Birthdays:
1983 ~ Adam Driver (né Adam Douglas Driver), American actor. He was born in San Diego, California.
1966 ~ Schmuel Boteach, American Orthodox rabbi and author. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
1964 ~ Fred Diamond (né Fred Irvin Diamond), American mathematician. He is best known for his work in number theory and his role in proving the modularity theorem for elliptic curves.
1962 ~ Jody Foster (née Alicia Christian Foster), American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1961 ~ Meg Ryan (née Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra), American actress. She was born in Fairfield, Connecticut.
1959 ~ Allison Janney (née Allison Brooks Janney), American actress. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1956 ~ Eileen Collins (née Eileen Marie Collins), American astronaut. She was the first female pilot commander of a Space Shuttle. She was born in Elmira, New York.
1956 ~ Ann Curry, American journalist. She was born in Guam.
1942 ~ Daniel Haggerty (né Daniel Francis Haggerty; d. Jan. 15, 2016), American animal loving actor best known for playing the title role in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. He was born in Pound, Wisconsin. He died of spinal cancer at age 73 in Burbank, California.
1942 ~ Calvin Klein (né Calvin Richard Klein), American clothing designer. He was born in The Bronx, New York.
1941 ~ Tommy Thompson (né Tommy George Thompson), 19th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He served under President George W. Bush from January 2001 until January 2005. He had previously served as the Governor of Wisconsin from January 1987 through January 2001. He was born in Elroy, Wisconsin.
1939 ~ Garrick Utley (né Clifton Garrick Utley; d. Feb. 20, 2014), American news journalist and television news anchor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of prostate cancer age 74 in New York, New York.
1939 ~ Emil Constantinescu, 3rd President of Romania. He served as President from November 1996 until December 2000. He was born in Bender, Moldova.
1938 ~ Ted Turner (né Robert Edward Turner, III), American businessman and founder of the Turner Broadcasting System. His third wife was Jane Fonda. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1936 ~ Dick Cavett (né Richard Alva Cavett), American talk show host. He was born in Gibbon, Nebraska.
1936 ~ Yuan T. Lee (né Yuan Tseh Lee), Taiwanese-born chemist and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1935 ~ Jack Welch (né John Francis Welch, Jr.; d. Mar. 1, 2020), American boss of General Electric who popularized ruthless management. He went to the University of Massachusetts and earned an engineering degree. He was the head of General Electric between 1981 to 2001. He was born in Peabody, Massachusetts. He died of kidney failure at age 84 in Manhattan, New York.
1933 ~ Larry King (né Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; d. Jan. 23, 2021), American television personality and suspendered CNN talk show host who interviewed the famous and infamous, including seven United States presidents, athletes, entertainers, sex therapists, and psychics. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 87 of complications of Covid-19 in Los Angeles, California.
1932 ~ Eleanor Helin (d. Jan. 25, 2009), American astronomer. She is best known for discovering numerous minor planets. She died at age 76.
1927 ~ Lisl Steiner, Austrian-born photojournalist. After Hitler annexed Austria, her family moved to Argentina. She later moved to the United States and became a naturalized citizen. She is best known for her political and cultural portraits. She was born in Vienna, Austria.
1926 ~ Jeane Kirkpatrick (née Jeane Duane Jordan; d. Dec. 7, 2006), 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations. She was the American diplomat who shaped President Ronald Reagan’s muscular foreign policy. She was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. She died 18 days after her 80th birthday in Bethesda, Maryland.
1922 ~ Jerzy Glowczewski (d. Apr. 13, 2020), Polish-born American aircraft pilot. He was the last known Polish fighter pilot to have flown for Britain’s Royal Air Force during World War II. He flew 100 combat missions against the Nazis and later worked as an architect in Poland, Egypt, and the United States. He was born in Warsaw, Poland. He died of complications from Covid-19 at age 97 in New York, New York.
1921 ~ Roy Campanella (d. June 26, 1993), American professional baseball player and coach. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died of heart failure at age 71 in Woodland Hills, California.
1920 ~ Gene Tierney (née Gene Eliza Tierney; d. Nov. 6, 1991), American actress. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died 13 days before her 71st birthday in Houston, Texas.
