Birthdays:
1982 ~ Jessica Biel (née Jessica Claire Biel), American actress. In 2012, she married singer Justin Timberlake. She was born in Ely, Minnesota.
1971 ~ Charlie Brooker (né Charlton Brooker), British screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Reading, Berkshire, England.
1970 ~ Julie Bowen (née Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer), American actress. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1962 ~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee (née Jacqueline Joyner), American heptathlete and long jumper. She competed in four Olympic games: the 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California; the 1988 summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea; the 1992 summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain; and the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She was born in East St. Louis, Illinois.
1962 ~ Herschel Walker (né Herschel Junior Walker), African-American professional football player. In 2021, he announced that he would run for the United States Senate from Georgia. He failed to win the nomination. He was born in Augusta, Georgia.
1959 ~ Ira Glass (né Ira Jeffrey Glass), American radio host of This American Life. He began working for NPR as an intern at age 19. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1949 ~ Ron Chernow (né Ronald Chernow), American journalist and historian. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1948 ~ Stephen Wilhite (né Stephen Earl Wilhite; d. Mar. 14, 2022), American computer scientist. In 1987, he created the GIF image file format. He was born in West Chester Township, Ohio. He died 11 days after his 74th birthday in Cincinnati, Ohio of complications from Covid-19.
1940 ~ Perry Ellis (né Perry Edwin Ellis, d. May 30, 1986), American fashion designer. He was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. He died at age 46 in New York, New York.
1935 ~ Želju Mitev Želev (d. Jan. 30, 2015), President of Bulgaria from January 1992 until January 1997. He died at age 79 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
1933 ~ Lee Radziwiłł (née Caroline Lee Bouvier; d. Feb. 15, 2019), American socialite who lived in Camelot’s shadow. She was the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Her second husband was Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, thus making her Princess Caroline Radziwiłł. She was born and died in Manhattan, New York. She died 16 days before her 86th birthday.
1928 ~ Bernice Sandler (née Bernice Resnick; d. Jan. 5, 2019), American Title IX activist who battled discrimination. She was a women’s right activist who was instrumental in the enactment of Title IX. She was born in New York, New York. She died at age 90 in Washington, D.C.
1926 ~ James Merrill (né James Ingram Merrill; d. Feb. 6, 1995), American poet. He was the son of Charles Merrill, the founder of Merrill Lynch. He was born in New York, New York. He died in Tucson, Arizona of a heart attack less than a month before his 69th birthday.
1923 ~ Barney Martin (d. Mar. 21, 2005), New York City Police detective and actor. He is best known for playing Morty Seinfeld on the television sitcom, Seinfeld. He was born in Queens, New York. He died of bladder cancer 18 days after his 82nd birthday in Studio City, California.
1923 ~ Doc Watson (né Arthel Land Watson; d. May 29, 2012), American guitarist who was blind. He was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina. He died at age 89 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
1923 ~ Diana Kennedy (né Diana Southwood; d. July 24, 2022), British-born Mexican immigrant who popularized Mexican cuisine. She was a food writer and English-language authority on Mexican food. She was born in England. She died at age 99 in Mexico.
1921 ~ Dorian Paskowitz (d. Nov. 10, 2014), American physician gave up the practice of medicine to become a surfing icon. He was born in Galveston, Texas. He died at age 93 in Newport Beach, California.
1918 ~ Arthur Kornberg (d. Oct. 26, 2007), American biochemist and recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 89 in Palo Alto, California.
1916 ~ Paul Halmos (né Paul Richard Halmos; d. Oct. 2, 2006), Hungarian-born mathematician. He was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He died at age 90 in Los Gatos, California.
1911 ~ Jean Harlow (née Harlean Harlow Carpenter; d. June 7, 1937), American actress. She was known for her “bad girl” characters and was an early sex symbol in the 1930s. She married three times. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She died of kidney disease at age 26 in Los Angeles, California.
1898 ~ Emil Artin (d. Dec. 20, 1962), German mathematician. He was married to Natalya Naumovna Yasnaya, also a mathematician. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He died of a heart attack at age 64 in Hamburg, West Germany.
1895 ~ Ragnar Frisch (né Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch; d. Jan. 31, 1973), Norwegian economist and recipient of the 1969 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He died at age 77.
