Birthdays:
1980 ~ Anna Chlumsky (née Anna Maria Chlumsky), American actress. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1973 ~ Samuel Wurzelbacher (né Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher; d. Aug. 27, 2023), American conservative everyman known as “Joe the Plumber.” He gained national attention during the presidential campaign in 2008 when he confronted Democratic candidate Barack Obama about taxes and his ability to run a plumbing business. He soon became the media darling of the GOP. It was later discovered that the was not a licensed plumber and was delinquent in his tax payments. He was born in Toledo, Ohio. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 49 in Campbellsport, Wisconsin at age 49.
1973 ~ Holly Marie Combs, American actress. She is best known for her role as Kelly Brock on the television drama Picket Fences. She was born in San Diego, California.
1968 ~ Brendan Fraser (né Brendan James Fraser), Canadian-American actor. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1967 ~ Marie Françoise Ouedraogo, Burkinabé mathematician.
1965 ~ Katarina Witt, German figure skater. She won 2 Olympic gold medals for East Germany ~ first in the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo, and then at the 1988 Games in Calgary. She was born in Falkensee, East Germany.
1964 ~ Darryl Hamilton (d. June 21, 2015), African-American professional baseball player and sportscaster. He attended Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. He was an outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He died at age 50 in Pearland, Texas in a murder-suicide.
1963 ~ Terri Schiavo (née Therese Marie Schindler, d. Mar. 31, 2005), American medical patient who was the center of a wrenching right-to-die dispute. In 1990, she suffered from a cardiac arrest, and suffered irreparable brain damage due to the lack of oxygen to her brain. She never recovered conscientiousness and was left in a comatose state. Her husband and her parents found themselves on opposite sides of a dispute when her husband wanted to remove her feeding tube. After years of legal battling, the feeding tube was removed, and she died 13 days later at age 41. She was born in Pennsylvania and died in Pinellas Park, Florida.
1960 ~ Daryl Hannah (née Daryl Christine Hannah), American actress. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1960 ~ Julianne Moore (née Julie Anne Smith), American actress. She was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
1948 ~ Ozzy Osbourne (né John Michael Osbourne), English singer and member of the band, Black Sabbath. He was born in Birmingham, England.
1938 ~ Sally Shlaer (d. Nov. 12, 1998), American mathematician. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She died 21 days before her 60th birthday in Berkeley, California.
1933 ~ Paul J. Crutzen (né Paul Jozef Crutzen; d. Jan. 28, 2021), Dutch chemist and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is best known for his work in climate change research. He was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He died at age 87 in Mainz, Germany.
1930 ~ Jean-Luc Godard (d. Sept. 13, 2022), French auteur in the vanguard of New Wave film. He invented a new way to tell stories on screen. He shattered convention with his 1960 classic Breathless. He was born in Paris, France. He had a disabling illness and ended his life through assisted suicide at age 91 in Rolle, Switzerland.
1927 ~ Andy Williams (né Howard Andrew Williams; d. Sept. 25, 2012), American singer who was the last of the great easy-listening crooners. He was born in Wall Lake, Iowa. He died of cancer at age 84 in Branson, Missouri.
1924 ~ John Backus (né John Warner Backus; d. Mar. 17, 2007), American mathematician and computer scientist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 82 in Ashland, Oregon.
1922 ~ Henry A. Grunwald (né Heinz Anatole Grünwald; d. Feb. 26, 2005), Austrian-born American journalist and editor who reinvented Time magazine. He was born in Vienna, Austria. He died at age 82 in New York, New York.
1921 ~ John Doar (né John Andrew Doar; d. Nov. 11, 2014), American civil rights lawyer who fought segregation and drafted the articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He died 3 weeks before his 93rd birthday in New York, New York.
1900 ~ Richard Kuhn (né Richard Johann Kuhn; d. Aug. 1, 1967), Austrian biochemist and recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. During World War II, he collaborated with high-ranking Nazi officials and denounced three of his Jewish co-workers. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He died in Heidelberg, West Germany. He was 66 years old at the time of his death.
1895 ~ Anna Freud (d. Oct. 9, 1982), Austrian-born British psychoanalyst and daughter of Sigmund Freud. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She died at age 86 in London, England.
