Birthdays:
2011 ~ Kimmie Lynum (née Kimora Lynum; d. July 17, 2020), fun-loving African-American Florida girl who was due to start fourth grade, but became the State’s youngest Covid-19 victim. She was born in Gainesville, Florida. She died at age 9.
1984 ~ Elizabeth Holmes (née Elizabeth Anne Holmes), American fraudster and founder of Theranos, a health-care company. Elizabeth claimed to have developed a revolutionary method for detecting numerous diseases from just a drop of blood. In 2018, the SEC charged her and her company with fraud. In January 2022, she was found guilty of four counts of defrauding investors. In November 2022, she was sentenced to 11 years in prison. The downfall of Theranos is described in the 2018 book, Bad Blood, by investigative journalist John Carreyrou. She was born in Washington, D.C.
1976 ~ Isla Fisher (née Isla Lang Fisher), Australian actress and wife of Sacha Baron Cohen. She was born in Muscat, Oman.
1969 ~ Beau Biden (né Joseph Robinette Biden, III; d. May 30, 2015), American son of President Joseph Biden who dedicated his life to public service. He served as the 44th Attorney General of Delaware. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He died in Bethesda, Maryland. He had suffered from brain cancer and was 46 years old at the time of his death.
1965 ~ Maura Tierney, American actress. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1958 ~ Milutin Dostanić (d. Jan. 14, 2014), Serbian mathematician. He died in Belgrade 20 days before his 56th birthday.
1957 ~ Eric Lander (né Eric Steven Lander), American mathematician and geneticist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1956 ~ Nathan Lane (né Joseph Lane), American actor. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1948 ~ Henning Mankell (né Henning Georg Mankell; d. Oct. 5, 2015), Swedish author, known for his novel, A Treacherous Paradise. He died of cancer at age 67.
1948 ~ Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorese Catholic bishop and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize. He was born in Wailakama, Portuguese Timor.
1947 ~ Paul Auster (né Paul Benjamin Auster), American novelist and film director. He was born in Newark, New Jersey.
1947 ~ Stephen McHattie (né Stephen McHattie Smith), Canadian actor. He was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1943 ~ Blythe Danner (né Blythe Katherine Danner), American actress. She is also the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1939 ~ Michael Cimino (d. July 2, 2016), American director and perfectionist who directed The Deer Hunter, for which he won an Oscar. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 77 in Beverly Hills, California.
1934 ~ Paco Rabanne (né Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo; b. Feb. 18, 1934), Spanish fashion designer who fashioned the future. He rose to fame in the 1960s with his use of unconditional materials, such as metals and plastic, in his clothing designs. He was born in Pasaia, Spain. He died 2 weeks before his 89th birthday in Ploudalmézeau, France.
1925 ~ Shelley Berman (né Sheldon Leonard Berman; d. Sept. 1, 2017), American comedian who found humor in angst. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died at age 92 in Bell Canyon, California.
1920 ~ Henry Heimlich (né Henry Judah Heimlich; d. Dec. 17, 2016), American thoracic surgeon who developed the Heimlich Maneuver, a technique for removing an obstacle lodged in one’s throat to prevent a patient from choking. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He died at age 96 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1918 ~ Helen Stephens (née Helen Herring Stephens; d. Jan. 17, 1994), American track star. She was known as The Fulton Flash, after her birthplace of Fulton, Missouri. She competed in the 1936 Olympics that were held in Berlin, Germany. She died 17 days before her 76th birthday in St. Louis, Missouri. She is one of the female athletes depicted in the novel Fast Girls by Elsie Hooper.
1918 ~ Joey Bishop (né Joseph Abraham Gottlieb; d. Oct. 17, 2007), American deadpan comic who was the last surviving member of the Rat Pack. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 89 in Newport Beach, California.
1917 ~ Shlomo Goren (d. Oct. 29, 1994), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israeli. He was born in Poland. He died at age 77 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1909 ~ Simone Weil (née Simone Adolphine Weil; d. Aug. 24, 1943), French philosopher. Her brother was the mathematician, Andre Weil. She was born in Paris, France. She died at age 34 of cardiac failure in Ashford, United Kingdom.
1907 ~ James Michener (né James Albert Michener; d. Oct. 16, 1997), American novelist best known for writing long historical sagas. He was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He died at age 90 in Austin, Texas.
