Birthdays:
2001 ~ Rachel Zegler (née Rachel Anne Zegler), American actress and singer. She was born in Hackensack, New Jersey.
1975 ~ Willie Geist (né William Russell Geist), American journalist and television personality. He is a co-host on Morning Joe. He was born in Evanston, Illinois.
1975 ~ Christina Hendricks (née Christina Rene Hendricks), American actress best known for her role as Joan on MadMen. She was married to actor Geoffrey Arend from 2009 until 2019. She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1969 ~ Amy Ryan (née Amy Beth Dziewiontkowski), American actress. She is best known for her role as Holly on The Office. She was born in New York, New York.
1961 ~ David Vitter (né David Bruce Vitter), United States Senator from Louisiana, who caught frequenting a prostitution service in Washington, D.C., but was still reelected to serve the State of Louisiana in Congress. He served in the Senate from January 2005 until January 2017. He was born in New Orleans, New Orleans.
1948 ~ Chris Mulkey, American actor. He was born in Viroqua, Wisconsin.
1947 ~ Doug Henning (né Douglas James Henning, d. Feb. 7, 2000), Canadian magician. He was born in Winnipeg, Manatoba, Canada. He died of liver cancer at age 52 in Los Angeles, California.
1940 ~ David Koch (né David Hamilton Koch; d. Aug. 23, 2019), American billionaire who shaped conservative politics. He was born in Wichita, Kansas. He died of cancer at age 79 in Southampton, New York.
1935 ~ Ron Popeil (né Ronald Martin Popeil; d. July 28, 2021), American TV pitchman and inventor who blanketed late-night cable. He was the founder of the direct response marketing company Ronco and its ubiquitous infomercials. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He died in Los Angeles, California at age 86.
1933 ~ James Brown (né James Joseph Brown; d. Dec. 25, 2006), American singer-songwriter. He was known as the Godfather of Soul. He was born in Barnwell, South Carolina. He died of congestive heart failure at age 73 in Atlanta, Georgia.
1933 ~ Steven Weinberg (d. July 23, 2021), American physicist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in New York, New York. He died in Austin Texas at age 88.
1928 ~ Jacques-Louis Lions (d. May 17, 2001), French mathematician. He died 2 weeks after his 73rd birthday in Paris, France.
1928 ~ Edwin P. Wilson (né Edwin Paul Wilson, d. Sept. 10, 2012), American CIA agent who was convicted in 1983 for selling arms to Libya. It was later discovered that the Department of Justice had covered up evidence, and his conviction was overturned. He was freed in 2004. He was born in Nampa, Idaho. He died at age 84 in Seattle, Washington.
1927 ~ Mell Lazarus (né Melvin Lazarus; d. May 24, 2016), American cartoonist. He is best known for his comic strips Momma and Miss Peach. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died 21 days after his 89th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1926 ~ Eleanor Storrs (d. May 20, 2018), American biologist who studied the link between armadillos and leprosy. She was born in Cheshire, Connecticut. In 1967, she earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Texas before moving to Louisiana. She was the key scientist to discover that the armadillo is the ideal animal for leprosy research. In 1978, she and her husband, Dr. Harry P Burchfield, moved to Indialantic, Florida where she worked as a research professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. She died 17 days after her 92nd birthday in Indialantic, Florida.
1924 ~ Yehuda Amichai (d. Sept. 22, 2000), German-born Israeli poet. He died of cancer at age 76.
1924 ~ Michel Bacos (d. Mar. 26, 2019), French airline pilot who became a hero at Entebbe. He was the captain of Air France Flight 139 when it was hijacked by a Palestinian terrorist group in June 1976. He was born in Port Said, Egypt. He died at age 94 in Nice, France.
1923 ~ Clara Luper (née Clara Mae Shepard; d. June 8, 2011), African-American schoolteacher who pioneered the sit-in. She was active in civil rights. She was born in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. She died a month after her 88th birthday in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1921 ~ Sugar Ray Robinson (né Walker Smith, Jr.; d. Apr. 12; 1989), African-American professional boxer. He was born in Ailey, Georgia. He died less than a month before his 68th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1919 ~ Pete Seeger (né Peter Seeger; d. Jan. 27, 1914), American folk singer, musician and composer who championed social change. He was born and died in Manhattan, New York. He died at age 94.
1913 ~ William Inge (né William Motter Inge; d. June 10, 1973), American playwright. He was born in Independence, Kansas. He died by suicide using carbon monoxide about a month after his 60th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1912 ~ May Sarton (née Eleanore Marie Sarton; d. July 16, 1995), Belgian-born author and poet. She was born in Wondelgem, Belgium. She died in of breast cancer in York, Maine at age 83.