1888 ~ Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (d. July 25, 1959), Polish rabbi. He was the Chief Rabbi of Ireland from 1919 through 1936. He also served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1936 until 1948. He was born in Lomza, Poland. He died at age 70 in Jerusalem, Israel.
1886 ~ Manne Siegbahn (né Karl Manne Siegbahn; d. Sept. 26, 1978), Swedish physicist and recipient of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in X-ray spectroscopy. He died at age 91 in Stockholm, Sweden.
1859 ~ Martin Lomasney (né Martin Michael Lomasney; d. Aug. 12, 1933), American Democratic politician. He was known as the political boss of Boston, West End. He served as a Massachusetts State Senator from 1896 to 1897. He was born and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He died of pneumonia at age 73.
1857 ~ Joseph Conrad (né Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; d. Aug. 3, 1924), Polish-born British writer. He is best known for his novel Lord Jim, as well as stories of the sea. He died at age 66, probably of a heart attack.
1842 ~ Charles Pillsbury (né Charles Alfred Pillsbury; d. Sept. 17, 1899), American businessman and co-founder of the Pillsbury company. He was born in Warner, New Hampshire. He died suddenly of heart disease at age 56 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1842 ~ Ellen H. Swallow Richards (née Ellen Henrietta Swallow; d. Mar. 30, 1911), American industrial and environmental chemist. She was the first woman admitted to MIT. After her graduation, she became MIT’s first female instructor. She was born in Dunstable, Massachusetts. She died at age 68 in Boston, Massachusetts.
1842 ~ Phoebe Hearst (née Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson; d. Apr. 13, 1919), American philanthropist. She was the mother of William Randolph Hearst. She was born in Franklin County, Missouri. She died of the Spanish Flu at age 76 in Pleasanton, California.
1838 ~ Princess Louise of Prussia (née Louise Marie Elizabeth; d. Apr. 23, 1923), member of the Prussian royal family. She married Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826 ~ 1907) in 1856. Upon her marriage, she became the Grand Duchess of Baden. She was of the House of Hohenzollern. She was the daughter of William I, Emperor of Germany and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. She was Protestant. She died at age 84.
1826 ~ George B. McCellan (né George Brinton McCellan; d. Oct. 29, 1885), American Union Civil War General. Following the Civil War, he served as the 24th Governor of New Jersey, from January 1878 until January 1881. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died of a heart attack at age 58 in West Orange, New Jersey.
1766 ~ Barbara Fritchie (née Barbara Hauer; d. Dec. 18, 1862), American Civil War Unionist. John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a poem about her defending the Union Flag during the Civil War. She was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She died 15 days after her 96th birthday in Frederick, Maryland.
1755 ~ Gilbert Stuart (né Gilbert Charles Stewart; d. July 9, 1828), American painter, best known for his portrayal of George Washington. He was born in Saunderstown, Rhode Island. He died in Boston, Massachusetts at age 72.
1616 ~ John Wallis (b. Nov. 8, 1703), English mathematician. He was born in Ashford, Kent, England. He was born in Ashford, Kent, England. He died less than a month before his 87th birthday in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.
1596 ~ Niccolò Amati (d. Apr. 12, 1684), Italian instrument and violin maker. He was the grandson of Andrea Amati, the founder of the Amati family of violin makers. He was born and died in Cremona, Duchy of Milan, Spanish Empire. He died at age 87.
1368 ~ Charles VI, King of France (d. Oct. 21, 1422). He reigned from September 1380 until his death 42 years later. During his reign, he suffered numerous bouts of mental illness. He was known as Charles the Beloved and in his later life, Charles the Mad. He was married to Isabeau of Bavaria (1370 ~ 1435). He was of the House of Valois. He was the son of Charles V, King of France and Joanna of Bourbon. He died at age 53 in Paris, France.
Events that Changed the World:
2012 ~ Typhoon Bopha struck the Philippines causing massive damage and killing at least 475 people.
1997 ~ In Ottawa, Canada, the Ottawa Treaty was signed by representatives from 121 countries. The treaty prohibited the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, Russia and the People’s Republic of China did not sign the treaty.
1984 ~ A cloud of methyl isocyanate from a leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed nearly 4,000 people and injured hundreds of thousands more. The Bhopal disaster remains one of the world’s word industrial disasters in history.
1982 ~ A soil sample taken from Times Beach, Missouri was discovered to contain over 300 times the safe level of dioxin. Times Beach would become one of the first Superfund Sites for EPA clean-up.