1893 ~ Beatrice Wood (d. Mar. 12, 1998), American illustrator and potter. She was born in San Francisco, California. She died 9 days after her 105th birthday in Ojai, California.
1882 ~ Charles Ponzi (né Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo; d. Jan. 18, 1949), Italian-born criminal, for whom the term Ponzi scheme was named. He was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison on fraud charges. After being released from federal prison, the State of Massachusetts charged him with 22 counts of larceny. He died in Brazil at age 66.
1882 ~ Elisabeth Abegg (née Luise Wilehmine Elisabeth Abegg; d. Aug. 8, 1974), German educator and anti-Nazi resistance fighter. She sheltered over 80 Jews during World War II and is recognized a Righteous Among the Nations in Jerusalem. She was born in Strasbourg, Germany. She died at age 92 in Berlin, Germany.
1878 ~ Edward Thomas (né Philip Edward Thomas; d. Apr. 9, 1917), British poet. He was born in London, England. He was killed in action during World War I in Pas-de-Calais, France about a month after his 39th birthday.
1868 ~ Émile-Auguste Chartier (d. June 2, 1951), French philosopher and journalist. He died at age 82.
1866 ~ Fred A. Busse (d. July 9, 1914), 39th Mayor of Chicago. He served as Mayor from 1907 until 1911. He was born and died in Chicago, Illinois. He died at age 48 of heart disease.
1847 ~ Alexander Graham Bell (d. Aug. 2, 1922), Scottish-born inventor, best known for his invention of the telephone. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died of complications of diabetes at age 75 in Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1845 ~ Georg Cantor (né Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor; d. Jan. 6, 1918). German mathematician. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. He died of a heart attack at age 72 in Halle, Province of Saxony, German Republic.
1840 ~ Chief Joseph (d. Sept. 21, 1904), Native American Nez Perce leader. He died at age 64.
1838 ~ George William Hill (d. Apr. 16, 1914), American mathematician and astronomer. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 76 in West Nyack, New York.
1831 ~ George Pullman (né George Mortimer Pullman; d. Oct. 19, 1897), American businessman and inventor. He founded the Pullman Company, which built railroad sleeping cars. He was born in Brocton, New York. He died of a heart attack at age 66 in Chicago, Illinois.
1652 ~ Thomas Otway (d. Apr. 14, 1685), English playwright. He died at age 33.
1506 ~ Infante Luis of Portugal, Duke of Beja (d. Nov. 27,1555), member of the Portuguese royal family. He was of the House of Avis. He was the second son of Manuel I, King of Portugal and Infanta Maria of Aragon. He was Roman Catholic. He died at age 49.
1455 ~ John II, King of Portugal (d. Oct. 25, 1495). He served as King of Portugal twice, first for a few days in November 1477, and then when he re-established the Portuguese monarchy from August 1481 until his death 14 years later. He was known as the Perfect Prince. In 1470, he married Infanta Eleanor of Viseu (1458 ~ 1525). He was of the House of Avis. He was the son of Afonso V, King of Portugal and Isabella of Coimbra. He was Roman Catholic. He died at age 40 without any legitimate children.
Events that Changed the World:
2020 ~ A tornado swept through Nashville, Tennessee, killing over 25 people.
2020 ~ Super Tuesday for the 2020 Democratic election. Fourteen states (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia) held their presidential primaries. Joe Biden (b. 1942) won in 10 states and Bernie Sanders (b. 1941) won 4 states, including his home state of Vermont.
2017 ~ Egyptian and German archeologists found pieces of a huge statue believed to be that of Pharaoh Ramses II, also known as Ozymandias, in the Matareya area of Cairo, Egypt. It is one of the most significant discoveries ever found from the Pharaoh’s era.
2014 ~ The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius (b. 1986) began in Pretoria, South Africa. Pistorius was a double amputee Olympic sprinter who was convicted of murdering his live-in girlfriend, Reeva Steemkamp (1983 ~ 2013).
2005 ~ Steve Fossett (1944 ~ 2007) became the first person solo around the world non-stop in a fixed-wing aircraft balloon airplane without refueling. He began the 67-hour flight on February 28. Steve Fossett would presumably die after the plane he was flying over the Great Basin Desert in Nevada in 2007 failed to return.