1907 ~ Earl Wilson (né Harvey Earl Wilson; d. Jan. 16, 1987), American journalist and gossip columnist. He is best known for his weekly column entitled It Happened Last Night. He was born in Rockford, Ohio. He died at age 79 in Yonkers, New York.
1905 ~ Werner Fenchel (né Moritz Werner Fenchel; d. Jan. 24, 1988), German-born Dutch mathematician. He left Germany to escape the Nazi suppression of intellectuals. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He died at age 82 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1903 ~ Bing Crosby (né Harry Lillis Crosby, Jr.; d. Oct. 14, 1977), American singer and actor. He was born in Tacoma, Washington. He died at age 74 of a heart attack while on vacation in Alcobendas, Spain.
1902 ~ Alfred Kastler (d. Jan. 7, 1984), French physicist and recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died at age 81.
1898 ~ Golda Meir (née Golda Mabovitz, aka Golda Meyerson; d. Dec. 8, 1978), 4th Prime Minister of Israel and first woman to hold that position. She was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now known as Kyiv, Ukraine). As a young child, her family left Russia to avoid the pogroms and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the 1920s she moved to what is now Israel. In March 1969 she became the 4th Prime Minister of Israel. She resigned following the Yom Kippur War in 1973. She was born in Kyiv, Kyiv Governorate, Russian Empire (current day Kyiv, Ukarine). She died of lymphoma at age 80 in Jerusalem, Israel.
1892 ~ Sir George Paget Thomson (d. Sept. 10, 1975), English physicist and recipient of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born and died in Cambridge, England. He died at age 83.
1886 ~ Marcel Dupré (d. May 30, 1971), French organist and composer. He was born in Rouen, France. He died 27 days after his 85th birthday in Meudon, France.
1874 ~ François Coty (né Joseph Marie François Spoturno; d. July 25, 1934), French businessman, perfumer and founder of Coty, Inc. He died at age 60 of pneumonia.
1860 ~ Vito Volterra (d. Oct. 11, 1940), Italian mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to mathematical biology. He died at age 80 in Rome, Kingdom of Italy.
1853 ~ E. W. Howe (né Edgar Watson Howe; d. Oct. 3, 1937), American novelist and magazine editor. He was born in Wabash County, Indiana. He died at age 84 in Atchinson, Kansaa.
1849 ~ Jacob Riis (né Jacob August Riis; d. May 26, 1914), Dutch-born American journalist and photographer. He devoted his career to social reformer. He was born in Ribe, Denmark. He died 3 weeks after his 65th birthday in Barre, Massachusetts.
1849 ~ Bertha Benz (née Bertha Ringer; d. May 5, 1944), German automotive pioneer. She was married to Karl Benz (1844 ~ 1929), and together they formed the Benz automotive manufacturing company. She is also known for being the first person to take a long distance road trip when she took her two sons from Mannheim to Pforzheim, Germany. She died two days after her 95th birthday.
1826 ~ Charles XV, King of Sweden (d. Sept. 18, 1872). He reigned as king from July 1859 until his death 13 years later. His coronation, however, was in 1860 on his 34th birthday. He was married to Louise of the Netherlands (1828 ~ 1871). They married in 1850. He was of the House of Bernadotte. He was the son of Oscar I, King of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. He was of the Church of Sweden. He died at age 46. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Oscar II, King of Sweden.
1469 ~ Niccolò Machiavelli (d. June 21, 1527), Italian statesman and political author best known for his book The Prince. He is sometimes considered the father of modern political science. He was born and died in Florence, Republic of Florence. He died at age 58.
1446 ~ Margaret of York (d. Nov. 23, 1503), Duchess consort of Burgundy and third wife of Charles the Bold (1433 ~ 1477). They married in 1468. She was of the House of York. She was the daughter of Richard Plantagenet and Cecily Neville. She was born on her mother’s 31st birthday. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 57.
1415 ~ Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (d. May 31, 1495), English noblewoman and wife of Richard Plantagenet, 3rdDuke of York (1411 ~ 1460). They were the parents of King Edward IV and King Richard III of England. She was also the mother of Margaret of York (1446 ~ 1503) who was born on her 31st birthday. She was of the House of Neville. She was the daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmoreland and Joan Beaufort. She was Roman Catholic. She died 28 days after her 80th birthday.
1276 ~ Louis, Count of Évreux (d. May 19, 1319), member of the French royal family. He was married to Margaret of Artois (1285 ~ 1311). They were the parents of Philip III, King of Navarre. He was the founder of the House of Évreux. He was the son of Philip III, King of France and Marie of Brabant. He was Roman Catholic. He died 16 days after his 43rd birthday.