1919 ~ Alan Young (né Angus Young; d. May 19, 2016), English-born Canadian-American actor and television personality. He was best known for his role as Wilber Post, the actor who conversed with Mister Ed on the television sit-com that ran from 1961 to 1966. He died at age 96 in Woodland Hills, California.
1917 ~ Indira Gandhi (né Indira Priyadarshini Nehru; d. Oct. 31, 1984), Prime Minister of India and first woman to hold that Office. She served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination on October 21, 1984. She was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards. Her assassination caused riots throughout India in which nearly 10,000 Sikhs were killed. She was killed in New Delhi, India just 19 days before her 67th birthday.
1915 ~ Earl Wilber Sutherland, Jr. (d. Mar. 9, 1974), American physiologist and pharmacologist. He was the recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in Burlingame, Kansas. He died of complications from an esophageal hemorrhage at age 58 in Miami, Florida.
1912 ~ George Palade (né George Emil Palade; d. Oct. 7, 2008), Romanian cell biologist and recipient of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He died at age 95 in Del Mar, California.
1909 ~ Peter Drucker (né Peter Ferdinand Drucker; d. Nov. 11, 2005), American management theorist. He was born in Vienna, Austria. He died 8 days before his 96th birthday in Claremont, California.
1905 ~ Tommy Dorsey (né Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr.; d. Nov. 26, 1956), American bandleader. He was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He died 7 days after his 51st birthday in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1904 ~ Nathan F. Leopold, Jr. (né Nathan Freudenthal Leopold; d. Aug. 29, 1971), American murderer. In 1924, he, along with his college friend, Richard Albert Loeb (1905 ~ 1936), kidnapped and murdered 14-year Robert Franks simply because they thought they could get away with the “perfect crime.” They were quickly arrested and tried for the crime. Both were sentenced to life in prison. Loeb was killed in prison by a fellow inmate. Leopold was paroled in 1958. He died of a heart attack at age 66.
1901 ~ Nina Bari (née Nina Karlova Bari; d. July 15, 1961), Russian mathematician. She was born and died in Moscow, Russia. She was killed at age 59 when she fell in front of a metro train in Moscow.
1900 ~ Mikhail Lavrentyev (d. Oct. 15, 1980), Russian physicist and mathematician. He died about a month before his 80th birthday in Moscow, Soviet Union.
1895 ~ Louise Dahl-Wolfe (née Louise Emma Augusta Dahl; d. Dec. 11, 1989), American photographer. She was born in San Francisco, California. She died 22 days after her 94th birthday in Allendale, New Jersey.
1894 ~ Heinz Hopf (d. June 3, 1971), German mathematician whose major field was topology and geometry. He died at age 76 in Zollikon, Switzerland.
1887 ~ James B. Sumner (né John Batcheller Sumner; d. Aug. 12, 1955), American chemist and recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing that enzymes are proteins. He was born in Canton, Massachusetts. He died of cancer at age 67 in Buffalo, New York.
1876 ~ Tatyana Afanasyeva (d. Apr. 14, 1964), Russian-born Dutch mathematician. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine. She died at age 87.
1862 ~ Billy Sunday (né William Ashley Sunday; d. Nov. 6, 1935), American baseball player-turned-evangelist. He was born in Story County, Iowa. He died 13 days before his 73rd birthday in Chicago, Illinois.
1845 ~ Agnes Giberne (d. Aug. 20, 1939), British astronomer and novelist. She was born in India. She died at age 93 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England.
1831 ~ James Garfield (né James Abram Garfield; d. Sept. 19, 1881), 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.
1805 ~ Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps (d. Dec. 7, 1894), French diplomat and engineer who developed the Suez Canal. The company he organized began work on the Canal in 1859 and completed the task 10 years later. He was born in Versailles, French Empire. He died 18 days after his 89th birthday.
1752 ~ George Clark (né George Rogers Clark; d. Feb. 13, 1818), American general, surveyor and frontiersman. He was the older brother of William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame. He was born in Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, British America. George Clark died of a stroke at age 65 in Louisville, Kentucky.