1906 ~ George Adamson (b. Aug. 20, 1989), British wildlife conservationist. He and his wife, Joy Adamson (1910 ~ 1980), were best known for their book Born Free, about Elsa the orphaned lioness cub. He was born in Etawah, India. He was murdered at age 83 by bandits near his camp in the Kora National Park in Kenya. Ironically, his wife had also been murdered 9 years earlier.
1905 ~ Arne Beurling (né Arne Carl-August Beurling; d. Nov. 20, 1986), Swedish mathematician. He died at age 81 in Princeton, New Jersey.
1904 ~ Pretty Boy Floyd (né Charles Arthur Floyd; d. Oct. 22, 1934), American gangster and notorious bank robber. He was born in Adairsville, Georgia. He was shot and killed by FBI agents in East Liverpool, Ohio. He was 30 years old.
1894 ~ Norman Rockwell (né Norman Perceval Rockwell; d. Nov. 8, 1978), American illustrator. He is best known for creating the covers for The Saturday Evening Post. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 84 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
1893 ~ Gaston Julia (né Gaston Maurice Julia; d. Mar. 19, 1978), French mathematician. He died at age 85 in Paris, France.
1874 ~ Gertrude Stein (d. July 27, 1946), American writer and art collector. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She died following surgery for stomach cancer at age 72 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
1862 ~ James McReynolds (né James Clark McReynolds; d. Aug. 24, 1946), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Woodrow Wilson. He replaced Horace Lurton on the Court and was succeeded by James Byrnes. He was known for his antisemitic, racist, and misogynistic views, which led to conflicts with his fellow Justices, especially Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo and Felix Frankfurter, who were Jewish. He served on the High Court from August 1914 until January 1941. He was one of the conservative justices who often voted to strike down New Deal Programs. He had previously served as the 48th United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson. He was born in Elkton, Kentucky. He died in Washington, D.C., at age 84.
1857 ~ Giuseppe Moretti (d. Feb. 21, 1935), Italian sculptor and designer of the Vulcan statue in Birmingham, Alabama. The statute, which is made from iron from the Birmingham area, was created as the city’s entry into the 1904 World’s Fair, which was held in St. Louis, Missouri. He was born in Siena, Italy. He died 18 days after his 78th birthday in San Remo, Italy.
1830 ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (d. Aug. 22, 1903), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as Prime Minister for 3 terms during the reigns of Victoria and Edward VII, . He died at age 73.
1826 ~ Walter Bagehot (d. Mar. 24, 1877), British journalist, businessman and essayist. He was born and died in Langport, Somerset, England. He died at age 51.
1821 ~ Elizabeth Blackwell (d. May 31, 1910), British-born physician first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. She died at age 89.
1811 ~ Horace Greeley (d. Nov. 29, 1872), American journalist and politician. He is credited with coining the phrase: Go West, Young Man! He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He was born in Amherst, New Hampshire. He died at age 61 in Pleasantville, New York.
1809 ~ Felix Mendelssohn (né Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; d. Nov. 4, 1847), German composer. He died following a series of strokes at age 38.
1747 ~ Samuel Osgood (d. Aug. 12, 1813), United States Postmaster General. He was appointed to this position by President George Washington. He served as Postmaster General from September 1789 until August 1791. He was the 4thPostmaster General in the United States, but the 1st to hold this position under the United States Constitution. He was born in Andover, Massachusetts. He died at age 66 in New York, New York.
1338 ~ Joanna of Bourbon (d. Feb. 6, 1378), Queen consort of France and wife of Charles V, King of France. They married in 1350. She was of the House of Bourbon. She was the daughter of Peter I, Duke of Bourbon and Isabella of Valois. She died 3 days after her 40th birthday of complications of childbirth.
Events that Changed the World:
2023 ~ A freight train containing toxic vinyl chloride derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, causing a massive environmental disaster. Hundreds of residents in the area were forced to evacuate.
2019 ~ The New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl LIII, which was played in Atlanta, Georgia in a score of 13 - 3. In the previous playoff game between the Rams and the New Orleans Saints, a referee made a bad call in the final few minutes of the game, which gave the Rams the ability to win.