1979 ~ The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1902 ~ 1989) became the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
1972 ~ Spantax Flight 275 crashed during takeoff from Tenerife North-Ciudad de Laguna Airport. All 155 people aboard the plane were killed.
1967 ~ Dr. Christiaan Barnard (1922 ~ 2001) and his team performed the first human heart transplant at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Louis Washkansky (1913 ~ 1967), a Lithuanian Jew, had serious heart failure. The procedure was entirely experimental, and Mr. Washkansky lived only 2 weeks following the transplant.
1960 ~ The musical Camelot made its debut at the Majestic Theater on Broadway. This play became associated with the Kennedy administration.
1938 ~ Nazi Germany issued the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property that forced Jews to sell all their immovable property, businesses, and stocks at below market value.
1927 ~ The first Laurel and Hardy film was released. It was called Putting Pants on Philip.
1912 ~ Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia signed an armistice with the Ottoman Empire granting a temporary halt to the First Balkan War. When the armistice expired in February 1913, the hostilities resumed.
1910 ~ George Claude (1870 ~ 1960) demonstrated modern neon lighting at the Paris Motor Show.
1818 ~ Illinois became the 21st State of the Union.
1775 ~ John Paul Jones (1747 ~ 1792) hoisted the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to what would become the American Stars and Stripes), on his ship, the USS Alfred, which became the first vessel to fly the flag.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ Alison Lurie (née Alison Stewart Lurie; b. Sept. 3, 1926), American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel, Foreign Affairs. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She died at age 94 in Ithaca, New York.
2017 ~ John B. Anderson (né John Bayard Anderson; b. Feb. 15, 1922), American politician and one-time presidential candidate. He ran as in Independent in the 1980 presidential election. He was born in Rockford, Illinois. He died at age 95 in Washington, D.C.
2015 ~ Scott Weiland (né Scott Richard Kline, b. Oct. 27, 1967), American rock star and frontman for the Stone Temple Pilots who struggled with drug addiction. He was born in San Jose, California. He died at age 48 of a drug overdose in Bloomington, Minnesota.
2014 ~ James Stewart (né James Drewry Stewart; b. Mar. 29, 1941), Canadian mathematician. He is best known for his series of calculus textbooks. He died of multiple myeloma at age 73 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2014 ~ Nathaniel Branden (né Nathan Blumenthal, b. Apr. 9, 1930), Canadian-American psychologist who became Ayn Rand’s lover. He was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. He died at age 84 in Los Angeles, California.
2010 ~ Cora Sadosky (née Cora Susana Sadosky; b. May 23, 1940), Argentinian mathematician. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She died at age 70 in Long Beach, California.
2009 ~ Richard Todd (né Richard Andrew Palethrope-Todd; b. June 11, 1919), Irish-born actor who played dashing roles. He was born in Dublin, Irelans. He died at age 90.
2004 ~ Shiing-Shen Chern (b. Oct. 28, 1911), Chinese mathematician. He died at age 93.
2000 ~ Gwendolyn Brooks (née Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks; b. June 7, 1917), African-American poet. She was born in Topeka, Kansas. She died at age 83 in Chicago, Illinois.
1999 ~ Madeline Kahn (née Madeline Gail Wolfson; b. Sept. 29, 1942), American actress. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She died at age 57 of ovarian cancer in New York, New York.
1994 ~ Elizabeth Glaser (née Elizabeth Meyer; b. Nov. 11, 1947), American AIDS activist. She was born and died in Santa Monica, California. She died 22 days after her 47th birthday.
1993 ~ Lewis Thomas (b. Nov. 25, 1913), American physician and etymologist. He was born in Flushing, New York. He died of cancer 8 days after his 80th birthday in Manhattan, New York.
1984 ~ Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin (b. Aug. 23, 1919), Soviet mathematician. He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. He died at age 65 in Leningrad, Soviet Union.
1981 ~ Walter Knott (né Walter Marvin Knott; b. Dec. 11, 1889), American farmer and creator of Knott’s Berry Farm amusement park in California. He was born in San Bernardino, California. He died 8 days before his 92nd birthday in Buena Park, California.