612 ~ Constantine III (d. 641), Byzantine emperor. This is the traditional date of his birth; the exact day and year is unknown. The exact date of his death is unknown. He is believed to have been 28 or 29 when he died.
Events that Changed the World:
2023 ~ A medical facility in Atlanta, Georgia was the site of a mass shooting, which left one person dead, and four others wounded. The shooter fled but was apprehended several hours later and charged with murder.
2018 ~ A crater of the Kīlauea volcano collapsed on the Big Island of Hawaii and began erupting. Rivers of molten rock and clouds of toxic gas poured into neighborhoods, causing hundreds of residents to flee. The lava continued flowing until September 2018.
2007 ~ Days before her 4th birthday, Madeleine McCann (b. May 12, 2003), a young British toddler, disappeared in Portugal where her family was vacationing. Her disappearance was widely reported around the world. To date, she is still considered missing.
2003 ~ The famous Old Man of the Mountain, formed on the face of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, collapsed.
1979 ~ Margaret Thatcher (1925 ~ 2013) was elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She assumed office the following day, on May 4, 1979.
1973 ~ The 108-story Sears Tower, now known as the Willis Tower, in Chicago became the tallest building in the world at 1,451 feet. It had this title until 1998. As of 2021, it ranks as the 22nd tallest building in the world.
1960 ~ The Anne Frank House opened as a museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1952 ~ The Kentucky Derby was televised nationally for the first time.
1948 ~ The United States Supreme Court ruled in the case of Shelley v. Kraemer, that covenants prohibiting the sale of immovable property to blacks and other minorities were unenforceable.
1937 ~ Margaret Mitchell (1900 ~ 1948) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Gone with the Wind.
1936 ~ Joe DiMaggio (1914 ~ 1999) played in his first major league baseball game when he started with the New York Yankees.
1921 ~ West Virginia became the first State in the Union to legislate a state sales tax.
1916 ~ The leaders of the Easter Rising of Ireland were executed in Dublin. The executions took place between May 3 and May 13, until all 14 leaders had been killed.
1913 ~ The Indian film industry began with the release of Raja Harishchandra, India’s first full-length film.
1901 ~ The Great Fire of 1901 destroyed much of the city of Jacksonville, Florida. The fire burned 146 city blocks and left over 10,000 residents homeless. To date, this is the third worst fire that occurred in the United States, behind the Great Chicago Fire and the 1906 San Francisco Fire.
1867 ~ The Hudson’s Bay Company gave up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1860 ~ On his 34th birthday Charles XV (1826 ~ 1972) was crowned king of Sweden.
1830 ~The first regular passenger train service began in Kent, England. There were great celebrations and in Canterbury, the cathedral bells were rung and guns were fired in salute.
1802 ~ Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
1715 ~ A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe and northern Asia. Edmond Halley (1656 ~ 1742) had predicted this eclipse.
1481 ~ The largest of three earthquakes that occurred in 1481 hit the island of Rhodes. An estimated 30,000 people were killed.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ Richard O’Brien (né Richard William O’Brien; b. Aug. 12, 1966), American law enforcement officer. He was a 25-year veteran of the Cook County, Illinois sheriff’s department. He kept working despite having been diagnosed with leukemia in January 2020. He died at age 53 of Covid-19.
2020 ~ Tendol Gyalzur (née Tendol Dolkar; b. 1951), Tibetan-Swiss humanitarian. She fled her native Tibet following the deaths of her parents and brother in the 1959 uprising against the Chinese Communist Party. She returned to the region in the 1990s to open Tibet’s first private orphanages. She died in Chur, Switzerland at age 69 of complications from Covid-19.
2020 ~ Dave Greenfield (né David Paul Greenfield; b. Mar. 29, 1949), British keyboardist and singer-songwriter. He was a member of the influential British punk band The Stranglers. He wrote the music to the band’s biggest hit, Golden Brown. He was born in Brighton, England. He died at age 71 of Covid-19.
2016 ~ Kaname Harada (b. Aug. 11, 1916), Japanese fighter ace who became a pacifist. He was one of Japan’s top fighter pilots during World War II. He was born and died in Nagano, Japan. He died at age 99.
2014 ~ Gary Becker (né Gary Stanley Becker; b. Dec. 2, 1930), American economist and recipient of the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He died at age 83 in Chicago, Illinois.
2009 ~ Robert B. Choate (né Robert Burnett Choate, Jr.; b. Nov. 6, 1924), American businessman and “citizen lobbyist” for consumer protection in the cereal industry. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died at age 84 in Lemon Grove, California.