1600 ~ Charles I, King of England and Ireland and King of Scotland (d. Jan. 30, 1649). He was king from March 1625 until his execution in January 1649. He was married to Henrietta Marie of France. They married in 1625. He was of the House of Stuart. He was the son of James VI, King of England /James I, King of Scotland and Anne of Denmark. He was Anglican. He was tried and convicted of high treason and was beheaded at age 48 during the English Civil War.
Events that Changed the World:
2021 ~ Kyle Rittenhouse (b. 2003), a teenager who shot three people, killing two and injuring the third, in during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020, was cleared of all charges. He argued that he had fired in self-defense.
1998 ~ The impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton (b. 1946) began in the Lewinsky scandal.
1979 ~ The Ayatolla Ruhollah Khomeina (1902 ~ 1989) granted the release of several American hostages who had been captured earlier in the month and held at the United States Embassy in Tehran.
1969 ~ Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad (1930 ~ 1999) and Alan Bean (1932 ~ 2018) landed at the moon’s Ocean of Storms to become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1955 ~ The National Review, a conservative political magazine, began publication. William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925 ~ 2008) founded the magazine.
1950 ~ Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 ~ 1969) became the Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
1945 ~ The International Military Tribunal opened, allowing for the first post-World War II Nuremberg Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals to begin at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. The trials were held between November 20, 1945 through October 1, 1946.
1943 ~ Nazis murdered over 6,000 Jews at the Janowska concentration in the western Lviv, Ukraine. This was in retaliation after a failed uprising by and a mass escape attempt.
1916 ~ Goldwyn Pictures was established by Samuel Goldwyn (1879 ~ 1974) and Edgar Selwyn (1875 ~ 1944).
1881 ~ A meteorite landed near the village of Grossliebenthal, near Odessa, Ukraine.
1863 ~ President Abraham Lincoln (1809 ~ 1865) delivered the Gettysburg Address.
1816 ~ Warsaw University was established.
Good-Byes:
2017 ~ Charles Manson (né Charles Milles Maddox; b. Nov. 12, 1934), American cult leader and convicted murderer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He died in prison in Bakersfield, California7 days after his 83rd birthday.
2017 ~ Della Reese (née Delloreese Patricia Early; b. July 6, 1931), American gospel singer who became a TV star. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. She died at age 86 in Los Angeles, California.
2015 ~ Mal Whitfield (né Malvin Greston Whitfield; b. Oct. 11, 1924), African-American runner who became a sporting ambassador. He was a track star at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Bay City, Texas. He died about a month after his 91st birthday in Washington, D.C.
2014 ~ Mike Nichols (né Igor Mikhail Peschkowsky; b. Nov. 6, 1931), German-born American film and theater director. He is one of a small group of people who can claim the EGOT, having won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. He was the director who was able to conquer Broadway. His fourth wife was Diane Sawyer. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He died of a heart attack two weeks after his 83rd birthday in Los Angeles, California.
2013 ~ Dr. Dora Jean Dougherty Strother McKeown (b. Nov. 27, 1921), American military pilot. She was well known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She died 8 days before her 92nd birthday.
2013 ~ Frederick Sanger (b. Aug. 13, 1918), British biochemist and recipient of the two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry who pioneered in genomics. He won the 1958 and the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The former was for his work in the structure of proteins, specifically insulin. The later was for his work in determining the base sequencing of nucleic acids. He was a pioneer in genomics. He died at age 95 in Cambridge, England.
2012 ~ Warren Rudman (né Warren Bruce Rudman; b. May 18, 1930), American United States Senator from New Hampshire who fought to curb deficits. He is best known for his key role in bipartisan efforts to rein in federal deficits and the enactment of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget Act of 1985. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 82 in Washington, D.C.
2011 ~ John Smale (né John Gray Smale; b. Aug. 1, 1927), Canadian executive who led Proctor and Gamble to growth. He was born in Listowel, Ontario, Canada. He died at age 84 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
2008 ~ Clive Barnes (né Clive Alexander Barnes; b. May 13, 1927), English critic who wielded Broadway’s most pointed pen. He was born in London, England. He died of liver cancer at age 81 in New York, New York.