1991 ~ The beating of Rodney King (1965 ~ 2012) by Los Angeles police officers was caught on an amateur video.
1985 ~ An 8.3 magnitude earthquake hit the Valparaíso Region in Chile. Approximately 177 people were killed and a million were left homeless.
1969 ~ NASA launched Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1938 ~ Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1931 ~ The Star-Spangled Banner was adopted as the national anthem of the United States.
1923 ~ The first issue of the news magazine Time was published.
1913 ~ Thousands of women marched in Washington, D.C. in a suffrage parade. Suffragist Alice Paul (1885 ~ 1977) organized a parade in support of a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. Members of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the African-American women’s organization participated in the March in their first public act.
1891 ~ The Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming was established and became the first national forest in the United States.
1885 ~ The American Telephone & Telegraph Company was incorporated in New York State. It was a subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company
1875 ~ The opera Carmen, by Georges Bizet (1838 ~ 1875), premiered in Paris.
1873 ~ The United States Congress enacted the Comstock Law, which made it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail.
1865 ~ The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Ltd., was established when Hong Kong was a colony of the British Empire. It is a founding member of the HSBC Group, which is one of the oldest banking groups in the world.
1861 ~ Alexander II, Tsar of Russia (1818 ~ 1881) signed the Emancipation Manifesto, which freed the serfs.
1845 ~ Florida became the 27th State of the Union.
1820 ~ The Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery in the unorganized territories of the Great Plains, but continued to permit slavery in slave states, was approved by the United States Congress.
1284 ~ The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England. This statute was overruled under the rule of Henry VIII, King of England (1491 ~ 1547) when Wales was totally incorporated into the realm of England.
Good-Byes:
2023 ~ Tom Sizemore (né Thomas Edward Sizemore, Jr.; b. Nov. 29, 1961), American tough-guy actor who battled addiction. Throughout his career, he struggled with heroin and cocaine addiction. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died of a brain aneurysm at age 61 in Burbank, California.
2018 ~ David Ogden Stiers (né David Allen Ogden Stiers; b. Oct. 31, 1942), American actor best known for his role as Major Charles Emerson Winchester, III on the television sit-com M*A*S*H. He was born in Peoria, Illinois. He died of cancer at age 75 in Newport, Oregon.
2018 ~ Sir Roger Bannister (né Roger Gilbert Bannister; b. Mar. 23, 1929), English student athlete who was the first to run a mile in under 4 minutes. He went on to become a neurologist. He was born in Harrow, England. He died 20 days before his 89th birthday in Oxford, England.
2017 ~ Joe Rogers, Sr. (né Joseph Wilson Rogers; b. Nov. 30, 1919), American businessman and Waffle House co-founder who put the customer first. He was born in Jackson, Tennessee. He died at age 97 in Atlanta, Georgia.
2014 ~ Sherwin Bernard Nuland (né Shepsel Ber Nudelman; b. Dec. 8, 1930), American surgeon who demystified dying. He wrote extensively about death with dignity. He was born in New York, New York. He died of prostate cancer at age 83 in Hamden, Connecticut.
2014 ~ William R. Pogue (né William Reid Pogue; b. Jan. 23, 1930), American astronaut who staged a strike in space. In November 1973, he and two other astronauts docked on Skylab, where they lived for 84 days. They were required to work all the time and so staged a strike. Ground control eased up their workload. He was born in Okemah, Oklahoma. He died at age 84 in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
2014 ~ Kurt Chew-Een Lee (b. Jan. 21, 1926), Chinese-American officer-hero who changed the Marines. He was the first Marine office of Chinese descent. He was born in San Francisco, California. He died at age 88 in Washington, D.C.
2010 ~ Michael Foot (né Michael Mackintosh Foot; b. July 23, 1913), British fiery Laborite who challenged Margaret Thatcher. He began his career as a journalist before entering politics. He was born in Plymouth, England. He died at age 96 in London, England.
2008 ~ Giuseppe Di Stefano (b. July 24, 1921), Italian tenor whose career was cut short when he was brutally attacked outside his home in Kenya. He was beaten by an unknown assailant in 2004 and never fully recovered. He was transported to Milan, Italy for medical care. He was 86 years old.