1973 ~ Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (b. Dec. 30, 1890), 47th President of Mexico. He was President from December 1952 through November 1958. He is best known for granting women the right to vote. He was born and died in Veracruz, Mexico. He died 27 days before his 83rd birthday.
1949 ~ Philip Barry (né Philip Jerome Quinn Barry; b. June 18, 1896), American playwright. He is best known for The Philadelphia Story and Holiday, both of which were made into films that starred Katherine Hepburn. He was born in Rochester, New York. He died of a heart attack at age 53 in New York, New York.
1944 ~ Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (b. Feb. 2, 1882). He was the father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In 1903, he married Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885 ~ 1969). It was not a happy marriage and they separated by 1930. He was of the House of Glücksburg. He was the son of George I, King of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia. He died of heart failure at age 62.
1939 ~ Princess Louise (née Louisa Caroline Alberta; b. Mar. 18, 1848), member of the British royal family. She married John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845 ~ 1914) in 1871. After her marriage, she became known as the Duchess of Argyll. It was an unhappy marriage, and couple had no children. She was of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until 1917, when the name changed to Windsor. She was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She died at age 91.
1935 ~ Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (née Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary; b. July 6, 1868), member of the British royal family. She never married. She was of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until 1917 when the family changed its name to Windsor. She was the daughter of Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom and Alexandra of Denmark. She was the younger sister of the future George V, King of the United Kingdom. She died at age 67.
1926 ~ Charles Ringling (né Charles Edward Ringling; b. Dec. 2, 1863), American circus owner and co-founder of the Ringling Brothers Circus. He was born in McGregor, Iowa. He died the day after his 63rd birthday in Sarasota, Florida.
1919 ~ August Renoir (né Pierre-August Renoir; b. Feb. 25, 1841), French impressionist painter and sculptor. He was born in Limoges, France. He died at age 78 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.
1910 ~ Mary Baker Eddy (b. July 16, 1821), American religious leader and founder of the Christian Science movement. She was born in Bow, New Hampshire. She died in Newton, Massachusetts at age 89.
1894 ~ Robert Louis Stevenson (né Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; b. Nov. 13, 1850), Scottish writer best known for such children’s adventure novels as Treasure Island and Kidnapped. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died 20 days after his 44th birthday in Vailima, Samoa.
1888 ~ Carl Zeiss (b. Sept. 11, 1816), German lens maker and founder of the Optical Instrument. He died at age 72.
1839 ~ Frederick VI, King of Denmark (b. Jan. 28, 1768), King of Denmark from Mar. 13, 1808 until his death in Dec. 3, 1839 and King of Norway from Mar. 13, 1808 until May 17, 1814. He was married to Marie Hesse-Kassel. They married in 1790. He was of the House of Oldenburg. He was the son of Christian VII, King of Denmark and Caroline Matilda of Great Britain. He was Lutheran. He was born and died in Copenhagen, Denmark. He died at age 71. Because he had no surviving sons, he was succeeded by on the throne of Denmark by his half-cousin, Christian VIII.
1815 ~ John Carroll (b. Jan. 8, 1735), American archbishop and founder of Georgetown University. He died at age 80.
1691 ~ Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (b. Mar. 22, 1615), Anglo-Irish scientist and chemist. She was also a political and religious philosopher. She was the sister of Robert Boyle and assisted him in his work in chemistry. She died at age 76.
1592 ~ Alexandre Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. Aug. 27, 1545). He ruled as the Duke of Parma from September 1586 until his death 6 years later. In November 1565, he married Infanta Maria of Portugal. He was of the House of Farnese. He was the son of Ottavio Farnese and Margaret of Parma. He was Roman Catholic. He died at age 47.
1552 ~ Saint Francis Xavier (né Francisco de Jasso y Azpiliceuta, b. Apr. 7, 1506). Spanish missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He died of a fever at age 46.
1533 ~ Vasili III Ivanovich, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. Mar. 25, 1479). He governed over Moscow from November 1505 until his death 28 years later. He was married twice. His first wife was Solomonia Saburova. His second wife was Elena Glinskaya. He was of the House of Rurik. He was the son of Ivan III, Tsar of Russia and Sophia Paleologue. He was Eastern Orthodox. He died at age 54.
1154 ~ Pope Anastasius IV (né Corrado Demetri della Suburra; b. 1073). He was Pope from July 8, 1153 until his death a year and a half later. The date of his birth is not known.
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