1627 ~ Tianqi Emperor (d. Dec. 23, 1605), 16th Chinese Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He ruled from October 1620 until his death 7 years later. He died at age 21.
1626 ~ Nurhaci (b. Apr. 8, 1559), Chinese Emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty. He died at age 67.
420 ~ St. Jerome (b. Mar. 347), Roman Catholic priest and theologian. The exact date of his birth is not known. He died at about age 73.
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