Birthdays:
1993 ~ Tiffany Trump (née Tiffany Ariana Trump), daughter of President Donald Trump and his second wife, Marla Maples.
1989 ~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, United States House of Representative from New York. She assumed office in January 2009. She is often referred to by her initials – AOC. She was born in the Bronx, New York.
1971 ~ Brent Renaud (d. Mar. 13, 2022), American journalist and documentarian who strode into war zones. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He was killed by Russian forces while covering the war in Irpin, Ukraine. He was 50 years old.
1971 ~ Sacha Baron Cohen (né Sasha Noam Baron Cohen), English comedian. He was born in London, England.
1960 ~ Ari Fleischer (né Lawrence Ari Fleischer), 24th White House Press Secretary. He served under President George W. Bush from January 2001 until July 2003. He was born in New York, New York.
1960 ~ Peter Keisler (né Peter Douglas Keisler), Acting Attorney General of the United States. He served as Acting Attorney General during the George W. Bush administration from September 2007 until November 2007. He was born in Hempstead, New York.
1959 ~ Marie Osmond (née Olive Marie Osmond), American singer. She was born in Ogden, Utah.
1958 ~ Jamal Khashoggi (né Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi; d. October 2, 2018), Saudi-born journalist. He left Saudi Arabia in 2017 and wrote several articles critical of the Saudi Government. He relocated to the United States and wrote for the Washington Post. On October 2, 2018, he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey to get documentation regarding his previous divorce so that he could remarry. He was never seen again. The CIA concluded that he had been assassinated on orders from the Saudi Government. He was born in Medina, Saudi Arabia. He was murdered 11 days before his 60th birthday in Istanbul, Turkey.
1952 ~ Beverly Johnson (née Beverly Ann Johnson), African-American model. She was born in Buffalo, New York.
1951 ~ Stephen Bayley (né Stephen Paul Bayley), British design critic and journalist. He was born in Cardiff, Wales.
1950 ~ Mollie Katzen, American vegetarian chef and cookbook author. She is best known for her vegetarian cookbook, The Moosewood Cookbook. She was born in Rochester, New York.
1947 ~ Sammy Hagar (né Samuel Roy Hagar), American musician and guitarist. He was born in Salinas, California.
1947 ~ Avi Lerner (né Avinoam Lerner), Israeli-American film producer. He was born in Haifa, Israel.
1943 ~ Mike Barnicle (né Michael Barnicle), American journalist and senior contributor to MSNBS’s Morning Joe. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1941 ~ Paul Simon (né Paul Frederic Simon), American singer and songwriter. He sang with Art Garfunkel in the duo, Simon and Garfunkel. He was born in Newark, New Jersey.
1926 ~ Eddie Yost (né Edward Frederick Joseph Yost; d. Oct. 16, 2012), American professional baseball player and coach. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died 3 days after his 86th birthday in Weston, Massachusetts.
1925 ~ Lenny Bruce (né Leonard Alfred Schneider; b. Aug. 3, 1966), American comedian. He was born in Mineola, New York. He died at age 40 of a drug overdose in Los Angeles, California.
1925 ~ Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (née Margaret Hilde Roberts; d. Apr. 8, 2013), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. She was known as the Iron Lady who remade Britain. She was born in Grantham, England. She died at age 87 in London, England.
1924 ~ Roberto Eduardo Viola (d. Sept. 30, 1994), 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.
1919 ~ Jackie Ronne (née Edith Ann Maslin; d. June 14, 2009), American born explorer who was the first American woman on Antarctica. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She died at age 89 in Bethesda, Maryland.
1893 ~ Kurt Reidemeister (né Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister; d. July 8, 1971), German mathematician. He died at age 77.
1890 ~ Conrad Richter (né Conrad Michael Richter; d. Oct. 30, 1968), American writer and short-story author. He was born in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania. He died of a heart attack 16 days after his 78th birthday in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
1872 ~ L.L. Bean (né Leon Leonwood Bean; d. Feb. 5, 1967), American inventor, author, outdoor enthusiast and founder of L.L. Bean’s Sporting Goods Store. He was born in Greenwood, Maine. He died at age 94 in Pompano Beach, Florida.
1862 ~ Mary Kingsley (née Mary Henrietta Kingsley; d. June 3, 1900), British explorer and author. She traveled and explored extensively in Africa. She was born in London, England. She worked as a nurse in South Africa during the Boer War. She contracted typhoid fever at age 37 in Simon’s Town, South Africa.
1861 ~ Minna Antrim (née Minna Thomas Antrim; d. 1950), American writer. She was born in Philadelphia. She is best known for her collection of toasts.
1853 ~ Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton; d. Feb. 12, 1929), British singer and actress. She was born in Island of Jersey and was known as the Jersey Lily. She died at age 75 in Monte Carlo.
1825 ~ Charles Frederick Worth (d. Mar. 10, 1895), British fashion designer and founder of the House of Worth. He is considered to be the Father of Haute Couture. He died at age 69 in Paris, France.
1776 ~ Peter Barlow (d. Mar. 1, 1862), English mathematician and physicist. He died at age 85 in London, England.
1613 ~ Luisa de Guzmán (d. Feb. 27, 1666), Queen consort of Portugal. She was the wife of John IV, King of Portugal. She was of the House of Medina Sidonia. She was the daughter of Manuel de Guzmán y Silva, 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia and Juana de Sandoval y la Cerda. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 52.
1499 ~ Claude of France (d. July 20, 1524), Duchess of Brittany and Queen consort of France. She reigned over Brittany from 1514 until her death 10years later. She was the first wife of Francis I, King of France. They married in 1514. She was of the House of Valois-Orléans. She was the daughter of Louis XII, King of France and Anne, Duchess of Brittany.
1453 ~ Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (d. May 4, 1471), member of the English royal family. He was the only heir apparent to the English throne. In 1470, he married Anne Neville. He was of the House of Lancaster. He was the son of Henry VI, King of England and Margaret of Anjou. He died in Battle of Tewkesbury at age 17.
1161 ~ Eleanor of England (d. Oct. 31, 1214), Queen consort of Castile. She was the wife of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile. She was of the House of Plantagenet. She was the daughter of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine. She died 13 days after her 53rd birthday.
467 ~ Emperor Xiaowen (d. Apr. 26, 499), Chinese Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty. He ruled from September 471 until his death in April 499. He died at age 31.
Events that Changed the World:
2019 ~ Sukkot began at sunset.
2010 ~ The Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile ended and all 33 miners trapped were safely brought to the surface of the earth. They had been trapped underground for 69 days.
2006 ~ Nearly a half a million people lost power when Buffalo, New York and the surrounding area was buried under 24 inches of snow. This snowstorm occurred on Friday the 13th.
1989 ~ The stock market fell 6.91 percent. At the time, it was the second-worst day in market history. This event occurred on Friday the 13th.
1976 ~ A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashed in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Ninety-seven (97) children on the ground were killed.
1976 ~ Dr. Frederick Murphy, a virologist at the Center for Disease Control, took the first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus.
1972 ~ Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, headed from Uruguay to Chile, crashed in the Andes between Argentina and Chile. Of the 45 people aboard, only 16 survived. Many of the passengers were part of the Uruguayan soccer team. This event occurred on Friday the 13th. The story of the survivors was told in the book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, by Piers Paul Read.
1958 ~ The first Paddington Bear book was published. The name of the book was A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond (1936 ~ 2017).
1946 ~ France adopted the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
1923 ~ Ankara replaced Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
1914 ~ The Boston Braves defeated the Philadelphia Athletics at Boston’s Fenway Park, in 4 games thereby winning the World Series in the first sweep.
1903 ~ The Boston Americans (later to be known as the Boston Red Sox) beat the Pittsburg Pirates in game 8 of the first modern baseball World Series in a score of 5-3.
1885 ~ The Georgia Institute of Technology was founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
1884 ~ Greenwich in London England was established as the Universal Time meridian of longitude.
1843 ~ B’nai Brith was formed in New York City. It is the oldest non-denominational Jewish services organization in the world.
1792 ~ The cornerstone for the Executive Mansion was laid. During the Theodore Roosevelt administration, the mansion would officially become known as the White House.
1775 ~ The United States Continental Congress ordered the establishment of the Continental Navy, later to become the United States Navy.
1773 ~ Charles Messier (1730 ~ 1817) discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy.
1582 ~ Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this date does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, the first countries to implement the new calendar. Thus, October 4, 1582 was immediately followed by October 15, 1582.
1399 ~ Henry VI, King of England (1367 ~ 1413) was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1307 ~ The French rounded up thousands of Knights Templars and tortured them as heretics. This event happened on Friday the 13th.
1269 ~ Construction of the present church building at Westminster Abbey began in 1245 and the church was consecrated on October 13, 1269.
Good-Byes:
2021 ~ Gary Paulsen (b. May 17, 1939), American young-adult author who told wild tales of survival. He is best known for his coming-of-age stories about the wilderness. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He died of cardiac arrest at age 82 in Tularosa, New Mexico.
2019 ~ Scotty Bowers (né George Albert Bowers; b. July 1, 1923), American hustler who procured hookups for Hollywood stars. He was a United States Marine. After he left the service, he became a pimp for 40 years. He wrote a 2012 tell-all entitled Full Service. He was born in Ottawa, Illinois. He died at age 96 in Los Angeles, California.
2016 ~ Dario Fo (b. Mar. 24, 1926), Italian writer and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 90 in Milan, Italy.
2009 ~ Al Martino (né Alfred Cini, b. Oct. 7, 1927), American chart-topping crooner who sang in The Godfather. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died 6 days after his 82nd birthday in Springfield, Pennsylvania.
2008 ~ Lefty Rosenthal (né Frank Lawrence Rosenthal; b. June 12, 1929), American Las Vegas gambler who survived a car bombing. He was a professional sports better and organized crime associate. In 1982, he survived an assassination attempt when a car bomb detonated when he started his Cadillac. He was the inspiration for Martin Scorsese’s film, Casino. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of a heart attack at age 79 in Miami Beach, Florida.
2003 ~ Bertram Brockhouse (né Bertram Neville Brockhouse, b. July 15, 2003), Canadian physicist and recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He died at age 85 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2002 ~ Stephen Ambrose (né Stephen Edward Ambrose; b. Jan. 10, 1936), American historian. He was a history professor at the University of New Orleans. He was born in Lovington, Illinois. He died of lung cancer at age 66 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
1991 ~ Hugh Molson (né Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson; b. June 29, 1903), British politician. He died in London, England at age 88.
1990 ~ Lê Ðúc Thǫ (b. Oct. 14, 1911), Vietnamese general and politician and recipient of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize along with Henry Kissinger. He was the first Asian to be awarded the Peace Prize. Thǫ declined the Prize, however, because they were unable to agree to a peace treaty. Thǫ died in Hanoi, Vietnam one day before his 79th birthday.
1987 ~ Walter H. Brattain (né Walter Houser Brattain; b. Feb. 10, 1902), American physicist and recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the transistor. He was born in China. He died at age 85 in Seattle, Washington.
1984 ~ Alice Neel (b. Jan. 28, 1900), American visual artist. She was born in Merion Square, Pennsylvania. She died at age 84 in New York, New York.
1974 ~ Ed Sullivan (né Edward Vincent Sullivan; b. Sept. 28, 1901), American television show host. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died of esophageal cancer 15 days after his 73rd birthday.
1955 ~ Manuel Ávila Camacho (b. Apr. 24, 1897), President of Mexico. He served as President from December 1940 until November 1946. He died at age 58.
1945 ~ Milton S. Hershey (né Milton Snavely Hershey; b. Sept. 13, 1857), American confectioner and founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company. He was born in Derry Township, Pennsylvania. He died a month after his 88th birthday in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
1938 ~ E.C. Segar (né Elzie Crisier Segar, b. Dec. 8, 1894), American cartoonist and creator of Popeye. He was born in Chester, Illinois. He died of leukemia at age 43 in Santa Monica, California.
1928 ~ Maria Fyodorovna (Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar; b. Nov. 26, 1847), Empress consort of Russia and Danish wife of Alexander III, Tsar of Russia. She was his second wife. Before her marriage, she was the Princess Dagmar of Denmark. She was of the House of Glücksburg. She was the daughter of Christian IX, King of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. She died at age 80.
1919 ~ Karl Adolph Gjellerup (b. June 2, 1857), Danish writer and recipient of the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 62.
1890 ~ Samuel Freeman Miller (b. Apr. 5, 1816), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Abraham Lincoln. He replaced Peter Daniel on the Court. He was succeeded by Henry Brown. He was in office from July 1862 until his death 28 years later. He was born in Richmond, Virginia. He died in Washington, D.C. He was 74 years old at the time of his death.
1825 ~ Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria (b. May 27, 1756). He was king from January 1806 until his death in October 1825. He was married twice. His first wife was Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt and Princess Caroline of Baden. He was of the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. He was the son of Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach. He was Roman Catholic. He died at age 69.
1795 ~ William Prescott (b. Feb. 20, 1726), American Revolutionary War colonel who was instrumental in the Battle of Bunker Hill. He is credited with saying: “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” He was born in Groton, Massachusetts and died in Pepperell, Massachusetts. He died at age 69.
982 ~ Jing Zong (b. Sept. 1, 948), 5th Chinese emperor of the Liao Dynasty. He died at age 34.
54 ~ The traditional date ascribed to the death of Roman Emperor Claudius (b. Aug. 1, 10 BCE), Roman Emperor. He was poisoned under mysterious circumstances and his 17-year old stepson, Nero, succeeded him as emperor. Claudius is believed to have been about 63 at the time of his death.
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