2007 ~ Wally Schirra (né Walter Marty Schirra, Jr.; b. Mar. 12, 1923), American astronaut. He was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts. He was also on Gemini 6, the first mission to rendezvous with another the capsule. In 1968,he was the commander of Apollo 7. He was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. He died at age 84 in San Diego, California.
2003 ~ Suzy Parker (née Cecilia Ann Renee Parker; b. Oct. 28, 1932), American actress and model. She was born in Long Island, New York. She died of kidney failure at age 70 in Montecito, California.
1991 ~ Jerzy Kosiński (né Józef Lewinkopf; b. June 14, 1933), Polish-born author. He was a holocaust survivor. He was born in Łódź, Poland. He died by suicide at age 57 in New York, New York.
1989 ~ Christine Jorgensen (né George William Jorgensen, Jr.; b. May 30, 1926), American transgender woman. She was the first American to have sex reassignment surgery. She was born in The Bronx, New York. She died of cancer 3 weeks before her 63rd birthday in San Clemente, California.
1988 ~ Lev Pontryagin (b. Sept. 3, 1908), Soviet mathematician. He was legally blind. He was born and died in Moscow, Soviet Union. He died at age 79.
1979 ~ Charles Angoff (b. Apr. 22, 1902), Russian-born American journalist and editor. He was born in Minsk, Russia. His family moved to the United States when he was 5 years old. He became a naturalized citizen in 1923. He died at age 77 in New York, New York.
1954 ~ Earnest Hooton (né Earnest Albert Hooton; b. Nov. 20, 1887), American physical anthropologist. He is best known for his work in racial classification. He was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts at age 66.
1910 ~ Howard Taylor Ricketts (b. Feb. 9, 1871), American pathologist. He is known for identifying the disease agent causing Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. The pathogen, Rickettsia, was named after him. He was born in Findlay, Ohio. He died at age 39 after contracting typhus in Mexico City, Mexico.
1816 ~ James McHenry (b. Nov. 16, 1753), Irish-American military surgeon. He served as the 3rd United States Secretary of War. He served under Presidents George Washington and John Adams. He served as the Secretary of War from January 1796 through May 1800. Ft. McHenry of Civil War fame was named in his honor. He was born in Ballymena, Ireland. He died at age 62 in Baltimore, Maryland.
1779 ~ John Winthrop (b. Dec. 19, 1714), American mathematician and astronomer. He served as the acting President of Harvard College from 1769 until 1773. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts at age 64.
1758 ~ Pope Benedict XIV (né Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini; b. Mar. 31, 1675). He was Pope from 1740 until his death on this date 18 years later. He was born in Bologna, Papal States. He died at age 83 in Rome, Papal States.
1703 ~ Samuel Oppenheimer (b. June 21, 1630), German diplomat and banker. He supplied Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor with military equipment. Although the Jews had been expelled from Vienna, the Emperor allowed him to settle there. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He died at age 72 in Vienna.
1514 ~ Anna of Brandenburg (b. Aug. 27, 1487), Duchess consort of Schleswig and Holstein and first wife of Frederick I, Duke of Schleswig and Holstein. They married in 1502. Her husband later became Frederick I, King of Denmark, but she had died before he ascended to the throne, thus was never the queen consort. They were the parents of Christian III, King of Denmark. She was of the House of Hohenzollern. She was the daughter of John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg and Margaret of Thuringia. She died at age 26.
1410 ~ Antipope Alexander V (né Peter of Candia; b. 1339), Antipope during the Western Schism. He reigned from June 1409 until his death a year later. The exact date of his birth is not known.
1270 ~ Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206). He ruled Hungary and Croatian from 1235 until his death 35 years later. He was married to Maria Laskarina (1206 ~ 1270). They married in 1235. He was of the Árpád Dynasty. He was the son of Andrew II, King of Hungary and Gertrude of Meraina. He was Roman Catholic. The actual date of his birth is unknown. He is believed to have been about age 63 or 64 at the time of his death.
1152 ~ Matilda, Countess of Boulogne (b. 1105), Queen consort of England and wife of Stephen, King of England (1090s ~ 1154). They married in 1125. She was the Countess of Boulogne in her own right. She was of the House of Flanders. She was the daughter of Eustace III, Count of Boulogne and Princess Mary of Scotland. The date of her birth is not known, but she is believed to have been about age 46 or 47 at the time of her death. She died of a fever.
762 ~ Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (b. Sept. 8, 685), 7th Emperor of the Tang dynasty. He was emperor from September 713 until August 756. He died at age 76.
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