2002 ~ Roy Porter (né Roy Sydney Porter; b. Dec. 31, 1946), British medical historian. He was born in London, England. He died of a heart attack at age 55 while bicycling.
1999 ~ Gerhard Herzberg (né Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg; b. Dec. 25, 1904), German-born Canadian physicist and chemist. He was the recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to the knowledge of electron structure and geometry of molecules, especially free radicals. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. He died at age 94 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1994 ~ John Edwards Williams (b. Aug. 29, 1922), American author. He was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. He died at age 71 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
1993 ~ Albert Sabin (né Albert Saperstein; b. Aug. 26, 1906), Polish-born American medical researcher, best known for his role in developing the oral polio vaccine. He was born in Białystok, Russian Empire. He died of heart failure at age 86 in Washington, D.C.
1991 ~ William Penney, Baron Penney (né William George Penney; b. June 24, 1909), English mathematician. He was born in Gibraltar. He died at age 81.
1991 ~ Arthur Murray (né Moses Teichman; b. Apr. 4, 1895), American dancer and dance instructor. He was born in Galicia but emigrated to the United States in 1897. He died a month before his 96th birthday in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1990 ~ Charlotte Moore Sitterly (né Charlotte Emma Moore; b. Sept. 24, 1898), American astronomer. She was born in Ercildoun, Pennsylvania. She died of heart failure at age 91.
1987 ~ Danny Kaye (né David Daniel Kaminsky; b. Jan. 18, 1911), American actor, singer and comedian. He was born in New York, New York. He died of heart failure at age 76 in Los Angeles, California.
1981 ~ Rebecca Lancefield (née Rebecca Craighill; b. Jan. 5, 1905), American microbiologist. Her work focused on group A streptococci and its relation to rheumatic fever. She was born in Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York. She died following complications of a broken hip at age 86.
1966 ~ William Frawley (b. Feb. 26, 1887), American actor best known for his role as Fred Mertz on the I Love Lucyshow. He was born in Burlington, Iowa. He died of a heart attack 5 days after his 79th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1959 ~ Lou Costello (né Louis Francis Cristillo; b. Mar. 6, 1906), American actor and comedian. He is best known for his comedy partner, Bud Abbott, and their act of Abbott and Costello. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He died of a heart attack 3 days before his 53rd birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1955 ~ Saint Katharine Drexel (née Catherine Mary Drexel; b. Nov. 26, 1858), American nun and Roman Catholic Saint. In 1925, she founded what became known as Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2000, she was canonized by the Catholic Church as a saint. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She died at age 96 in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
1921 ~ Pierre Cuypers (b. May 16, 1827), Dutch architect. He designed the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He was born and died in Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands. He was 93 years old.
1901 ~ George Gilman (né George Francis, Gilman; b. 1826), American businessman and founder the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, also known as the A&P. He was born in Waterville, Maine. The exact date of his birth is unknown. He died in Bridgeport, Connecticut at about age 75.
1703 ~ Robert Hooke (b. July 28, 1635), English scientist. He is best known for his investigations with the microscope. He died at age 67 in London, England.
1605 ~ Pope Clement VIII (né Ippolito Aldobrandini; b. Feb. 24, 1536). He was Pope from February 1592 until his death 13 years later. He is known for implementing strict measures against Jews in the Papal states. He was born in Fano, Italy. He died a week after his 69th birthday in Rome, Italy.
1593 ~ Valentin Naboth (b. Feb. 13, 1523), German mathematician. He was born in Calau, Germany. He died in Padua, Italy less than a month after his 70th birthday.
1542 ~ Arthur Plangagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, illegitimate son of Edward IV, King of England and Elizabeth Wayte. He was of the Noble York Family. He married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth Grey (1480s ~ 1520s). Arthur was her second husband. His second wife was Honor Grenville (1490s ~ 1566). The date of his birth is not known.
1033 ~ St. Cunigunde of Luxembourg (b. 975), Holy Roman Empress consort and wife of Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973 ~ 1024). They married in 999. After the death of her husband, she retired to an Abbey. She was the daughter of Siegfried, Count of the Ardennes and Hedwig of Nordgau. The date of her birth is not known.
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