2017 ~ Executive Order 12769, dubbed the Muslim Ban, which placed a temporary travel ban on visitors and immigrants from seven Muslin countries, was signed by issued by United States President Donald Trump (b. 1946). The ban immediately applied to more than 90,000 people who had been issued a United States visa. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates (b. 1960) instructed the Justice Department not to defend the ban and was immediately fired by the President.
2013 ~ The Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII, which was played in New Orleans. During the course of the game there was a power outage in the SuperDome, which suspended the game for approximately 30 minutes.
2006 ~ Five rural Baptist churches, all within 10 miles of each other, were burned in one night. Four days later, an additional four churches would be destroyed by fire. One church was a predominately Black congregation, while the others were predominately white. The church fires started as a college student drunken prank. Three college students were ultimately arrested and convicted of arson.
2005 ~ Alberto Gonzales (b. 1955) was confirmed as the first Hispanic United States Attorney General. He served during the George W. Bush administration from February 2005 until September 2007.
2002 ~ The New England Patriots beat the St Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI in a score of 20-17. It was the team’s first Super Bowl Championship.
1995 ~ Astronaut Eileen Collins (b. 1956) became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle.
1984 ~ Dr. John Buster (b. 1941) and his research team announced that they had performed the first human embryo transfer from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1972 ~ The Iran Blizzard of February 1972 was the deadliest blizzard in history. The severe storm, which lasted nearly a week, began with low temperatures and almost 10 feet of snow fell across rural areas of the country. In southern Iran, more than 4,000 were buried in the snow.
1969 ~ Yasser Arafat (1929 ~ 2004) was appointed as the Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress that was held in Cairo, Egypt.
1959 ~ In an incident that became known as The Day the Music Died, a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa killed Buddy Holly (1936 ~ 1959), Ritchie Valens (1941 ~ 1959) and the Big Bopper (né Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.; 1930 ~ 1959), as well as the pilot of the plane.
1931 ~ The Hawke’s Bay earthquake in New Zealand killed 258 people.
1913 ~ The 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, thereby authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income taxes.
1870 ~ The 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, thereby guaranteeing men the right to vote regardless of race.
1783 ~ Spain recognized the United States as a country independent from Great Britain following the American Revolutionary War.
1690 ~ The colony of Massachusetts issued the first paper money in the Americas.
1637 ~ Tulip mania collapsed in what is now the Netherlands after sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts. At its peak, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the average annual income for skilled artisans.
1488 ~ Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias (1451 ~ 1500) landed in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope. He is the first recorded European known to have traveled so far south. He later died when his ship was lost at sea.
1451 ~ Sultan Mehmed II (1432 ~ 1481) inherited the throne of the Ottoman Empire. He was known as Mehmed the Conqueror.
Good-Byes:
2021 ~ Anne Feeney (b. July 1, 1951), American folk musician and protest singer. She performed over 4,000 shows over 30 years. She played at anti-war rallies, picket lines, union halls and punk clubs. She was born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. She died of Covid-19 at age 69 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2019 ~ Kristoff St. John (b. July 15, 1966), African-American actor. He portrayed Neil Winters on The Young and the Restless. He died of heart failure at age 52. He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
2019 ~ Julie Adams (née Betty May Adams; b. Oct. 17, 1926), American actress who survived the Black Lagoon. She also had a recurring role as real estate agent Eve Simpson on the television mystery drama Murder, She Wrote. She was born in Waterloo, Iowa. She died at age 92 in Los Angeles, California.
2015 ~ Sir Martin Gilbert (né Martin John Gilbert; b. Oct. 25, 1936), British historian. He was born and died in London, England. He died at age 78.
2015 ~ Charlie Sifford (né Charles Luther Sifford; b. June 2, 1922), African-American professional golfer who shattered racial barriers. He was the first African-American to play on the PGA tour. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2004. He was known for chomping on a cigar while on the links. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He died at age 92 in Cleveland, Ohio.
2014 ~ Gloria Leonard (née Gale Sandra Klinetsky; b. Aug. 28, 1940), American porn star who became a publisher of High Society, a pornographic magazine. She was also a pioneer in telephone sex. She died of a stroke at age 73.
2014 ~ Joan Mondale (née Joan Adams; b. Aug. 8, 1930), American wife of Vice President Walter Mondale. She was born in Eugene, Oregon. She died at age 83 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2012 ~ Ben Gazzara (né Biago Anthony Gazzarra; b. Aug. 28, 1930), American actor. He was the brooding actor of stage and film. He was born and died in New York, New York. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 81.
