2015 Event Queen Elizabeth II officially celebrates her 89th birthday with a Trooping the Color ceremony; as part of the celebration, the Queen also knighted figures including actor Kevin Spacey and singer Van Morrison 2014 Event Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, announce that they are expecting their second child; baby Prince George celebrated his first birthday two months ago 2013 Event If verified, a Buddhist shrine discovered in Nepal that dates to 550 BC could change the date of the Buddha's birthday 2013 Event A rare television interview appearance is made by Juan Carlos I, the King of Spain; the interview coincides with celebrations of his 75th birthday 2012 Event In a gesture to honor North Korean founder Kim II-Sung's birthday in April, North Korea plans to launch a new satellite that reportedly will be used to study crops and natural resources 2011 Event Exiled Tibetans are banned from celebrating the Dalai Lama's birthday; Nepalese authorities fear the gatherings would become anti-Chinese 2010 Event Hanoi, Vietnam's capital, celebrates its 1,000-year birthday 2004 Event Former President George H. W. Bush celebrates his 80th birthday by skydiving 1997 Death George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners), dies on 85th birthday 1996 Death William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday 1996 Death Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday 1995 Death Victor Collin Matthews, businessman, dies on 76th birthday 1995 Event Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25) 1993 Death Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday 1993 Event Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol 1991 Death Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday 1989 Death Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday 1988 Death Franklin D. Roosevelt,, Jr., Representative-D-New York 1949 - 1955, dies on 74th birthday 1988 Event 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute 1986 Death Richard Manuel, rock pianist/vocalist (Band), dies on 41st birthday 1985 Event Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday 1984 Event Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland 1984 Death William "Count" Basie, jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday 1984 Death Nate Nelson, R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday 1983 Death George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday 1982 Death Dorothy James, composer, dies on 81st birthday 1982 Death Larry Breeding, actor (Who's Watching the Kids), dies on 36th birthday 1982 Death Ingrid Bergman, actress (Anastasia, Gaslight), dies on 67th birthday 1979 Event President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday 1978 Event French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%) 1977 Death Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday 1974 Death James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday 1974 Death Otto Kruger, actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday 1973 Death John Banner, actor (Schultz-Hogan's Heroes), dies on 62nd birthday 1973 Death Rudolf Kubin, composer, dies a day after 64th birthday 1972 Death "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party 1970 Death Jani Christou, composer, dies on 44th birthday 1969 Death Giovanni Martinelli, Italian opera singer (New York Met), dies on 84th birthday 1967 Death Langston Hughes, poet/translator (Weary Blues), dies on 65th birthday 1966 Death Richard Farina, rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident 1965 Death Dick Wessel, dies of heart attack on 52nd birthday 1964 Event Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend 1963 Death Jean Felix Piccard, swiss explorer, dies on his 79th birthday 1962 Birthday Clare Grogan, rocker, Altered Images-Happy Birthday 1961 Event U.S. government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith 1961 Death John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday 1960 Birthday Pamelyn Ferdin, actress, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tool Box Murders 1959 Death Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies on 59th birthday 1959 Death Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer, dies on 48th birthday 1958 Death Harry Redman, composer, dies on 89th birthday 1958 Death Karl Erb, German tenor, dies on 81st birthday 1958 Event Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London 1951 Event Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday 1946 Death Patty Smith Hill, songwriter (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 78 1945 Death Henry van Goudoever, Dutch lawyer/judge, dies on his 69th birthday 1945 Death Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, dies a day before 76th birthday 1944 Death Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday 1942 Death Edna May Oliver, dies on 59th birthday 1942 Event Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam 1934 Death William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston 1932 Death Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday 1930 Birthday Gregory Corso, beat poet, Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man 1924 Event "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny 1922 Death Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday 1919 Death Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday 1916 Death Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 56 1915 Death Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday 1913 Death Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer, dies on 78th birthday 1907 Death Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahlers eldest daughter, dies of scarlet fever and diptheria at 4 years and 7 months of age in Maiernigg, Austria, five days after her father, Gustav Mahler's 47th birthday. She is buried at Grinzing Cemetery, Vienna. 1900 Birthday Helen Hayes, Washington D.C., actress, Caesar and Cleopatra, Happy Birthday 1893 Death John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday 1893 Death Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday 1888 Death Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday 1882 Death Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday 1880 Death George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday 1880 Event Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday 1868 Birthday Patty Smith Hill, author and songwriter, Happy Birthday To You 1859 Birthday Mildred J. Hill, composer/musician, Happy Birthday To You 1819 Death Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday 1809 Death Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, dies on 77th birthday 1807 Death John Muhlenberg, Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday 1796 Death George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday 1783 Death Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday 1753 Death George Berkeley, philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday 1742 Death Evaristo EF dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer, dies on 67th birthday 1739 Death Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday 1687 Death Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (star cataloger), dies on 76th birthday 1642 Death Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday 1520 Death Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday 1503 Death Elizabeth of York, Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday
