Birthdays:
1970 ~ Kelly Ripa (née Kelly Maria Ripa), American talk show host. She was born in Berlin, New Jersey.
1958 ~ Wayne Toups, Cajun musician, and accordionist. He was born in Crowley, Louisiana.
1953 ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán (né Lisa Rynveld), British novelist. She was born in London, England.
1951 ~ Sting (né Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner), British singer and frontman for the band The Police. He was born in Wallsend, England.
1949 ~ Annie Leibovitz (née Anna-Lou Leibovitz), American photographer. She is known for her iconic photographs of celebrities. She was born in Waterbury, Connecticut.
1948 ~ Donna Karan (née Donna Ivy Faske), American fashion designer and founder of DKNY. She was born in Queens, New York.
1945 ~ Don McLean (né Donald McLean, III), American musician. He is best known for his song, American Pie. He was born in New Rochelle, New York.
1942 ~ Stephen Sabol (né Stephan Douglas Sabol; d. Sept. 18, 2012), American filmmaker who exalted football. He was the president, and one of the founders of, NFL Films. He was born and died in Moorestown, New Jersey. He died about 2 weeks before his 70th birthday.
1938 ~ Rex Reed (né Rex Taylor Reed), American movie critic. He graduated from the Louisiana State University. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas.
1937 ~ Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. (né Johnny Lee Cochran, Jr.; d. Mar. 29, 2005), American attorney born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He is best known for his defense of O.J. Simpson during his murder trial. He died of a brain tumor at age 67 in Los Angeles, California.
1933 ~ Sir John Gurdon (né John Bertrand Gurdon), English biologist and recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells.
1926 ~ Jan Morris (née James Humphry Morris; d. Nov. 20, 2020), Welsh historian and travel writer who broke barriers. She was born male, but had sex reassignment surgery and became known as Jan. She died at age 94 in Pwllheli, Wales.
1925 ~ Clay Felker (né Clay Schuette Felker; d. July 1, 2008), American visionary editor who changed the face of magazines. He was a co-founder of the New York Magazine. He was born in Webster Groves, Missouri. He died of throat cancer at age 82 in Manhattan, New York.
1917 ~ Christian de Duve, Viscount de Duve (d. May 4, 2013), Belgian biologist and recipient of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died by self-induced euthanasia at age 95.
1915 ~ Chuck Williams (né Charles Edward Williams; d. Dec. 5, 2015), American businessman and food lover. He was a co-founder of Williams-Sonoma. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He died at age 100 in San Francisco, California.
1907 ~ Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd (né Alexander Robertus Todd; d. Jan. 10, 1997), Scottish chemist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes. He died at age 89.
1904 ~ Graham Greene (né Henry Graham Greene; d. Apr. 3, 1991), English writer. He is best known for such novels at The End of the Affair and The Quiet American. He died of leukemia at age 86 in Vevey, Switzerland.
1897 ~ Bud Abbott (né William Alexander Abbott; d. Apr. 24, 1974), American comedian and half of the comedy team Abbot and Costello. He was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He died of cancer at age 76 in Los Angeles, California.
1895 ~ Ruth Cheney Streeter (née Ruth Cheney; d. Sept. 30, 1990), 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.
1890 ~ Groucho Marx (né Julius Henry Marx; d. Aug. 19, 1977), American comedian and actor. He was born in New York, New York. He died of pneumonia at age 86 in Los Angeles, California.
1879 ~ Wallace Stevens (d. Aug. 2, 1955), American poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He died in Hartford, Connecticut at age 75.
1871 ~ Cordell Hull (d. July 23, 1955), 47th United States Secretary of State. He served under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He held that position for 11 years, from 1933 until 1944. He was also the recipient of the 1945 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing the United Nations. He was the subject of Erik Larson’s non-fiction book, In the Garden of Beasts, which is about Hitler’s Berlin in the years leading up to World War II. Prior to becoming Secretary of State, he served as a United States Senator from Tennessee. He was born in Olympus, Tennessee. He died at age 83 in Washington, D.C.
1869 ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka Mahatma Gandhi (d. Jan. 30, 1948), Indian pacifist and spiritual leader. He advocated non-violent disobedience. He was assassinated by a Hindu extremist. He was 78 at the time of his death.
1852 ~ Sir William Ramsay (d. July 23, 1916), Scottish chemist and recipient of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in identifying the inert gaseous elements. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He died at age 63 of nasal cancer.
1847 ~ Paul von Hindenburg (d. Aug. 2, 1934), German field marshal and 2nd President of Germany. He is best remembered as being the man who, when he was President of Germany, appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. He served as President of Germany from May 1925 until his death on August 1934. He died at age 86.
1800 ~ Nat Turner (d. Nov. 11, 1831), American slave rebel who was hanged after inciting a slave uprising. He was executed about a month after his 31st birthday for his role in leading the revolt.
1760 ~ Empress Xiaoshurui (d. Mar. 5, 1797), Chinese empress consort of the Qing dynasty. She was the wife of Jiaquig Emperor. She died at age 36.
1568 ~ Marino Getaldić (d. Apr. 11, 1626), Croatian mathematician. He was born and died in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He died at age 57.
1470 ~ Infanta Isabella of Aragon (d. Aug. 23, 1498), Queen consort of Portugal and first wife of Manuel I, King of Portugal. They married in 1497. He was her second husband. She had previously been married to Afonso, Prince of Portugal. They married in 1490, but he died within a year of their marriage. When her first husband died, she was convinced it was because her parents, the Catholic Monarchs, had expelled the Jews from Portugal and Spain. She was of the House of Trastámara. She was the daughter of Ferdinand II, King of Aragon and Isabella I, Queen of Castile. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 27 of complications of childbirth.
1452 ~ Richard III, King of England (d. Aug. 22, 1485). He ruled from June 1483 until his death in August 1485. In 1472 he married Anne Neville. He was the was the last king of the House of York. He was the son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York and Cecily Neville. He was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field, and his defeat was the last decisive battle of the War of Roses. The War of the Roses is often considered the end of the Middle Ages in England. Richard’s death marked the end of the House of Plantagenet. He was 32 years old. He was succeeded by Henry VII, King of England who was from the House of Tudor. In 2013, Richard’s remains were found buried in what had become a parking lot in northern England.
Events that Changed the World:
2020 ~ President Donald Trump (b. 1946) and First Lady Melania Trump (b. 1970) tested positive and were diagnosed with Covid-19.
2018 ~ Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi (1958 ~ 2018) was murdered after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
2016 ~ Erev Rosh HaShanah.
2006 ~ A deranged gunman opened fire at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania in which five young schoolgirls were murdered.
1996 ~ Aeroperú Flight 603 crashed into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru. Seventy (70) people on board were killed. The crash was determined to have been caused by improper maintenance procedures.
1967 ~ Thurgood Marshall (1908 ~ 1993) was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1959 ~ The Twilight Zone made its television debut.
1950 ~ Charlie Brown and the comic strip Peanuts, the creation of Charles Schulz (1922 ~ 2000), made its debut.
1944 ~ German troops put an end to the Warsaw Uprising during World War II.
1919 ~ United States President Woodrow Wilson (1856 ~ 1924) suffered a massive stroke while in office, rendering him virtually unable to continue to govern.
1889 ~ Nicholas Creede (1843 ~ 1897) struck silver in Colorado during the last big silver boom in the Old West.
1789 ~ The proposed Constitutional amendments, the United States Bill of Rights, were sent to the States for ratification.
1552 ~ Ivan, Tsar of Russia (1530 ~ 1584), also known as Ivan the Terrible, conquered the Kazan.
1535 ~ Jacques Cartier (1491 ~ 1557) discovered the area where Montreal, Quebec is now located.
Goodbyes:
2020 ~ Domenic Parisi (b. Oct. 27, 1943), Sicilian-born American barber. He was born in Santa Croce Camerina, Sicily. He immigrated to the United States in the mid-1950s. His father wanted him to become a farrier, but there were no such jobs where he landed in New Jersey. Instead, he became a barber and opened a shop in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. One of his clients was Richard Nixon, whose hair he cut for the last 9 years of Nixon’s life. He died in Hackensack, New Jersey of Covid-19 just 25 days before his 77th birthday.
2019 ~ Jamal Khashoggi (né Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi; b. Oct. 13, 1958), 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 murdered 11 days before his 60th birthday.
2017 ~ Tom Petty (né Thomas Earl Petty; b. Oct. 20, 1950), American musician Heartbreakers frontman who rejuvenated rock ‘n’ roll. He was born in Gainesville, Florida. He died in Santa Monica, California of an accidental drug overdose 18 days before his 67th birthday.
2014 ~ György Lázár (b. Sept. 15, 1924), Hungarian politician who served as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of Hungary. He served in this Office from May 1975 until June 1987. He was born in Isaszeg, Hungary. He died in Budapest, Hungary just 2 weeks after his 90th birthday.
2013 ~ Abraham Nemeth (d. Oct. 16, 1918), American mathematician. He was blind and is best known for developing a system allowing blind people to read and write mathematics. He was born in New York, New York. He died less than 2 weeks before his 95th birthday.
2009 ~ Marek Edelman (b. Jan. 1, 1919), Polish-Jewish fighter who helped to lead the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. After the war, he went to medical school and became a cardiologist. The exact date of his birth is unknown. He is believed to have been born in 1919, but possibly as late as 1922. He was born in Gomel, Belarus. He died at age 80 in Warsaw, Poland.