2011 ~ Maria Schneider (née Maria-Hélène Schneider; b. Mar. 27, 1952), French actress best known for her role in The Last Tango in Paris. She was the vulnerable actress who tangoed with Marlon Brando. She was born and died in Paris, France. She died of breast cancer at age 58.
2006 ~ Al Lewis (né Abraham Meister; b. Apr. 30, 1923), American actor and comedian who was TV’s campy Grampa Munster on the sit-com The Munsters. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He died in Roosevelt Island, New York at age 82.
2003 ~ Natascha Artin Brunswick (née née Natalya Naumovna Yasnay; b. June 11, 1909), Russian-born American mathematician and photographer. Her first husband was Emil Artin, also a mathematician. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. She died at age 93 in Princeton, New Jersey.
1996 ~ Audrey Meadows (née Audrey Cotter; b. Feb. 8, 1922), American actress. She is best known for her role as Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners. She was born in New York, New York. She died of lung cancer 5 days before her 70thbirthday in Beverly Hills, California.
1991 ~ Nancy Kulp (née Nancy Jane Kulp; b. Aug. 28, 1921), American actress best known for her role as Miss Jane on the Beverly Hillbillies. She was bornin Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She died of cancer at age 69 in Palm Desert, California.
1989 ~ John Cassavetes (né John Nicholas Cassavetes; b. Dec. 9, 1929), American actor and film director. He was born in New York, New York. He died of liver disease at age 59 in Los Angeles, California.
1988 ~ Robert Duncan (né Robert Edward Duncan; b. Jan. 7, 1919), America poet. He was born in Oakland, California. He died about a month after his 69th birthday in San Francisco, California.
1985 ~ Frank Oppenheimer (né Frank Friedman Oppenhaimer; b. Aug. 14, 1912), American particle physicist. He was involved in the Manhattan Project. He was born in New York, New York. He died of cancer at age 72 in Sausalito, California.
1980 ~ Hanna Rovina (b. Sept. 15, 1893), Israeli actress. She is known as the First Lady of Hebrew Theater. She died at age 91 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1970 ~ Heinrich Behmann (b. Jan. 10, 1891), German mathematician. He was a member of the Nazi Party. He was born and died in Breman, Germany. He died 24 days after his 79th birthday.
1961 ~ Anna May Wong (b. Jan. 3, 1905), Asian-American actress. She was a Cinematic trailblazer. She is considered the first Chinese-American Hollywood movie star. She became a silent film star in the 1920s. Because of miscegenation laws prevented interracial couples to appear on screen, her acting opportunities were limited to stereotype roles. She moved to Europe where audiences were more receptive to her talents. She ultimately returned to the United States and continued to speak out against discrimination. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She died of a heart attack a month after her 56th birthday in Santa Monica, California.
1959 ~ Musicians killed in the plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa. This event is known as The Day the Music Died:
v 1959 ~ Ritchie Valens (né Richard Steven Valenzuela; b. May 13, 1941), Mexican-American singer who was killed in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa along with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He was 17 years old.
v 1959 ~ Buddy Holly (né Charles Hardin Holly; b. Sept. 7, 1936), American singer. American singer who was killed in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa along with Ritchie Vallens and the Big Bopper. He was born in Lubbock, Texas. He was 22 years old.
v 1959 ~ The Big Bopper (né Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.; b. Oct. 24, 1930), American singer who was killed in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Vallens. He was born in Sabine Pass, Texas. He was 28 years old.
1956 ~ Émile Borel (né Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel; b. Jan. 7, 1871), French mathematician, known for his work in areas of measure theory and probability. He died less than a month after his 85th birthday in Paris, France.
1952 ~ Harold L. Ickes (né Harold LeClair Ickes; b. Mar. 15, 1874), 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman. He served in that Office from March 1933 until Feb. 1946. He was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. He died at age 77 in Washington, D.C.
1951 ~ August Horch (b. Oct 12, 1868), German engineer and automobile pioneer. He was the founder of Audi. He died at age 82.