2004 ~ Sir John Vane (né John Robert Vine; b. Mar. 29, 1927), English pharmacologist and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in deciphering how aspirin works. He died at age 77 in Kent, England from complications from having fractured his hip and leg 6 months earlier.
1998 ~ Alan Jay Pakula (b. Apr. 7, 1928), American film director best known for Sophie’s Choice and All the President’s Men. He was born in The Bronx, New York. He was killed in a car accident at age 70 in Melville, New York.
1996 ~ Grace Bates (née Grace Elizabeth Bates; b. Aug. 13, 1914). American mathematician. She was one of a few women to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics in the 1940s. She died at age 82.
1988 ~ Christina Onassis (b. Dec. 11, 1950), American-born Greek heiress and socialite. She was the daughter of Ari Onassis and the step-daughter of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. She was born in New York, New York. She died of a heart attack 3 weeks before her 38th birthday in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1975 ~ Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; b. July 3, 1912), British novelist. She was born in Redding, England. She died of cancer at age 63 in Penn, England.
1965 ~ Una Ledingham (née Una Christina Garvin; b. Jan. 2, 1900), British physician known for her studies of diabetes during pregnancy. She died at age 65.
1918 ~ Joseph F. Smith, Sr. (né Joseph Fielding Smith; b. Nov. 13, 1838), 6th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. He was born in Far West, Missouri. He died 6 days after his 80th birthday in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1915 ~ Joe Hill (né Joel Emmanuel Hägglund; d. Oct. 7, 1879), Swedish-born American labor activist. He was born in Gävle, Sweden. He was executed by firing squad on murder charges at age 36 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1887 ~ Emma Lazarus (b. July 22, 1849), American poet. She is best known for her poem, The New Colossus, a portion of which is found on a plaque at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. She was born and died in New York, New York. She died of an illness at age 38.
1850 ~ Richard Mentor Johnson (b. Oct. 17, 1780), 9th Vice President of the United States. He served under President Martin Van Buren from March 1837 until March 1841. He is the only Vice President elected by the Senate under the provisions of the 12th Amendment. He was born in Beargrass, Virginia (current day Louisville, Kentucky). He died a month after his 70th birthday in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1828 ~ Franz Schubert (né Franz Peter Schubert; b. Jan. 31, 1797), Austrian composer. He died at age 31, possibly of typhoid fever.
1822 ~ Johann Georg Tralles (b. Oct. 15, 1763), German mathematician. The crater Tralles on the moon is named in his honor. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. He died a month after his 59th birthday in London, England.
1789 ~ Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (b. Oct. 6, 1738), heir presumptive of the Austrian throne until her younger brother, Joseph was born. She never married. She was of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. She was the daughter of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Theresa of Austria. She was in ill health. She died at age 51.
1665 ~ Nicolas Poussin (b. June 15, 1594), French painter. He was a leader in the classical French Baroque style. He died in Rome at age 71.
1557 ~ Maria de’Medici (b. Apr. 3, 1540), Italian noblewoman and member of the Medici family. She was the eldest daughter of Cosimo I de’Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. She is believed to have died of malaria at age 17.
1581 ~ Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (b. Mar. 28, 1554), member of the Russian royal family. He married three times. His first wife was Eudoxia Saburova. His second wife was Praskovia Solova. His third wife was Yelena Sheremeteva. He was of the Rurik Dynasty. He was the son of Ivan IV, Tsar of Russia, known as Ivan the Terrible, and Anastasia Romanovna. He was Eastern Orthodox. He was murdered by his father in a fit of rage at age 27.
1557 ~ Bona Sforza (b. Feb. 2, 1494), Queen consort of Poland and Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania. She was the second wife of Sigismund I, King of Poland. They married in 1517. She was of the House of Sforza. She was the daughter of Gian Galaezzo Sforza and Isabella of Aragon. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 63.
498 ~ Pope Anastasius II (b. 445). He was Pope from November 24, 496 until his death 2 years later. The date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 53 at the time of his death.
496 ~ Pope Gelasius I. He was Pope from March 492 until his death on this date 4 years later. The date of his birth is not known.
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