2006 ~ Paul Halmos (né Paul Richard Halmos; d. Mar. 3, 1916), Hungarian-born mathematician. He was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He died at age 90 in Los Gatos, California.
2005 ~ August Wilson (né Frederick August Kettel, Jr.; b. Apr. 27, 1945), African-American author and playwright. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died of cancer at age 60 in Seattle, Washington.
2005 ~ Nipsey Russell (né Julius Russell; b. Sept. 15, 1918), African-American comedian. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He died just over 2 weeks following his 87th birthday in New York, New York.
2003 ~ John Dunlop (né John Thomas Dunlop; b. July 5, 1914), 14th United States Secretary of Labor. He served in the Gerald Ford administration from March 1975 until January 1976. He was born in Placerville, California. He died at age 89 in Boston, Massachusetts.
1998 ~ Gene Autry (né Orvon Grover Autry; b. Sept. 29, 1907), American actor and cowboy singer. He was known as the Singing Cowboy. He was born in Tioga, Texas. He died 3 days after his 91st birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1996 ~ Andrey Lukanov (b. Sept. 26, 1938), 40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria. He served as Prime Minister from February 1990 until December 1990. He was the last communist Prime minister of Bulgaria. He was born in Moscow, Russia. He was assassinated in Sofia, Bulgaria just 5 days after his 58th birthday.
1994 ~ Harriet Nelson (née Peggy Lou Snyder; b. July 18, 1909), American actress. She is best known for her role in the television comedy The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa. She died of congestive heart failure at age 85 in Laguna Beach, California.
1987 ~ Sir Peter Medawar (né Peter Brian Medawar; b. Feb. 28, 1915), Brazilian-born British biologist and recipient for the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on organ transplants and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance. He died following a stroke at age 72 in London, England.
1985 ~ Rock Hudson (né Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.; b. Nov. 17, 1925), American actor. He was born in Winnetka, Illinois. He died at age 59 in Beverly Hills, California.
1982 ~ William Bernbach (b. Aug. 13, 1911), American creative advertising director. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died at age 71.
1968 ~ Marcel Duchamp (b. July 28, 1887), French painter and artist. He died at age 81.
1962 ~ Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev (b. Sept. 6, 1859), Russian mathematician. He died about a month after his 103rdbirthday.
1950 ~ John Francis Fitzgerald (b. Feb. 11, 1863), American politician and Mayor of Boston. He was Mayor for two separate terms, first from 1906 until 1908 and second from 1910 until 1914. He also served as a representative in the United States House of Representatives from the State of Massachusetts. He was known as Honey Fitz. He was the father of Rose Kennedy and the grandfather of United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was born and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 87.
1947 ~ Peter D. Ouspensky (b. Mar. 5, 1878), Russian mathematician. He died at age 69 in England.
1938 ~ Alexandru Averescu (b. Apr. 3, 1859), Romanian field marshal and Prime Minister of Romania. He served as Prime Minister during the reign of King Ferdinand. He died at age 79 in Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania.
1927 ~ Svante Arrhenius (né Svante August Arrhenius; b. Feb. 19, 1859), Swedish chemist and recipient of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 68 in Stockholm, Sweden.
1920 ~ Winthrop Crane (né Winthrop Murray Crane; b. Apr. 23, 1853), 40th Governor of Massachusetts. He was Governor from January 1900 until January 1903. He subsequently went on to become a United States Senator from Massachusetts. He was born and died in Dalton, Massachusetts. He died at age 67.
1896 ~ Emma Darwin (née Emma Wedgwood; b. May 2, 1808), English naturalist and wife and first cousin of Charles Dickens. She was the granddaughter of Josiah Wedgwood, of Wedgwood pottery fame. She died at age 88.
1853 ~ François Arago (né Dominique François Jean Arago; b. Feb. 26, 1786), French mathematician and politician. He died at age 67 in Paris, France.
1803 ~ Samuel Adams (b. Sept. 27, 1722), American patriot and leader during the American Revolutionary War. He served as the 4th Governor of Massachusetts from October 1794 until June 1797. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America. He died 5 days after his 81st birthday in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Samuel Adams beer is named after him.
1780 ~ John André (b. May 2, 1750), British Army officer during the American Revolutionary War. He was born in London, Great Britain. He was hanged as a spy by American forces in Tappan, New York. He was 30 years old at the time of his death.
1764 ~ William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (b. May 8, 1720), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the reign of King George II. He was Prime Minister from November 1756 until June 1757. He died at age 44.
1264 ~ Pope Urban IV (né Jacques Pantaléon; b. 1195). He was Pope from August 1261 until his death 3 years later. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been about 69 at the time of his death.
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