1929 ~ Agner Krarup Erlang (b. Jan. 1, 1878), Danish mathematician and engineer. He invented the field of traffic engineering. He died a month after his 51st birthday following abdominal surgery.
1925 ~ Oliver Heaviside (b. May 18, 1850), English engineer and mathematician. He died at age 74 following a fall from a ladder.
1924 ~ Woodrow Wilson (né Thomas Woodrow Wilson; b. Dec. 28, 1856), 28th President of the United States and recipient of the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize. He was President from March 1913 until March 1921. He was born in Staunton, Virginia. He died at age 67 in Washington, D.C.
1922 ~ John Butler Yeats (b. Mar. 16, 1939), Irish artist and father of the poet William Butler Yeats. He died at age 82 in New York, New York.
1919 ~ Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (b. July 2, 1849), Queen consort of Bavaria. She was married to Ludwig III, King of Bavaria (1845 ~ 1921). They were the last monarchs of Bavaria. When they married in 1868, he was the Prince Ludwig of Bavaria. They had 13 children together. She was of the House of Austria-Este. She was the daughter of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este and Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria. She was Catholic. She died at age 69.
1889 ~ Belle Starr (née Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr; b. February 5, 1848), American Wild West outlaw. She was born in Carthage, Missouri. She was killed in Briartown, Oklahoma just 2 days before her 41st birthday under mysterious circumstances. Her murderer was never found.
1862 ~ Jean-Baptiste Biot (b. Apr. 21, 1774), French physicist, mathematician and astronomer. He was born and died in Paris, France. He died at age 87.
1737 ~ Tommaso Ceva (b. Dec. 20, 1648), Italian mathematician and Jesuit priest. He died at age 88 in Milan, Italy.
1609 ~ Ferdinando I de’Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. July 30, 1549). He ruled Tuscany from October 1587 until his death. He is known for issuing edicts of tolerance for Jews. During the first two years of his reign, he was a cardinal, but he gave up this post in 1589 to marry Christina of Lorraine (1565 ~ 1637). He was of the House of Medici. He was the son of Cosimo I de’Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleanor of Toledo. He died at age 59.
1538 ~ John III of the Palatinate (b. May 7, 1488), Archbishop of Regensberg. He was of the House of Wittelsbach. He was the son of Philip, Elector Palatine and Margaret of Bavaria. He died at age 49.
1468 ~ Johannes Gutenberg (b. 1400), German publisher credited with inventing the printing press. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been about 67 or 68 at the time of his death. He was born and died in Mainz, Holy Roman Empire.
1399 ~ John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (b. Mar. 6, 1340), Belgian-English politician and father of Henry IV, King of England. He was married three times: first to Blanche of Lancaster (1342 ~ 1368). They married in 1359. They were the parents of Henry IV, King of England. She died of the Black Death in 1368 at age 26. His second wife was Infanta Constance of Castile (1354 ~ 1394). They married in 1371. She died in 1394. His third and final wife was to Katherine Swynford (1349 ~ 1403), whom he married in 1396. She had been his mistress before they married. He was born into the House of Plantagenet and was the founder of the House of Lancaster. He was the son of Edward III, King of England and Philippa of Hainault. He died about a month before his 59th birthday.
1161 ~ Inge I, King of Norway (né Inge Haraldsson; b. 1135). He ruled Norway from 1136 until his death in Feb. 1161. He was known as Inge the Hunchback. He was of the House of Gille. He was the son of Harald Gille and Ingrid Ragnvaldsdotter. The exact date of his birth is not known.
1116 ~ Coloman, King of Hungary (b. 1070). He was king from 1095 until his death in 1116. He was known as Coloman the Learned because he was very scholarly. He was married twice. His first wife was Felicia of Sicily (1078 ~ 1102). Little is known of her life. His second wife was Eufemia of Kiev (d. 1139). He was of the Árpád dynasty. He was the son of Géza I, King of Hungary and Sophia. He was Roman Catholic. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he is believed to have been about 45 or 46 at the time of his death.
1014 ~ Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, Norway and England (b. 960). He ruled Denmark and Norway from 986 until his death; he ruled England from 1013 until his death. He was of the House of Denmark. He was the son of Harold Bluetooth and Gunhild (or possibly Tova). The exact date of his birth is not known.
6 CE ~ Ping (b. 9 BCE), Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. The exact date of his birth is not known. He died at age 14.
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